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All of the data collected by the science instruments will arrive. at Earth by way of radio signals transmitted from the spacecraft. A special group of scientists will use sophisticated computers to analyze these signals. They are interested not in the data contained in the signals, but in the electrical strength and "tone" of the transmissions. The reason for this immense interest is that Surveyor carries a tiny device called the ultra-stable oscillator (USO). This unit acts as an electronic clock that will allow the spacecraft's radio to broadcast signals at an extremely precise frequency.
When in orbit, tiny variations in the strength of the Martian gravity caused by small "blemishes" in the planet's shape will bump the spacecraft slightly from its anticipated path. During these bumps, the "tone" of Surveyor's radio signal will vary by a slight amount. By analyzing these tiny changes, scientists will be able to determine Mars' shape more accurately than ever before. This data will also be combined with the laser altimeter (MOLA) data to improve on the accuracy of the topographical maps.
In addition, this team of "radio scientists" will also conduct occultation experiments. As Surveyor passes over the day side of Mars and approaches the night side, the planet will block radio signals from reaching Earth. Engineers refer to this blockage as an occultation. During the few minutes just before the spacecraft flies behind Mars, and during the few minutes after it reappears, Surveyor's radio signal will pass through the thin Martian atmosphere on its way to Earth. An analysis of the distortion of the signal's strength and tone as it fades and reappears will enable scientists to determine the atmospheric pressure at a specific location on Mars.
During 687 days of mapping operations, the orientation of Earth relative to the spacecraft's orbit will gradually change and allow the radio science team to gather data about the Martian atmosphere all over the planet. When combined with data from the thermal emission spectrometer (TES), scientists will be able to gain a greater understanding of the Martian atmosphere than ever before.

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"Les Miserables" opened this weekend in Japan ahead of holdovers "The Hobbit" and "Skyfall."
Universal's star-studded musical took in $4.2 million from 348 locations in Japan, its first international market. It also screened in paid previews in Korea.
Also read: Tom Cruise, Barbra Streisand Humbled by 'Hobbit' at Holiday Box Office
The numbers are a small sampling but encouraging for Universal, because they compare with those of another well-known musical brought to the screen by the studio, "Mamma Mia." That movie grossed more than $600 million worldwide in 2008.
"Les Miserables" opens in the U.S. and Canada, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore and Spain on Christmas Day, followed by Australia on Wednesday and Hungary on Thursday. The rest of the international will release in come 2013, including the U.K. and Ireland on Jan. 11.
Hugh Jackman, Anne Hathaway and Russell Crowe star in "Les Miserables," which is directed by Tom Hooper.
The studio received more good "Les Miserables" news over the weekend. In its first day of sales, "Les Miserables" is the top soundtrack and No. 3 album on iTunes. "I Dreamed A Dream" is leading soundtrack song and No. 1 on Amazon.'s Movers and Shakers list.Les


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In time for gift making I have decided that the pattern Wraparound-onesie-3-sizes and Neffahat-pattern its on discount with 50% off until 31.12.2014
Some time so you can make cute Christmas presents
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Princess skirt redesigned
Been a while since my last real update. I got this pants size 86 that stills fit my girl around her waist. So this is a very simpel redesign. Cut the legs off the pants. Take two fabrics and cut twice the lenght you need. Cut the width so it goes right under the knee. Then wrinkel both fabrics and sew it on. New skirt in less than an hour.
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I have a problem with my word press background color. It won't display the white in the body for my site. So if the text its hard to read on the blue background you are using a version of chrome that my blog don't support or something. I suggest that you use IE if you experiences this. I'm trying to solve the problem but its complicated.
Winner for the new wraparoundbody pattern
The winner was number 42 and that was tamdaradaaaaaaa Pamela Silvius, huray!!
I'll send you the pattern when i get your emailadress
If you want to win the pattern, continue to like my facebookpage and I announce a new winner in the end of november
Macramé plant hangers
During the summers, I've created two plant hangers of hemp. It's quite fun to tie the project until a result. I bought some old magazines from the 80s on Ebay to begin with. Rings, hemp and beads I bought at a hardware store. To the first, I made beads myself of salt dough, but they did not quite hold the shape when they were roasted in the oven.
One is with 4 x 4 strands and the second is with 4 x 3 strands.
The plan is that the climbing wild flowers fill the living room window along.
If you want to do a similar plant hanger I found a very good DIY over at another blog.
I think I'll I want more interordesign in my blog. I love making things, often with my husband and this is one such project. I made squares with my Silhoette. My husband made the frame and cut out the letters with his scrollsaw.
I always wanted a family monthly plan but the cost some firms take to make one is a little to much so why not make one myself.
If you want to create something like this one, you need:
- A plexiplate, mine was 80 x 120 cm bought at the hardware store
- A frame that fits or a nice husband who can make the frame
- Scrollsaw to create letters and a thin plywood
- A piece of fabric a little larger than the plexiplate
- Glue. I used E6000
- Silhoette cuttingmachine
You can use a silhoettemachine to cut out the squares, mine are 13 x 13 cm. You can also use a stickerpaper if you don't have one.The plexiplate comes with a thin plasticfilm on both sides.Choose a frontside and mark up were you want the stickers to go. Remember to make space around the edge for the frame. I also cut out Monday to Sunday with the machine. Stick them according to your marking now on the backside, remember to cut the letters inverse. Then remove the plastic from the front side.
Cut out the fabric a little bigger than the plate. Cover over the backside with the fabric and glue it along the frontedge. Wait for it to dry
Now print out the letters you want as heading and glue it to a piece of thin plywood. Mine was 80 x 17 cm to fill the top. Cut it out with a scrollsaw like my husbanddid with mine.
make a frame around the whole thing. The plexiplate build 4mm and so did the plywoodplate so on the top we had to make a deeper track. My husband is kind of weryhandy so that was no problem. He made the frame with 4 pices of wood, then made a 5 mm track along the side like a slot. double so wide on the top. Slot it toghether and glue it in the corners. It makes a very stabile frame.
Then hang it on the wall and enjoy! Write on it with markers.
Green crochet skirt to mom
Last summer I started this skirt.(finished this summer shh) And it was so lovely to wear. The yarn was bought at a cheap shop for about 5 $/ piece. The pattern was very easy to follow, but mine was a bit tight so I should probably have crocheted with a larger hook size.
With a crocheted skirt you'd need a petticoat and since I go could not bear to sew myself I bought two skirts from a skilled lady on etsy named Myolygirl that sew them. My crochet skirt was much shorter but since I wanted it to go below the knees I kept on for a some extra rounds. I invented the edge myself and it is not as described in the pattern. Pattern can be found here: Jolimar skirt
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I think it turns out just fine!
Crochet dresses for little girls
It bin a long while, but I'm still here. I hope you are still following me. I plan to give out a bigger pattern with 3 sizes on the wraparoundbody pattern.. Its improved. You can get it in the book Handmade. it was very fun to contribute to a book sold all over Norway.. If you just want the pattern have some patience until fall.
Now I have actually sewn some in this year but not so much that I wanted. This house and job takes a way the evening hours and soo soo tired some times. This summer I have managed to sew and crochet 3 dresses. It's a very popular pattern in the sewing community in Norway and everyone makes them, so I had to make some myself. Love to combine crochet and fabric and its easy and fast enough to do in 3 free evenings. since we have vacations I've managed to make it in 2 weeks or so. The pattern is Dale 27707. I think is some danish translations somewhere out there but don't remember. I let you know. Edit: Found it
I made it in three different versions. 3, 4 and 5 years. The pattern goes to 3 years but its very simple to justify to bigger sizes.The biggest dresses are given away for some late birthday present and the smallest its given to my now three year old daughter. I think she loves it too
Happy summer and I will get back to you all soon


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Genetic Variation in the Nuclear and Organellar Genomes Modulates Stochastic Variation in the Metabolome, Growth, and Defense – "Systems biology is largely based on the principal that the link between genotype and phenotype is deterministic, and, if we know enough, can be predicted with high accuracy. In contrast, recent work studying transcription within single celled organisms has shown that the genotype to phenotype link is stochastic, i.e. a single genotype actually makes a range of phenotypes even in a single environment. Further, natural variation within genes can lead to each allele displaying a different phenotypic distribution. To test if multi-cellular organisms also display natural genetic variation in the stochastic link between genotype and phenotype, we measured the metabolome, growth and defense metabolism within an Arabidopsis RIL population and mapped quantitative trait loci. We show that genetic variation in the nuclear and organeller genomes influence the stochastic variation in all measured traits. Further, each trait class has distinct genetics underlying the stochastic variance, showing that there are different mechanisms controlling the stochastic genotype to phenotype link for each trait." – h/t kevin mitchell! who tweeted: "Some genomes are 'noisier' than others – robustness of developmental outcome is itself a genetic trait."
Evolutionary pattern in the OXT-OXTR system in primates: Coevolution and positive selection footprints – "It was previously believed that placental mammals present no variability in oxytocin (OXT). The present study reports novel data on the diversity of OXT and its receptor (OXTR) in primate species, including New World monkeys. Contrary to prior expectations, we found three novel OXT forms and several OXTR nonsynonymous changes not previously described. In the Cebidae family, signals of positive selection were found for an OXT variant at position 8, which is associated with larger litter sizes. We detected positive selection for OXTR forms and report a coevolutionary process between changes in OXT and OXTR."
Effects of the demographic transition on the genetic variances and covariances of human life history traits – "The recent demographic transitions to lower mortality and fertility rates in most human societies have led to changes and even quick reversals in phenotypic selection pressures. This can only result in evolutionary change if the affected traits are heritable, but changes in environmental conditions may also lead to subsequent changes in the genetic variance and covariance (the G matrix) of traits. It currently remains unclear if there have been concomitant changes in the G matrix of life history traits following the demographic transition. Using 300 years of genealogical data from Finland, we found that four key life history traits were heritable both before and after the demographic transition. The estimated heritabilities allow a quantifiable genetic response to selection during both time periods, thus facilitating continued evolutionary change. Further, the G matrices remained largely stable but revealed a trend for an increased additive genetic variance and thus evolutionary potential of the population after the transition." – h/t ruben c. arslan!
Mapping granny: ancestry inference for admixed individuals – "In the December issue of G3: Genes|Genomes|Genetics, Yang et al. describe a method for ancestry inference of admixed individuals that uses a geographic approach to explicitly model some of the messy realities of populations. Testing the new method on data from the Population Reference Sample project, the authors were able to localize the grandparents of admixed Europeans to within around 500 kilometres of their reported ancestry, while simultaneously identifying which segments of each person's genome were inherited from each ancestor."
Different neurodevelopmental symptoms have a common genetic etiology – "Parents of all Swedish 9- and 12-year-old twin pairs born between 1992 and 2002 were targeted for interview regarding problems typical of autism spectrum disorders, ADHD and other neurodevelopmental conditions (response rate: 80 percent). Structural equation modeling was conducted on 6,595 pairs to examine the genetic and environmental structure of 53 neurodevelopmental problems. One general genetic factor accounted for a large proportion of the phenotypic covariation among the 53 symptoms. Three specific genetic subfactors identified 'impulsivity,' 'learning problems,' and 'tics and autism,' respectively." – h/t jayman! who tweeted: "More evidence for the p-factor. Common genetic factor underlies many mental disorders in study of all Swedish twins."
Measuring missing heritability: Inferring the contribution of common variants – "[T]he most reasonable hypothesis concerning 'missing heritability' is simply that larger sample size is required to find the many remaining alleles of small effect. Fisher's infinitesimal model will turn out to be a good first approximation for most human traits." – from steve hsu.
Self evident but unexplored – how genetic effects vary over time – from jason collins.
Mendelian and polygenic inheritance of intelligence: A common set of causal genes? Using next-generation sequencing to examine the effects of 168 intellectual disability genes on normal-range intelligence – "Despite twin and family studies having demonstrated a substantial heritability of individual differences in intelligence, no genetic variants have been robustly associated with normal-range intelligence to date. This is largely ascribed to the high polygenicity of intelligence, i.e., to its being subject to the effects of a large number of genes of individually small effect. Intellectual disability, on the other hand, frequently involves large effects of single genetic mutations, many of which have been identified…. Using an existing pool of known intellectual disability genes, we constructed a set of 168 candidate genes for normal-range intelligence, and tested their association with intelligence in 191 individuals (aged 5–18) sampled from the high and low ends of the IQ distribution. In particular, we 1) employed exon sequencing to examine the possible effects of rare genetic variants in the 168 genes, and 2) used polygenic prediction to examine the overall effect of common genetic variants in the candidate gene set in a larger sample (N = 2125, mean age 20.4, SD = 14.1). No significant association between the candidate gene set and intelligence was detected."
IQ and Birth Order Effects: Real? No – from jayman.
Educated parents more important than rich parents – "Having a mobile phone, a video recorder and a game computer are associated with lower scholastic ability, and the only substantial positive correlation is with the number of books, and of course the cause may not be the books themselves, but the intellect and character of the families who choose to buy books." – from dr. james thompson.
The inconsistency of studies of gender differences in cognitive abilities: due to using different methods? – from emil kirkegaard.
Familial Mediterranean fever – from greg cochran.
The etiologic role of genetic and environmental factors in criminal behavior as determined from full- and half-sibling pairs: an evaluation of the validity of the twin method – "Heritability estimates for CB from full- and half-siblings closely approximated those found from twins in the same population, validating the twin method." – h/t ben southwood! who tweeted: "N=1,005,471 study of Swedish siblings and half-siblings (reared together & apart) estimates criminal behaviour is 33-56% heritable."
Genetic polymorphisms predict national differences in life history strategy and time orientation – "Polymorphisms in three genes have been linked to aspects of life-history strategy. National frequencies of these polymorphisms form a strong single genetic factor. The genetic factor is strongly associated with national differences in life-history strategy. This association remains after controlling for national socioeconomic differences."
Genetic clue points to most vulnerable children – "Some children are more sensitive to their environments, for better and for worse. Now Duke University researchers have identified a gene variant that may serve as a marker for these children…." – h/t carlos esteban!
French lesson – "Modern France is founded on Western principles of equality, human betterment, and universal morality. Anyone anywhere can become French. That view, the official one, seems more and more disconnected from reality." – from peter frost.
Is Nothing Sacred? – thosewhocansee on the charlie hebdo killings.
Twin study suggests genetic factors contribute to insomnia in children, teens
Monkeys seem to recognize their reflections – "Trained macaques studied themselves in mirrors, fuelling debate over animals' capacity for self-recognition."
Insights into hominin phenotypic and dietary evolution from ancient DNA sequence data – "Nuclear genome sequence data from Neandertals, Denisovans, and archaic anatomically modern humans can be used to complement our understanding of hominin evolutionary biology and ecology through i) direct inference of archaic hominin phenotypes, ii) indirect inference of those phenotypes by identifying the effects of previously-introgressed alleles still present among modern humans, or iii) determining the evolutionary timing of relevant hominin-specific genetic changes. Here we review and reanalyze published Neandertal and Denisovan genome sequence data to illustrate an example of the third approach."
A New Antibiotic That Resists Resistance
There is A Scientific Reason That Cold Weather Could Cause Colds – "The rhinovirus that most commonly causes colds likes chillier temperatures, where the host's immune system doesn't fare so well…. [W]e now know that covering your nose might actually help it stay cold-free, in more than one way." – yes! fiiiiinally!
Remains of long-dead viruses in our genomes aid our immune response
Skip Your Annual Physical – "Regardless of which screenings and tests were administered, studies of annual health exams dating from 1963 to 1999 show that the annual physicals did not reduce mortality overall or for specific causes of death from cancer or heart disease…. [S]creening healthy people who have no complaints is a pretty ineffective way to improve people's health. If you screen thousands of people, maybe you'll find tens whose exams suggest they might have a disease. And then upon further tests, you'll find it is really only a few individuals who truly have something. And of those individuals, maybe one or two actually gain a health benefit from an early diagnosis. The others may have discovered a disease, but one that either would never have become clinically evident and dangerous, or one that is already too advanced to treat effectively. For instance, early detection of most thyroid cancers leads to surgery, but in many cases those cancers would not have caused serious problems, much less death. Conversely, for individuals whose annual exams lead to the diagnosis of esophageal or pancreatic cancer, the early diagnosis might extend the time they know they have cancer but is unlikely to extend their lives." – h/t jason collins!
Variation in cancer risk among tissues can be explained by the number of stem cell divisions – "Some tissue types give rise to human cancers millions of times more often than other tissue types. Although this has been recognized for more than a century, it has never been explained. Here, we show that the lifetime risk of cancers of many different types is strongly correlated (0.81) with the total number of divisions of the normal self-renewing cells maintaining that tissue's homeostasis. These results suggest that only a third of the variation in cancer risk among tissues is attributable to environmental factors or inherited predispositions. The majority is due to 'bad luck,' that is, random mutations arising during DNA replication in normal, noncancerous stem cells."
Germs May Play Key Role in Wound-Induced Skin Cancer
Race and Police Killings: Additional Thoughts – from robert verbruggen who tweeted: "Three data sets now show that racial disparities in police shootings can be explained by violent crime rates."
In Search of an Association Between Conception Risk and Prejudice [pdf] – h/t lars penke! who tweeted: "4 large studies (1 pre-reg) by @BrianNosek et al. fail to replicate menstrual cycle effects on racial biases."
The Strange Inevitability of Evolution – "Good solutions to biology's problems are astonishingly plentiful…. [T]wo crucial things about the RNA sequence space. First, there are many, many possible sequences that will all serve the same function. If evolution is 'searching' for that function by natural selection, it has an awful lot of viable solutions to choose from. Second, the space, while unthinkably vast and multi-dimensional, is navigable: You can change the genotype neutrally, without losing the all-important phenotype. So this is why the RNAs are evolvable at all: not because evolution has the time to sift through the impossibly large number of variations to find the ones that work, but because there are so many that do work, and they're connected to one another." – h/t billare!
Skeptic's Guide to Debunking Claims about Telomeres in the Scientific and Pseudoscientific Literature – h/t richard harper!
Mathematicians refute oft-cited 'diversity trumps ability' study – "'Diverse groups of people bring to organizations more and different ways of seeing a problem and, thus, faster/better ways of solving it,' Page told The New York Times in 2008. 'The reason: the diverse groups got stuck less often than the smart individuals, who tended to think similarly,' Page said. 'What the model showed was that diverse groups of problem solvers outperformed the groups of the best individuals at solving problems.' But Thompson's paper in the Notices of the American Mathematical Society systematically dismantles Page's sophistic mathematics."
Easter Island's Demise May Have Surprising New Explanation – "The downfall of Easter Island may have had more to do with preexisting environmental conditions than degradation by humans…."
13,000 Year Old Cosmic Impact Actually Just a Stone Age House Fire
bonus: Deep bacteria may evolve even without passing genes on – "Bacteria living hundreds of metres below the seafloor carry more genetic changes than their peers nearer the surface – even though the deep microbes are unlikely to reproduce and undergo natural selection in its traditional sense…. The results show – for the first time, Briggs thinks – that the bacterial genomes change with depth: the micro-organisms at 554 metres carry more mutations in genes that code for energy-related processes like cell division and biosynthesis of amino acids than are seen in their shallower counterparts…. [I]f you take evolution in its broader sense to mean genetic changes across the population, then it might be occurring even without cell division, says Briggs. That's because in theory, bacteria in these environments grow so slowly that they may survive for hundreds of thousands of years. Individual bacteria might have begun life at the seafloor before being gradually buried, over a period of thousands of years, as more sediment accumulated at the bottom of the sea. If so, perhaps the bacteria now at 554 metres were rare cells in the initial population that have now come to dominate because the other cells, which didn't carry their genetic mutations, have all died."
bonus bonus: Insights into the evolution of longevity from the bowhead whale genome – "The bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus) is estimated to live over 200 years and is possibly the longest-living mammal. These animals should possess protective molecular adaptations relevant to age-related diseases, particularly cancer. Here, we report the sequencing and comparative analysis of the bowhead whale genome and two transcriptomes from different populations. Our analysis identifies genes under positive selection and bowhead-specific mutations in genes linked to cancer and aging. In addition, we identify gene gain and loss involving genes associated with DNA repair, cell-cycle regulation, cancer, and aging. Our results expand our understanding of the evolution of mammalian longevity and suggest possible players involved in adaptive genetic changes conferring cancer resistance. We also found potentially relevant changes in genes related to additional processes, including thermoregulation, sensory perception, dietary adaptations, and immune response."
bonus bonus bonus: A Museum's Butterfly Emerged Half Male, Half Female – "The rarity is like a natural experiment that tells scientists how genes and hormones interact to produce different sexes."
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AFP – Four US servicewomen, including two who won Purple Hearts in Afghanistan, sued the Pentagon over its policy barring women from ground combat.
Backed by rights watchdog the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), they slammed the policy as an "injustice to the women … who continue to put their lives on the line for their country."
In practice women have served in combat roles for years, they said — but US military policy still bans them, resulting in a "brass ceiling" in which women cannot be promoted because of lack of recognized combat experience.
"Ever since I was a little girl I wanted to be an Air Force pilot, and I have proven my ability every step of the way," said Major Mary Jennings Hegar, a rescue helicopter pilot who flew Medevac missions in Afghanistan.
Her aircraft was shot down in 2009 while rescuing three injured soldiers, and she had to fight, returning fire and sustaining shrapnel wounds. She was awarded the Purple Heart and Distinguished Flying Cross with Valor.
"The ability to serve in combat has very little to do with gender or any other generalization. It has everything to do with heart, character, ability, determination and dedication," said the 36-year-old, quoted by the ACLU.
"This policy is an injustice to the women who have come before us and who continue to put their lives on the line for their country."
Women are still barred from ground combat units, although female troops have found themselves in combat anyway over the past decade in Afghanistan and Iraq, with more than 140 killed on the battlefield.
"Women have more equal opportunity to die for serving their country than to actually be allowed to serve their country," said Army Staff Sergeant Jennifer Hunt, who won a Purple Heart after her vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb.
"The gap between the policy and reality is bad for the armed forces, bad for service members and needs to be changed," added First Lt. Colleen Farrell of the US Marine Corps, speaking to reporters in a conference call.
In February, the Pentagon announced incremental changes that will allow women to serve in more than 14,000 jobs, mostly in the Army and Marine Corps, that had previously been closed to female service members.
But the overall prohibition against women in ground combat remains, denying women the chance to join infantry and armor units as well as special forces.
The ACLU said that 238,000 jobs in the military still remain closed to women.
Tuesday's lawsuit was filed in federal court in San Francisco, by the four servicewomen and the Service Women's Action Network, represented by the ACLU's Northern Californian office and the law firm Munger, Tolles and Olson.
It names Defense Secretary Leon Panetta as the defendant.
Pentagon spokesman George Little said Panetta was committed to expanding women's roles in the US military.
"On his watch, some 14,500 positions have been made been available to women, and he has directed the services to explore the possibility of opening additional roles for women in the military," he said.
"So I think his record is very strong on this issue. The recent openings that I just referred to are really the beginning and not the end of the process, and we expect that process to continue"
Along with Hegar, Farrell and Hunt, the fourth plaintiff in the lawsuit is Captain Zoe Bedell, whose Marine Corps Female Engagement Teams (FET) lived with infantrymen and frequently encountered combat situations.
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Over the past several days, Speaker John Boehner has tried to tie sequestration — the series of mandatory, across-the-board spending cuts — to the President as opposition grows toward the coming austerity.On February 5, Boehner's office released a statement on "the President's Sequester."
The president's sequester should be replaced with spending cuts and reforms that will start us on the path to balancing the budget in 10 years.
On Friday, the Speaker attempted to coin the phrase "Obamaquester" to tie the series of mandatory cuts to the President. Boehner changed his Twitter profile picture to a section of Bob Woodward's book detailing how the President initially proposed the sequester to satisfy the GOP need for cuts.
The Speaker even proposed the cumbersome hashtag "#Obamaquester" to push the narrative.
This is rather strange, given the Speaker's initial pride in the accomplishment of guaranteed spending cuts.
Recalling the negotiations of 2011, initially the President desired a clean increase in the debt ceiling — as preceding Presidents had recieved with little fight — and Boehner's GOP wanted cuts.
After the negotiation guaranteed $1.4 trillion of deficit reduction in exchange for a debt ceiling increase, Boehner was very pleased.
In an interview with CBS' Scott Pelley from August 2011, Boehner conveys that he was very pleased with the result of the negotiation:
Boehner: When you look at this final agreement that we came to with the White House, I got 98 per cent of what I wanted. I'm pretty happy.
That's a far cry from blaming the Obama administration for devastating cuts. Here's the full video of the interview:
UPDATE 2:30 PM: Brandon Buck, the Press Secretary for Speaker John Boehner, has pushed back on White House Press Secretary Jay Carney linking this quote with the sequester.
The gist is that Boehner originally came to an agreement with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on a plan, and that this plan was scrapped for the eventual Budget Control Act which contained the sequestration clause.
Essentially, the 2 per cent that Boehner didn't want was the sequestration:
Yes, the bipartisan Budget Control Act as originally conceived by Speaker Boehner, Senator Reid, and Senator McConnell did not include the sequester. The one change to the original deal was the inclusion of this trigger mechanism – so that the President would not have to deal with the debt limit again before his re-election campaign. It was only at the White House's insistence that we now have what is popularly known as the Obamaquester. It's a fact.
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WIESBADEN, GERMANY — The European Space Agency, National Aerospace and Space Administration and You Tube have teamed up for a contest that will allow winning entrants the opportunity to have their experiment conducted on the International Space Station.
The contest opened on Oct. 11, 2011, and will continue to accept submissions in the form of a two-minute duration video through Dec. 7. Students age 14 to 18 can become researchers in their own right by proposing up to three separate original entries on the official YouTube Space Lab contest website. Participants can enter as either individuals or in teams of up to three people. Entries must include an experiment question, hypothesis, method, and expected results. Activities like this serve to support and highlight what DoDDS Europe schools have planned as part of the agencies Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics initiatives for the 2012 school year.
European regional winners will win a visit to the training facilities of the European Astronaut Centre in Cologne, Germany. This will include scientific discussions and a personally guided tour led by European astronauts
As an award, six regional finalists will get to travel to Washington, D.C., to participate in a zero-g flight. On March 13, two global winners will be announced. The global finalists will get to travel to either Russia, where they can engage in an authentic astronaut training experience, or Japan to watch their experiment blast off into space. They also receive the grand prize of having their experiments performed on the space station and live streamed for the public via YouTube.
This competition aims to inspire students to look beyond their daily studies and ask their own questions of the universe around them. Proposed experiments will focus on either life sciences or physics with the hope that the entrants will take their experiences with them as they continue in their education, perhaps towards careers in math and science.
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Look at this little guy, matching notes like a pro! How does he do it?
Well… okay, so maybe he's just trained to follow his owner's visual cues and hit the right keys. Regardless, I'm going to pretend this is real, because ignorance is bliss. And my god, I want this to be real.
Also, check out the 28 biggest kid fails of all time. I hope these kids are okay, because I laughed pretty hard at all of these.
What animal having perfect pitch would be more impressive than a dog? Is the dog in the first kid-fail video the same dog? Do you think any of these kids have perfect pitch?
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This paper sets out to explain what Reed's Law describes and includes more recent understandings of the collaborative power of networks which I hope helps make sense of and gives context to the exponential.
It also suggests that the multiple complex identities we are adopting in multiple communities are not necessarily a 'Bad Thing'. My contention is that the different modes of thought these actively encourage are to be welcomed when viewed in the context of unleashing the power of self-forming collaborative communities of interest and purpose.
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Is Pennsylvania the New Atlantic City?
For the second straight year, the commonwealth's casinos are on pace to generate more gambling revenue than every other state but one -- Nevada.
Pennsylvania is becoming the new Vegas -- or at least the new Atlantic City.
For the second straight year, the commonwealth's casinos are on pace to generate more gambling revenue than every other state in the union but one -- Nevada.
In 2012, the state's casinos produced $2.47 billion in slot machine revenue, based on statistics released Thursday by the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board. That's 2.7 percent higher than in 2011 -- good news for the casinos, but not so much for the gamblers who lost the money to any of the 26,476 one-armed bandits across the state.
All those losses generated more than $1.3 billion in tax revenue for the state, about 2 percent higher than in 2011. Slot machine revenue is taxed at roughly 55 percent in Pennsylvania, with the proceeds going mainly toward property tax relief.
If nothing else, the latest figures show just how much of a gambling stronghold Pennsylvania is becoming. In fact, if Bugsy Siegel were building a gambling empire in 2013, he might be staking out land in the Mon Valley rather than the Nevada desert.
Joseph Weinert, senior vice president of Spectrum Gaming Group, an industry consultant, said much of the state's growth has come at the expense of Atlantic City, which for years was the go-to place outside of Las Vegas for Pennsylvania gamblers.
"It's simply a transference of revenue from one state to another," he said. "In Pennsylvania, the industry is still in a growth mode. Properties are still expanding. Table games are still growing, whereas New Jersey is a mature market."
Based on statistics compiled by Spectrum, Pennsylvania now ranks behind only Nevada in terms of total gambling revenue and total slot machine revenue.
For a full year ending Oct. 31, 2012, Nevada produced $6.8 billion in slot machine revenue, compared to $3.1 billion for Pennsylvania. Indiana was third at $2.3 billion and New Jersey fourth at $2.2 billion.
The Spectrum numbers are higher than those compiled by the Pennsylvania gaming board because they include promotional play amounts subtracted out by state regulators.
With table games included, Pennsylvania's total revenue for a full year ending Oct. 31 hit $3.8 billion, second behind Nevada's $10.9 billion, the Spectrum numbers showed. New Jersey was third at $3.1 billion, down 5.8 percent from the previous year.
Pennsylvania revenues, on the other hand, were up 7.3 percent. Richard McGarvey, a state gaming control board spokesman, said one factor in the state's continued growth was the opening of the Valley Forge Casino Resort at the eastern end of the state. In addition, Philadelphia's SugarHouse Casino, which opened in September 2010, got a full year of operation under its belt.
Spectrum doesn't see the state's gambling boom leveling off just yet. It is expecting more growth in 2013, particularly with the Lady Luck Casino at Nemacolin Woodlands Resort in Fayette County scheduled to open this summer.
At the same time, Pennsylvania will be facing more competition from outside its borders in the years ahead. Mr. Weinert said there are only eight states in the country that currently don't have some form of casino gambling. Of those eight, there are "serious proposals" in at least four, including New Hampshire, Hawaii and Virginia, to legalize casino gambling, he said.
"Gambling used to be the exception in this country. Now it has become the rule," he said.
In 2012, Rivers Casino on the North Shore and The Meadows Racetrack and Casino in Washington County ranked third and fifth in the state, respectively, in total slots revenues. Rivers Casino generated $282.1 million in revenue, up 2.3 percent from the previous year, while The Meadows produced $248.9 million, up less than 1 percent.
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Verbum Eccles. (Online) vol.32 no.1 Pretoria 2011
Kanegelo ya Nimirode: Re lebelela diphihlelelo tša gagwe ka lefsa
The Nimrod story: Reconsidering his achievements
Elelwani B. Farisani
Department Old Testament and Ancient Near Eastern Studies, University of South Africa, South Africa
The Ham/Nimrod story has been used to oppress Black people in South Africa and the USA. This paper looks afresh at Nimrod and attempts to restore his dignity and that of black people. This will be done in five stages below. Firstly, we briefly highlight the identity of Noah's children in order to place into context Nimrod, who is the focus of this study. Secondly, we examine the negative portrayal of Nimrod by certain scholars. Thirdly, we discuss the use of Ham/Nimrod's storyin the oppression or enslavement of black people. Furthermore, we will critique such a use of the story to oppress black people. Fourthly we discuss Nimrod's achievements. The focus here will be on his three major achievements as a great ruler, mighty hunter and builder. The aim of this section is to counter the negative interpretation that Nimrod has previously received. In addition, we will offer a positive interpretation of the curse on Ham/Cush/Nimrod. Fifth and, finally, we willspell out the significance of the Nimrod story for those who have been oppressed and enslaved on the basis of this text. The focus here will be on South Africa.
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Le pavé d'autrefois
Loosely based on the formula for Le pavé d'autrefois
(Old fashioned slab) in the book, Le Pain, l'envers du décor (Bread, behind the scenes) by Frédéric Lalos.
His version used commercial yeast and a poolish.
100% hydration fed with KA Bread flour – 300g
Water – 564g
KA Whole Wheat flour – 107g
Bay State Medium Rye – 71g
Bob's Red Mill Buckwheat flour – 71g
KA Bread flour – 315g
Final Dough:
KA AP flour – 286g
Sea Salt – 20g
Fed active starter 8 hours prior to mix and fermented at 70°F
Flour soaker established 3 hours to
mix and held at 70°F
Mixed Levain, Soaker and Final 286g of
AP flour by hand and rest for 30 minutes.
Add salt.
Stretch and Fold at 00:15, 00:30,
00:45, 01:15, 02:15 for a total bulk ferment of 4 hours.
Turn out dough onto heavily floured
surface and fold over on itself. Rest 1 hour covered.
Spread out dough by dimpling with fingertips.
Rest 1 hour covered.
Cut into slabs of desired size and
bake on stone in preheated oven at 460°F for 35-45 minutes, depending on size.
This was a fragrant and tasty bread , somewhat like a rustic lower hydration ciabatta.


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The Blackstone River Valley of Massachusetts hardly conjures up images of rock-and-rollers. But it has given rise to a handful of companies that make cutting-edge audio technology for making music really loud. One of the newest is Fulcrum Acoustic, founded in 2008 by audiophile Dave Gunness. He spoke with Globe reporter Michael B. Farrell about what makes this area of Massachusetts a center for audio ingenuity and why he's making his products in America.
How did you start making loudspeakers for big nightclubs in rural Massachusetts?
I was a musician and then realized that better musicians than I'd ever become were not making a living at it. I decided to go into speakers. If you do a good job as a speaker designer, you'd be able to make a living at it. It was a safe bet.
Did you grow up listening to a lot of loud music?
As a musician, I needed equipment to play on. I couldn't afford it so I built it. As engineer types will do, I spent way more time building my speakers when I should have been practicing.
Where do most of your speakers go?
Theme parks, Las Vegas nightclubs, Bible Belt churches, and Canadian hockey arenas.
Do you end up spending a lot of time in nightclubs?
A typical club in Las Vegas has about 150 speakers in it. It's not just a matter of plugging the speaker in and turning it on. I go out and hear bands in rock-and-roll clubs, but I'm not a clubber.
What lessons can you draw from rock-and-roll to running a business?
There's a lot of value to having been a musician because all my customers are musicians. All through the audio industry, people who got into it initially started out as musicians. It's something music-related that was a paying job.
Why are you in Massachusetts? It isn't a place you think of as being at the center of the music industry.
There's a core of audio industry companies in Boston such as Boston Acoustics and Acoustics Research. There's Bose Corp. in Framingham. There are a surprising number of speaker engineers working in Massachusetts. The other concentration is in Southern California.
In the old days, people used to talk about a West Coast sound and an East Coast sound. The West Coast sound was based in Southern California and the East Coast sound was based in Boston.
You make all your speakers in Massachusetts. Wouldn't it be cheaper to do it in China?
Manufacturing here has more to do with what our customers want. They want very particular things. In the case of theme parks, they have very particular requirement for what speakers have to look like and where they have to fit. The only way to serve those requirements well is to build stuff here. It does cost more, but not that much more.
Almost all of our employees were people who were laid off when Eastern Acoustic Works moved production to China [in 2006].
We started a US-based manufacturing company in 2008, which was probably the worst year since 1930 to start a manufacturing company. Here we are five years later, and we made it work. And we did it without starting out with a big pile of money.
Can bad sound systems actually make you tired?
When you have to struggle to understand what's being said, you tend to go to sleep. You can always tell when a church has a bad sound system, half the people are asleep. My job is to keep people from falling asleep in church.
Michael B. Farrell can be reached at email@example.com.


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Nestled in the mountains, Beniya Mukayu is a haven of peace with a zen-like atmosphere. The hosts are committed to preserving their region and ancestry while sharing local traditions through unique experience.
Authentic Kaga Kaiseki multi-course dinner: a host of surprising dishes, presented in locally made elegant ceramics. Beniya Mukayu is committed to supporting the local economy through artisans, organic farmers and exclusively local producers. To discover the region & origins, Beniya Mukayu's English-speaking staff can offer tailored experiences and tours that demonstrate the family spirit of the culture, such as exploring the history of Yamashiro Onsen (Hot Spring). Walk, learn local cuisine in a cooking class led by the Mukayu chef, or make Washi, a traditional technique of Japanese papermaking, and more. All experiences that Beniya Mukayu offers are perfect examples of the ethos of the property and the region.


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Install toolsLet install two tools we need (consider switch to debian sid repository in order to get latest version of the tools):
deby:~# apt-get -y install python-setuptools python-virtualenvWe are going to work in isolated environment:
user1@deby:~$ virtualenv devenv New python executable in devenv/bin/python Installing setuptools............done. user1@deby:~$ cd devenv/ user1@deby:~/devenv$
Directory structureSuppose our directory structure looks this way:
~/devenv/ `-- trunk/ |-- src/ | `-- greatings/ | |-- __init__.py | |-- helloworld.py | `-- tests/ | |-- __init__.py | `-- test_helloworld.py `-- README.txtWe are going to place all our python code in src directory.
mkdir -p trunk/src/greatings/tests
CodeThe file __init__.py is left empty and makes greating a python package. Here is content of helloworld.py (note that we are using docunits in order to demonstrate dependencies later, main function will be an entry point of our script):
import sys def say(): """ >>> say() 'hello world' """ return 'hello world' def main(): print(say()) return 0 if __name__ == '__main__': sys.exit(main())The tests will be combined into test suites so they can be easier added for testing our setup later. Here is test_helloworld.py:
from greatings import helloworld import unittest class HelloworldTestCase(unittest.TestCase): def test_say(self): assert 'hello world' == helloworld.say() def suite(): loader = unittest.TestLoader() suite = unittest.TestSuite() suite.addTest(loader.loadTestsFromTestCase(HelloworldTestCase)) return suite if __name__ == '__main__': unittest.TextTestRunner(verbosity=2).run(suite())Here is tests package __init__.py file:
from greatings import helloworld import test_helloworld def suite(): import unittest import doctest suite = unittest.TestSuite() suite.addTests(doctest.DocTestSuite(helloworld)) suite.addTests(test_helloworld.suite()) return suite if __name__ == '__main__': unittest.TextTestRunner(verbosity=2).run(suite())
Setup filesHere is out ~/devenv/trunk/setup.py file:
import os from setuptools import setup, find_packages setup( name = 'greatings', version = '0.1', # Package structure # # find_packages searches through a set of directories # looking for packages packages = find_packages('src', exclude = ['ez_setup', '*.tests', '*.tests.*', 'tests.*', 'tests']), # package_dir directive maps package names to directories. # package_name:package_directory package_dir = {'': 'src'}, # Not all packages are capable of running in compressed form, # because they may expect to be able to access either source # code or data files as normal operating system files. zip_safe = True, # Entry points # # install the executable entry_points = { 'console_scripts': ['helloworld = greatings.helloworld:main'] }, # Dependencies # # Dependency expressions have a package name on the left-hand # side, a version on the right-hand side, and a comparison # operator between them, e.g. == exact version, >= this version # or higher install_requires = [ '', ], # Tests # # Tests must be wrapped in a unittest test suite by either a # function, a TestCase class or method, or a module or package # containing TestCase classes. If the named suite is a package, # any submodules and subpackages are recursively added to the # overall test suite. test_suite = 'greatings.tests.suite', # Download dependencies in the current directory tests_require = 'docutils >= 0.6', # Meta information # author = 'Me', author_email = 'firstname.lastname@example.com', description = 'A sample hello world application', url = 'http://mindref.blogspot.com' )And configuration (file ~/devenv/setup.cfg):
[global] # Just silently do your job quiet = 1 [easy_install] # Where we are going to look for thrirdparty dependencies find_links = thirdparty [build_py] # No optimization for now optimize = 0 # Force build everything? force = True [egg_info] # We are doing development build tag_build = dev # Do we want to have date in file name? tag_date = 0 # Add svn revision to the file name tag_svn_revision = 1 [bdist_egg] # We do not want to distribute binary with source code exclude-source-files = True [rotate] # Keep only last 10 eggs, clean up older match = .egg keep = 10
Third party dependenciesThe next thing, we would like keep thirdparty dependencies (e.g. docutils) in a separate folder so each time we build the project it doesn't download dependencies from internet instead look at our folder, so we always have a proper version there. So let create directory thirdparty at the same level as src and download there docutils.
user1@deby:~/devenv/trunk$ mkdir thirdparty user1@deby:~/devenv/trunk$ wget -P thirdparty/ http://pypi.python.org\ /packages/source/d/docutils/docutils-0.6.tar.gzThe directory structure should look like this:
~/devenv/ `-- trunk/ |-- src/ | `-- greatings/ | ... `-- thirdparty/ `-- docutils-0.6.tar.gzInstall docutils that we downloaded into our environment:
../bin/easy_install thirdparty/*
Test, EGG, SourceLet ensure tests are passed:
master@deby:~/devenv/trunk$ ../bin/python setup.py test .. --------------------------------------------- Ran 2 tests in 0.015s OKHere is how to create a binary distribution in egg format (look outcome at ~/devenv/trunk/dist directory):
../bin/python setup.py bdist_egg... and source code:
../bin/python setup.py sdistBoth source and binary distributions are in ~/devenv/trunk/dist directory.
user1@deby:~/devenv/trunk$ ls dist/ greatings-0.1dev-py2.6.egg greatings-0.1dev.tar.gz
Version controlBefore adding the project to version control (e.g. svn), ensure the following directories are ignored:
- build
- dist
- src/greatings.egg-info


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Rod Hamersley necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 847 diseños de 217 diseñadores freelance.
Viridian Property Group
Viridian Property Group is a property investment and development group which has a core focus of acquiring and syndicating property assets (commercial, retail, industrial and residential sectors ) on behalf of its sophisticated client base.
Put simply we purchase properties (office buildings, shopping centres and development sites) on behalf of our client base – each property may have between 5 and 50 people invested – and manage the property on an ongoing basis.
Viridian Property Group client base are of a high net worth nature (sophisticated) and have an understanding of how to evaluate investments. Subsequently information provided to them has to professionally presented.
List of requirements are:
1. A contemporary design of a logo that should present a professional company with a highly sophisticated target audience.
2. The logo should be simple yet representing sophistication.
3. Inclusion of the colour "Viridian", though this to be discrete and should be used to compliment the logo.
4. The logo should be easily printed/put on business cards, stationary, websites and signage.
5. To work on both Black and White applications.
6. Should portray ethos of establishment and professionalism
7. No acronyms
8. No cartoon type characters
We are not looking for anything flashy, gimmicky or loud.
Note: No other materials are available, as the company has only been registered recently.
Descubre cómo funciona un concurso de diseño u obtén más información sobre nuestros servicios de diseño de logo.


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In mixing a finished spray, it is most important to add the correct
amount of pesticide to the mix. Too little may result in a poor job, while too
much may result in injury to the treated surface, illegal residues, or
unnecessary expense. Directions for mixing are given on the label and only very
simple calculations are necessary.
Would you like to try a study question?
You may be given directions to add 2 pounds of pesticide to 100 gallons of water
and you wish to fill a 300 gallon tank. Since you know that 300 gallons is 3
times 100 gallons, you simply add 3 times 2 pounds, or 6 pounds in 300 gallons.
If you wish to mix only 20 gallons of finished spray, you must use some simple
arithmetic. Follow these steps:
1. Find what part 20 is of 100.
OR 20 goes into 100 five times.
So 20 gallons is 1/5 of 100 gallons.
2. Therefore, you must add 1/5 of 2 pounds of pesticide to your finished spray.
1 pound contains 16 ounces; 2 pounds contains 32 ounces.
1/5 of 32 oz. = 32 divided by 5 OR 6.4 ounces
Another way to handle the above situation would be to figure that at 2 pounds
per 100 gallons, .2 (two tenths) pounds is required for every 10 gallons.
.2 of 16 ounces = 3.2 ounces, so every 10 gallons requires 3.2 ounces. Twenty
gallons would require 6.4 ounces.
Liquids are mixed in the same manner. If your directions call for 2 pints
emulsifiable concentrate per 100 gallons, 300 gallons will take 6 pints and 20
gallons will take .2 (two tenths) of 2 pints.
2 pints (1 quart) = 32 fluid ounces.
.2 of 32 = 32 x .2 = 6.4 fluid ounces
2 pints (1 quart) = 32 fluid ounces.
.2 of 32 = 32 x .2 = 6.4 fluid ounces
Sometimes you will find directions telling you to make a finished spray of a
specific percentage, for instance, 1% spray for ants. The pesticide may be
formulated as a 57% emulsifiable concentrate. To make a 1% finished spray, you
would add 1 part of pesticide to 56 parts of water. For example, 1 fluid ounce
in 56 fluid ounces (1 3/4 quarts ) of water.
When mixing percentages you should remember that 1 gallon of water weighs about
8.3 pounds and 100 gallons weigh about 830 pounds.* Thus, to make a 1% mix of
pesticide in 100 gallons of water you must add 8.3 pounds of active ingredient
of pesticide to 100 gallons of water. The following formulas may be used for
Formula for Wettable Powder Percentage Mixing. To figure the amount of wettable
powder to add to get a given percentage of active ingredient (actual pesticide)
in the tank:
How many pounds of an 80% wettable powder are needed to make 50 gallons of 3.5%
spray for application by mist blower?
calculation result = 18.1 lbs. 80% WP
Formula for Emulsifiable Concentrate Percentage Mixing. To figure amount
of emulsifiable concentrate to add to get a given percentage of active
ingredient (actual pesticide) in the tank.
How many gallons of a 25% emulsifiable concentrate (2 pounds pesticide per
gallon) are needed to make 100 gallons of 1% spray?
calculation result = 4.14 gallons 25% EC
*One gallon of kerosene weighs 6.6 pounds. One hundred gallons weighs 660
Often the label will give mixing instructions in terms of quantities of
pesticide to be used per 1000 square feet as in turf treatments, or per acre as
in commercial vegetables. In this case you will have to determine and adjust the
amount of liquid your sprayer applies over a given area. This is called
calibrating the equipment. When the equipment is calibrated you can add the
proper amount of pesticide to give the recommended dosage per area. Calibration
is described in Chapter XIX.


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Category: Fun
People person
Looking at the last ten or so blog posts I've done, it seems I'm a people person… Isn't that nice…
[Via Wordle]
Dilbert looses iPhone 4G prototype
In a blog post yesterday (presumably because Apple probably wouldn't take too kindly to these appearing in the New York Times etc), Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams rips into the recent supposed loss of the iPhone 4G prototype.
Gizmondo lead the story last week, after paying $5000 for the Apple prototype found in a German beerhouse in Cupertino, which subsequently led to Gizmodo editor Jason Chen's home computer being siezed by California police.
But, it was a sure duty for the worlds biggest tech cartoonist to parody one of the biggest technology leaks in the past few years!


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There Is Now a MAC Lip Kit for Every Skin Tone
(Updated) When you think MAC, you immediately think of bold makeup. From sparkly eye gloss to magnetic purple eye shadows—you name it, they've most probably got it! But MAC isn't a beauty giant in the beauty department for no reason; they're one of the go-to brands of beauty girls everywhere because they've got great basic makeup to go with their trendy and fearless makeup loot, too! And this time the global beauty brand has done it again with their latest release: the MAC Lip Kits.
While a great red lip is a no fail confidence booster, nothing beats a perfect nude lippie for an instant chic and classic look for the day. And to make sure that no one gets left behind, the brand just bundled up their bestselling nude lippies with their matching lip pencils to create their own lip kit and get this: for every skin tone!
The good news is, the MAC Lip Kits are finally here in Manila! And get this, Candy Girls, you can score your own kits for only P1785! What a steal. Get up from your seats and hurry because these beauty goodies are only available from February 14-18, 2017.
Stay tuned for more beauty news!
Candy Bulletin
What're you up to today? Submit your OOTD, fanfic, essay, school project, org event, a pic of your latest hobby, or anything you want to be posted on the Candy Bulletin page!
5 Mystery-Thriller Novels to Read
If you're stuck at home and out of Netflix shows to binge-watch, then you might want to try and read these mystery-thriller books to match your homemade Dalgona Coffee.
1. The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
The debut novel, and Goodreads Choice Awards Best Mystery & Thriller of 2019, follows Alicia Berenson, a well-known painter married to an esteemed fashion photographer. Life seemed perfect for Alicia, until one evening when she shot her husband five times, and… never spoke again.
2. Lock Every Door by Riley Sager
From the author of Final Girls comes this page turning novel about an infamous building in Manhattan called the Bartholomew. After stumbling upon an ad to become an apartment sitter, Jules Larsen has set out to look after apartment 12A under strict and somewhat odd conditions. Not long after stepping foot in the building, Jules has been met with unfriendly tenants, eerie noises in the apartment unit, and an abrupt departure of a fellow sitter named Ingrid.
3. The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James
If you loved Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho or David Lynch's Twin Peaks, then this book is for you. After the disappearance of her Aunt Vivian while working as a night-shift clerk at the Sun Down Motel in 1982, Carly has set off to Fell NY, to work the same job at the same place as her Aunt had 35 years ago – with hopes of uncovering the truth lurking behind the Motel walls.
4. Verity by Colleen Hoover
While known for Young-Adult Novels such as Slammed and Maybe Someday, Colleen Hoover offers readers a romantic thriller about Lowen Ashleigh, a struggling author who was given the opportunity to finish the three remaining novels of a successful series after its original author, Verity Crawford, suffered an accident and has become immobile. After receiving an invite at the Crawford manor to sort through Verity's notes, Lowen discovers an unpublished autobiography revealing the truth about Verity. With the eerie atmosphere of having Verity confined in her own home, and who is seemingly aware of her surroundings, Lowen is certain Verity is not what she appears to be.
5. Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
A mind-bending science fiction thriller from the best-selling author of Wayward Pines – Dark Matter is packed with the concept of the Multiverse and the philosophy of existentialism. The novel follows an ordinary Physics professor, Jason Dessen, who was looking forward to dinner with his family while walking the streets of Chicago. The next thing he knew, he was being held at gunpoint – by a man wearing a mask – and injected with an unknown drug and blacks out. When he regains consciousness, he learns that the world he woke up to was different from the world he knew.
Here's a poem I wrote a while back reflecting on what it's like over-rationalize a simple thing like crushing on a dude -- hence, the title "Scientific Method"
Scientific Method
You were a phenomenon I cannot wrap my head around
When I first met you, my heart forgot to make its signature sound
And it's overwhelming, your presence;
And underwhelming, so science will be the only language I'll hide in-- For now.
At first glance, I notice your top button unbuttoned,
and your shirt fully cotton
Complete with a smile as nervous as me
And a swagger in your step only I can see
Further on, I find your wit to be at a pace
That doesn't leave any space for tension to rise
and it's all too nice
And ridiculous and a bit too suspicious
That this isn't another (well,) circus.
Now, let's take a wild guess,
Oh, but it has to be smart, yes,
That this could lead to something with potential
That this isn't another differential easily solved
With a formula, tried and tested but never evolved
For so long, we've both been independent of any dependent
Keeping our variables fixed and ourselves distracted
With anything, everything,
But not a single thing
Could stop me from pushing this blindly to find its threshold,
Hoping that it's a quantity my hands could still hold
Over hours, days, and weeks
Through minor revisions and tweaks
Then comes the analysis -- that these weren't accidents
So, now I find myself in a conundrum
With the anomaly in a blue shirt right in front of me,
That this had to be processed logically,
But the findings are as follows:
None of which were shallow, so I therefore conclude that it's true,
I therefore conclude that it's you.
Mi Luna: The Light in My Dark Soul Locked in… Alone…
Why do I feel comforted by darkness? Oh cause maybe because… I am a jolly and very enthusiast kid back then. All I know is to have fun, laugh and play. But as I grow older, everything has changed, a lot. I can feel the changes. I know the more I get older, I'm turning to something I'm not. You know what, I just realized I like it even more. And that's how I turned a monster. A monster to my own self. Always questioning life and even God about the things that are happening with my life. "Do I deserve this?". Every day was a struggle. "Which mask should I wear now?". And every night is my judgement time. "Should I still continue with my miserable life?". This certainly sum up my whole life. I have this mindset since I was young. I can say that my experiences made me like this. I always want to escape, but every time I tried to pick up myself up, there is always shits that pulls me down. And there, I get tired. Hoping that no one would ever see this. As I despise myself as well. What I can do now is to just embraced everything, I just embraced darkness- reflecting my own self.
"Look at the moon, it can shine alone and it can give us light at night." A line I was keeping in my mind that a friend of mine helps me realize things and been there to fix my path. And there I started seeking for my moon but I do not know which part should I start. As days passed, I started to open up myself. I started to act as what truly inside me. It is very hard at first and there is this time that even the situation got worst. But as I continue exploring with my life, a question pop out on my head "Why did I still get this far?", I can say that maybe I should do this, maybe I really can do this but it is myself who is holding me back because I'm afraid.
Now as far as I am trying to revive my soul, there I know that many people care. Yes, I learned to open up but not to all, on different situations there are people who can understand me because they have the same situation as I am. I learn to open up as long as they did not force me. I learned to navigate and open up for whom I trusted and at the same time when I am ready. The light that I am seeking is my own understanding and acceptance about myself. My light is myself and I am Mi Luna. So it is not too late to save myself. I have thought that, I should be a survivor and winner. That I should also be the ruler of my own mind and soul. Eliminate the room for darkness and let the light shine through you, that I can say how I earned myself again. Mi Luna's darkness have turned to spotlight.
I just posted some of my own movie reviews from LSS to The Heiress para naman may pagka-movie critic ako in the midst of the pandemic… from Home! Check them out here: Pista ng Pelikulang Pilipino 3 (#PPP2019): • #LSSTheMovie: bit.ly/MyLSSReview • #ThePantiSisters: bit.ly/MyTPSReview • #ImEllenyaL: bit.ly/MyImEllenyaLReview Metro Manila Film Festival: • #TheMallTheMerrier: bit.ly/MyTMTMReview • #MissionUnstapabol: bit.ly/MyMissionUnstapabolReview • #3polTrobolHuliKaBalbon: bit.ly/My3polTrobolReview Non-film fest: • #JamesAndPatAndDave: bit.ly/MyJPDReview • #TheHeiress: bit.ly/MyTheHeiressReview Any thoughts? Don't forget to connect by commenting! Enjoy #MovieBingeAtHome! #COVIDMovieCritic