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They say that idle time is the devil's playground. Often, kids with too much time on their hands end up watching TV, playing video games, or getting into trouble. Interest in positive and creative activities is not only key to a child's growth; it can breed a lifetime of self-confidence. For nine-year old David Vargas, any and all free time is used for wrenching and showing, thanks to his custom bike and support of his family. While other kids maybe interested in their Playstations and Wii's, it's safe to say that David would rather be in the garage, learning the ins and outs of Lowrider bike building and competing with the best of the best.
David's bike started out innocently enough explains his Dad, Amado. "David got into the bikes when his older brother fixed up a Lowrider bike. He wanted one and wanted one so badly that I finally built him one," laughs Amado. "After that, every week, that kid would hit me up, 'Dad! Dad! Is there a show this week?' He loves shows. He's got that bug. He's all pumped up," says Amado. A wise man, Amado saw how inspired his son was and it fueled the two on their quest for the perfect bike build.
With both father and son being fully bitten by the custom bug, they set out to turn David's street bike into a show winner. "The paint was done by a local guy here in town called "The Kid," explains Amado. "He did the paint and Albert Herrera added the murals. All the custom parts came from Wicked Metal Works, and Henry's Upholstery did the upholstery," he says. Chrome duties were handled expertly by the crew at Showtime Chrome, leaving the bike with plenty of shine for the judges it would be placed in front of in the near future. Even with a plethora of chrome, what really sets this bike apart from the rest is the amount of engraving that covers nearly all of the bike's metal pieces. "The engraving was done by Gino's Engraving," says Amado. "When he first got the bike, it was a street bike and my son didn't want any engraving on it. I engraved a few things on it for points, and out of the blue, he got that bug and wanted almost every part engraved," says Amado with a laugh.
After all the hard work was completed the father and son were quite proud of themselves for getting the bike into mint condition shape. Even better, all the shows they attended brought the two closer together, and the bike has become a positive bargaining chip for Amado. "We really bonded a lot because of the bike, and I often use it as leverage," he says. "I tell him if he does well in school; I'll get him more stuff. It's helped to pick up his grades." After we got a look at David's bike, we figure him to be an honor roll student! The build certainly came out great and Amado would like to thank everyone who helped the father and son team complete their quest for bike perfection. "Shout outs to everyone that helped out on the build, and also to my brother, Billy Vargas, who pushed us, too." Great work, Amado and David!


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Michael Golden studied music composition in the Pacific Northwest with, among others, William Bergsma, Tomas Svoboda, Diane Thome and William O. Smith, receiving the DMA from the University of Washington in 1992.
Dr. Golden has composed for a wide range of media. He has been commissioned to write solo and chamber ensemble works, large ensemble works, and pieces for jazz ensembles of all sizes, and has also composed for computer-generated tape and live electronics, as well as multi-media, website, film, video and theatre productions.
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Tour of Pennsylvania Accepting Team Applications
The world's richest cycling race for U-25 riders is now seeking applications from the world's elite, young cycling teams. Organizers of The American Eagle Outfitters Tour of Pennsylvania, presented by Highmark Healthy High 5, are ramping up operations for this unprecedented six-day stage race in June 2008 and are now in the process of team selection.
The international tour will begin with a Prologue Time Trial in Philadelphia and will cover approximately 500 miles over six days (June 24-29), with finish line events in Philadelphia, Carlisle, Bedford and Latrobe and a race grand finale in Pittsburgh to help celebrate the southwestern Pennsylvania region's 250th anniversary. A total of $150,000 will be awarded in stage prizes, overall general classification and special competitions - the world's largest-ever prize list for U-25 riders.
"We're delighted that this race will build on cycling's strong traditions by showcasing the sport's up and coming talent," said Jerry Casale, chief operating officer of Pro Cycling Tour, LLC, the company that is organizing the race, along with ISM-USA and Pittsburgh 250. "In fact, we're inviting at least 20 six-rider teams of the world's best young cyclists in the espoir class, including some who may participate in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games and Tour de France."
The Tour of Pennsylvania route will roughly follow the historic Forbes Road (along U.S. 30), which was created in 1758 when British General John Forbes and Colonel George Washington forged a trail through the challenging terrain of the Allegheny Mountains to the Forks of the Ohio during the French and Indian War, founding Bedford, Ligonier and Pittsburgh along the way. "The route's combination of challenging terrain and the Pittsburgh circuits make it the ideal format for a stage race," said Casale.
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The KODAK NEXPRESS SX Platform Helps Full-Service Printer 1-800-Postcards Secure a Competitive Advantage and Generate Growth
ROCHESTER, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- With more than 35 years of experience in the printing industry, 1-800-Postcards understands the importance of delivering consistent, high-quality printed materials to its customers. The full-service company first built its reputation as an offset printer and then expanded into digital printing 10 years ago with the installation of two KODAK NEXPRESS 3000 Presses. 1-800-Postcards has recently enhanced its digital printing capabilities even further by investing in a KODAK NEXPRESS SX3300 Press.
The company recently changed floors in its SoHo location to accommodate the influx of new business. As part of the project, 1-800-Postcards upgraded its presses, revamped its internal ordering processes and spent over one million dollars in designing a storefront with a unique agency-like aesthetic. 1-800-Postcards takes pride in being the only provider in Manhattan that utilizes the KODAK NEXPRESS Digital Color Platform and attributes its recent growth to its comprehensive digital printing capabilities.
"Right now, I am highly focused on company growth in digital," said David Moyal, President of 1-800-Postcards. "I have gone to practically every printing show across the country over the years and have seen these shows be taken over by digital print. This is where the industry is heading. While we still maintain a successful offset business, we are doing our best to expand our service offerings in the digital arena. In my opinion, anyone who goes digital is going to end up a winner."
1-800-Postcards utilizes the NEXPRESS Platform to meet the dynamic needs of its diverse client base, ranging from large design agencies and leading brands to small retail businesses and individual consumers. The company captures orders both on-site and through its website, and required a high performing press to keep up with the demands in quality and turnaround times. Moyal knew that the addition of the NEXPRESS SX Press with the Fifth Imaging Unit Solution would help the company gain a greater competitive advantage in the marketplace after seeing the exceptional performance of the initial NEXPRESS Presses.
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The NEXPRESS Platform prints on more than 800 standard offset substrates and enables duplex printing with ease. 1-800-Postcards gives its customers the option to print larger sized applications thanks to the long-sheet feeder. Customers can also differentiate their applications through watermarking, protection coating, high-quality glossing, in-line dimensional printing and spot colors with the Fifth Imaging Unit Solution. Moyal feels these extended printing features are enabling them to bring in new business opportunities that didn't exist when they pursued offset printing alone.
"We are in the heart of the creative section of N.Y.C. and these designers can now get more creative with their printing, at a cheaper cost, through digital print," said Moyal. "We are able to better serve our existing clients and bring in new ones. We often show prospective customers how easily we can achieve effects like dimensional printing or clear gloss using the KODAK NEXPRESS Fifth Imaging Unit Solutions, and they immediately want to know how it can be done. We are happy to tell them that it can only be achieved on the NEXPRESS Platform."
In an independent photo quality study completed by SpencerLab, it was found that the KODAK NEXPRESS SX Press achieved the overall highest rating for photographic print quality, demonstrating the best all-round performance across the majority of attributes evaluated.
The NEXPRESS SX Press features Print Genius, a suite of productivity and quality control tools developed specifically to automate tasks and help printers maintain peak quality throughout the production run. The KODAK NEXPRESS Intelligent Calibration System (ICS) version 3 software also helps to maintain print uniformity and fast processing. Together, these features can enable printers to achieve fast turnaround times with increased press uptime and consistent imaging without the risk of sacrificing the quality they desire. "We have great flexibility with the NEXPRESS Platform. We had one customer who wanted to change his business cards, so we made the necessary adjustments and were able to get the file on the press and printed within 15 minutes. You can't do that unless you have a quality digital printer," said Moyal. "The NEXPRESS Platform's imaging quality rivals that of offset. Customers demand the best quality from us and, fortunately, we are able to do that through Kodak's robust digital printing solution."
In addition to investing in NEXPRESS technology, 1-800-Postcards also uses KODAK THERMAL DIRECT Non Process Plates for high-quality offset printing. Since THERMAL DIRECT Plates do not require processing, they offer streamlined and simplified platemaking, reduced operational costs and labor, and greater overall prepress efficiency than traditionally processed plates. THERMAL DIRECT Plates completely eliminate plate processing so 1-800-Postcards can reduce environmental impact and costs with no processing chemistry and save time, money, and floor space with no processing equipment. THERMAL DIRECT Plates even go a step further to improve the image stability and consistency of printed materials by eliminating processing variability and offering reliable imaging job after job.
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The arts are one of this country's greatest success stories. From award-winning theatre to innovative dance, celebrated musicians to pioneering artists; British culture is admired throughout the world. It inspired individuals and united communities in this summer's London 2012 Festival and brought the whole nation together with the dazzling Olympic ceremonies. Despite immense challenges, the arts continue to thrive with the sector set to employ 1.3 million people by 2013.
That is why it is so important that subjects like art, drama, dance, music, and design technology – the ones that made London 2012 possible – are given due prominence in our schools. The English Baccalaureate (EBacc), which serves as a performance measure for schools, has already excluded all arts subjects – pushing them into the remaining teaching time, a mere 20%. Now further reforms could exacerbate this trend, with suggestions that drama, dance and film be removed from the National Curriculum and that the two-tier system of the EBacc be formalized through the proposed English Baccalaureate Certificates (EBCs).
The impact of this growing neglect of the arts within schools should not be understated. It will harm the future of our creative industries, the vibrancy of our communities, and the long-term creativity and potential of our workforce. Above all, it will harm our children by denying them access to this incredible creative world.
Studying and practicing the arts – whether classical history or modern dance – has an incredible impact on a child. I saw this first-hand during the London 2012 Festival when children, often from deprived backgrounds, were inspired by music, art and culture. They gained confidence, a sense of self-worth and an insight into a world that they'd never experienced. That's an experience that every single child deserves and one that cultural institutions cannot be relied upon solely to provide.
Schools must be at the heart of ensuring that all children, regardless of their background, gain access to the arts and the benefits they confer throughout life. Many top education systems around the world already recognize the importance of the arts, with the government's own Expert Panel noting that out that of 14 high-performing jurisdictions, only four, including England, cease compulsory provision of art and music by the age of 14. Massachusetts and Ontario continue compulsory art and music until age 18. It is time that our education system also recognized the great value of the arts for children and young people.
The current neglect of the arts in our education will not just affect those in school. It will also have a devastating effect on our creative industries. The scale of employment is much larger than most people realize, with hundreds of thousands of jobs that many young people may not even know exist. The Royal Opera House alone employs 1000 people, in jobs ranging from artists for the sets to developers for the website. The industry needs these creative skills if it is to survive and flourish – and children need to be given the tools and training in schools to access these opportunities.
The arts are an integral part of our communities, our wellbeing and our sense of identity. They inspire and sustain us in difficult times, challenge us to think and give us something to celebrate and explore as a nation. They are not an add-on in our lives so cannot be treated as such in our children's education.


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This is a team everyone can root for. I really hope they make it to the Final Three.
It's a shame that the article has to quote TwOP but GO GRAMPS
GRANDPA-GRANDSON TALK OF 'AMAZING RACE'By DON KAPLAN Nick, 68, stripped down to his underwear to pole vault, while grandson Donald, 24, watched which set a pattern for the popular pair.December 24, 2007 -- LOVE 'em or hate 'em, Nicolas and Donald, the first grandson/grandfather team to appear on "Amazing Race," have become the most talked-about competitors on the most popular edition of the show yet. The pair - airline pilot Nicolas Fulks, 24 and retired jack-of-all-trades Donald Jerousek, 68 - have, for six legs of the race so far, managed to remain with the pack in their dash around the world on the popular CBS reality show. Again last night, they managed to hang on, despite fierce odds. The unlikely popularity Nick and Donald seems to come from the fast, familiar banter they have on the screen. And not least because Nick is the randy, right-back-at-you grandpa some people wish they had. "This is a team that is completely relatable," the show's creator, Bertrum Van Munster, told The Post. "Nicolas appeals to the younger crowd and Donald appeals to an older crowd. "I think they are almost a pure example of what the whole show is about - something that anybody can relate to," he says. People really took notice of Donald after Week 3 when, after dancing with a rival team of young, blonde sisters, he remarked: "They're hot. There's no doubt about it. They're feisty. They're a little bitchy, but not bad. If I was a little younger . . ." The "hot" comment cemented Nick as someone to keep an eye on - especially if you were young and attractive and he was right behind you. "Worry about yourself," Donald barked at his grandson at another point - when Nick complained his grandfather was not paddling fast enough. "I'm helping here, whether you know it or not." Nick and Donald work well together, but what has fans flabbergasted is Nick always stepping aside to allow his headstrong grandfather to tackle the highly physical challenges the show's producers dream up. "The man is nearly 70 years old, but he's strong as a bear," says an amazed Van Munster. The ease the pair have with each other on camera may also have a bit to do with their family's celebrity status: Nick's father is country music star Robbie Fulks who is married to Donald's daughter, singer Donna Jay Fulks. "I was turned on to Robbie Fulks [music] when he accidentally impregnated my mother," Nicolas deadpanned in a profile posted on his father's Web site. "They snark, they laugh, they don't seem to feel the need to attract attention and camera time through outlandish behavior (be it arguing, yelling, or constantly proclaiming their outsider status)," writes a fan called Whammo on the popular, Television Without Pity Web site. "They respect each other, and they seem to enjoy each other a helluva lot more than any other team left on the race." http://www.nypost.com/seven/12242007/tv/pops_stars_460052.htm
Love for Gramps! Hopefully they will win the race!
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I,m still getting over last year, very busy but on top of having a snapped Achilles tendon at the start of 2006!
This year I,m looking forward to getting my fitness levels back upto scratch, doing more stuff at work with regards to clinical training and hopefully get back into flying. Something I really miss with a passion.
Things I,m not looking forward to are the inevitable drunks/tossers/CHAVs/pondscum and other assorted miscreants that prowl this once great country of ours!
I hope that the powers that be are swayed into action to turn back the tide of lawlessness and lack of responsibility that seems to be getting worse by the day. And I hope that the action will be swift and sure to bring some of societies less savoury characters into line!
I am also hopeful that work will get better with more resources and better career progression with enhanced pay rates rising too! We will see what happens by the end of 2007!
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I just attended the Off the Beaten Track workshop, which is a POPL workshop where people gather to offer their new, untested, and (ideally) radical ideas. Here are some quick and incomplete reactions.
Chris Martens gave a talk, Languages for Actions in Simulated Worlds, in which she described some of her ideas for using linear logic programming to model interactive fiction.
The idea behind this is that you can view the state of a game (say, an interactive fiction) as a set of hypotheses in linear logic, and the valid state transitions as hypotheses of the form $A \multimap B$. So if your game state is $$ \Gamma = \{ A, X, Y, Z \} $$ Then matching the rule $A \multimap B$ against the context and applying the $\multimap{}L$ rule will give you the modified context $$ \Gamma = \{ \mathbf{B}, X, Y, Z \} $$ Then, a story is a proof that the end of the story is derivable
Here are some thoughts I had about her talk:
- A story is actually a linearization of a proof term.
The proof term just records the dependencies in the state transitions, and there is no intrinsic order beyond that. There are many possible linearizations for each proof term, and different linearizations yield different stories.
So one question is whether various literary effects (like plot structure) can be seen to arise as properties of the linearization. There has been a lot of work on linearizing proof nets, and I wonder if that has some applications to this.
- Can control operators be used to model flashbacks?
That is, not all stories occur in a linear chronological order. Sometimes narratives jump forwards and backwards in time. Can we somehow use control operators to model time travel? Call/cc is often explained intuitively in terms of time travel, and it would be cool if that could be turned into a literal explanation of what was happening.
- In Martens's account, proof search is used by the computer to work out the consequences of user actions. Is there any way we can make the player do some deduction? For example, some stories gradually reveal information to the reader until the reader has a flash of insight about what has really happening.
So is there any way to "make the player do proof search", in order to achieve game effects related to hidden information? (I'm not even sure what I mean, honestly.)
- Can we use theorem proving to model fate and prophecies in games?
So, if you have a Lincoln simulator in which John Wilkes Booth kills Abraham Lincoln at the end of the game, then you might want to let the player do anything which does not make this impossible. In current games, this might be done by giving Booth rules-breaking defenses or simply forbidding players from aiming at Booth. But this lacks elegance, not to mention literary value!
It would be better if the available actions to the player to only be those that don't rule out this event -- not just immediately, but eventually into the future. We might imagine that the game could use linear theorem proving, and then forbid an actions if there is any path along which Booth dies $n$ steps in the future. It's still removing choice, but perhaps if we are subtle enough about it, it will seem a bit more natural, as if coincidence is worked subtly to ensure the outcome rather than a game hack.
Note that all of these ideas were spurred by just the very first section of her talk -- she gave me a lot to think about!
Bret Victor gave the keynote talk. On the internet, he has a reputation as a bomb-throwing radical interaction designer, but his in-person persona is very mild. He opened his talk with a paean to the virtues of direct manipulation, and then he moved on to demo some sample pieces of software which worked more like the way he wanted.
His argument, loosely paraphrased, was that people write programs to create interactive behaviors, and that it would be easier to do in a direct manipulation style. By this, he meant that you want a programming environment in which the behavior and the means for creating and modifying them "lived together" -- that is, you use the same conceptual framework for both the relevant behaviors and the operators on them. So if you want to create a visual program, he thought it would be better to offer visual operators to modify pictures rather than code.
He illustrated this with a pair of demo programs. The first of these was a program that let you build interactive animations with timelines and some vector graphics primitives, and the second was a data visualization program that worked similarly, but which replaced the timeline with a miniature spreadsheet.
Both of these programs seemed like extremely mild and conservative designs to me. The basic vocabulary he worked with --- grids, vectors, timelines, spreadsheets --- were all familiar primitives from drawing, animation and data-manipulation programs, and then he augmented it all by letting you parameterize these things with variables, to get you procedural abstractions. He was careful to make variables visualizable using sliders, a la Conal Elliot's tangible values, but beyond that he really seemed to hook things together in the most direct way possible.
Something I was really curious about was how Victor might design an interface that was not visual --- e.g., how would you apply his design principles for a blind user? What does it mean for sounds, rather than pictures?


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Some of the wealthiest Californians are threatening to pack up and leave over a newly adopted federal and state income tax hike.
As it stands, the richest residents in the state pay up to 51.9 percent of their income in federal and state taxes combined — the highest combined income tax rate in the country, NY Times' Adam Nagourney reports.
That's left some well-heeled residents less than thrilled. We covered the January PGA event where San Diego-based pro golfer Phil Mickelson said he might follow Tiger Woods' lead and leave the state altogether.
Woods now calls Florida home, a state that is quickly becoming the go-to refuge for wealthy Americans looking to preserve their riches.
A report from the Institute of Taxation and Economic Policy highlights California's tax rates as one of the nation's "fairest" systems -- which, by ITEP's definition, means it more evenly distributes the tax burden among low-, middle- and high-income earners. But the state's business tax climate, which factors in individual income taxes, was ranked No. 48 in a study by The Tax Foundation.
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LONDON The pico is a very small unit, even smaller than the nano as it is the equivalent of 10-12. The biologist Aitor Alonso has devoted himself to studying green algae of this imperceptible size in the Bilbao estuary, paying particular attention to the area beyond the Nervión estuary. This has enabled him to identify six genera and eleven nano- and picoplanktonic species that until now had not been catalogued in these waters. He has also put forward some measures designed to optimize the methodology to be applied to these analyses.
His thesis, defended at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), is entitled Algas verdes en el picoplancton y nanoplancton del estuario del río Nervión (Golfo de Vizcaya) (Green algae in the picoplankton and nanoplankton in the estuary of the river Nervión (Bay of Biscay).
All the algae contain chlorophyll A, but it is chlorophyll B that characterises green algae and gives them their pigment. "They have been used for producing biofuels, for treating sewage, etc. Research has also been done on them in the quest for products for the pharmaceutical and cosmetics industries," says Alonso. But the practical applications of the green algae were not the starting point of this research, rather their extremely high relative presence among the smallest organisms in the Nervión estuary.
"There is an abundance of them among the smallest algae in the plankton, in other words, picoplankton. Most of what can be found of that size, apart from bacteria, are green algae." So his main aim was to find out a little more about this specific diversity. Data like, for example, that the most abundant green algae belong to the chlorophyta division, which dominate in the outer part of this estuary during the summer.
The samples collected by Alonso between 2007 and 2010 have been used to isolate and analyse 26 algae strains from the estuary of the Nervión and other nearby ones. "We knew the green algae were a significant group, but not which species it actually consisted of," he explains. On the bases of 26 strains, he has been able to identity in his research six genera and eleven species: Eutreptiella (E. eupharyngeae and E. gymnastica), Mamiella (M. gilva), Nephroselmis (N. pyriformis), Pyramimonas (P. orientalis, P. moestrupii, P. grossii, P. robusta and P. propulsa), Oltmannsiellopsis (O. unicellularis and O. viridis) and cf. Chlamydomonas.
Alonso's main aim was to put a name to the species comprising the community of green algae in the estuary of Bilbao, but the path covered to achieve this has also been a significant contribution of this thesis. Studying organisms of such a tiny fraction like the picoplankton is complicated, and in this case the combination of three techniques was chosen: epifluorescence (an advanced alternative to the conventional optical microscope), flow cytometry (used to classify and count the cells that are found in fluids), and the TSA-FISH technique (which expands -- more than other techniques -- the fluorescent signals that work as algal markers, thus increasing sensitivity and facilitating analysis). The researcher has put forward a number of proposals to improve the performance of these techniques and to make a correct interpretation of the results obtained through them.
Alonso has concentrated, above all, on the problems of and possible solutions to the application of Tyramide Signal Amplification (TSA)-FISH. He concludes that in order to make the fitoplankton count as universal as possible, a protocol based on this technique needs to meet certain premises. For example, as the TSA-FISH has difficulties when it comes to doing the sample count, he recommends using flow cytometry for this task.
The research also revealed shortcomings in the permeability of certain cultures analysed; that could lead to the importance of one or more microalgae groups, which could be in fact significant in the community, being overlooked. In order to avoid this problem, the proposal is to use an extra permeation through enzymatic treatment. With these measures TSA-FISH would allow a simple, quantitative, precise and reliable measurement to be made in addition to the monitoring of the phytoplanktonic populations.
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Today is Opposite Day, Nyah, Nyah, Nyah!
Erik has been dealing with a sick child this week, so we are running the best column he has ever written. Oh wait, it's Opposite Day.
Every kid has their favorite day of the year. And because they're greedy little capitalists, their favorites are Christmas and their birthdays. They also have a few least favorite days too. Like the day after Christmas, dentist day, and the first day of school. And the second. And the third. And so on. But when I was a kid, one of my least favorite days of the year was Opposite Day.
I'm sure many of you remember Opposite Day. That's the day that could be declared by any kid who wanted to be mean and nasty to another kid. They would say, "You know, Bobby, I think you're one of the smartest kids in school. Oh, and today is Opposite Day."
Then the little brat would run away, having made the other child feel the stinging rebuke of Opposite Day.
Opposite Day was the day that whatever you said, the opposite was true. Therefore, if you paid a kid a compliment, you were actually insulting him. But, if you insulted him on Opposite Day, you were actually complimenting him. And, as most children are kind and understanding, they rarely insult or tease one another. Ha! Opposite Day!
I personally thought Opposite Day was stupid, and the kids who did it were twits. After all, Opposite Day was a paradox. However, since I was only nine years old, I didn't know what a paradox was, so I just had to settle for stupid.
The Paradox of Opposite Day was that if you said, "Today is Opposite Day," then the opposite must be true, which meant it wasn't Opposite Day. And if it wasn't Opposite Day, then any compliment you were paid was a real compliment. Of course, most of the kids I knew were very smart and able to grasp the complex of a paradox, and so they understood the dilemma they were creating for themselves.
Opposite Day!!
The problem with Opposite Day was that there was no real comeback you could use, and still sound original. I mean, if you responded with, "Yeah well, your mother is not as big as a hippopotamus, and today's Opposite Day," you'd be laughed right out of the playground.
When I was in the third grade, one of the Opposite Day masters was Stephanie. She knew how to take the fun out of any accomplishment or compliment you may have received. If you had just received an A on your math test, Stephanie would say, "Wow, that's really good. You're pretty smart at math." Then as you beamed with pride, she would walk away and quietly whisper, "Opposite Day."
However most of us outgrew Opposite Day, which is a shame, because I think it would actually be useful today. Can you imagine what life would be like as an adult if you could call Opposite Day whenever you wanted? I think it would make the next presidential debate a lot more interesting.
Candidate A: "I think my opponent is very competent, would make a great president, and would not lead this country into financial and moral ruin. Opposite Day!"
Candidate B: "Well, my opponent is not a poopyhead! And it's still Opposite Day."
Candidate A: Hey, don't call me names, or I'll tell the moderator!
Opposite Day could also be used in business. Imagine you have to fire one of your worst employees, a real witch who's mean to everyone and can't admit when she's wrong. Opposite Day would make this job much more enjoyable, because you can pay your employee a lot of compliments, inflating her ego, and then pop it like a lawn dart hitting a balloon at 90 miles an hour.
You: Well, Jessie, I called you in here because I wanted to say I think you're one of our most valuable employees. You're always on time, you give insightful ideas at meetings, and your personal hygiene is beyond reproach.
Jessie: Why, thank you very much. That's very kind.
You: By the way Jessie, did you see this memo that said today is Opposite Day?
I'll admit that I was the butt of many Opposite Day jokes growing up, and it was never any fun for me. But I'm pleased to see that many of my old classmates have grown to be wonderful, mature, and well-liked members of their community, and I'm proud to have known them.
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Family of Missing Arizona State University Student Pleads for Help
(TEMPE, Ariz.) -- Family and friends are pleading for help in finding an Arizona State University freshman last seen exiting a bar in Tempe, Ariz., on Friday.
Jack Culolias was last seen at Cadillac Ranch bar in Tempe Marketplace, Tempe police said.
His friend, Alec Pinto, was with him that night. They were both pledging the fraternity Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE) and were there as part of a fraternity social -- a bit of fun before they would go through initiation the following week.
"It had nothing to do with hazing at all, it was purely for fun," Pinto said.
Culolias got drunk and was apparently seen urinating off a balcony, which caused bouncers to escort him out of the bar, Pinto said. He has not been seen since.
On Saturday, Pinto got worried after not hearing from Culolias, who he normally talked with or saw every day.
"I was worried that no one had seen him and that he hadn't contacted me," Pinto said.
Pinto called Culolias and went to his dorm to no avail. He later discovered that Culolias' phone had been found at the bar.
On Sunday, as his worry mounted to fear, Pinto decided to try and get a hold of Culolias' family in Orange County, Calif. He eventually reached Culolias' mother, Grace Culolias, and urged her to file a missing person's report.
She filed a report with the ASU Police, but later reached the conclusion that the force was short-staffed. So she drove down to Arizona herself to try to discover where her son was and how to bring him home.
"I felt like I was the one in charge of the investigation," Grace Culolias said.
On Monday, while searching a nearby river basin, an area Tempe police described as "desolate," she found a single red Vans sneaker, one that she knew belonged to her son.
She alerted the Tempe Police Department, which had taken over the investigation.
Culolias said the ASU Police told her the department had searched the area on Sunday night with flashlights, but she was critical of the department's actions during the first crucial hours when her son was reported missing.
"They did not do a good job," she said. "If they would have, they would have found the shoe on the second day instead of the fourth....They should have immediately turned it [the investigation] over."
The Arizona State Police Department did not respond to several ABC News calls for comment.
The Tempe Police Department said it has launched a complete investigation, employing a helicopter, K-9 unit and specialty equipment to search underwater. Investigators have found no evidence of foul play.
Culolias noted Jack was worried about initiation week, or "hell week," as she calls it.
"There is no sign of foul play," she said. "I'm hoping he may have hid because he didn't want to go through hell week. It may have had something to do with the fraternity but, at this point, I don't see any physical evidence."
SAE has a strict no-hazing policy and even condemns excessive drunkenness, Pinto said. The fraternity has started a fund to pay for the Culolias' out-of-pocket expenses while they stay in Arizona to search for Jack. In less than two days, the fund raised $2,712.
On the phone, Grace Culolias spoke of her undying resolve to find her son.
"I am all cried out," she said. "I'm a wreck but I can't sit in a ball and cry; that's not going to bring my son home. I'm at the search site because I want to make sure they [the police] are out here. It's giving me the peace of mind."
Anyone with information on the case is encouraged to contact the Tempe Police Department at 480-350-8311.
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Politics & Government
Smartphone kill switch mandate raises privacy, civil liberty concerns
Megan Boken was chatting with her mom on her new iPhone on August 18, 2012, when a thief shot her dead on the street in St. Louis, Mo. He wanted the 23-year-old's smartphone.
A new law signed in California this week is designed to eliminate the incentive for smartphone-related crimes like the one that killed Boken. The law requires all cellphones sold in the state to come with a "kill switch" that allows phones to be remotely disabled, rendering them useless to thieves.
Since there's little point in making only smartphones in California comply with the new law, the legislation likely will push the wireless industry to adopt kill switches as a default feature on all phones in the United States and worldwide.
Most major smartphone manufacturers and cellular providers in the United States already are moving in that direction, with Apple, Google, Microsoft and others announcing their intention to equip all phones built after July 2015 with anti-theft software, at no cost to consumers.
Consumer advocates and law enforcement officials cheer the prospect, calling the kill switch a powerful tool to protect smartphone users.
"We hope it will be a market changer," said Elisa Odabashian, who lobbied for the California bill as director of the West Coast office and state programs for Consumers Union, the advocacy arm of Consumer Reports.
But privacy groups worry that the technology could be abused by government authorities or police, and mobile carriers have raised concerns that a kill switch could make smartphones more vulnerable to hackers.
"We've seen instances of governments abusing the ability to block communications both home and abroad; while this bill acknowledges safeguards to prevent such abuses in California, a large barrier – technical access to our phones – will have disappeared," protested the digital civil liberties group Electronic Frontier Foundation in a written statement.
Sponsored by state senator Mark Leno, California's kill switch law follows a similar one enacted in Minnesota in May. In Minnesota, however, it's up to users to download and enable anti-theft technology, whereas in California the kill switch functionality must be preloaded onto the phone.
Kill switch bills also are being considered in Illinois, New York and Rhode Island.
A federal version, dubbed the Smartphone Theft Prevention Act, was introduced by Democrats in the U.S. Congress earlier this year.
Among those pushing for mandatory kill switches are Boken's family.
"Megan lost her life because people can sell stolen smartphones without any fear of getting caught," Boken's father, Paul, said in a hearing on the bill before the California State Senate's energy committee in April. "This legislation would shut down the market for stolen smartphones, which will end the victimization of innocent smartphone customers."
The gunman in Boken's killing, 19-year-old Keith Esters, pleaded guilty last year and was sentenced to 50 years in prison.
An estimated 3.1 million smart phones were stolen in the United States last year, up from 1.6 million in 2012, according to a recent survey by Consumer Reports.
The survey found that although many people use their phones to store passwords, credit cards, Social Security numbers and other sensitive information, only 26 percent of them take the precaution of using a password or screen lock on their phone.
"Most people aren't smart about their smart phones," said Odabashian, of Consumers Union. "They put a lot of personal data on their phone and then they don't protect it, so a huge part of this is to combat the theft that goes on, the violent theft that is going on in major cities around cell phones."
For privacy groups, however, the concern is that the California bill isn't explicit about who can activate a kill switch, and the technology could potentially be abused law enforcement or government authorities.
The California bill allows law enforcement to use the kill switch under certain conditions outlined in the state's public utility code, which gives police the ability to cut off communications with a court order or in an extreme emergency that presents an "immediate danger of death or great bodily injury."
This means that police could use the kill switch to shut down phones as a means of disrupting protests if they deemed the situation sufficiently dangerous, said Jake Laperruque a fellow on privacy, surveillance and security at the Center for Democracy & Technology.
Recent events in Ferguson, Mo., highlight the risks of abuse, Laperruque wrote in a blog post this week.
"Police have repeatedly attempted to disrupt protests and ordered both demonstrators and press to turn off recording devices," he wrote. "If the California bill were in place in Missouri, these officers might deploy the government kill switch alongside tear gas and rubber bullets, using the mandated technology to stop coordination between protesters, cut off access to outside information, and shut down video recordings that can deter police misconduct."
A trade group representing the wireless communications industry – CTIA-The Wireless Association – also has warned that hackers could permanently disable phones if they crack users' kill switch codes.
The association called the California law unnecessary, given the voluntary steps companies already have taken to deter smart phone theft.
In addition to rolling out stolen phones databases and anti-theft apps, the association earlier this year unveiled a voluntary, industry-wide commitment to implement uniform anti-theft measures on smartphone devices nationwide by July 2015.
"Uniformity in the wireless industry created tremendous benefits for wireless consumers, including lower costs and phenomenal innovation," said Jamie Hastings, vice president of external and state affairs for the association, in a statement.
"State by state technology mandates, such as this one (in California), stifle those benefits and are detrimental to wireless consumers," Hastings said.
Now that the California bill has become a legal reality, however, mobile carriers are busy reviewing the full text of the legislation to assess how it might impact their business.
A spokeswoman for Sprint acknowledged that more needs to be done to protect consumers from smartphone-related crime.
Spokeswoman Crystal Davis said the Kansas-based company is working with handset vendors on adding more features to protect customers.
"While open to a kill switch option, Sprint remains concerned that 'permanent' kill switches could lead to unintended consequences for customers, reputable recycling programs and legitimate used or trade-in devices, given that many devices reported lost or stolen are subsequently found by their owners," Davis said.
Odabashian said consumer advocates and law enforcement officials championed the kill switch because they really want to protect the public.
"We'll see how it works," she said. "We make these laws and you never know, there might be unexpected consequences. I don't worry about (abuse of the kill switch). And you know what, if that becomes an issue we will do another law."


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God has been slayed by a mortal man and his head is now worshipped and put on a pedestal. The PCs are hired to steal the head and bring it to a mystic that claims to have the power to revive God.
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Pita help
Help! I made pita bread yesterday by converting Peter Reinhart's lavash cracker recipe in the BBA to whole wheat (he says in the side notes that the dough works well for pitas). So, as usual, I added about 13 points to the hydration (which put it at about 65%) and went from there. The dough felt fine. Reinhart writes that the dough should be just a little softer than bagel dough, and I make whole wheat bagels at 62% or 63%, so I don't think hydration is the problem.
As instructed, I divided the dough into 6 ounce portions and rolled them out. I may have rolled them out too thin. Reinhart writes that they should be just less than 1/4 inch thick, and mine were more like 1/8 inch. Anyway, as he recommended, I baked them at 500 on a preheated stone.
The problem? Only one of my four pitas fuly inflated. The others had big bubbles, but they never blew up like a balloon.
They taste fine, but I'm wondering if it might be that I'm working with a convection oven? I'm new to the convection thing and, while I'm really enjoying my new oven (electric holds moisture MUCH better than a gas oven), I'm still working out the kinks. Did they bake too fast for the pocket to form? Should I try 475 or even 450 next time?


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Dr. Peter Monti reviews medical content for Healthwise, a nonprofit organization with a mission to help people make better health decisions. Dr. Monti is a Professor of Medical Sciences and Director of the Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. A recognized leader in understanding the biobehavioral mechanisms that underlie addictive behavior as well as its prevention and treatment, Dr. Monti has published approximately 200 papers, monographs, and chapters. These are primarily focused in the areas of assessment, mechanisms, early intervention, and treatment. In 2002 Dr. Monti was presented with the Musiker-Merenda Award by the Rhode Island Psychological Association for his "outstanding contributions to mental health and psychology." He was the recipient of the Association of Medical School Psychologists Distinguished Researcher Award in 2003 and of the Research Society on Alcoholism's Distinguished Researcher Award in 2006. He is past President of the Research Society on Alcoholism.
Education and Training
PhD: University of Rhode Island, Providence, RI, 1974
Internship in Clinical Psychology: Brown University and Butler Hospital, Providence, RI, 1975–1976
Supervised Clinical Practice in Psychology: Brown University and Providence Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Providence, RI, 1976–1978
Academic Appointments
Brown University, Providence, RI:
- Donald G. Millar Distinguished Professor of Alcohol and Addiction Studies, 2008–present
- Professor of Medical Sciences, 2000–2008
- Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, 1988–2000
- Senior Research Associate, Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, 1984, 1991
- Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, 1981–1988
- Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, 1976–1981
University of Rhode Island, Providence, RI:
- Adjunct Professor of Psychology, 1988–present
- Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychology, 1981–1988
- Adjunct Assistant Professor of Psychology, 1977–1981
- Instructor, Department of Psychology, 1974–1975
- Teaching Assistant, 1971–1972
Instructor of Psychology, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, 1974–1975
Teaching Assistant, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA, 1970–1971
Current as of: January 10, 2014
Author: Healthwise Staff


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This commentary originally appeared at 8:28 a.m. EST on Feb. 20 on Real Money Pro -- for access to all of legendary hedge fund manager Doug Kass's strategies and commentaries, click here.
All the market optimism surrounding rising retail fund flows into U.S. stock funds and heightened M&A activity brings us to a segment in my diary that I like to call Really!?! With Dougie (a takeoff on Really!?! With Seth & Amy, an old Weekend Update routine on "Saturday Night Live."
Really!?! Mr. Market?
So individual investors, after taking $400 billion out of domestic equity funds since 2007, have waited to buy into the U.S. stock market until January 2013 after the S&P 500 has more than doubled?
Really!?! Retail investors? Really!?!
And some of you bulls think stocks will rise because of a great rotation out of bonds and into stocks by the retail investor? Really!?! Bulls? Really!?!
As demonstrated in the chart above, the unassailable fact is that there is no documented correlation between retail investor inflows into domestic equities and the overall level of stock prices.
From 2007 to 2012 the S&P 500 saw a total of 40 individual months of price appreciation, 20 of these months experienced negative total equity fund flows. The correlation between monthly S&P returns and domestic equity fund flows is a meager 0.073.
In the 29 months of positive total equity fund flows during that same period, nine of those months had negative SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY) returns -- that's 31% of the data points. In the aggregate since 2008 total equity fund flows have been down $400 billion while the SPY has appreciated nearly 75%.
Really!?! Bulls? Really!?!
And those of you who feel that heightened merger and acquisition activity likely presages the next bull market move because it is indicative of an expression of rising business confidence -- Really!?!
An increase in mergers, just like retail investors' inflows into domestic equity funds, is a lagging, not leading, indicator. A rise in M&A activity almost always follows a rising market and rarely leads a rising market.
The frequency of takeovers tells us nothing about the future direction of the market. It is but a talking point for the bulls.
Really!?! Warren Buffett? Really!?!
You wait to buy Heinz (HNZ) for $72.50 a share after the shares trade at between $33 and $60 over the last four years? I mean, really!?!
To all those managements that have now gotten more aggressive in buying back their company's stock and/or are suddenly enticed to acquire: Where were you when the S&P 500 was at 1100, 1200 or even 1300?
Really!?! Managements? Really!?!
One of the more important points made in the above "SNL" parody is that there is little relationship between the price of the S&P 500 and domestic equity fund inflows.
I have long written that the great rotation is a bogus concept and not to count on individual investor.
I prove this with the help of Seabreeze's analyst interns (Nick Pollari and Kelley Hopkins) who have performed an analysis of the relationship between stock prices and fund flows from February 2007 to December 2012.
Below is our research output.
Correlation between monthly S&P returns and:
- total equity fund flow = 0.197
- domestic equity fund flow = 0.073
- total bond fund flow = -0.183
- total fund flow = -0.088
R-squared between monthly S&P returns and:
- total equity fund flow = 0.039
- domestic equity fund flow = 0.005
- total bond fund flow = 0.034
- total fund flow = 0.008
Covariance between monthly S&P returns and:
- total equity fund flow = 0.492
- domestic equity fund flow = 0.096
- total bond fund flow = -0.066
- total fund flow = -0.036
The covariance measures how two variables change together; the strongest covariance is between total equity fund flow and monthly S&P returns. Given that correlation shows the strength of the linear relationship, however, it is hard to come to a conclusion that fund flows and returns are related. The correlation between all variables and S&P returns are close to zero, indicating that the relationship is close to uncorrelated. The R-squared figures note that the regression line does not fit the data well since they are close to zero as well.
Further analysis of the monthly returns over the same time period (71 months) yielded the following data:
- Of the 40 months of positive monthly S&P returns, 20 months (50%) experienced a positive S&P return while total equity fund flows were negative for the month.
- Of the 29 months of positive total equity fund flows, there were nine months (31%) when the monthly return on the S&P was negative despite positive flows.
- Since February 2007, total equity fund flows have been down $480 billion while the S&P (excluding dividends) has appreciated 1.1%. Domestic equity fund flows have been down $616 billion while the S&P (excluding dividends) has appreciated 1.1%.
- Since January 2008, total equity fund flows have been down $304 billion while the S&P (excluding dividends) has appreciated 71.9%. Domestic equity fund flows have been down $397 billion while the S&P (excluding dividends) has increased by 71.9%.
The first two points emphasize the lack of correlation between positive S&P returns and equity fund flows. If there was a strong correlation, there would be fewer months of negative S&P returns with high positive fund flows. The latter two points confirm this statement; the S&P appreciated over 70% with high fund outflows.
Are the S&P returns correlated with any other data?
1. R-squared between S&P monthly returns and:
- institutional all equity fund flows = 0.0119
- above + one-month lag = 0.0222
- above + two-month lag = 0.0222
- above + three-month lag = 0.0404
- above + four-month lag = 0.0408
- above + five-month lag = 0.0477
- above + six-month lag = 0.0674
2. R-squared between month-over-month nonfarm payroll percentage change (seasonally adjusted) and institutional all equity fund flows = 0.000
3. R-squared between month-over-month initial jobless claims percentage change (seasonally adjusted) and institutional all equity fund flows = 0.001
Bottom line: Our research shows that the R-squared data further emphasize the low correlation between S&P returns against a variety of factors.


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'Truth Squad' ignores almost half a billion in education funding
A recent "fact check" from the Michigan Truth Squad, a project of the Center for Michigan, takes a look at an ad from Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mark Schauer attacking Gov. Rick Snyder. In its analysis of K-12 state funding, the truth-checkers state, "In his first year in office, Snyder approved a budget that resulted in school funding $930 million lower than the previous year."
For the Record: The Truth Squad cites a Senate Fiscal Agency report, but they do not include $455.5 million in additional state funding used for "best practices" and retiree benefit costs. That amount is listed in the report cited, but is not mentioned in the write-up. According to the report, including all state funding shows that the amount spent on K-12 education increased by $285 million in Gov. Snyder's first year.


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Class rosters and Blackboard access
Blackboard information for instructors
Getting access to Blackboard, click here
- You must have an active appointment in the Human Resources database to be given instructor or staff access to Pathway. As part of this process you will be assigned an Employee ID number.
- The HR facilitator in your academic unit must submit a paper application for your HR appointment.
- This form must be signed by the instructor/faculty member before they can be submitted. If the instructor is a volunteer and will not be getting compensation from the University, and if they will be asked to assign grades or access other areas of the Pathway Student Information System or the Blackboard e-learning system, they will still need to get a faculty appointment and EMPLID.
- You will need to be listed as the instructor of record in Pathway to have access to a specific class in Blackboard. Your department must request that for you. See the procedures for scheduling classes and classrooms for information on who the approved scheduler in your department is.
Note: if you have a graduate assistant to teaching assistant who needs to have access to the Blackboard site, they will also need to be added as such in Pathway for them to get access to the Blackboard course site.
Blackboard class rosters, click here
- Blackboard class rosters are copied from the Pathway class roster representing those students who are officially enrolled for the class.
- However, when students officially drop a class, they are not deleted from the Blackboard class roster so that their assignments and other coursework do not get deleted.
- Blackboard class rosters are updated every 4 hours during the week.
Getting non-enrolled students access to your class in Blackboard, click here
Students must be officially enrolled in a class to attend it. This includes having access to the class in Blackboard. If you have a student who needs to finish an incomplete from a previous semester and you would like for them to have access to your Blackboard site for the current semester, send an e-mail with their name, student ID number, the class which they need access to, and the reason you are requesting the exception to email@example.com. The appropriate authority in the Registration and Records Office will verify the information you have submitted and send approval to Information Technology Services to get the student added to the class in Blackboard.
Pathway class rosters
How to view your class roster in Pathway, click here
Faculty Class Rosters step-by-step instructions (PDF)
Quick Guide to Class Rosters:
- Log on to Pathway
- Click on the Self-Service link
- Click on the "Faculty Center" link
- All classes for all terms for which the instructor is the official instructor of record will be displayed on this page.
- The term displayed is indicated at the top of the page
- To see classes for a different term, click the yellow Change Term button to select a different term.
What to check for on your class roster in Pathway, click here
Periodically, you should check your class roster in Pathway for inaccuracies.
First, check that everyone who is attending your class is officially enrolled. If there are students who are attending your class, but are not officially enrolled, inform them they need to either stop attending the class or get officially enrolled.
Officially enrolling after the deadline:
Students can add classes via Pathway through the first week of the semester. After that, they must get an instructor signature to add a class late. The steps for getting officially enrolled in a class after the first week are:
- Print an add/drop form, or pick one up from the Registration and Records Office or Student Services/Advising office in their academic unit.
- Fill out the add/drop form with the class that needs to be added.
- Have the instructor for the class initial in the "Late Add" box and sign on the end of the line for that class.
- Have their academic adviser sign the form at the bottom.
- Take the add/drop form to the Registration and Records Office to be manually put in the class.
- The Registration and Records Office is in room 115 of the Administrative Center, located at 5115 Oak Street.
- Students can also mail or fax the add/drop form if they are unable to bring it by in person.
Second, check to make sure there are not students on the roster who are no longer attending. It is important for the Registration and Records Office to know if students stopped attending class and the specific date they stopped attending for Title IV Financial Aid regulations. If you find students on your roster who have never attended or have stopped attending, you should use the UMKC Connect system to complete the attendance survey. If your course is not utilizing the Connect attendancy survey send an e-mail to inform our office of the last date the student attended your class. A letter will be sent to the student notifying them that they have not officially withdrawn and giving them the procedures for doing so at this time.
Using the "notify" buttons on your class roster and grade roster, click here
The notify buttons provide a way for you to send a mass e-mail to all your students or those that you select. All students will receive the exact same e-mail.
Notify Selected Students
- Click on Notify Selected Students.
- Make sure each student on your roster has a check box next to their student ID number.
- If you wish to send an e-mail to one or more students, but not the entire class, you can select the students by checking the box.
- Click the "Notify Selected Students" button.
Notify Listed Students
If you want to send an e-mail to ALL the students on the roster, click the "Notify Listed Students" button.
- Click on Notify Listed Students button.
- You will be taken to a screen where you can type the e-mail you want to be sent to your students.


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It's Friday, Friday, gotta get down on Friday…
This week has been hectic and so I've been going through my archives to see what I have been meaning to talk about. Can you believe I forgot to talk about my experiences with the legend that is the Fairy Drops mascara!?
Fairy Drops mascara comes in many formulas now – when I bought it, the packaging had been renewed to the Las Vegas Sweets design! I bought a primer, called the Creamy Treatment Lash Base and the Volume Burst Mascara in the waterproof formula. That review will be up in about an hour.
The primer is in the white tube:
Credit to Fairy Drops, the always make the packaging significantly different for each formula so there's no mix up.
The big seller, the reason why this mascara got noticed in the first place is it's brush.
The brush has 3 domes, it looks like…you don't want to know what I think it looks like. Photo of the brush (which is identical to the mascara) in the next post.
The brush is cool, it's nice to look at and it works well, but it's not perfect. I mean, it doesn't get to the really small hairs but I still prefer it to many other shapes, even if I don't know what the true benefit is.
The creamy treatment primer provides volume and holds curl. It is waterproof and contains fibres – lots and lots and lots of them. Check out this thick, grey, gloopy formula:
Here it is being applied on my lashes – it really adds length to the ends and the greyish colour isn't too bad:
Once it dries it becomes less greyish. Nevertheless, it is crying for some mascara!
Gah! I added 1 coat of Fairy Drops Volume Burst – and I'm not happy! It does that thing that some primers do when they are very fibre based – they fray at the ends, like badly cut wire. It looks uneven and messy – ok fair enough that can be my application but I did try a few times and it was just a bit of a faff.
And it did irritate my eyes – fibre mascara is not a great idea for sensitive eyes but I can live with some formulas.
They do look very thick, but I am not happy with the finish. At this point i still prefer my basics, like the Shiseido lash primer.
On the plus side – unlike 90% of western mascaras this does NOT weigh my lashes down. Considering how thick it is, this is a great achievement. But I am just not pleased with the clumpy finish.
From the side:
This primer is ok – it is NOT the worst I have tried since it holds curl, but it's not quite there – at least not when used with a Fairy Drops mascara. I am going to try this with more of a lengthening mascara, as I feel this plus a volume mascara is just too much for me…like having chips with mash.
I bought this from adambeauty.com
Come back in a bit and read my review of the mascara, and if I it worked better on its own!


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