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TEMPLE (January 15, 2013) --- A 26-year-old Temple woman who was shot with her own gun after she picked up the firearm and confronted two men who broke into her home said Tuesday she was in a fight for her life.
The woman, who asked not to be identified, was home Tuesday, recovering from the wound.
She told officers that two black men wearing white T-shirts and dark pants entered her home on Silver Leaf Court Monday afternoon through an unlocked rear door.
Tuesday she said that when she realized someone was breaking into her home she immediately went to get a pistol that's kept in the house for safety.
But by the time she had it in her hands one of the burglars had attacked her, she said.
"He was tussling with me going back and forth and like I said I'm a big girl, it's not that easy to knock me down, so he had his head down and he was wrestling me and I'm hitting him like get off me, I'm just hitting him like this get off me," she said as she described the fist fight she got into with one of the men.
During the struggle she said the gun went off repeatedly.
One of the shots hit her in the leg and shattered her ankle.
It's not clear who pulled the trigger.
During the ordeal the mother of two said she only had two things on her mind that made her fight harder to get out alive.
"It's either me or him and I have two children out here and my children already don't have no daddy, it's either me or him at this point and it's not about to be me," she said.
On Tuesday Temple Police said they haven't made any arrests connected to the case and still need information from the public.
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It appears to be a rite of passage for some women to describe the birth of their babies in minute detail, literally giving an hour-by-hour account. For these women, it appears to be part of the recovery process and they like nothing better than a new audience, and, especially, a woman who is pregnant for the first time. So you'll no doubt find yourself on the receiving end of a few birth horror stories-sometimes from complete strangers!
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This has no bearing on anything at all really, but your talk of "off-hand" made me think of this: There should be a lefty option for FPS games. It'd be purely cosmetic, just showing the character's gun and hand on the opposite side of the screen while the aiming and gameplay remains the same. Well, in a game like Halo the assassination animations would need to be different as well, but yeah. I'm surprised that I hadn't heard anything like this before, considering the way lefties griped when Nintendo added waggle and turned Link into a righty.
I'm right handed with ambidextrous leanings so it really doesn't bother me on any level, it'd just be a neat idea and add to the immersion for those types.


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Middle Sister Climber's Log
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|Nick Turtura
|Perfect day
Date Climbed: Sep 23, 2011
|Clear day with good friends.
|Posted Jun 5, 2012 12:20 am
|hayden glacier
Date Climbed: Jul 24, 2011
|chemeketan climb success!
|Posted Apr 19, 2012 1:50 am
|Middle Sister North Ridge
Date Climbed: Sep 11, 2011
|Climbed Middle Sister the same day after climbing North Sister via the saddle between north and middle after camping the night before at Arrowhead Lake. Was a fun rock climb but a ice sheet on the normal route force us to do some hands and knees climbing around it which we tried to avoid on the descent but it ended up being the safest option. Great views. Enjoyed the glissades on the glaciers back to camp.
|Posted Feb 19, 2012 6:58 pm
|Hayden Glacier, North Ridge
Date Climbed: Jun 29, 2011
|Not much in the way of crevasses on the glacier. We moved well up to the notch between North and Middle. One group member had some issues on the final ridge that forced them to turn back, but everyone else made it aside from a second who went back with them for safety sake. Windy, but not bad.
|Posted Jan 13, 2012 11:54 am
|Infected Mushroom
|North ridge x3
|Been up it a few times now, need me some skis.
|Posted Sep 18, 2011 10:12 pm
|Arrowhead Lake Camp
Date Climbed: Jul 31, 2010
|Climbed up from Arrowhead Lake and then crossed onto the east face, did some rock/ice climbing to the summit. Great views and amazing clear day!
|Posted Aug 12, 2011 10:16 pm
|Karl Helser
|West face...
Date Climbed: Aug 7, 2011
|My wife and I took a group up the West Face of MS. We started at the Obsidian trailhead. Hiked up to, and camped at Arrowhead Lake (6900') Saturday night. Sunday, started climbing at 5:00am, and summited at 10:00am. Our route touched the south edge of the Renfrew Glacier, and then straight up the West Face, which is a nice blocky stair step to the summit. We descended the North Ridge / Renfrew Glacier route. The weather was perfect. Arrowhead Lake is still frozen and covered with snow, but had a couple of exposed spots for a great water source. Camp spots at Arrowhead Lake are bare and snow free. Crampons are necessary if climbing in the early morning...ice axe and helmet are, of course, advisable.
|Posted Aug 8, 2011 11:03 am
|North Ridge
Date Climbed: Aug 2, 2011
|Descended the South Ridge of North Sister, then up the North Ridge of Middle Sister. Snow and scree, very straightforward climb. Went on to South Sister to complete the Sisters Marathon.
|Posted Aug 3, 2011 9:25 pm
|Hayden Glacier route
Date Climbed: Jul 4, 2011
|Great day on MS with great views of all the Oregon volcanoes lined up
|Posted Jul 15, 2011 12:22 pm
|snow snow everywhere
Date Climbed: May 24, 2011
|Snowshoed in from Pole Cr. Record spring snow in the Cascades. Snow and wind Monday afternoon and night but totally clear early morning. My partner became ill at the saddle and I summited solo. Beautiful day.
|Posted May 25, 2011 1:35 am
|My First Peak
|I first climbed the Middle Sister during a week at Boy Scout Camp Melakwa. That was back in 1970. Had a great time.
|Posted Jan 9, 2011 11:33 pm
|I did this sister twice in a day
Date Climbed: Aug 13, 2010
|As part of my solo Marathon, I camped at the highest cave in Oregon on the summit of Middle Sister, so I had to re-summit it after climbing N. Sister earlier in the day. Then I went down the west side to do South Sister the next day. One of the most incredible climbs of my life. I also had a ice alpine summit of Middle from the Obsidian Trail side earlier in the year.
|Posted Dec 25, 2010 6:40 am
|Fun Climb
|First volcano I ever climbed. 12 years old
|Posted Dec 19, 2010 5:04 am
|SE Ridge ish
Date Climbed: Jul 11, 2010
|We camped somwhere just east of camp lake. Hiked a ridge that I believe was the next ridge over from the main southeast route. No need for crampons or ice ax via this route, unless you start really early. The snow was mushy enough that crampons wouldnt have done anything. Mosquitos are heinous in places, not bad at all in other spots. I would recommend camping lower to avoid the bugs.
|Posted Jul 11, 2010 11:44 pm
|Horrible June Weather
Date Climbed: Jun 19, 2010
|Attempted to climb from the Obsidian Trailhead, but we ended up starting at 7 miles down the Old McKenzie Hwy because the road is still closed. Heavy snow covered the ground for at least a few feet starting at the trailhead and all the trails are completely buried. We navigated by the lava flows, but had to turn back after thick fog and snow rolled in.
|Posted Jul 5, 2010 5:13 pm
|N Ridge f/ the West
Date Climbed: Jul 18, 1989
|Left my girlfriend at the time about 1700' below the summit, where she was "attacked" by hummingbirds. I had to hear about that for the rest of the relationship.
|Posted Jul 2, 2010 2:26 pm
|2/3 part of marathon
Date Climbed: Sep 1, 1995
|Same story as North Sister, 3 sis marathon attempt, bailed off S. Sis, long hike to trailhead in the dark.
|Posted Dec 28, 2009 12:56 am
Date Climbed: Jun 26, 2004
|this was one of my first climbs when i was inexperienced but adventurous, did the south sister the day before
|Posted Dec 8, 2009 1:24 am
|One of my first big mountains
Date Climbed: Jul 19, 1989
|Young, full of energy, and in love. Amazed by snow fields in the middle of summer. The start of my quest for new mountains.
|Posted Oct 3, 2009 5:53 pm
|Sweet solo
Date Climbed: Aug 5, 2008
|Climbed South snow route from Camp Lake. I love Camp Lake! Not a soul in sight on the mountain. Jon and Whitney congrats on the baby.
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Does such a distribution exist? The Cauchy distribution has infinite variance but its mean is also undefined.
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Consider the density function $f(x)= (3/2) x^{-5/2}$ on the interval from $1$ to infinity.
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Canopy ground cover of various crops from the west side of the San Joaquin Valley will be derived from Landsat and/or other multispectral images collected under acceptably clear weather conditions. Image analyses will be required to process these data. Correlation between the satellite based canopy cover data and basal crop coefficient will be made and algorithms established on crop specific bases. A prototype user interface program will be developed to facilitate the translation of the satellite imagery to canopy cover or crop coefficient maps based on the relationships and algorithms developed in the previous phases of the project. An economic analysis will also be carried out to compare cost and benefit of employing remote sensing for improving crop water use efficiency. Documents Grant with CSU-Seaside.
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This is a problematic question as the words are not clearcut in most peoples minds, but there are cues, and distinctions to be made.
Debate on wikipedia:
Argue on wikipedia:
Thus a debate is:
To argue however is not the same as an arguement. Nor is the logical definition of 'argue' the same as what is commonly referred in public. One can argue the case of XYZ say in law or physics, or one can argue on the street ( in which case bickering would be a more appropriate word ).
For example Alice had an arguement with Bob where she accused him of paranoia, would not be considered a debate. Here Alice argues the point that Bob has paranoia. One can argue at a debate, and an argument, but an arguement is not a debate.
Arguments are thus:
In most of the cases of 'arguments', one could substitute another word such as row, tiff, bickering, and various other words. Where debate is concerned, one could use the word arguement, but not words such as row or bicker.
Debate has method. Argument does not necessarily.
The difference is that argument usually has a more negative connotation to it. It implies a possible quarrel, people talking over each other and impoliteness.
Debate, on the other hand, is usually a conversation between people expressing two sides of a certain topic in a polite and respectable manner.
Within the American legal system, two processes are linked inextricably: debate and argument. If you read any published opinion of any court within the U.S. federal legal establishment you will discover how crucial and far-reaching the two processes are.
In American jurisprudence, an argument is simply a line of reasoning judges use to arrive at a decision or ruling. After they decide a case, the judges issue a ruling, commonly called an opinion. Since within a panel of judges the majority determines the outcome of the case, one of the majority judges writes the opinion, after which the government publishes it and the general public is free to scrutinize it.
The doctrine of stare decisis ("the decision stands") is foundational to judges' decision making. As they formulate their arguments—again, their lines of reasoning—that culminate in their decisions, judges are required to respect past judicial decisions, constitutions (federal and state), statutes, and rules and regulations, both past and present.
The notion of stare decisis obviates the need to reinvent the wheel, so to speak, every time a new case arises. Keep in mind, however, that judges are not necessarily bound to rubber stamp past decisions. After all, no two cases are identical. The cast of characters and circumstances change from case to case. Despite obvious similarities there may often be not-so-obvious dissimilarities, called distinguishing facts. Consequently, when you read any published opinion of our nation's highest appeal court, the U.S. Supreme Court, you detect a virtual debate that has already taken place between the deciding judges in the present case and the deciding judges from past cases.
Of the Supreme Court's nine justices a majority of only five is required to make the final ruling stand. The justices therefore debate with each other about what that ruling should be. Despite their differences, however, all of them have this in common: they have already "debated" with the law as it already stands (i.e., stare decisis). Each judge, if she has done her job well, has compared and contrasted the present case with past cases, looking for facts (analogous and disanalogous), examining arguments, and balancing her own arguments with those of both her fellow judges in the present and judges from the past. She then either agrees or disagrees (completely or partially) with them and makes her own tentative decision. Subsequently, the second debate begins, but this time it takes place between judges in the present, who may or may not agree with each other's decisions.
Since the judge responsible for writing the majority opinion has already exercised his due diligence by debating justices past and present (virtually and up-close and personal, respectively), he is then free to state the reasons for his decision. His decision can be only one of three: he can concur with, or affirm, the lower court's decision; he can overturn the lower court's decision; or he can remand the case to the lower court for retrial.
Before issuing her opinion, however, the thinking process of the judge might proceed along these lines: "I agree with the decision Judge Smith made in a landmark case from 1879, in which he concluded ___. However, I do so for different reasons. For example, I argue that ___, rather than ____. Nevertheless, I agree with Judge Smith's decision, and rule accordingly in this case that the lower court erred in convicting the petitioner standing before us today. I therefore overturn the lower court's decision."
Can you see how the debates and arguments go hand in hand? Because of stare decisis the opinion-writing judge, as with all his fellow judges, is required to look back to previously made decisions but is obligated neither to agree with them nor to disagree with them. He is free to use similar or dissimilar arguments and come to the same or different conclusions, based on his own powers of deduction.
The above process then repeats itself with each new case. Imperfect judges make the best decisions they can, balancing what has been decided in the past with what needs to be decided in the present. The process is not without its flaws, but it is certainly better than the vast majority of other methods of judicial decision making extant today.
Perhaps I'm being a Humpty-Dumpty here, but I see the distinction differently from others around here.
A debate is a contest of winning in front of an audience.
An argument is statement of facts and inferences drawn from those facts.
Perhaps my intended meaning can be better specified as making an argument to distinguish it from the more popular connotation of having an argument. That still leaves me prejudiced about debate, however, since I still see wooing an audience as the primary desideratum.
Both words are used to describe conversations in which two (or more) sides take opposing views. As Irene notes, "debate" is normally used to describe conversations about social and political issues, while "argument" is used to describe personal differences. "Senator Smith and Senator Jones had a debate about fiscal policy", but "Senator Smith and Senator Jones had an argument about who should get the bigger office."
Also, "debate" implies a reasonable, civilized expression of opinion, while "argument" implies hostility, raised voices, etc. It is not uncommon to hear, "The candidates' debate turned into an argument", meaning that instead of rationally discussing their differences they started yelling at each other and calling names. Thus, you could say, "Senator Smith and Senator Jones argued about fiscal policy." But you wouldn't normally say, "My wife and I had a debate about how much she spent on clothes", except in a joking way.
Both words suggest exchange of opposing views and disagreement. They do have similar meanings, but the word "debate" is used for formal situations eg social or political debates. You don't refer to a family argument as a "debate" (actually, I've heard this once, but it was an exaggeration meant to make us laugh).
If you've ever had to study and participate in a formal debate, there is one underlying and irrefutable aspect to it which may or may not also be used in an argument, but which is necessary and fundamental in a debate: when you debate, you listen to your opponent for the sole purpose of formulating a counter argument. And that is all.
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On November 26, 2001 Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Fahd bin Abdulaziz received from Minister of Finance and National Economy Dr. Ibrahim Al-Assaf and SAMA Governor Hamad Al-Sayyari the 37th annual report of the Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency (SAMA).
Governor Al-Sayyari also presented to King Fahd a gold medallion marking the 20th anniversary of his accession to the throne, and delivered a speech in which he reported on the Saudi economy, praised the developments in foreign investment in the oil and gas sector, and reviewed King Fahd's achievements in the twenty years of his reign.
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The 37th SAMA report shows that during FY 2000 (1420/21) the Saudi economy continued its progress, benefiting from the rise in global oil prices. The Kingdom's oil revenues increased sharply during the year, resulting in the achievement of the first budget surplus since 1982 and a remarkable surplus in the balance of payments for the second consecutive year. General cost of living figures remained stable thanks to the monetary policy pursued to this end. The private sector made further progress, reflecting the continuing diversity of its productive base and its reduced reliance on government expenditure.
The banking sector continued to perform well, reflecting the success of SAMA's measures to promote its efficiency, soundness and capital adequacy, with the ultimate objective of raising its performance level in continuous consistency with international standards. Several new administrative regulations were introduced during the year to give effect to a number of structural reforms made in the Saudi economy, which is anticipated to continue its growth during the current FY 2001 (1421/22) in spite of unfavorable circumstances witnessed by the global economy.
In FY 2000 the Kingdom's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew by 4.5 percent (21.7 percent in current prices). This was largely due to extraordinary growth in both the oil and the non-oil sectors, the former growing by 8.5 percent, while the latter recorded a 2.6 percent growth. Actual public revenues rose by 74.9 percent to SR 258.1 billion [U.S. $ 68.83 billion] while expenditures rose by 28 percent to SR 235.3 billion [$ 62.75 billion], bringing the surplus to SR 22.7 billion [$ 6.05], corresponding to 3.6 percent of the GDP. The previous year had shown a deficit of SR 36.3 billion [$ 9.69 billion].
The minerals sector registered a growth rate of 9.6 percent, and SAMA predicted a similar growth rate for the current fiscal year. The industrial sector grew by 3.2 percent, the construction sector by 3.5 percent, the commercial services sector by 3.0 percent, and the finance and business sector by 2.5 percent. The monetary and banking sectors achieved a growth of 4.5 percent, with bank deposits rising by 7.1 percent and loans and advances to the private sector by 6.2 percent. The Kingdom achieved a surplus in the balance of payments for the second consecutive year. The GDP grew by 21.7 percent last year in current prices, as compared to 11.5 percent the previous year.
The report also highlighted the development and progress of the stock market, commerce, industry and electricity, roads and telephone lines, human resources and social services. Market capitalization of shares rose by 11.4 percent, from SR 229 billion [$ 61.07 billion] in 1999 to SR 255 billion [$ 68.0 billion] in 2000. The number of shares traded went up by 5.1 percent from 528 million in 1999 to 555 million in 2000. The commerce, industry and electricity sectors continued their growth and development during 2000. The number of new companies registered by the Ministry of Commerce during 2000 was 554, with a total capital of SR 6.2 billion [$ 1.65 billion]. The number of operating companies stood at 493,000 at the end of 2000, including 3,381 industrial plants with a total capital of SR 293.3 billion [$ 78.21 billion] and over 315,000 workers.


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Let S be the collection of vectors $\begin{pmatrix} x \\ y \\ z \end{pmatrix}$ in $\mathbb{R}^3$ such that $|x-y|=|y-z|$. Either prove that S forms a subspace of $\mathbb{R}^3$ or give a counterexample to show that it does not.
(from Poole, Linear Algebra - A Modern Introduction 2nd ed., exercise 3.5.8)
I'm working on this book by myself, so if you can just give me a hint to show me the right direction, that would be great. I have been trying to solve this by going through the three requirements of a subspace.
- The zero vector is in S.
- If u and v are in S, then u + v is in S.
- If u is in S and c is a scalar, then cu is in S.
It's easy to see the first one holds. For the third one I noticed that by adding c as multiplier on both sides of $|x-y|=|y-z|$ and fiddling a bit it becomes $|$c$u_x$-c$u_y|$ = $|$c$u_y$-c$u_z|$, which is the form I need to show it is closed under scalar multiplication.
But how to show the second one I have no idea. Stuff I tried tended to split into multiple cases because absolute values are taken of the left and right sides, it didn't feel like the right direction. Is there something really easy I'm missing here?
I also tried imagining what the subspace would look like, but it's too difficult to visualize.


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The Paris-based energy watchdog, which represents major oil-consumer nations, expects refiners to process around 75.7 million bpd of crude in the third and fourth quarters, 1.3 million bpdmore than in the last quarter of 2011. Behind the output rise is unexpectedly high production in developed economies.
By KONSTANTIN ROZHNOV and SARAH KENT
LONDON -- Strong refinery activity should boost
supply of diesel and gasoline through year-end, bringing relief
to hard-pressed consumers, the International Energy Agency said
in a monthly report Wednesday.
But the IEA head of oil industry and markets didn't rule out
a future release from the emergency stockpiles of its 28 member
The Paris-based energy watchdog, which represents major
oil-consumer nations, expects refiners to process around 75.7
million bpd of crude in the third and fourth quarters, 1.3
million bpd more than in the last quarter of 2011.
There is a rebalancing under way. If it continues,
having more product on the market will relieve the very tight
market situation we have and that will be very welcome,
said Antoine Halff, the IEA's editor and head of the oil
industry and markets division.
Behind the third-quarter
output rise is unexpectedly high production in developed
economies, driven by strong refinery profit margins.
But as this high production isn't expected to last, the
expected strong fourth-quarter growth is likely to be driven by
demand and capacity increases in Asia, Africa and the Middle
Fast-expanding emerging economies continue to provide the
biggest share of annual growth in refinery output, the IEA said.
The annual growth, the strongest since the beginning of
2011, isn't exceptional as it is coming from low levels, but it
helps increase low inventories of fuels such as diesel and
gasoline, said Toril Bosoni, a senior oil market analyst at the
However, the pressure on supply will be easier to assuage
for some products than others, the IEA's Mr. Halff said, adding
that supply of distillates like diesel would likely remain
Low stocks of diesel, which is used as heating fuel, could
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If you see through small enough aperture, you can see things without glasses.
How does this trick work?
If you see through small enough aperture, you can see things without glasses.
How does this trick work?
For someone with perfect vision, the lens in their eye focuses a point source in their field of vision to a point source on their retina. For someone with less than perfect vision, the focus lies either before or behind the retina, resulting in a large spot on the retina, instead of a point. See the top illustration.
When you squint, or roll your fingers into a tube in front of your eye, you're placing an aperture in the way of the light. See the bottom illustration. As the diagram shows, the focus stays the same distance away from the retina, but since the angles are smaller, the spot on the retina is also smaller. A smaller spot is closer to a point, and therefore seems "sharper" - even though the vision is just as bad.
The camera obscura works on a similar principle.
Basically, what your eye does is take an average value of all the light that comes into your eye, and present it as the final image.
Let us consider a wide open eye. This eye receives information from all angles possible, and the larger angle the incoming angle has with respect to the normal line of the eye, the more refraction it will go through.
When your eye does not function well, like myopia, your lens will not be able to refract properly. And every light that needs a refraction will undergo some deviation from its correct path.
What you do when squinting, or the tactic shown in Wikihow, is basically eliminating the larger angle light rays, while only receiving those that require little to none refraction to reach the optic disc in your retina.


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The British, and in particular the English, have a reputation for keeping their emotions private and for being reserved in their public behavior. On public transportation, for example, people do not usually talk to other passengers. Like the population of any cosmopolitan city in the world, Londoners remain relatively unfazed by the constant barrage of diversity found around them.
"Queuing" in the United Kingdom is the ancient art of standing in line. People almost always form "queues" in shops, banks, at bus stops, and movie theatres. "Jumping the queue"--or skipping to the front of the line--is considered extremely impolite. To display frustration is also considered poor form. The best course of action is to simply be patient and "get in the queue."
Now you are in England, there's no excuse (especially in the autumn) not to play 'conkers'. Two people stand opposite each other holding strings to which is attached a horse chestnut (a conker) which has been soaked in vinegar to make it hard. Each person then takes turns to hit the other's conker and destroy it. Keep you fingers out of the way. Good clean fun, and the English are current world champions at it.
Look out for some of the stranger local customs. At many villages in England, during the summer (once the cricket's finished) there is Morris dancing, which is when two sets of grown men, with feathers, blacked-up faces and a set of sticks, dance jigs for charity money, and a free pint.
In some Cornish towns there are parades with giants and 'obby'orses made out of paper mache and odd scraps of material and the men put on dresses as lords of misrule, a peculiar habit you can still witness in theatrical pantomimes (put on mainly for children) which occur at Christmas and are best known to Americans in the antics of Monty Python's Spamalot. Some actors cross the Atlantic to star in them: in 2006, it was Henry Winkler's turn as Hook in Peter Pan.
Guy Fawkes night on November 5th is when the people of England remember the attempt to blow up Parliament and burn a 'guy' on a bonfire and let off fireworks. Guy Fawkes day is now joined with newer ethnic celebrations such as the Hindu Diwali (October 21st) and Moslem Eid (October 24th) where more fireworks are let off.
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Southern Indiana Tornado Relief Concert
The Louisville Crashers will host – and headline – the Southern Indiana Tornado Relief Concert 1 to 8 p.m. Sunday, March 11, at Silver Creek High School in Sellersburg, Ind.
More than 30 bands will perform on three stages. Admission is $10 for adults and $5 for ages 12 and under.
Proceeds will benefit the Clark County Red Cross, which is aiding storm victims throughout the community.
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Wick's Pizza Parlor & Pub in New Albany, Ind. will host "Helping Henryville & Beyond: A Benefit for All of Southern Indiana" on Friday, March 9. Doors open at 6:30 p.m.
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14 Nov 2013 by Tara Kroes in Boat Tours , Birdwatching , Hiking & Walking , Icebergs , Nature , Culture , Parks , Top Destinations , Gros Morne National Park , Bonavista and Cape St. Mary's
A few photos on the incredible beauty that captures your soul in Newfoundland.
29 Oct 2013 by Tara Kroes in Boat Tours , Fishing , Nature , Culture , Entertainment , Gros Morne National Park and Cultural Experiences
Explore the past, experience the beauty. Hiding between the great Tablelands and the vast Atlantic Ocean sits quiet Trout River. While proclaiming itself to be Newfoundland's best kept vacation secret, a more accurate account would be Canada's best kept secret. This destination should be on every travellers list when exploring Newfoundland. Situated 86km from Deer Lake International Airport, in the glorious Gros Morne National Park, it is a rare and beautiful find nestled within another rare and beautiful find.
4 Oct 2013 by Tara Kroes in Boat Tours , Entertainment , Top Destinations and Gros Morne National Park
Watching the sunset on a clear, calm night, its final rays shimmering on the bay waters. The glowing ball of orange disappearing behind the strong, rustic 500 million year old tablelands. It is hard not feel overwhelmed by the natural beauty of the scene. This unique sight can only be seen from the water, which is why you need to get out onto Bonne Bay in a boat.
12 Sep 2013 by Keith and Heather Nicol in Boat Tours and HistoryRegion: Labrador
On Thursday, August 29 the weather improved greatly from the previous day and we awoke to bright sun and light winds. We first set our sights on the Point Amour Lighthouse and it was a splendid day to be along the coast. This lighthouse is the second tallest lighthouse in Canada and is 109 feet tall. You can climb the 132 steps to the top where we got a bird's eye view of the surrounding area. While we were there the staff suggested doing the short 1 km trail to see the wreck of the HMS Raleigh which ran aground in dense fog on August 8, 1922.
24 Aug 2013 by Tara Kroes in Boat Tours , Whale Watching and Outdoor AdventureRegion: Eastern
I felt like an alien. I was in a full piece black neoprene wet suit complete with hood, sitting in Ocean Quest's Zodiac listening to Holly Stanley my tour guide for the next three hours. We were headed out of Petty Harbour into the Atlantic Ocean to do something I did not even realize was possible. We were about to go snorkeling with whales.
22 Aug 2013 by Melanie Chambers in Boat Tours , Hiking & Walking , Nature , Parks , Trip Planning , Geography , Top Destinations , Gros Morne National Park and Outdoor Adventure
Hike its peak and boat through Western Brook pond: great views of landscape and moose!
22 Aug 2013 by Lynn McShane in Boat Tours , Food & Dining , History , Entertainment , Top Destinations , Art Galleries and TrinityRegion: Eastern
Trinity has made a huge impact on the tourism scene in Newfoundland. Its beautiful historic properties, lovely art galleries, and great restaurants make for an awesome stay.
12 Aug 2013 by Tara Kroes in Boat Tours , Festivals & Events , Icebergs and Top Destinations
There is an overwhelming feeling of accomplishment when you can cross something off your bucket list. This happened to me at the Iceberg Festival in St. Anthony, Newfoundland where I came within six feet of an iceberg. As someone who has been born and raised in Toronto, icebergs were something that I only saw in commercials for Alaskan boat cruises.
23 Jul 2013 by Keith and Heather Nicol in Boat Tours , Whale Watching , Nature , Culture and Outdoor Adventure
The next day Sunday, July 14 we headed for St. Anthony were we had booked with the Northland Discovery Boat Tour (http://www.discovernorthland.com/) . Since we had a 1:00 pm sailing, we decided to see the Grenfell Interpretation Centre (www.grenfell-properties.com) which is close to the boat tour wharf. The Grenfell Interpretation Centre tells the amazing story of Dr. Grenfell and his selfless devotion to the health care and general wellbeing of the people of southern Labrador and the Northern Peninsula.
11 Jul 2013 by Lauren Saunders in Boat Tours , Birdwatching , Icebergs , Whale Watching and St. John'sRegion: Avalon
It's hard not to visit St. John's without longing to be out on the water. The stunning scenery of the Atlantic Ocean and the rugged coastline can lure any traveller to hop on board with one of our outstanding boat tour operators.
16 May 2013 by Sandra Phinney in Boat Tours , Birdwatching , Camping , Hiking & Walking , Kayaking , Nature , History , Art Galleries and Outdoor AdventureRegion: Labrador
If you recall, our last stop was in North West River. Although we had tentatively planned to leave there mid day, I often lose sight of time when I follow my nose so it was dusk when we bid farewell to this region and hit that long long (albeit relatively new) road to Cartwright. Did I say that road was long? I should have known we wouldn't get there before midnight.
28 Mar 2013 by Janice Goudie in Boat Tours , Birdwatching , Food & Dining , Icebergs , Nature and Trip PlanningRegion: Central
Seeing puffins for the first time
2 Aug 2012 by Keith and Heather Nicol in Boat Tours and Fishing
f you want to go cod fishing from a traditional Newfoundland dory then you need to contact Darren Park. Darren is a top notch guide and operates 2 Newfoundland dories for tours of the Goose and Penguin Arm and is based in Cox's Cove at the end of the North Shore highway (highway 440) near Corner Brook. His dory fishing trips are unique in the province and are very popular during the recreational cod fishery which runs from July 21-August 12, 2012.
26 Jul 2012 by Keith and Heather Nicol in Boat Tours , Nature and Gros Morne National Park
"I love my office" grinned Ryan Young above the roar of the motor as we skipped over the small waves of Trout River Pond. "This southern part of Gros Morne National Park is undiscovered by many people and it is too bad since it is a spectacular area."
We were doing a new Ocean Quest boat tour (http://www.oceanquestadventures.com/services/tourist/gros-morne-national-park) that started on Trout River Pond, and we had to agree - Trout River Pond is amazing since it is surrounded by steep cliffs 550-600 meters high and it is 15 km long.
16 Jul 2012 by Keith and Heather Nicol in Boat Tours , Festivals & Events , Whale Watching , Nature , Entertainment and Gros Morne National Park
We are big fans of traditional Newfoundland music whether it be "I'se the Bye" or a song from the Northern Peninsula that we might never have previously heard. Neddy Norris Night is Theatre Newfoundland Labrador's popular musical night and it takes on a different flavour depending on who is the musical director that year.
13 Apr 2012 by Janice Goudie in Boat Tours , Icebergs and Top DestinationsRegion: Central
We meet people every day. Some who change our lives forever, some we can't remember five minutes after being introduced, and some we don't realize are famous in their own right until afterward.
7 Sep 2011 by Guest Blogger in Boat Tours , Food & Dining , Whale Watching and Culture
As our trip to Newfoundland stretched out before us, I knew I would blog about it and I knew instantly that the theme would be gratitude to the people of Newfoundland. So it's serendipitous that in the last few days I started reading so many words of thanks to the people of Newfoundland from the stranded passengers of 9/11 who were taken into their homes and made to feel like family.
5 Aug 2011 by Guest Blogger in Boat Tours , Diving , Whale Watching and NatureRegion: Avalon
"Remember, give'r till ya shiver," says the man responsible for my safety just before I jump off a boat into freezing water. I've come to the most easterly point in North America in the hope of having an up close and personal experience with whales.
4 Aug 2011 by Keith and Heather Nicol in Boat Tours and Nature
"Yesterday we had 6 women from the Corner Brook area come out for a fishing tour—they were in their 60-70's and they had a great time. Not only did they catch a lot of cod but we saw an eagle for each person." Darren told me over the phone on Tuesday night (August 2)
25 Jun 2011 by Keith and Heather Nicol in Boat Tours , Hiking & Walking and Nature
Corner Brook, Newfoundland is well located for all kinds of outdoor activities. Recently we took part in 2 that are certainly noteworthy....


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It's easy to add people with the old YouTube profiles as friend, as you just click the link:
I see no such option where the other links are on the new profiles though:
Is there still a way to do that, or did they just remove it?
They seem to have removed the button, but there is a workaround.
Copy the username of the person you want to add as a friend (just under Created by; 'GamingSE' in your example), and then go to your Inbox > Address Book. Click on New > Contact... and type in the username inside the Username box on the right pane. Now click Save, select that user, click Add to Friends on the above bar and you're done. This is the only way to add someone as a friend at the moment.


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Power Flats Challenge High Heels
Newest Flats Are Far From Dowdy, Bold for the Boardroom, Easy on Toes
The go-to shoe for female executives has long been the power heel. Now the flat is making a play for power.
Fashion runways lately have been full of chic flat shoes for women. Menswear-inspired Oxfords were all over the fall/winter collections. Pointy-toed flat pumps, sandals and smoking slippers—masculine shoes with a thin sole and a loafer-like tongue—followed for next spring. Many of them countered flats' dowdy image with fashion-statement details such as studs and a huge variety of materials, from snakeskin and tweed to patent leather.
Long stuck in the purgatory of casual wear, flats are suddenly being promoted for polished occasions. Flats sleek enough to be dress shoes were paired with tailored suits and even with eveningwear on the spring runways from Marc Jacobs to Giorgio Armani.
High heels, of course, have a mythology all their own and a sheer glamour that is hard to match. They add height, lengthen the calf and arch the foot flirtatiously. A true power heel has a narrow tapered heel and is cut low on the upper foot, intertwining sex and authority. Many women keep a pair of heels in their desk drawer for important meetings. Heels by far outsell flats at fashion retailers in the U.S.
Yet heels do slow you down: Just ask any woman who has lagged, mincing, behind the long strides of her male colleagues—or teetered on one foot outside the entrance to her next meeting while changing from walking shoes to stilettos. For that matter, consider the gross national product spent on taxis by women who can't hobble six blocks in 4-inch heels.
The appearance of the power flat may be a sign of our times, which are faster, busier and more demanding than ever. A flat shoe offers speed, better balance and comfort. "We have these lives that are complex and busy," says Brooke Jaffe, fashion director of women's accessories at Bloomingdale's. "We walk all day. And there's an expectation that you'll look polished."
One quality power flats share: They look like if they were used to kick someone—it would hurt. Pointy toes, metal toe caps and embellishments, including spikes, are some of the details that give these flats power. They also call attention to themselves with strong colors, shine or vivid patterns like leopard.
Ms. Jaffe also points to the "borrowed from the boys" looks that are sweeping fashion, such as oxfords and other takes on men's footwear. A big look for upcoming seasons: smoking slippers, which begin where Cary Grant left off, puffing on a cigar before the fireplace. While the traditional velvet of smoking slippers might be too soft for power shoes, Stuart Weitzman and Elizabeth & James have them in sturdier materials such as patent, tweed and snakeskin. The look is wholly modern and fashion–forward. "This is for women who have places to go," says Ms. Jaffe.
The kicking rule pretty well rules out ballet flats, many women's flat of choice because it's graceful and fits in a purse. Round-toed and structureless, ballet flats are far too demure for a woman addressing her board of directors.
"I'm exhausted by ballet flats," says shoe designer Tabitha Simmons. "Something angular constitutes a power flat to me." The CFDA Vogue Fashion Fund award nominee says she feels the allure of flats, though she also designs and sells towering heels. "I'm a busy mom. I have two children and a company," she says. When she wants to convey influence in flats, she looks for something with a pointy toe.
Power flats benefit from the right pairings. For daytime, designers showed flats with tapered or narrow-legged pants and pantsuits, though for evening, they showed them with wide-legged pajama pants. For working women, pants should be hemmed shorter than for a heel. Cropped or ankle-length pants are ideal. As for skirts, narrow should be the rule. Think of the way Carla Bruni-Sarkozy has worn them since marrying her much-shorter husband, the former president of France—often with slim pants or a trim skirt or dress that elongates the body.
It's likely that power flats will take several seasons to move from the fashion-forward to more conservative consumers. What's more, the power heel isn't going anywhere. As with so much in office fashion—which has assimilated a growing variety of looks for women, from pants, decades ago, to sleeveless blouses, in recent years—power flats are likely to be one more option for working women.
Even the most skeptical heel-wearer will see the comfort advantage of power flats. They are an especially welcome shift for the many executives who can't wear heels for health reasons. "I would be Imelda Marcos if I didn't have bad knees," says Patty Edwards, principal and chief investment officer of Trutina Financial in Bellevue, Wash. Ms. Edwards, whose knees bear the scars of several surgeries, has identified a number of key power-flat characteristics for operating in the financial world. She leans toward red leather, metallic accents, and flats with details, such as a favorite pair of oxfords with a patent leather toe. "I try and take a quirky approach to it, if I have to show up and look powerful," Ms. Edwards says. "If I'm going to wear flats, I'm going to make a statement."
And they do. When Akris designer Albert Kriemler asked Walter Steiger to create flats for his spring 2013 collection, Mr. Steiger says he balked. But Mr. Kriemler insisted. After the collection was shown in Paris, Mr. Steiger decided the look—paired with evening dresses as well as slacks and suits—was perfect. "It's very modern," he said, looking pleased.
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I'd like to know James Bond's age window. He's been played by a wide variety of actors. What is the youngest and oldest Agent 007 has been portrayed to be?
As jamesbond.wikia.com states
That means he always aged from mid-to-late thirties. With an exception of Moonraker
In Moonraker, he admits to being eight years shy of mandatory retirement age from the
But it's the case for the novel, I am not sure about the movie, because I didn't watch it.
If you go with the actors age, George Lazenby was the youngest Bond at 29 years when he was hired for On Her Majesty's Secret Service.
Moore is the longest-serving James Bond actor, having spent 12 years in the role (from his debut in 1973, to his retirement from the role in 1985), and having made seven official films in a row. Moore is the oldest actor to have played Bond: he was 45 in Live and Let Die (1973), and 58 when he announced his retirement on 3 December 1985.(source)
I don't believe Bond's age has ever been specified in any of the movies, but as far as the actors go:
Youngest: George Lazenby was 29 when he portrayed Bond in On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Oldest: Roger Moore was 58 when he played Bond in A View to A Kill
Speaking of the literary character, James Bond, Ian Fleming (creator) did not provide a date of birth, though James Bond is supposed to be in mid to late thirties. In Moonraker, he admits to being eight years shy of mandatory retirement age from the 00 section—45—which would mean he was 37 at the time.John Pearson's fictional biography of Bond, James Bond: The Authorized Biography of 007, gives him a birth date of 11 November 1920, while a study by Bond scholar John Griswold puts the date at 11 November 1921. According to Griswold, the Fleming novels take place between around May 1951, to February 1964, by which time Bond was aged 42.


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Gerstacker Recruiters Night
Bring your resumes and join the Gerstacker Institute as we welcome accounting and financial firms, as well as marketing and management companies to campus. Recruiters will be in the Science Atrium on September 10, 2013, 6:00 -8:00 pm, and will be looking for students to fill internships and full time job opportunities. This one event replaces the former Meet the Firm and Marketing and Management Nights. Don't miss this great networking event!


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Let $X$ and $Y$ be Banach spaces. The notion of the embedded spaces was introduced by D.S. Djordjevic. Say that $X$ embed in $Y$, and write $X \preceq Y$, if there exists a left invertible operator $J:X \rightarrow Y$. My question is the following;
If $X$ embed in $Y$, and $Y$ embed in $X$, then $X$ isomorphic onto $Y$?
PS: The answer is positive when $X$ and $Y$ are Hilbert spaces. But for general Banach space,I can not find a solution. Is there exists a couterexample?


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Own ttf font in c/c++/vc++
All you can do is Use the CFont object and create the fonts to be drawn on the DC or you need to be using MS's tool/software to do the same. Here is the link that can help you going. http://www.microsoft.com/typography/DevOverview.mspx


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Flaky iPhone 4 Home Button
I've got an iPhone 4, and for a while now the home button has been quite unresponsive. Sometimes I need to press the button around 5 or 6 times for it to register. However, I noticed that once I restore it to factory settings, the home button goes back to normal.
Once I put my apps and music on the iphone once again, the home button problem reappears. Has anyone heard of a problem like this, or is it just a coincidence? What can be done to fix it? Should I reinstall iTunes and re-download all my apps?


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Conservatively Speaking
State Senator Mary Lazich (R-New Berlin) represents parts of four counties: Milwaukee, Waukesha, Racine, and Walworth. Her Senate District 28 includes New Berlin, Franklin, Greendale, Hales Corners, Muskego, Waterford, Big Bend, the town of Vernon and parts of Greenfield, East Troy, and Mukwonago. Senator Lazich has been in the Legislature for more than a decade. She considers herself a tireless crusader for lower taxes, reduced spending and smaller government.
Gun Deer Season Thank You Message from Governor Walker and Secretary Stepp
Governor Scott Walker and Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Secretary Cathy Stepp released a video urging deer hunters to share their 2012 nine-day gun deer hunting stories on the DNR's Facebook page. Click here to view Governor Walker and Secretary Stepp's gun deer hunting thank you video.
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Joan and Irwin Jacobs opened their stunning, art-filled home in La Jolla for an evening of philanthropic gratitude.
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The cocktail reception, with an intimate piano concert that set the evening's tone, celebrated the generosity of some of San Diego's most philanthropic members of the Jewish community. More than 100 were honored and given a tour of the Jacobses' immense art collection, which includes standout pieces by George Segal and Chuck Close. The family are important supporters of San Diego's vibrant arts scene, be it La Jolla Playhouse or MCASD. One of the buildings of the contemporary museum's downtown campus is named the Jacobs Building in honor of their generous patronage.
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Engineers at the University of Southampton created a supercomputer, using Lego and tiny, credit card sized hobby computers. The supercomputer is named 'Iris Pi' and consists of 64 Raspberry Pi computational devices. Intended as affordable devices for young people, the small Raspberry Pi plugs into televisions and works much like an actual PC, performing many tasks like word-processing and games.The engineering team programed the 64 curio computers with an open source operating system called Debian Wheezy, and linked them using ethernet cabling. 6-year-old Simon Cox, son of the lead engineer Professor Cox, designed the entire racking system using his Legos. The end result: a supercomputer with 1TB of memory, costing around $4000. Which, compared to the $215-million supercomputer at Los Alamos National Laboratory, is surprisingly affordable.
Professor Cox said, "the team want to see this low-cost system as a starting point to inspire and enable students to apply high-performance computing and data handling to tackle complex engineering and scientific challenges."
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Michael Chaffin is earning his Ph.D. in Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences and works on the Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrometer experiment on MAVEN.
What work do you do with the MAVEN mission?
I work on the Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrometer experiment on MAVEN. Our instrument provides a global view of the atmosphere as opposed to the local view provided by the other instruments. My job is to help analyze the hydrogen airglow that we will observe. By looking at how much sunlight bounces off of the hydrogen in the atmosphere, we can see how much hydrogen is leaving the atmosphere today and escaping to space. Because the hydrogen we will look at comes from water much lower down in the atmosphere, the work I do can tell us how much water is leaving the planet today, which can help us understand how much water Mars may have lost to space over its lifetime. This will help us answer one of the most important questions about Mars: whether escape to space could have transformed the planet from its warm and wet early state to the cool and dry planet we know today.
Why did you choose CU-Boulder over another university?
CU is almost unique in its capability to conceive, build, and fly instruments to other planets. The Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at which I work has sent instruments to every planet in the solar system: only government labs can make the same boast. All of the other universities I applied to for graduate study told me not to work on missions until they had already arrived and were returning data. At CU, professors in APS and scientists at LASP are actively pushing the frontier of exploration forward, conceiving and building the missions that will rewrite our understanding of the Solar System.
If a prospective student asked you about the most interesting thing or things you've done at CU, how would you respond?
If we judge "interesting" or "cool" by the standards of then 10-year-old Mike Chaffin, working on a NASA mission going to Mars is possibly the coolest thing I could do, next to becoming an astronaut or running a dinosaur rodeo. I get to work with extremely intelligent people who are dedicated to solving the planetary mystery of what happened to the water on Mars. As a necessary part of this work, I've gotten to travel to collaborate with scientists from around the country and around the world, in California, Florida and France. Getting paid to study Mars and working with an international team of brilliant scientists has been an unbeatable experience.
What drew you to astrophysical and planetary sciences?
As an undergraduate student, I studied physics intending to be a theoretical physicist or a string theorist, but I got tired of not having any real measurements to compare with. With planetary science, we are actually traveling to other planets in our solar system today, which is as close to magic as I think you can get in the real world. We're learning things about our solar system and about the universe that people have wondered for as long as we've been looking up at the sky. The other planets in our solar system are eerily similar but vastly different from Earth. By studying them, we can begin to understand the development of planets in general, instead of being restricted to the possibly unique evolutionary path of the Earth. I can't think of a more exciting way to spend a career!
What do you plan to do after earning your degree?
I hope to get my Ph.D. in the next year and continue to do exciting scientific work on MAVEN for as long as it is returning science data from Mars. After that, I'd like to continue working as a planetary scientist at a small liberal arts college, sharing my passion for the Solar System and the universe with talented undergraduates while maintaining strong connections with the planetary science community at research institutions throughout the United States and abroad.


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Tuesday, January 6, 2009
All About the CoverGirl Outlast Lipstains
For each swatch, I drew a rectangle on my arm between black lines (for contrast - I used Wet 'n' Wild MegaEyes Defining Marker, which, by the way, is just like MAC's new felt-tip liner and is absolutely amazing), let it dry for a few minutes, and then went over it again to ensure that each color showed up as pigmented as possible for the sake of comparison and truth of color. Many before me have said they are very pigmented, and I half-agree with that statement; some are incredibly pigmented, others significantly less so (and with little exception, they generally get more pigmented as the shade numbers increase). The less pigmented of these lipstains are very layerable, but the more pigmented ones seem to be relatively unaffected by the amount of product you use. I'll show the pictures first, and then describe each shade. In all of the pictures, the lipstains are placed in ascending numerical order from left to right.
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Shade descriptions and reviews (Pigmentation scale: 1 = least pigmented, 10 = most pigmented):
400 Everbloom Kiss: Bright, cute, sweet pink, neutral in tone. Creates an innocent and (very) youthful look. Pigmentation: 2
405 Berry Smooch: Sophisticated, cool-toned mauve-berry shade. Reminds me very much of NARS' Sin blush (without the shimmer, of course). Simply gorgeous. Pigmentation: 1410 Bit of Blossom: Vivid pink shade that rather tends toward the "fuschia" direction, but without being overly cool (definitely cool-neutral). This makes for a sassy sort of look (exactly what you don't get with the "Sassy Mauve" shade, incidentally), one I imagine fitting on a MAC MA, for example. Pigmentation: 6
415 Teasing Blush: Sultry, neutral pink-red-brown color, remarkably hard to describe; for some reason, I can't get past the word "blush" (in its name) - it doesn't really mean anything, but somehow it's still the most fitting descriptor I can think of. This one may well be my favorite of them all. It's just... sexy. Pigmentation: 4
420 Sassy Mauve: Sophisticated, subdued wine color; "mauve" definitely hits the nail on the head. While this is a very pretty color, I wouldn't call it "sassy." It strikes me as one of the more mature colors in the line, and reminds me somewhat of Lancome's popular Beach Plum Juicy Tube. Pigmentation: 5
425 Plum Pout: Deep, cool red; not very plummy at all, in my opinion. This is almost the exact color of MAC's Dubonnet lipstick. Love it! Pigmentation: 10
430 Coy Coral: Warm, salmony-coral shade, markedly different from the other lipstains. While this stain does go on more smoothly and evenly than most of the others, I'm very unimpressed by the color and quite honestly can't think of any skin tone this would complement (but feel free to try to prove me wrong!). Pigmentation: 8
435 Flirty Nude: Rather warm pink-brown tone (but with more brown than pink). It's almost a darker, more opaque version of NARS' Dolce Vita lipstick, but not quite as pretty. This is just an average color, in my opinion; not ugly but not beautiful, either, though I suspect it might better compliment darker skin tones than my own. Pigmentation: 3
440 Wild Berry Wink: Bright cool-neutral red, the exact color of my fingers after a day of picking fresh blackberries in the end of August. Stunning. Pigmentation: 9
445 Cinnamon Smile: Warm brown, caramel-mocha shade. I mentally file this under "no way," next to "Coy Coral"; while I do think it's more likely to work on some skin tones than the coral shade would, I'm having trouble even figuring out what those skin tones might be. It's just... very, very brown. Pigmentation: 7
Whew! That was a mouthful. Don't let my "pigmentation scale" scare you off, either. As I mentioned earlier, some of the less pigmented shades are the prettiest, and very buildable.
I haven't worn them all out and about yet, but the ones I have (415 and 420, I believe) lasted through dinner and a play/movie (two different nights). I found myself re-applying every few hours to maintain the vividness of color; they didn't fade too much, but when they did, they faded evenly. As with most lipstains, the CoverGirl Outlast stains tend to cling to patches of dry skin, so it helps to exfoliate your lips before applying (this can be done with a lip buffer, a washcloth, or even a soft-bristled toothbrush) and/or prep your lips with a small amount of balm. (You can also apply balm after the stain, which creates a very pretty, glossy look; be sure to let the stain "set" for a few minutes first, though.)
Thoughts on this post? I'm still new at this, so feedback is always helpful :) (That includes constructive criticism!)
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Great review! Thanks for the awesome swatches! Did you have stains on your arms for the rest of the day? I tried coral and you were right, this was my least favorite, this tooked awful on me-turned sort of a fuschia. The flirty nude on my darker skin is actually very nice. It's not what I would consider a nute, but more of a MLBB amped up color. It wore evenly and lasted about 4-5 hours of running errands and drinking a latte.ReplyDelete
Sounds great! I'm glad it worked for you :) And yes, I did (do!) have stains on my arm, lol. I washed it all off the best I could (went over the whole area three separate times with cleansing oil) but the rectangles are still there, though faded. 425, 430, and 440 are the most persistent ones of the bunch, or at least according to my arm, they are :DReplyDelete
Great review, very thorough!ReplyDelete
It's tough with these, I will have to go through some trial and error to find the best shade for me I think.
But the swatches and descriptions will definitely lead me in the right direction.
Keep it up!
Thank you so much for going to all this trouble! I am currently in the market for a cheap easy to find lipstain and read about CG's on mua and that lead me here to your blog. It is so helpful to see swatches like this before buying. Your pics and descriptions are a huge help. Thank you so much.ReplyDelete
I am drawn to shade 400 and 440.
Thanks again.
Thank you, Teresa and Spark! Hope to see you both around here again :)ReplyDelete
Excellent review!!! I love how thorough it is, especially with the swatches. I cannot stress how difficult it was to find photos with and without flash. Also, I loved how you scaled each lip stain and gave descriptions of each color--definitely gave me a better picture of what kind of color to expect :) Thanks again!!ReplyDelete
You are so welcome, Vy! :)ReplyDelete
two thumbs upReplyDelete
i love all your swatches
thank you for all your effort! :D
- AshleyJune 16, 2010 at 8:44 PM
Thanks so much for the review! I'm new to your blog but this review seems very thorough and comprehensive. Thanks for all of the swatches and information!!ReplyDelete
Hey there! I just posted a lip swatch of me wearing coy coral. Perhaps it compliments my skin tone? I totally agree about 425.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 31, 2010 at 6:27 AM
I love the CG Lipstains! My mom & I were intrigued by a lip stain being sold and Body Shop a good many years back, so when CG came out with this marker application, we were keen to sign up. The original one was definitely not as effective as these! I'm quite fair and love the Flirty Nude! It's a good everyday color for me. But I got it a while back and am now keen to switch things up with Plum Pout and/or Teasing Blush.ReplyDelete
Thanks for the swatches! I've been looking for swatches on these lipstains.. I finally found the ones I need!ReplyDelete
Yes! I've been looking for actual swatches everywhere! Thanks!ReplyDelete
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I can't help myself, I have made this twice already this week! It's really just a version of my Memphis BBQ Tofu, but with fresh garden ingredients that give it a more refined and delightful taste. It is sweet and sour with a touch of hot, and goes perfectly with the hearty and slightly sweet corn cake below. I served this with a side of greens and some fresh garden produce. The corn cakes are from the August 2010 issues of VegNews (anyone see me listed on the last page as a Top Ten blog?) and are only adapted slightly because I did not have all the ingredients.
Southern Tofu
- 1 pkg firm tofu, diced
- 2 tbsp margarine
- 2 tbsp oil
- 1 large sweet onion, diced
- 2 cloves garlic, chopped
- 1/2 green pepper, small dice
- 1/4 cup bourbon
- 1/2 cup brown sugar, packed
- 1 tbsp apple cider vinegar
- juice of 1/2 lemon
- 2 large tomatoes, finely chopped
- 1 tsp paprika
- 1 tsp mustard
- hot sauce to taste
- 1/4 cup ketchup (more as needed)
- salt to taste
- chopped parsley to garnish
Prepare tofu however you see fit. You could leave it raw, but I fry it up in a touch of oil over med-hi heat, turning regularly to get a nice golden colour on each side and to give it a more chewy texture.
1. Heat margarine and oil in a large saucepan over medium heat. Add onions and cook for 10-12 mins, stirring regularly, until beginning to get golden on the edges. Add garlic and cook 1 min, then add green pepper and cook 2-3 mins, until starting to soften.
2. Add bourbon to the pan and mix well, letting it cook down a bit (just a min or two). Add brown sugar and bring to bubbling. Let cook for 2 mins.
3. Add vinegar, lemon juice, tomatoes, paprika, mustard, and hot sauce. Bring to bubbling, then reduce heat, and let simmer for about 5 mins, letting tomatoes cook down a bit. Add ketchup to thicken, and season to taste. Add tofu back to the pan and stir to coat. Cook a few mins to heat tofu back up and absorb some sauce. Serve over corn cake and garnish with parsley.
Corn Cakes
Makes 6
- 1 cup cornmeal
- 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1 tbsp ground flax seed
- 2 tbsp sugar
- 1 cup + 2 tbsp boiling water
- 1 tbsp canola oil
Heat a thin layer of oil in a frying pan over medium to med-hi heat
1. Whisk cornmeal, baking powder, flax, and sugar in a medium bowl. Add boiling water and mix until just moistened. Add canola and stir to incorporate. The batter will thicken a bit as the cornmeal absorbs more water, so add more water if needed.
2. Spoon equal portions of batter into the hot oil, and press into patties. (This is what the original recipe calls for, but I actually found it easier to wet my hands and pat the dough/batter into patties). Cook for 2-3 mins each side, until golden, then drain on paper.
Friday, August 27, 2010
Southern Tofu on a Corn Cake
I can't help myself, I have made this twice already this week! It's really just a version of my Memphis BBQ Tofu, but with fresh garden ingredients that give it a more refined and delightful taste. It is sweet and sour with a touch of hot, and goes perfectly with the hearty and slightly sweet corn cake below. I served this with a side of greens and some fresh garden produce. The corn cakes are from the August 2010 issues of VegNews (anyone see me listed on the last page as a Top Ten blog?) and are only adapted slightly because I did not have all the ingredients.
11 comments:
- Ali - YumVeggieBurger said...
that photo is positively mouth-watering!
- August 27, 2010 at 8:37 PM
- Dianne said...
I have some polenta to use up; I might just make these corn cakes! And yes, I did see you listed; congrats!
- August 28, 2010 at 12:44 PM
- TheSweetestVegan said...
Looks good, you have inspired me to make some corn bread
- August 28, 2010 at 1:10 PM
- Spencer said...
This was great! Love the combination of the tofu with the corn cakes. The smell throughout the cooking process was intoxicating, especially after adding the bourbon. I will probably be making it again within the week.
- August 28, 2010 at 11:27 PM
- Chanda M. DeFoor said...
You are one of my heroes! I love looking at your posts and admiring the beautiful food. Thanks for sharing it with us.
- August 29, 2010 at 12:08 PM
- Vegan in Vegas said...
Just finished the dishes, and I want to tell you what an amazing Labor Day meal that was. We're not big fans of tofu around here, but I figured that sweet corn cake would cushion our reservations. It did. Delicious--start to finish. Even cooking the sauce tasted good.
I've been reading your blog everyday for a month, checking it on my phone when I get a few minutes during the day to think about what to make for dinner. Your recipes are clearly written, never thick and wordy, and your menus are realistic for busy families. Keep it up.
- September 5, 2010 at 11:03 PM
- Lisa said...
This looks really good. I can't wait to try it.
- September 11, 2010 at 9:47 AM
- Anna said...
I made this last week and I"m going to make a double recipe when my parents come down on Friday. What an absolutely divine dish! I did cut the brown sugar in half. We're both trying to avoid sweets and I was afraid that much sugar would reignite our collective sweet tooth.
- September 14, 2010 at 10:23 PM
- Lily said...
This was absolutely delicious! The sauce is so perfect, and the vegetables go really well with it, along with the tofu. We ate this with fried ready made polenta (as we couldn't find any ground stuff in Tesco; I think we got confused what cornmeal was in British English!) and the polenta had a interesting taste and texture, but still went really well with the sauce.
Thank you, Vegan Dad!
- September 19, 2010 at 4:51 PM
- Kristin said...
This was one of mine, and my husbands favorite vegan dished EVER! The bbq was perfect. Sweet, and tangy and oh so yummy. He took left overs into work and people were drooling over the smell. He loved it too much to share though, lol.
I will be making this often and sharing with friends and family too! Thanks!
Oh and congrats on appearing in Veg News! Awesome!
- November 1, 2010 at 11:40 AM
- Sara said...
i have just discovered your blog and absolutely love it! been on for like 10mins and already found at least 10 vegan recipes I have never seen before :) what wonderful inspiration, thank you!!
- January 27, 2011 at 12:03 PM


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6 Animals That Can Get You High
#3. Bees
Honey and having an awesome time have been inextricably linked since the dawn of creation. Almost every prehistoric culture on Earth has considered honey a gift from the gods, or at the very least a fantastic topping for pancakes. Its ancient esteem should come as no surprise seeing as how it must have taken a man (or woman, we're not here to play favorites) with balls the size of the Bronze Age to look at a swarming beehive and decide the bastards were hiding something tasty. This was possibly the same person that first decided to eat a pineapple.
"Bet you five bucks you won't bite into that thing."
Honey has some bodacious pharmaceutical qualities; boosting the immune system, preventing cancer, soothing cold and flu symptoms and tasting wonderful on crumpets. It's also a good preservative and we've found pots of honey in China and Egypt that are still in edible condition after thousands of years. But that shit isn't why it's on this list.
No, the golden treat takes another spin if the bees responsible have been munching down on Atropa belladona, also known as deadly nightshade, which is neither a misnomer nor a clever name. Belladonna is one of the most toxic plants on the planet. But when synthesized through the bee's natural chemical factory you end up with psychoactive nightshade honey (which totally sounds like the name of a bad industrial band but in actuality is probably worse for your health).
Still, not as bad as Nic Cage Honey.
In small doses, nightshade honey is known to cause euphoria and altered perception, notably enhancing perception of geometric shape, which we assume means that you will start to see the world as being made of blocky polygons like in Virtua Fighter.
Unsurprisingly, toxic honey is bottled as a liquor in some regions of the world, further solidifying the notion of poisoning to the brink of insanity as "having a good time."
#2. Toads
We've all heard the old one about licking toads. You may have even seen that kid around the playground, the one who burned down his parents' garage trying to make crystal meth and totally saw a girl's boobs in fourth grade, pick up a startled amphibian and lick its slimy back as if he had found it in Willy Wonka's chocolate factory.
Didn't you just wish you were as cool as that guy as you stood there in your pee-stained Spider-Man tracksuit? No? Just us?
OK, but no need for regret here. According to science, licking a toad doesn't actually do anything but make everyone around you seriously uncomfortable (the toad included). However, if you do run into a toad (specifically one of the Pokemon-named Bufo family), take note of the horn-like protrusions behind its head. Those are glands by which the toad produces its toxic payload, known as bufotoxins. In other words, this toad has poison horns, which is approximately as metal as a dragon's cock ring.
Unfortunately, from this angle you can't see his Danzig back tattoo.
As you have probably guessed, bufotoxins can get you seriously high, as some enterprizing space cadets discovered by squeezing the foamy goo out of the toad's horns, drying into a film and smoking it.
The composition of bufotoxin is similar to what is found in some mushrooms, a mixture that includes both DMT and epinephrine. This basically means that a hallucinogen and an adrenergic are joining forces like Chuck Norris and Lou Gosset, Jr. in Firewalker to kick the shit out of your mind. The drug is so intense that unlike most of the entries on this list, extracting and trafficking bufotoxins is ranked right up there with heroin and cocaine on the Against-the-Law-O-Meter.
#1. Scorpions
Like snakes, spiders and Queen Latifah, scorpions are something most of us can agree are better off left in the depths of our nightmares, or on German pop stations. Being repeatedly stung by scorpions is one of the levels of Hell observed by Dante, right? But what's that? Some people actually sting themselves with scorpions on purpose? For fun?
And voluntarily saw Beauty Shop? What the fuck?
Yes. Yes, they do. While the venom of most scorpions is relatively harmless to humans (merely causing skin irritation not unlike a mosquito bite or bee sting), some species of scorpion contain powerful neurotoxins. These particular poisons play all sorts of havoc with neural receptors. Imagine letting a five-year-old play with a whole city's traffic lights for a day, except in your brain.
But, as we've seen, the line between poison and narcotic is thin and fuzzy. Here the venom often causes a massive release of serotonin, making the venom operate a lot like an opiate, which is a drug more commonly found along avenues that don't involve willful mutilation at the hands of a cold, unfeeling arachnid.
"I don't give a shit."
The effects can be quite similar to heroin. Sadly, this means that it is not unheard of for junkies to wander off into the desert looking for scorpions to sting themselves with to stave off withdrawals a little longer.
Get a job, you fucking junkies!
This may or may not be healthier than heroin (we're pretty sure there's no danger in sharing scorpions, but if you're depending on one of the harshest-looking predators in existence for your high we assume hepatitis is not a major concern for you), but either way we really hope nobody's leaving used scorpions lying around playgrounds. That's just dirty pool.
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I've recently started playing Blacklight: Retribution, and I like it (a lot), so I want to sink some money into it.
My questions stand as follows:
1) If I buy a hero, I still have my default avatar if I wish to play with it ?
2) If I buy a hero, his / her weapon unlocks apply only to him / her or others as well. Are their loadouts even modifiable ?
3) Chance packs, are they fair ? All items have an equal chance of dropping, or do some items have a lower chance ? are they worth it ?
4) Is trading possible and if so, is there a decent marketplace ? If I get two of the same skin in a chance pack, can I exchange it ? restrictions ?
P.S. Any number of answers is acceptable, If no one is able to answer all, I'll simply post a reward for the others, but accept the best answer here also.


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A Conversation with Jaron Lanier
- Posted: May 19, 2010 at 1:06PM
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There is something enjoyable about listening to polymaths talk around issues. There were many interesting ideas hit in this interview and I cannot help smiling when hearing Jaron laugh. I'm going to have to listen to this again and keep a notepad within reach to jot some of this down.
I also liked the multiple camera shots and editing with this.
Great discussion. I imagine 3D printers printing programs, in geometrically appealling configurations which act as the hardware and the user interface. The programs being purely functional, do not change, however, projecting an image of the execution unto and within a transparent 3D object, and allowing a user to touch, drag, interact with the "light cursor" inside the model, executing the functions where touch is applied, or sound interacts, like a musical instrument but not like we've seen before. Being a purely functional language, execution may occur in any order. The infinite within the finite. 3D models can be sold, traded, etc..., and joined with other 3D models. To represent 4D concepts and for mathematics, this would be great, for example, model the unit circle to perform trig or calculus. Some models may allow you to reconfigure the 3D shape to rewrite the program, but first it would be immutable, based on current technology.
This blows my mind dude.
This guy must be teetotal because he seems to have all his braincells intact plus some extra ones to boot.
Pure awesome. Many thanks Charles et al for making this happen!
Wow - what a pleasure. It's so hard to find topics and interviews of this caliber - thanks a lot, everyone.
Great stuff! Phenotropic programming and post symbolic communication deserve an episode each, and try to get Meijer and Beckman to join the discussion.
Needs to be watched twice. A great interview.
Indeed. I sense an E2E in the future with Jaron. That would be quite spectacular.
now that was a great interview!!
From my understanding of post symbolic communication, it seems that it would only be applicable to a limited static domain. Where everything that can be expressed has been. Even in this domain, one cannot escape the very real and still symbolic results of Kolmogorov complexity. That is, in order to describe something completely without depending on external assumptions as to what constitutes what, you need to be very verbose, by symbolic communication era standards.
Plus, you still need a machine to instantiate whatever it is that you are trying to express.
Michael O'Neill is a master director/producer. We're lucky to have him working for Channel 9. When I walked into the studio before this was filmed, Michael said "let's shoot this differently", to which I replied "do your thing, man". He did and this is what resulted. Thank you, Michael.
Also, kudos to Nic Fillingham for suggesting that I interview Jaron.
Glad you are enjoying this. I'm really glad Jaron works for Microsoft (thanks to Sinofsky and Ozzie, plus, as Jaron said, our openness as a company - something we do not get enough credit for...).
Nice interview, I like the new suttle camera angles to, just don't overdo them if you decide to do more
btw Charles, can't someone please fix the silverlight player in Chrome, I just upgraded silverligt to 4 where it's supposed to be supported, but the seek still don't work well in Chrome, the new player used elsewhere on ms sites works great, but not on C9. Also, it would be great if you could redesign the media download and rating buttons, they are too hard to see and many people don't realise they are there.
Hi Robert,
Thanks for the feedback. I will see to it that the dev team look into the seek issues with our SL player on Chrome. In terms of your requested changes, you will be pleased with what we've come up with for the next release...
Finally got round to watching this one. Of course I've heard of Jaron Lanier in the context of VR - had no idea he was working for Microsoft now, and the reason behind it. That's pretty damn cool.
And I'm happy to hear someone else who's so exasperated by people continuing to re-invent the wheel with Unix and other things. I can't blame people for building something that's useful to a well understood recipie, but if you've got the free time on your hands to build something from scratch as an open-source project, how about doing something that hasn't been done before?! If you're going to build an OS, how about a truely object oriented one for example? Lets get away from the simplistic ideas of flat files and heirarchies and processes. Anyway, that's my rant on the subject
Nice conversation, really inspirational. I've included this talk in the list of few talks, I often hear.
Thank you.
Thanks, I am really impressed by the openness of MS of which C9 plays a huge part. As Jaron says, that's the reason he joined, stay honest and keep it up.
Thank you. And we will, Robert. We're Channel 9. Open, honest, dare I say transparent, replaces amino acids in our genome,
I've been thinking about how badly imperative programming tends to scale. But we can't forget about the added machine efficiency of going imperative. Perhaps once it becomes necessary to program to multiple cores in the general case, abstracting over the physical machine with lambda programming will become more viable in my domain (embedded development). Maybe then my partners won't yell at me for using functional programming and immutability idioms in our C++ code base.
That will be the day.
As a side note, it looks like MSN picked Jaron as one of the smartest people.
Very cool. Too bad Bing doesn't pick it up (well, this interview, anyway - from the Smartest People Bing advertisement....). Thanks for the link!
Couldn't bite much. But whatever did, had to be bitten still harder to really enjoy the byte.
Jaron... I just dropped the hat.
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