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Buckeyes' boss taking stock
It's been an eye-opening spring for Ohio State football coach Urban Meyer — and not just because:
• He saw what life could look like without Braxton Miller — or Kenny Guiton — in the annual Scarlet and Gray scrimmage. (Arrrgghhh! Surely there is a five-star quarterback out there who wants to play for an offensive guru such as Urban.)
• He lost three prize recruits to new Penn State coach and fellow SEC transplant James Franklin. (Now, if Michigan gets its act together maybe the Big Ten will stop being a punchline.)
• The impending completion of the $2.5 million, 10,000-square-foot locker room, adorned with iPhone and iPod charging stations, HDTVs, lounge, nutrition area and a water wall. (Throw in some memory-foam mattresses and pillows and the players never will want to leave.)
What grabbed Meyer's attention is some of the things he heard during one-on-one exit interviews with his players at the end of spring ball.
"I just let them talk," Meyer said. "A lot of times coaches talk too much. Players want to talk, and I want to hear their story. I heard a story I didn't know. The kid has been on our team for a couple years, but he had never told me this: He had been homeless for four years.
"I said: 'No, c'mon.' He said he lived in a homeless shelter. We sat there and kind of broke down together. Here's a young guy telling me about the struggles he had. Think about this: Here's the same guy on scholarship, playing in front of 107,000 people. He went through a time when he was five years old where he was homeless."
Meyer, often viewed as distant or uncomfortable outside a team setting, was cutting open a vein during a banquet address and exposing a parental side that suggested he takes his role as surrogate father to his players seriously.
"Another young man (told me) he had a lot of pressure on him," Meyer said. "He has to replace a starter. He's not ready yet. He's such a good kid, but he's horrified that he's going to let people down. He's going through that anxiety moment a lot of us experience. It's on him right now.
"He's got finals, he's in a difficult major, and it's just kicking his tail, and he's dealing with that."
Once a college athlete himself, Meyer doesn't profess to have all the answers for a player still coming to grips with a tough upbringing or another who feels overwhelmed.
There have been times when he has felt like the one getting his tail kicked. A person he has turned to in those situations might surprise you.
But probably not.
"Tim Tebow and I would talk about this nonstop," said Meyer of his former Florida star, a devout Christian whose faith — unlike his ability as an NFL quarterback — never has been questioned. "Tim taught me this: He said God's greatest gifts, the ones we've been given, are the gift of compassion and the gift of gratitude.
"(Tebow) said when you're emotionally not right and things start to swirl a little bit and you start moving in areas you don't want to go and you get knocked down, how do you get back on track?"
Tebow suggested Meyer take pen and paper and write down 10 things for which he's grateful.
"Think about when you're in a bad place how many things you're grateful for," Meyer said. "I just had a daughter (Gigi) win a (collegiate) national championship in wakeboarding. How good does that feel to me to write down on paper?
"When my head is spinning and I'm upset about this and this, (I pull out the paper) and guess what happens to my emotional state of mind? I feel pretty good again."
Stress-related health issues played a big role in Meyer's decision to step down at Florida, where he won two national championships, after the 2010 season. He also had a health scare at the start of spring practice this year that required having fluid drained from a cyst on his brain.
Excellent times to pull out that list.
"Tim will remind me. He'll text me once a month about the things he's grateful for and I'll do the same thing back to him," Meyer said. "Whatever (bad) was going on that day, it's over, and I'm in a much better place.
"That was on my heart all day (during the exit interviews) ... it was a day now. Imagine meeting with players you love to death and hearing their stories. All of a sudden I thought: 'My goodness.' I had a great home growing up (in Ashtabula). I wasn't homeless. What gives me the right to have what I had and these kids not have that?
"It just tears at your heart, but a lot of us are in a position to help those young people move forward."
Meyer doesn't pretend to be the only voice his players should hear off the field. In 2013, he turned to Dublin-based father and son consultants, Tim and Brian Kight, to share their systematic approach to building leaders within a business, or in this case a football program.
The relationship between the Kights and the Buckeyes continues.
In summer 2009 with his Gators coming off a national championship, Meyer turned to former lieutenant colonel Danny McKnight, the commander of the third Ranger Battalion famous for his leadership in the Battle of Mogadishu, which was later turned into the movie Blackhawk Down.
Meyer had McKnight speak to his team about accountability. The arrest of cornerback Janoris Jenkins that summer was the 28th under Meyer's watch and he wanted to stress to the Gators they were the biggest threat to their bid for a repeat national championship.
McKnight spent 15 hours, making multiple trips, trying to rescue the soldiers shot down by Somali insurgents. McKnight was shot in the neck, but did not tend to his wound until the soldiers were evacuated.
"He talked to my team about his definition of success," Meyer said. "It's being able to hit a storm and not only defeat the storm but come out on the other side stronger.
"There's only one way to do that and after coaching all these years and witnessing storms and being part of storms, I believe it with my heart and I use that moment to teach the players."
McKnight listed four things needed to overcome storms:
• You need to be physical fit to pull through.
"I had some (health) issues when I didn't take care of myself. I'm doing that now," Meyer said.
• You need to be mentally on your game.
• Emotionally, you have to be right.
• Be a person of purpose.
"A real purpose," Meyer said, "not 'I want to be an NFL draft pick.' That's not going to pull you through the storm."
The moral of the message: Don't let your teammate down. Can't leave your teammate behind.
With the Buckeyes looking like a consensus top 10 team in the preseason rankings — they are rated as high as No. 3 by Athlon Sports magazine — what's left of this spring might be a good time for Ohio State to revisit McKnight's story.
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UPDATE: Crystal Bowersox was the runner-up on American Idol….
This Wednesday night, Crystal Bowersox could become the winner of American Idol. If she does, she will be a different kind of female Idol winner than we've seen in the past. In Idol's nine seasons, four women have won the title, but should Bowersox triumph she would arguably become the first feminist.
This is not to negate the politics or political representation of previous women who won–including the first Idol, Kelly Clarkson, and subsequently Fantasia Barrino, Carrie Underwood and Jordin Sparks. However, Bowersox's run on the top-rated reality-TV show has framed the woman contestant beyond the conventional portraits of "power belter," "pageant queen," "eye candy," or "diva" (a moniker often reserved for the black female contestants like Barrino and Sparks, recalling singers in the Whitney-Aretha-Mariah vein.)
Bowersox may not be a power belter or diva, and certainly offers a different spin on blond, "all-American" womanhood in comparison to the power-belting-eye-candy depiction of Carrie Underwood. In short, Bowersox may be less the girl next door and more the girl on the other side of the tracks–a role often played by a woman of color.
Bowersox embodies a really-real contestant for reality TV. She is the singer-songwriter "artist" with a guitar and blond dreadlocks, suggesting a Janis Joplin throwback with her soulful vocals and women's empowerment lyrics. She is also a single mom–akin to Fantasia–but here white privilege has lessened the impact on conversations about her ability to be a "good role model" by looking for a bigger paycheck to support her musical gig and infant son. Behind the guitar strumming and bluesy voice, one detects her heartbreak, and her working-class struggles in her economically hard-hit hometown Toledo. You can also see her "survivor" instincts as a woman with disabilities (diabetes) without health insurance, which she unabashedly shines a light on in interviews.
Every season of American Idol, which I have faithfully watched since its debut in 2002, critics and TV viewers complain about the judging, the level of talent among the contestants and the overblown production of each episode. This season, however, has been declared by detractors to be the "worst ever," with accusations that the show has jumped the shark. After nine years, it becomes inevitable that shows lose viewership and slip in ratings, but I find it curious that now, on the verge of crowning what could be viewed as the first feminist Idol, the season would go on record as the worst.
While I agree that the level of performance pales in comparison to previous seasons, the issue is less about talent suffering and more about how such talent gets featured. Few contestants seemed to get proper guidance on how best to present themselves before a viewing TV public, and in a sea of amateurs several contestants of color were, curiously, the first to be eliminated. Later, female contestants were voted off week after week, despite judges declaring this season as a "girl's year" in which women proved more talented than men. Clearly, when contestants fail to perform with showmanship, TV viewers are less forgiving of those who are not white and who are not male.
Despite such race and gender discrepancies, Crystal Bowersox has remained the strongest contender on the strength of her talent and performance. But Idol is notorious for featuring some of the best singers who fail to win (Jennifer Hudson!), as well as mediocre to just plain awful contestants who survive week after week based on their good looks or popularity. If Bowersox wins, this too is nothing to overlook, for she would be able to do so without being conventionally pretty and without the proper "humility" that would demonstrate she is not so self-assured about her musicianship and is perpetually grateful to her voting public.
So how does this make her feminist? I am reminded of Bowersox's response, after her much-publicized hospitalization to treat her diabetes, that the only free medical care offered to her was by a dentist who wanted to fix her teeth for cosmetic purposes. Bowersox politely refused and posted the lyrics to India.Arie's self-esteem building song "Video" on her Facebook page.
And while Idol producers invited such apolitical current pop stars as Ke$ha, Rhianna and Justin Bieber as guest performers, Bowersox countered with performances featuring songs by such feminist musicians as Alanis Morissette, Tracy Chapman and Melissa Etheridge. Indeed, her most moving performance this season was of Curtis Mayfield's 60s protest song "People Get Ready," which moved her and the audience to tears.
Even when some Idol watchers reacted with outrage when teen pop star Miley Cyrus appeared on the show as a guest "mentor" for the contestants–protesting that someone like Cyrus could not teach someone like Bowersox anything useful–Bowersox got a little subversive. She first posted a link on Facebook to the documentary "Before the Music Dies," which criticizes the current music industry, and then requested Miley Cyrus's signature on her guitar, which is filled with other autographs of "strong women musicians," according to Bowersox. Her Idol fans were left scratching their heads, but the message of female solidarity is not lost on those watching from a feminist perspective.
Last week, Bowersox called attention to the plight of her hometown during these economically depressing times, and further championed the cause of juvenile diabetes, an issue she has already declared as her political platform. As she told Idol audiences, "This is the first time I received adequate healthcare." We should all be alarmed that someone like Bowersox lucked out of hundreds of thousands of aspiring singers in the audition process in order to access health care!
It remains to be seen if such a contestant can, indeed, win American Idol, or if the reign of women is officially over now that, according to music critic blogger Lyndsey Parker, TV voters are primarily "moms and daughters" (or, more derisively and chauvinistically, "cougars" and "tweens"). Unlike other critics, I don't assume that a primarily female audience can only vote for their ideal "TV boyfriends." They just might find someone like Bowersox an ideal champion, with the talent to back her up. What also remains to be seen, once the show is over, is if she will find a legitimate space for her heartfelt brand of music.
UPDATE 5/26: Bowersox is considered to have "overpowered" her competitor last night; tonight, the votes are counted.
Bowersox performing "People Get Ready"
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We just got our asses kicked, pal. The 2012 Red Sox were 69-93. Anyone see that coming? Admittedly the "just" is a bit of a leap, as the end of the season is a month plus behind us, but you wouldn't know it from this space: the last post here was September 2nd. And a few things have happened in between now and then. Herewith is a brief examination of a few of said things.
Bobby Valentine
There was no comment here on Valentine's exit because, really, what commentary was necessary? While the talk show hosts will claim that everyone is stunned that Valentine didn't work out, that's not accurate. It was obvious to a great many people – including yours truly – that Bobby V was a bad fit for this job even before he'd really gotten to work. The only real surprise was how swift and total his failure was. All of the anticipated flaws – his inability to relate to players, his need to communicate via the media, his BobbyV-ness – were on permanent display last year, which will presumably be the last time we'll see them in a dugout. As was said in this space in April, Valentine was nothing more or less than a classic management blunder: an emotion driven over-rotation away from a manager perceived to be a problem, in spite of eight years of unprecedented success.
The only good news about the damage he did during his tenure is that it was so extensive that bringing him back was completely untenable. And so, mercifully, he's gone.
John Farrell
I have no idea whether Farrell is going to be a good manager: Keith Law, at one point, implied that the Red Sox had dodged a bullet after watching Farrell throw away a game for the Blue Jays. But he's got one very important thing going for him: he's not Bobby Valentine.
Given the higher quality of the managerial candidates this time around, it is a bit perplexing that Cherington and company felt compelled to pay the Blue Jay ransom of Mike Aviles (and don't even get me started on the rumor that Bailey was the other potential trade item). Aviles is quite clearly a player with significant limitations – his liftime OBP is .308, and he missed that by 20 points last season – but in a market bereft of legitimate shortstops, he was an asset with value. His subtraction leaves Iglesias as the only realistic starting shortstop candidate, a season after ZIPS projected him to put up an Ordonez-an line of 251/.289/.311 and he underperformed that, hitting .118/.200/.191 in 77 at bats.
But with Cherington's job reportedly on the line in the wake of last season's disastrous finish and two deals that blew up in his face (the Reddick and Lowrie trades), paying Toronto's premium for an asset they themselves appeared to have mixed impressions of apparently became more palatable. Ausmus et al may have dazzled in their interviews, but all ultimately lacked what Farrell offered: familiarity. Having worked with him extensively for years, they knew who Farrell was. With the would be contenders, they would be guessing.
So while I'm ultimately ambivalent about Farrell's prospects, it is simutaneously difficult to fault the process. And at the very worst, he's not Bobby V.
Juan Nieves
The one thing that everyone agrees on with respect to the upcoming season is that the starting rotation is, as ever, the key. And the best improvements that Red Sox can make in that area aren't likely to be in external additions – although Cherington has said those will be necessary – but in restoring their pitchers under contract to past levels of performance. Farrell's clearly expected to play a role in that, having been the pitching coach when both Buchholz and Lester enjoyed their finest seasons. But ultimately, the responsibility ultimately will be the new pitching coach's.
It's difficult to assess new hire Juan Nieves in that regard, because he's been the bullpen coach for the White Sox. But the White Sox join the Cardinals as one of the clubs commonly regarded to have the ability to repair and restore pitchers on the decline. So if the Red Sox believe a little of Cooper rubbed off on Nieves during his tenure with the White Sox, this decision has my full approval.
David Ortiz
This exchange on WEEI last week summed up at once my frustration with sports radio in general and fan ignorance of contracts specifically.
sports radio caller: this ortiz signing is awful. it's just too much risk: the achilles injury changes everything.
sports radio host: ok, but let me ask you: if he hit free agency and the rangers signed him for 2 years @ 24M, would you crush the red sox next august for not signing him?
sports radio caller: [long pause] yeah, well, that's why i'm just a fan.
Besides trying to have it both ways, this misreads both the market and Ortiz' actual value. According to Fangraphs, Ortiz was worth $13.3M in 2012, playing 90 games. His contract for the next two years is that times two. Tough to fault the front office for the move. In a perfect world, of course, the Red Sox would go year to year. And writers have (comically) implied that if Theo were still here, Ortiz would not be handed this two year deal. They base this assertion on the fact that Ortiz has been year to year for a few years now. This conveniently ignores both the realities of the market – there was a much greater scarcity of power threats on this year's market relative to his previous periods of free agency – as well as his actual performance. It was natural to be cautious with Ortiz in 2009 or 2010, because he was not far removed from a period in which it looked like his career was nearly over. In 2012, Ortiz is coming off of two consecutive years of putting up an OPS better than 900.
There are risks to this deal, as with every deal, but they are more than acceptable – particularly given the short duration of the contract. This fits with the new Red Sox mantra: pay the premium for contracts of shorter duration. Kuroda will be an interesting next test of this philosophy.
David Ross
Boston's best beat writer Alex Speier summed up the consternation following the signing of David Ross best:
The Red Sox need a starting pitcher, first baseman, two corner outfielders and perhaps a shortstop this winter. So naturally, their first move of the winter was … to sign a catcher, David Ross.
But as he explains, it's a deal that actually makes a great deal of sense. Although the speculation by Ken Rosenthal and others in the wake of the signing was that this meant that Lavarnway was headed back to Pawtucket, count me among those who believe that this is a prelude to a trade of one of our two catchers.
And if pressed on which would be headed elsewhere, my bet would be on a transaction involving Salty. Neither Lavarnway nor Ross could reasonably expect to approximate Saltalamacchia's power – 25 home runs last year – but both would project to be an upgrade on one of the biggest problems our offense had last year: getting on base. The Red Sox were 22nd in OBP in 2012, one season after being first. Salty's lifetime OBP is .302, and in 2012 he was at .288. Ross' lifetime OBP is .324 (.321 in 2012), and while Lavarnway was abysmal in 2012 at .211, Assistant GM Mike Hazen was stressing this week on WEEI's excellent weekly Hot Stove show that it was important for the club to trust its player development personnel and the player's minor league performance. Lavarnway's OBP over five season in the minors? .376.
Add in the fact that Ross was apparently told he would be "more than a backup," and the tea leaves seem to forecase the end of the Salty era in Boston. Potential trading partners would include the Mets and White Sox, and theoretically even the Braves who just lost Ross and have McCann coming off of surgery.
All in all, what seems initially a surprising move is actually more likely to be the Red Sox creating an artificial surplus in an area of league need at a reasonable cost from which to deal for required assets. Which seems like sound strategy here.


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Tiger Woods was actually having a pretty good day, though the fans lining the seventh hole might have thought otherwise. They had to listen as he unleashed a string of loud expletives at himself as his ball bounced over the green into the rough.
Hardly the way a gentleman golfer at the British Open is supposed to act, even if no one seemed to take much offense. Not with home favorite Lee Westwood on the green putting for birdie in a championship that even on Saturday was already becoming a two-man show within a show.
The two battled back and forth on a breezy afternoon at Muirfield as if the claret jug would be given out at the end of their match. They traded shots and they traded the lead in a personal duel that seemed destined to end up all even until Westwood birdied the 17th hole to give himself bit of a cushion going into the final round of a tournament both are desperate to win.
For Westwood, the math is simple. He's 40 now and still hasn't won a major championship.
Woods is trying to recapture whatever it was he once had to win 14 of these things, including three British Opens. The problem is, even he doesn't seem to know just what it is.
They won't be in the final group together because Woods made a bogey on the 17th hole. It hardly matters to either player, and certainly not to the crowd that has pretty much tuned out Hunter Mahan and a handful of others bunched on the leaderboard.
They mostly want Westwood, but they'll settle for Woods. And they fully expect one of them to deliver.
If Woods is to win this one he'll have to make up the two shots that separate the two players. That's something that can happen quickly on the treacherous links of Muirfield, where there were four two-shot swings between Woods and Westwood, including the final one on the 17th.
Woods hasn't won a major in five years since he won the U.S. Open at Torrey Pines. He also has never won a major coming from behind in the final round, which he'll have to do to win this one. And then there's the uncomfortable position of having to play in the same group Sunday with Adam Scott, whose caddie was on the bag for Woods in 13 of his majors and who has a publicly testy relationship with his former boss.
If you liked the undercard of Westwood versus Woods, don't miss the main event with Woods taking on Scott and caddie Steve Williams.
"I'm looking forward to the challenge of it," Woods said. "I've been in this position before in the past five years, and I've been in that hunt on that mix. And I'm in it again. Hopefully, tomorrow I can play well and win the tournament."
If Woods does win he may have the third round to thank for it. He's blown up on the weekend in recent majors, including a 76 in the third round that knocked him from contention in the U.S. Open. But he was steady on a brutal course for the most part on Saturday, even taking the lead with a birdie on the second hole, before finishing with a 1-over 72 that left him tied for second with Mahan, two shots back.
It helps that he seldom has to pull his often erratic driver out of the bag on the fast links course. A lot of the success he has had over three days has come using irons off the tee and then hitting shots into safe parts of the green. It's a formula that works under tough conditions, and it's put Woods into his best position going into the final round since he came back from the scandal.
Whether it will work on Sunday depends a lot on how the man playing behind him is doing. Westwood says he feels no pressure and he's playing like it. When he did make mistakes in the third round he simply smiled and went about his business, and with 38 wins around the world he's not likely to be intimidated by the thought of Woods chasing him.
"It's enjoyable," Westwood said. "It's where you want to be."
Woods insists he enjoys it too, his outburst on No. 7 notwithstanding. Being in the hunt on Sunday is what he lives for as a player.
If he doesn't win here or at the PGA Championship next month, his drought in the majors would be nearing six years.
That would be something to really swear about.


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Your work is unbelievably inspiring and creative. I'm completely impressed!!!
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I am Alyssa, i wanted to ask a question for an assignment i'm doing for school. We are doing current events research papers and my topic is Beauty/Makeup controversy such as using Illegal Chemicals, Animal Testing, Makeup lines named after cities known for Drug Wars, Ect. I would like to know your thoughts on Makeup Controversys, and Maybe some other stories that you have heard or expierenced. I would really appreciate it if you replied, i need a live source for this assignment. Thanks 🙂
I just found your video tutorials and they are absolutely amazing!! I have been into Make-up since my teens and now that I am in my fifties, and have been with a make-up selling business for 12 years now, I have never seen anything like what you do!! I am soooo excited to try them out!! I may be older but what you do is so inspiring to us also!!! Thank you for your time and hard work!!! I look forward for your next video!! By the way, I live in California, U.S.A.
Hei! 🙂 digger alt du klarer med sminke! Stooor inspirasjon 🙂 lurer også på en ting, hvordan kamera bruker du? Og eventuelt redigeringsprogram? Satt stor pris på svar 🙂 klem fra meg
What product do you use to stick the glitter on with for the eye brows
I totally wish you did wedding makeup O_O These looks are perfection!
I happened to accidentally stumble across your blog and tutorials today and I must say….u leave me speechless! Your work just screams one word to me and that is PASSIONATE. Only someone with deep passion and talent can create looks like these. It makes me want to run off and buy every color to try and replicate the looks you have created(and I'm 39) lol. You seriously are extremely talented and keep doing what you do- that is, being an inspiration to many of us. Just love your work.
I was on Pinterest today and came across a really cool Disney eye shadow designs. I repined it and then clicked on it and it took me to your blog. I have never been so happy to find this blog. I love everyone of your designs especially the really involved ones. My favorite are the Disney ones, I do nail designs the other day I did despicable me nails. You have such an amazing talent and its so awesome to stand out in such a great way. Don't ever ever ever let anyone tell you different. I appreciate you and thank you for starting this blog.
From, Me
I love your Disney looks. I'm going to try and do one myself next time I go to Disney. Wish I knew some people our here in the Seattle area that were into makeup. A group or something.
You're an amazing and talented person. The art that you create makes me want to just get up and try it myself. Do you use any other products like "bh cosmetics"? I have noticed majority of your art work you use "Sugar Pill". And also can you post any ideas for "Hello Kitty" as requested form my 4yr old daughter. Thank you and keep up the fabulous work!!
Loved your work and talent…:) I don't usually subscribed with make up artist and your the first…:) What a cutie for kids and teens…thank you for sharing it for free who ever want their kids to try a different style or new look on eye make up….way to go!!
can you do a my little pony sunset shimmer tutorial
people do not even have to go beauty school they need to go on youtube and watch your videos on it they will look cute.
Hey 🙂 I love your tutorials,they're so great.please make some new,that would be awesome!I tried some…it was ok 😀 well,I don't know what to write so bye for now.
your new fan from Dresden,Germany 🙂
can you do monster high seris?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
do you have a kik
Hi Cecila,
You are very talented and your work is very neat and PRETTY. On your Alice in Wonderland tutorial can you tell me where I can purchase The Nail Dazzle from please ? I have tried to google it but it takes me to a website called Go Daddy.
Thank You
Found your channel on YouTube by
looking up Peterpan tutorials. I saw your peterpan and captain hook eye tutorial and looked at your other Disney tutorials. I loved them all! 💞I plan to used your Ariel tutorial for Comic-Con this year and I'm so excited! Please keep making more tutorials and please make more Disney tutorials! ❤💞❤
Hi Cecilie, I just watched your peacock tutorial and this is definitely my favourite. What a beautiful look, I love the colour of the glitter. You make it look so easy to do! I don't think just anyone could draw those tiny feather lines with such precision though. You are very talented and I really enjoy your various web pages and videos. Have a very Happy Easter and thank you for the chance to enter your fantastic giveaway competition. 🙂 xxxx
I like your Disney's Belle makeup look the most 😉
Do U have a catalog? I just Love these looks!
hey… im realyy impressed wid ur creativity ur simply peerless ..i realy wana try the same tutorials by u..I am suboohi from india. plz help me where to get those glitter liners n neon color eye shadows.. plzzzz
I saw ur youtube tutorials also..u actualy luk like a princess…i nevr appreciate any1 as im self obsessed..:) :)..bt im amazingly inspired by u…
wil wait fr ur rply..
bye …
Hey I was wondering if u could do a beauty and the beast tutorial and post it on youtube my daughter loves tht movie and id love to suprise her with it thanks
I love your designs. I'm a very big fan! I'm asking if you could teach other girls to do it and maybe the people who are at Disneyland and disney world they could pay to teach girls so many other could have your designs. I told that you could maybe do so can you consider it write me please say yes that be awesome. Love Emma 😍💄❤💗💓💕💖
Menina hoje vasculhando o YouTube em busca de vídeos sobre maquiagem me deparei com os seus vídeos. Estou completamente encantada. Minha filha de 6 anos mesmo ficou fascinada. Até arrisquei fazer nela a make do fúria da noite e da Clodin. Esta no meu face às fotos. Meu face é kellycrismarega. Vc é simplesmente D+. Um talento sem medidas. Já fiquei fã. Ou melhor eu e minha filha. Um grande beijo e Deus continue te abençoando cada vez mais.
Omg your amazing! Anyway this year im dressing up as : strangeling raven costume and I dont know what to do for my make up I was was wondering if you could help? Plz reply back :3 💕
I absolutely LOVE your work and watching your videos! You are amazing! I wondered if you could give me some tips, I'm dressing as a Furbee for Halloween (the Furbee is all white). I wondered if you had any ideas for a great eye to go with the costume to really make my eyes stand out. Thank you so much in advance! Any help would be greatly appreciated!!
Jen (your biggest fan!)
Hey glitter girl! I love your blog. Lots of wonderful things. I'm writing you for help/inspiration. I'm getting married in march. The colors are turquoise and magenta. I like the sparkle baby glitter princess and pixie dust sparkle turquoise. I was just hoping for help with something that incorporates that and maybe hearts and looks wedding day awesome. I know you can do it!!!!
Hey Cecilia,
Me and my sister are planning on doing tweedle dee and tweedle dum for Halloween and we cant find any make up tutorials we like 😢 we love your videos and your makeup looks and were wondering if you could do a tweedle makeup tutorial video 😊 hopefully youll see this and respond😍
Your big fan
Morgan 😆


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Hands-on a Joomla! site:
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Doing and learning more:
The aim of this document is to show how a table can be added to an Article.
A table is intended for presenting tabular information.
Using the HTML source code If you know enough HTML, you may find it easier to get the layout to your liking using the code. If you are a novice - don't! - or at least not yet.
These change the editor display to allow you to edit the HTML source code.
Beware - Do not insert a table at the very top line of a page because it upsets the layout and pushes the table off screen to the right of the page!
Before you create a table:-
Now you can do it:-
A dialog box appears to enable you to define some of the characteristics of the table.
In the dialogue box:-
If you have entered a width, the result on the screen is an empty table. Otherwise the rows and columns are squashed together and only expand when you add text or data.
Look at the icons along the top of the editor - those that allow you to do things to tables will have become active.
You can copy tables from spreadsheets and word processors.
The layout may not be ideal. You can edit the table using the tools on the tool bar. If you have the experience, you can edit the HTML source code in order to get a better layout.
Getting a table to look as you wish usually is a case of trial and error. (While you are editing you will probably need to use the undo icon (little round arrow) - (or control Z on your keyboard)
There are icons on the editor for doing most of the formatting you may need. You can make text appear to the right, centre or left or to the top, bottom or centre of the cell - just as you can using a word processor
To add a row
To delete a row
To add a column
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Who could believe an ant in theory?
A giraffe in blueprint?
Ten thousand doctors of what's possible
Could reason half the jungle out of being.
Poet John Ciardi's lines reflect a belief that the exuberant diversity of life will forever frustrate man's arrogant claims to omniscience. Yet, however much we celebrate diversity and revel in the peculiarities of animals, we must also acknowledge a striking "lawfulness" in the basic design of organisms. This regularity is most strongly evident in the correlation of size and shape.
Animals are physical objects. They are shaped to their advantage by natural selection. Consequently, they must assume forms best adapted to their size. The relative strength of such forces as gravity varies with size in a regular way, and animals respond by systematically altering their shapes.
The geometry of space itself is the major reason for correlations between size and shape. Simply by growing larger, an object that keeps the same shape will suffer a continual decrease in relative surface area. The decrease occurs because volume increases as the cube of length (length x length x length), while surface increases only as the square (length x length): in other words, volume grows more rapidly than surface.
Why is this important to animals? Many functions that depend upon surface must serve the entire volume of the body. Digested food passes to the body through surfaces; oxygen is absorbed through surfaces in respiration; the strength of a leg bone depends upon the area of its cross section, but the legs must hold up a body increasing in weight by the cube of its length. Galileo first recognized this principle in his "Discorsi" of 1638, the masterpiece he wrote while under house arrest by the Inquisition. He argued that the bone of a large animal must thicken disproportionately to provide the same relative strength as the slender bone of a small creature.
One solution to decreasing surface has been particularly important in the progressive evolution of large and complex organisms: the development of internal organs. The lung is, essentially, a richly convoluted bag of surface area for the exchange of gases; the circulatory system distributes material to an internal space that cannot be reached by direct diffusion from the external surface of large organisms; the villi of our small intestine increase the surface area available for absorption of food (small mammals neither have nor need them).
Some simpler animals have never evolved internal organs; if they become large, they must alter their entire shape in ways so drastic that plasticity for further evolutionary change is sacrificed to extreme specialization. Thus, a tapeworm may be 20 feet long, but its thickness cannot exceed a fraction of an inch because food and oxygen must penetrate directly from the external surface to all parts of the body.
Other animals are constrained to remain small. Insects breathe through invaginations of the external surface. Since these invaginations must be more numerous and convoluted in larger bodies, they impose a size limit upon insect design: at the size of even a small mammal, an insect would be "all invagination" and have no room for internal parts.
We are prisoners of the perceptions of our size, and rarely recognize how different the world must appear to small animals. Since our relative surface area is so small at our large size, we are ruled by gravitational forces acting upon our weight. But gravity is negligible to very small animals with high surface to volume ratios; they live in a world dominated by surface forces and judge the pleasures and dangers of their surroundings in ways foreign to our experience.
An insect performs no miracle in walking up a wall or upon the surface of a pond; the small gravitational force pulling it down or under is easily counteracted by surface adhesion. Throw an insect off the roof and it floats gently down as frictional forces acting upon its surface overcome the weak influence of gravity.
The relative weakness of gravitational forces also permits a mode of growth that large animals could not maintain. Insects have an external skeleton and can only grow by discarding it and secreting a new one to accommodate the enlarged body. For a period between shedding and regrowth, the body must remain soft. A large mammal without any supporting structures would collapse to a formless mass under the influence of gravitational forces; a small insect can maintain its cohesion (related lobsters and crabs can grow much larger because they pass their "soft" stage in the nearly weightless buoyancy of water). We have here another reason for the small size of insects.
The creators of horror and science-fiction movies seem to have no inkling of the relationship between size and shape. These "expanders of the possible" cannot break free from the prejudices of their perceptions. The small people of Dr. Cyclops, The Bride of Frankenstein, The Incredible Shrinking Man, and Fantastic Voyage behave just like their counterparts of normal dimensions. They fall off cliffs or down stairs with resounding thuds; wield weapons and swim with olympic agility. The large insects of films too numerous to name continue to walk up walls or fly even at dinosaurian dimensions.
When the kindly entomologist of Them discovered that the giant queen ants had left for their nuptial flight, he quickly calculated this simple ratio: a normal ant is a fraction of an inch long and can fly hundreds of feet; these ants are many feet long and must be able to fly as much as 1,000 miles. Why, they could be as far away as Los Angeles! (Where, indeed, they were, lurking in the sewers.) But the ability to fly depends upon the surface area of the wings, while the weight that must be borne aloft increases as the cube of length. We may be sure that even if the giant ants had somehow circumvented the problems of breathing and growth by molting, their chances of getting off the ground would have been far worse than that of the proverbial snowball in hell.
Other essential features of organisms change even more rapidly with increasing size than the ratio of surface to volume. Kinetic energy, for example, increases as length raised to the fifth power. If a child half your height falls unsupported to the ground, its head will hit with not half, but only 1/32 the energy of yours in a similar fall. A child is protected more by its size than by a "soft" head. In return, we are protected from the physical force of its tantrums, for the child can strike with, not half, but only 1/32 of the energy we can muster. I have long had a special sympathy for the poor dwarfs who suffer under the whip of cruel Dr. Alberich in Wagner's "Das Rheingold." At their diminutive size, they haven't a chance of extracting, with mining picks, the precious minerals that Alberich demands, despite the industrious and incessant leitmotif of their futile attempt.
This simple principle of differential scaling with increasing size may well be the most important determinant of organic shape. J.B.S. Haldane once wrote that "comparative anatomy is largely the story of the struggle to increase surface in proportion to volume." Yet its generality extends beyond life, for the geometry of space constrains ships, buildings, and machines, as well as animals.
The great range of designs among medieval churches can be attributed partly to size. The twelfth-century parish church of Little Tey, Essex, England, was only 57 feet long and had a simple floor plan (lower right corner). The floor plan of Norwich Cathedral, also twelfth century, shows adaptations—transept, chapels—required for the 450-foot-long building. The need for light and support dictated complex cathedral layouts.
Medieval churches present a good testing ground for the effects of size and shape, for they were built in an enormous range of sizes before the invention of steel girders, internal lighting, and air conditioning permitted modern architects to challenge the laws of size. The tiny, twelfth-century parish church of Little Tey, Essex, England, is a broad, simple rectangular building with a semicircular apse. Light reaches the interior through windows in the outer walls. If we were to build a cathedral simply by enlarging this design, then the periphery of the outer walls and windows would increase as length, while the area that light must reach would increase as length times length. In other words, the size of the windows would increase far more slowly than the area that requires illumination. Candles have limitations; the inside of such a cathedral would have been darker than the deed of Judas. Medieval churches, like tapeworms, lack internal systems and must alter their shape to produce more external surface as they are made larger.
The large cathedral of Norwich, as it appeared in the twelfth century, had a much narrower rectangular nave; chapels have been added to the apse and a transept runs perpendicular to the main axis. All these "adaptations" increase the ratio of external wall and window to internal area. It is often stated that transepts were added to produce the form of a Latin cross. Theological motives may have dictated the position of such "outpouchings," but the laws of size required their presence. Very few small churches have transepts.
I have plotted periphery versus the square root of area for floor plans of all postconquest Romanesque churches depicted in Clapham's monograph of English ecclesiastical architecture. As we would predict, periphery increases more rapidly than the square root of area. Medieval architects had their rules of thumb, but they had, so far as we know, no explicit knowledge of the laws of size.
Like large churches, large organisms have very few options open to them. Above a certain size, large terrestrial organisms look basically alike—they have thick legs and relatively short, stout bodies. Large Romanesque churches are all relatively long and have abundant outpouchings. The invention of the flying buttress strengthened later Gothic buildings and freed more wall space for windows. Churches could then become relatively wider and simpler in outline (as in the Cathedral of Bourges).
The "invention" of internal organs helped animals retain the highly successful shape of a simple exterior enclosing a large internal volume; and the invention of internal lighting and structural steel has helped modern architects design large buildings with simple exteriors. The limits are expanded, but the laws still operate. No large Gothic church is higher than it is long, no large animal has a sagging middle like a dachshund.
I once overheard a children's conversation in a New York playground. Two young girls were discussing the size of dogs. One asked: "Can a dog be as large as an elephant?" Her friend responded: "No, if it were as big as an elephant, it would look like an elephant." I wonder if she realized how truly she spoke.


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Saturday Fluffernutter: Britney Goes Live; Dakota Goes for Currie; Robin Goes Under the Knife.
Saturday Fluffernutter – all the fluffy news about those nutty celebrities.
Britney Spears returned to the stage with her new Circus tour in Louisiana this week The early review: not good. No audience engagement and, according to People magazine, "given that Spears probably doesn't do much live singing either, it left a definite chill in the air." Ouch.
Morkian funny-man Robin Williams was hospitalized with "heart issues." The 57 year old comedian was in Florida to perform his one man show "Weapons of Self Destruction," when he complained of shortness of breath.
The tour has been postponed and Williams will have an aortic valve replacement surgery. Best wishes and Godspeed to Robin Williams.
Fifteen year old Dakota Fanning is progressing her career toward adulthood by taking on the role of Cheri Currie in the upcoming Runaways biopic. It's a nice transition role from child star to adulthood, as Currie was a fifteen year old when she joined the infamous LA band. A child herself, Currie none the less strolled the stage in garter and stockings singing songs of teenage rebellion and sexuality.
The movie will also star Twilight's Kristen Stewart as Runaway guitarist Joan Jett.


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Problem 31. Remove all the words that end with "ain"
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This problem is fantastic to improve his knowledge with regular expressions!
I have rescored the leading problem to make sure its not zero
I learned so much about the regexp and strjoin functions because of this problem. Thank you!
I agree... This problem improved my knowledge of regexp. Although my code is running well in my computer but not here. I'm using R2015a. Can anyone please help ! Thank you
Did it in two steps, so many functionality in regexp that I discovered for myself today.. )
nice problem..really nic
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I think the second half of the program is right, and I repeatedly tested multiple sets of sentences, but it just didn 't pass.I don't know why.
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The problem is not well defined. In test 3 one can see that double quotes should be left alone.
As it is, solutions that only check single words in double quotes will be correctly handled, but not necessarily multiple words (sentence/s) enclosed in double quotes. An additional test should verify, for instance, that the following is correctly handled:
S1 = '"The rain in Spain"'
And of course there could be nested double quotes... A water tight definition is required her.
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Hi all, I just can't find out why the assertion fails. All works well on my MALTAB but not here. Both codes (commented and not) remove only the words which end with 'ain' and leave the two spaces but still the assertions here has failed.
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This passes in R2017b, yet fails here. Why?
Actually this code won't pass the Test Suite on any version of MATLAB. The misunderstanding is caused by rendering of HTML text on Cody, which means that double-spaces are not _displayed_ in the Test Suite's solutions; nevertheless, the correct solutions do contain double spaces, as you can confirm by viewing the HTML source, and as also explained in the problem statement. Your code is removing some spaces. I'm sure you can fix it now, with this knowledge.
Thanks for clarifying. I appreciate it.
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I think something is broken, I passed it the s2 given in the test suite and the assertion still fails.
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Took me nearly one hour to solve (though not complete,for just "ain,it is wrong).But I think it's great.I recently learn regular expressions.
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regexprep(s1, '(\w*)ain', '')
not working pls help me
Hi harish, so the if you see the regexprep documentation, it will tell you when you execute, it will remove every word which contains the letters ain in the expression. You can verify this on your system. To solve this, you need to look for a way to use regexprep such that it only looks for the letters in the end of the word.
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Leaker email exchange made public
Sender releases offensive Pelini rant
A day after Bo Pelini's two-year-old audio recording was leaked to sports website Deadspin.com, the email exchange between the leaker and a website staff member was made public.
In the audio recording, Pelini repeatedly uses an expletive to refer to what he calls "fair-weather" fans after a 34-27 win over Ohio State. He was upset fans had left the stadium when Nebraska trailed in the third quarter.
Pelini said the off-air conversation with radio announcer Greg Sharpe was private and happened at an emotional time, and was not "representative of how I feel."
-- Read: Pelini admits to offensive rant
Deadspin.com released Monday's email exchange between the leaker and a staff member Tuesday. In the email, the sender, who remains unknown, labeled the subject line "Secret" Bo Pelini audio.
"Attached is an audio clip that has been heard by very, very few people, and it's only fair that the fan base of Nebraska know what Pelini thinks about them. "Them" being the same people that pay his salary…" the sender wrote.
The sender went on to say, "By the way, you're welcome for the click-thrus this will generate on your site haha."
The staff member replied, asking for more details about the audio recording, and why the sender was leaking it two years after the fact.
"It may be two years old; however, I hadn't gotten it until more recently than that. I'm sure you've already done a ton of searching to see if this has been released or available anywhere else since it seems almost impossible that something of this magnitude has been kept a secret for so long. I can assure you that it hasn't seen the light of day. You'll be the first if you decide to post it today," the sender wrote back.
The staff member then asked why he or she hated Pelini so much.
"I don't hate him as a person or anything. In any case, I don't want to get into that. As I said before, I believe it's only fair that the fan base of Nebraska know what Pelini thinks about them. I'd hope that you wouldn't turn this into a story about a fan trying to stick it to Pelini. We both know that this audio, by itself, more than holds its own as a relevant news story."
The university has not taken any disciplinary actions at this time.


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A massive study on solar power by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology came to two main conclusions: Solar energy holds the best potential for meeting the planet's long-term energy needs while reducing greenhouse gases and federal and state governments must do more to promote its development.
The main goal of U.S. solar policy should be to build the foundation for a massive scale-up of solar generation over the next few decades, the study said.
"What the study shows is that our focus needs to shift toward new technologies and policies that have the potential to make solar a compelling economic option," said Richard Schmalensee, a Professor Emeritus of Economics and Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Federal and state subsidy programs designed to encourage investment in solar systems should be reviewed with an eye on increasing their cost-effectiveness and with a greater emphasis on rewarding production of solar energy, the study said.
For example, the federal government's solar investment tax credit (ITC), passed in 2008, is set to expire next year. It offered a 30% tax credit for residential and business installations for solar energy. When it expires in 2016, the tax credit will drop to a more permanent 10%.
The MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) released results of the study in a 356-page report, The Future of Solar Energy, on Monday. The study found that even with today's crystalline silicon photovoltaic (PV) technologies, the industry could achieve terawatt-scale deployment of solar power by 2050 without major technological advances.
A terawatt is a trillion watts of electricity.
The study focused on three challenges to achieving that goal: developing new solar technologies, integrating solar generation at large scale into existing electric systems, and designing efficient policies to support solar tech deployment.
The researchers undertook the study and published their findings because of the "enormous potential of solar energy as a tool to reduce global CO2 emissions and the great importance of effecting those reductions."
Solar electricity generation is one of "very few low-carbon energy technologies" with the potential to grow to very large scale, the study said. "As a consequence, massive expansion of global solar-generating capacity to multi-terawatt scale is a very likely and essential component of a workable strategy to mitigate climate change risk."
The research strongly recommends that a large fraction of federal resources available for solar R&D focus on environmentally benign, emerging thin-film technologies that are based on Earth-abundant materials.
"The recent shift of federal dollars for solar R&D away from fundamental research of this sort to focus on near-term cost reductions in c-Si technology should be reversed," the researchers said.
Crystalline silicon dominates today's PV landscape and will continue to be the leading deployed PV technology for at least the next decade, according to MIT. Crystalline silicon (c-Si) solar cells are divided into two categories: single-crystalline (sc-Si) and ulticrystalline (mc-Si). The higher crystal quality in sc-Si cells improves charge extraction and power conversion, but requires wafers that are 20% to 30% more expensive.
Some new thin-film technologies, made by depositing one or more thin layers, or thin films of photovoltaic material on a substrate, such as glass, plastic or metal, could save money on installation and PV module costs.
"Massive expansion of solar generation worldwide by mid-century is likely a necessary component of any serious strategy to mitigate climate change," the study concluded. "Fortunately, the solar resource dwarfs current and projected future electricity demand. In recent years, solar costs have fallen substantially and installed capacity has grown very rapidly."


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OVER THE PAST two years, Massachusetts state government has made enormous progress. Together with the Legislature, we've tamed out-of-control budgets, revamped housing policy, accelerated the building of new schools, opened higher education scholarships to working families, and streamlined excessive bureaucracies -- all without raising taxes.
Now, in the same bipartisan fashion, let's tackle the issue of healthcare. Next year I am committed to working with the Legislature to pass a comprehensive, market-based reform program for healthcare. It will not be a government-mandated universal coverage "pay or play" scheme nor a single payer system. It will not require new taxes. What it will do is restrain the growth in healthcare costs and change how we provide healthcare for those who receive it at taxpayer expense. And, it can lead to every citizen in Massachusetts having health coverage. I call it Commonwealth Care.
Insuring the uninsured. A total of 460,000 people in Massachusetts are uninsured. The problem of the uninsured is everyone's problem, costing government, providers and ultimately you more than a billion dollars every year. Let's look at who makes up the uninsured:
People who can afford insurance, but don't buy it. More than 100,000 of the uninsured have household incomes of over $75,000 a year; 168,000 are over $56,550 a year. I've spoken with numerous people who say that they don't buy health insurance because it's expensive, they bet they won't get sick, if they do get sick they won't be refused healthcare or their employer doesn't offer insurance. Today our laws prevent insurers from offering policies with only basic benefits. Bells, whistles, and costly options are mandated.
Insurers tell us they can develop plans costing less than half of today's standard rate of $500 for an individual. These plans still provide primary, preventative, specialty, and catastrophic care. The cost could be lower with higher deductibles and more restrictions. New York introduced a program in which private insurers offer rates as low as $140 a month. We can have a similarly affordable program in Massachusetts: Commonwealth Care Basic.
This policy would be available for small employers, sole proprietors, and individuals. We would apply "carrots and sticks" to encourage everyone to purchase.
The unemployed and newly employed: 36,000 of our uninsured are unemployed or have recently started a new job. For the unemployed, our Medical Security Trust contributes towards insurance for 30 weeks. If we use this trust to purchase Commonwealth Care Basic, we can provide insurance for a longer period of time with no new employer costs. New employees will be eligible to purchase Commonwealth Care Basic during their waiting period.
The Medicaid eligible. 106,000 of our uninsured actually qualify for Medicaid insurance already. We've begun screening all uninsured patients who show up at hospitals and other providers and signing up those who are eligible.
The last one-third: The actions proposed above can provide insurance coverage for two-thirds of our uninsured population. The 150,000 who remain include the working poor and long-term unemployed. I will work with the Legislature and the providers to develop Safety Net Care to replace the Uncompensated Care Pool. Safety Net Care will provide aggressively managed treatment through a specified network of clinics, community health centers and hospitals. We will continue requiring those who receive Safety Net Care to pay according to their means.
Appropriate care in the appropriate setting: One way our insurers and our state health programs will be able to provide care at a lower cost is by directing patients towards the most effective and efficient care. A sore throat can be diagnosed and treated by a physician or at an emergency room, but the cost varies dramatically. Our Basic and Safety Net plans will direct patients to providers so they receive high quality care at the lowest cost. By directing patients this way, we will encourage the development of these providers.
Reforming "healthfare." President Clinton and others recognized that the welfare system was rife with counter-incentives and abuse. I believe that the same is true of Medicaid. I've heard working families lament that they pay more and get less healthcare than people who don't work at all.
We should boost fraud detection and penalties. We should redefine "household income" to include the income of a child's parent who is not living in the home. Just because a parent has moved out shouldn't free them from responsibility for the family. We should also look at a limited work requirement, where appropriate. Asset transfers made to meet poverty criteria must be more strictly limited.
Reducing unnecessary system costs. Some of the largest costs in our system are hidden, unnecessary, or excessively large. They include administrative, medical error, malpractice, and defensive medicine costs. Commonwealth Care will include malpractice reform, first-in-the-nation electronic health records, medical quality and cost reporting, and a program to increase the supply of nurses.
Will Commonwealth Care cost the taxpayers more? No! Neither the state nor the taxpayers can afford to pay more. In fact, a key objective is to lower the cost of health insurance for all our citizens and allow our citizens to buy the insurance plan that fits their needs.
Commonwealth Care is still a work in progress. Senate President Robert Travaglini and Speaker Salvatore DiMasi have expressed their commitment to action. Together, I know we can forge a final product that will truly serve the people of the Commonwealth.
Mitt Romney is governor of Massachusetts.


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Cloud Transformation with SAP: For Our Customers and For Our Company
In times of globalization and digitization, a business needs to be able to react flexibly and quickly to changing demands. For this, we are witnessing an industry-wide shift to the cloud, with companies adopting more and more cloud solutions into their IT strategies. Cloud-based solutions accelerate everyday processes and are quickly becoming the standard in business – and the NTT DATA Business Solutions cloud transformation with SAP is in full swing.
The digital landscape is forever changing, with new technologies entering the market all the time. Cloud strategies, whether private or public, are becoming an integral part of just about every industry. In business today, cloud-based, hybrid, or multi-cloud business models provide the flexibility, efficiency, and agility needed to remain competitive. NTT DATA Business Solutions has always been a strong on-premise provider but we are seeing more and more interest and opportunities for cloud applications. We continue to work together with SAP to keep up to speed with the latest technology and with trends in the industry. This close SAP partnership allows us to prepare ourselves and our customers for the future.
"Meeting the needs and choices of what customers want: they want flexibility, options, and to grow and invest in their business. Cloud gives them the opportunity for that."
– Steve Niesman, President & CEO, NTT DATA Business Solutions North America
Transforming Ourselves, Transitioning Our Customers
NTT DATA Business Solutions is moving with the market and undergoing a cloud transformation with SAP. This begins with adopting a greater focus on cloud solutions for our own IT infrastructure, with the latest SAP products at its core. Transforming our internal business structures with solutions such as SAP SuccessFactors means we are able to thoroughly get to know the new technology and processes. This not only allows us to better support customers with their cloud transformation based on SAP, but offers us vast opportunities to engage with them in new ways. On top of our growing on-premise offering, cloud solutions are rapidly advancing our business.
"We see most clients are interested in starting more agile, smaller projects before mobilizing large numbers of resources. They are looking for speed, agility, and value for their investments."
– Uwe Bohnhorst, COO, NTT DATA Business Solutions
Cloud offers clear advantages in business, enhancing communication and efficiency with flexible line-of-business solutions connected to the SAP Cloud Platform. Companies that have not yet adopted an SAP cloud strategy may find it difficult to know where to start. But that's exactly the advantage of cloud transformation with SAP: Companies can gradually transition to cloud, scaling the on-premise to cloud-based ratio to suit their business needs. Our experienced consultants can advise you on a select few solutions to try out, before progressing toward becoming a digital enterprise with the full SAP ERP in the cloud. We can help you create a cloud consumption model, tailoring a logical step-by-step process for cloud transformation with SAP and roadmap for the next several years – just as we have done for our own processes.
"It is so important to keep innovating because we are the largest SAP partner globally – and we want it to stay that way."
– Norbert Rotter, CEO, NTT DATA Business Solutions
Cloud Transformation with SAP: Our Close Partnership
Through collaboration with our customers and our close partnership with SAP, the cloud will help us create great new opportunities for growth and a more open market. During this transition phase, feedback from our customers is important for improving the functionality of cloud software and solutions. We are already receiving positive feedback from our customers about how they are optimizing processes with the technology. Together with SAP and our customers, cloud transformation will provide the chance to re-invent business models and shape the market of the future.
Find out more about the NTT DATA Business Solutions cloud transformation with SAP and hear from CEO Norbert Rotter, North American President & CEO Steve Niesman, and COO Uwe Bohnhorst in this video.


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- Fight Back with Minecraft Veggies January 9, 2017When one's grandson is more interested in playing Minecraft (a sandbox video game) than in eating healthy vegetables, a grandmother must become creative. The result? Minecraft veggies. Start with a package of "experience orbs" and "acacia wood blocks" (frozen peas … Continue reading →savagesisters
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- Taking Your Desk Drawer on the Plane July 29, 2014While I always carry pens and pencils with me, as well as business cards and a small notepad, sometimes I need a few more desk items while traveling. I've found that by selecting just those particular items, I can still … Continue reading →savagesisters
- Outsmarting Jet Lag July 22, 2014The first time I flew to a time zone three hours ahead of my own, I missed a large part of an important meeting the following morning. That's because my body had refused to heed the clanging alarm at what … Continue reading →savagesisters
- 5 Ways a Plain Tee Shirt Can Extend Your Travel Wardrobe July 15, 2014Packing just one solid-color tee shirt can greatly expand your clothing options, no matter what the purpose of your trip may be. Alone or under a sweater, a simple tee shirt worn with jeans or a travel skirt is perfect … Continue reading →savagesisters
- Meeting the Drying Challenge July 8, 2014Conclusion of the series, "Doing Your Own Laundry on the Road" You've washed and rinsed your clothes by hand. Now they're clean . . . and wet. The final step is making sure they dry sufficiently. Most hotels discourage guests … Continue reading →savagesisters
- 5 Do-It-Yourself-Laundry Options While Traveling July 1, 2014Part 2 in the series, "Doing Your Own Laundry on the Road" Last week looked at soaps available for washing your own clothing while you travel. This week we'll look at the actual hand-laundry process. Self-laundry Options and Methods 1. … Continue reading →savagesisters
- Know Your Soaps for Travel Laundering June 24, 2014Part 1 in the series, "Doing Your Own Laundry on the Road" One key to packing light is being willing to wash a few clothing items on your trip so you don't have to pack as much in the first … Continue reading →savagesisters
- 12 Ways to Stop Static Cling Anywhere on the Globe June 17, 2014No matter where you're headed, you can stop static electricity* from plastering your clothing to your body. Here are a dozen methods for taming clinging clothes: My favorite solution is to carry half of a fabric-softener sheet in a little … Continue reading →savagesisters
- An Entire Week's Business Wardrobe in Just One Carryon June 10, 2014When I fly across the country each year to serve as guest professor at Taylor University, I do not check any luggage. I've devised a way to pack everything I need for the entire week in a business-casual environment—in freezing … Continue reading →savagesisters
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Paris Rushes for No One!
Arriving to LAX 45 minutes before departure time of her flight to Frankfurt, and taking one more glance at herself in her SUV's tinted window, Paris Hilton performed her trademark pouty sashay through the airport as if she didn't have a care in her world.
With just a short amount of time to get through the large airport and check-in, the heiress still found time to shop and grab a bite. It's her world -- we're just reading TMZ in it! The heiress has been jetsetting between L.A., Las Vegas and now Germany for a charity event. Viel Glück!
Filming for her new film, "Repo! The Genetic Opera!" is set for early September in Toronto. Paris Hilton -- taking it all in size 11 strides!


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But breathing through it.
Crying too.
Sharing about it.
Letting it go.
Reminding myself that it's not about me, but that, yes, oh yes, I do have rights.
And quite a lot more of them then I had even realized.
I got up early today, I showered, I prayed and read and wrote and drank my coffee and applied for a Grad Plus Student Loan, since the financial aid I was approved of for my PhD program is shy $3,000.
I got approved.
I don't know how much that will mean, the school will package the loan for me, but I do know that it will be enough.
I feel quite sure of that.
So with my breath stuck somewhere high up in my chest, I left this morning to go to the San Francisco Tenant's Union on Capp Street.
I got there five minutes before they were open and there were already four other people in line.
Thanks to being proactive, I actually got to go first, since I had filled out the paperwork online, paid the membership fee, printed everything off and handed it over to the counselor.
"I'll see you first," he said and asked me what I needed to know.
I told him about my situation and I got back some straight quick answers.
The notice to leave the in-law is in fact, as I suspected, not legal.
It has to be in writing and it has to be for just cause, like I haven't been paying rent, or I have trashed the place, or I'm doing something illegal.
No meth lab here.
Just me and my notebooks quietly coexisting next to the garage.
I explained that I didn't have a signed lease.
"Doesn't matter, she still has to give you a written notice, she still has to have just cause, and the reasons she's given are not legally binding," he continued.
I was relieved and also panicked.
"What do I do now?" I asked.
"Nothing, you stay put, you pay your next month's rent," he continued, "you don't have to move out, just keep paying your rent and lay low."
That sounds horrible, but doable.
I just hate the idea of living somewhere that I am not wanted.
And I realize that's also a sort of victim attitude or perhaps a martyr attitude.
Neither of which are very sexy in my opinion.
I asked about relocation money and he said I wasn't to that stage yet, but that I could get there.
I said what if she raised the rent?
He said, and my jaw dropped, "you have rent control, there is only so much she can raise it, has she raised it since you moved in?"
I said yes, told him the amount, and he said, "that's too much, here's the percentage that she's allowed to raise it, you could sue for back overpaid rent retroactive three years."
Holy shit.
I had no idea about that.
I chatted with my best friend about it, I'm a bit stupid with math, I'll write you a Shakespearean sonnet in ten minutes, but maths, bah, numerological dyslexia strikes again, and asked what the raise would have been and figured out that it was raised $30 too high.
I mean it's not a ton over, but I could reasonably say that another raise in rent is out of the question with that knowledge.
What I basically was told was you don't have to move, you don't need to move, make her do the work and get everything in writing.
It feels really big and scary and unpleasant.
I suspect though, that it will be a couple of uncomfortable conversations.
She's not going to hurt me, she's not going to change the locks on the house, I really actually can't see that happening.
It will be uncomfortable conversations, and though I'm not happy about that, I can have them and knowing what my rights are really feels good.
Especially just knowing that I have more time to find a place.
I still intend on moving out, it doesn't seem like this is a good home for me, it's been what I needed for this phase of my development, but it is time to move on.
I think what the counselor gave me, though, is time.
Time to find the right situation, time to make sure that I am not desperately clawing at unreasonable housing situations, rent that I can't afford, or room mates that I'm not really compatible with.
I sense that having the awareness that I don't actually have to more out in 90 days will help me be more expansive.
I hope anyway.
I am still scared and uncomfortable and the crap its stirring up is big, but I am also a capable adult able to have conversations and find solutions.
I can take this to a mediator if necessary.
Though I suspect that it won't need to go that far.
I think a buy out is reasonable, especially in this market.
This market is crazy, it still stuns me at times, but I have lived here for almost sixteen years, I can't imagine being anywhere else.
This is home, not necessarily this little in-law, but San Francisco.
So tonight I will practice invisioning what I want.
I will imagine a big room, hard wood floors, living in a house where I probably have roommates, but I also have access to an entire house, I imagine space and sunlight.
It can happen.
I know it.
I just do.
I know it's out there and I'm ready to embrace the next thing.
I really am.
I can be scared and I can still do this.
"Men of faith have courage."
Courage is not the absence of fear.
It is walking through the fear, it is doing the actions needed despite the fear.
I am brave.
I will walk through this.
Into the bright sunight of a brand new home.
I just will.


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1979: Rahim Ali Khorram and Habib Elghanian, millionaire businessmen
May 9th, 2013 Headsman
Iranian Revolution firing squads claimed seven lives on this date in 1979, including two multimillionaire businessmen.
One of the businessmen was Rahim Ali Khorram, "an immensely rich contractor who built roads and airports for the government, and sometimes used his 2,000-man work force as a political shock force in support of the Shah." That quote is from a New York Times profile of Khorram's son, Hossain, who says that he himself was led out for a mock-execution not long after. (Hossain also says that his father was dead or dying of a heart attack as he was dragged out for execution.)
The charges against Khorram pere consisted of "operating gambling dens, cabarets and a prostitution ring* and feeding a man to a lion in his amusement park." No lie. He was supposed to have an entire secret necropolis in that park stuffed with the bodies of his enemies. (New York Times, May 10, 1979.)
The other businessman was the Jewish-Iranian plastics mogul Habib Elghanian.
Elghanian was the first Jewish person executed during the Iranian Revolution. His death on charges of spying for Israel, fundraising for Israel, and "friendship with the enemies of God" for having met with Israeli politicians, greatly alarmed Iran's Jewish community: many fled the country, something Elghanian had pointedly refused to contemplate.
Though Elghanian allegedly claimed not to be a Zionist, he had investments and contacts in Israel — and a radio denunciation made clear to what extent such an association would be anathematized going forward.
He was a disgrace to the Jews in this country. He was an individual who wished to equate Jewry with Zionism … the mass of information he kept sending to Israel, his actions to achieve Israel's designs, the colossal sum of foreign exchange and funds he kept transferring to Israel; these are only samples of his antinational actions; these were the acts used to crush our Palestinian brethren. (Source)
Weirdly, this execution has made news more recently: the Stuxnet computer worm, which is widely thought to have been engineered in Israel to attack Iran, contains the string 19790509. It's been hypothesized that this apparent reference to May 9, 1979 might allude to Elghanian's execution.
* Alleged clientele: the already-executed Gen. Nematollah Nassiri.
On this day..
- 1935: John Stephenson Bainbridge, ten-minute alibi - 2020
- 2010: Four Kurdish political prisoners - 2019
- 1916: Thomas Kent - 2018
- 1887: Charles Smith - 2017
- 1800: Three Canadian pirates in Philadelphia - 2016
- 1726: Three molly-house sodomites - 2015
- 1961: Alvin Table Jr. and Billy Wayne Sees, Bahamas pirates - 2014
- 1474: Peter von Hagenbach, war crimes milestone - 2012
- 1766: Thomas Arthur de Lally-Tollendal, undiplomatic - 2011
- 1794: Four members of the Targowica Confederation - 2010
- 1947: Willie Francis, this time successfully - 2009
- 1628: Johan Bernhard Reichardt, a nine-year-old witch - 2008
Entry Filed under: 20th Century,Businessmen,Capital Punishment,Death Penalty,Disfavored Minorities,Espionage,Execution,History,Iran,Jews,Milestones,Murder,Ripped from the Headlines,Shot,Wrongful Executions
Tags: 1970s, 1979, habib elghanian, iranian revolution, may 9, rahim khorram, stuxnet, tehran


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ACTIVISION Publishing has revealed today the staggering fact that the company sold more than $500 million of Destiny into retail stores and first parties worldwide as of day one yesterday (Tuesday), making the game the biggest new video game franchise launch in history.
"Based on extraordinary audience demand, retail and first party orders worldwide have exceeded $500 million for Destiny," said Bobby Kotick, CEO of Activision Blizzard. "This industry milestone marks another blockbuster success for our company and demonstrates our unique ability to create some of the most successful entertainment franchises in the world.
"The success of Destiny, along with the recent introduction of Blizzard Entertainment's Hearthstone, is further validation of our unique capabilities to create great entertainment franchises from the ground up."
Destiny launched at over 11,000 midnight openings around the world, as fans in over 178 countries (Source: Radian6) shared their fervour on YouTube and in social media.
"Since the beginning, we've been confident that our investment and belief in Destiny would pay off. But not many people believed we'd be able to say it did so on day one," said Eric Hirshberg, CEO of Activision Publishing.
"Destiny is officially the biggest new franchise launch in our industry's history. It's also the highest-selling day one digital console release in history. We have more confidence than ever that Destiny will become one of the iconic franchises of this generation and Activision's next billion dollar brand. Most importantly, it's just a great game which we can't stop playing. A big thanks to our incredibly talented team and partners who helped make this happen; most importantly, our partners at Bungie."


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|System: PC, Xbox 360
|Dev: Haemimont Games
|Pub: Kalypso Media
|Release: August 30, 2011
|Players: 1
|Screen Resolution: 480p-1080p
|Alcohol and Tobacco Reference, Mild Suggestive Themes, Violence
by Josh Wirtanen
It hasn't even been two years since Tropico 3 came out, so Tropico 4 might feel a little premature to longtime fans. I suppose that's fair; the last time two Tropico games came out within a two-year period, it didn't go very well. The result was Tropico 2: Pirate Cove, which a lot of fans don't even consider to be a Tropico game.
Yet here we are, with Tropico 4 already in our hands.
Thankfully, Tropico 4 managed to stay out of Pirate Cove, and it should feel familiar to anyone who has played Tropico 3. For those who haven't experienced Tropico before, it's a series of city-building sims that might be a bit reminiscent of SimCity. However, one could hardly call Tropico a SimCity clone; it definitely has its own identity. The major difference here is the Cold War era Caribbean location, which brings a completely different tropical vibe to the game. Tropico also carries its own unique brand of dark humor. You will laugh at the misery of your islanders, but you won't feel too bad about being such a horrible person, because the writing has so much wit and charm. And that's really what the Tropico games do right: they make being a horrible person seem incredibly fun.
Returning in Tropico 4 is El Presidente, the character that you will step into the shoes of for the duration of the game. You will decide exactly how you want to run your little slice of paradise. What if your people don't agree with you? Well, those people can be dealt with. As El Presidente, bribery, propaganda, imprisonment, and even murder are the tools at your disposal. Use them wisely or risk losing your position (and your wonderful Swiss bank account).
But Tropico 4 does manage to push the formula forward in a lot of ways. Most noticeable is the updated look. The nation of Tropico is seeping with natural beauty, and Tropico 4 succeeds at presenting it much better than its predecessors. Tropico 3 had far too much green and brown in its palate, but Tropico 4 shows us a world vibrant with colors. As an added bonus that many players might not even notice, there's a chance that you could put down two copies of the same building—a tenement, say—right next to each other, and each would be a different color. This fact alone goes a long way in making the game world not feel so "cut and paste."
Riffing off the series' unique brand of humor, Tropico 4's characters have their own portraits, and they look like extremely exaggerated caricatures. Even when they are delivering bad news, you'll still laugh just seeing their goofy-looking faces. While these characters remain mostly in the background, each manages to display an incredibly unique—though often stereotypical—personality. You will get to actually know these characters a little bit, which, considering Tropico's excellent writing, is a very welcome addition to the series.
Of course, any attempt at character development could have fallen flat if the voice work didn't ring true, but Tropico 4's voice acting is top-notch. If a character sounds exaggerated, it's because they are supposed to sound exaggerated. My personal favorites are Miss Pineapple, the flirtatious head of the intellectual faction, and Keith Preston, a wealthy southerner stereotype. Of course, my least favorite is easily Sunny Flowers, the hippy surfer chick who is always ragging on me about protecting the environment.
The story mode includes twenty missions that each task you with a specific goal. For example, the goal of the first mission is to win an election, and another early mission has you try to gain one million followers on a certain social network. Once you accomplish your major goal, you have the choice to either continue playing the world you have worked so hard to build or skip to the next mission, which will start you fresh in a new location.
There are two new twists that make Tropico 4's campaign far better than previous games in the series. The first is the added character development, which I've already mentioned. The second is that alongside your main goal, there are several optional side missions you can take, and often these will help you accomplish your major goal sooner. Some of the things you'll be asked to do include exporting 500 units of beef, building a specific monument, and "lending" a bunch of money to one of the world's superpowers (usually the U.S.S.R.)
Oh yes, The U.S. and U.S.S.R. are back as superpowers, but they are joined by Europe and the Middle East. This means that trying to keep them all happy at once will be more difficult. Here's a hint: Only the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. give you financial aid, so you'll probably want to keep those guys a little happier than the others. On the other hand, the Middle East is known for its itchy trigger finger…


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140 cats found in Lake Worth home
County carrying out euthanizations
What started as a complaint about a few cats left in cages on a porch has ended with Palm Beach County Animal Care and Control officers taking an estimated 140 cats from what otherwise appears to be a well-kept home.
Capt. Dave Walesky said he expects that the cats' owner will be charged criminally. He said urine and feces were not being cleaned up, and many of the animals were sick or unfriendly.
"It was just a very, inhumane environment for these animals to live in, especially to be trapped in," said Walesky. "They have no way to get out of this. They were stuck there."
Walesky said most of the cats will have to be euthanized.
"There are no rescue groups that are willing to come and take these animals from us," said Walesky. "So when we bring in 100-something cats, we have to make decisions what to do with them. So in this case, these animals are sick. They're not friendly. The best thing we can do is end their suffering and humanely euthanize them."
The homeowner could not be reached for comment.