Do you dare?

I was a tad bored at work the other day so i decided i would put my time to good use and search for a blog topic.

I came across an article about how to look good almost naked, for women. I thought this was quite amusing as it was about women's underwear. Whether you're after underwear pieces for the office, the gym or for that hot new guy you're seeing, we've got tips to find the perfect fit. What is the perfect fit when it comes to buying underwear to impress that special someone? In three simple steps, the cleo magazine was able to clearly explain this to its readers.

Finding the right fit

Finding the perfect fit really can improve your posture, shape and comfort factor. Keep these handy hints in mind when choosing your next bra.

For best support, and to avoid dreaded "back fat", make sure the band sits low and straight on your back, never too high. Don't overdo the strap adjusting. Loosen or tighten so that the front cups and back band sit straight and don't rise up. The centre of the bra should sit flat against your chest. A gap can mean the bra size is too small. Bra cups should hold your breasts comfortably, there should be no excess fabric.

If your bra is causing skin indents and rubbing, it hasn't been adjusted properly. See a bra specialist for an expert fit.

Bra TLC

Just like the rest of your wardrobe, bras need to be given proper care.
Bras should not be washed in the washing machine. Handwash your delicates in warm water with a small amount of gentle detergent. This can be a little time consuming, but your bras will keep in tact a lot longer this way.

Just like clothing, keep your lights and darks separate. Bras in the dryer are a big no-no. Especially underwire bras. They could twist out of shape and there's a good chance the underwire can come out and you'll end up with a damaged bra and dryer. Hang them on the line instead.

If you don't have time to handwash your bras, pop them in a lingerie bag or pillow case before you put them in the washing machine. Do up the hooks so the bras don't tangle and set your machine to a lukewarm temperature.

Cleavage etiquette

Know when to show it ... and when to keep it under wraps.

Breasts are like having weapons of mass destruction at your disposal. For inexplicable reasons, even a small glimmer of cleavage can do strange things to grown men. So, if you want a guy to pay attention to what you're saying, as opposed to what you're showing, then it's best to avoid flashing too much.

The exposure of cleavage, should depend on the occasion — and also the time of day. Generally you can flaunt a little more in the evening for cocktails, as opposed to breakfast with girls.
Decide between breast or leg. If you're going to show off your legs, avoid showing cleavage. If you're going to show cleavage, cover up your legs. Never ever do both!

http://cleo.msn.co.nz/article.aspx?id=853610

Who would've thought....

This is the new pig puppy named 'storm'.It keeps you awake at night, you have to feed it, clean up after it, it nags at you….
No not men…….A cute little pig dog puppy!

I’ve never been a fan of dogs before but when my partner bought a cute pig dog pup my feelings toward them soon changed. I feed it and play with it all the time, it's adorable!

Pig hunting is a different way to experience the outdoors, unlike deer hunting you have to be quiet and sneak around trying to find them grazing on clearings. Pig hunting with dogs is a neat experience as you can hear the dogs holding down a pig so you can shoot it yourself and believe me when those dogs latch onto pigs there is no turning back for them. The pigs eventually surrender but not without a fight.

It is essential for a pig dog to begin its training at a young age. There are two types of dogs that are used when it comes to hunting pigs. Dogs are used for bailing, this is where the dog can track a pig and keep it at bay until you arrive. Dogs are used for holding, this is when the dog gets feral and they grab onto the pig’s ears and keep it steady.

There is a certain excitement involved in the pig hunt, and the hunter often feels that he's doing a great service to people in the area as the feral pigs and boars are highly adaptable and have overrun much of the landscape. In the 1920's the European wild boar was introduced by a Monterey, California landowner. When it bred with domestic pigs a hog hybrid was developed that is now today's wild boar. Due to excessive breeding the population of this wild pig has increased exponentially and many states offer open season year round in the hopes of controlling it. These pigs can not only be aggressive, but they damage much of the vegetation and landscape of the area ruining habitat for other, more fragile species. In 1957 the Fish and Game Commision established official seasons on them and it wasn't until 1992 that a tag was required to hunt them. There are also special rules and regulations regarding the use of hunting dogs in the capture of these pigs.

The pig's behavior has altered greatly to adapt to the hunting techniques often employed to catch them. While they once moved around during the day, they have morphed into a more nocturnal creature, foraging for food at night. The most popular way to hunt these pigs is with hunting dogs, and any number of breeds are used.

At pig dog schools trainers generally look for characteristics within the pig dog such as courage, stamina, intelligence, and tenacity in the training of a good pig dog. One of the most popular breeds used for hunting pig is the bull terrier, along with other breeds such as sheep and cattle dogs crossed with breeds such as the Labrador for it's sense of smell.

http://ezinearticles.com/?Pig-Hunting-Dogs---Best-Ways-Of-Training-Them&id=1659517

Are you suprised?

For a team that has built its legacy on honesty, it's time for the All Blacks to ask some tough questions and be prepared for answers they don't like.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=10596982

Did you prepare yourself for one of the biggest rugby games Hamilton has ever seen on Saturday night? I had dinner in the oven by that exciting kick off time of 7.30pm! I was excited as I got to watch in the comfort of my own home the All Blacks thrash the Springboks……Yeah Right!

So, maybe I was wrong but what a game! There has been so much media attention focused on this game all week and not to mention the Springboks coach implying that there was nothing to do in Hamilton. Well, that just set the mayor off! Bob Simcock appeared on breakfast, defending his city trying to prove the Springboks wrong. The point is, they weren’t here on holiday. They were supposed to be training just like the All Blacks. The Springboks have earnt the right to be excused after last night’s performance.

In the 60th minute the All Blacks had a penalty and the opportunity to take the 3 point goal kick, but did they take this? NO! Instead, they went for a scrum right in front of the opposition’s goal line. Henry says “it’s about getting the foundations right” That 3 point kick could’ve drawn the game to 32 all. A great opportunity was thrown away by the All Blacks.
http://livescores.nzherald.co.nz/default.aspx?s=unionladder&cid=50

Graham Henry said “we played well in the last 20 minutes, but didn’t play well in the first 60”.

South Africa deserved to win the game as they are an elite team, although the All Blacks played well in the last 20 minutes of the game and we were so close to scoring a try and taking the win. South Africa’s penalty and goal kickers presented themselves on the field in top form last night, landing a 77m penalty kick from past half way! I have heard about this happening but I’ve never seen it for myself.

I guess it’s time for the All Blacks to rethink their plan, their coach and management team but at the end of the day it comes down to the players of the team. There is no excuse for the way they performed last night. At least they tried. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/video.cfm?c_id=4&gal_objectid=10596913&gallery_id=107387

The final score 32-29 to South Africa.

Be careful.....you're on show!

In web media we have been learning about flickr, how to make slides and adding sound to them.

Flickr is an image and video hosting website, web services suite, and online community platform. In addition to being a popular website for users to share personal photographs, the service is widely used by bloggers as a photo repository.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flickr

As you upload a photo in flickr you are given the option to ‘tag’ your photograph. We have been writing webmedia09 as a tag on our photos so other students in our class can view them as they appear on the web media moodle page.

On the flickr website there is an archive consisting of blogs. These blogs are not your average as they are photographs that have been used to effectively show their audience a story rather than writing pages they have used multiple photographs. I didn’t realise blogs could be put into this format.

Flickr is a revolution in photo storage, sharing and organization, making photo management an easy, natural and collaborative process. Get comments, notes, and tags on your photos, post to any blog, share and more!

http://blog.flickr.net/en

Slide.com gives you the opportunity to export your slides over the internet and you can even share them with your friends! By using your own photographs and music you can create an effective slide. I chose a range of photographs at random and placed them into a new slide document. I chose a retro styled theme and a music track from the website to accompany my slide. You can set your photographs to change either with the music or at random.
http://www.slide.com/

Slide, Inc., operator of the Slide.com website is a Web 2.0 company founded by Max Levchin and based in San Francisco, California. Slide.com was originally formed to make photo sharing software for social networking services such as MySpace. The company achieved its greatest success as the largest developer of third-party applications for Facebook. Slide.com begun as a project in 2004 and formed in 2005 by PayPal co-founder Max Levchin, who personally invested $1 million in the new company.

Slide was one of the companies invited to participate in F8, the event at which Facebook announced an open platform allowing third parties to develop and operate their own software applications on the Facebook website.

Slide's first institutional funder was the Founders Fund, a San Francisco venture capital firm operated by former PayPal executive Peter Thiel to invest in Web 2.0 start-ups. Subsequent investors included the Mayfield Fund, Khosla Ventures, and BlueRun Ventures. In January 2008, Slide received a further $50 million in financing from undisclosed institutional investors, rumored to be Fidelity Investments and T Rowe Price. The investment was based on a $500 million valuation.

Many Slide applications were blocked in Turkey in March 2008 after a local court there ruled that Slide was not censoring user-generated content seen as derogatory to Mustafa Kemal Atatürk per Turkish law.

In 2009 the company officially changed its business model from an ad network to a sponsored content service, by which brands would pay $500,000 to $1 million each for sponsorship placement.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slide.com

The best thing about this website is that anyone can use it!

Click on the link below to visit my slide!
http://www.slide.com/r/ZlA5WTqS3z_1TEPxZXwI3PpbxPsjP8S1

Mils Muliaina

Have you ever wondered how popular your favourite rugby player was? Last Thursday night I found out…

When it comes to watching rugby games I always get excited and I make sure everyone in the room shares my excitement or they at least know of it. That is of course until the team I was cheering for loses the game. The All Blacks are not my favourite rugby team but Mils Muliaina is my favourite rugby player. He is a successful, well known player both on and off the field. I met him late last year at the Auckland Airport with a few other players for a quick photograph and a chat before checking in through customs. I also went along to meet him again at Chartwell on Thursday as he was autographing his new biography titled “Living the Dream”. A perfect Fathers Day gift! There were fans lining up to not only meet him but to get their books personally autographed and a photograph. Mils seemed quite popular as I found out.

With more than 50 test matches at fullback under his belt, Mils Muliaina is the most capped All Blacks No.15 of all time. Muliaina combines pace and a dangerous counterattacking ability with dependability and strong positional play at the back for New Zealand. He also has the speed and rugby nous to play at the highest level at either wing or centre.

He has scored 21 test tries for the All Blacks, which places him amongst the top 10 all-time test tryscorers for New Zealand. Mils Muliaina's biography plots a highly unusual path to the pinnacle of New Zealand rugby.

Born in Samoa, Muliaina's family moved to Invercargill when he was a young boy. He played through the age grades in Southland before moving north to Auckland and boarding at Kelston Boys' High. A veteran of two World Cup campaigns with the All Blacks, Muliaina casts a critical eye across the state of the game in New Zealand and what the All Blacks have to do to win the 2011 Cup. His is a story of adversity and a living demonstration that dreams can come true.
http://www.mightyape.co.nz/product/Mils-Muliaina-Living-the-Dream/3071021/

I can't talk right now...

http://www.autoinsurance.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/800px-cell_phone_use_while_driving.jpg

“I can’t talk right now…I’m driving” – The common trick to get out of talking to someone just became true. Yes from November 1st 2009 there is a new law taking effect which means you are no longer able to use a mobile phone while you’re driving.

So far, there has been a mixed reaction toward this topic. A majority of people believe that using a mobile phone while driving is no more dangerous to smoking or eating while driving. I agree with this, I thought that changing a compact disc or searching for your lipstick in your handbag was far more of a distraction. But not according to our Transport Minister.

Transport Minister Steven Joyce says that driver distraction - particularly through the use of cellphones - is a real issue on our roads.

"There are a lot of other distractions while driving but handheld mobile phone use has grown to become a significant problem. The reality is we need to send a strong signal to all road users that it's not on," says Joyce. http://tvnz.co.nz/politics-news/s-official-no-driving-and-dialling-2913600

If you get caught breaking the law you will instantly lose 20 demerit points and have to pay a fine of $80.00. So if you get caught using your mobile phone while driving just five times within two years, you can wave your licence goodbye for a few months.

Some drivers say this is not enough!

Waikato University’s psychology department associate professor, Samuel Charlton, who has studied the safety of using phones while driving, said the law change did not go far enough.

"I think it's a really great start and a step in the right direction, but still allowing hands-free devices sends the mistaken impression that they are safe, when they are clearly not," Dr Charlton said. http://www.stuff.co.nz/waikato-times/news/2752111/Phone-ban-not-tough-enough/

Just like the abusers over the smacking law and the drink drivers, you can’t stop people from using their mobile phones behind the wheel of a car. Besides, haven’t the police got better things to do than pulling people up for sending a text message? I believe they need to put more of an effort into targeting drivers that are speeding and that are drink driving – this is far more serious. On the other hand, using a mobile phone behind the wheel would only become serious if an accident occurred, and according to these statistics, they are.

Between 2003 and 2008 there were 482 crashes causing injury and 25 fatal crashes resulting from someone using a mobile phone or other telecommunications device. http://tvnz.co.nz/politics-news/s-official-no-driving-and-dialling-2913600

Would you still use your mobile phone while driving?

Reflection

When it comes to using the internet, I will admit that I am not a fan of it. In fact, I never have been and I didn’t realise how internet orientated our lives and chosen career paths are becoming until I was introduced to the web media paper. At first, I was unsure about this paper until I learnt that journalists can specialise in writing for the web. On the TVNZ website you can follow television journalists blogs. I particularly find the one written by Corin, a TV 1 business reporter very interesting. http://tvnz.co.nz/business-news/unemployment-rate-sours-green-shoots-show-2890870

Journalism, where to start; as we all know there isn’t just writing articles for newspapers or magazines these days, but there are always websites that complement newspaper sites or magazines. This is because a majority of people rely on the internet as a major source of information.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet

The internet is a whole new media, full of endless opportunities. It creates a whole different meaning to the ‘writing world’ because as a writer you can create your own digital identity. My digital identity if you like is called Fisherchick09, because I simply love fishing and everyone knows my work under that identity.

Over the past few weeks in my web media class I have been introduced to a lot of new areas that exist both within the internet and journalism.

One of our web media tutors, Steven Harlow taught us about the history of the internet and how to use research to assist us with our information about our given event and date. This was interesting as we were all given either a name or event that impacted the web in some way; which got us into pairs. We both researched our event and date using the appropriate keywords, search engines and other web tools. We were then asked to place our research into the form of a slideshow, collaborated by our class members onto a web browser. This was a useful skill to learn because it can be applied to our blogs by using links to back up our information.

Setting up a delicious.com account was straightforward as it was similar to setting up a bebo or a facebook page. I learnt how to bookmark certain pages and articles I found interesting using the delicious bookmarking tool and also tagging my articles with webmedia09 so I could share these with other class members. Until this lesson, I had no idea what delicious.com was or how to tag articles and share them with other people.

Julie Starr expanded our knowledge on the topic of search engines. A search engine is a tool designed to search for information on the internet. Keywords play an important role in this process as they are a key component not only for the researching but also for the results the engine returns. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_search_engine

She also introduced us to another device called Wolfram Alpha. We got into groups of three or more and we all had to research this device and write instructions about how this device worked. I found this exercise very helpful because I could apply this knowledge to my assignment about creating a how to wiki page.

Wolfram Alpha is a brand new way of accessing information on the internet. It isn’t a search engine because it uses its own data, instead of searching outside sites for answers, which google does. Wolfram Alpha collects objective data (facts that can be proven by science) and stores it using key words.

The computational knowledge engine sorts through its own database and presents the intrigued with relevant data.

Wolfram Alpha is a free source of proven information, it is very interesting as it presents the information to the viewer in the form of an in depth analysis. I looked up my birthday (26/04/1990) this returned precise results about the day, famous people who were also born and it gave other information which was relevant to that particular date. http://www.wolframalpha.com/

Julie also talked to us about twitter. I’ve had a twitter account for awhile now, but I had never really taken much notice of it. The impact that twitter has on the world is simply incredible, you can even follow Ashton Kutcher! I just hope it’s really him.

Much to my surprise the internet was not a difficult tool to get my head around. I am starting to explore the web more and I am also a twitter addict!

I also feel more comfortable with applying some of these topics that I have learnt about to my other papers.