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Guest post from: Steve Delaney

It was time for me to once again begin my search for a doctor who could help me and my unique situation. Being 35 and suffering from severe arthritis had become all-consuming over the past seven years and I was coming off a much needed break from it all. For three months I decided to stop going to hear the same things over and over, and I felt it was also time to find a new doctor. I enjoyed the holidays as much as I could and now it is time to get serious about my health again. I researched on clear 4g Rochester and got lots of valuable information on an orthopedic surgeon who had been recommended to me by a dear friend. I filled out loads of paperwork online to save lots of time on the day of my consultation. Now, I just need to muster up the emotional strength to get back into the medical offices and see if this is the year that my pain is conquered, or at least squelched.

I finally found out the reason that Bob has been so busy checking out all of the Edmonton apartments for rent that he could find for the last month and a half. It seems that he's trying to help his cousin Ralph who is apparently planning a move from his current home in England.

Ralph got promoted to executive manager for operations and along With that promotion comes a transfer to Alberta, Canada. Thus he had asked Bob to take some time and look for a place in Edmonton for him to live so that he could be close to his new job.

After a LOT of searching Bob found him a great looking, comfortable apartment located in a quiet community not far from where he's going to be working.

The thing that surprises me is that I honestly thought Bob didn't have any close relatives, let alone some that live in England. Not that there's anything wrong with that mind you, just that for some reason it doesn't ring true in Bob's case.

That was my first reaction when I read the article that told how people who have the opportunity to get so-called "superfast" broadband are mostly turning it down in favor of sticking with 10mbps ADSL connections.

While I admit that they do have reason to doubt and suspect provider claims about speed you've got to admit that FIOS is typicaly way faster than ADSL. Also worth noting is that the price of the fastest ADSL connections and the "superfast" FIOS connection is the same.

Seems to me that'd be worth trying at least.

Speaking from a rural area where FIOS will probably not be available until it is mostly obsolete, I'd jump at a chance for a deal like that. Why the average Brits don't is a mystery to me that does indeed make me question their sanity.

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Government Scientiss say that an asteroid known as 2005 YU55 is going to pass between the Earth and the moon today but that there is no cause for alarm.

Now I'm NOT actually worried about this thing but when Government anything says "there is no cause for alarm" it makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up.

This thing is this size of a Nimitz class aircraft carrier, 400 meters across, not only that but it's moving at 31,000 miles an hour.

If it were to hit the Earth it would make a crater four miles wide and 1700 feet deep. The shock of it's impact would be like a magnitude 7 Earthquake.

This is also not the first time it's been in the neighborhood. It made a close approach in April of 2010

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It's obvious. I haven't done much with this blog at all of for a VERY long time.

That is changing. I don't know yet *exactly* what posts here will be about or how tightly I will or will not stick to a particular topic but I'll probably start adding posts here again later today.

Post contributed by Josue Durham

Every year, my husband and I have the same conversation. It starts around June. It gets a little more frequent in July, and by the end of August, it’s almost a daily occurrence. The conversation revolves around why his life will cease to exist unless he can order the NFL Sunday Ticket on direct tv. I always start out strong, with a firm and certain “no.” By July, I’m starting to weaken a little bit. By the end of August, I’m begging him to order the package just so we can stop talking about it. I have to give it to him—it’s really a brilliant plan on his part. It’s actually completely worth the cost (it’s not that much, anyway) because it means that he is at home watching the games, instead of out with his friends every Sunday from noon through 8:00 pm. Know what else it means? I get to hold it over his head for the entire football season that we might not be able to order the package next year. In reality, I plan to buy it every year. It’s just a really great way to get him to help clean the house.

I've been needing to build a new desktop computer for just over a year now. The old one suffered a catestrophic failure somewhere on the motherboard and the thing has been sitting there, unuseable, since then.

The hard part (aside from financing the purchace of new parts) is in deciding exactly what parts to get. For example the choices for motherboard are so numerous it's almost ridiculous. It seems that each manufacturer has twenty or thirty different models, each with a variety of features and capabilities.

Then there's monitors. There are at least as many different monitors as there are motherboards. However At least I don't have to get one of those because I've already got one of the better samsung monitors on my desk right now. The next thing I need to think about is a video card. I want it to be fairly powerful because this incarnation of my desktop computer is going to be a gaming machine which I will be using to record my Minecraft videos (among other things) and a video card with lots of memory, multiple GPU's Etc. is an absolute must have.

Then there's the hard drive. For this machine I want to do something that my brother and I used to joke about back in 1992... I want a terabyte (or two actually!). Back then the average hard drive was about 40 megabytes. Today most programs are bigger than that. The main reason for such a large hard drive is because I do a lot of work with high definition video and that can fill a hard drive FAST even when you burn completed works to DVD and clear them from the hard drive.

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This tutorial shows how to recreate the transporter effect from the original Star Trek series.

The "sparklies" part of this can be created several ways:

You could use particle illusion.

You could use the particle generator in Wax 2.0 (which is what I did in one case)

You could set your camera on a tripod in front of an analog TV, put it on an empty channel (easy these days) and zoom in so that the static fills the camcorder screen and record about 10 - 15 seconds of that (I've done this also).

You can also make an animated .gif with 30 layers, each filled with golden or silvery colored pixels by using a "spray paint" tool and then putting several copies of that on a video track in Sony Vegas and render that into a video clip.

In the original series they also used Alka-Seltzer. They set up a glass tank with a black background and lit it from below. Then they took several Alka-Seltzer tablets and taped quarters to each one (to keep it from floating into view) and dropped them into the tank and filmed that.

Once you have any of these shots it's a simple matter of putting it into your beaming project and setting the composition mode to "Screen" so that it will key out the black and leave the effect.

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This video shows how to create a reflection effect in Sony Vegas that looks like the text (or an image) has a reflection in a polished or liquid surface.

I'm still working on how to make the surface with the reflection on it look like it's an actual liquid with some kind of wave or ripple action going on it's surface. That would end up looking like whatever's being reflected is floating on the surface of a liquid which would be extremely cool.

Hopefully this can be done without having to resort to buying particle illusion, which I'd love to have but won't be likely to get anytime soon unless somebody gives it to me for Christmas (hint hint).

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One of the things that can help XP run smoother is to regularly get rid of temp files. Ideally you should do this on a daily basis.

Start by emptying Recycle Bin. Right click on it and select "Empty recycle bin", answer "Yes" to the question that pops up.

Clearing cookies isn't going to save you a whole lot of space but it WILL enhance your privacy by limiting the ability of websites to track you. *NOTE* Clearing cookies will also have the effect of logging you out of any site you're still logged into. Deleting cached files will usually save anywhere from 10 to 50 or more megabytes of space depending on your browser settings.

IE users:

Click on Start | Control Panel If you're looking at the "new" style control panel click "Switch To Classic View" (you can change back later if you like). Next click "Internet Options" and a properties box will appear. Click "Delete Cookies" and then Click OK. Next Click "Delete Files" make sure that "Delete All Offline Content" is checked and click OK. Finally set "Days to keep pages in history" to 7 days and click OK. It's more than likely that if you haven't needed it for a week then you're probably not going to.

Another step that a lot of people miss is to empty the Windows prefetch folder. Double click on My Computer and navigate to "C:\WINDOWS\Prefetch" Click Edit | Select All and hit the delete key. A pop up box will appear, click Yes and then you can close that window. (note: you ought to empty the recycle bin after doing this)

Firefox users:

Click Tools | Options, then in the "private data" section of the Privacy tab click "Settings". In the box that appears make sure that "Cache", "Cookies" and "Offline Website Data" are checked and set the other items however you prefer. *Note* If you use Firefox's password manager you'll probably want "Saved Passwords" UN-Checked!! When you're done, click OK on the settings box and click Ok on the Options box.

Now any time you want (I recommend daily) to clear your Cache, Cookies and offline website files, just click Tools | Clear Private Data and all of those items be gone.

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