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Please join us in congratulating Beth from CookingAndCrafting , our featured “On The Rise” partner for August 2013. Beth’s channel is in the spotlight on the YouTube home channel and the On The Rise homepage today. Beth hails from Hawaii and has been creating YouTube videos since 2006! She hopes to inspire people to cook their own meals through her fast and easy approach to cooking and baking. If you’re hungry, Beth can show you how to make the best potato soup you’ll ever eat (no really, the best!), and can help you satisfy that sweet tooth with molten butterscotch cakes . You might be feeling creative today, and Beth’s channel can also walk you through some neat crafts--"Star Wars" fans will love this easy-to-follow tutorial on making a Princess Leia headband . Check out her channel for other fun, family-friendly meal or craft ideas.   Here are a few words from Beth: "I started vlogging in 2006 and as I was vlogging, I would sometimes make a craft while chatting, o

Upon reading the post earlier this week asking for a male-male hot-shoe-to-mini coiled sync cord, reader Shirley Lu, of Guangzhou, China noted in the comments: If this cable is 10 meters, maybe it will have a delay on signal transfer. And other point is the cost of a 10-meter cable is much higher than a set wireless triggers. Great question (er, comment), Shirley. I am so glad you posted it. And especially so, considering a quick look at your screen name shows you work at Pixel Enterprises, a Chinese lighting gear manufacturer. (Welcome!) My answers are below. Read more »

I heard a quote that is so true to my life right now.  The days are long but the years are short.  Some days the time moves so slowly and other days I can't believe its dinner time.  I always have more planned for my days than time allows.  I've been struggling to document our everyday.  Those wonderful, special things the kids are doing that 10 years down the road, I will probably have forgotten even though I am willing myself not to.    Gavin- he is the cutest. sweetest thing.  He is growing up so fast and wants to be a big boy.   If he watches it happen, he wants to try and do it himself.  Legos are a part of our every afternoon (and most mornings and evenings). One of them will drag them out of their hiding place, Reegan dumps them and then they entertain themselves for an hour.  Gavin often can be found taking them to other rooms and leaving them there.  I found some in my bathroom yesterday and in his laundry hamper.  Gavin has 14 teeth and every toy goes in his mouth. Re

Two weeks ago today, we deployed a new point-of-sale system called Lightspeed. It has been quite a ride, as we adapt to a completely new POS, which can best be described as the operating system for our business. It's critical in everything we do. You see it as a customer as a glorified cash register, but the real power is in inventory and ordering product. With 17,000 items in our system, there is a hard won business intelligence in knowing what we have, what to order, and when. The POS handles all that, but only by our constant monitoring of every transaction. Do I still want this item? Can I tweak the quantity based on popularity? Can I infer a turn rate based on sales history that allows me to order an optimum quantity for the shelf? Inventory is a zero sum game, so every new item must have a corresponding item (or value) that goes away, and the POS is the tool to acquire that knowledge. In many ways, we're starting over with a new system, as our sales history starts the day

GTA V GTA V Grand Theft Auto (GTA) V was already claimed will offer a vast game world that can be explored by gamers lovers of the game, starting from deep sea diving to float in the air with a plane. Nevertheless it turns out the extent of the game world GTA V could possibly be provided yet nothing compared to the latest conflict game made ​​Bohemia Interactive's . Arma III that is, battle sport style first person shooter (FPS) game additionally affords the world with an space of ​​270 sq. kilometers. Based on the images reveal, the size is as much as 10 occasions bigger than the game world of Far Cry three and Skyrim are also recognized to have a big enough size. Arma III himself can be announced on September 12 its presence. Carrying the kind of open-world tactical shooter games , games which can be only current for the PC tells the story of the battle that occurred in 2030. Where NATO troops are stationed in the Greek islands in the Aegean Sea about making an attempt to h

It's new words time for Oxford Dictionaries Online and that means lots of media coverage for the new(ish) words that have been added to the dictionary. This is one of those areas of language change that often gets a good press (unlike other changes which tend to cause snorts of derision the press). Here , Oxford Dictionaries Blog explain some of their new words, while The Guardian picks a few of them up in this piece  and The Daily Telegrap h has a look too. Elsewhere, twerking - recently popularised by Miley Cyrus , but disputed by several commentators - gets a more in depth look. My personal favourite so far (probably because I have developed a summer one of these) is food baby , which is defined as "a protruding stomach caused by eating a large quantity of food and supposedly resembling that of a woman in the early stages of pregnancy". Excuse me while I go and twerk it off.

Welcome back to blog followers from last year and hi to new people starting the course this year. I've tried to keep regular tweets going from the @EngLangBlog account over the summer holiday in place of blog posts and I've rounded up a few of the most interesting ones about accent and dialect here for you. These should be particularly helpful if you're doing ENGA3 this year, especially those Colchester 6th Form College students doing the summer assignment in the packs from last term. Lucy Mangan on accent adaptation and prejudice A guide to Nottingham accent and dialect A piece on the changing nature of the Leicester varieteh

0 A.D. is a free game made by a community of volunteers and is an Age of the Empires style RTS. The game is only in alpha but they have a pretty solid build available for download on their  site.  The project still has a long way to go but amazingly you can already play it on Windows, Mac OS and Linux. I've tested it on Windows 7 and Mac OS 10.7.5, here's what I found. Both versions seemed to run equally well, however, the game has yet to be optimised so when a lot of stuff starts to happen, the game starts to chug. The thing that strikes you at first is how beautiful the game is. The landscapes are incredible and most of the unit models are pretty good too, they just requiring some touching up here and there. Still it's pretty good for a community run project. There are a lot of little bugs and features missing at the moment. One of the most annoying things is that workers will get stuck on each other and do this silly little dance back and forth, unable to pass one anothe

It went by way too quickly. It always does, but especially this year it seems. My absence here has surprised even me, but the Fall will bring a renewal in many ways....I'm sure of it. Hope you'll check back the first week of September. xo

gran turismo 6 gran turismo 6 Automobile racing game that's widespread is the Gran Turismo 6 , the latest model can be launched in the near future. This game fans can already pre-order and the initial consumers will get one thing special. Polyphony Digital and Sony announced that the game Grand Turismo 6 will likely be released on a big scale on Dec. 6 , and the two corporations are ready to accept orders beginning this racing game . "Consumers who pre-order will get the game Grand Turismo 6 edition Precision Pack , where there are 5 special vehicles that do not exist in the standard edition," said Penrose Tackie, Europe Brand Supervisor Polyphony, as I quoted from Softpedia, Thursday (22 / 8/2013). Grand Turismo 6 promised extra new cars with a contact of the good graphics and interesting . Additionally, there will likely be 70 tracks which might be more difficult than the previous series. This game might be available completely for the PlayStation 3 gaming cons

GTA-V-for-PlayStation 4 GTA-V-for-PlayStation 4 Lengthy anticipate players who look ahead to the fifth sequel to the game Grand Theft Auto (GTA) has lastly discovered a vivid spot. As the game maker Rockstar has finally officially announced the discharge date for the sequel to the GTA. Reporting from GameSpot, GTA V will likely be introduced roughly 2 weeks from now or precisely on September 17 . Open world action game style is going to obtainable for the PlayStation three game console and Xbox 360 at first. " The development of GTA V was a year of arduous work for many people around the world, each for builders and gamers are ready, and we ( Rockstar ) alight again to lastly share with gamers on September 17," stated Rockstar. Along with lastly reveal the announcement time, as I quoted from GameSpot, Monday (26/08/2013), Rockstar also stated it would begin to unfold little by little a number of benefits supplied by GTA V until close to the time of the announcement late

Whoops, my bad. Lemme rephrase that: 親愛的中國，請讓這些長長的特殊的同步線之一。這將讓攝影師輕鬆地使用他們與他們的新相機的遙控閃光燈。 Now, here's why: Read more »

Yup, two years ago today I created this blog because I had spontaneously gotten into reading fantasy and was absolutely devouring the stuff. Since then, my pace has slowed a bit, but I'm still reading several fantasy books a year. My posting rate on here has collapsed, however, which I'm working to rectify. Here's to another year!

Alternate title: Let's have some truly random A Song of Ice and Fire thoughts. Credit: Sardag. Via A Wiki of Ice and Fire . So, I recently picked up A Clash of Kings , figuring that after like two or three years, it would be a pretty good time to start progressing through the series. At the same time, I started reading stuff and things on the ASoIaF wiki, including the page about Randyll Tarly, the father of Samwell of the Night's Watch. Well, that reminded me of a thought I had had while reading A Game of Thrones and Tarly's treatment of his son. For those who haven't read the books or might not otherwise remember, Randyll Tarly despised his son because he basically wasn't Ron fucking Swanson and when his wife gave birth to a son who was more to his liking, he forced Samwell to take the black and join the Night's Watch. If he hadn't, Randyll would have arranged an unfortunate "accident" for his eldest son. via Game of Thrones wiki . I don't

The Best Game For Your Smartphone Raging Thunder:  Description About Raging Thunder  Raging Thunder is a racing Android game . Although it uses Android platform, its different with drag racing or speedcar. Raging Thunder has many options resembling multiplayer to play online, state-of-the art 3D graphics, increase, draft and tackling physics, and customizable controls.  Raging Thunder has been downloaded by greater than 10,000,000 Android customers and greater than fifty seven,000 users give score for it. Totally four/5 on average. This sport is free to download and has dimension of 3.2 MB.   Bubble Shoot:  Description About Bubble Shoot  Bubble Shoot is a enjoyable Android game . The issue with Bubble Shoot is that they are addictive. This recreation has a hundred and eighty totally different and difficult levels to play on.  The way to play Bubble Shoot recreation? Foremost activity is to clear all the bubbles on the display to degree up and attempt to attain three stars on every le

Playstation 4 release date On The Playstation 4 release date is fast approaching and everyone is waiting anxiously. This particular gaming console is supposed to be the best that has ever hit the market. Playstation 4 will release On on November 29th, 2013 in Europe, Australia and New Zealand and November 15 in the US and Canada. Release during Sony's Gamescom 2013 press conference, the $400 next-gen console's date will compete with Microsoft's November release window for Xbox One .  It kind of makes you wonder what these guys are up. Who would have thought that they could beat the Playstation 3? The Playstation 3 was already one of a kind with its 320GB capacity drive, superb graphics, and the simple fact that it was Blue-Ray. Seriously, what other surprises does the Sony manufacturer's have up their sleeve? Makes you wonder doesn't it? There has also been speculation that Ken Kutargi, the inventor, has mentioned that there were plans for even a Playstation 5

Tips How To Play Online Games Like A Pro These days, online games are becoming very popular, especially because most properties have an web connection, and most people have personal computers. Regardless of whether a person uses his or her computer for varsity assignments or for work, there is always the necessity to chill out, and what better means to take action than to play online games . The issue with most players is that they get to a game , discover that it is too troublesome for them to even get to the next level, after which they stop; nevertheless, right here is an easy information that can assist you enjoy and persist with the game you love, and play it to the final level. Ensure you have a super internet connection Since we're speaking about online games , then it's a must to have a superb web connection so that you can play effectively. It's a great disadvantage when a player is sort of attending to the next level, just for the connection to fail him or her.

Wu Wei is a Taoist term meaning "non action," or being in harmony with the universe. Wei Wu Wei then is action through non action, which means all your actions are in harmony. You maintain harmony, doing no more and no less. Applying this to business, an established business has a natural rhythm and pattern, it has a harmony all its own. The nice thing about this is, although you still work hard, you work happier with less stress. What we're often told to do as business owners is apply disruptive ideas and concepts to our businesses, in hopes of jiggering it into performing. In reality, it turns out, doing less is more . Applying a little action through non action, a better strategy is to find things to do that enhance that rhythm and harmony, rather than disrupting it. That's essentially what I try to do as my management style and it's often about what feels right, as opposed to what might work. I don't think that makes me a mystical guru, it's just how

The last few weeks have been tough.  There is really no way to sugar coat this, we are in a valley.  We're optimistic and faithful in believing that things will turn around and our hearts will be healed.   On July 6 we placed our house on the market in order to search for a larger one.  We only had a few showings and we were feeling that it would take a few/many months to sell.  Fast forward 3 weeks, July 28, our hearts were broken when Jason's dad Stacey passed away unexpectedly.  August 2 we received an offer on our house that we accepted.  Aug 3 was the funeral for Stacey.  Aug 16, 2 weeks before we were supposed to close, the buyers backed out.  Not much of a reason, and it was the last day that the contract stated they could back out.  This weekend we have had 3 showings, so hopefully some good news will be quick to follow.    It has been a time of true lows along with some high points.  We will miss Stacey dearly, he was a wonderful man and while I know Jason and I will