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Installing Joomla! for the first time is very easy. Joomla!'s built-in installer makes setting up your new site a breeze.
Hosting requirements[edit]
Before we start installing Joomla!, there are a couple prerequisites that need to be met to install successfully:
- Hosting - whether you have a dedicated server, or shared hosting plan, you'll need some sort of web hosting that meets the following requirements:
- PHP v. 5.2.4+
- MySQL 5.0.4+
- Apache 1.3 or Hiawatha 5.12+
- MySQL Database - you'll need access to a MySQL database, as well as the following credentials.
- DB Name
- Host Name
- Username
- Password
- FTP Client - for transferring files to your server. If you don't already have an FTP client that you use, we recommend Filezilla (ensure transfers are set to Binary)
- Latest Release of Joomla! 2.5.X - you can find that here Download .
With these requirements met, and resources in place, we are ready to install Joomla
To begin our installation, we'll first need to move our Joomla installation package to the server. This can be accomplished by simply moving the downloaded package to your server, then unpacking it. Or you can unpack the files on your local computer, then move the Joomla installation over to your server. Either way, the Joomla installation needs to be unpacked in the root of your site.
Caution - if you unpack the files on your own computer, then copy them to your server, be sure to move only the files contained INSIDE the Joomla package. If you transfer the Joomla folder as well, your site will be accessed at yoursite.com/Joomla instead of yoursite.com.
The Joomla installer now makes it very easy to install Joomla. With the files transferred to your server, access the Joomla installation through your web browser by entering the address of your site, for example http://www.example.com.
Step 1[edit]
Step 1 is to select your language in the screen above, then press the 'Next' button in the upper right corner.
Step 2[edit]
Step 2 runs a series of system and server checks to ensure that Joomla will be able to install, and function correctly. The top section of items should all be green and 'Yes'. If any are not (they'll be red and say "No") then you will need to take action to correct them. The bottom section of items are not required, but are recommended to ensure that Joomla can operate smoothly.
Step 3[edit]
Step 3 is to review the GNU license. This is the software license agreement for Joomla use, and simply requires you to press 'Next' in the top right corner after reviewing.
Step 4[edit]
Step 4 is configuring the database connection for Joomla. Here you will need to enter the Database type, Hostname, User name, Database name and the Database prefix for the MySQL database you have set up. If your settings are not correct, you might be unable to connect to the database. An additional option is to change the Table prefix. (Note: Joomla 2.5.x now offers a random default prefix) This may be helpful for security purposes.
Step 5[edit]
Step 5 is the FTP Configuration. This step is unnecessary for most sites and its need is usually identified if you find you cannot upload media or images or install Extensions. The details can be added at a later time directly within the Global Configuration in the Joomla Administration pages. This step is not required on servers installed on a Windows operating system.
Step 6[edit]
Step 6, and the last to installing Joomla, is the Site Configuration. Here you must add a Site Name, Admin User Name, Admin Password, and Admin e-mail address. If you are new to Joomla you should also CLICK Install the Sample Content, this will help with learning about Joomla.
Step 7[edit]
Step 7 Is the final step. Joomla is now installed! You must now remove the installation directory, this needs to be removed for security reasons to prevent anyone else from coming along and reinstalling Joomla over your existing site. Click the Remove Installation Directory button.


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by Larry Downes and Geoffrey A. Manne
Now that the election is over, the Federal Communications Commission is returning to the important but painfully slow business of updating its spectrum management policies for the 21st century. That includes a process the agency started in September to formalize its dangerously unstructured role in reviewing mergers and other large transactions in the communications industry.
This followed growing concern about "mission creep" at the FCC, which, in deals such as those between Comcast and NBCUniversal, AT&T and T-Mobile USA, and Verizon Wireless and SpectrumCo, has repeatedly been caught with its thumb on the scales of what is supposed to be a balance between private markets and what the Communications Act refers to as the "public interest."
Commission reviews of private transactions are only growing more common—and more problematic. The mobile revolution is severely testing the FCC's increasingly anachronistic approach to assigning licenses for radio frequencies in the first place, putting pressure on carriers to use mergers and other secondary market deals to obtain the bandwidth needed to satisfy exploding customer demand.
While the Department of Justice reviews these transactions under antitrust law, the FCC has the final say on the transfer of any and all spectrum licenses. Increasingly, the agency is using that limited authority to restructure communications markets, beltway-style, elevating the appearance of increased competition over the substance of an increasingly dynamic, consumer-driven mobile market.
Given the very different speeds at which Silicon Valley and Washington operate, the expanding scope of FCC intervention is increasingly doing more harm than good.
Deteriorating Track Record
We're trapped in a vicious cycle: the commission's mismanagement of the public airwaves is creating more opportunities for the agency to insert itself into the internet ecosystem, largely to fix problems caused by the FCC in the first place. That is happening despite the fact that Congress clearly and precisely circumscribed the agency's authority here, a key reason the internet has blossomed while heavily regulated over-the-air broadcasting and wireline telephone fade into history.
Desperate for continued relevance, the FCC can't resist the temptation to tinker with one of the only segments of the economy that is still growing and investing. The agency, for example, fretted over Comcast's merger with NBCUniversal for 10 months, approving it only after imposing a 30-page list of conditions, including details about which channels had to be offered in which cable packages.
Regulating-by-merger-condition has become a popular sport at the FCC, one with dangerous consequences. While it conveniently allows the agency to get around the problem of intervening where it has no authority, the result is a regulatory crazy quilt with different rules applying to different companies in different markets. Consumers, the supposed beneficiaries of this micromanagement, cannot be expected to understand the resulting chaos.
For example, Comcast also agreed to abide by an enhanced set of "net neutrality" rules even if, as appears likely, a federal appeals court throws out the FCC's 2010 industry-wide rulemaking for exceeding the agency's jurisdiction. As with all voluntary concessions, Comcast's acquiescence isn't reviewable in court.
The FCC made an even bigger hash in its review of AT&T's proposed merger with T-Mobile. Once it became clear that the FCC was bowing to political pressure to reject the deal, the companies pulled their applications for license transfers to focus on winning over the Department of Justice first. But FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski, determined to have his say, simply released an uncirculated draft of the agency's analysis of the deal anyway.
The report found that the combination, as initially proposed, would control too much spectrum in too many local markets. But that was only after the formula, known as the "spectrum screen," was manipulated to reduce substantially the amount of frequency included in the denominator. Hidden in a footnote, the report noted cryptically that the reduction was being made (and explained) in an unrelated order yet to be published.
When the other order was released months later, however, it made no mention of the change. It never actually happened. With the T-Mobile deal off the table, apparently, the chairman found it more expedient to leave the screen as it was, at least until further gerrymandering proved useful. Unwittingly, Genachowski had exposed his hand in rigging a supposedly objective test applied by a supposedly independent agency.
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This amateurish behavior, unfortunately, is increasingly the norm at the FCC. Politics aside, part of the problem is that while federal antitrust regulators enforce statutes under a long line of interpretive case law, the FCC's review of license transfers is governed by an undefined and largely untested public interest standard.
Now the commission is asking interested parties how, if at all, it needs to formalize its transaction review process, particularly the spectrum screen calculation it blatantly manipulated in the AT&T/T-Mobile review. It's even asking whether it should re-impose a rigid cap on the amount of spectrum any one carrier can license, a bludgeon of a regulatory tool the agency wisely abandoned in 2003.
We have a better idea. Do away with easily forged formulae and proxies with no scientific relevance. Instead, review transactions in the broader context of a dynamic broadband ecosystem that is disciplined not only by inter-carrier competition, but increasingly by device makers, operating system providers, app makers and ultimately by consumers.
Every user with an iPhone 5 knows perfectly well how complex and competitive the mobile marketplace has become. It's now time for the government to abandon its 19th century toolkit and look at actual data—data that the FCC already collects and dutifully reports, then ignores when political expediency beckons.
Thanks to the FCC's endemic misadventures in spectrum management, we can expect more, not fewer, mergers—necessitating more, not fewer, commission reviews. Rather than expanding the agency's unstructured approach to transaction reviews, we should be reining it in. As the FCC embarks on its analysis of T-Mobile's takeover of MetroPCS and Sprint's acquisition by SoftBank, it's time to put an end to dangerous mission creep at the FCC.
That, at least, would better serve the public interest.
(Crossposted from Tech Liberation Front. Reprinted, with permission, from Bloomberg BNA Daily Report for Executives, Dec. 6, 2012. Our recent paper on FCC transaction review can be found at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2163169.)

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Eden Hacho Miso is made using whole US organically grown non-GMO soybeans and a traditional koji fermentation process handed down by miso masters through generations. Healthful bacteria and enzymes break down the carbohydrates and proteins into easily assimilable sugars and amino acids, beneficial digestive enzymes, vitamins and minerals. Such high quality miso is five times higher in protective isoflavones than other soy foods.
Koji is prepared using Aspergillus oryzae spores. This particular species is especially plentiful in the town of Okazaki, in Aichi prefecture where Eden Hacho Miso is produced. The Hatcho Miso Company located on Hatcho-cho (8th Street), makers of Eden Hacho Miso, was founded five centuries ago and is one of the originators of hacho miso. This miso is produced according to their traditional methods dating back to 1337 AD.
Eden Hacho Miso is the product of generations of experience and perfected techniques. The soybeans are cleaned, soaked, cooked, and crushed, then shaped into two inch crosses creating the maximum surface area for the growth of koji. The bean crosses are then lightly dusted with a mixture of Aspergillus oryzae spores and roasted barley flour, then incubated for 48 to 72 hours depending on the season. When incubation is complete the crosses are covered with a fragrant bloom of pale yellow koji growth. The koji covered crosses are mixed with a small amount of water and sea salt and transferred to huge cedar vats. These 200 year old vats are approximately seven feet deep and seven feet in diameter. Each vat holds several tons. Large pieces of thick cotton cloth and heavy wooden discs or pressing lids are placed on top of the inoculated soybean mixture. A pyramid of large river stones, usually 100 or more and equal to the weight of the soybean mixture, is built on top of the pressing lid. The enzymes from the koji slowly mellows the mixture, transforming the complex protein, carbohydrates and fats of the soybeans into dark, rich, flavorful miso as it ages/ferments for up to three full summers. It is then double bagged in a resealable, standing pouch. No chemicals or additives of any kind are used whatsoever.
Hacho miso has a distinctive richness, deep flavor and heartiness that makes it particularly suited to cooler climates or seasons. It has been taken on Japanese expeditions to the South Pole and Japanese mountain climbing expeditions as an easy to use and energizing food source with readily available protein. Ancient shogun warriors were fed hacho miso for strength and endurance, and the Emperor of Japan is said to enjoy hatcho miso every day.
Miso is rapidly gaining recognition in the West as a protective, delicious super food. Miso contains a wealth of enzymes and microorganisms that aid digestion and help to build healthy intestinal flora while keeping undesirable flora in check. During fermentation the protein of the soybeans and grain are disassembled into amino acids, including all eight essential ones.
Hacho Miso Amino Acid profile per 1 Tbsp serving
• Alanine 83mg • Leucine 134mg
• Arginine 83mg • Lysine 83mg
• Aspartic Acid 187mg • Methionine 19mg
• Cysteine 24mg • Phenylalanine 99mg
• Glutamic Acid 304mg • Proline 88mg
• Glycine 71mg • Serine 85mg
• Histidine 36mg • Threonine 65mg
• Hydroxyproline mg • Tryptophan 10mg
• Isoleucine 83mg • Tyrosine 78mg
• Valine 94mg
The enzymes in miso aid in the digestion of protein and starches in grains, beans, and vegetables, making it an essential addition to a vegetarian or mostly vegetarian way of eating. Fermentation breaks down the trypsin inhibitors in soybeans allowing for full utilization of the protein. Miso soup is a satisfying way of regularly consuming two powerful healthy foods, miso and sea vegetables.
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A report that tracks spending on popular holiday goods, the MasterCard Advisors SpendingPulse, said Tuesday that sales in the two months before Christmas increased 0.7 percent, compared with last year. Many analysts had expected holiday sales to grow 3 to 4 percent.
In 2008, sales declined by between 2 percent and 4 percent as the financial crisis that crested that fall dragged the economy into recession. Last year, by contrast, retail sales in November and December rose between 4 percent and 5 percent, according to ShopperTrak, a separate market research firm. A 4 percent increase is considered a healthy season.
Shoppers were buffeted this year by a string of events that made them less likely to spend: Superstorm Sandy and other bad weather, the distraction of the presidential election and grief about the massacre of schoolchildren in Newtown, Conn. The numbers also show how Washington's current budget impasse is trickling down to Main Street and unsettling consumers. If Americans remain reluctant to spend, analysts say, economic growth could falter next year.
In the end, even steep last-minute discounts weren't enough to get people into stores, said Marshal Cohen, chief research analyst at the market research firm NPD Inc.
"A lot of the Christmas spirit was left behind way back in Black Friday weekend," Cohen said, referring to the traditional retail rush the day after Thanksgiving. "We had one reason after another for consumers to say, 'I'm going to stick to my list and not go beyond it.'"
Holiday sales are a crucial indicator of the economy's strength. November and December account for up to 40 percent of annual sales for many retailers. If those sales don't materialize, stores are forced to offer steeper discounts. That's a boon for shoppers, but it cuts into stores' profits.
Last-minute shoppers like Kris Betzold, of Carmel, Ind., embraced discounts that were available before Christmas.
"We went out yesterday, and I noticed that the sales were even better now than they were at Thanksgiving," said Betzold Monday while shopping at an upscale mall in Indianapolis. Betzold, who said the sluggish economy prompted her and her husband to be more frugal this year, noted that she saved about $25 on a Kindle Fire she found at Best Buy.
Spending by consumers accounts for 70 percent of overall economic activity, so the eight-week period encompassed by the SpendingPulse data is seen as a critical time not just for retailers but for manufacturers, wholesalers and companies at every other point along the supply chain.
The SpendingPulse data include sales by retailers in key holiday spending categories such as electronics, clothing, jewelry, luxury goods, furniture and other home goods between Oct. 28 and Dec. 24. They include sales across all payment methods, including cards, cash and checks.
It's the first major snapshot of retail sales during the holiday season through Christmas Eve. A clearer picture will emerge next week as retailers like Macy's and Target report revenue from stores open for at least a year. That sales measure is widely watched in the retail industry because it excludes revenue from stores that recently opened or closed, which can be volatile.
Despite the weak numbers out Tuesday, retailers still have some time to make up lost ground. The final week of December accounts for about 15 percent of the month's sales, said Michael McNamara, vice president for research and analysis at MasterCard Advisors SpendingPulse. As stores offer steeper discounts to clear some of their unsold inventory, they may be able to soften some of the grim results reflected in Tuesday's data.
Still, this season's weak sales could have repercussions for 2013, he said. Retailers will make fewer orders to restock their shelves, and discounts will hurt their profitability. Wholesalers, in turn, will buy fewer goods, and orders to factories for consumer goods will likely drop in the coming months.
In the run-up to Christmas, analysts blamed the weather and worries about the "fiscal cliff" for putting a damper on shopping. Superstorm Sandy battered the Northeast and mid-Atlantic states in late October. Many in the New York region were left without power, and people farther inland were buried under feet of snow. According to McNamara, the Northeast and mid-Atlantic account for 24 percent of U.S. retail sales.
Buying picked up in the second half of November as retailers offered more discounts and shoppers waylaid by the storm finally made it into malls, he said.
But as the weather calmed, the threat of the "fiscal cliff" picked up. In December, lawmakers remained unable to reach a deal that would prevent tax increases and government spending cuts set to take effect at the beginning of 2013. If the cuts and tax hikes kick in and stay in place for months, many economists expect the nation could fall back into recession.
The news media discussed this possibility more intensely as December wore on, making Americans increasingly aware of the economic troubles they might face if Washington is unable to resolve the impasse. Sales never fully recovered, Cohen said.
The results were weakest in areas affected by Sandy and a more recent winter storm in the Midwest. Sales declined by 3.9 percent in the mid-Atlantic and 1.4 percent in the Northeast compared with last year. They rose 0.9 percent in the north central part of the country.
The West and South posted gains of between 2 percent and 3 percent, still weaker than the 3 percent to 4 percent increases expected by many retail analysts.
Online sales, typically a bright spot, grew only 8.4 percent from Oct. 28 through Saturday, according to SpendingPulse. That's a dramatic slowdown from the online sales growth of 15 to 17 percent seen in the prior 18-month period, according to the data service.
Online sales did enjoy a modest boost after the recent snowstorm that hit the Midwest, McNamara said. Online sales make up about 10 percent of total holiday business.


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Old, drafty windows can cause up to 50 percent of heat loss in the winter, and at least as much heat gain in the summer. Most homeowners have heard about double- and triple-pane windows, and energy-efficient glass.
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Along with a U-factor for overall energy efficiency, window companies should also list the air leakage (AL) value on each model. The AL number rates the amount of air that passes through the window frame. It is typically measured in cubic feet per minute per square foot of frame area. Look for the lowest AL. Highly efficient windows have values as low as 0.01.
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Students of this course may try their hand at their own sound interventions and musical compositions, or simply focus on learning more about diverse musical traditions, sonic experimentation, and acoustic phenomena in everyday life. Designed by artist and Duke professor, Pedro Lasch, and UdK composer Mathias Hinke, this course is also co-taught by scholar and musician Jace Clayton (DJ Rupture) and curator Candice Hopkins (Documenta 14). The lectures link major artistic developments of recent decades to wider ideas about sound in specific social and spatial contexts.
Also included are guest presentations from key thinkers and practitioners, like: Christopher DeLaurenti, Jen Delos Reyes, Tina Haver Currin, Quran Karriem, Christina Kubisch, Thomas Kusitzky, Scott Lindroth, Mark Anthony Neal, Bill Seaman, and John Supko. As the 'ART of the MOOC' title implies, learners and participants are encouraged to treat the MOOC itself as a public art medium. This happens mostly through the course's optional practical components, local project productions, global exchanges, and critical feedback. While no prior sound production or musical experience is required, projects also offer challenging options for advanced learners.
For other course offerings or language versions in this series, just search 'ART of the MOOC' in the Coursera catalog.


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Critical Java zero-day bug is being "massively exploited in the wild"
A previously unknown and currently unpatched security hole in the latest version of the Java software framework is under attack online, according to security researchers and bloggers.
Attack code that exploits vulnerability in Java's browser plugin has been added to the Blackhole, Cool, Nuclear Pack, and Redkit exploit kits, according to the Malware Don't Need Coffee blog, prompting its author to say that the bug is being "massively exploited in the wild." Miscreants use these products to turn compromised websites into platforms for silently installing keyloggers and other types of malicious software on the computers of unsuspecting visitors. KrebsOnSecurity reporter Brian Krebs said the curators of both Blackhole and Nuclear Pack have taken to the underweb to boast of the addition to their wares. It's not yet clear how many websites have been outfitted with the exploits.
According to researchers at Alienvault Labs, the exploits work against fully patched installations of Java. Attack files are highly obfuscated and are most likely succeeding by bypassing security checks built in to the program. KrebsOnSecurity said the malware authors say the exploits work against all versions of Java 7.
Analysis from antivirus provider Kaspersky Lab indicates the exploits are already deployed on a variety of websites.
"There appears to be multiple ad networks redirecting to Blackhole sites, amplifying the mass exploitation problem," Kaspersky Lab expert Kurt Baumgartner wrote. "We have seen ads from legitimate sites, especially in the UK, Brazil, and Russia, redirecting to domains hosting the current Blackhole implementation delivering the Java 0day. These sites include weather sites, news sites, and of course, adult sites."
People who don't use Java much should once again consider unplugging Java from their browser, while those who don't use it at all may want to uninstall it altogether. The release notes for Java 7 Update 10—the most recent version—say users can disable the program from the browser by accessing the Java Control Panel. KrebsOnSecurity has instructions here for other ways to do this.
Source: Ars Tecnhica


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President Obama will cap off a busy week of politicking with some R&R in Florida.
Obama plans to travel to the West Palm Beach area for what his spokesman called "some well-deserved downtime."
"He's going to spend Presidents Day weekend relaxing with some friends," said White House spokesman Josh Earnest. "There's no work on the schedule."
The getaway follows three days of campaign-style events building on the president's State of the Union address Tuesday night. Obama visited North Carolina on Wednesday to promote manufacturing. He spoke about preschool in Georgia on Thursday. And Friday, he'll hold an event in his hometown of Chicago.
In contrast, there are no public events on the schedule in Florida, although Earnest says the president won't be completely idle.
Obama "will fulfill his responsibilities as president even while he's getting some well-deserved downtime," Earnest said. "I don't think the American people will begrudge him that."
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Federal funds for Medicaid could add 12,000 Colorado jobs
By Ann Imse
Colorado Public News
A proposal to expand Medicaid to cover 160,000 more Coloradans will add roughly 12,000 jobs statewide, according to a rough estimate by economic development leader Tom Clark.
In coming months, the legislature will be debating whether to accept the federal offer that expands government health insurance to the working class and poor – which is part of the federal Affordable Cart Act. Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper recently gave it his support and estimated it would bring $12.28 billion in federal funds back to Colorado taxpayers over 10 years.
Colorado Public News asked Clark, CEO of Metro Denver Economic Development Corp., to calculate the number of jobs created by such a large influx of cash. In a rough estimate with pen, lined paper and long division, Clark figured that half the money would go to jobs and half to buildings and equipment, to provide health care to all these newly insured people. Using an average $50,000 Colorado salary on the remainder, he came up with more than 12,000 jobs from the other half of the money.
Since the federal money is slated to continue, those jobs would as well. Positions likely would range from direct medical care to construction and computer support.
More than 12,000 permanent jobs would be a huge economic boost to the state. It amounts to one-quarter of all the jobs created in Colorado in the past year.
The Medicaid expansion money, however, comes with strings attached. The federal money is nearly free to Colorado's government in the first three years. Then the state share rises gradually to 10 percent in 2020. That could top $100 million a year, and that commitment has Republicans like state Sen. Kevin Lundberg of Berthoud planning to vote against it. He says he's concerned the state will be stuck with a bill it can't afford.
Even so, the jobs created by the proposal "are a very attractive hook," Lundberg said.
If approved by the state legislature, the Medicaid expansion would provide health insurance to people earning up to about $15,000, or close to what a full-time worker makes at the minimum wage. The coverage would extend to families of four with incomes of up to $30,657.
That could include people like the Barber family of Montrose. Brandon Barber works 60 hours a week at a tire store to support his family of five. His wife Tish stays at home to raise three sons. The children qualify for Medicaid now, but the expansion might add their parents. Their family income is right on the edge of the limit, so it's not certain.
"Having medical insurance – I can't even begin to describe what a relief that would be for me," Tish Barber said. So far, she and her husband are in good health. But "my husband's father died at a young age of a heart attack," she said. So she knows she and her husband should be getting preventative care, to make sure they will stay healthy and be there to be parents to their children.
Colorado estimates the state share of extending Medicaid to working families like the Barbers at $1.2 billion over 10 years. Hickenlooper said only a small part of that, $128 million, would fall on taxpayers of Colorado, and this could be covered by improvements in efficiency in the existing Medicaid program.
Hickenlooper says the majority of the state share will be covered by other sources, including a fee already paid by hospitals. The Colorado Hospital Association has yet to agree to that. But hospitals stand to earn a large chunk of the billions of dollars in federal funds that would come into the state for medical care as a result of the proposed expansion. And CHA members already are paying some $500 million a year in fees used to match federal Medicaid funds.
Hospitals expect the provider fee will cover some of that $1 billion, said spokeswoman Melissa Phillips, but "it's too soon for us to say how much." Discussions are continuing, she said.
Advocates say Colorado should take the deal because its citizens will be healthier if they have insurance. Opponents believe the government should not be paying for health insurance for more people.
Clark said the cost of adding jobs with the Medicaid expansion is significantly more expensive than a typical economic development deal, where the state gives up tax breaks to entice a company to create jobs. But in this case, Coloradans pay the cost of caring for this group of currently uninsured people anyway, when they end up in hospital emergency rooms.
The question is whether Coloradans want help from the federal government to pay for health care services, he said. "That demand will not go away, just because we don't want to take the federal money."


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Android Development: Using the Hardware Scaler for Performance and Efficiency
This is a great article on why and how to take advantage of the hardware scaler available on Android platforms. This advice also applies to PC game developers where rendering to smaller buffers is common practice for performance reasons.
Developers may also consider a hybrid approach where they render the 3d elements of their scene to a reduced resolution back buffer, scale this to the intended display resolution and then render 2D user interface elements such as text at the final display resolution. This has the advantage of ensuring that the user interface is rendered as sharply as possible.
If fill rate is a big concern another solution is to perform a Z pre-pass. All of the scenes geometry is rendered using an inexpensive pixel shader. This primes the Z buffer for the actual render pass ensuring that the expensive final pixel shaders are only run for visible pixels.
Another easy tip is to try to render from front to back. This occludes as much of the render buffer as early as possible again reducing the total amount of pixel shading required.
Whatever kind of Android development you are doing, NVIDIA makes awesome tools. Sign up and check out the free Tegra Android Developer Pack.


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You, my dear readers, are quite the lucky ducks today!
I really did NOT want to share this recipe. I'm sorry. I hate to admit this, but I am selfish. I wanted to keep this little secret all to myself. You have recipes like this. The ones that are SO good, SO tasty, and usually SO easy, and SO requested by your fans that you don't want to share your perfect little secret. These are the recipes that make you seem like a kitchen genius! Why would you want to share them? When really, you just learned a little trick or two that makes the dish signature. Completely Julia Child!
Julia could not have made a better cookie than this little. humble. chocolate. chip.
Michael and I try to eat healthy foods. We use a little too much cheese, but usually our foods tend to be on the healthier side, with less sugar, less saturated fats, and lots of chicken and veggies. I throw all of that out the window when it comes to cookies. Some things you just can't mess with. It's all or nothing baby!
Actually, I rarely make cookies, mainly because I know Michael and I will eat ALL of them in about 2 days... and it's just the two of us. (I guess if we had kids all the cookies would all be gone in about 45 seconds!) We're definitely cookie-aholics. So rather than have the temptation, I save them for a special Saturday, birthdays, holidays, or when Michael needs a serious pick me up. These cookies will do the trick. Every. Time.
It's funny how we food bloggers seem to get similar ideas at the same time (especially around the holidays!) I promise we are not sending each other memos... it's just a funny, but cool coincidence! Sea, over at Book of Yum, just posted an excellent essay that shares some WONDERFUL hints on how to make great gluten-free cookies at home, and she also gives a review of some new frozen cookie dough on the market! If I had a bigger home freezer, I'd be trotting it over to Whole Foods right now!
One of the best things about this particular homemade dough is that it DOES freeze well. You can separate the dough into individual little cookie balls, freeze them first on a cookie sheet, then toss them into a plastic container and pull out the amount of cookies you need whenever you need them. That's usually too handy for me though, we never make enough to freeze extra!
So if you're making Thanksgiving dinner this week: Make a batch of these cookies the day before! You can entertain your guests with a sweet little snack before the big meal. Trust me... by serving these babies before the bird, if the meal somehow doesn't come off as a big hit, your guests will never even notice... they will be so in love with you over your amazing chocolate chip cookies ("ARE you SURE these are gluten free? They can't be! These are better than any cookie I have ever had!" -- This was Michael's reaction when I first made them! Seriously!), that they will still think you are a kitchen genius! Julia Child, baby!
I mean, after all...who cares about the bird when you can have a PERFECT and Gluten Free chocolate chip cookie? Or two... or three... or...
** UPDATE: For a Step By Step Guide on making these cookies, please click here. **
The BEST Chocolate Chip Cookies
Created by Carrie @ http://www.gingerlemongirl.com
(Free of gluten and casein)
- *1/2 cup butter flavored Crisco (or butter)
- 1/4 cup granulated sugar
- 3/4 cup brown sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 1/2 tsp. vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup tapioca flour
- 1/2 cup sorghum flour
- 1/4 cup brown rice flour
- 1/2 tsp. kosher salt
- 1/4 tsp. xanthan gum (optional)
- 1 tsp. baking powder
- 1/2 tsp. baking soda
- 6 oz. GF chocolate chips
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a large bowl: cream butter with sugars until light and fluffy. Add egg and vanilla. In a separate bowl mix together flours, salt, xanthan gum (opt.), baking powder, and baking soda. Slowly add flour mixture to butter and sugar mixture. Last, mix in chocolate chips. Place tablespoon sized dough portions 2 inches apart on a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper or a silpat mat. Bake 7-9 minutes or JUST UNTIL edges are light brown.
(The cookies WILL NOT look completely cooked when you pull them out of the oven! That's what you want! That's part of the secret to these awesome cookies! DO NOT overbake them!)
Let cookies cool on a wire baking rack or the cookie sheet for 5-10 minutes. This will allow cookies to retain their shape for eating!
This recipe doubles easily.
*Note: Normally, I do NOT like using shortening for baking because it is a trans-fat, and therefore really not good for you. BUT since we only make these cookies occasionally, and since shortening really seems to make a better gluten-free cookie than butter (for reasons why visit Sea's cookie review), we stick to using a butter flavored shortening.
Also, xanthan gum is completely optional in this recipe, but I think adding just a tiny bit makes for a chewier gluten-free cookie!
UPDATE: These cookies WILL RUN if you choose to use all butter, or margarine, and leave out the shortening completely! If you choose NOT to use shortening, make sure to refrigerate your dough for several hours before baking, this will help to alleviate the cookies spreading too much. Also, the size of the dough placed on the cookie sheet needs to be about 1 tablespoon worth of dough. It also helps to bake these cookies on a silpat mat or parchment paper to prevent spreading.
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Periodontal disease, commonly known as gum disease, is caused by bacteria in plaque. If not consistently removed, this bacteria builds up, infecting your teeth, gums, lower gum tissue and eventually the bone that supports your teeth – a common cause of tooth loss. This disease has three stages of progression: gingivitis, periodontitis, and advanced periodontitis; the longer the disease has to advance, the more damage it causes. Fear not, American Dental Wellness is here to help. With advancements in detection and treatment, we can discover periodontal disease early and begin treatment before complicated gum disease care issues arise.
Common Signs of Gum Disease
- Red, tender, and swollen gums that bleed during brushing or flossing
- Constant bad breath or bad taste in your mouth
- Gumline receding, or gums are pulling away from teeth and forming pockets
- Changes in your bite or teeth alignment, loose teeth
Gum Disease Treatment Process
- We provide comprehensive cleanings to remove built-up plaque and tartar.
- For more advanced conditions, scaling and deep root planing are effective treatments we provide. These procedures also involve inclusive cleaning, but deeper into areas above and below the gum line. A local anesthetic is administered in conjunction as well.
- We also utilize an FDA-approved antibiotic called Arestin. The Arestin therapy is quick, comfortable, and once applied, antibiotics are released into your gums for up to 21 days.
How Can I Prevent Gum Disease Before it Starts?
Simple, everyday steps can also be taken to avoid gum disease growth, including:
- Brushing and flossing consistently at least twice day
- Using an antimicrobial mouth rinse daily to help control plaque
- Scheduling regular checkups
If you are experiencing the symptoms of gum disease, it's essential that you begin treatment. Besides tooth loss, studies have linked untreated periodontal disease to the development of severe health issues such as heart disease, strokes, diabetes and pre-term low birth-weight babies. If you think you may have gum disease, please contact American Dental Wellness to schedule an appointment right away.


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From Tulsa, we move our focus back to the city of Sanford, Florida, where Trayvon Martin, an unarmed African-American teen, was shot and killed six weeks ago by neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman. The constant spotlight has brought the issue of race to the forefront, and with it some tense moments in that Florida community. NPR's Kathy Lohr spent the last week in Sanford and has this story.
KATHY LOHR, BYLINE: Residents in the historically black neighborhood of Goldsboro say the issues surrounding the Trayvon Martin case are not new, including mistrust of the local police, unsolved crimes and racial profiling. This is the city where Jackie Robinson was run out of town in the spring of 1946 when he tried to break baseball's color barrier. At the 13th Street Barber Shop, a longtime community business, retired nurse Beverly Herron gets her hair cut ahead of the holiday weekend.
BEVERLY HERRON: That child should not have to die for this. This should have been done years ago.
LOHR: Herron says problems have been hidden for too long. She's relieved that federal and state authorities are investigating.
HERRON: They should keep it going on forever, until it gets some kind of justice. Forever - as long as it takes.
LOHR: Outside the barber shop, Tim Irvin is wearing a Trayvon T-shirt. He's incensed.
TIM IRVIN: I figure the whole world can see what's finally going on now, what's been going on in Sanford.
LOHR: Irvin says people here are on edge waiting to hear whether the state prosecutor will bring charges against the shooter, George Zimmerman, who claims he killed the teen in self-defense.
IRVIN: And those signs that they're holding up saying No Justice No Peace, that's exactly what it's going to be if we don't get no justice.
TURNER CLAYTON: The community was already at a boiling point. This was just the tip of the iceberg that kind of made it boil over.
LOHR: Turner Clayton, the local president of the NAACP, has appealed for patience and calm in this town of about 53,000 people.
CLAYTON: There has to be charges. If for some reason that does not happen, I would hate to think what could possibly happen in this community.
LOHR: A few miles away in the renovated downtown Sanford business district, red brick streets and storefronts shimmer on this spring afternoon that feels like summer. Here too, the Trayvon Martin shooting is also raising concerns about the future of this town. Theo Hollerbach owns a German restaurant called the Willow Tree Cafe and he says the shooting and the protests here have made him think about the issue of race.
THEO HOLLERBACH: It really got to me and it made me realize that, you know, some of the points of view I have that I didn't even see and it made me reevaluate how I look at things.
LOHR: Hollerbach insists Sanford is not a bad place. He says all the businesses here are also concerned about the economic impact. Reservations were cancelled and tourists were staying away, but now, business is picking up again. Next door, Jeanine Taylor owns a folk art gallery. She says half of the artists she represents are African-American.
JEANINE TAYLOR: We support standing up for what has happened to Trayvon and wanting to make things right.
LOHR: But she worries she can't. Taylor says many outsiders and some in the media have unfairly portrayed the city.
TAYLOR: We can't seem to do anything to make things better, the community as a whole. And no matter what the outcome, there are going to be some people that are outraged and should be, and so that makes for more discomfort and worry.
LOHR: Taylor and others are working on a community project called Hand in Hand. Over the next few weeks, children and adults will be tracing the outline of their hands on cardboard and writing positive messages on them. The plan is for the hands to be displayed across the city. Kathy Lohr, NPR News, Sanford, Florida. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Are you an MLB.TV subscriber? In past years they have always asked you to renew. Not anymore. Check your credit card.
Are you an MLB.TV subscriber? In past years they have always asked you to renew. Not anymore. Check your credit card. MLB just charged it for a one year subscription to MLB.TV Premium.
In years past I have always let the decision to resubscribe rattle around in my head. Every year they raise the price and every year I resubscribe because I'm a Phillies fan in the New York market, and MLB.TV lets me watch all the Phillies games and with the Phillies announcers too. I probably would have resubscribed this year too, but I'd like to have been asked.
Today MLB.com pushed out version 6.0.0 of their iOS app At Bat. Around the same time, if you were a previous subscriber and had a still-valid credit card on-file, MLB.com charged it $124.99. A colleague told me that his had been charged in this way. I checked mine and the charge was there:
I checked with one more friend who subscribes and he was also charged. I think I detected a pattern.
Now is the time to make that angry phone call or to tell your credit card company to decline the charge.
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It is strongly advised that you don't click the link below unless you've finished the book. Seriously.
In the wake of Return of the Jedi, fandom slowly sank into the dark times. Although there were some who kept the fandom alive, Lucasfilm had moved on to other things and the flow of merchandise had ended. Then, in 1991, a book appeared magically on a shelf bearing the Star Wars logo: Heir to the Empire by Timothy Zahn. It was not just one book, but a trilogy of novels which introduced a vibrant character, Mara Jade, and revitalized Star Wars fandom.
Not long after that great event, a group of people found each other through RASS on USEnet and started emailing each other discussing the Zahn books, especially the character of Mara Jade. The group appreciated the character Zahn created: a woman who was independent, strong, and intelligent. The fact she was only the second female Force-user certainly didn't hurt things. The group started out as a Mara Jade fan club of sorts, but quickly found that many of the reasons they were drawn to the character were evident in the new friends they were meeting. Members brought more like-minded souls and the group grew to include women and men from all walks of life- teachers, doctors, lawyers, mothers, sisters, scientists, nurses, daughters, writers, computer geeks, artists, and librarians, to name only a few.
So we came together around a fictional character who was not even in the movies. (The EU may put her in Jabba's palace but let's get technical.) We shared a love of the Star Wars universe and the magic that fans feel when they slip into that galaxy far far away. As the years grew, our focus began to spread to other fandoms – though typically they all were represented somewhere within by the same type of strong, independent and intelligent female characters (Scully, Buffy, Elizabeth Swan, Eowyn, among others).
With the recent developments in the EU, people have been asking what we, who started as a Mara Jade fan club, thought about it. Being a bunch of strong, independent, and intelligent folks, I doubt we'll ever come to a full consensus. Some of us feel betrayed and wonder if we can ever feel comfortable playing in the Star Wars galaxy again. Others are taking it in stride and can appreciate a story well told. And some of us are scratching our heads, wondering what all the fuss is about. At the end of the day, it just doesn't matter. Mara was a fictional character and we can all count ourselves alive and well in the real world.
The important part in all of this is that because this character existed, we found each other. Mara Jade, though the power of the internet, made a big world a whole lot smaller for a lot of us and we're extremely grateful for it. We'll keep moving on with Club Jade, though a little disappointed there won't be Mara there to keep things in line. The site isn't going anywhere, the cons will still be attended, and people will still post to list things that will make you think twice or laugh so hard you'll swear to never read your email at work again. And we'll continue to hope that our favorite authors will come up with someone just as wonderful to inspire everyone to fight for what they believe. (And maybe they'll fill in some of Mara's missing timeline?)
Until then, to borrow a favorite quote of a friend: "I came for the Star Wars, I stayed for the friendships."


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More than two years after LibreOffice came into being, it's hard to call the open source office software anything but a success. There are possibly tens of millions of people who use it—or at least have it installed on their computers. But how close is LibreOffice to overtaking OpenOffice, the king of open source productivity suites?
The short answer is that LibreOffice has a long way to go.
OpenOffice (which descended from Sun's StarOffice) has existed as an open source project for more than a decade. Concerns about OpenOffice's future after the Oracle/Sun merger led a core group of OpenOffice contributors to create LibreOffice, which is based on the same original code base but is getting more frequent updates than OpenOffice.
Oracle no longer controls OpenOffice, but the makers of the two office suites aren't working together. Oracle transferred control of OpenOffice to the Apache Software Foundation, while LibreOffice is maintained by the newly created Document Foundation.
To top it all off, there have been disputes about LibreOffice adoption figures, with one IBM employee and OpenOffice developer last fall writing a series of blog posts titled "LibreOffice's Dubious Claims."
There's little doubt that OpenOffice is still more widely used, but getting an exact count isn't simple. Let's take a look at what we know.
Counting open source usage a complex task
LibreOffice won over the makers of most major Linux-based operating systems, which now ship LibreOffice instead of OpenOffice as the standard office suite. But Linux users can download OpenOffice if they prefer it, and Linux in any case is only about 1 percent of the worldwide desktop market dominated by Windows (and Macs).
The Document Foundation recently announced that "rates of entirely new client IP addresses requesting updates each day [are] over the 100,000 mark," four times higher than at the same point last year.
I asked LibreOffice spokesman and Document Foundation co-founder Italo Vignoli to explain the significance of that number.
"People requesting updates have a working copy of LibreOffice pinging the servers," Vignoli wrote in an e-mail. "This means that they have downloaded LibreOffice (or they have got the package from a CD, a USB key, an alternative download site, or any other trusted source), they have installed the software and they are using the software (otherwise their PC would not ping the server)."
This generally accounts for individual users rather than corporate deployments. On the whole, "we can assume that out there are over 21 million individuals actively using LibreOffice with the update feature switched on," Vignoli said.
The numbers released by LibreOffice and OpenOffice aren't quite apples-to-apples, but they do suggest more interest in OpenOffice. OpenOffice 3.4 has been downloaded more than 40 million times since being released in May 2012. The 21 million figure of individual users of LibreOffice includes all the users racked up since LibreOffice became available in January 2011.
Then again, LibreOffice's method of counting theoretically includes only active users, leaving out those who downloaded the software and then discarded it.
Individual downloaders aren't the only source of adoption. There are corporate deployments, as well as users of Linux distributions that pre-install LibreOffice. Perhaps most users of distributions like Fedora and Ubuntu now use LibreOffice by virtue of it being the default option, but nothing is preventing them from using something else.
"In general, we estimate a figure very close to 100 percent of Linux desktops (which are also difficult to estimate but should be between 20 and 30 million), plus 30 to 40 million Windows users (based on downloads, migrations, requests for support and development), and a good number of MacOS users," Vignoli said. "Of course, these are estimates, and not unit figures based on license activations (and any estimate can be accurate or inaccurate, as the word estimate should imply, although there are people in other projects who imply that our estimates are cheating, which also explains why we are very shy about providing numbers we are not extremely confident about)."
OpenOffice adoption is still big, and growing
It stands to reason that there is a bigger base of existing OpenOffice users than LibreOffice ones, both among individuals and corporations, thanks to its long history and name recognition inside and outside the open source community. It's also beating LibreOffice on new downloads, as far as we can tell.
OpenOffice's published download stats show that it often hits 160,000 or 170,000 new downloads a day. On a "bad" day, the number might drop to 120,000.
Perhaps LibreOffice's figure of new downloads is higher than the 100,000 new IP addresses requesting updates each day, but we don't know based on the available data. "We are also working at getting a similar statistic for downloads, which measure the number of people who get the software but not the number of people who use it," Vignoli said. "We would of course like to provide the most accurate figures, but we are still a very young project (and we have been constantly upgrading our infrastructure during the course of the last two years, since we have launched LibreOffice)."
Controversy over LibreOffice adoption figures arose last October when Rob Weir, an OpenOffice contributor and IBM architect who works on the Open Document Format, wrote the aforementioned series of blog posts questioning "LibreOffice's Dubious Claims."
Whereas OpenOffice releases daily download rates, LibreOffice adoption numbers come "from download claims in press releases, and then only at long intervals," Weir wrote. "We have no idea what exactly they are counting. They have never made the detailed stats public. This does not mean that the numbers are incorrect, of course. It just means that no one outside of their project's leadership is able to verify the claims."
Weir took the projects' total download numbers and calculated an average daily download rate of 29,460 for LibreOffice and 127,326 for OpenOffice.
Clearly, LibreOffice is enjoying much quicker adoption now. Weir's average was based on the total number of downloads of LibreOffice since January 2011, including the early days when LibreOffice was counting fewer than 10,000 new users a day.
Still, OpenOffice has "a massive brand advantage," LibreOffice developer Michael Meeks, an employee of Attachmate's SUSE business unit, told Ars. "They have a huge and valuable brand that we helped build for many years. It's an enduring sadness that they are not working with us. Clearly, they have more downloads, I think there's no doubt about that. But we're growing rather rapidly."
OpenOffice and LibreOffice combined are still just a minority of the total office market. Microsoft claims Microsoft Office is installed on more than 1 billion desktops worldwide, while Google claims tens of millions of users for Google Docs. (See also: Open source, Web-based office suite takes on Google Docs, LibreOffice.)
For Vignoli, it's not just about the numbers. "I do not think that the success of The Document Foundation and LibreOffice can yet be measured with numbers, because we have launched just 30 months ago and we are still growing at an incredibly fast rate," he said. "Today, we are listed amongst the largest free software projects, which is something that no one would have believed in September 2010."


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Ending the Permanent Crisis
Ever since they took control of the House of Representatives in 2011, Republicans have made journeys to the fiscal brink as commonplace as summertime visits to the beach or the ballpark.This has to stop.
Ever since they took control of the House of Representatives in 2011, Republicans have made journeys to the fiscal brink as commonplace as summertime visits to the beach or the ballpark. The country has been put through a series of destructive showdowns over budget issues we once resolved through the normal give-and-take of negotiations.
The old formula held that when government was divided between the parties, the contending sides should try to "meet in the middle." But the current Republican leadership doesn't know the meaning of the word "middle," so intimidated has it become by the tea party.
Here is a way out of permanent crisis: President Obama should demand the repeal of all artificial deadlines and tell both houses of Congress that he won't make further proposals until each actually passes a replacement to the sequester — not a gimmick or something that looks like an alternative, but the real thing.
With everyone on the record, normal discussions could begin and Washington would no longer look like the set of a horror movie in which a new catastrophe lurks around every corner.
The solution to the problems of democracy is more democracy, so let both houses hold votes on all the potential remedies — on Obama's own proposal, on packages put forward by Democrats Chris Van Hollen in the House and Patty Murray in the Senate, and on anything the Republicans care to proffer, including the sequester itself.
Let the House Republican majority show it can come up with a substantial alternative or, failing that, allow a plan to pass with a mix of Republican and Democratic votes.
In the Senate, ditch the unconstitutional abuse of the filibuster and let a plan pass by simple majority vote. Misuse of the filibuster is a central cause of Washington's contorted policymaking. Let's end the permanent budget crisis by governing ourselves though the majorities that every sane democracy uses.
The air of establishment Washington is filled with talk that Obama must "lead." But Obama cannot force the House Republican majority to act if it doesn't want to. He is (fortunately) not a dictator. What Obama can do is expose the cause of this madness, which is the dysfunction of the Republican Party.
Journalists don't like saying this because it sounds partisan. But the truth is the truth, whether it sounds partisan or not.
And a staunch conservative has succinctly explained why this problem really is a Republican problem. In an admirably candid interview Monday with Ezra Klein on MSNBC, Ben Domenech, a conservative blogger, said the new tea party Republicans in the House don't want their leadership to sit down with Obama to talk because "they have their doubts about the ability of Republicans to negotiate any better situation."
Read that carefully: We are in this mess because Republicans don't trust their leaders to bargain. Domenech added that many conservatives "don't buy this distinction between smart cuts and dumb cuts," a distinction that is not "all that critical." This is astonishing: Government is bad, so all cuts are more or less the same. And you wonder why we have a crisis?
Boehner keeps saying that the House has twice voted for ways to replace the sequester. What he doesn't say is that those votes were held in the last Congress, so the bills are dead. If they are so good, why doesn't the speaker bring them up again and pass them now? The answer is almost certainly that he doesn't have the votes. If I'm wrong, Boehner can prove it by calling the question. I'm not worried.
One proposal Republicans are floating would give Obama more flexibility to administer the sequester. Thus, a party that says it can't trust Obama enough to negotiate with him would trust him so much as to grant him exceptional power.
The contradiction is so glaring that Republicans are split on the idea, and it's foolish anyway. As a senior administration official suggested, it's like being told that two of your fingers will be cut off but you could choose which fingers. How is it a "concession" to ask Obama to organize the cuts he says would be a disaster?
The nation is exhausted with fake crises that voters thought they ended with their verdict in the last election. Those responsible for the Washington horror show should be held accountable. And only one party is using shutdowns, cliffs and debt ceilings as routine political weapons.
E.J. Dionne's e-mail address is ejdionne(at)washpost.com.
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I had my first wedding anniversary, my first Christmas tree (it's a baby tree I got the day after Christmas from Target), the first year I've become a Sephora VIB (omg my bank account!), my first DSLR camera (Canon XSI, yay for pretty pictures), and I exceeded 1 million hits as well as 1,000+ blog followers! Never thought that was possible. ^O^ I also received so much support from my readers and won the Holiday Vlogger competition sponsored by The Body Shop.
There are so many incredible things that happened that I never thought could be possible when I started this blog and I have everything to thank to my loyal readers. Shoutout to those Soompiers who supported me from day 1!! Honestly, I am overwhelmed and humbled thinking in retrospect of the past year and through all of the hardships that my family and I endured, that I would still have such an outpouring of love and support coming from my friends here on this crazy online world. You don't even realize how much this has brought me through some of the tough spots in my life.
-gonna get a little emo here so if you'd like to skip this, feel free- ;)
I felt so scared to open up the first time on blog. People have been so judgmental in the past and I had every intention to keep this blog to a less-personal level that was informative and a tool where others could learn what little I knew and where I could learn boundless more from everyone else. When I got to a point where I felt like my voice needed to be heard, I was seriously bowled over at the compassion that met me at the other end.
I fully expected to be ripped to shreds. Who cares what this chick thinks? She wears eyelid tape so she must be fake! BURN HER AT THE STAKE! Little did I realize how much my silly little makeup tricks may have actually helped someone to actually feel good, pretty, NORMAL. I feel like I grew up in a society that never taught me how to apply makeup and to figure out for yourself why you aren't tall, blonde, and with clear skin and double eyelids. I just want to let everyone know that it's okay. You aren't a teenager forever. The bad skin can be cleared, and you know what? Single lids are beautiful. Double lids are beautiful. You can have a choice to be who you want to be! I may not be 5'8", but I can walk with my head held high being me, and feeling good about making the best of what I've got for ME.
I've always said, my mantra is to use beauty to project the good inside, not as a mask to hide insecurities. Everyone deserves to feel beautiful and genuine at the same time. I just hope that for 2010 I can make more people feel that way. That's my New Years resolution. ^^
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So I've had a lot of requests to share my top beauty products of 2009, so for a final huzzah of the year, here we go from head to toe:
Favorite Shampoo and Conditioner: Essential Rich Premier Shampoo and Conditioner
Super inexpensive from sasa.com and smells SO GOOD! Like fruity-floral. Plus, it makes hair silky and soft.
Favorite Leave-in Treatment: Biosilk Silk Therapy
I apply to wet hair from the ears down and hair becomes much softer and easier to manage.
Favorite Facewash: Re-10 Wash
I know this one is prescription so it's not easy to get a hold of, but it's gentle and doesn't dry my skin out. It's generic so only $10 and one large bottle lasts me all year.
Favorite Face Lotion: Dove Deep Moisture Facial Lotion
Contains spf 15, doesn't break out my sensitive skin, and prevents winter skin flakies. Love!
Favorite Eyeshadow: NYX Single Eyeshadows
Inexpensive and super pigmented. I own like 1564654 of them. A few of my favorite colors include White, Black, Almond, Flamingo, Morocco, Purple, Kiwi, Mermaid Green, and Cream Cheese
Favorite Eyeliner: MAC Blacktrack Fluidline
Cream liner. Basic matte black. Can give a liquid or pencil look and it lasts all day. Totally an HG forever.
Favorite Mascara: Covergirl Lash Exact Waterproof
Holds curl, doesn't clump, defines, and lengthens lashes. Great for a clean, fluttery lash look.
Favorite Eyeshadow Primer: Urban Decay Primer Potion
Just the best for normal to oily lids. Eyeshadow stays PERFECT even through a nap!
Favorite Double-Eyelid product: Wonder Eyelid Tape (Extra type, new packaging)
I've been wearing it nearly everyday! The most natural option of any tape or glue I've tried and it still works even with makeup. ^^ LOVE it so much!
Loved it so much I contacted the company in Japan to try to make it available to others too! Newly in stock, so e-mail me at email@example.com if you are interested in purchasing. I'll post about it officially soon. :D
Favorite Blush: Rock & Republic Contrived Pressed Blush in Call Me
In the same vein as Nars Orgasm but more pigmented. Gorgeous peachy-pink with a golden glow.
Favorite Foundation: Everyday Minerals foundation in Intensive - mix of (buff) Fairly Light Neutral and (olive) Golden Medium depending on the season.
Doesn't break out my skin and feels like I'm not wearing any foundation. Great everyday makeup.
Favorite Concealer: Lancome Photôgenic Concealer in Camée
I know this is getting phased out but it's still my favorite! Oil-free, spf 15, and lasts all day on hyperpigmentation spots left from acne.
Favorite Lip Balm: Rosebud Strawberry Lip Balm
Goes on lips easily like petroleum jelly but smells awesome and makes super soft lips!
Favorite Lipstick: Yves Saint Laurent Rouge Volupte
It's just the best, creamiest, most opaque, prettiest-packaged, yummy-smelling lipstick in the world.
Favorite Lipgloss: A tie between Dior Creme De Gloss (opaque gloss in Creamy Gold) and MAC Dazzleglass (sparkly gloss in Funtabulous)
Creme De Gloss is moisturizing and creamy with lipstick opaqueness, and Dazzleglasses are just show stoppers for ultra glittery lips.
Favorite Body Wash: Dove Cream Oil Body Wash in Cherry Blossom & Almond scent
Love the scent, very moisturizing, and inexpensive!
Favorite Perfume: D&G 3 L'Imperatrice
Absolutely, bar-none, my favorite perfume and first perfume that I consider to be my signature scent. LOVE. It smells pretty, fruity, floral, fresh, sexy, almost like strawberry rhubarb pie mixed with awesome but not TOO sweet, sugary, or floral. XD
Favorite Nailpolish: China Glaze
I have lots of colors but my favorite brand is China Glaze
Favorite Topcoat: Seche Vite
I learned it's pronounced sesh-veet! Amazing stuff. Apply thickly, promptly after your polish is applied before the polish is completely dried. In about a minute, the polish should be dry, shiny, and good to go!
Favorite Beauty Tools:
Eyelash Curler - Shiseido
Heated Eyelash Curler - Panasonic
Brush set - Sonia Kashuk Hidden Treasures
Eyeshadow Brush - Coastal Scents Italian Badger Round Crease Brush
Face Brush - Clarisonic Mia
Shower Brush - Bath & Body Works Back Brush
WHEW! That was so much stuff. If I left something out, it might be because I don't really have an HG (holy grail) item for that category but feel free to ask away about my other beauty favorites that you'd like to know about in the comments. Also, if you are super passionate about something then give me your suggestion for your HG product since, of course, I love to try new things. ^o^
Much love, health, and happiness for 2010!


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