An active pause system is a feature of a video game that allows commands to be given while the game is paused. These commands will take effect as soon as the game is unpaused. An example of this would be a first-person shooter that allows the player to change weapons while the game is paused. If no actions can be performed while the game is paused, then the game does not have an active pause system.
Active pause bridges the gap between turn-based games and real-time games by allowing real-time fighting with the opportunity to pause the game to switch out gear, give commands to units, pick out a spell to cast, or do any number of things.
Effects on gaming
Many game series are beginning to switch their turn-based games to real-time-based games with an active pause system. Final Fantasy XII is the first Final Fantasy game to do away with its turn-based system in favour of a real-time with active pause system. The same is happening with the still-under-development Fallout 3 game of the Fallout series.
Praise
One gamer refers to real-time tactic games without an active pause as a "non-thinking, shallow, spasmodic, thrill-ride."
Games including an active pause system
Games with an active pause feature include Chaos League, Final Fantasy XII, Forlorn World, Gunlok, GoldenEye, and Secret of Mana.
Active pause bridges the gap between turn-based games and real-time games by allowing real-time fighting with the opportunity to pause the game to switch out gear, give commands to units, pick out a spell to cast, or do any number of things.
Effects on gaming
Many game series are beginning to switch their turn-based games to real-time-based games with an active pause system. Final Fantasy XII is the first Final Fantasy game to do away with its turn-based system in favour of a real-time with active pause system. The same is happening with the still-under-development Fallout 3 game of the Fallout series.
Praise
One gamer refers to real-time tactic games without an active pause as a "non-thinking, shallow, spasmodic, thrill-ride."
Games including an active pause system
Games with an active pause feature include Chaos League, Final Fantasy XII, Forlorn World, Gunlok, GoldenEye, and Secret of Mana.
Dr. Ayoub Al-Jawaldeh, is the current Deputy Country Director of United Nations World Food Programme office in Egypt. He was born in Mahis, Jordan in 1960, and holds a Ph.D in Nutrition. He has worked as an International Expert in the World Food Programme since 1991. He has served in many countries in the Middle East, Africa and Asia.
Astra Serpent Plant
The Astra Serpent Plant (Phalaenopsis sirtalis) is a carnivorous plant that preys on small insects and mammals, but mostly acknowledged as to digest small garden snakes. Recently discovered in the seclusion of the Ajehecha Tupì jungles by Norwegian botanist, Edvard Holm in February 2006, the Serpent Plant or the Kororó, which is the native and more common name known amongst the indigenous tribes people, Japojupi, that reside near Ajehecha Tupì jungle was brought back to Holm’s laboratory in Nordland, Norway to be further examined to be later discovered of the plant’s rare and fascinating characteristics, which are distantly related to its cousin the Venus Fly Trap.
Description
The physical characteristics of the Astra Serpent is that it comprises of a large dark green bulbous base with long leaves that are enveloped by a plethora of short stubby thorns that grow on the entirety of the leaves capacity and its base stem is located in deep inside the base of the main bulb of the Astra Serpent. It has minuscule resemblances to the Echinopsis Cacti and the Venus Fly Trap establishing this particular genus a rarity among the parts of Paraguay and other southern regions of Central America.
Research
Through Holm’s extensive and meticulous research on the Astra Serpent plant (named after Holm’s mother) many characteristics have been discovered on the secluded species. Located in the Paraguayan jungles it projects a sweet fragrance most of the year which is used as a luring device o attract its prey, like garter snakes who are highly drawn to the aromatic scent. This plant is categorized as a “winter solstice” plant as it is at its most vibrant and aromatic peak but when the summer or spring solstice arrives the plant engages in a “hibernation” and goes through several stages of its spring hibernation to rejuvenates itself and when the plant does engage in this stage it propels a revolting rotten smell, a stark contrast to its normal scent used most of the year, a defense mechanism to protect itself from potential predators who might possibly prey on the plant such as bigger animals or humans. As this genus was located in the jungle, it is deemed as a wild plant and is difficult to cultivate domestically due to the specific climate requirements and the plant’s unpredictable caring systems.
Trapping Mechanism
The Astra Serpent plant’s vices as to obtaining food and trapping its prey uses its fragrant scent to lure insects such as bees, who confuse the Astra Serpent’s scent for pollen. Its biggest and most difficult victims are the garter snakes, which are abundant in Central America especially in the Paraguayan jungles, are appealed by the Astra Serpent’s deep bowl-like base that the snakes use as shelter during the night. Incidentally the garter snake’s resting place is the Astra Serpent’s feasting ground as it devours anything that enters its base by enveloping the prey using its thorny leaves as a block way for the prey and waits until it dies from starvation and lack of oxygen.
The Astra Serpent Plant (Phalaenopsis sirtalis) is a carnivorous plant that preys on small insects and mammals, but mostly acknowledged as to digest small garden snakes. Recently discovered in the seclusion of the Ajehecha Tupì jungles by Norwegian botanist, Edvard Holm in February 2006, the Serpent Plant or the Kororó, which is the native and more common name known amongst the indigenous tribes people, Japojupi, that reside near Ajehecha Tupì jungle was brought back to Holm’s laboratory in Nordland, Norway to be further examined to be later discovered of the plant’s rare and fascinating characteristics, which are distantly related to its cousin the Venus Fly Trap.
Description
The physical characteristics of the Astra Serpent is that it comprises of a large dark green bulbous base with long leaves that are enveloped by a plethora of short stubby thorns that grow on the entirety of the leaves capacity and its base stem is located in deep inside the base of the main bulb of the Astra Serpent. It has minuscule resemblances to the Echinopsis Cacti and the Venus Fly Trap establishing this particular genus a rarity among the parts of Paraguay and other southern regions of Central America.
Research
Through Holm’s extensive and meticulous research on the Astra Serpent plant (named after Holm’s mother) many characteristics have been discovered on the secluded species. Located in the Paraguayan jungles it projects a sweet fragrance most of the year which is used as a luring device o attract its prey, like garter snakes who are highly drawn to the aromatic scent. This plant is categorized as a “winter solstice” plant as it is at its most vibrant and aromatic peak but when the summer or spring solstice arrives the plant engages in a “hibernation” and goes through several stages of its spring hibernation to rejuvenates itself and when the plant does engage in this stage it propels a revolting rotten smell, a stark contrast to its normal scent used most of the year, a defense mechanism to protect itself from potential predators who might possibly prey on the plant such as bigger animals or humans. As this genus was located in the jungle, it is deemed as a wild plant and is difficult to cultivate domestically due to the specific climate requirements and the plant’s unpredictable caring systems.
Trapping Mechanism
The Astra Serpent plant’s vices as to obtaining food and trapping its prey uses its fragrant scent to lure insects such as bees, who confuse the Astra Serpent’s scent for pollen. Its biggest and most difficult victims are the garter snakes, which are abundant in Central America especially in the Paraguayan jungles, are appealed by the Astra Serpent’s deep bowl-like base that the snakes use as shelter during the night. Incidentally the garter snake’s resting place is the Astra Serpent’s feasting ground as it devours anything that enters its base by enveloping the prey using its thorny leaves as a block way for the prey and waits until it dies from starvation and lack of oxygen.
Compressive Rock is a musical genre that is used to describe bands that play music heavily influenced by Classic rock such as The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, or The Rolling Stones, but play modern music, with a modern sound. Music can have a very diverse sound and style, but in short, the idea of the genre is to revamp older rock music and to show a harder rock style to older rock songs.
Though ideas like this have been used through out the 90's, Compressive Rock is more of a recent term. Most bands that consider themselves Compressive Rock or are considered Compressive Rock, are garage bands that are not yet signed, although you can make the argument that bands like The Vines, The Hives, and Jet are Compressive Rock.
Compressive Rock has grown into a widespread idea in areas with strong teen and young adult music scenes. Areas like Long Island and New York City, Chicago, L.A. and Seattle are filling up with locals that are using the term Compressive Rock.
Because of the increasing use of the term, and the significant lack of "Big" bands that "Made-it" calling themselves Compressive Rock, the term is becoming very loose. It is starting to use more as a term to describe music that compresses a type of Rock with a modern sound. It could be era's of rock, like The 60's or 70's, or it could be a genre or subgenre from those times such as Progressive Rock, Psychadellic, Fusion Rock, or Blues Rock.
Most bands that classify themselves as Compressive Rock add their modern sound to music from 1979 or earlier. Later time periods are too 'modern' to be really considered Compressive Rock. THere are many bands that use 80's Metal as their strongest influence to add to their modern writing, but this is not Compressive Rock. However, bands that take a mixture of Grunge from the 90's with older hard rock and the modern sound can be called Compressive Rock.
These bands started to use this term to separate themselves from modern bands that play Emo, Screamo, or Hardcore music.
Though ideas like this have been used through out the 90's, Compressive Rock is more of a recent term. Most bands that consider themselves Compressive Rock or are considered Compressive Rock, are garage bands that are not yet signed, although you can make the argument that bands like The Vines, The Hives, and Jet are Compressive Rock.
Compressive Rock has grown into a widespread idea in areas with strong teen and young adult music scenes. Areas like Long Island and New York City, Chicago, L.A. and Seattle are filling up with locals that are using the term Compressive Rock.
Because of the increasing use of the term, and the significant lack of "Big" bands that "Made-it" calling themselves Compressive Rock, the term is becoming very loose. It is starting to use more as a term to describe music that compresses a type of Rock with a modern sound. It could be era's of rock, like The 60's or 70's, or it could be a genre or subgenre from those times such as Progressive Rock, Psychadellic, Fusion Rock, or Blues Rock.
Most bands that classify themselves as Compressive Rock add their modern sound to music from 1979 or earlier. Later time periods are too 'modern' to be really considered Compressive Rock. THere are many bands that use 80's Metal as their strongest influence to add to their modern writing, but this is not Compressive Rock. However, bands that take a mixture of Grunge from the 90's with older hard rock and the modern sound can be called Compressive Rock.
These bands started to use this term to separate themselves from modern bands that play Emo, Screamo, or Hardcore music.