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bmahersciwriter writes Citation is the common way that scientists nod to the important and foundational work that preceded their own and the number of times a particular paper is cited is often used as a rough measure of its impact. So what are the most highly cited papers in the past century plus of scientific research? Is it the determination of DNA's structure? The identification of rapid expansion in the Universe? No. The top 100 most cited papers are actually a motley crew of methods, data resources and software tools that through usability, practicality and a little bit of luck have propelled them to the top of an enormous corpus of scientific literature.
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An anonymous reader writes Lenovo is the latest tech company to enter the fitness tracker market with its Smartband SW-B100 device. "It can record calories burnt, steps taken and a user's heartrate, in addition to syncing with a smartphone through an app to provide more complete health data. Users can also customize notifications and reminders on the smartband, and even use it to unlock a Windows PC without typing in the password, according to the product page."
51 comments | 4 days ago
jones_supa writes: Microsoft has just released Windows 10 TP build 9860. Along with the new release, Microsoft is introducing an interesting cadence option for how quickly you will receive new builds. The "ring progression" goes from development, to testing, to release. By being in the slow cadence, you will get more stable builds, but they will arrive less often. By choosing the fast option, it allows you to receive the build on the same day that it is released. As a quick stats update, to date Microsoft has received over 250,000 pieces of feedback through the Windows Feedback tool, 25,381 community forum posts, and 641 suggestions in the Windows Suggestion Box.
112 comments | about two weeks ago
itwbennett (1594911) writes A partnership between TV measurement company Nielsen and analytics provider Adobe, announced today, will let broadcasters see (in aggregate and anonymized) how people interact with digital video between devices — for example if you begin watching a show on Netflix on your laptop, then switch to a Roku set-top box to finish it. The information learned will help broadcasters decide what to charge advertisers, and deliver targeted ads to viewers. Broadcasters can use the new Nielsen Digital Content Ratings, as they're called, beginning early next year. Early users include ESPN, Sony Pictures Television, Turner Broadcasting and Viacom.
126 comments | about two weeks ago
jones_supa writes: Two weeks in, and already a million people have tried out Windows 10 Technical Preview, reports Microsoft, along with a nice stack of other stats and feedback. Only 36% of installations are occurring inside a virtual machine. 68% of Windows 10 Technical Preview users are launching more than seven apps per day, with somewhere around 25% of testers using Windows 10 as their daily driver (26 app launches or more per day). With the help of Windows 10's built-in feedback tool, thousands of testers have made it very clear that Microsoft's new OS still has lots of irksome bugs and misses many much-needed features. ExtremeTech has posted an interesting list of the most popular gripes received, them mostly being various GUI endurances. What has your experience been with the Technical Preview?
147 comments | about two weeks ago
Bennett Haselton writes As commenters continue to blame Jennifer Lawrence and other celebrities for allowing their nude photos to be stolen, there is only one rebuttal to the victim-blaming which actually makes sense: that for the celebrities taking their nude selfies, the probable benefits of their actions outweighed the probable negatives. Most of the other rebuttals being offered, are logically incoherent, and, as such, are not likely to change the minds of the victim-blamers. Read below to see what Bennett has to say.
622 comments | about three weeks ago
HughPickens.com writes Randy Olson, a Computer Science grad student who works with data visualizations, writes about seven of the biggest factors that predict what makes for a long term stable marriage in America. Olson took the results of a study that polled thousands of recently married and divorced Americans and and asked them dozens of questions about their marriage (PDF): How long they were dating, how long they were engaged, etc. After running this data through a multivariate model, the authors were able to calculate the factors that best predicted whether a marriage would end in divorce. "What struck me about this study is that it basically laid out what makes for a stable marriage in the US," writes Olson. Here are some of the biggest factors:
How long you were dating: (Couples who dated 1-2 years before their engagement were 20% less likely to end up divorced than couples who dated less than a year before getting engaged. Couples who dated 3 years or more are 39% less likely to get divorced.); How much money you make: (The more money you and your partner make, the less likely you are to ultimately file for divorce. Couples who earn $125K per year are 51% less likely to divorce than couples making 0 — 25k); How often you go to church: (Couples who never go to church are 2x more likely to divorce than regular churchgoers.); Your attitude toward your partner: (Men are 1.5x more likely to end up divorced when they care more about their partner's looks, and women are 1.6x more likely to end up divorced when they care more about their partner's wealth.); How many people attended the wedding: ("Crazy enough, your wedding ceremony has a huge impact on the long-term stability of your marriage. Perhaps the biggest factor is how many people attend your wedding: Couples who elope are 12.5x more likely to end up divorced than couples who get married at a wedding with 200+ people."); How much you spent on the wedding: (The more you spend on your wedding, the more likely you'll end up divorced.); Whether you had a honeymoon: (Couples who had a honeymoon are 41% less likely to divorce than those who had no honeymoon)
Of course correlation is not causation. For example, expensive weddings may simply attract the kind of immature and narcissistic people who are less likely to sustain a successful marriage and such people might end up getting divorced even if they married cheaply. But "the particularly scary part here is that the average cost of a wedding in the U.S. is well over $30,000," says Olson, "which doesn't bode well for the future of American marriages."
447 comments | about three weeks ago
theodp (442580) writes "Well, the College Board has posted the 2014 AP Computer Science Test scores. So, before the press rushes out another set of Not-One-Girl-In-Wyoming-Took-an-AP-CS-Exam stories, let's point out that no Wyoming students of either gender took an AP CS exam again in 2014 (.xlsx). At the overall level, the final numbers have changed somewhat (back-of-the-Excel-envelope calculations, no warranty expressed or implied!), but tell pretty much the same story as the preliminary figures — the number of overall AP CS test takers increased, while pass rates decreased despite efforts to cherry pick students with a high likelihood of success. What is kind of surprising is how little the test numbers budged for most states — only 8 states managed to add more than 100 girls to the AP CS test taker rolls — despite the PR push by the tech giants, including Microsoft, Google, and, Facebook. Also worth noting are some big percentage decreases at the top end of the score segments (5 and 4), and still-way-too-wide gaps that exist between the score distributions of the College Board's various ethnic segments (more back of the envelope calcs). If there's a Data Scientist in the house, AP CS exam figures grabbed from the College Board's Excel 2013 and 2014 worksheets can be found here (Google Sheets) together with the (unwalkedthrough) VBA code that was used to collect it. Post your insight (and code/data fixes) in the comments!"
144 comments | about three weeks ago
KentuckyFC writes Since 2001, crowdfunding sites have raised almost $3 billion and in 2012 alone, successfully funded more than 1 million projects. But while many projects succeed, far more fail. The reasons for failure are varied and many but one of the most commonly cited is the inability to match a project with suitable investors. Now a group of researchers from Yahoo Labs and the University of Cambridge have mined data from Kickstarter to discover how investors choose projects to back. They studied over 1000 projects in the US funded by over 80,000 investors. They conclude that there are two types of backers: occasional investors who tend to back arts-related projects, probably because of some kind of social connection to the proposers; and frequent investors who have a much more stringent set of criteria. Frequent investors tend to fund projects that are well-managed, have high pledging goals, are global, grow quickly, and match their interests. The team is now working on a website that will create a list of the Twitter handles of potential investors given the URL of a Kickstarter project.
20 comments | about three weeks ago
whoever57 writes: All official numbers for fuel economy in the EU typically overstate the miles-per-gallon figure that drivers can expect to achieve in typical driving. A recent study confirmed this once again. However, what the study also found was that MPG figures are more unrealistic for cars with smaller engines than for cars with larger engines. Actual MPG figures achieved based on typical drives for cars with small engines could be as much as 36% under the official number, while those cars with 3-liter engines would typically achieve 15% less than the official figure. These discrepancies need to be accounted for if we're going to be serious about regulating fuel efficiency. But then, we should be using gallons-per-mile instead of miles-per-gallon, too.
403 comments | about three weeks ago
minstrelmike writes If we give up all our privacy on-line for contextual ads, then how come so many of them are so far off the mark? Personal data harvesting for contextual ads and content should be a beautiful thing. They do it privately and securely, and it's all automated so that no human being actually learns anything about you. And then the online world becomes customized, just for you. The real problem with this scenario is that is we're paying for contextual ads and content with our personal data, but we're not getting what we pay for. Facebook advertising is off target and almost completely irrelevant. The question is: Why? Facebook has a database of our explicitly stated interests, which many users fill out voluntarily. Facebook sees what we post about. It knows who we interact with. It counts our likes, monitors our comments and even follows us around the Web. Yet, while the degree of personal data collection is extreme, the advertising seems totally random.
249 comments | about three weeks ago
damn_registrars writes: A consortium of scientists from many different countries reviewed genome-wide association study data sets of over 250,000 individuals in a search for genetic factors that influence adult height. Looking at Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms, the researchers found 697 distinct genetic markers that can explain some 20 percent of the heritability of human adult height. Previous studies had found around 180 such markers, but the larger sample set increased the ability to detect these changes, both within genes and in non-coding regions. Genes found in this set included ones from pathways not previously connected to skeletal growth.
This study is also significant for the sample size, which allows it to address whether the data from such large sets has a tendency to converge or diverge on genetic pathways; this study particularly favors the latter, which is of great utility toward studying other polygenetic conditions in the future. The original paper is likely paywalled, however the abstract is available for free and some of the collaborators behind it have other bits available for free in the meantime.
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lars_doucet writes: Steam's new search page lets you sort by "user rating," but the algorithm they're using is broken. For instance, a DLC pack with a single positive review appears above a major game with a 74% score and 15,000+ ratings.
The current "user rating" ranking system seems to divide everything into big semantic buckets ("Overwhelmingly Positive", "Positive", "Mixed", etc.), stack those in order, then sort each bucket's contents by the total number of reviews per game. Given that Steam reviews skew massively positive, (about half are "very positive" or higher), this is virtually indistinguishable from a standard "most popular" chart.
Luckily, there's a known solution to this problem — use statistical sampling to account for disparate numbers of user reviews, which gives "hidden gems" with statistically significant high positive ratings, but less popularity, a fighting chance against games that are already dominating the charts.
93 comments | about three weeks ago
An anonymous reader writes "Previous estimates of global ocean warming have been significantly underestimated due to historically sparse temperature data from the Southern Ocean, new research has found. From the article: "Earth's oceans have absorbed more than 90% of the warming caused by greenhouse gases, researchers estimate, with the stored heat showing up as warmer seawater. But a new analysis suggests scientists may have underestimated the size of the heat sink in the upper ocean—which could have implications for researchers trying to understand the pace and scale of past warming."
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HughPickens.com (3830033) writes "Tricia Romano reports at the Seattle Times that Susie Lee and Katrina Hess have developed Siren, a new online dating app designed to protect against men inundating women with messages that are by turns gross, hilarious, objectifying and just plain sad. A 2012 experiment by Jon Millward, a data journalist, found that women were messaged 17 times more than men; the best-looking woman received 536 messages in four months, while the best-looking guy received only 38. Lee hopes to change the nature of the messages and put women in the driver's seat. As online dating options have grown, Lee noticed that her friends' frustration did, too: With every good introduction often came a slew of lewd ones. "I just started looking (at online dating options) and very quickly realized how many things are out there and how immediately my 'creepy meter' went up," Lee says. The free iPhone app, currently launched to a select market in Seattle in August, allows women to peruse men's pictures and their answers to the "Question of the Day" ("You found a magic lamp and get three wishes. What are they?") and view their Video Challenges ("Show us a hidden gem in Seattle"). If a woman is suitably impressed by a man's answers, she can make herself visible to him. Only then can he see what she looks like. "It's a far more thoughtful — and cautious — approach than the one taken by the dating app of the moment, Tinder, which is effectively a "hot or not" game, with little information beyond a few photos, age and volunteered biographical tidbits," writes Romano. "And the implicit notion that it's a "hookup" app can be uncomfortable for some women." OK Cupid's stats as illustrated by co-founder Christian Rudder give another example of how steep the curve is, when it comes to physical attractiveness vs. messages received on online dating sites.
482 comments | about a month ago
Contributor Bennett Haselton writes with a interesting take on the recent release of racy celebrity photos: "Lawyers for Olympic gymnast McKayla Maroney succeeded in getting porn sites to take down her stolen nude photos, on the grounds that she was under 18 in the pictures, which meant they constituted child pornography. If true, that means that under current laws, Maroney could in theory be prosecuted for taking the original pictures. Maybe the laws should be changed?" Read on for the rest.
274 comments | about a month ago
aarondubrow writes The ability to collect and analyze massive amounts of data is transforming science, industry and everyday life. But what we've seen so far is likely just the tip of the iceberg. As part of an effort to improve the nation's capacity in data science, NSF today announced $31 million in new funding to support 17 innovative projects under the Data Infrastructure Building Blocks (DIBBs) program, including data infrastructure for education, ecology and geophysics. "Each project tests a critical component in a future data ecosystem in conjunction with a research community of users," said said Irene Qualters, division director for Advanced Cyberinfrastructure at NSF. "This assures that solutions will be applied and use-inspired."
55 comments | about a month ago
An anonymous reader writes: Have you ever been pulled over for a traffic stop and wondered if your sporty car was what caught the officer's attention? Ever had an officer pass up your clunker to snag a flashier vehicle? Well, there's now some data showing which vehicles accumulate the most tickets. According to a study by Insurance.com, drivers of the Subaru WRX, Pontiac GTO, and Scion FR-S get a higher percentage of tickets than drivers of any other cars. At the bottom of the list, we see vehicles such as the Ford Ecosport, the Land Rover LR4, and Chevy Sportvan. They have a widget that will let you see data on your own make/model, if you're curious.
261 comments | about a month ago
An anonymous reader writes: After a recent article about breaking the CAPTCHA on the latest incarnation of Silk Road (the darknet-enabled drug market place), Darryl Lau decided to investigate exactly what narcotics people were buying and selling online. He found roughly 13,000 separate listings. Some sellers identify the country they're in, and the top six are the U.S., Australia, England, Germany, and the Netherlands, and Canada. The site also has a bunch of product reviews. If you assume that each review comes from a sale, and multiply that by the listed prices, reviewed items alone represent $20 million worth of business. Lau also has some interesting charts, graphs, and assorted stats. MDMA is the most listed and reviewed drug, and sellers are offering it in quantities of up to a kilogram at a time. The average price for the top 1000 items is $236. Prescription drugs represent a huge portion of the total listings, though no individual prescription drugs have high volume on their own.
68 comments | about a month ago
KentuckyFC writes One way of predicting the future is to study data about events in the past and build a statistical model that generates the same pattern of data. Statisticians can then use the model to generate data about the future. Now one statistician has taken this art to new heights by predicting the content of the soon-to-be published novels in the Song of Ice and Fire series by George R R Martin. The existing five novels are the basis of the hit TV series Game of Thrones. Each chapter in the existing books is told from the point of view of one of the characters. So far, 24 characters have starred in this way. The statistical approach uses the distribution of characters in chapters in the first five books to predict the distribution in the forthcoming novels. The results suggest that several characters will not appear at all and also throw light on whether one important character is dead or not, following an ambiguous story line in the existing novels. However, the model also serves to highlight the shortcomings of purely statistical approaches. For example, it does not "know" that characters who have already been killed off are unlikely to appear in future chapters. Neither does it allow for new characters that might appear. Nevertheless, this statistical approach to literature could introduce the process of mathematical modelling to more people than any textbook.
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cougie wrote (see)
I saw a guy doing very well in a half marathon this weekend wearing a Polo shirt and what looked like beach shorts. They seemed just as fast as any other shorts. Sub 90. And plenty of pockets for gels, sun tan lotion etc etc. Prob about a fiver from Asda.
I love people like this.
a triblet is great.....will hold up to about 8 gels.......
I'm going to use masking tape and stick gels to my shorts at Brighton so if you see me then do cheer me on as I am a newb
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - A South Florida teenager who was doused with an accelerant and set on fire last year says he is going back to school.
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@TheNobody said:
Kabuto is in sage mode and is practically invulnerable to everything, he's exactly like Orochimaru... Capable of using oral rebirth, edo tensei, etc! He'll just keep coming back until he overwhelms him with his freakin' sage mode!
or kill him ten seconds in
I'll not debate about this speed crap since none of you have seen the first star wars and seen how the jedi's could run really fast.
Ankin can block lasers so why can't he sense and stop kabuto. Kabuto isn't unkillable if that was the case why is he going though his entire backstory which we all know when a character does that he's going to die. Kabuto still needs oxygen to live all anakin has to do is force choke him if i were to go into the power displayed in the force unleash they show how a jedi could just ball up kabuto.
All the powers you listed doesn't mean he kills anakin have you ever seen a jedi just get killed easily no if they were killed easy it's cause someone who is more powerful in the force kill them.
I was surposed to just give you guys a warning not to even state dumb things like that but now i'm kind of mad at what you just said.
30% going in >>>>
So about the speed jedi's could use force speed and allow them to view the world in slow motion to let them react to things like lasers and attacks. the Chiss Nuru Kungurama, was able to run so fast his feet appeared to barely touch the ground when using this ability. Enough about speed cause you should though something in about how kabuto can out run anakin.
Kabuto is in sage mode and is practically invulnerable to everything, he's exactly like Orochimaru... Capable of using oral rebirth, edo tensei, etc! He'll just keep coming back until he overwhelms him with his freakin' sage mode!
Ok..... SO what does his sage mode do that will over whelm a freakin jedi. A jedi could just not only sense what kabuto would do before he even done it. He could simply drain kabuto's knowledge or even force kill him by crushing all his organs which he has even snakes have it. He's not all that powerful when he's dodging for his live unlike his master who does have a high range of justu's to use. Kabuto gets kill with force he doesn't even touch anakin. All anakin has to do is force grip the boy in the air, into the ground, or even to a tree.
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also sprach Richard Hatch <r.hatch () eris qinetiq com> [2004.03.24.1110 +0100]:
Take a team of really really good C/C++ coders with excellent
security vulnerability knowledge and have them go through the
source code for windows (starting with the core functionality and
internet facing functionality maybe). Find these bugs (including
methodical black-box testing against the binaries) and fix them.
You will have a hard time, given the patched OS that Windoze is.
Where design is flawed you can't add security.
Instead, find these really good coders and funding for them to
improve open source software so it finally becomes a viable
alternative; then convince people to switch.
Microsoft Windows is not just another piece of software, it has
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|List of Spells
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All spells from season 8. These include spells cast by demons and spells that weren't cast but are in the Book of Shadows.
Still Charmed and Kicking
To Change One's Appearance
- I call upon the ancient powers,
- To mask us now and in future hours.
- Hide us well and thoroughly,
- But not from those we call family.
Malice in Wonderland
- None
Run, Piper, Run
- None
Desperate Housewitches
To Summon The Source
- We call to you that away was torn,
- Return, Master of all Evil born!
To Make A Lover's Dream Come True
- Hear these words, hear my rhyme
- Bless these two in this time.
- Bring them both into the fold
- Help them now cross love's threshold.
To Vanquish Antosis
- Hear us now, the witches call,
- he who makes samaritans fall.
- We speak as one the sisters three,
- and banish you to eternity!
To Restore One's Appearance
- I call upon the ancient powers,
- to unmask us now and in future hours.
- Show us well and thoroughly,
- reveal ourselves, so the world can see.
Sleep Spell
- Poppy, Yar, and Brisbane steep,
- to make a potion for potent sleep.
Kill Billie Vol. 1
To Erase Painful Memories
- After this cruel memory
- is seen and said
- Erase these thoughts
- from my
- heart and my head.
The Lost Picture Show
- None
Battle of the Hexes
To Summon Billie
- This spell is actually to call a witch's powers.
- Power of the witches rise,
- Course unseen across the skies,
- Come to us who call you near,
- Come to us and settle here.
To Remove the Golden Belt of Gaea
- For all the world to work as one,
- In harmony it must be undone.
Hulkus Pocus
- None
Vaya Con Leos
To Hide Someone from the Angel of Death
- Hide him from sight,
- So I might fight,
- Ignore which leaves bereft,
- My husband from the Angel of Death.
- My Husband can be replaced by name.
To Summon the Angel of Destiny
- Power of Three spell.
- Power of Three,
- we summon thee.
- And call to us,
- the Angel of Destiny.
Mr. & Mrs. Witch
- None
Payback's a Witch
To Make a Teddy Bear Talk
- Little boy's bear,
- show me how you care.
- Tell me how you'd feel,
- if you were real.
Repo Manor
To Exchange Bodies
- What theirs is yours
- What yours is theirs,
- I offer up this gift to share
- Switch the bodies through the air.
12 Angry Zen
- None
The Last Temptation of Christy
- None
Engaged and Confused
- None
Generation Hex
To Banish a Demon to the Astral Plane
- Requires a potion for the spell to work.
- Demon of fire, Demon of pain,
- I banish you to the Astral Plane.
- Used to banish the Noxon Demons.
The Torn Identity
To Find a Demon in Hiding
- Power of Three spell.
- Ancient powers, we summon thee
- We, the Power of Three
- And seek your help in finding
- The demon who is in hiding
The Jung and the Restless
- None
Gone with the Witches
To Reveal the Unseen
- Go n-éirí an bóthar laet,
- Let luck reveal what can't been seen!
Kill Billie Vol. 2
Spell to Summon the Hollow
- Power of Three spell.
- Nos dico super inconcessus,
- vox Bonus quod Malum.
- Ultirusque a profugus,
- Addo is Hic, Addo is Iam.
Forever Charmed
To Return the Hollow
- Power of Three spell.
- Iam Is Addo,
- Hic Is Addo
- Malum Quod Bonus,
- Vox In Conssesus,
- Super Dico Nos
External links
- Want to hear the girls say the spells, see the scene's where they are used in?
- Check this Youtube Channel and click on "The Spells of Charmed"
- season 1 - 4 GConeNetwork
- season 5 - 8 HalliwellsAttic
| Preceded by:
Season 7
|Spell Casting
| Followed by:
Season 9


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Takes waterproof mascara easily, smells nice, but most of all: doesn't make my eyes burn or leave you with a film in your eyes where you see blurry
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Also, this smells so divine! It smells like roses. And I don't mean those cheap smelling chemical roses. You know what I'm talking about! This is quality rose scent!
I do have ONE problem though. This miracle in a bottle is EXPENSIVE. $28.00 for 4.2 ounces. Say it with me: OUCH OUCH! So what I do is wait until they have gift with purchase at the department stores. Sometimes they even have this as one of the gifts you receive with purchase. So keep an eye out for those bonuses! Honestly, I don't buy any Lancome or Estee Lauder items without a gift with purchase.
HINT: Since this product is SOO expensive, I use thinner than normal cotton pads. I use Selena Fresh Cotton Facial Puffs. I do use less product this way and I notice that the bottle last longer. PLUS, these cotton pads are really soft, but also really strong (another major plus). I buy them from my local CVS store as they always go on sale for $1.99. I'm not sure if they go on sale in the mainland CVS, but in the Hawaii CVS they always go on sale. I think you can also purchase them from Amazon.
Aloha for reading and I hope this review was helpful to you!! =D
I don't do review but this is my first time. I went through countless bottle of neutrogena and third bottle of this lancome. let me tell you, lancome clean better. I don't have to rub that much, don't have to bother my delicate eye areas. When it gets in your eyes...it doesn't sting at all. I'm so happy with this reason alone. With neutrogena...you gotta rub it more than a few times....and mannn it stings when it gets in your eyes....!!! My life is now a lot easier with lancome eye make up remover....
I got a generous-sized bottle of this as a gift with purchase, and I must say I really enjoyed it. It took off my eye makeup and mascara with the most ridiculous ease (I refuse to wear waterproof mascara, but I assume it takes that off with ease as well, but I haven't found that out for myself). But with it, my waterproof eyeliner just melted right off like a charm, and Bi-Facil didn't just slide my eye makeup around my face like other removers that I've tried. It absorbed every last trace with it onto the cotton ball or any other tool I was using right on skin contact. It didn't leave me with that 45-minute long 'blurry vision' that myself, everyone and their brother seems to get with the Neutrogena remover and a couple other drugstore ones, AND, no oily film residue left behind on my eyelids!
Now, onto the reason why I wouldn't purchase this: I find that it performs the exact same as, and a bit inferior to Sonia Kashuk Remove. I say inferior because of the cost. It's nowhere near worth the steep price, when there is an exact formula dupe out there that is a LOT cheaper. Admittedly, SK's remover doesn't smell AS nice as Lancome Bi-Facil, but it's about $18 cheaper (so much more cost effective for a student like me) has the same effortless 'melting off' performance, and to me has almost the same exact formula as its high-end counterpart. Both have equally soothing properties to the formula for my sensitive eyes, and neither have made my eyes sting in the slightest. So, basically, the only extra I would be paying for if I ever decided to purchase the Lancome would be the rose water scent, which is nice. But certainly not for $18 more, thank you very much. I enjoyed this while I had it, but sadly, Lancome products in general have never 'wowed' me as much as they do others. Maybe that's good for my wallet though. :)
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Amazing makeup remover, I love the fragrance (it smells like rosewater!) and it takes everything off with such ease. One downside is the price; I had a sample bottle which was teeny tiny and I really wanted to buy the full sized, but I found a nice dupe for this product (NYX ELMUR eye and lip makeup remover, for those of you wondering), which is the only reason I won't be buying it again. If you want to splurge, though, this is a good product.
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It is quite expensive, but you only need the tiniest amount to remove your makeup, so one bottle lasts a long time.
the cons is it's oily.
This is the best makeup remover I've ever used! i got a deluxe sample size from sephora and it lasted me about 2 months. I just wet alittle on a cotton round and it can fully remove BOTH eyes. Now granted - I only wear liner and mascara on a daily basis, but you dont need to use much product to remove your eye makeup which means its gonna last you a long time until u need to repurchase. The only reason I give it a 4 star is because of the price xD I use eye makeup remover quite often and at 28$ a pop.. Id rather just use the cheaper alternative which neutragena's makeup remover at about 4$. I'd probably have to use more, but at the end of the day it's just eye makeup remover.
Very surprised at the raves here. Finished my first bottle before writing this review. I'm convinced this formula is very close to that of Neutrogena Oil-Free Eye Makeup remover -- but that one is more gentle and less than 1/4 the price ($7 for 5.5 oz versus $28 for 4.2 oz.). Would NEVER buy this again and strongly do not not recommend. Frankly it's as big a rip off as I've ever purchased in makeup/skincare.


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Pittsburgh is a really artistic city. There are always symphonies performing, plays, musicals, ballets, and art exhibits. A lot of these shows are discounted for college students and many museums are free for college students. Also, Pitt has a program called PittArts where you can sign up to go on arts field trips to see a performance or art exhibit and get lunch or dinner, all for free.Read More
Thankfully, living both in the city and on a large campus, there's infinite possibilities for things to do. There's the downtown area for shopping and seeing movies, the fields on campus for pick-up sports, and so on.Read More
There are a lot events put on by university groups such as movie nights, guest speakers, and concerts. Many people attend basketball and football games, which are a ton of fun. Schenley Park and Phipps Conservatory are across the street. There are hundreds of clubs, intramural sports, and groups to get involved with which host a variety of events. Additionally, Downtown Pittsburgh is only a ten minute bus ride away, and the movie theater is only a fifteen minute bus ride.Read More
With your Pitt ID, you can ride any form of Alleghany County public transportation. Because of this, you can go anywhere in the county that you want. Stage AE is a great venue for music shows, South Side Works is a great place for shopping, and on Saturdays, the Strip is a blast to go to for market fresh fruits and vegetables. On campus, Nordy's in the student union has a sports bar type feel to it, with pool and Ping-Pong tables. Pitt basketball games are one of the most fun events to attend at Pitt. Also, there are free (or for a small fee) concerts hosted by the Pitt Program Council. For example, I have seen Neon Trees, Twenty One Pilots, Wale, All Time Low, and One Republic just in a year and a half of attending the university. The options for fun are endless!Read More
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Pitt offers free transportation to all students and there are many museums that take a Panther ID for free admission like the Andy Warhol Museum. The Carnegie Natural History and Art Museum is right across the street and it's gorgeous, fit with art pieces on one side and dinosaurs on the other. Pitt has a Pitt Arts program where you can get discounted tickets to ballets and Broadway shows. There are many places the buses can take you like South Side, Shady side, Squirrel Hill, etc. for food and fun.Read More
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Another View -- Karen Feldscher: Remembering my friend Cissy Taylor, lost one year ago
Cissy worked for many years at the Union Leader as a crime reporter and editor. Before that, she was my first editor at my first newspaper job, at the Lawrence Eagle-Tribune. She was a great boss - supportive, good at giving advice, matter-of-fact, fun. I worked for her for about a year and a half, and after that we could focus on simply being friends. It stayed that way for 30 years.
Her Derby Day party was a big deal. It was when everyone in Cissy's circle came together. The party would start slow, a few people milling about under a big tent in her backyard, a few watching the sportscasters' pre-race banter on the television in the living room. Cissy's brother Richard, twirling the edges of his mustache, would case the room with a basket filled with tiny slips of paper featuring the horse's names. "A dollar each," he'd call. "Bet on a horse!"
Each slip had the name of one of the racehorses - intriguing names like Strike the Gold, Go for Gin, Thunder Gulch, Super Saver. You'd pick a few slips, hoping this would be your year. If your horse won, you got the pot; if your horse came in last place, you'd get that year's Kentucky Derby shot glass.
As it neared post time, the crowd swelled. People huddled around the television, fingering their little strips of paper, murmuring their horses' names, commenting on the odds that flashed across the screen.
The food was oh-so-fun - perfect frozen mint juleps, ham-and-beaten-biscuit sandwiches, baked beans, Cissy's one-of-a-kind spinach salad with strawberries and blueberries, hot mustard dip with pretzels, and a giant chocolate sheet cake with a thoroughbred galloping across the icing.
Many years I'd arrive early so I could spend time alone with Cissy. She'd unwrap the ham that her Kentucky relatives - the actual Taylor ham family! - had shipped to her, along with a big plastic bag full of biscuits. We'd sit at the table, slicing open each biscuit, sliding in a few small slices of ham, nibbling as we went along. Often it had been a year since we'd seen each other, so there was plenty to talk about: work, relationships, friends, kids.
She was just the same way she'd been as an editor: supportive, good at giving advice, matter-of-fact, fun. She was quick to smile and had warm laugh lines around her eyes that made you want to smile and laugh with her. And she was a natural storyteller. I got to hear choice tidbits about her work as a crime reporter - about state cops, prosecutors, murderers, crime scenes.
Her bout with breast cancer was an ordeal. An operation, then chemo. Before chemo she gamely threw herself a scarf party in anticipation of losing her hair. I couldn't be at the party, so I sent one in the mail; she expressed her gratitude. Later, after her treatment was over and we met for dinner one night, she told me something about chemo that's stuck in my mind ever since. "It's one of those weird side effects you don't really know about ahead of time," she said. "You know how when you're washing a pan and you go to scrape off some dirt with a fingernail? You can't do that when you're having chemo because it makes your fingernails weak."
She got through the chemo. She was back working, living her life. She'd left the newspaper and worked briefly as a consultant, then as information officer for the New Hampshire House of Representatives. After that job was eliminated, she wound up working as a waitress. She said she loved it.
And then - she was gone.
Unfortunately, I missed any chance to formally mark Cissy's death - I didn't learn about it until after there'd been a memorial service in Manchester. On Facebook, I saw pictures of a small group of friends who stood on a street corner after the memorial and released balloons in her memory. Before Cissy's death I hadn't given much thought to funerals or memorial services. They were grim, something you had to get through. But not being able to mark the passing of someone you were close with? Very bad.
So, one year after Cissy's birthday - and with Derby Day coming along - I am pausing again to remember her. I suspect there are many people in southern New Hampshire, Kentucky and elsewhere doing the same thing.
On Derby Day I hope to find a mint julep somewhere - I'm sure it won't be as good as the ones at those Derby Day parties at Cissy's house, but I'll do what I can - and raise a glass. And remember.
Karen Feldscher is a writer in Needham, Mass.
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Welcome to the first part of this series on creating a simple blog using CodeIgniter with authentication library Tank Auth.
This section will show you how to properly install the CodeIgniter framework and the Tank Auth library, then configure both for use with our simple blog. By the end of this part you should have a working simple user login system.
Download the Complete Code Below :
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>> Zip File <<
Install CodeIgniter
I'm going to start with a clean installation of CodeIgniter downloaded straight from EllisLab's site, but if you're not familiar with the framework also look here for more thorough installation directions:
I'm going to copy the folder included in the zip (CodeIgniter_2.1.3) into my
/var/www/ directory (the root directory for websites on my machine) and rename it
myblog. Now this is my current file structure (you can delete the included user_guide) :
Note : I would usually move my /application and /system folders a directory above my web root, this is added security to ensure nobody can directly access these files from a browser. For this simple tutorial I'm going to leave it up to the basic .htaccess files included in every CI folder by default to keep people out and NOT let this site go live as is. If I was to move the folders however, at this point I would have to update the variables
$system_folder and
$application_folder values in the main index.php file located in the website's folder with the correct file paths.
Install Tank Auth
Next a fresh installation of Tank Auth is needed. Download page:
After extracting Tank Auth merge it's
application folder with
/var/www/myblog/application/ (your site's
/application directory). Move the captcha folder to the root of your website as well, see changed folder structure below :
/var/www/myblog/captcha/ (this folder is now merged with Tank Auth's application folder)
From this point on I won't be typing out my entire specific folder directory. I will be shortening any references to folder directory to something like this:
CodeIgniter Sessions Configuration
In order to use sessions in our blog we will need to set up an encryption key; go to randomkeygen.com and copy one of the 'CodeIgniter Encryption Keys' on the page.
In your site directory find and open this file, then edit the following lines:
$config['encryption_key'] = '' <= Paste encryption key between the "
$config['sess_use_database'] <= Set to TRUE
We set the above to true because in order to handle session data CodeIgniter will need a database. Create a database using whatever method you're comfortable with (phpmyadmin,terminal), I'm naming my mysql database:
Now back to the included Tank Auth file:
schema.sql. Insert the correct tables from the .sql into your database by using phpmyadmin or by logging into mysql through your terminal.
Create 'posts' Table For Storing Posts
Add one more table to the database to store our posts, again, this is assuming you are familiar with creating tables in mysql:
- Name your table 'posts'
- Include the following fields:
- 'id' (INT, make the primary auto-incrementing key)
- 'title' (VARCHAR, I put 100 chars max)
- 'summary' (TEXT)
- 'content' (TEXT)
Once you have the database tables set up let's tell CodeIgniter where to find them :
Open the database config file located at :
This file should look a little self explanatory, fill out the lines below with your own database info and save.
$db['default']['hostname'] = 'localhost';
$db['default']['username'] = 'root';
$db['default']['password'] = 'mypassword';
$db['default']['database'] = 'myblog';
Config Tank Auth
The final config changes I will be making are in the Tank Auth configuration itself, open :
Now find the following lines and make sure they are both set to
$config['captcha_registration'] = FALSE;
$config['email_activation'] = FALSE;
We are removing the need to write out a captcha when registering, and disabling activation by email just to keep things simple for now.
Up Next
If you navigate to your site a login form that looks like this should be visible:
Registration should be possible and a successful login will lead you to a plain page welcoming you by your entered username.
In the next part of this tutorial a home page for the blog will be created, and it will display a list of blog post titles and summaries. In addition to an index page, we will need to create a page for users to view a complete single post.


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A recent laboratory study of tuna sushi from 20 different Manhattan restaurants found amounts of mercury that exceed the levels established as acceptable by the Environmental Protection Agency.
The tests, which were done on the sushi pieces multiple times and were conducted for the New York Times in October, revealed that eating six pieces a week would exceed the Environmental Protection Agency's acceptable levels for human consumption of mercury.
Tuna sushi, mostly blue fin, from 5 of the 20 establishments had mercury levels so high the FDA could exercise the option to take legal action to remove the fish from the market.
Dr. Michael Gochfeld, a professor of environmental and occupational medicine at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in Piscataway, N.J., analyzed the sushi for the paper's report.
A former chairman of the New Jersey Mercury Task Force, Gochfeld continues to treat patients with mercury poisoning.
The findings from the New York-based study has experts believing similar results might be found in restaurants outside of the test area.
Studies have linked mercury to health problems such as an increased risk of heart disease in adults as well as negative effects on the body's neurological system.
As of right now, seafood is not regularly tested by any government agency for mercury.
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This is good news for all the coffee lovers out there. The Journal of Physiology and Behavior discovered that people who are drinking caffeinated drinks have 16 percent higher metabolic rate than the normal. Thus, if you have just had a huge amount of meal, you may drink coffee to help you digest it all in little time. The weight loss diet food given above are few of the countless dietary recipes available for people who are into a weight reduction program. It is just important to take note of the raw ingredients contained in the food that you eat so you will be guided.
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Just like Banting s diet, a healthy diet is one that helps maintain or improve general health. It is important for lowering many chronic health risks, such as obesity, heart disease, diabetes, hypertension and cancer. A healthy diet involves consuming appropriate amounts of all essential nutrients and an adequate amount of water.
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In short, the current xenadrine review, specially after the California research is that we are better off by staying away from it. Healthy and permanent weight loss should be the goal in all of us. Remember long term safe weight loss is achieved with a permanent change in your eating habits and lifestyle. A little bit of physical exercise in our life is also essential.
Women and men need to be on seperate meal plans. They need to be divided up because men and women are biologicaly and physicaly different in many ways. The goals for men are usually to build muscle mass and to fat loss. For women the goals the want to achieve are different, they want to lose the weight but instead of build muscle they want to tone up.
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Federal judge arrested on domestic violence charge
Court rejects Siegelman bribery case
Former Ala. governor loses appeal
Former Ala. governor guilty of bribery
U.S. not quite done with Richard Scrushy
Scrushy free on all 36 HealthSouth charges
Judge pares HealthSouth charges
SEC accuses Scrushy of insider trading
Richard Marin Scrushy (born August 1952 in Selma, Alabama) is an an American business man and founder of HealthSouth Corporation, a global health care company based in Birmingham, Alabama.
In 2004, following an investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Scrushy had charges brought against him by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Scrushy was charged with 36 of the original 85 counts but was acquitted of all charges on June 28, 2005, after a jury trial in Birmingham.
Four months following his acquittal in Birmingham, Scrushy was indicted along with former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman on October 28, 2005, by a federal grand jury in Montgomery, Alabama. The indictment included 30 counts of money laundering, extortion, obstruction of justice, racketeering, and bribery. Although the new charges were filed a month before the previous trial ended, Scrushy's attorneys accused prosecutors of filing charges as retaliation for Scrushy's acquittal. Scrushy pleaded not guilty to all charges, but was convicted along with Siegelman in June 2006.


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Kuna connected home security system is hidden in a porch light
Keeping one's home safe has largely transitioned away from reliance on traditional home security companies and towards utilizing the devices and services we already have, namely smartphones and a home WiFi network. Numerous connected devices designed for home security are available, most of them revolving around either motion sensors or cameras that shuttle information to one's mobile device. The Kuna is no exception, but comes with an elegant twist: it is a camera-toting connected light fixture that users install next to their home's door, making it as stylish and unassuming as it is functional.


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Bombs Will Go Off in Baghdad, Whether the US is There or Not
The savage suicide bombings in the heart of Baghdad yesterday show how far the violence in Iraq is from being over. It is as if those who order these bombings know that they only have to repeat these atrocities every couple of months to destabilize the country.
The government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki makes itself even more vulnerable by boasting that it is improving security. Iraq is a safer place than it was three years ago, but it is still one of the more perilous places in the world.
There is no need to imagine that the slaughter in Haifa Street yesterday was because American troops withdrew from the cities of Iraq three months ago. With or without US troops, the bombers have been able to get through in Baghdad ever since they destroyed the UN headquarters in 2003.
Suicide car bombings, even when the driver is not planning to detonate his deadly cargo personally, are extremely difficult to stop. Remember the success the Provisional IRA had in the 1990s in targeting much smaller areas in the city of London and Canary Wharf.
After a bomb eviscerated the Iraqi Foreign Ministry on August 19 the Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said its passage must have been helped by collaborators at army and police checkpoints. This may be true. But it is impossible for Iraqi security to search every vehicle, especially as bombers will have made sure that their papers are in order. It will also have occurred to Iraqi soldiers and policemen that any awards for stopping a suicide bomber are likely to be posthumous. Enthusiasm for investigating suspicious vehicles is limited.
The bombings do not by themselves prove that Iraq remains unstable.
Unfortunately, there are other pointers such as the failure of 1.6 million internally displaced people to return to their homes. A study by the International Organization on Migration explains why these internal Iraqi refugees are not going home. It says that security may have got better but refugees are still trying to survive "without work, their own home, schooling for children, access to water, electricity and health care".
Who is behind the bombings? Almost certainly it is some cell of al-Qa'ida, possibly acting with the guidance or help of the Baath party or the security service of the old regime. Al-Qa'ida is not as strong as it was in 2007, but then it does not have to be to create mayhem.
The main problem in Iraq is that there is no fundamental agreement between the three main communities: the Shia, the Sunni Arabs and the Kurds. Each group is still looking for the weak points of the others. The Shia are three-fifths of the population, benefited from the overthrow of the predominantly-Sunni regime of Saddam Hussein and were largely victorious in the sectarian battle for Baghdad in 2005-7. This does not mean that the Sunni, who make up a fifth of the population, do not retain the strength to destabilize the government unless they get the share of power that they want.
Iraqis themselves tend to see the never-ending violence as a sign that their neighbors intend to prevent the re-emergence of a strong Iraq. Iran would like another Shia state in the Gulf, but it does not want a powerful government to resurrect itself in Baghdad. Saudi Arabia has long been aghast at seeing Iraq becoming the first Shia government in the Arab world since Saladin overthrew the Fatimids. Kuwait is still taking part of Iraq's desperately needed oil revenues in compensation for its losses in the first Gulf War.
Iraq has had 30 years of war, rebellion and economic sanctions. It truly is a broken society. The state is dysfunctional. There is some good news: the price of oil has risen to $80 a barrel. But even relatively peaceful cities like Basra are full of people who are not being paid. The government is failing to heal the deep wounds of the past. These latest bombings – the deadliest in two years – shows how far Iraq is from solving its problems.
PATRICK COCKBURN is the Ihe author of "Muqtada: Muqtada Al-Sadr, the Shia Revival, and the Struggle for Iraq."


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Favourite Cover: Fantastic Four (1998) #64
Favourite Story: "Three"
Creators: Jonathan Hickman (Writer), Steve Epting (Penciller, Inker), Rick Magyar (Inker) and Mike Perkins (Inker)
Relevant Issues: Fantastic Four (1961) #583-587
I'm wary of treading familiar ground with this choice (having already picked "Forever" for my favourite Fantastic Four story), but I do love what Hickman did with the team. In "Three", the writer promised to change the status quo, leaving Marvel's First Family down a member, with one of them seemingly perishing fighting the good fight.
Being Hickman of course, things wouldn't be so simple as to having the team lose a member in an all-out epic battle. No, instead he opted for a far more complex approach, pitting the quartet against different threats at the same time, meaning it was all out fan speculation as to who would die! Would it be Reed, failing to save the inhabitants of Nu-World from Galactus and finally falling victim to the Great Devourer of Worlds? Maybe Sue, caught in the midst of an ancient Atlantean civil war and struggle for power? What about Johnny and Ben, with the duo left alone to hold off the new budding Annihilation wave in the Baxter building, with Ben now powerless for day?
As it turns out, in a fitting moment of maturity, Johnny Storm stepped up, and forward, off into the Negative Zone alone to literally face the Annihilation wave alone, as his best friend watched, powerless to assist. It was a noble moment for the character, often known for his immature moments, to really take command of the moment, and make a difference. And as "Forever" showed, he in fact survived the experience, which no doubt has helped to make him a better hero – although I doubt it is an experience he'd ever wish to endure again, or wish on anyone.
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by a refocused federal research program. For example, rather than trying to expand the limits of native organisms, the Office of Fuels Development research program could investigate the underlying mechanisms of these limits in nature through genomics and other fundamental studies. Armed with a fundamental understanding of natural limitations, companies would be in a better position to undertake their own applied development programs.
The Office of Fuels Development should return to its traditional role of providing a technical basis for future commercial ventures. Advancing the technology base will help new processing plants improve their competitive position and pave the way for the next generation of processing plants.
The Office of Fuels Development should support and encourage, perhaps by interagency cooperation with the U.S. Department of Agriculture and other federal agencies, work on coproducts of bioethanol manufacturing.
Because of a lack of any foreseeable opportunity for reducing the production costs of biodiesel, the Office of Fuels Development should consider eliminating its biodiesel program and redirecting those funds into the bioethanol program.


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► ProPublica highlights an Associated Press report about how "Officials at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission repeatedly weakened safety standards or decided not to enforce them in order to keep aging nuclear reactors in compliance...." The AP writes that "Examples abound." For instance, "When valves leaked, more leakage was allowed — up to 20 times the original limit." The result is "Rising fears that these accommodations by the NRC are significantly undermining safety," it notes.
► The U.S. Food and Drug Administration unveiled a new strategy to meet the challenges posed by rapidly rising imports of FDA-regulated products and a complex global supply chain in a report called the "Pathway to Global Product Safety and Quality." It notes that "The FDA is also broadening its food safety efforts under the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA)." For example, "the FDA will establish a program for qualified third parties to certify that foreign food facilities are in compliance with U.S. requirements...."
► British Prime Minister David Cameron is backing away from a proposed plan to allow persons who plead guilty to criminal charges in the U.K. to get their sentences reduced by as much as 50 percent, reports the BBC. The proposal was to be part of a sentencing reform package that includes proposals to make "squatting" in other people's properties a crime and to make it clear that homeowners and shopkeepers will not be prosecuted for using reasonable force to defend themselves or their property. Cameron also is said to be reviewing the practice of holding persons held for "public protection" indefinitely with no defined right to be released.
► The Crime Report writes about the U.S. Justice Department's new crime solutions Web site to help the public judge the effectiveness of state and local anticrime programs.
See all the latest links and resources that supplement the current issue of Security Management magazine.