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This project was a collaborative effort between the owners of several Native activist websites. It took a year to... - [Read more]

Home video game consoles have come a long way from the original 8-bit systems. One huge benefit to the wholesale industry is the console wars, and the continual release of new video games, accessories - [Read more]

San Francisco, CA - People who dont set goals wind up asking, How come I never got what I wanted out of life? Those are the words of Theodore Carl Soderberg, author of the new book Uncharted Wa - [Read more]

FanBolt writes: LINDSAY LOHAN has become the target of yet another fashionista, whos accusing the actress of swiping thousands of dollars worth of items from her closet during a party last year (07). Earlier this month (May08), Lohan was accused of stealing an $11,000 (#5,500) fur coat after it went missing at a New York nightspot back in January (08). And now 23-year-old Lauren Hastings has come forward alleging the Mean Girls star has a history of hoarding clothes.

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Politico - BEND, Ore. -- When the election returns filter in Tuesday from West Virginia, Sen. Barack Obama wont be there. Nor will he leapfrog ahead to a later primary state, as he usually does on election nights.

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Live rock as has been said time and time again is a phenomenal filtration medium. There are various different types of live rock available all of which provide the required filtration to the aquarium if enough is placed into the aquarium.

There is one in particular however that in my opinion is more decorative and ’standard’ live rock.

Tonga rock

Tonga rock is different to other types of live rock due to the reason that it looks like branches of a tree. It can be an extremely decorative addition to a saltwater aquarium. Due to tonga rock being thinner and not boulder shaped like the majority of other live rock with the obvious exception of plating rock you have the ability to be able to create fantastic water movement around it.

In my opinion tonga rock is fantastic for SPS corals as you can provide a large amount of water movement and if carefully aquascaped can look amazing. This is not to say that you could not have a fish only aquarium or a soft coral aquarium with tonga rock as you would be able to. You would just have to bear in mind that you will need to create caves etc for the fish to hide in as well as creating ledges to place the soft corals on.

But what about the filtration - is tonga rock as good as other live rock.

Tonga rock does have good filtration capabilities however they are not as good as other live rock. This is mainly due to the size of the physical rock. To purchase enough tonga rock to faciliate the filtration requirement would make it very hard to aquascape.

So what do you do?

In my opinion it is quite simple. I personally would use the tonga rock for decorative purposes and then have an in tank deep sand bed as well. The deep sand bed would be the main aspect of the filtration but the tonga rock would do some as well albeit reduced. You do not need to have the deep sand bed in the display aquarium it could be in the sump in the cabinet. You would just need to make sure that the partiton designed for the deep sand bed was large enough.

One of my dream aquariums (we all have them don’t we) is to have a 3 foot cube tank (3*3*3). In this aquarium a deep sand bed would be placed and tonga rock used for decorative purposes as well as some plating rock to provide some hiding places/ledges. Lighting would be provided by metal halides, the water movement would be chaotic and my corals of choice would be SPS with a small amount of fish.

We can but dream can’t we?

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If the price of oil wasn’t high enough already, the Beijing Olympics could push prices even higher according to analysts.

“In the lead-up to the Games you are going to see pretty heavy spending in infrastructure — building roads, residential property, hotels — and this is typically energy intensive,” said BNP Paribas analyst Harry Tchilinguirian.

China’s economy is growing at break neck speed with the Beijing Olympics pushing the economy along further. Chinese citizens are starting to take cars and electronic products for granted as they become more affordable to average citizens.

Air travel will also experience higher demand by transporting spectators and athletes to Beijing.

“They are going to make every effort to make sure that the refineries are operating to the full extent and that there are no blockages to imports,” Philip Andrews-Speed, professor of energy policy at Dundee University said.

“They will use any reasonable tax incentives like removing taxes in oil imports to make sure there is enough oil in the country during the coming months.”

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Holidays are a time when we take stock of how we have been blessed in life. Today leads me to think about how I am blessed by having my own mother, the stepmother of my children, and her mother all in my life to celebrate. My mother raised me, taught me to be an individual, and [...] - [Read more]

• Diet starting weight: 295
• Week starting weight: 274
• Today’s weight: 270
• Week weight loss: 4 lbs
• Total weight lost: 25 lbs

Feels good to see my weight chart move in the right direction again. Of course the cynic in me says losing 4 pounds in a week is easy when I had gained so much recently and I was sick for half the week, but I’m shutting him out and focusing on the positives.

Things I did well this week:

• Started some strength training.
• Not too many eating disasters (which going forward I will be documenting via my Bad Meals posts).
• Once when I was looking for a snack I selected some sliced cucumbers instead of something bad for me.

Things I did not so well this week:

• No cardio.
• Not enough water.
• Subway

I’ll start my week off in Chicago so I will be challenged with all that comes with travel, but I am resolved to get through it and continue to move the weight back down.

Here’s to a good week!

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Over the past few months, we have heard numerous times in the media that the Federal Reserve and the other central banks have a choice between economic growth and rising prices (wrongly defined as inflation). In fact, most investors have been brainwashed into believing that policies which stimulate strong economic growth automatically result in higher prices within the economy. For example, in the current situation it is now widely believed that by slashing rates and adding liquidity to the financial system, the Federal Reserve is opting for strong economic growth in the US which in turn is causing the consumer price levels to rise. In other words, most people are being hoodwinked into believing that the prices are rising due to strong growth! - [Read more]

We are going through a recession. Experts say that it’s going to continue to get worse for at least two more years. We are going to hit all time lows that we haven’t seen for over thirty years. The US Economy is in pretty bad shape, and getting worse… is this news to anybody? To whoever [...] - [Read more]

It’s no secret that i run multiple blogs. BloggerNoob dot com is my main blog, but i also make money with my other blogs. I don’t update as often on my other blogs, but i still manage to pull in traffic, and light income. I wanted to start a new blogging project. I wanted to [...] - [Read more]

So here I am.  Pretty much settled in my rental home.  The boys have adjusted for the most part.  I guess I have adjusted also. 

My list of things to do has dwindled down.  I am not feeling as frantic.  As of now, there will be no more drives to Wilmington in the near future.  That’s good because it put the boys through a lot, especially James.  James is very active and loves to walk everywhere.  He constantly tells me “walk.”  Which means he wants to be put down and NOT hold my hand.  He wants to do everything by himself.  Pheww, stubborn and he’s not even two yet.  So I’m sure you can understand a two hour car ride might just drive him crazy.

The bedroom set-up works pretty well here.  I can keep the baby out of James’ earshot when he takes a nap.  Which is nice.  I have the back, large room, which happens to be red with orange trim.  Matthew’s room is next to mine.  James’ room is up front near the kitchen.  There is an extra room here, compared to my house, and it’s abut 300 sq feet larger.

I have a few more things to do tomorrow then I plan to relax and enjoy my last stress-free weekend.  Classes start Tuesday but the boys will start daycare Monday.  I brought them by today to check it out.  Matthew will be fine but James will have to warm up a little.  He can be a little shy at first but he’ll be OK.  He’ll have fun!!

Last month during their show in Long Beach on the Taste Of Chaos Tour, a couple of the boys from Bless The Fall took the time out of their hectic schedule to talk with us about The current tour, their latest music video and what its like to be the new guys on the block. Read more... (http://iesb.net/audiofrequency/content/view/442/) - [Read more]

What is Pangea Day? Pangea Day is a four-hour film festival of “user-generated films and TED-style short talks from scientists, filmmakers, and global visionaries.” The event will air internationally May 10th, 2008 on television and online. Below is a video featuring Cameron Diaz urging support for the day & why it is ... - [Read more]

Last March I had the pleasure of spending some time with Jim Killian, News Director for WGCY radio. He was fabulous. It was really easy to talk with him and he made me feel at ease. (Thanks Jim!) To make... - [Read more]

The Lord is leading me down some interesting trials recently. Ive lost a good friend (not a death, just in case it comes across like that) and it seems like its a struggle to get through a single day without Satan attacking me emotionally. Ive learned and pressed into God with renewed vigor and strength throughout the trials that I am going through, God is the only thing that is never changing in this lifetime. God never changes: he always loves us unconditionally and much more then we can ever grasp.

Its such an amazing feeling to come back from working on projects and studying at 2 or 3 AM and put praise music on and start worshiping the Lord. If you let him, God will always refresh you beyond what you can ever imagine. When you worship and pour your heart out to the Lord you cant help but go to bed with an immense smile on your face.

Sometimes I wish I could drop all of my studies and all the work I am doing at college to devote all my time to God. When I really think about it I realize that I have to first put my priorities straight; whenever I get my work done I feel so refreshed and so good because God placed me where I am right now, and that is college. I have the feeling that if I pursued the thought of leaving my studies to devote myself toward God I wouldnt be as blessed, God wouldnt bless me and I wouldnt grow since I was veering off the path He has set for me now.

I am leaving college in a week, it will be the end of my first year. I have grown so much over this first year. I have discovered God and He has moved me in more incredible ways then I could ever imagine. When I am home I pray to be a light in the darkness, I pray that I will be the torch bearer in my family. I know I will be!

Over the summer I should be recording what is happening more frequently so I can keep friends in the loop!

Its around 2:45 AM and Im on the verge of exhaustion. Im swimming in coffee and tea, but I did all the work that I really wanted to get done for tonight. Tomorrow will be another late night!

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Last month I was honored to be a keynote speaker at the Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training (CSEE&T) annual meeting. Open Source has become a major topic on campuses, not just the enterprise, and I was delighted to meet with some of the leaders in setting the agenda for software engineering education.

When I was a student in the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Pennsylvania, I did not give to much thought about how the faculty chose to teach Sorting and Searching and not DOS for Idiots or why the core curriculum was constructed in one way and not another. At the time it all seemed like useful and exciting stuff to me, and I learned it all (as best I could).

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Yay! I have made it onto the Top 100 Australian Women Bloggers List. The position where a site is on the list is determined by the average of its Technorati rank and its Australian Alexa rank. I have made it to 75th on the list. An accomplishment considering just a few weeks ago I didnt even qualify. Click on the pink Australia and you will be taken to the list. There are some great blogs - [Read more]

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On Saturday night of April 19, 2008, I went the second concert of my life. The first concert seems like a little kid birthday party compare to this one. With a crowd of approximately 20,000 standing in the rain, in the sold-out Olympic Stadium, in Nanjing, China, Jay Chou gave a performance that is worth the money and the time spend standing in the rain. And yes in the end of the night, he threw his nun chuck at me.

Arm with two VIP tickets and my girlfriend, I head into Olympic Stadium not knowing what to expect since this is my first concert in China. Each of our ticket cost us Y1580, that’s about $225 US dollars each. That is not a bad price compare to US concerts. Our seats were about 20 rows from the front and we were smack in the middle. Every seats were sold out, the Stadium was pack and just right before the concert start, the rain started to pour. Fortunately they gave us some plastic rain coat. It was very thin but it did the job. I was too smart to check on the forecast so I didn’t bring an umbrella, and yes I got an earful from my girlfriend for not bringing the umbrella when she told me to.

Some moments that was unforgettable that night involve two kids. Both pretty chubby, both about the same age, but both did not have the same amount of fun though. There was one kid to our right who couldn’t see the stage because when the concert started, everyone stood up, no not on their feet, but on the chairs. The dad got pretty upset that he paid so much money for the tickets and his kid couldn’t even see Jay Chou, he tried his best to get people to sit down but it didn’t really work. By halfway through the concert they were gone.

This other little chubby Chinese kid on the other hand had the time of his life. Even though he couldn’t see anything but the top edge of the TV screen, he sang, to the top of his lung, along to every, I mean every songs that Jay Chou perform. He knew every song, every words, every beat, and did not care that he was getting rain on and that he couldn’t see Jay Chou. He had a blast.

For us, my girlfriend and I, we were kind of in between. There were moments when people in front of us had their umbrella up and we couldn’t see but when that happen we just scooch to the left (two of the seats to our left were empty), and when we couldn’t see there we scooch to the right. We didn’t know all of the words to the songs but some clever dude decided to put lyrics up on the big screen so all 20,000 people could sing along. Who ever thought up that idea needs a bonus in his next pay check. Other then getting hit by the light saber look alike thing about 5 times by the girl who was standing behind me, the night was violent-free until Jay Chou decided to throw his nun chuck at me.

No that is not a typo, during the last song Jay Chou decided to dance around with nun chuck and when he finish dancing, he threw it into the crowd. Guess where it landed? Yes, right at me. I caught one end of the nun chuck and within milliseconds, this other girl grab the other end. We stare each other down. It was a face/off. Time froze. If there were not 20,000 crazy Jay Chou fans around we could’ve work it out and split the nun chuck in half. I saw it in her eyes, she saw it in my eyes that we could just split it up. About three milliseconds later a crowd of nun chuck hungry Jay Chou fan came crashing down on it. The chairs that we were all standing on were now on top of people. As I saw the crowd coming in, I let go of the precious nun chuck. My precious nun chuck that Jay Chou wanted to give me was not gone. I grab my girlfriend and we moved away from the hungry crowd searching for a nun chuck. We never found out who finally got the nun chuck.

Out of 20,000 people in the crowd, Jay Chou threw his nun chuck at me but I didn’t want to die that night so I let go. You can see in this first picture, the nun chuck that he threw at me.

The museum of Fine Arts (Belles Artes) is reflected in the surface of the building where this street vendor cleverly displays the plastic acrobats he is selling.



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Ill try and keep this short and to the point. All my life Ive wanted to travel the world to see just whats out there and its high time I get off my procrastinating ass and do something about it. Ive eyeballed atlas and ogled globes, but I believe culture, like food, is best experienced first hand rather than observed.

My plan in a nutshell? Sell everything I own, say goodbye to my friends, family and pretty much everyone Ive ever known, give a final kiss to my lovely lady, and travel by cargo ship across the Pacific. Who knows what will happen once Im there. Im of the opinion that traveling is best done with an open schedule. Sure, there are a ton of places in the world I aim to visit, and I plan on visiting them all, but Im gonna keep my route as loose as possible. You never know what opportunities for adventure may present themselves at any given moment. I will say this though, Im researching both New Zealand and China as possible points of entry into the East.

Traveling can be expensive, but no more expensive than living in Los Angeles when done correctly. My goal would be to work while I travel, paying my way as I go. I have two skills that I can sell, and neither one needs to be centralized to a single location. The first is as a graphic designer (print media), the other is as a musician. I will apply both if I have to in order to keep myself dry and moving. Look, I already know the music thing isnt gonna pay for squat, but often venue owners are happy to exchange a meal and a couch to crash on for a show. Im anticipating making most of my money the same way I do now, by design gigs. Only now I will be working exclusively from a laptop and on the other side of the world.

Meanwhile, Ill be immersing myself deeply as possible into whatever culture Im visiting. This includes eating like a local, living like a local, and speaking like a local to the best of my ability. If that means eating crickets and sleeping on a cot, Im fine with that. If it means staying for a few months in one city simply to pick up a few extra phrases in Mandarin, well, thats fine too. Its impossible to see a whole city, let alone a country, in a week anyway... unless that country is Monaco maybe (a whopping 0.7 square miles, half of which is a casino).

This website is going to be pulling triple duty as the launching pad for my exodus from Los Angeles , my travel journal, and as a means to stay in touch with friends and family (both old and new) around the world. My estimated departure date is sometime near mid-Summer 2008. I have no return date, it could be anywhere from two months to never, hopefully somewhere in the middle.

Well thats pretty much it. Impossible? Well, I say, "Bah," to the nay-sayers. Im gonna make it happen, and if it doesnt work out, well, at least Ill know I tried my best to follow what has pretty much been a lifelong dream. At the very least it will be educational. More than anything, I just want to see if it can be done. I know its not going to be easy, but it will be rewarding whether everything goes as planned or not. In fact, Im anticipating it wont go as planned, but thats why its an adventure and not a vacation.

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There are a lot of good videos on Youtube that you just can’t buy anywhere. If you are looking for a way to play those videos via your XBOX 360 console or on your Zune, I have some suggestions and information that might help. - [Read more]