![]() ![]() The range for hair serums that impart shine and soften hair is wide. If you want a simple product that will leave your strands shiny and manageable, Biosilk is a great choice. It didn’t really seem to have any long term effects as far as hair health is concerned, but the immediate difference was palpable. The formula is also extremely lightweight and quickly absorbed, so it’s safe for thinner hair types, such as my own. Frazzled ends were smoothed and the way my hair reflected light was amazing. I found that right from the very first application, Silk Therapy Original truly did give my hair a soft, extra-shiny finish. The Results: Glossy, healthy-looking hair If you had extremely dry or frizzy hair, I think the roots would be fine, but because my strands are thin the last thing I want to do is make them greasy. I gave the bottle a shake (this is recommended) and worked it through the mid-lengths and ends. Personally I applied it to damp hair before blow-drying in place of all other styling products. Silk Therapy Original is a leave-in conditioning treatment that can be used on damp or dry hair as little or as often as needed. How to Use: As a leave-in conditioning treatment Panthenol is a well-known moisturizer, so it can assist with soft, shiny manageable hair. The only other ingredient worth mentioning is panthenol (or vitamin B5). (It is, after all, in the name.) According to the brand, silk proteins contain 17 of the 19 amino acids found in our hair, and thus come with numerous benefits from increased shine to reduced frizz. Admittedly, my research turned up no real scientific proof that silk actually does improve the condition of our hair, but that’s not to say it doesn’t have an instant glossing, smoothing effect. It won’t come as a surprise to learn that silk-or a hydrolyzed silk protein-is the hero ingredient in the Biosilk Silk Therapy Original formula. Silk Therapy promises to replenish and reconstruct the hair, fill in the cuticle for enhanced shine, and prevent the incidence of split ends. It's best to dispense a small amount to your hands at a time before gently sweeping it along the lengths of your hair. The clear serum is ever-so-slightly thicker than your average serum and glides along strands with ease. I do however struggle with flyaways, plus lack of volume, movement and shine-you know, all the fun stuff. I don’t color it and keep it above my shoulders, length-wise, so overall it’s in pretty good condition. Size: It is available in six different sizes ranging from 0.5 to 12 fl. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() You will get into better shape for sure during your training if you arrive in lower fitness form, but you need to arrive with a foundation of physical fitness that is specific to your future job in the military / fitness tests / training. See links of the books below to see more details of the Combat Fitness Test you must be able to accomplish when you join.ĭO NOT RELY ON THE MILITARY TO GET YOU INTO SHAPE AT BASIC TRAINING. The Army and Marine Corps will require more challenging workouts and fitness testing. The Boot camp, PFT, Bible, and Cals and Cardio are all encompassing workouts that will prepare you for the challenges of Navy, Air Force, and Coast Guard basic training and fitness tests as well. If you need some ideas, see the programs below that address all the physical fitness challenges you will see in preparation, testing, and basic training and beyond. Get used to exercises like pushups, crunches, plank poses, pullups, squats, and lunges to work the entire body. Calisthenics - You will be doing calisthenics not only throughout the day in basic training, but as a fitness test as well. To do well on timed runs, you need to practice that distance at a goal pace. If you played sports that had a little bit of running in it (football) or no running in it like swimming, you need to practice running regularly to get over the growing pains accompanied with impact cardio like running and rucking. But, you may need to start off with just walking depending on your fitness level. See beginner / intermediate running plan. Run - Learn how to run and get in shape to run 2-3 miles without stopping. I would agree with that, but it also takes less than 21 seconds to have the right attitude to get you moving each day "even when you don't feel like it". Some say it takes 21 days to build a habit. Both are tough and require time being consistent with the endeavor. I am not sure what is harder starting a new habit or breaking an old one. For instance, if you have a goal to start working out in the morning before work or school, now you have to break two bad habits too: 1) sleeping in 2) not exercising. Every habit you build usually has an equally bad habit you have to drop. In fact, during the time of trying to build new habits of fitness this is where excuses to skip workouts are most common. The battle of building new habits and breaking old (bad) habits can be a struggle that requires total focus and discipline to win. When the Excuses Hit the Hardest (typically) - Be Aware: Too Hot? Too Cold? Forgot your gym shoes? That is when you know your new habits you are trying to create are evolving into a more disciplined mindset - a NO EXCUSES Mindset. But, there is also a magic moment when you work out "just because you did not feel like working out". However, some days should be spent on recovery, technique, and other skills especially if you are working hard (high stress), not eating well, nor sleeping enough hours each night. Get Comfortable - Getting Uncomfortable Rain or Shine - Get It Done. It is amazing how creative we can be when fighting lazy is the challenge. Limit "excuses" to REAL problems not made up ones. We are all human so give yourself a break when an excuse not to train wins, but try to keep the win to loss ratio higher in the win column. Some days the excuses win - some days you win. ![]() Are you a master at skipping workouts? Or just occasionally fall off the habit of training? And we all have those days. Build Habits That Are Excuse Proof! Not Every Day is Perfect Weather with Enough Time to Trainĭo you find yourself making excuses to miss a work out? It’s pretty common. ![]() ![]() ![]() Pluginboutique is the place where the best music software companies come to sell their VST Plugins, Instruments and Studio Tools to Producers, Musicians and DJs worldwide. What’s more, it’s about £30, so there’s not much stopping you from getting your mits this rotary goodness. A bunch of simple controls, plus a lovely oscilloscope, will help you get that perfect waggling, undulating sound. You can get Speakers for £80 at Plugin Boutique.Ī great emulation of a Leslie-style rotating speaker, Tube Modulator gives you a choice between classic chorus and vibrato types, and plenty of LFO shapes. The signal routing is interchangeable here as well. You can also use the plugin to emulate microphones, add some distortion, and to add background noises to reference through. Speakers is stocked with emulations of real speakers including cabinets, devices, phones, radios and toys. Further tweaks to this are accomplished using the Flattening, Widening, Smoothing and Tilt controls, and of course there’s tons of the familiar Melda features there to boot.Īnother plugin that can help you listen to your mix through different sets of speakers, but this time, it’s for creative effects. For £83, or cheaper as part of MeldaProduction’s bundles, MCabinet gives you four Resonators and two Wideners to start crafting the sound of your virtual cab. This one was designed primarily to act as a speaker simulator for guitars and bass, but there’s plenty you can chuck at it. The idea is that this will help you better judge frequency response, stereo width and so on. Re-Head helps make headphones sound more like monitors by simulating the natural reflections and crosstalk between ears that happen as a result of being in an actual space. Not everyone loves listening to music on headphones, but for even those guys, sometimes it’s a necessary evil – when they’re on the road for instance, or when it’s quiet time. MixChecker will simulate each device’s frequency response, offers distortion options, and you can even simulare environmental and background noise, to see how your music will sound in particular places. But that means actually leaving your studio or sometimes – heaven forefend! – your bedroom.įortunately, MixChecker Pro lets you reference your mix on loads of systems from the comfort of your DAW, emulating things like radios, headphones, cars, mobile devices, earbuds, and loads more. When you’re mixing or mastering music, you need to be sure that your sound translates to as many different playback systems as possible. Links to the Top 5 Speaker Emulation VST Plugins Below… See the full explanation in the user manual.Access 4 million sounds w/ Loopcloud Free Trial | In some cases, they helped the simulation process but for many speakers, it had a negative impact on the fidelity of the simulation. We have removed the compensation buttons.And more improvements, like interface zoom, calibration, ….The remote control is in the Beta stage now and the iOS version will be available in a few days after approval. ![]() You may walk around your studio when checking the final mix, save the valuable screen size. MixChecker Pro comes accompanied by a web browser, mobile phone, or tablet control.
![]() ![]() “He recently said that New York was his muse. While Sidetalk can at times bring to mind the old tradition of direct-to-video hip-hop DVD series, like Cocaine City, which featured ad hoc, beef-incubating interviews with rappers, Simonian and Byrne say their inspiration is more YouTube-based, citing Casey Neistat in particular. “I just loved the way that he showcased the city,” Simonian said. In the case of the Subway Series video, its draw for many viewers was a man drinking out of a Timberland boot. Simonian and Byrne told me that they aren’t trying to contribute to the commodification of New Yorkers, though the videos that still go viral have tended to have an element of it. Many of their subjects are Black and brown. ![]() Many of the video makers are white, or white identifying. At worst, they can venture into cultural voyeurism and ignore the city’s imperfections. Besides Sidetalk, the form’s most known practitioners include New York Nico, the 30-something Nicolas Heller, who bills himself as “New York’s unofficial talent scout.” At best, the NYC meme videos have a sharp eye for the black humor that’s always defined New York street-level life but has pitched even darker postpandemic. Sidetalk works in a genre that I’ve come to think of as the “memeification of New York”-TikToks, photos, or Instagram accounts meant to explore all of New York’s trademark unconventional characters without necessarily talking about why those characters’ characteristics came to be. Most of the time, it is things that are already said,” said Byrne. “Sometimes, people go up to us and say things they think will be on Sidetalk. The resulting video that time, while not quite as comedic as their Knicks entry and more austere (this one takes place in the Bronx as opposed to midtown Manhattan), was another under-a-minute video that films its characters in a demonic hurry. In August, Simonian and cofounder Jack Byrne camped out on Jerome Avenue waiting for fans to exit Yankee Stadium after a crosstown game against the Mets. A few minutes is really all the pair need. She is always being herself,” cofounder Trent Simonian recently told me. We only got a few minutes with her, but she was exactly what you expect her to be. The channel excels at the riot video––brief micro documentaries like the Knicks one, o r another they shot in the Bronx featuring rap superstar Cardi B doing a classic stem-winder. Sidetalk has been there to document a lot of it. Such was life in the manic days of late 2021 in New York City as COVID restrictions loosened, vaccines were boosted, and the town’s 20-somethings were making up for 18 months’ worth of lost time. The joke, or shtick, in the video, is simple but effective: New York Knicks fans are sick-wicked and insane for a historically dismal team that went on to finish 11th place in the NBA’s Eastern Conference after that opening night high. A season and a quarter later, the video, created by the YouTube channel Sidetalk NYC, has 2.3 million views. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I found this little vixen in Bill's study checking out his box files! This is Spike who wanders past the Studio door about 6pm and then wanders back again Last spring, I watched the baby blue tits taking their first flight from our bird box and the young blackbirds robbing my pretty vine - I think they stripped the grapes completely! This blue tit was pictured last spring frantically feeding the family just outside the Studio door - even when the door is wide open and we are chattering and the phone is ringing and there is constant noise. This fabulous dragonfly was spotted in the front garden drying his wings - Simply beautiful and about six inches long! There must be disadvantages of living in the country, but as I write this I cannot think of them! We have lots of visitors to the area and I thought you would like to see a picture of some of them. We live in Fairford which is in the Cotswolds and is a lovely part of England. My office is at the far end so it is simply stitcher's bliss! Visitors to the Studio This is our new green oak barn where we hold our linen classes - I can seat 10 students with a bit of jiggling and a big table. You can see my dear old dog, Bumble keeping an eye just behind me. The stork scissor weather vane was from my husband as a 50th birthday gift. ![]() It opens on the the courtyard garden one side and our lovely oak barn on the other - now it could not be better. This was built as a double garage, but was converted in to the Studio when we made the final decision to move all parts of the business under the one roof. When the hole was knocked through the stone walls (which are three feet thick) we had three steel props holding up the front wall! The dust was beyond belief! Now I can sit and stitch and look out on to the garden - Just bliss! The window at the front is a recent addition and you cannot imagine the improvement this has made. I was warned that I would end up working all the time and turn in to a workaholic but who was kidding who? I was doing that already and often late at night in a cold and creepy warehouse! As I am really scared of the dark, this is a much nicer place to work and if I want I can go to work in my PJs! Pinks Barn in Fairford, Gloucestershire Some things just concentrate the mind, don't they? We coverted space at Pinks Barn so that everything was under the one roof. When Bill was diagnosed with cancer and my office manager told me she was emigrating the time had come to make changes. This is now all part of the same thing: The Cross Stitch Guild I do like a project! When I started my cross stitch business, we lived in a cottage called Inglestone which is how we came up with the original name for our wholesale company, The Inglestone Collection. We have lived in Pinks Barn for 17 years and have almost finished the work on the house. The west window recently restored has been featured on the television - this is the only complete set in the country and they are very beautiful. This is our world famous 15th century church- famous because of the remarkable set of stained glass windows. This is one of our village swans who nests next to the road every year. ![]() If you look at the far end of the bridge you can see a light coloured mound. Bill was moved by Lloyds Bank and we found our little cottage just before my birthday - I thought we had won a million! To move from Reading to what was then a sleepy village was a dream come true. Bill and I moved to Fairford when our son James was under a year old and he is now thirty three and a married man! We are almost locals after all this time. ![]() |
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