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What To Do When Your Husband Says Hurtful Things To Hurt You

I often hear from folks who are having various troublesome issues within their marriage. One relatively common theme is when one spouse gets in the habit of throwing out hurtful comments or words so often that it almost becomes a habit. This can very negatively affect their marriage and compromise the way that their spouse thinks of both them and the future of their marriage. That's why it's so important to address this and stop it as soon as possible.

I recently heard from a wife who had noticed her husband's hurtful comments becoming more and more frequent and personal over the last several years. This was both troubling and surprising because she could not remember anything similar to this while they were dating. She said, in part: "within the past couple of years, my husband has started constantly saying hurtful things to me whenever I do something that he doesn't like. It's as if he knows exactly what button to push that is going to make me the most upset or hurt me the worst. For example, he'll talk about my family in a very demeaning way when we're around other people. My family was very poor when I was a child but they are good people. He will tell our friends that it's a good thing that his job pays well because mine doesn't. Sometimes when we argue he will say things like 'it's a good thing you found me because I'm not sure anyone else would put up with you.' He always insinuates that I'm so lucky to have him, almost as if he thinks I could never survive on my own. He says that if he were to leave me, I could never attract anyone else. This makes me feel awful and it's wrecking my self esteem. Deep down, I know I'm a good person but he makes me feel as if he doesn't agree with my own assessment of myself. What can I do to stop this? Every time I try to address it, he says I am being too sensitive and should just lighten up."

I will try to address these concerns in the following article by explaining why husband's sometimes get in the habit of saying hurtful things and then offering some suggestions on how to address this.

Some Possible Reasons Why Husbands Say Hurtful Things: There are actually many reasons that husbands use words or phrases meant to hurt deeply, especially if this is a new behavior for them. Sometimes, for whatever reason, they are just trying to get your attention and they know that this is the easiest way to get a reaction out of you. Yes, this is a very passive aggressive way of stopping you in your tracks, but sometimes men do not have the communication skills or the emotional skill to tell you what is really on their mind.

Another reason that the man you love will try to hurt you with their words is because of their own insecurities. Sometimes, especially in this situation, a man will say the exact opposite of what he really feels. It was quite possible that this husband was (at least somewhere deep down) afraid of losing his wife. So his hurtful verbal phrases were one way to ensure that she didn't leave him because he was making her believe that she would never attract anyone else. Men who engage in this type of behavior often have low self esteem. Making you feel bad is an attempt to make themselves feel better. I'm certainly not trying to excuse their behavior, but I am trying to give you some possibilities as to the cause of it.

A final possible reason that husbands say hurtful things is because they are harboring some resentment or anger that they aren't addressing in other ways. They might perceive that you have hurt or slighted them in some way and, rather than just addressing the issue at hand, they are trying to get back at you over and over by pushing the buttons they know are huge issues for you. This certainly doesn't make it right and again we're talking about passive aggressive behavior, but at least if you can understand the reasons behind his behavior, you can begin to address and stop it.

How To Handle It When Your Husband Constantly Says Hurtful Things To You: The wife here had gotten into the habit of ignoring her husband. For self preservation reasons, she had taught herself to tune him out. But, this was becoming very damaging to her marriage and she missed the man who used to be very sweet to her when they were first dating. I felt that she should address this every time her husband said something hurtful because ignoring it was just going to ensure that it kept happening.

A lot of the time, the hurtful words came when other people were around so that the wife felt uncomfortable addressing this in front of others. So the option became asking to speak to him privately for a minute, or addressing the issue later when they were alone. (Often if you wait to address it, your response loses some of its immediacy and the results are not as good. You can always ask to speak to your husband alone for a few moments.)

I suggested that the next time her husband said something offensive, she might respond with something like: "I can't keep allowing you to speak to me in this way. When you speak to me like this, it hurts me deeply. It affects our marriage and my ability to feel close to you. I'm not sure if you realize how hurtful your words are or if you realize how they sound to me. That's why I'll be bringing your attention to this from today forward. I'd like to think that you don't mean to hurt me and that our marriage and my well being are important enough to you that you will stop this. And, if there's some underlying issue or something that you really want to say to me, then by all means say it. But, every time you say something that hurts me deeply, I'm going to bring your attention to it because it needs to stop."

Notice that I was very careful to try to make sure that this didn't sound too accusatory. Instead, you're focusing on a way that you can work together and fix this in a positive way. You're giving your husband the benefit of the doubt and trying to have faith that he will work hard to change. If he doesn't, then you will need to continue to address it and insists that it stops because hurtful words can cut quite deeply and are not in any way healthy for you or your marriage.

Hurtful words and phrases were unfortunately something that my husband and I ignored for far too long and this eventually costs us. Little issues like this can turn into huge problems when not addressed. Unfortunately, such was the case for me. When I finally paid attention to our little problems, we were already on the verge of divorce. Thankfully, I was able to save my marriage, but not without a lot of effort that could have been avoided. If it helps, you can read about what worked for me on my blog at http://isavedmymarriage.com/

 

About the Author

Leslie Cane's blog is at http://isavedmymarriage.com.  She enjoys sharing the story of how she saved her own marriage to help others. Her article website is at http://lesliecanearticles.com

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Website design templates for designing

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Website design templates also offer you a wide array of features so that you get only quality result. It is a much cheaper way to promote your business. It cuts down your major expenses. Even a person who has least knowledge of the technical things can easily customize these templates. So this is a very user friendly method too.  The content includes eye-catching graphics which are placed purposefully to magnetize the attention of viewers whereas good content is written to complement the graphics to make website interactive.  Maintenance of a website template is so easy. Normal changes in the website can be done without any problem and without even changing layout of your website. The best place to find web templates is to search on the Internet. There are many sites to search templates and they frequently provide good supplementary details and technical support. You can regularly see a sample of the template you are taking into consideration.Supertron Infotech makes use of Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Image Ready and Adobe Fireworks to create customized Web Designs, E-mail Template, Banner Design, Exclusive Wallpapers, screensavers, Power Point Template Designs and other small applications for Web media. Start thinking from today and see a new developed version of your site. It is your time to grow your business. The techniques by which you design your website conclude the kind of traffic you get for your website.

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Reliability Centered Maintenance Combined With Condition Monitoring Systems In Wind Power Systems

Introduction

            In recent times, the wind power industry has experienced tremendous growth, focusing largely on better economic condition, growing market and development of large wind turbines and offshore farms. Higher availability of wind turbines is not because of good reliability or maintenance management in the wind turbines, it is because of the fast and frequent service. Condition Monitoring System (CMS) is better than traditional maintenance management system for increasing the reliability of the wind turbines. CMS monitors the performance of wind turbine parts e.g., transformer, gearbox, generator etc., and precise maintenance work time is determined with the help of CMS. Corrective maintenance is the maintenance which will take place after the problem arises and preventive maintenance is the maintenance carried out before any problem occurs. Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) is the structured approach to find the balance between corrective maintenance and preventive maintenance and to determine plans focusing on the reliability aspects.

                        Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) has not yet been implemented as a tool in wind power in Sweden, nor Denmark. US is the world's largest wind power producer. This is however a feasible solution for the wind power industry. In Norway a RCM has been carried out by Vestas. And German Nordex already has reliability oriented maintenance as part of their CMS systems. The application of RCM is a cost-effective planned maintenance program combined with an effective equipment-monitoring plan for the wind power system. This study focuses on the condition monitoring like vibration analysis and oil analysis for the wind power industries, wide-ranging knowledge about the wind turbine, how CMS could be applied to Reliability Centred Maintenance (RCM) and how this has been performed earlier in e.g. hydropower. 

               Few terms are needed to understand the maintenance and RCM as a possible tool in wind power. They are: 

Failure rate: Failure rate is inversely proportional to Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF).

Reliability: Capacity of an item to carry out a required task under given conditions for a given time interval.  

Types of Maintenance

  There are two types of maintenance. They are corrective and preventive maintenance.

1) Corrective Maintenance: It is carried out after the component fails. No maintenance process takes place before the failure of the component. The component which has failed can be repaired or replaced. It can be replaced with the new technology component or the same as the one that was available before it failed. 

2) Preventive Maintenance: It is a proactive maintenance done before the system fails. It reduces the probability of failure of the components. It is a planned and periodical maintenance and carried out in regular intervals to prevent occurrence of failures.

      a. Scheduled maintenance: Preventive maintenance carried out in accordance with a recognized time schedule or established number of units of use.

      b. Condition based maintenance: Preventive maintenance based on performance and/or parameter monitoring. The need for maintenance is predicted with the statistical methods, it is about when, how and why the component has failed.  

Maintenance optimization

             Minimizing total costs or maximizing resources of maintenance is the main goal of maintenance optimization. Maintenance should be carried out so that the tools have high safety and the equipment have a long life and its quality level is preserved. It is difficult to find the relationship between the corrective and preventive maintenance and determine which corrective maintenance cost is associated with a particular amount of preventive maintenance. 

Wind Turbines

             Wind power generation is becoming more prevalent and wind turbines and farms are increasing, so, there must be new ways to minimize downtime and maximize availability and profit. To transform the kinetic power in the wind into electricity wind turbine, machines are used. The main parts are bearings, gearbox, generator, brakes, control system, a part that balances the electricity and rotor and hub, this rotor and hub design can vary, but the most common is the horizontal axis. With two or three blades, the axis of rotation rotates parallel with the ground. Gearbox is to speed up the rotation from a low speed, generator demand constant speed and it can be cooled in two days with air or water. Wind turbine has two brakes; one brakes the rotor and another one for emergency purpose. Control system is to maximize the energy production, nacelle is a part which controls different parts of the wind turbine and a small motor which runs a gearwheel so that the nacelle is always in the direction of the wind.

              Two vibration frequencies in wind turbines are gear frequency and bearing frequency, in typical machineries there are two gear frequencies and there are several axes that are supported by bearings that produce four different frequencies. The technique has become old in wind power and insurance companies complain about large damages and introduce maintenance restrictions. Monitoring is a solution to avoid damages. Wind Farm Monitoring that periodically inspects the whole machinery is the common monitoring procedure for wind power today. Though damages can then be discovered, these inspections do not give answers to when and how the damage has occurred. 

New Monitoring Ways   

            Condition Monitoring is implemented in a widespread manner to avoid preventive replacement. Condition Monitoring is a steady monitoring of each condition. It is the use of advanced technology for the purpose of monitoring a machinery condition and predicting failures in each condition. In practice, there are two ways of condition monitoring, one is continuous monitoring and another one is periodical mechanical diagnosis. In continuous monitoring, suitable sensors are connected with the control system that raises an alarm as soon as data is changed e.g. failures of the gearbox can be found at an early stage by comparing the current frequency of the gearbox with the original frequency. In periodical mechanical diagnosis, inspections of machinery are carried out periodically with measuring tools and compared with the latest measurement.

            The cost of maintenance of a wind turbine is economically high; condition monitoring should be introduced to discover failures early to reduce costs for corrective maintenance and repairs could be better planned and this would give shorter down times. Some of the functions of control systems in wind turbines, come close to the concept of condition monitoring. For large wind turbines the adjustment system is a module of the security system and it is one of the most susceptible systems in a wind turbine. One of the cost effective methods of condition monitoring is visual inspection of machineries, but it is limited to stationary equipments.

Two techniques of condition monitoring explained in this study are,

1. Vibration analysis and

2. Oil analysis.

1. Vibration Analysis

Vibration analysis is the dominant technique used for condition monitoring, especially for rotating equipments, so in wind turbines wheels and bearings in the gearbox, bearings in the generator and main bearing can be monitored adequately. Vibration analysis is not new. In early 80s, the instrumentations and systematic skills required for noise or vibration based condition monitoring were completely developed.

Bearing condition in wind power is indicated by noise; higher rotation per minute (rpm) and higher stress wear out the bearing soon. Few years ago computer based equipment which can measure the sound and evaluate the condition of the bearing was available; it didn't need a person to go out to the wind turbines and climb the tower to listen to the bearings.

There were no products in the market for monitoring of bearings that were suitable for wind turbines in the beginning of 2000. But later nine vibration sensors were assembled to monitor bearings on the main axis, gearbox and generator in the turbine Elida on Risholmen in the archipelago of Gothenburg. This system is called SKF's CMS system WindCon.

This analysis is based on two factors, they are;

• All common failure modes have distinctive vibration frequency components which can be identified and isolated and
• The amplitude of the frequency remains constant, unless there is a change in the operation dynamics of the machine.

  Vibration and noise is normal in machines, so it is therefore important to remember that:

• Every machine will have a normal level of vibration and noise.
• Operating problem is usually the reason for increase in noise and vibration.
• Own unique way of vibration and noise is generated by each operating problem.

The benefits, if problem can be detected and analyzed early, are as follows:

• Convenient time for shutdown of the systems for repairs can be planned.
• Extensive damage is minimized.
• Work schedule, requirements for manpower, tools and replacements parts can be equipped before shutdown.
• Reduce machinery downtime.

Periodic monitoring will not suit high performance machines. For these machines, on-line, continuous, automatic monitoring is required using vibration sensors located at critical points on the machine, when the vibration exceeds pre-set levels, an alarm or the machine would shut down involuntarily.

 Techniques Used in Vibration Analysis for Machine Condition Monitoring

            Following are a few techniques of machine conditioning monitoring,

1. Waveform analysis

2. Indices

3. Synchronous averaging

4. Orbit

5. Statistical analysis

6. Digital fast Fourier analysis.

Waveform analysis records the history of time of the events on a storage oscilloscope or a real time analyzer and in wind power. It is easy to identify the damage occurring in gears and bearings, such as broken teeth and cracks.

Indices used to quantify the time signals with the help of peak level and the RMS (Root Mean Square) level is not reliable in detecting damages in continuously operating systems.

Synchronous averaging is useful in gear-vibration diagnosis where multiple shafts are present; it not only removes the noise, but also periodic events not synchronous with the machine being monitored. Bearing wear, shaft misalignment, shaft difference, lubrication instabilities in hydrodynamic bearings and shaft rub are indicated by Orbit.

Statistical analysis derives curves from machinery vibration signals which can be used in monitoring machine condition. Digital fast Fourier analysis derives the frequency domain signal and the signature spectrum obtained can afford important information with regards to machine condition.

2. Oil Analysis       

Oil failure in wind power is sometimes not detected and it is too late when it is detected. Continuous measurement is needed to the find the defects in the oil. Oil analysis is used to determine the condition and state of the lubricants commonly used in turbines and equipments. The design and operating dynamics of the bearing, lubrication and rotor support structure of machinery is commonly referred as tripology. Lubricating oil analysis is one of the tribology technique used in condition monitoring; it evaluates the condition of lubrication oil in mechanical and electrical equipments. Comparison of the trace metals in oil samples indicates the pattern of oil wetted parts which will provide an indication of the risk of machine failure. Microprocessor based systems are available for lubricating oil analysis.

Oil analysis examines the oil and indicates the elemental chemical composition of the debris present. The major elements present in oil samples are the ingress of extraneous matter such as dust and lubricant with its associate additives.

Atomic absorption, infrared spectro analysis, atomic emissions, coupled plasma, X-ray fluorescence and energy dispersive X-ray analysis are the examples of oil analysis techniques.  Atomic absorption analysis is for wear debris analysis, infrared spectro analysis detects and measures the molecular compounds, and atomic emission is used for debris analysis. Coupled plasma and X-ray fluorescence are used to analyze wear debris and oil additive elements and energy dispersive X-ray analysis is used for the analysis of dry wear debris.

 Gearbox

            Monitoring gearboxes is quite a difficult process as they include many inner components. Wind turbines have three stage gearboxes which have several bearings and gear wheels; it is difficult to find the source of the failure.  Gearbox is monitored with sensors and four or six accelerometers. Since it is working in a changing environment, injury may not be detected until the future. Gearbox wear and failure is due to the load carrying elements such as shafts, gears and bearings. Surface cracks of these parts are due to contact between metals during operation and cyclic loading and this leads ultimately to failure.

            Vibration analysis investigates the gearbox vibration and it is divided into two categories; spectral and feature analysis. Spectral analysis includes Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) which plots amplitude of the vibration signal as a function of frequency.

 Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM)

             Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) is the structured approach to find the balance between corrective maintenance and preventive maintenance and to determine plans focusing on the reliability aspects. It determines the maintenance plan by e.g. prioritizing critical components and through the choice of maintenance tasks and chooses right preventive maintenance activities for the right component at the right time to reach the most cost proficient solution. Civil aircraft industry is the place of origin for reliability centered maintenance (RCM) and first description came in 1978 by Nowlan and introduction in nuclear power came in 1980 and in hydro power in 1990. RCM is characterized by:

1. System function maintenance.

2. Failure mode identification

3. Function prioritizing

4. Choosing efficient maintenance measure

 Descriptions of the process to define a RCM plan are,

1. Seven steps of smith 1993

2. Steps for a first RCM plan - Nowlan

3. Seven question of Moubray.

  Seven steps of Smith     

              Theoretical analysis models and decision tree analysis is the base for smith method. The     seven steps of smith are,

1. Information collection and choice of system

2. System boundary making

3. Description of system and function block diagram

4. Functions of system and losses of function

5. Failure Effect and Function Analysis (FMEA)

6. Decision tree analysis

7. Maintenance measurement estimation.

       Failure Effect and Function Analysis   

                 In reliability analysis, failure effect and function analysis FMEA is used and it can determine the connection between possible failure modes for a construction and the failure effects. Aircraft manufacturer Boeing introduced this method in 1957. To find all the ways in which a product can fail is the purpose of this method. The three questions answered are,

1. What failures/events could appear?

2. What are the effects of the failures/events?

3. What are the causes of the failures/events?

With the answers of these three questions failure frequency is indicated with a number between e.g. 1 and 10. These numbers indicate the seriousness of the consequence and the probability for discovery. These numbers are multiplied into a combined index number, for which a higher value indicates a worse failure and it is called risk priority number. Using the size of the risk priority number, estimation of the seriousness of the failures can be determined and then a measurement can be formulated.

 Steps for a first RCM plan - Nowlan

1. Identify the items that require intensive study by partitioning the equipment into object categories.

2. Identify significant items that have essential safety or economic consequences.

3. Identify hidden functions that require scheduled maintenance.

4. Selecting only the tasks that will satisfy the maintenance requirements by evaluating the maintenance requirement for each significant item and hidden functions in terms of the failure consequences.

5. Identifying items for which no applicable or effective task can be found.

6. For each of the included tasks, select conservative initial intervals and group the tasks in maintenance packages for application

7. To provide the factual information necessary to revise initial decisions establishing an age-exploration program.

 Seven question of Moubray's RCM II

               Identifying the system items that ought to be analyzed is the first step to analyze the maintenance of a system. After this, according to Moubray we should answer seven questions,

1. What are the functions and performances required?

2. In what ways can each function fail?

3. What causes each functional failure?

4. What are the effects of each failure?

5. What are the consequences of each failure?

6. How can each failure be prevented?

7. How does one proceed if no preventive activity is possible?

Functions are what an asset is expected to perform and when the function is specified it is important to indicate a certain level that the unit should meet. There are two functions, primary and secondary; primary function is the main purpose of the asset and secondary function is additional features the asset should meet. The cause of the failure is then described and the consequences of a failure are divided into three categories,

1. Safety- and environmental consequences

2. Operational consequences

3. Non-operational consequences

If the failure cause an environmental law to be broken it is classified as Safety- and environmental consequences. Environmental consequences and operational consequences have an effect on costs regarding production and operation and non operational consequences only gives cost in the form of operations. The decision tree determines which maintenance should be carried out depending on the consequence of the failure.

 Benefits of RCM  

1. The amount of preventive maintenance often can be reduced or replaced with corrective maintenance through the cautious analysis of the failures

2. Decrease in spare parts carriage

3. At an early stage bad construction methods are revealed. 

Reliability centered asset management (RCAM)

   This method is developed from RCM principle attempting to relate preventive maintenance to the total maintenance cost and system reliability. To see the effect on a component level of preventive maintenance on system reliability, with the quantitative methods, is the aim of this technique. In this method, the identified critical components for the system reliability are studied and the relationship between reliability and maintenance has been established by relating the effect of preventive maintenance to the causes of failures for the part being assessed. Main stages of RACM approach are,

1. System reliability analysis

2. Component reliability modeling

3. System reliability and cost/benefit analysis.

 Vattenfall Vattenkraft RCM (VVK RCM) in hydro power

              Vattenfall Vattenkraft developed and implemented a RCM model for its hydro power station; it is similar to Moubray's RCM II in many aspects. This model follows the same steps in Moubray's RCM II but differs in maintenance strategy.

1. Define the functions

2. Determine the function failure

3. Determine the failure modes

4. Risk analysis performance

5. Determine the possible maintenance tasks

6. Analyze and decide on maintenance strategies

Each function in the standard analysis is studied and functional failures are added or removed if needed. Using the standard analysis as the reference failure mode all reasonable causes for each functional failure are listed.

Eight different consequence categories for each failure are,

 1. Cost incurred due to break down

2. Overall costs

3. Environment in which work is taking place

4. Dam flow

5. Damages take place in the environment

6. Personal need

7. Production ceases

8. Efficiency

Risk analysis is performed for every failure mode and how often a failure occurs is being approximately estimated. Using risk matrix, we can get a number between 0 and 5 that describes the risk of the failure, if the number is three or greater than three, preventive maintenance could be used, otherwise corrective maintenance should be used.

The data, like the cost of personnel to perform maintenance, stop time and costs due to loss of production, cost of new parts for damaged equipment and other costs in connection with the maintenance tasks and breakdowns are needed to economically decide the kind of maintenance that has to be used.

The main difference between VVK RCM and RCM II is, in VVK RCM II with the help of a risk and cost analysis the best maintenance strategy is picked but RCM II has a decision diagram where certain maintenance strategies are preferred and if feasible, they are then chosen.

 Conclusion

           Planning maintenance with RCM as a system that collects data is needed for wind turbine industry.RCM combined with CMS helps the wind power industry to monitor the equipment which can't be continuously monitored manually. For any industry, not only the maintenance but reliability is also an important factor. RCM provides better maintenance management system for increasing the reliability of the wind turbines. RCM provides the amount of preventive maintenance that can often be reduced or replaced with corrective maintenance through the cautious analysis of the failures. Co-operation between operators of wind farms, owners and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) is very important to design the maintenance process based on the maintenance experience in wind power industry.

 

            

 

 

 

 

 

About the Author

Malarvizhi.G, is engineering bachelor in electronics and communication and masters in business administration. She has done projects in electronics and marketing in her under graduate and post graduate programmes. She is interested in marketing research. She can be contacted at – gmalar85@gmail.com

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Christmas games - perfect presents for PC gamers!

Christmas has been celebrated for centuries by different people, at different times, in different places, and in many different ways. In approximately year 300 A.D., the birthday of Jesus was determined to be on December 25, the day that has been celebrated from then till this very day. The celebration on the 25th of December starts with Christmas Eve, the evening of December 24.

It's getting closer and closer to Christmas, but don't fret; These top Christmas PC Games will make great holiday presents. All in all, it looks to be a great Christmas for PC gamers.

Delicious Emilys Holiday Season

Join Emily in a festive adventure through a winter wonderland in Delicious - Emily's Holiday Season!

Join Emily in this romantic new adventure through a winter wonderland! Meet her family and catch up with friends. Help and serve guests delicious holiday treats. Go to the winter fair and visit the old farm, now an ice rink. Take part in jolly activities like making snow-angels and snowmen, ice-skating, skiing, and throwing snowballs. Find out who the lucky guy will be!

With five locations, 50 new events, festive upgrades, and a fresh set of fireworks, Emily's frolicking will brighten up your holidays with heartwarming fun! Try the free trial version of Delicious - Emily's Holiday Season or download the full-unlimited version today!

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It's hard to imagine a game stuffed with a romantic atmosphere of Christmas, but Delicious - Emily's Holiday Season proves to be a surprisingly well-balanced time management game flavored with an exciting story throughout the game.

Fishdom Frosty Splash

Create the atmosphere of winter in ur tank!

Enjoy winter with Fishdom Frosty Splash! Cheer up and spread the merriment of crispy clear days around! Use your imagination to recreate the nippy and fun atmosphere of winter in your tank. Earn money as you complete challenging match-3 levels and use it to buy festive fishies and winter-themed decorations. Get splashed with frosty joy in this sparkling and snowy sequel to Fishdom!

Gift Fishdom Frosty Splash game on Christmas!

Fishdom Frosty Splash Game Features

• 100 winter-themed decorations
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• Get splashed with frosty joy!

Christmasville

Save Santa and return Christmas to children!

Santa Claus is missing! Christmas has been stolen! You are the Great Private Detective Arthur Knight, and you are the only one who can save the day by investigating the case. Your new friends ? Abominable Snowman, Reindeer and Elf will help you to discover the truth of Santa's disappearance in this Christmas adventure for the entire family!

Save Christmas in Christmasville game!

Christmasville Game Features

• Enjoy unlimited play time
• Thousands of hidden objects to find
• Hilarious story
• Sevaeral mini-games

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Do you believe in Santa? No? Arthur Knight, a private detective, didn't believe in Santa either. But one day he had to. A strange client showed up in his office claiming that Santa was missing...

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Composers from all eras & music as well

Since the beginning of humankind, music has been part and parcel of man's culture. In the beginning, music was mainly used for enjoyment, religious and spiritual rituals as well as the romance and love. Since the earlier mankind is characterized by wars and different conflicts, music has played a vital role in this eras especially when drum beats were used during wars. In this way music served as a form of encouragement for the soldiers and hence helps them win in the wars and other different conflicts between the communities (Randel 1986). In this prehistoric period, the evidence of written music is very little but the use of cuneiform writings in the 6000 years in which music served as an important vehicle for civilization. This has been discovered in Mesopotamia and Sumerians in which clay tablets were used to include even the notation keys as well as the scale attesting. However, the idea that musical composers existed in this era is still debatable though most scientists believe that music has been part of our culture for along time in which it has been used for communication.

The era that followed the prehistoric era is known as the Renaissance or the middle ages era and consists of written composed music. This era constitute the music that was written between 550AD and 1550, a period that is known for the development and the advancement in all arts and other technologies (Randel 1986). The major known composer during this era is the Italian Guido who developed the musical notation in the 1033s (Kerman &Tomlinson 2011). Guido is considered and respected for advancing music from the traditional to the modern way of representing music in a more clearly and organized manner in Italy. He is responsible for the invention of the five line staff with respect to notation in music in which he developed the first song know as the Gregorian chant.

One single composer during the middle age era is known as Guillaume de Machaut. This was a French composer who developed several rhythms as well as publishing different books that were majorly focused on music as well as other music related arts. He utilized the work of Guido to come up with the repeated notes that had same or different patterns hence enriched the polyphonic arts in this era.  He was also supported in this era by another French composer Vitry who also published several books and developed even other rhythms (Kerman &Tomlinson 2011). During this era, music played a very important aspect in the culture and other religious and spiritual endeavors. Music also played important role in entertaining as well as in cultural and spiritual ceremonies throughout this era (Kerman &Tomlinson 2011). However the work of Guido and Vitry, were important as they helped in the advancement of music to the next level that lead to Baroque era with more composers.

The transition between the middle age era and the Baroque era is associated with a composer known as Claudio Monteverdi whose work was mainly evident in the early 1960s. He is known for helping and engineering the transition from the middle age period to the Brogue era. What this composer did is that he set stage for many of the musicians by then by establishing the first opera in Italy thereby setting stage for most composers to come in during that time period. Unlike the middle age musical era, the Baroque musical era was mainly associated with feelings of nature as well as love. In this era, the composers had changed their message and the use of music primarily for spiritual or religious purposes was changing and most composers were now focusing on mystery as a major philosophy. However, definitive focus on religious and spirituality were evidenced especially through the work of Jonathan Sebastian in late 1600s and early 1700s (Kerman &Tomlinson 2011).

Jonathan is one of the composers in this period that is considered to have innate talent right from his childhood and was able to use his religious music to earn living and support himself. He is also recorded in history as the father of counterpoint due to his passion for the music and the use of organ and clavichord instruments (Kerman &Tomlinson 2011). Due to this passion, he never used different modern instruments in that era such as the pianos until he was almost sixties when he was introduced to the pianos. After his introduction to the pianos, he wrote one of the famous music "fugue" to the king Fredrick of Germany as a musical offering.  This music by Jonathan is considered as one of the best music in Germany until today.

Another important composer of this era is Beethoven, who was also of German origin. Beethoven was physically challenged; however, this did not hinder him from advancing his talent in music and other arts (Kerman &Tomlinson 2011). Despite the fact that he was deaf by the time he was trained by his father due to the constant boxing of his ears by his father during training on pianos, Beethoven emerged as one of the greatest composers during this era. He developed some of the best music that is listened to in many parts of the world even today and made some of the beautiful music in German and Austria. He is known to have written the nine symphonies which are considered the highest number of symphonies that had ever been written by a single composer during that time. He therefore ended up as one of the best composers whose music is still used by major audio music producers.

Wolfgang Mozart is another composer who came later in the ear and is considered as one of the most famous composer. He introduced the new styles of light and other forms of expressions including the darkness to express the musical idea. However, Mozart was well known for the classical music that he was good at. He composed most music in the earlier 1700s that majorly focused on classical styles (Kerman &Tomlinson 2011). He can be viewed as one of the composers who introduced the classical music at an era when such kind of music was not very much appreciated since they were not based on the actual events such as spiritual and religious ceremonies that were common in that era (Smith 2005). Mozart is therefore viewed as the modern musician due to his advancement of the classical music that is still influential even in the modern era. His kind of music can be linked to the current rock music which is considered by many musicians to be having certain connections to the old Mozart classical music composers. These connections are also related to the old styles of using both organs and the violins that are still used even in the today's society of modernized classical music.

Other composers of classical music era also included Frank Joseph, Willbald Gluck, Rossini and Schubert who were composers of late 1790s and 1820s. During this era entertainment was considered more important than the expressions of feelings, cultures and the religion that were the main purposes of music in the previous eras (Smith 2005). This period was majorly characterized with many composers unlike in the previous eras due to advancement in technology as well as the ability of the composers to link their instrumentation to the music composed thereby coming up with a rhythm that was very good for entertaining their audiences. This period however was not purely focused like the previous periods since other composers like the Beethoven and Hoyden Joseph composed certain music that were more of romantic and this led to the romantic era of music.

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