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Hi there! I am Marc Phillippe Babineau, a Maritimer by birth and in heart (Canadian), and I was a Senior Technical Writer and Training Specialist for Atlantis Aerospace, in Brampton, Ontario. Here, I wrote technical manuals and wrote and taught training platforms

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Hobbies & Games > Card Games Is poker a sport?: 1 of 54
The word "sport" has been defined in many ways, by many people, but mostly to cover their own regards towards some aspect of one game or another. Most encyclopedias agree that sport is "an activity that is governed by a set of rules or customs, and often engaged in competetively, with some form of physical exertion". Poker ... More..
Creative Writing > Memoirs Memoirs: Death: 1 of 42
He touched me in a way no other possibly could. He could sense my emotions, and act in a manner that would change my mood for the better. He knew if I wanted companionship, exercise or just to lay down. If I needed to be cuddled, he was there for me, actually pulling me in towards his hairy, smooth chest. His strength, inner ... More..
Celebrations & Holidays > Birthdays What would you write in a birthday card for Helium?: 1 of 37
October 11, 2009 is just around the corner now, and helium.com will be 6 years old on that day. For your first Birthday, out of over 200,000 family members, 36 of the writers lucky enough to have found you, and to have been accepted into your loving embrace, saw fit to write you a Birthday card. Last year,with writers joining... More..
Politics, News & Issues > Sports Archives Super Bowl XLIII predictions: 1 of 24
At the beginning of the 2008/2009 National Football League (NFL) season, the Pittsburgh Steelers were being acclaimed one of the bigger long shots to even make it to the Super Bowl, let alone to win it. Pittsburgh, in the regular season this year, had the toughest schedule of all of the NFL teams in the league. The Arizona Ca... More..
Celebrations & Holidays > Mother's Day & Father's Day A brief history of Father's Day: 2 of 43
Fathers Day has been around now for only 99 years, but since that number is retired, (Wayne Gretzky, the only player in sports to have a number retired by an entire league) let's say that it has been around for a Century. In 1909, Sonora Dodd of Washington, D.C., came to the conclusion that Fathers deserved a day, just like t... More..
Arts & Humanities > Writing & Rating at Helium Should you begin Helium articles by repeating the article's title?: 1 of 20
Should you begin Helium articles by repeating the article's title? Should a writer begin their article with the title of the article, or simply assume that the reader is given the title, and write on? As long as the title is copied correctly it is alright, as an amusingly large number of related articles written here at he... More..
Travel > Travel Planning & Advice Easing back in to "reality" after a vacation: 1 of 19
A vacation is defined as a period of time devoted to rest, travel or recreation, and that petty much defines every weekend for many people. However, for many others, a vacation means two weeks away from home, work and the stress of every day life. For a person to need time to ease back into reality after a vacation, well, tha... More..
Style & Beauty > Tanning & Sunscreen Are you tanning to death?: 3 of 51
At first, my Family Doctor told me that it was a pimple, to wash it and to stop picking at it. My family said the exact same thing, nobody seemed to be listening to me, there was this weird feeling on my left facial cheek, raised around the edges, scarred horribly, and a hole that I could easily fit the entire white part of a... More..
Relationships & Family > Male / Female Communication Styles A guy's view: How to talk about the future: 1 of 16
You are at a sporting event, perhaps a hockey game, with a bunch of friends. You find that you and your friends' girlfriends' friend seem to hit it off, have lots in common, and she seems to be interested in you. A few days later, you get together for a lunch, to feel each other out and see whether there was more there than j... More..
Sciences > Ecology & Environment What is the reason that rivers are straightened, and what is the effect on the environment?: 1 of 15
Rivers bring with them the elixir of life for mankind and animals alike, and flow majestically along their merry way, usually from a lake or glacier, following the path of least resistance, and flowing into either another lake, an ocean or a sea. When that river starts to meander, the area that the river takes up starts to ... More..