This week, I became an official member of the team of the world’s largest snowboard reviewing site snowboard-review.com!
My main department will be the forums there. I am really glad they asked me to join because the site is so useful with all it’s reviews and news and the team is super friendly and helpful! So I am really proud of being a part of snowboard-review.com.
Check out the site and the forums, for sure. Also don’t miss to follow our Twitter Account here: http://twitter.com/SB_Review to stay up to date all the time!

If you are looking for a standardized fitness-test, you have now found it:
The official United States Marine Corps Fitness Test!

A short summary what the test is about:

“The Marine Corps Fitness tests consists of three exercises: pull-ups, crunches, and a 3.0 mile run. The events are “designed to test the strength and stamina of the upper body, midsection, and lower body, as well as the efficiency of the cardiovascular system.”

All the exercises are to be performed in “one single session, not to exceed two hours.”

To reach the best result at this test, which is 300 points, you need to do 20 pull-ups, 100 crunches in 2 minutes and 18minutes for the 3 mile run. Each discipline gives 100points max. (Check the gmap-pedometer if you are looking or a 3mile route near your house)

The complete article about the Marine Corps Fitness Test including the complete score chart can be found at the The art of manliness website.

If you plan on doing the test, do not forget to post your result here! I have scheduled this test next week and will of course also publish my results here. Good luck!

1.) Overview and Introduction
The notebook I decided to buy, after a long time of research and discussion, is: The Dell Latitude E4300

After first looking out for a 15″ notebook, I decided to rather get a 13″ ultra-portable one because of the big difference in portability. As a student, this was definitly a major for me and therefor a reason for going with the E4300.
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I tested the svn QT4 Version of kile for a few days now, so its time to release my opinion about it.

The first thing i noticed was the menue-change in the top-bar. If you are new to tex or not familiar this might be a great change for you because now, you do have the possibility to insert commands via buttons.

What I personally loved about the new version is the “Structure”-bar you can open on the left handed bar now.
This feature allows you to reconstruct your single chapters, sections,.. which is great in my eyes.

For now I only tested textish features and no chemistry or math functions for e.g.

The new kile qt4 svn versions never crashed on me and did not produce any errors. Care if you want to write in german with “ä,ü,ö,..” though. You got to set the encoding to UTF8 in the settings before.