text:
5 Mistakes Freelancers Make & How You Can Avoid Them
Nobody said being a freelancer is easy. Sure, everybody who's not a freelancer thinks that, but they're wrong. There are many pitfalls and you have to be really careful not to err. Now, making mistakes can be highly educational and you will make your fair share of them when starting out as a freelancer, but there are some mistakes that you're better off avoiding and that you can avoid with a minimal amount of caution. All you really need is to be forewarned.
Working freelance is a dream job, but it's still a job and, as jobs go, it's much more demanding than a regular office job. It takes a lot of care and attention to details in order not to fail at it. You suddenly need to start worrying about pricing, or number of hours of work you put in each day. You know, things you never had to think about before because it wasn't your job to. The place where you worked at before going freelance had a team of guys working on the pricing of your work, the hours you had to put in daily were regulated by contract, the jobs kept coming because the company had account managers.
Simply said, working for someone means there's a whole team of people who worry about all the other aspects of the commercial operation while you get to focus on your specific job. Now that you're freelance, that team is gone and it's just you who has to think of all this stuff. That can be quite a daunting task. But you shouldn't worry, you just need to be aware of all these aspects in order to be successful.
Here's a list of mistakes most people make when starting out in the freelance world that can cause large setbacks and that can be easily avoided if you take care.
1. Charging Too Little
It makes sense to want to underprice when first starting out. It helps bring in contracts and helps you build your portfolio. Everybody wins, right? Wrong. What happens if you get a few big contracts at your initial, cheap rates? You're stuck doing most of your work for just a little cash. The best course of action is to price your work honestly and according to market prices.
If you do find yourself in this situation, there is a way to get out of it: double that initial price. Some of your contracts may back out, but you'll find that, if you've been doing quality work, most of them won't and you'll no longer be finding yourself in that place where you feel like you're being taken advantage of.
2. Getting Fooled by a Big Number
You may find yourself faced with an offer that sounds great. A lot of cash for just one project, all in one big lump sum, maybe even up front. Do yourself a favour: don't sign the contract just yet. Make an estimate of how much work the project entails, in hours. Be realistic about it. Then divide the amount by the number of hours to work out your hourly wage. You'll probably find it's much lower than your usual rates. Stay clear of these projects, they can easily lead you to bankruptcy.
3. Not Getting a Contract
If you ask any freelancer that has been on the market for a while for a piece of advice when starting out, it'll probably be "Always get a contract." That happens for a reason. Sure, the legal part is a hassle, and sometimes you meet a client who just oozes trustworthiness. So you're tempted to forgo the contract and just jump straight into the work. Nine times out of ten, doing this will end in your having done free work for someone.
Sure, getting a contract is not always possible. If that is ever the case, do try to get some form of written agreement, at least an email clearly stating your and his obligations. Law students can tell you that a contract is just a meeting of wills and an exchange of obligations – that the piece of paper we refer to as a contract is just a proof. Make sure you get that proof.
4. Bad (or No) Usage of Social Media
As a freelancer, your best friend is word of mouth. Nowadays, word of mouth's best friend is social media. There's a whole community of people doing what you do that are ready to help you out should you need help. There's a whole bunch of satisfied customers ready to leave positive reviews on your profile, should you have one. There's also a bunch of prospective clients who check who they're hiring online before they do.
Do try to use social media to interact with other professionals and customers alike. You'll find yourself presented with opportunities that would never have surfaced otherwise. More so, since using social media has become the norm, if you don't use it, people will perceive you as 'weird' and will hire someone else who does.
5. Having a Bad Portfolio
Your portfolio is who you are. In the creative industries, your portfolio is your CV. Would you put the summer job you got at McDonald's when you were 16 on your portfolio? No? Then why would you put your first branding project from five years ago on there? Like any other skillset, designing takes practice. The more you do it, the better you are at it. That also means that your first attempts are going to be pretty bad. Do yourself a favour and keep them out of your portfolio once you have better work to showcase.
It's not only your first projects you need to be careful about here. It's also more recent projects that just didn't turn out that well. Be honest with yourself. Not everything you do deserves to go in there, so don't cram it all in. The key phrase when building your portfolio is quality over quantity.
That concludes our list of common mistakes freelancers make. If you have any more suggestions of things new freelancers should avoid, please check out the comment section below!


text:
Continuous Positive Airway Pressure and Oxygen Concentration on Measurement of Rapid Shallow Breathing Index
This study has been completed.
Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taiwan
Information provided by:
Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taiwan
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
First received: March 2, 2008
Last updated: March 7, 2008
Last verified: March 2008
- Full Text View
- Tabular View
- No Study Results Posted
- Disclaimer
- How to Read a Study Record
Detailed Description:
To compare the rapid shallow breathing index (RSBI) values, the incidence of adverse reactions, and the predictive accuracy measured under 5 different ventilator strategies in the same patient group.
|Acute Respiratory Failure
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Time Perspective: Prospective
|Official Title:
|Effect of Continuous Positive Airway Pressure and Oxygen Concentration on Measurement of Rapid Shallow Breathing Index
Resource links provided by NLM:
Genetic and Rare Diseases Information Center resources: Respiratory Distress Syndrome, Infant Acute Respiratory Distress SyndromeU.S. FDA Resources
Further study details as provided by Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taiwan:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- The patients connecting or disconnecting to the ventilators affected the RSBI values but not their predictive accuracies. [ Time Frame: Before the patient processing weaning trials ]
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- Changes in FiO2 and CPAP settings have no effect on RSBI values but ventilator methods with FiO2 21% have higher incidence of adverse reactions. [ Time Frame: Before the patient processing weaning trials ]
|Study Start Date:
|October 2004
|Study Completion Date:
|August 2005
|Primary Completion Date:
|December 2004 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
group (success or failure), case number, measurement method
Detailed Description:
98 ready for weaning patients were included and divided into success (n=71) and failure (n=27) groups based upon their weaning outcome. Before weaning, the RSBI values were determined under the patients disconnecting from the ventilator (RA-no ventilator) and still connecting to the ventilator with 4 different settings (fraction of inspired oxygen (FiO2) 21 or 40% combined with continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) 0 or 5 cm H2O). The patients were extubated after completing the weaning trials. Successful weaning was defined as patients free from the ventilator for over 48 hours.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|Child, Adult, Senior
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
|Sampling Method:
|Non-Probability Sample
Study Population
respiratory therapy intensive Care unit in a medical center
Inclusion Criteria:
- intubated medical patients with mechanically ventilated more than 48 hours
- clinically ready for weaning
- Glasgow coma scales were at least 8
- their ventilator settings were: assist-controlled, pressure support (PS)or synchronized intermittent mandatory ventilation plus PS mode, FiO2 40% or less, positive end-expiratory pressure 5 cm H2O or less, and sensitivity setting on 1 L/min. Their arterial blood gases results were acceptable
Exclusion Criteria:
- having ongoing lung or neuromuscular disease and signs of increased intracranial pressure
Contacts and Locations
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the Contacts provided below. For general information, see Learn About Clinical Studies.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00632320
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00632320
|Respiratory Therapy Intensive Care Unit, Taipei Veterans General Hospital
|Taipei, Taiwan, 112
Sponsors and Collaborators
Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taiwan
|Principal Investigator:
|Mauo-Ying Bien, PhD
|School of Respiratory Therapy, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC
More Information
Keywords provided by Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taiwan:
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on June 23, 2017
|Responsible Party:
|Mauo-Ying Bien PhD, RPT, RRT/Assistant Professor, School of Respiratory Therapy, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00632320 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
VGHIRB No.:93-09-02A
Grant 94CM-TMU-13
Grant NSC94-2314-B-038-039
|Study First Received:
|March 2, 2008
|Last Updated:
|March 7, 2008
Keywords provided by Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taiwan:
Ventilator, mechanical
Ventilator weaning
Rapid shallow breathing index
Continuous positive airway pressure
Receiver operating characteristic curve
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Respiratory Aspiration
Respiratory Insufficiency
Respiratory Distress Syndrome, Adult
Respiration Disorders
Respiratory Tract Diseases
Pathologic Processes
Lung Diseases
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on June 23, 2017

subset: commoncrawl


text:
A man stabbed his grandfather through the heart with a steak knife and inflicted brutal wounds on his grandmother before telling cops "Hiya, I've just killed my grandparents", a court heard.
Anthony Winter tied Jack Anker, 84, and his wife Pamela, 81, to their sofa using cable ties before carrying out the attack, jurors were told.
The 34-year-old had been invited round for lunch at the couple's sheltered accommodation flat in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, last November.
But Chelmsford Crown Court was told the mood changed following an innocent conversation about the Jimmy Savile abuse scandal.
Winter, a sales assistant, was allegedly driven by a desire for revenge due to a belief that his grandfather had abused a relative.
Prosecutor Peter Gair said he suddenly restrained both his grandparents on their sofa using cable ties and declared: "I'm in control".
The jury heard how he grabbed a bread knife and steak knife from the kitchen of their second-floor flat to inflict multiple wounds on both pensioners.
It was only blood pouring from wounds to Pamela's neck and wrists which allowed her to escape from the home and raise the alarm, the court was told.
"The bleeding had the effect of lubricating her wrists, releasing her from the cable ties," said Mr Gair. "Pamela was able to escape out of the door."
After his grandmother fled, Winter grabbed the steak knife and plunged it through Jack's heart before making his 999 call, the court heard.
Mr Gair said: "Officers found Jack on the floor with the knife embedded in his heart. The defendant asked, 'Has he got a pulse?' The officer shook his head and he replied, 'Good.'"
In police interviews a month after the attack, Pamela said: "I felt he had a plan and perhaps he hoped he didn't want to have to fulfil it.
"He really loved his granddad. If the accusation [of abuse] was true it would break his heart."
Winter admits the attempted murder of his grandmother but denies the murder of his grandfather on the basis of "loss of control".
The trial continues.


text:
NEW Printable Coupons: Farm Rich, O-Cel-O, & More
We have some new coupons this afternoon under zip code 33614. That Farm Rich one is a nice value and we do see that on sale pretty frequently! And that Red Baron one always goes fast…In other words – grab the ones that you will use while you can 🙂
Grab your NEW Printable Coupons
$1/2 packages of O-Cel-O™ Scrub Sponges
$1/1 Lever 2000® Bar Soap or Body Wash (6 Bar or larger. 18oz Body Wash or larger) (excludes travel and trial sizes)
$1/2 any 2 RED BARON® (single & multi serve)
$1.25/1 DOLE Salad Blend, Salad Kit, or Extra Veggie™ (REDEEMABLE ONLY AT WINN DIXIE
$1/1 9 oz. stand up bag of NESTLÉ® BUNCHA CRUNCH™ candy
$1.50/2 FARM RICH® SNACKS – there is also a $3/2 under zip code 90210
$1.00 off Very Cherre™ tart cherry juice
$1.00 off 2 Healthy Balance reduced-sugar juice
$1.00 off 2 Old Orchard Cranberry Naturals
$1.00 off (4) Old Orchard frozen juice concentrate


text:
This site does not currently take bookings here on Pitchup.com.
Find nearby sites with availability…
If you are the owner of this site, start taking bookings through Pitchup.com by adding your business details.
Hidden away in the beautiful Worcestershire countryside you will find our amazing and secluded glamp site comprising of luxury yurts and bell tents surrounded by thousands of apple trees and green fields located at Fircone Farm.
Guests who come to stay with us can choose from either one of our exotic bell tents (with a choice of Thai, Egyptian or Indonesian interior) or one of our luxury Mongolian yurts furnished in a vintage shabby chic design. All our bell tents and yurts come fully furnished with either a king size or double bed and come complete with a wood burning stove; which not only provides warmth on the evening but also offers a natural and enjoyable way to cook and prepare food.
Everything you need is provided; we have proper hot showers; clean flushing toilets and a safe parking area. We also have BBQs and picnic tables dotted around the site for our guests to use and plenty of local pubs, restaurants and other attractions close by.
The farm is one of the most beautiful and traditional apple farms in Worcestershire producing a wide variety of scrumptious apples; which when ready are sent on to Somerset to produce some of the finest ciders available in the country.
Guests are welcome to explore the farm and enjoy wondering around the apple and cherry orchards.
Open from 01/03/2017 to 01/10/2017
Site type
Languages spoken
✓ English
Find nearby sites with availability…
(2 nights)
Many sites set a maximum occupancy of 6/8 people per pitch, so try breaking your booking down into smaller groups to generate more results. For example, if you're a group of 10, enter 5 people in your initial search and then book 2 pitches.
However, where the pitch or accommodation occupancy allows it, you can now make a booking for up to 30 adults and 30 children on one pitch.
To book multiple pitches or accommodation, use the 'Special requests' box on the booking page to ask to be sited together. Complete the booking form for the first booking (you can add a password and save your card so that we remember your details). Then click "Make another booking like this" at the top of the confirmation page to make the next booking.
Large groups: check the listing page for any group restrictions set out in the terms and section titled 'Please note'.
Large tents/caravans: check the restrictions on unit dimensions to ensure your unit is suitable for the space you will be provided with.


text:
Monday, February 17, 2014
Sex, Jail, Blood or Fame!
New Photos added from Valentine's Weekend!
PHOTOS: Mile of Meat 2014
Check out the photos and videos!
PHOTOS: Young the Giant 2/16
From the show at Bayou Music Center
NBA All-Star Weekend
Dunk contest, the all-star game and more!
That TV Reporter said What????
Two videos of reporter vs. teleprompter fun
Nine Inch Nails Performed Came Back Haunted
Austin City Limits
Celebrity Engagements
Charlie Sheen, Christina Aguilera and more!
Winter Olympics in Sochi
More Updates from the weekend.
Nick Cannon's Valentine's Present
Was Mariah Carey in a Candy Bra
Sexy Video: Pamela Anderson Strips Down
For a DOG in a New PETA...
There's a 20-POUND Cat in Boston Named Pickles
He's freaking massive!
Amazing .Gifs look 3D
Putting two white lines in a .gif is awesome!


text:
2. A Solution through a Deck of Cards
What is the solution? I can describe a solution. But I want to do more. I want to devise a way by which a plausible solution can be quickly and readily configured to your specific application development context. I achieve this with a deck of A8 cards. Just for your info, A8 is A4 paper folded four times – i.e. 16 cards on an A4 sheet of paper. So, what you can have is the entire application lifecycle management process described and printed on something smaller than your mouse, or mobile phone (see Figure 2).
Figure 2: Deck of Cards for Adaptive Application Lifecycle Management
This is a really powerful visual queue, as I usually dangle and shake the cards in front of application development teams and say, "This is the process." Many are amazed because they are often used to having processes described in thick books, manuals and web-pages, which nobody reads, and here I am with something so small.
Each card has the same structure as shown in Figure 3. At the top is the name of a work target. A work target is something to be achieved. It could be building a feature or a system, an improved process, and so on. The achievement of a work target goes through a certain number of states. The cards I have here have 5 states per work target to provide some kind of regularity. Each card has a name for the work target together with some criteria for achieving the work target state. At the bottom of the card is the state number over the total number of states, i.e. 5. The state number helps users to remember the order of the states.
Figure 3: Anatomy of a Card
The idea of using cards is not really new. Applying states to work targets is not new either. Cards have been implemented in many task tracking tools, such as ClearQuest, Mingle, EssWork, JIRA, Visual Studio Team System, and so on.
The use of cards is common with agile methods. Project teams often write down stories in a card and track the development of the story by tracking the state of the story. What is lacking is some form of guidance, or some indication of completion criteria for each state, which is normally not captured in cards. My cards fill this gap by putting check points for each state within a work target card. This interestingly opens up new ways of using the cards.
The form and substance/contents of the cards are inspired by my participation in the design and development of the Essential Unified Process and EssWork [1]. The cards in EssWork are A6 in size (i.e. they are bigger). EssWork places more emphasis on the work target itself (which they call alpha) than on the states as their primary usage is practice composition. Moreover, EssWork still has many cards and text. So, there is still an issue of information overload even though it has been reduced drastically from traditional methods of describing processes.
I was watching a team playing Planning Poker and was concerned that the cards in EssWork could not be played in a similar way. True, the cards in EssWork help the team members understand practices, but I want to go a step further to focus on process execution. In fact, what a coach does is to help teams execute, execute better, execute faster, and execution is more about progressing things through their states. Hence my cards emphasizes work target states and their completion criteria and so they are called state-cards. You can use the state-cards for all three time scale levels I described at the beginning of this paper. You can use the cards to design your development value stream which I will also describe in this paper.
3. Dynamic Application Lifecycle Management with State-Cards
Most organizations have what is known as a lifecycle model, a designation of certain sets of criteria to meet some milestone objectives. It is useful to break down the milestone objectives into various aspects of development since they require different skill sets. As an example, the Rational Unified Process (RUP) decomposes an application lifecycle into requirements, analysis and design, implementation, test, configuration management, project management and environment. EssWork (and same with my cards) goes a step further by associating states with lifecycle objective milestones.


text:
|Topic Review (Newest First)
I'm going to contact this lab for an oral spray serum for Onyx's allergies(she's already been tested with Heska lab, but will probably have to have this one do it as well). A friend has had her male on this spray for about a year(all seasons have been included) and he is showing much improvement. http://www.allerpaws.ca/css/images/A...terinarian.pdf
Apoquel is supposedly very effective in helping reduce symptoms but is in such short supply and it doesn't "cure" desensitize the allergies like a serum would.
I have a dog that has food sensitivities to almost everything under the sun. He would scratch himself until he bled and then his skin would get all infected and it was just a vicious cycle.
What we ended up doing with him was putting him onto a venison and sweet potato type of food made by natural balance. Even the "hypoallergenic" ones the vet had us try did not work or help anything. Then I spoke with another vet who informed me that very few dogs have a reaction to venison and to try that. It worked well and he has been symptom free for almost three years. They even make treats that are the same flavour by that company. (Not sure how exciting that is for the dog )
Just some info from my experience..
Good luck!
NutriScan is the test I personally used. However, talk to your vet. The vet may have a choice of "panels' to run. The panels may not be the same and may test for different foods. Example: Nutriscan tests for the most common proteins and grains. There is a dog here that is sensitive to peas/pea protein. I know that is not tested for with the nutriscan test.
Compare tests from your vet and Nutriscan. Test with whichever gives you the most for the money to start.
It helps to understand that dogs rarely have "TRUE" food allergies. Dogs do commonly have "food sensitivities". There is a difference. My personal research has shown the most common sensitivities leading to symptoms in dogs come from:
Beef, chicken and grains.
While I personally suspected chicken and was correct, I was stunned to find out peanuts were the bigger evil. I was giving my poor girl peanut butter in her kong frequently. I was also giving her her anti itch meds in a spoon of peanut butter . So, you can see how trial and error can get you nowhere.
Not to mention be very frustrating...
You can see my dogs test results here:
Your vet can also test for a host of environmental allergies as well. It is not uncommon for a dog with food issues to have environmental allergies as well.
I strongly suggest testing. It saves so much time and gets your dog on the road to recovery so much quicker. Your dog will not be suffering while you play the "trial and error" game that can take months or worse, years.
I don't know what vets charge for testing. Or how many things they test for. I do know the Nutriscan test is pricey @ nearly $300 but it was well worth it to me and my girl Ziva.
Best of luck!
I personally would go strait to the food allergy test, we tried to eliminate foods and all that. It just takes way too long and you may not even have it right. We did Titan's food allergy test and it came back within a few weeks.. and we have found a food that isn't like any other.
If you do decide to just continue with foods.. try Canine Caviar Or California Natural. Canine Caviar is what we are on now, I only suggest California Natural because it seems to use a little bit different ingredients. CC uses barely any ingredients I have seen before..
Home | Canine Caviar Home
|So is the NutriScan the best test for food allergies?
|I suggest you get the testing done ASAP. When you do food eliminating, it takes 6 weeks to learn if there is any improvement. You could go through this for months and not find the answer. It may not even be the food, but environmental allergies. While you are doing the elimination trials, your dog is suffering. I did not want to do the testing either, but at least I knew why my dog had so many episodes of yeast and staph infections on the skin. From my experience allergies started with ear infections and licking front paws. Then sores on the underside and hot spots. If you do not figure it out, the allergies become progressively worse as the dog matures. ACV, coconut oil, and digestive enzymes help with us. My dog had food and environmental allergies. Testing helped me prepare me annually what to expect and when.
After thinking about this more, is it best to eliminate grains and chicken from her diet first, then if her allergies persist eliminate more things?
Or just eliminated everything possible and then slowing introduce items back in if the allergies stop?
|The Dasuquin has some ingredients in it that could be causing itching. You might try Cosequin instead and see if that helps.
Thanks for the feedback everyone. I guess the first step is to change her food to a grain-free food.
I'm going to try Nature's Variety Instinct Limited Ingredient dry food for a few week and see if that helps.
Allergies are hard to figure out. I could be food and/or environmental allergies. I strongly recommend testing. Saves time and money in the long run. There will be no guessing.
If you think it's food you could have your vet do a an allergy panel or you can do a Nutriscan food intolerance test for dogs in your own home and get the result via e-mail. They will even send a copy of the results to your vet.
NutriScan Food Sensitivity and Intolerance Test for Cats and Dogs
What you describe does sound more like environmental allergies to me. Symptoms worse in spring and fall. Symptoms worse after applying chemicals to your lawn. Your vet can test for those as well.
Although, I wouldn't rule out a grain intolerance or a combination of the two.
Just me thoughts. Hope girl is feeling better soon.
|This thread has more than 10 replies. Click here to review the whole thread.
|Posting Rules
You may post new threads
You may post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off


text:
Target: President Vladimir Putin, President Xi Jinping, President Viktor Yanukovych
Goal: Support the creation of an ocean reserve in Antarctica
A series of international talks about creating a 500,000 square mile ocean reserve in Antarctica have met their end in failure. Although 24 countries are involved, fierce opposition from Russia, China and the Ukraine have derailed the entire project. Urge the three dissenting countries to help save our world's ecosystems.
The talks were held in Hobart, Tasmania where the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources hosted the discussion. The United States and New Zealand proposed the reserve to protect its unique ecosystems and vibrant wildlife. But the proposal could not be adopted because three countries were against plan; Russia, China, and Ukraine. Spokesperson Yuri Onodera from Japan who attended the meeting claimed that all three countries were greatly opposed to the idea. After a heated debate over the legalities and science behind claims made from various countries, their argument boiled down to the countries' concerns about how the reserve would affect their economy, notably their fishing stocks and industries. Russia and Ukraine also have a history of questioning the legal and scientific reasoning behind making a reserve.
Of course, scientists were eager to fire back that reserves help maintain ecosystems that are affected by overfishing, pollution, and climate change. Another plan that was set forth by European countries was also shot down by the same countries. The spokesperson from Japan stated, "Once again, national interests and politics are a hurdle to the international interest of protecting the environment."
This recent action by all three countries is an atrocity. Every nation on this planet should have deep concerns for the environment. The economy should not have priority because if our oceans are far too polluted or our green house gases get out of control, there is little chance that humans could reverse the problem. Sign this petition and urge all three countries to support the creation of this reserve.
Dear President Vladmir Putin, President Xi Jinping, President Viktor Yanukovych,
I wish to express my concerns in your refusal to take part in creating a 500,000 square mile reserve in Antarctic waters. Its creation will better protect the delicate ecosystems and wildlife that dwell in these waters, including whales, penguins and even the tiny krill. It deeply concerns me that you are more worried about your country's economy and fishing industry than you are about the planet. An economy can be saved within a decade, but if the planet is doomed, it can take far longer for the effects to be reversed.
I am imploring you to sign on and support the creation of this reserve. There is an abundance of evidence claiming that a reserve will protect and preserve an ecosystem. Our planet is invaluable and I hope you will give it more priority in the future.
[Your Name Here]
Photo credit: Jerzy Strzelecki via Wikimedia


text:
Market movements are fractal by their very nature. If you are a trader of stocks,
futures or forex you've probably noticed how frequently market events recur
on all time intervals. The ability to identify when the market
is iterating is key to taking full advangate of trading opportunities & maximizing profits.
FractalPlus is trading software that helps you identify when the market is exhibiting
self-similarity that is characteristic of its fractal nature. FractalPlus helps
you identify market turning points without the use of indicators. Download the free
evaluation software today and watch the fractals develop on your screen.


text:
ZUBAZ Pants Apparel
Ever wonder what pants you should wear to the game? Stand out in the crowd, Get Hyped and show your support for a Gronk with a pair of Zubaz pants. Wear them to work out, party, as pajamas, to tailgate and to the games on sunday!
** These are the pants the Gronk's have been seen wearing on the beach, in the weight room, on the golf course and anytime they want to Get Hyped!
Zubaz Pants: Orange/White, Blue/White/Red,Navy Blue/Silver, Purple/White, Pink/White
***Official NFL licensed Patriots Zubaz pants are now Available!***
X-Small: 23″-27″ Waist ; Height up to 5'2″
Small: 25" – 39" Waist; Height up to 5'6″
Medium: 27" – 43" Waist; Height up to 5'10"
Large: 29" – 43" Waist; Height up to 6'2″
X-Large: 31" – 45" Waist; Height up to 6'4″
XX-Large: 32" – 48" Waist; Height up to 6'6″


text:
Online Education is increasingly gaining momentum. Your competitive edge lies in the business critical capability of quickly setting up and optimizing your critical Higher Education processes such as Online Course Development, that requires management of large volumes of data and the orchestration of multiple recurrent processes, such as:
Comindware Tracker® professional solution for Online Course Development Processes provides full capabilities for quick and easy course development workflow setup while enabling unified document management and cross-team collaboration.
The key benefit of the Comindware Tracker solution for Online Education is the centralization of online course development information such as design and content documents, e-mails and conversations. Comindware Tracker also provides the capability to modify and optimize the online course development workflow on the fly without the need for process interruption, coding skills or help from IT.
You may also find interesting:
For more information on Comindware solutions, please contact us.


text:
Improved Patient Notes from Medical Students during Web-Based Teaching Using Faculty-Calibrated Peer Review and Self-Assessment
Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/1928/9080
Improved Patient Notes from Medical Students during Web-Based Teaching Using Faculty-Calibrated Peer Review and Self-Assessment
McCarty, Teresita
Parkes, Marie
Anderson, Teresa
Mines, Jan
Skipper, Betty
Grebosky, James
Background: This study examines the effectiveness of Calibrated Peer Review (TM) (CPR), a Web-based writing development program, to teach and assess medical students' patient note-writing skills in a standardized fashion. Method: At the end of the clerkship year, 67 medical students were divided inot three groups, introduced to CPR, and instructed in patient note-writing. Students then wrote notes for three clinical cases, presented in different order to each group. After training on faculty-calibrated standards, students evaluated their peers; notes and tehir own notes. Trained faculty, blinded to author, order, and group, also graded student notes. Results: Faculty gave lower scores than students, but both groups found students' scores improved significantly from the first to the third note writteb, Conclusions: Student-written pateint notes improved in quality while using CPR. The program uses approaches valued in medicine (accurate peer review and self-reflection) to enhance performance
Academic Medicine
Academic Medicine, Vol. 80, No.10/October 2005 Supplement
Innovative Uses of Technology
10 supplement
10 supplement
Calibrated Peer Review, self assessment, medical students


text:
The capacity for self-deception, rarely acknowledged or understood by those who offer us supernatural answers to our problems, is huge: as easy as it is to make a mediums cold-reading statements fit our own situation and come to believe that he must have some paranormal insight, it is hardly any more difficult for a would-be psychic with an average ego, upon hearing frequently positive feedback, to believe over time that he must be blessed with a special gift. Its harder to think youre doing it for real when youre tossing tambourines in the dark or have ready-made ectoplasm stuffed into your mouth or bottom.Derren Victor Brown
The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.Will Durant
History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.W. H. Auden
"You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions."Naguib Mahfouz
As long as anyone believes that his ideal and purpose is outside him, that it is above the clouds, in the past or in the future, he will go outside himself and seek fulfillment where it cannot be found. He will look for solutions and answers at every point except where they can be found - in himself.Erich Fromm
They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong.Ronald Reagan
On two occasions I have been asked,\\\"Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?\\\" In one case a member of the Upper, and in the other a member of the Lower, House put this question. I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.Charles Babbage
It is a sign of strength, not of weakness, to admit that you don't know all the answers.John P. Loughrane
Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.Elbert Hubbard
Questions are fiction, and answers are anything from more fiction to science-fiction.Saul Steinberg
The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration.Allan Bloom


text:
Deck Design - Shallow Deck/Balcony
1 Attachment(s)
Hi folks,
Long time lurker, first time poster here so please be gentle. I would appreciate any and all feedback though!
I'm planning a very shallow but relatively wide deck at the back of my house, approximately 9' wide by 3' deep. My goal is to provide a landing at the back door, a staircase down about 3.5 feet to a patio, and a horizontal walkway between the two. We don't have a lot of space, so my goal is to build a deck that's as small as possible while still accomplishing my goal, which is primarily to avoid having a staircase in the middle of the patio. I've attached a really basic drawing that should hopefully provide a visual idea of what I mean. FYI, the black line at the left is a fence and the property line. To the right of the house is a mutual driveway that must be kept clear.
My issue here is that the deck I want to build seems to be too small for any of the typical sizing charts to be useful. It seems pretty clear that I should use 2x8's for beams and joists, and 4x4 posts. I'll also be using 5/4x6 PT deck boards. However, it gets tricky when I get into laying out the posts, beams and joists.
If I run the joists perpendicular to the house then they will only be 36" long and I'll use say 8 (at 12" OC) of them, and a huge number of joist hangers relative to the size of the deck. Alternatively I could run the joists parallel to the house, but here I'm also stumped - normally one would do a couple of perpendicular beams with posts at either end, but with a span of only 36" I'm wondering if I can get away with just a single post supporting two or three small beams.
Mostly I just can't decide on a design that would simple and cost-effective. I don't want to end of overbuilding because the charts don't consider a 3' long deck, but at the same time I'm leery of assuming that I can get away with fewer posts.
Any thoughts?
Sorry, it looks like you need to get used to the idea of the numerous short joists...... so can you go ahead and consider a deck wider than 3'?
That wouldn't be so bad I guess, more annoying than anything else.
The problem is that I only have a limited space, so more space for the deck just means less for the patio. I need to keep the patio as it will be a backup parking spot in case our neighbor ever stops letting us park in the mutual driveway.
Welcome to the Forum!
I'd recommend first off editing your profile to include your location. Many times answers to questions are location based.
When it comes to deck I always recommend that you download and review the American Wood Council's "Prescriptive Residential Wood Deck Construction Guide." This is based upon the code requirements of the 2009 International Residential Code, which may or may not apply to your area. A call to your building department can provide you with this fact.
Any code comments I make or reference are based upon the 2009 IRC, which may or may not apply to your location. Check with the building department.
I recommend use 6x6 wood columns as they are less likely to twist. Due to your height about ground lateral bracing should be required at each column.
You may want to consider making your walkway a little wider. Reason being I do not know how your building official would interpret this (from 2009 IRC):
R311.3 Floors and landings at exterior doors. There shall be a landing or floor on each side of each exterior door. The width of each landing shall not be less than the door served. Every landing shall have a minimum dimension of 36 inches (914 mm) measured in the direction of travel. Exterior landings shall be permitted to have a slope not to exceed 1/4 unit vertical in 12 units horizontal (2-percent).
Exception: Exterior balconies less than 60 square feet (5.6 m2) and only accessible from a door are permitted to have a landing less than 36 inches (914 mm) measured in the direction of travel.
I cannot say for certain they would interpret this to be 36" to the guards and railing or merely 36" for the floor.
I would run the joists perpendicular to the house. to run them parallel you'd need to have beams every so often to support the joists which cannot be hung from hangers under the 2009 IRC.
R502.2.2.2 Alternate deck ledger connections. Deck ledger connections not conforming to Table R502.2.2.1 shall be designed in accordance with accepted engineering practice. Girders supporting deck joists shall not be supported on deck ledgers or band joists.
Check the Deck guide and I think you'll find that you may use smaller joists. It will also give you the span between columns for your beam, as well as how to size your beam.
Hope this helps! Post back with any questions. :thumbsup:
Thanks Gary. As my profile now shows, I'm in Toronto, Ontario, Canada so the Ontario Building Code applies. From what I've seen it's very similar to the IRC. I am not doing this with a permit as I want to avoid any troubles from previous work that was not done by me... :whistling2: However I would obviously like this to meet or exceed minimum code.
I have seen language that says "2x8 joists are required for wood railing support", so thought it best to upsize everything from 2x6 to 2x8 just to be safe. The guide doesn't seem to list 2x6 as an option for joists - am I missing something? It would be much simpler if I could use 2x6's for the ledger, joists and beams.
I don't see any issue with using 6x6 posts. It also looks like 3x 8" piers to support the beam would be okay, sound right?
I see what you mean about the landing issue. Just to be safe I could add a few inches such that the distance from door to railing is 36".
1 Attachment(s)
In the interest of full disclosure, here's a picture of the mess I'm dealing with... the deck is to be attached to a mudroom which is a closed-in porch supported by large concrete piers. I will be putting up housewrap and siding where you now see OSB, but the space behind that is a cold zone with a dirt floor.
The space where the ledger board will go is about 7 inches high, from the door threshold to the top of the concrete piers. In other words, a 2x8 ledger board and would have to be notched to fit around the piers, but a 2x6 would fit fine. The old deck was made with 2x6's, and was a rotted mess of a job.
I my area we typically use 10" diameter piers for attachment of standoff post base metal connectors.
Good luck!
I would not be concerned with overhanging the patio. In fact, I think you will appreciate an eight or ten foot overhang on hot summer days. Besides, there will be many times I guarantee you will regret not having enough room to sit out on your deck in a chair if you build it so narrow.
Sorry........... Just saw your photo. Didn't realize it was so low to the ground.
Have you thought about just putting landing by the door and then having the stairs go down parallel to the house? Since the deck space isn't going to be usable for anything anyway, building, and that we would free up even more patio space.
1 Attachment(s)
I updated the diagram to include the surrounding area. FYI, the property is 17' 10" wide from the west fence to the half way point of the mutual driveway. Our lot is 120' deep, but if I ever want to use the rear parking then I can't build a big deck. :(
For what its worth, the steps in the picture above are not secured to the house in anyway or to the ground. They are basically a large rectangular box built out of PT 2x8 on the ground, then another smaller rectanglular box built also out of PT 2x8. The smaller rectangular box was then secured on top of the larger one. Then the composite treads and the skirting was added.
I estimate the total weight of the setup with 2x8s, skirting, treads and screws to be over 350 lbs.
Possible that you can do a sort of "stage" instead of a deck per se.
How wide is the Mutual driveway and do you have legal rights to half of it?
If you do have legal rights to it then your neighbor could never stop you from parking there and then I would say just build a deck over your whole patio.
|All times are GMT -5. The time now is 02:30 PM.
vBulletin Security provided by vBSecurity v2.2.2 (Pro) - vBulletin Mods & Addons Copyright © 2017 DragonByte Technologies Ltd.
User Alert System provided by Advanced User Tagging (Pro) - vBulletin Mods & Addons Copyright © 2017 DragonByte Technologies Ltd.


text:
Women's Metallic Capri Necklace
This product is available online only. Rose cut to bring out its translucent, ocean-like colour and natural cloudiness, the blue lace agate gemstone in this necklace measures 19.7mm x 10mm and is hand set. The fine Rolo chain measures 18in and a sliding bead allows you to adjust the necklace's length. The subtle vibrancy and shape of this necklace is a beautiful way to wear colour every day. Color: metallic


text:
Follow Harriet on Twitter
About Harriet
- The Poetry Foundation's blog for poetry and related news.
- More about Harriet
- Contributors
- Archive
Kwame's (Dawes) recent blog about readings is a tad depressing. This is one instance when I know we must occupy different spaces in the world. As I said before, I dislike readings. While I like doing readings, I despair at being an audience member at readings. I agree, there is probably one central reason why I like doing readings. Generally, the people who are there to hear me read are there to hear me read and this means that they care about the work they are going to hear. There is something affirming about this. But a reading for me has nothing to do with a series of experiences that are rooted in my childhood.
On Long Island where we lived in a development whose streets were lined with identical shoddily built tract houses, we would gather around the television in a cheap wood-paneled basement. The year is 1972, the contraption is a General Electric — a chunky piece of equipment. I turn on the TV, grab a bowl of Fruit Loops and settle back into the polyester couch as Marcia Brady recites her latest crushes to Jan. We are as much enthralled by her soliloquy as we are by the technology. And each time the episode is rerun, we are fascinated by the sound of her voice coming back to us, surrounding us, preserved. Her monologues were engaging. They represented a doorway into the orange sunshiney light of that unattainable land: the West Coast where Marcia grew up. Her performances focused around how she broke every law in the book attempting to please her classmates by getting Davey Jones of the Monkees to perform at the Jr. Prom. Marcia Brady — ever the overachiever — knew that her voice resonated with power and authority. She would speak in a proto-Valley Girl accent, one that we would later imitate as children, not with bitterness or cynicism, but with the giddiness of children imitating their pop idols. These "performances" took us to a home that we had not seen. They conjured a sense of place and a time: southern California. They were a way for us to know this girl. In a house that had only television (my father thought it was a great way to keep the kids' mouths shut), this was splendid entertainment, and we enjoyed it.
On Long Island we found other distractions especially during the holidays. One of our favorite was a trip across town to Roosevelt Field — at that time the largest shopping mall in America — in the mid-Island wasteland adjacent to the Nassau Coliseum and Roosevelt Raceway, just off the Meadowbrook Parkway. In this place of plastic panels, linoleum floors, sheetrock walls and thick concrete barricades, was Macy's or at least a farflung branch the flagship store on 34th Street. I am not sure, but in the long hall, teenagers would gather around an artificial fountain festooned with plastic plants and pennies, listening to Led Zeppelin or Aerosmith, and stoned kids would leap into the open space and begin to move in patterns, sweating, smiling, laughing, while the boys would play air guitar. Sometimes they would break into dirty jokes, and then fling themselves back to the dance. Jimmy Page's guitar would create a pattern that I would later recognize as the basis for much of classic rock as well as West Coast proto-hardcore that was to emerge in the 80s. Sometimes the kids who owned the boomboxes would let us play them, encouraging us, teasing us. Here the smoking of angel dust or the downing of PCP was about creating a sense of community, but also wondering about which girls we would be able to score with on the bus ride home.
When I was about ten years old, my Aunt Sue came to stay with us. She was my mother's sister. A woman of medium build, she was the only sibling of my mom's. We would go up to her room and have her tell us stories and entertain us. It seems now that what she enjoyed most was to recite songs from the bands she saw at the Fillmore East, high on acid, or speed, or junk. She would orate with passion and conviction and we would listen, amazed at her recall but barely understanding what she said as the methadone kicked in and she began slurring her words. But we must have done this a lot, because soon we would be repeating the songs ourselves. Learning how remarkable a thing it is to be able to retain so many words. This is how I learned Lou Reed's lyrics from "I'm Waiting For My Man". This is how I learned phrases like "Up to Lexington, 125 ", and " Feel sick and dirty, more dead than alive":
I'm Waiting For My Man
I'm waiting for my man
Twenty-six dollars in my hand
Up to Lexington, 125
Feel sick and dirty, more dead than alive
I'm waiting for my man
Hey, white boy, what you doin' uptown?
Hey, white boy, you chasin' our women around?
Oh pardon me sir, it's the furthest from my mind
I'm just lookin' for a dear, dear friend of mine
I'm waiting for my man
Here he comes, he's all dressed in black
PR shoes and a big straw hat
He's never early, he's always late
First thing you learn is you always gotta wait
I'm waiting for my man
Up to a Brownstone, up three flights of stairs
Everybody's pinned you, but nobody cares
He's got the works, gives you sweet taste
Ah then you gotta split because you got no time to waste
I'm waiting for my man
Baby don't you holler, darlin' don't you bawl and shout
I'm feeling good, you know I'm gonna work it on out
I'm feeling good, I'm feeling oh so fine
Until tomorrow, but that's just some other time
I'm waiting for my man
— Lou Reed
My aunt probably longed for us to remember the famous last lines, " I'm feeling good, I'm feeling oh so fine / Until tomorrow, but that's just some other time", but while that did not stick, the early phrases did, and the meter of the work did as well. Above all, these romantic ideas of the Lower East Side intoned in the dim light of her room would stay with me.
Years later, when asked to offer something to a night of entertainment, I would quote from Lou Reed, relying on the words that I hardly understood when I first learned them.
When I was in high school, Black Sabbath was very difficult for me. I did not even understand their sense of improvisation. But my sister taught me something important. She went to a different school — she was a girl, after all, and most schools were segregated that way at the time. She was way into Sabbath. A fellow shoplifter of my sister's may have told them that knowing passages from Ozzy's works by heart would be helpful getting guys into the sack, but I think they did came from some other place, from the rituals of performing that we had grown up with. She would prance around the house chanting: "Generals gathered in their masses / Just like witches at black masses" "Evil minds that plot destruction / Sorcerers of deaths construction", and so on and so forth. I had to learn these lines without even seeing them written down. I knew the first lines of "Electric Funeral" before I had heard the album in full, and when I finally did buy it, I could join my sister in mouthing sections of the piece out of familiarity. This pattern of learning lines and speak them aloud would save me later when I came to love the Dead Kennedys. I learnt to sing their songs aloud, to intone them with feeling and with relish. Soon a simple truth hit me — I could understand the songs better when I sang them aloud. When I came to buy "Plastic Surgery Disasters" during the final year of high school, I locked in memory whole chunks of the album, passages that I still know by heart to this day. Meaning, pleasure and the appreciation of artistry all resulted from this business of not simply learning the lines, but singing the lyrics aloud in the shower.
So, Kwame, dear, you can imagine me hating readings. There really was no magic or community or soul or love whatsoever where and how I grew up. We knew no one in our empty neighborhood; our parent and grandparents were either alcoholics, on anti-depressants or had joined New Age cults: we lived in the typical American Teenage Wasteland; we're all wasted. The most meaningful poem I can recall from my foggy childhood was the immortal words of Black Flag: "We've got nothing better to do / Than to watch TV / And have a couple of brews". That pretty much sums it up: we were so fucking bored and so fucking high all the time. If I tried to replicate the spirit of those memories of how I first encountered the spoken word everything time I face an audience, my eyes would glaze over, the room would start spinning, and I would pass out.
Posted in Uncategorized on Tuesday, May 8th, 2007 by Kenneth Goldsmith.


text:
Given the alarming state of affairs in Ukraine (Report, 19 February), is it not time Nigel Farage stepped up to the plate? He should get himself to Kiev, interpose himself between the police and the rioters, and explain to the latter why their enthusiasm for the EU is misplaced. That should calm things down.
Rob Raeburn
Brighton, East Sussex
• The DWP requires claimants to spend 35 hours a week sending off at least 50 fruitless applications every week (Jobseekers live in culture of fear, say charities, 19 February), and then, should they fail to meet their target, stops their social security and removes them from the number of unemployed, claiming that their lives have been transformed. Money saved, unemployment down, job done.
Fr Julian Dunn
Great Haseley, Oxfordshire
• Record number of evictions and record number of Ferrari sales in the UK (Report, 18 February). Are we really all in this together?
Tim Yates
Twickenham, Middlesex
• Following Ian Birrell's reference (Comment, 19 February) to the "dark horse" among candidates for next Tory leader, has anyone noticed the likeness between Jeremy Hunt and Niccolò Machiavelli in the Santi di Tito portrait?
Ron Clarke
Malvern, Worcestershire
• Melissa Kite doesn't know much about boats (Comment, 18 February). If you yank a tiller on a boat hard to the right, you will cause the vessel to turn sharply to the left.
Ron Houghton
• Thanks to all who donated to my parish in response to Joanna Moorhead's feature (15 February) in which I took part. The generosity of strangers in response to our need for roof repairs is truly humbling.
The Rev Canon Graeme Buttery
St Oswald's, Hartlepool
• Isn't Ruth Eversley's "can thus be" exactly equivalent to "can so be" (Letters, 19 February)? Looks so to me. So it appears as if her letter can thus be safely ignored.
Pete Bibby


text:
[trigger to render Video Gallery]
[trigger to render Image Gallery]
iPlayer 3 is a DMX lighting controller that is able to store and play custom-authored or pre-programmed light shows. The iPlayer can control up to two full DMX universes or 340 individual RGB luminaires, and once uploaded, shows may be accessed for editing. It's equipped with five touch sensitive preset buttons and a LCD interface that allows navigation between different operating modes.
Choose your preferred country from the the list below
to locate your nearest distributor or partner.
Distributor or partner finder


text:
Sign Up
Log In
Ben Mah
View Profile
Xbox One
Playstation 4
Xbox 360
Playstation 3
Return to Content
Mobile Navigation
Interview - Antti Ilvessuo (RedLynx)
Peter Nelis
3 May, 2012
To celebrate the release of the excellent Trials Evolution, we caught up with RedLynx's Antti Ilvessuo for a chat...
Click: Trials HD was a massive success for RedLynx when it was released in 2009. Were you guys ready for the levels of praise that the game received, or did it take you by surprise?
AI: We knew we had a great game on our hands because even after all the time we spent developing it and testing it, everyone in the office was playing it a whole lot and having fun with it after work. So we definitely knew ourselves that it was a good game.
Click: One of the reasons for the game's success was undoubtedly the fact that it had so much to offer, no matter how much you played or how many times you came back to it. What was the key to delivering that kind of experience?
AI: One thing that happens in our Trials games is that you as a player get better at the game over time, and your skills will come back fairly quickly when you play the new game, or come back to it after a while. So you always know that with a little more practice, with a little better approach to your driving on these different levels, you can always improve your time. Then when you add in the competitive factor, where you are comparing your times to your friends' times, the incentive to do just a little better and beat them can often become overwhelming.
Click: Do you think that the success of games like Trials HD has shown other developers and publishers that there's a genuine opportunity for huge online game sales, assuming you can offer something a little bit different?
AI: There are definitely other online games with huge sales, for example on the iPhone market, but in the digitally downloadable console space, Trials HD is definitely one of the success stories, and it has really shown other smaller and medium independent developers what can be done on those services.
Click: With Trials HD in mind, what's so evolutionary about Trials Evolution? How does it differ from its predecessor in terms of the basics?
AI: There are three main things. First is the multiplayer, which is completely new to the Trials series. Now for the first time you can play local multiplayer with up to three buddies, laughing and yelling on the same couch. You can also go online and play the same multiplayer mode with side-by-side Supercross driving, in addition to a mode where you can race in real-time against up to three opponents shown as ghosts on any single player track in the game, including user-created tracks.
The other big differences are the outdoor environments with huge draw distances, curved driving lines, and a beautiful 2km by 4km beautiful, virtual world. Finally, the level editor has been put on steroids and players can now try each other's' tracks directly by downloading them from Track Central instead of having to be on each other's friends' list. So these key features are huge!
Click: Obviously the multiplayer feature is a huge addition for the franchise, but how difficult was it to work that side of things into the game's framework?
AI: It was an interesting challenge because we had to make sure the multiplayer was fast, fun, and fair to everyone. So apart from the technical challenges, we had to design something that worked well for the different players out there.
Click: What were the main challenges in integrating this side of the game smoothly?
AI: What we ended up doing was having Checkpoints in the multiplayer, so if you ever crash or fall off the screen, you are respawned at the next Checkpoint, but with a minus one penalty to your score. The game keeps track of all scores between rounds, and you see that on the Leaderboard how well you succeeded or failed. This keeps it very clear to the player what's going on and inspires them to not just rush through the course as quickly as possible, but to ride it well, with no faults. Failure is not an option.
Click: Obviously it's not something that will suit all the tracks, so what are the main differences between the single player tracks and the multiplayer ones?
AI: The Supercross tracks that are designed for side-by-side multiplayer are all made especially for that mode. So most of them are much gentler, shorter, faster courses than your typical single player track. The reason is to keep the game moving along, and having lots of checkpoints so nobody spends a lot of time waiting around.
As explained above, the single player tracks can also be played in multiplayer mode, and since there's a ton of variety in single player tracks, different players will like different things. For example on our forums, there's a long thread of people who love Gigatrack and love to play it in multiplayer, because the seven or eight minute long run can become an intense, gruelling race that challenges even the best players. Meanwhile other players like to race only on Extreme tracks, or more beginning players would prefer only the easier ones.
Click: It has already been confirmed that we'll have 60 single player tracks, but how many multiplayer tracks are included on release?
AI: There are about twelve Supercross tracks that were included, but as explained above every single player track can also be played multiplayer in the Trials and Hardcore Trials modes. In addition, we have already posted four brand new Supercross tracks in Track Central under the 'RedLynx Picks' feed. A great place to find out about new releases like this is to visit our forum (www.redlynxgame.com/forum/ ) or follow us on Twitter (twitter.com/#!/RedLynxGamer ) or Facebook (www.facebook.com/trials.official).
Click: How important do you think the game's online leaderboards are when it comes to prolonging the experience? We've already seen with other titles that many players prefer the ability to play in their own time, while still being able to compete with friends around the world – do you think we're seeing a move back to the arcade leaderboards of old?
AI: It's not just the Leaderboards, it's how you use them. Many, many things have to be done right. Do one thing wrong, and nobody's interested, so Leaderboards are not a silver bullet.
Click: The track editor is back, and again it's the same one that was used to build the bundled tracks – you obviously feel that it was a serious success last time around then?
AI: We love the player-created tracks we saw in Trials HD, and along with the leaderboards, user-generated content is one of those things that really prolongs the experience. Trials Evolution has only been out five days as I write this, but already we have tens of thousands of user-created tracks and some of them are quite impressive. It's more like a small game creator than a track creator, in the end. Over the long-run, the community is going to create some truly mad stuff!
Click: Can you explain the key differences between the Lite Editor and the Pro Editor?
AI: Sure, I will be happy to. The Pro Editor is the exact same editor our track designers used to create every level and scripted ending you see in the game. Our guys even used Xbox controllers to do it – we never worked on a PC version of our editor, we didn't see a reason to. We wanted the tool to be as best as it could be, and only by using it ourselves would it become the amazing tool it is today.
The Lite Editor has the more complicated and daunting aspects of the Pro Editor hidden, so it is much easier to simply go in and make a track. If all you want to do is create a good, solid track with a fun driving line, a number of checkpoints, obstacles, ramps and explosions, then you can totally do that with just the Lite Editor.
Click: How in depth is the Pro Editor, we've seen examples of some seriously impressive stuff, such as takes on several popular games, but how realistic is it that a regular gamer is going to be able to build something like that from scratch with no previous editing or creation experience?
AI: Trials Evolution is first and foremost a great arcade game, so the focus is entirely on the massive single player experience and the all-new multiplayer game modes. Then you have full access to Track Central and all the other user-created content, even if you never touch the Editors yourself.
That said, the editors are extremely powerful for those who are into it, and the sky is the limit for them. In the Pro Editor, the trigger and logic switches we give you access to are similar to a Visual Scripting Language of sorts. For that one percent who want to be crazy mad modders, they will have a blast.
I strongly recommend people check out the 36 tutorial videos we have posted on our RedLynx TV YouTube channel. They walk you through every major point of the Lite and Pro Editor in a fantastic way that is much more intuitive and interactive than reading about it. Our host shows you exactly how to use these important tools.
Click: The PC modding and editing scene has been around for years now, but it's something that's only recently started to appear on consoles in any meaningful way. Do you think that this emerging side of gaming could open up potential career paths for the very best of the end-user level designers, or does it take a little more than a keen eye and solid design skills?
AI: Content creators on the PC have seen that as a way into the industry for a long time now, but it's true you don't see that very often in the console world, however that could be changing with games like ours. It is definitely true that by creating awesome, amazing levels you can get a job in the industry – three of our current level designers were hired in exactly that way: because we saw their work in the editor and we were impressed.
Click: Has the three year gap between HD and Evolution been used exclusively to focus on the new game, or were there other projects in between?
AI: No, there were other projects, but they were developed simultaneously. We are a small to medium sized studio of about fifty people, almost all of whom are developers. So while the Trials team has been focused on the Trials HD game and DLC, and then Trials Evolution, we have also had teams creating awesome iPhone games like MotoHeroz and DrawRace 2.
Click: Do you think it's more beneficial for developers to have longer to build and refine sequels, or do you see a benefit to the AAA annual release model, aside from earning more money more regularly?
AI: We've always had the philosophy of 'when it's done' and we also believe in improving and adding new excellent features wherever we can. We could have made the game faster, but that's not a good way to develop something like Trials Evolution, when we want to add huge new features like mad multiplayer and the most powerful track editor in the console world.
Click: Finally, as a major player in the digitally distributed games market, where do you see this side of console gaming going in the future? Already there has been plenty of speculation about the next generation of consoles and the features they may or may not have, but from a developer's point of view, is there definitely an argument for looking at an exclusively digital distribution model, or do bricks and mortar stores still have a key role to play long-term?
AI: Let's just wait and see. Let's wait and see, we don't want to speculate too much on what the next generation of consoles will or will not do. Good games are what matter, the next generation of hardware will follow.
Let me leave your readers with one last thought: GIGGGGGGGGGAAAAAAATTTTRRRRAAACCCKKK!!!!!
Interview - Antti Ilvessuo (RedLynx)
Annti Ilvessuo
Trials Evolution
Recommended For You
Trials World Championship 2013 revs up
Trials Evolution
Create a FPS in Trials Evolution`s track editor
Trials Evolution
Trials Evolution trailer hits the open road
Trials riddle is finally solved
1000 heroz
RedLynx puts marriage proposal in-game
trials of the blood drago
Trials of the Blood Dragon review
comments powered by
About this author
Peter Nelis
Games Editor
Recent Articles by this author
Kickstarter has Now Generated More than $2bn in Funding...
5 November, 2015
Kickstarter has just announced that, since its launch in April 2009, it has helped...
No More Windows 7 or 8.1 PCs to be Available Through...
5 November, 2015
Following the successful launch of Microsoft's latest operating system, Windows...
Microsoft Showcases Xbox One Backwards Compatibility...
5 November, 2015
With a major software just around the corner for the Xbox One, Microsoft has published...
Zynga Still Losing Players
4 November, 2015
Despite being one of the biggest names in the casual gaming market thanks to their...
Loading ...
Register Now
Already use a social networking account? Use it to sign in to Clickonline.com!
I understand and agree with Clickonline.com's
Terms & Conditions
Privacy Policy
Agree and Continue
Please Log In
Log In
Forgot your password?
Already use a social networking account? Use it to sign in to Clickonline.com!
Terms & Conditions
Privacy Policy


text:
I have decided to extend the Samco IC hose so that IC could be moved to correctly align with brackets.
I went to Advance auto parts to get a 1 7/8" OD aluminum pipe. Spent 15 min polishing and smoothing out the ends. Problem I encoutered during the install was that I had incorrectly cut the Samco hose, so the hose that comes in contact with a turbo was cut too short. I had to place an order for 1 7/8" 90 degree elbow from the site NRG recommended.
I had tried to make IC fit as is with incorrectly cut hose. It seems 'ok', but I won't push my car until I receive the replacement Samco 90 degree elbow in about a week (it's coming from CA).
IC to TB hose seems a little short, but it doesn't look like it will cause any leak or anything. AC line will need to be bent a little to allow IC to correctly align with brackets.


text:
Arc Clams - [Akagai
(Japan), Arc Shell, Blood Clam, Blood Cockle; family Arcidae]
Found worldwide, arc clams are generally small. The largest, used for Akagai
in sushi bars, are 3 inches max. The photo specimens, purchased frozen in
Asian markets, are between 1-1/4 and 1-5/8 inches except the big one
(purchased empty) is 2-5/8 inches. Ark clams are unique in having red blood
pigments hemoglobin and myoglobin, This gives them better oxygen transfer
allowing them to live in murky low oxygen environments. They are sold frozen
in Asian markets whole, half shell, or as cooked frozen meat.
Cherrystone - see Hard Clam.
Geoduck - [Mirugai
(Japan), Giant Clam (U.S. sushi bars), Elephant Trunk Clam (China),
King Clam (U.S. marketing), Goiduck, Gweduck; Panopea abrupta]
The Geoduck is the largest burrowing clam in the world. Individuals weighing 15 pounds are recorded and bigger ones rumored but the photo specimen is a normal market size of 2.2 pounds and 12 inches total length (5 inch shell). They are long lived with a record age of 168 years.
This clam is found only on the West Coast of North America from Washington State north through southern Alaska and from the tidal zone to 350 feet deep. The name comes from the Nisqually Indian "gwe-duk" ("dig-deep") and the strange spelling is thought to have been a transcription error.
Geoduck harvesting is tightly controlled both in the U.S. and Canada to
assure sustainability. Most of the commercial harvest is sent to Japan and
China where it fetches a fine price and that market keeps it expensive here.
Some much smaller Panopea species are found off Japan, China and New
Zealand. and New Zealand has apparently adopted the geoduck name for theirs.
Details and Cooking.
Hard Clam - Quahog -
[Quahogs - Chowder Clams, Cherrystones, Topnecks, Littlenecks,
Countnecks; Mercenaria mercenaria]
This common North Atlantic is found on the coast of North America from Prince Edward Island, Canada all they way down to the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico but production is centered along the coast of the state of Rhode Island in New England, USA. Some are now farmed on the US and Mexican Pacific coast, England and northern Europe.
While any size can be called a "quahog" that designation is usually
reserved for the largest sizes. The names given above from Chowder Clams
to Countnecks are size designations in descending order. The photo
specimens are Cherrystones from Mexico and were up to 3.4 inches the
long way by 2.7 inches and 1.8 inches thick. 3 pounds yielded just over
6 ounces of meat (12.6%) so at US $2.99/# the meat was $23.73 per pound.
The meat is fairly chewy so these are best chopped up.
Details and Cooking.
Littleneck - see Hard Clam.
Manila Clam -
[Japanese Littleneck; Shortneck; Venerupis philippinarum]
These clams were accidentally introduced in the Pacific Northwest of the U.S. and Canada when Pacific Oysters were brought from Japan. They quickly became an invasive species but are now so popular a harvest both commercially and recreationally that the fishery is highly regulated.
These clams are also an aquaculture crop and are harvested at various
sizes from 1-1/4 inch to 2-1/2 inches. The main problem with this crop is
slow growth, taking over 3 years to reach harvest size. The photo
specimens were typically 1.9 inches the long way by 1.4 inches and 0.8
inch thick - 28 clams to the pound.
Details and Cooking.
Purple Varnish Clam -
[Savory Clam (marketing); Purple Mahogany Clam, Dark Mahogany Clam;
Nuttalia obscurata]
Native to estuaries of Japan and Korea, These clams were brought
to Victoria Island, Canada around 1988, probably in ship's balast
water. They have spread north from there, and south along the northern
coast of Washington State. A similar introduction now infests most of
the coastal estuaries of the state of Oregon. They grow to about 2.75
inches measured the long way, but the largest of the photo specimens was
2.0 inches, weighing 0.88 ounce (25 gm). They are not currently farmed,
but are harvested from high in the intertidal zone (above the Manilla
Clam zone), where there can be more than 1400 clams per square yard.
Details and Cooking.
Quahog - see Hard Clam.
Queen / Empress Clam -
[Guai Fei Pong (Cantonese); Not yet identified]
This clam has recently been available live at a large Asian market in
Los Angeles (San Gabriel). So far, I haven't found them mentioned
anywhere except on the menus of Chinese restaurants, so I have little
information. The largest was 4.04 inches across the long way and 9-5/8
ounces. Yield for the batch was 6-5/8 ounces from 2 ponds 13-1/4 ounces
(14.6%). At 2016 US $3.99 / pound, that's $27.33 per pound edible, but
they were tasty.
Razor Clam -
[typical culinary species of the four most important genera:
All the genera listed above look much like the photo specimens, except the Pacific (Siliqua patula) which is much shorter. Most are Norther Hemisphere clams, but one species, Navaja (Ensis macha), inhabits both coasts of South America and is a significant commercial catch in Chile. They feature a digging foot at one end and a double siphon at the other, Razor clams are very highly regarded as food but are difficult to catch because they can dig down faster than a person can dig them up.
The photo specimens were purchased live at a large Asian market in
Los Angeles at 2013 US $5.49/pound. They may be Ensis directus
or an almost identical species. The longest was 5.88 inches long
and 7/8 inch wide. They typically weighed 1.63 ounces and yielded 0.63
ounce steamed edible (39%). The open photo specimen to the right has
been steamed.
Details and Cooking.
Great Shipworm -
[Teredo navalis]
This marine destroyer of wood causes tremendous economic damage in tropical and temperate waters worldwide. Though called a "worm" it is actually a clam related to the Geoduck and Softshell Clam. The shell, at the head end, is tiny and modified to act as a drill for boring into wood. They have a symbiotic relationship with a bacteria that breaks down cellulose into a form the shipworm can digest. This clam can grow to 24 inches long and nearly 1/2 inch in diameter.
Despite their slippery and unappetizing appearance, they are eaten in
Southeast Asia, particularly in Thailand and the Philippines. In Thailand
they are hunted in the mangrove forests and eaten raw, or in a soup-like
curry, chopped up along with tender inner leaves of banana blossom. They
taste similar to other clams.
Photo from
Invertebrate Galore copyright undetermined.
Surf Clam - Atlantic -
[Hokkigai (Japan); Skimmer, Hen Clam (Maine); Sea Clam, Giant Clam,
Bar Clam (Canada); Spisula solidissima & subspecies]
This very large clam (often over 6.5 inches) is found in the northwest
Atlantic from the southern Gulf of St. Laurence, Canada, to the Gulf of
Mexico. It is triangular in shape and lives in sand just to the sea side
of the surf zone. In the U.S. the foot (called "tongue") is used
to make clam strips and the strap meat around the edge of the shell and
the adductor muscles that closes the shell are chopped and used for clam
chowder and similar recipes. The foot is also exported to Japan for use
as sushi. It is larger than the foot of their local surf clams.
Atlantic Surf Clam.
Surf Clam - Arctic -
[Hokkigai (Japan); Stimpson's Surf Clam; Mactromeris polynyma]
This clam, similar to the Atlantic Surf Clam but a little smaller. There
are several subspecies. These clams are found along the northeast coast
of North America from Rhode Island north through the Gulf of St. Laurence,
and far offshore in the Grand Banks. Other subspecies are found all
around Southern Alaska, Japan and the north coast of China. As with the
Atlantic Surf Clam, the foot, strap meat and adductor muscle are edible.
The main market is Japan for sushi. It has not much penetrated the
American market due to a color difference with the Atlantic Surf Clam,
though experimental aquaculture is under way in the Gulf of Maine
White Clam -
[Asian Hard Clam; Meretrix lyrata]
This small clam is a major seafood export for Vietnam, packaged as whole frozen clams or as cooked clam meat. It is easily recognized by the white shell and the dark black streak covering one of the side edges just as though it had been dipped in paint.
The photo specimens are on the large size, at 2 inches wide and 1.2 ounces
each. 15-1/8 ounces yielded 1-3/8 ounces of clam meat (9%), or about US $33
per pound. Since you can buy a pound of frozen white clam meat for about
$3 per pound, in the shell is clearly a decorator item. Use them when
you want picturesque open clams in your soup bowl like in the cookbook
Blue Mussels
These three mussels are tell apart save by molecular genetics. They are cold and temperate water mussels which have been introduced to non-native areas including the Southern Hemisphere. All are widely marketed in the areas where they grow and are often farmed. Younger ones may have radial stripes of various colors but not green.
The photo specimens, sold in a Philippine market in Los Angeles as
"Black Mussel" are probably Pacific Blue Mussels. They were small ones
at 2.38 inches long, 1.21 inches across and 081 inch thick. This type
of mussel can grow at least an inch longer. They averaged 0.48 ounces
each and yielded 0.083 ounces steamed edible (17%). At 2013 US
$2.99/pound that comes to $17.52/ pound edible. In the photo, the closed
ones are live and the open one has been steamed. They had good flavor,
much more delicate than New Zealand mussels.
Brown Mussel -
[Perna perna]
This South Atlantic mussel is native to the shores of both Africa and
South America and has been accidentally introduced to, and become a pest
along, the coast of Texas. It is known for clogging pipes and marine
equipment and sinking navigation buoys, just like it's close relative the
Asian Green Mussel. It is a candidate for farming
due to is very fast growth but is not yet a commercial crop in the US.
In the wild green mussels can be toxic due to dinoflagellates they feed
on. Photo by Veronidae distributed under license Creative
Attribution-ShareAlike v3.0 Unported.
California Mussel -
[Mytilus californianus]
These mussels native to the Pacific Coast from the Aleutian Islands to
northern Mexico were harvested by the Chumash Indians and their predecessors
for about 15,000 years. They have orange flesh and can grow to 8 inches long
but are generally a lot smaller. They are still gathered for human consumption
and for use as bait but not as a commercial crop. Care must be taken in
harvesting and consumption because they can be quite toxic during periods
of "red tide". Photo by Tewy distributed under Creative
Attribution 2.5.
Asian Green Mussel -
[Philippine Green Mussel; Perna viridis]
This Indo-West Pacific mussel is not yet common in most of the U.S. but
is now being farmed in Florida, the Caribbean and South America but is more
well known for clogging pipes and marine equipment. It is fast growing and can
grow to over 4 inches long. In the wild green mussels can be toxic due to
dinoflagellates they feed on and they can concentrate heavy metals in
contaminated water. Photo by U.S. Geological Survey = public
Green Lip Mussel -
[New Zealand Green Mussel; Perna canaliculus]
Found only around New Zealand where growing them has become a major
industry this is the "Green Mussel" most common in U.S. seafood markets and
restaurants. Unlike the other green mussel, P. viridis, it is not
suited to tropical climates and can be told from it by radial stripes of brown
or red color most visible near the lip.
Atlantic Oyster -
[Eastern Oyster; Crassostrea virginica]
As with Pacific Oysters they are sold named by point of origin.
Well known names are Apalachicola, Blue Point, Cape Cod, Chesapeake,
Chincoteague, Indian River, Kent Island, Malpeque and Wellfleet.
European Oyster -
[European Flat Oyster, Mud Oyster; Ostrea edulis]
This oyster is native to the eastern coast of the Atlantic, from Norway
to Morocco and in the Mediterranean. They were introduced to the North
American coast in the mid 20th century and have established natural
populations. It is being farmed in Maine, Washington and California, for
sale at a higher price than other oysters. The flavor is described as
"dry and metallic". they are considered excellent for eating raw on the
half shell. Adults measure 1.5 to 4.3 inches across.
Photo by Jan Johan ter Poorten distributed under license
Creative Commons
Attribution-ShareAlike v3.0 Unported.
Olympia Oyster -
[Ostrea lurida]
This is the native Pacific oyster, found from southeast Alaska to Baja but most common in bays and estuaries of the state of Washington. It has a thick irregularly shaped fluted shell which may range from white through purple to black in color and rarely grows larger than 1-1/2 inch across.
Formerly this oyster was so abundant in the Pacific Northwest it spawned
a major shellfish industry in Washington state. By the early 20th century
stocks were so decimated by over-harvesting, pollution and silt from highway
construction oyster growers had to bring in the Pacific Oyster to stay
in business. Olympias disappeared entirely from the once abundant Puget Sound
area and were extremely low elsewhere. Stocks have recovered a bit in some
areas and efforts are being made to assist their recovery but populations
are still at low levels. They have also reappeared in San Francisco Bay
in California, spawning a restoration effort there.
Photo by Feet Wet distributed under license Creative
Attribution v2.0 Generic.
Pacific Oyster -
[Japanese Oyster, Miyagi Oyster, Kumamoto Oyster,
Crassostrea gigas]
Native to the coasts of Japan, Korea and China, the Pacific Oysters grown on the U.S. West Coast were brought from Japan in 1912. They are primarily an aquaculture crop but some wild populations now exist in Washington, British Columbia and elsewhere. They have now been distributed worldwide and grow on many non-tropical coasts. Pacific oysters can reach a length of as much as 10 inches but are generally marketed much smaller.
They are easily recognized by their large size and deep very rough shells (Atlantic oysters are smoother and European oysters are smoother and rather flat). They are often sold named by the location grown, such as Wescott Bays, Shoalwaters, Quilcenes and Willapa Bays.
A clumping species, Pacific oysters were originally unsuitable for the
"half-shell" market so were shucked in factories and packed in jars.
Today the emphasis is on growing solitary oysters for sale live. A new
variety (Kumamoto) has become popular and has a particularly deep shell
making it ideal for "half-shell" service.
Scallops are unique among bivalves in that they can see a lot better, having up to a hundred reflective eyes along the edge of their mantles, and most are free of any attachment (Zen mollusks?) and can swim. Some are even migratory.
The only parts of a scallop that are eaten are the large cylindrical adductor muscle and the roe, both male (white) and female (red). The muscles are sold in two forms: "dry pack" and "wet pack". Wet pack scallops are treated with sodium tripolyphosphate (STPP) which causes them to absorb a lot of water before freezing. "Wet pack" is more profitable to the seller, but quite disappointing to the buyer, as they shrink badly during cooking.
There is a fair amount of scallop farming, 80% of it in China and 10% in Japan, Russia being a distant third. Unlike fish and shrimp farming, bivalve farming is considered ecologically neutral to beneficial.
Atlantic Sea Scallop -
[Placopecten magellanicus]
Native to the northeastern coast of North America, from the north shore of the Gulf of St. Lawrence south to Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, this scallop provides by far the largest scallop harvest in the world. They were over-harvested at one time but have rebounded to record levels. The harvest is now considered sustainable.
These scallops are caught by dredging and now by divers. Diver
harvesting is less ecologically damaging and provides a better product.
There is some minor scallop farming of this species within their normal
range. These scallops are up to 6-1/2 inches across (the photo specimen
is just under 6 inches) and they are generally a pinkish color.
Bay Scallop -
[Argopecten irradians and others]
Bay scallops are much smaller than the sea scallops. A. irradians is
native to the northeastern coast of North America, and once supported a
large fishery. These scallops have greatly declined due to the usual
coastal problems, mostly from development, but also from over-harvesting
of the sharks that ate the rays that eat the scallops. Today, nearly all
A. irradians in the markets are farmed in China, though some are farmed
in the Eastern US. The photo specimen, species unknown, is 3 inches
Oysters: These bivalves are a well balanced food containing protein, carbohydrates and lipids and are low in cholesterol. Oysters are an excellent source of vitamins D, C, A, B1(thiamin), B2 (riboflavin), B3 (niacin), iron, copper, iodine, magnesium, calcium, zinc, manganese and phosphorus in good nutritional proportions.
WARNING raw oysters may carry bacteria, so persons with compromised immune systems or chronic liver disease should avoid eating them raw.


text:
It only takes a minute to get started. Fill out our simple sign up form and login to the site.
This step is voluntary but will dramatically raise your chances of getting interest from other over 40s members on the site. Write about yourself, your interests and atach your nicest photo of yourself.
Utilise our website's advanced search to uncover over 40s members who satisfy your needs. Or just look through listings and uncover folks that interest you.
Located someone who looks suitable? Send them a message or just a wink and see what happens next. With a little luck you'll be on your way to true love.
It only takes a few minutes


text:
Janan Ganesh eBooks
eBooks found: 1
George Osborne: The Austerity Chancellor
Janan Ganesh
Biteback Publishing, September 2012
Format: ePub
eBookMall is a recognized leader in eBooks. eBook downloads in PDF and ePub formats.
Choose from 600,000+ eBooks and get a Free eBook download now!
Copyright © 2000-2017 eBookMall.com This website is subject to copyright laws and may be covered by other intellectual property.
All rights reserved.


text:
Sticky Greasy Hair from Hair Spray- Mystery Ingredient?!
View Single Post
View Public Profile
Send a private message to Meeshla
Find More Posts by Meeshla
Join Date: Apr 2012
Posts: 35
Saturday, March 30, 2013 at 02:41PM
: Sticky Greasy Hair from Hair Spray- Mystery Ingredient?!
I need some help for a friend. She used some hairspray and ever since has had sticky greasy hair. Nothing can cut that stuff - even baking soda didn't work. Here are the ingredients of the spray she used (below) Does anybody know what would help with this?!?!
Ethanol, Propane, Butane, Methacryloyl, Ethyl Betaine/Acrylates Copolymer, Cyclopentasyloxane, Triacetin, Fragrance, Propylene Glycol, Aqua, Hydroxypropyltrimonium Hydrolyzed silk, Hydrolyzed Extensin, Vitamine (A, D, E, K) / Dimethicone / Behenamidopropyl Dimethylamine Behenate/ Hydrolyzed Wheat protein, Cocodimonium Hydroxypropyl Hydrolyzed Human Hair Keratin, PEG - 8
Started CG: April 16th, 2012
2b, medium fine, thick, average porosity


text:
Hoshi no Umi no Amuri 01
Pinballs in space!
Oh wow, this was pretty awesome. Fully CGI animated with moe-moe designs, coupled with "ikinari yuri!?", playing pinballs in space and very, very pretty effects, this show might prove itself as a real winner.
Kakyoin Amuri is blasted out in to space, but gets saved by an eyepatch girl who's residing inside a black sphere called Uterus. The sphere is captured by some machines to a garbage dump named Galapagos. The police launch their elite task force to retrieve the sphere and the survivors before the machines open it up, but they get pwned.
The Uterus picks up another survivor, but all hope seems lost until Amuri spots her name on the briefcase that the new girl is holding when they accidentally kissed each other. Turns out it contains a special space suit, "Spora" that enhances her Adapter powers, which in her case is the ability of repulsion.
Cue henshin sequence, and with the Spora, she plays a round of mega space pinball with a giant robot, using plasma balls. Seriously pretty. Not joking about the pinball parts too. Amuri finally pwns the robot with her powers, but shit hasn't stopped hitting the fan as the air in the Uterus is all gone.
The show's main concepts revolve around people called "Adapters" who seem to have interesting powers like Amuri's Repulsion, china girl's (Yunque "Suzu" Lin) Escape and eyepatch girl's (Perrier "Perie" La Mer) Infiltration. Adapters also seem to have a certain tolerance for surviving in space w/o air.
There's also interesting tech like air candies which seem to provide the user ability to breathe in space for a limited amount of time, and the Uterus, which seems to be semi-intangible as matter passes through it, possibly due to Perie's power though.
The animation is pretty well done for CGI and manages to keep the "anime" feel to it, coupled up with some nice moe designs on the girls part, detailed designs for the Adapter effects and some really fluid animation all around. Makes me wonder how much they spent on buying time on the rendering farms.
The cast is pretty good, with Yui Makino taking the main lead and her voicing of Amuri is pretty well-done and she does a lot of the singing of the show, with a couple of nice songs from her. Amuri has all this cute "hauu~"'s too that are kinda cute. Peri and Suzu haven't said much themselves and their seiyuu's aren't known names for me. Noto Mamiko has a side part in this show though.
There's also hints of yuri in this show…
… more in a fanservice kinda way though. But it was funny how they kept repeating that kiss from about 5-6 different angles.
Looking forward to the next part. Hope it doesn't take too long :)


text:
1. How to grow 100 pound of potatoes in 4 squire foot : "According to this article, you can grow 100 pounds of potatoes in 4 sq. feet. Plant as early as April or as late as August 1, with an approximated 3 month till harvest turnaround time."
2. Doctors Warn of New Stomach 'Superbug' Hitting U.S. : "A new strain of norovirus that wreaks havoc on people's stomachs is so vicious that it's being called a " superbug" by doctors. Though it was first identified in Australia, this norovirus – also called the Sydney strain – is quickly spreading across the United States."
3. Makes me glad to be in Tennessee – "Frigid New Year's forecast for parts of U.S. –40 below zero. Lows in Wisconsin, Minnesota and North Dakota could reach 40 degrees below zero on Tuesday night, he said. In New England, temperatures will be relatively warmer, with lows near or below zero."
4. Cold facts: More record lows than highs in USA in 2013 : "For the first year since 1993, there were more daily record lows than daily highs that were either tied or set in 2013," reported Weather Channel meteorologist Guy Walton, who keeps track of the data from the climate center."
5. Gold closes out worst year since 1981 : "Gold slumped 28 percent in 2013. The price peaked at $1,900 an ounce in August 2011 and has been declining more or less steadily ever since."
6. Just what we need – 40,000 new laws take effect in 2014!
7. Despite The Propaganda, The US Economy Is Collapsing : "With continued uncertainty around the globe, today a man who has been involved in the financial markets for 50 years, and whose business partner is billionaire Eric Sprott, told King World News that despite the propaganda, the US economy is collapsing."
8. How Will The Economy Improve In 2014 If Almost Everyone Has Less Money To Spend? : "Is the U.S. consumer tapped out? If so, how in the world will the U.S. economy possibly improve in 2014? Most Americans know that the U.S. economy is heavily dependent on consumer spending. If average Americans are not out there spending money, the economy tends not to do very well."


text:
Like garden weeds, nails continue to grow no matter how frequently you nibble on them. Tend your fingernails with this Groupon.
Choose from Three Options
- $22 for one classic mani-pedi (a $49 value)
- $12 for one Shellac manicure (a $25 value)
- $33 for three Shellac manicures (a $75 value)
Technicians tend to extremities by first soaking them in a soothing bath to soften up rough edges and calluses. A trim and buff beautifies nails, and a massage clears the tension out of legs during the pedicure portion of the classic mani-pedi. Next, cuticle maintenance prepares nails for coats of bright lacquer, and a top coat ensures a high-shine finish. Alternatively, Shellac polish ensures an instantly dry color that resists chips for up to two weeks.
Peace Love Hair Salon and Boutique
A day-glo sign portrays the salon's mindset in simple pictographs. Against the sunset-pink backdrop, a pair of scissors flanks a peace sign and a simple heart. Inside the shop, stylists draw upon products from brands including Rock Your Hair beneath walls the same gleaming silver as a knight stuck in a car wash. The surfaces are all lined with shelves of colorful earrings and dresses. Each of the aestheticians has a minimum of two years of experience, which all flaunt while doing nails, adding feather extensions, and waxing unwanted hair.
Customer Reviews
5830 W Central Ave
Wichita, KS 67212
+13164253343Get Directions


text:
Welcome to Palm Beach Masters Swimming
An Adult Swimming Program for Fitness Swimmers, Triathletes, Competitive Masters Swimmers & You!
Palm Beach Masters Swimming is a U.S. Masters Swimming program located at 3 beautiful outdoor pools in Jupiter, West Palm Beach and Delray Beach, FL.
We welcome adult swimmers of all abilities who want to improve their fitness, develop better technique, or train for any swimming competition.
Masters Swimming is an organized swimming program for adults. Whether you are a novice, triathlete, fitness or an elite swimmer, Palm Beach Masters offers an inspiring team atmosphere with organized workouts, competitions, clinics and social functions. Highly qualified coaches provide one on one instruction to help swimmers of all skill levels and ages improve their technique and train for personal goals.
Our coached sessions are designed to improve your swimming skills, make you more efficient in the water and increase your overall fitness level. Interval training has countless benefits over simple lap swimming. Get fit, become a better swimmer, stay motivated, and meet new friends!
Swim free for a week! See how much fun you will have group training, and discover how quickly you will improve with professional coaching! We are the team for everyone—from beginners seeking to increase fitness, to racers intent on setting a world age group record.
Meet us at the pool and join the fun! The Wahoo Life!
Latest News