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2010 Speakers • Speaker's
Changes will be added as confirmed.
are invited to reserve a table for book sales and signing.
JFK Lancer welcomes filmmaker Brian
McKenna as the Keynote Speaker at the November In
Dallas Conference Banquet
Saturday, November 13, 2010. The event will be held Saturday night
at the Adolphus
Hotel in Dallas.
Chambers - From his book, "Head
Shot, The Science Behind the JFK Assassination "
Drawing on his fifteen years experience as an
experimental physicist for the US Navy, Chambers demonstrates that
the commonly accepted view of the assassination is fundamentally
flawed from a scientific perspective. The physics behind lone-gunmen
theories is not only wrong, says Chambers, but frankly impossible.
Chris Scally - Z
Film Chronology (*presented by Randy Owen)
worked in the banking industry in London and Dublin
until his retirement in 2003. Scally's research on the authenticity
of the Dallas Police dictabelts has been published on the Internet,
and his work has also been published in the Dealey Plaza Echo,
the journal of the UK Research Group, Dealey Plaza UK.
He has also made a number of presentations at the Group's annual
conference, held each spring in Canterbury, England. His research
has been cited by a number of authors, and was also used by NARA
in preparing their case for funding for the Dictabelt Restoration
Project. Now happily retired, Scally lives with his wife in the
southeast corner of Ireland, near the ancestral home of President
Kennedy. His presentation addresses the chronology of the Zapruder
film in the days immediately after the assassination, and is the
first step in a larger project designed to address the question
of Zapruder film authenticity.
Bob Cochran,
Banquet and Dealey Plaza Invocation.
Banquet and Dealey Plaza Invocation. Cochran is
based in Washington State and has been an avid JFK enthusiast all
of his life. An unusual turn of events put Bob in New Orleans,
Louisiana during the JFK assassination and witnessed firsthand
the hate for JFK prevalent in that City. Bob also lived in New
Orleans in the 1970's where he attended Warren Eastin Senior High
School that was the same school Lee Harvey Oswald attended. He
is now a collector of JFK and conspiracy oriented items, especially
first-hand items of JFK, Jack Ruby, and Lee Harvey Oswald.
Jerry Dealey, TSBD
Shooter Issues
Born and raised in Dallas, as a member of the Dealey
family that Dealey Plaza was named after and that owned the Dallas
Morning News. Was in school in Denver in fall of 1963, but returned
every year in the summer to live with his father. Is a Dallas historian,
writing a book on the history of Dallas, Dealeys, Dallas Morning
News, and Dealey Plaza. Is a Docent at the Old Red Courthouse Museum,
and the Dallas Historical Society "Hall of State" in Fair Park. Also
gives tours of Dallas, and the Assassination related sites. Specializes
in the history and politics of Dallas. An active member and Moderator
of the JFK Lancer Forum, where he tries to assist in local information
as much as possible.
Sherry Fiester,
Update on Blood Spatter and the trajectory controversy
In 1993 Fiester, a Certified Senior Crime Scene
Investigator and Court recognized expert, begin to apply her professional
expertise to the Kennedy assassination. By using the same Bloodstain
Pattern Analysis and Trajectory Analysis techniques she"s used
in court for over 20 years, Sherry answers basic questions concerning
the Kennedy assassination. The result has been several NID presentations
with new information concerning the fatal headshot, while including
blood spatter and trajectory analysis from previous presentations.
Fiester has testified as an expert in crime scene reconstruction
and bloodstain pattern analysis in over 30 judicial districts in
the states of Louisiana, Mississippi and Florida. Her publications
include "Bloodstain Pattern Identification and Documentation:
a Workbook for Analyst," 1990, "Blood Evidence; What Does
the Blood Tell Us?," JFK Lancer Publications, 1997; and "Bloodstain
Pattern Analysis and the Kennedy Assassination, The Echo," England,
2002. In 2003, Fiester was presented with the "Mary Ferrell - JFK
Lancer New Frontier Award" in appreciation for her contributions
of new evidence and furthering the study of the assassination of
President John F. Kennedy.
a leading historian-researcher in the JFK assassination.
Co-author with Connie Kritzberg of "November Patriots" and author
of the acclaimed "Someone Would Have Talked." Hancock recently published
a study of the RFK assassination, "Incomplete Justice " in conjunction
with the Mary Ferrell Foundation and will be issuing a new edition
of "Someone Would Have Talked" this October, 2010. In 2000, Hancock
received the prestigious "Mary Ferrell New Frontier Award" for the
contribution of new evidence in the Kennedy assassination case. In
2001, he was also awarded the "Mary Ferrell Legacy Award."
Law, ITEOH & RFK
Case Update (On Video)
William Law is the author
of the book, "In the Eye of History," (new edition,
November 2010) that explores the medical evidence through new
witness interviews. He is also currently working new projects,
one with Mark Sobel to produce a documentary on the assassination
of Robert Kennedy.
Owen, Previewing "The Assassination Photo Chronology Website"
Sanders is an award-winning
screenwriter who has spent the last few years researching and
writing about the life of mobster Johnny Rosselli and is currently
writing a book on his new discoveries relating to this mysterious
"emissary to the underworld." Previously, John has been an
international business systems consultant, an industrial psychologist,
a marketing executive, and directed quality improvement efforts
for the California State University system.
Luellen Smiley is
a creative non-fiction writer and award-winning newspaper columnist
who writes a bi-monthly column "Smiley's Dice" and is a regular
contributor to MORE Magazine. Her "Growing Up With Gangsters"
stories appeared in the New York Post and in the Del Mar Times.
Luellen is currently writing a memoir based on her life as the
daughter of Hollywood gangster, Allen Smiley, and recently completed
a feature-length screenplay with John Sanders based on her story.
Jim Marrs – the Roscoe
White Mystery
distinguished journalist and author of the "New
York Times" bestseller, "Crossfire-the Plot to Kill Kennedy" and
of best-selling books such as "Rule by Secrecy" and his 2008 book,
"The Rise of the Fourth Reich." Mr. Marrs is a fearless and gifted
writer and researcher.
Don Thomas,
Ph.D – From his book, "Hear
No Evil"
a scientist with the U.S. federal government. He received his doctorate from
the School of Agriculture at the University of Missouri in 1990 and has held
post-doctoral appointments at the University of Arizona and the University
of Nebraska. He is currently President of the Coleopterists Society and a subject
editor for the Annals of the Entomological Society of America.
He has authored or co-authored more than 100 scientific publications, including
books and book chapters in the field of entomology. Dr. Thomas garnered international
attention in 2001 for an article published in the British forensic journal
Science & Justice entitled, "Acoustical Evidence in the Kennedy Assassination
a former Australian Public Servant who worked
in Federal Social Security administration before a stint with the
Northern Territory Health Department's Environmental Health Unit
working on a project looking into remote Indigenous housing needs.
He moved from that into managing an employment agency and currently
runs a small family business in rural New South Wales. Greg has been
researching and writing about the assassination since 2000 and his
work has appeared in books by Joan Mellen, George Michael Evica,
Larry Hancock and Lamar Waldren.
Ben Rogers, Baylor University Special Collections
Director of W. R. Poage Legislative, a research facility that houses
congressional records and personal papers related to political history. The
Library currently features exhibits: JFK50: Primary, Election,
Inauguration and LBJ: Texan, Politician, President. The
library began its JFK Assassination Research Collection in 2004 with
the papers of Penn Jones, Jr. There are now papers from not only
Penn Jones but also Jack White, John Armstrong, Gary Shaw, John Kelin,
Roy Schaeffer, Paul Hoch, Mae Brussells and others. The collection
includes extensive magazines, newspapers and newsletters related to
research since 1963. Most materials are listed online and are
open to researchers. See http://www.baylor.edu/lib/poage/jfk/index.php?id=60997.
Wexler, CIA Penetration of the Cuban embassy; MLK, A Different
Trail (*presented
by Larry Hancock)
a teacher of World History, AP Government at
Hightstown High School, Hightstown, NJ. He has been a JFK assassination
researcher for about fifteen years where he has focused on the issues
connected to the chemical analysis of the ballistics material since
2000. Wexler has spoken on the subject at JFK Lancer's NID twice,
at the Wecht conference in 2003, and at the AARC conference in 2004,
three of those times opposite Dr. Kenneth Rahn, NAA advocate, from
the University of Rhode Island. Wexler has collaborated with chemist
Tom Pinkston since approximately 2000 on the same subject matter.
Wexler's other Kennedy interests focus on Oswald, his background
and associates leading up to November 22nd. Most recently he has
also worked on both the Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr.
Brian Edwards, Minox Mysteries
has been studying the JFK assassination
since 1969 and has read over 300 books on the subject. From 1978-1997,
he worked as a police officer in Kansas. He was assigned to the patrol
division and served eight years on the police department's tactical
response team. He received his Bachelor's and Master's degree in
Criminal Justice from Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas. From
1996 to 2005, served as an adjunct instructor for the criminal justice
department, with Washburn University, and taught a variety of law
enforcement-related courses. Edwards has lectured on the JFK assassination
throughout the Midwest, including the University of Kansas Law School,
Washburn University School of Law, Johnson County Community College,
and the Alf Landon Lecture Series at Kansas State University. He
has served as an adjunct instructor at Friend's University in Wichita,
Kansas; Ottawa University in Overland Park, Kansas, and Washburn
University in Topeka, Kansas. Edwards is co-director of Project JFK/CSI
Dallas, a student-oriented historical experience. For the past 20
years, Edwards and Casey Quinlan have sponsored student trips to
Dallas to study the assassination. Co-Author of the new book, "Beyond
The Fence Line: The Eyewitness Account of Ed Hoffman and the Murder
of President Kennedy."
Bill Simpich, Oswald and
Intelligence; Angleton's Cover-up
Bill Simpich is a civil rights attorney and an antiwar
activist in the San
Francisco Bay Area. The main areas of his law practice are government
misconduct and toxic tort violations. He also writes for publications
as Truthout, Counterpunch and OpedNews.
Bill considers the assassination cases to be a poorly understood
of civil rights violations. To preserve cold cases, he is preparing
JFK Preservation of Evidence Act that would be applicable in both
of these
of the law and administered by a citizen panel similar to the ARRB.
study of
the JFK case focuses on the documentary evidence, rather than
firearms, acoustics, and other forensic evidence. His current focus
is on
Mexico City
and the counterintelligence aspects of the JFK case.
Jim DiEugenio – Kennedy
Assassination Research and Criticism
has written two books on the Kennedy assassination. Destiny
Betrayed (1992) was the first positive reconsideration of the Jim
Garrison investigation in a generation. The Assassinations
(2003, co-edited with Lisa Pease) analyzed the murders of RFK,
MLK, and Malcolm X, but devoted most its pages to the newly released
ARRB documents in the JFK case. He and Lisa also edited the
journal Probe (1993-2000) which focused on the releases
of the ARRB and new developments in the King and RFK cases. Jim
has an MA in Contemporary American History from California State
University Northridge. He was asked by Oliver Stone to do
a commentary track on the expanded DVD version of his film "JFK".
Casey Quinlan – The North
was born and raised in Kansas City and has been
a high school teacher for over 32 years in Kansas. Quinlan served
in the United States Army with the 9th Infantry as a medical corpsman
during the Vietnam War. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Education
and a Master's degree in American History from Emporia State University
in Emporia, Kansas. He is co-director of Project JFK/CSI Dallas,
a student-oriented historical experience for high school and college
students. Quinlan has been the featured speaker at many colleges
throughout the Midwest, including the Alf Landon Lecture Series at
Kansas State University; the William Allen White School of Journalism
at the University of Kansas; and the Johnson County Community College
in Overland Park, Kansas. Quinlan has served as a guest historian
for the A&E network, the History Channel, and for Oliver Stone's
movie, JFK. In 1995, Quinlan was named the Outstanding Educator of
the Year by JFK Lancer. From 1997, Quinlan has served as an adjunct
instructor at Friends University in Wichita, Kansas; Ottawa University
in Overland Park, Kansas and Washburn University's Criminal Justice
Department in Topeka, Kansas. Today, Quinlan teaches American History
at Basehor-Linwood High School in Bonner Springs, Kansas. Co-Author
of the new book, "Beyond The Fence Line: The Eyewitness Account
of Ed Hoffman and the Murder of President Kennedy."
Zavada - The Zapruder Film, Understanding
the Tools Available for Authentication
retired, as a Standards Director for Imaging Technologies,
from Eastman Kodak in March 1990. His background included
product engineer development responsibilities to introduce KODACHROME
II films, Chairman of the Society of Motion Picture and television
Engineers (SMPTE) 16&8 Standards Committee during the transition
from 16 to 18 fps velocity for silent movie films and four terms
as SMPTE Engineering Vice President. A Fellow of four technical
societies, Mr. Zavada received many awards for his technical achievements
including being elected as a Life member of the Foundation of Motion
Picture Pioneers Inc. Author of the Kodak report to the ARRB.
Synopsis: This presentation will provide a review
of the basic technology of Motion Picture image capture, film materials,
processing and laboratory reproduction techniques to easily comprehend
the physical characteristics related to the Zapruder 8mm film. Combined
with the evidence of custody and time-line, any researcher should
be able to confirm the film's authenticity.
Waldron - JFK, King and Watergate: Files still withheld or destroyed
Lamar Waldron highlights new developments about
important files the FBI,
CIA, and other US agencies are still withholding from Congress,
press, and the public about the assassinations of John F. Kennedy
and Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr., along with related files from the Watergate
scandal. His talk updates information from the trade paperback
edition of
his 2009 book "Legacy of Secrecy" and from his article
on the Mary
Ferrell web site, "Even more US government files about JFK
and King
assassinations are still secret." He'll discuss how to stop
the ongoing
destruction of some King assassination files, and possible ways
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Breaking up is hard to do—especially when your ex is going around telling everyone it's not over. During the July 13 episode of Keeping Up With the Kardashians, Khloe Kardashian continued to deal with the fallout of her split from estranged husband Lamar Odom, which led to her revealing that she knew he cheated on her while they were married.
"He's now wearing his ring full time," the 30-year-old reality star told sister Kourtney Kardashian of Odom, 34. "F–k your ring. You were wearing it when you were f—ing someone, too."
Later, when she got a text from one of Odom's friends asking if they were getting back together, she really lost it. "Let me tell you something. Last year on my birthday, I lied to everyone because I had to lie and say I was with my husband, when in fact my husband was missing with another girl, okay?" she yelled at Kourtney. "And I lied, and I gave up my Beyonce tickets…and I didn't have a birthday! I was alone and lied to everyone!"
Now it was Odom doing the lying, she said. "Lamar is now doing press because he's on a new team, and he's giving these interviews and answering questions about him and I, but they're just not true—saying that he talks to me every day or that we're working things out," she lamented in a confessional.
"I feel like people are almost questioning, like, have I done enough? But I can't reach him for months on end," she continued. "I would just rather him not say anything because it almost, like, gets my hopes up and then nothing ever changes."
To take her mind off the divorce, Khloe decided to throw a party—or, rather, a few parties. After a couple of wild nights, Kourtney accused her of being a "drunky monkey," while stepdad Bruce Jenner said it seemed like she was trying to "mask her feelings" about the end of her marriage. Even Kourtney's longtime love Scott Disick, a notorious partier himself, was worried.
"Both Khloe and I have had a tough year and a lot of problems," Disick said in a confessional. "And, you know, watching Khloe kinda take her mind off the negatives with alcohol and partying and all these things definitely scares me because I've been there before. If I'm seeing it, that must be a lot."
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Protesting the recent launch of low-cost subsidiary Iberia Express, pilots of Spanish airline Iberia began the first of 30 days of industrial action this week, grounding 150 flights on Monday alone.
Pilots union SEPLA says 8,000 jobs will be lost as Iberia moves dozens of aircraft to the new budget airline, Reuters reported.
But Iberia and its parent company, International Airlines Group insist the move is the only way to make the loss-making unit profitable.
According to Reuters, SEPLA is prepared to negotiate a solution to the conflict, based on a proposal aimed at saving the airline 90 million euros (US$117.6 million) a year.
"That is triple the amount that the company has said Iberia Express would save a year," said a spokeswoman for SEPLA, who also advised overhauling the salaries of Iberia directors.
"We are ready to negotiate with whoever, but the company hasn't called us for 20 days."The strikes, scheduled for every Monday and Friday until July, will cost the carrier 3 million euros ($3.9 million) per day, Iberia estimates.
Iberia pilots strike as 150 flights are cancelled
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Liam Aylward MEP for Ireland East and co-negotiator of the European Parliament's Report on 'Tackling Food Waste' earlier this year, has strongly welcomed this week's breakthrough decision of major European retailers to cut food waste along the supply chain and reduce the environmental footprint of their products.
"I strongly commend the European Retail Round Table for building on the work of the European Parliament in a meaningful way in terms of tackling food waste. At present the EU produces 90 million tonnes of food waste each year and Irish consumers alone throw out 30% of food bought in supermarkets, at a cost to each household of €1000 each year. "
The joint voluntary initiative of Europe's major retailers sees them pledge to cut food waste and run awareness campaigns to make consumers aware that 50% of healthy and edible food is lost along the entire food supply chain each year.
The Ireland East MEP, who co-authored the European Parliament's Report on Food Waste, highlights that there is a moral obligation among producers, retailers and consumers to tackle food waste given that 79 million EU citizens live beneath the poverty line and 16 million currently depend on food aid from charitable institutions in order to survive.
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The Chief of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) held several key meetings with the European Commissioners for Agriculture, Development and Trade this week to highlight the findings of the newly published UN Hunger Report and according to the Ireland East MEP, these meetings signal that addressing food waste is firmly on the agenda for the EU and the international community.


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Business Mixer 2017 City Hall
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Michelle Lewis, of Home & Health Care, poses with Bill Argentieri, Dr. Rick Andolina, Andolina Dental, & Susan Vanstine of the Hornell Area Chamber of Commerce. Thank you to City Hall & Mayor Hogan for hosting the first spring mixer on Thursday, June 15th!
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The "Twilight" star opened up to Newsweek about the ordeal, saying, "It's not a terrible thing if you're either loved or hated, but honestly, I don't care 'cause it doesn't keep me from doing my s**t. And I apologize to everyone for making them so angry. It was not my intention."
The 22-year-old reunited with Pattinson within months of the affair with director Rupert Sanders, and her relationship with RPatz seems to be stronger than ever. The couple, rumored to be living together at KStew's pad in Los Feliz, reportedly invited family and friends over for a Christmas tree decorating party.
A source told Hollywood Life, "Kristen and Rob had a small, intimate Christmas tree decorating party on Sunday. They have a gorgeous tree set up at Kristen's where Rob pretty much lives now. Kristen was really happy to be back home and be with Rob."
Decking the halls didn't last long, Rob had to fly to NYC this week to reportedly shoot a commercial.
Kristen Stewart: 'Sorry You're Angry' That I Cheated on Rob Pattinson
"On the Road's" Kristen Stewart issued a public apology to boyfriend Robert Pattinson when she was caught cheating last summer. Now, she's telling fans she doesn't care if she's "loved or hated," but she is sorry about upsetting everyone.


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YNet News (Link) - Attila Somfalvi (June 16, 2011)
Jerusalem officials told Ynet Wednesday that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fears a third intifada this summer ahead of a planned Palestinian declaration of statehood in September.
"Netanyahu fears he will not be able to stop (what will happen in) September," a top official told Ynet. "The prime minister is making an effort to convince European states that if riots begin after the declaration of statehood responsibility will not fall on Israel."
The defense establishment presented decision-makers with a number of possible summer scenarios recently. Officials say that violent clashes may take place between security forces and Arabs and Palestinians.
"There is one scenario in which many thousands, or possibly tens of thousands, begin a march that becomes riots and serious conflicts with the IDF," the official said.
"The fear is that Israeli-Arabs will also join the riots, leading to internal and external instability at this sensitive time."
Israel also fears the possibility that the Palestinian declaration will cause the 250,000 Jewish people living in Jerusalem neighborhoods defined as outside the 1967 lines – such as Gilo, Ramot, and Har Homa – will lose their legitimacy to live there.
"It's a very serious problem, and it remains unclear how we will handle it," the official said, adding that the upcoming Gaza flotilla was also a sensitive matter that must be properly dealt with.
Meanwhile Netanyahu is planning a trip to Eastern Europe soon, to visit Poland, Romania, and Hungary in an attempt to convince leaders to oppose the Palestinian declaration. No specific details are available as of yet, but sources say Netanyahu's goal is to enlist at least 20 opposing states.
Officials add that the US is still attempting to convince France to change its stance and oppose the move. "France is a major player, but we cannot know how it will act at this stage," one source said. †


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Location of Ukraine on the European continent
|Anthem: Ще не вмерла України ні слава, ні воля
Shche ne vmerla Ukrayiny ni slava, ni volya
|Patron Saint(s): St. Josaphat Kuntsevych
|Official language(s)
|Semi-presidential unitary state
|Prime Minister
|Yulia Tymoshenko
|Speaker of Parliament
|Volodymyr Lytvyn
|from the Soviet Union
|Water (%)
|2010 estimate
|2001 census
|77/km2 (115)
199.4/sq mi
|2007 estimate
|321,874,000,000 (29)
|Per capita
|6,968 (83)
|GDP (nominal)
|2007 estimate
|141,644,000,000 (45)
|Per capita
|3,066 (88)
|Hryvnia (
|Time zone
|Summer (DST)
|Internet TLD
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Ukraine (Ukrainian: Україна, Ukrayina) is a country in eastern Europe which borders the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov to the south, the Russian Federation to the east, Belarus to the north and Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, and Moldova to the west. Once a constituent republic within the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), Ukraine has been an independent country since the dissolution of the union in December 1991. Under the Soviet system it was called the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. The city of Kiev (Київ, Kyiv) is both the capital and the largest city of Ukraine.
During the 10th and 11th centuries AD, Ukraine was the center of the first Slavic state, the Kievan Rus'. The region adopted Christianity in 988 AD by the official act of public baptism of Kiev inhabitants by Prince Vladimir I. Compared with the languages of European Christendom, the Ukrainian language was little influenced by the Greek and Latin of early Christian writings. This was due to the fact the Slavic was used directly in liturgy instead. Old Church Slavonic was the first literary and liturgical Slavic language employed by the 9th century missionaries, Saints Cyril and Methodius. The Kievan Rus' ultimately disintegrated as a state because of the armed struggles among members of the princely family that collectively possessed it. Conquest by the Mongols in the 13th century was the final blow. The Kievan Rus' was succeeded by the principalities of Galich (Halych) and Volodymyr-Volynskyi, which were merged into the Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia.
In the 14th century, most of the territory was annexed by Poland and Lithuania (both of whom later merged to form the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1569), but during that time, the Ukrainian people began to regard themselves as a distinct people, a feeling which survived subsequent partitioning by greater powers over the next centuries. In addition, Ukrainian peasants who fled the Polish effort to force them into servitude came to be known as Cossacks and earned a reputation for their fierce martial spirit. In 1667, Ukraine was partitioned between Poland and Russia and it was reunited as part of the Russian Empire in 1793 with the west becoming part of Austria-Hungary. The 19th century found the region largely agricultural, with a few cities and centers of trade and learning. When World War I and the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia shattered the Hapsburg and Russian empires, Ukrainians declared independent statehood. In 1917 and 1918, three separate Ukrainian republics declared independence. The country was reconquered and experienced a Soviet rule that engineered two artificial famines (1921-1922 and 1932-1933) in which over 8 million people died. In World War II, German and Soviet armies were responsible for some 7 million more deaths. Renewed independence was achieved in 1991 with the collapse of the Soviet Union and, subsequently, Ukraine became a founding member of the Commonwealth of Independent States.
The majority of the population of Ukraine (72%) practices Orthodox Christianity, split between three Church bodies: the Ukrainian Orthodox Church - Kiev Patriarchate (39.8%), the Ukrainian Orthodox Church - Moscow Patriarchate (29.4%), and the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (2.8%).
Followers of the Eastern Rite Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, which practices a similar liturgical and spiritual tradition as Eastern Orthodoxy, but is in communion with the Holy See of the Roman Catholic Church and recognizes the primacy of the Pope as head of the Church, make up 14.1% of the Ukrainian population.[1]
Additionally, other religious minorities include Latin Rite Catholics (1.7%), Protestants (2.4%), Muslims (0.6%), and Jews (0.2%). 2% described themselves to be adherents of other religions or non-religious, agnostic or atheist.
The official language of Ukraine, according to its constitution, is Ukrainian (Українська мова, Ukrayíns'ka móva). Russian, which was the de facto official language of the Soviet Union, is widely spoken, especially in eastern and southern Ukraine. Ukrainian is spoken by 67% of the population, 24% speak Russian, and Crimean Tatar, Bulgarian, Romanian, Polish, Hungarian, Rusyn-speaking minorities make up the remaining 9%.[2]
Ukraine's current population is 45,905,341[3] with ethnic Ukrainians forming a majority of about 77.8% of the population, according to the Ukrainian Census of 2001. Other significant ethnic groups are Russians (17.3%), Belarusians (0.6%), Moldovans (0.5%), Crimean Tatars (0.5%), Bulgarians (0.4%), Hungarians (0.3%), Romanians (0.3%), Poles (0.3%), Jews (0.2%), Armenians (0.2%), Greeks (0.2%) and Tatars (0.2%).[4]
See Also
- ↑ "Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC)". Retrieved 2010-08-10.
- ↑ CIA Factbook - Ukraine
- ↑ State Statistics Committee of Ukraine - Total population, as of April 1, 2010. Average annual populations January–March 2010 Retrieved 2010-08-10
- ↑ "Ethnical composition of the population of Ukraine". 2001 Census. Retrieved 2010-08-10.
External Links
- General
- Encyclopædia Britannica Online – Ukraine's country page
- Catholic Encyclopedia - Ruthenians
- Country profiles
- Intelligent Design and Creation
- Government
- Government Portal of Ukraine–Official government site
- Verkhovna Rada–Official parliamentary site
- The President of Ukraine–Official site of the President of Ukraine
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Jeremy Miles is a Senior Quantitative Analyst at Google. He is author (with Mark Shevlin) of Applying Correlation and Regression Analysis (Sage. 2001); author of Research Methods and Statistics (Crucial Press. 2001), author (with Phil Banyard) of Understanding and Using Statistics in Psychology (Sage, 2007), co-author (with Andy Field) of Discovering Statistics Using SAS (Sage, 2010), co-editor (with Paul Gilbert) of A Handbook of Research Methods in Clinical and Health Psychology (Oxford, 2005) and co-editor (with Brian Stucky) of Quantitative Research in Psychology [don't even think about buying this book]. He has served as chair of the British Psychological Society Mathematics, Statistics and Computing Section, and is associate editor of the British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology; Frontiers in Measurement and Quantitative Psychology, and PLOSOne. ,He also serves as statistical editor of the British Journal of Clinical Psychology, and the British Journal of Health Psychology.
Course Content
The course will cover the theory and practice of regression analysis in its various forms. Regression models (broadly defined) are models which attempt to use predictors to explain a single outcome variable. This outcome variable may be continuous, ordinal, categorical or discrete counts and the predictors may be interval or categorical. The predictors may be linear, non-linear, or interactive.
Although the focus of the course is applying regression, we will start by looking at the meaning of models in statistics. We will consider the mean, correlation and regression as models, and regression to the mean. We look at describing models, and at statistical significance and confidence intervals (although we expect you to have prior knowledge of these areas, we will refresh them). In the third part we move on to develop more complex models (e.g. hierarchical regression, categorical independent variables), and consider the implications of the assumptions made in regression analysis (including the effect of their violation). We then look at extending regression in different ways: logistic regression, path analysis, interactions and Poisson regression. Throughout the module we will cover examples in Stata, and occasionally use other programs, e.g. GPower for power analysis.
Course Objectives
The course will enable participants to carry out a range of regression analyses. It is appropriate for participants who have covered some statistics, and wish to extend their knowledge to modelling more complex social science phenomena. The module provides appropriate background for people who want to go on to modules such as multilevel modelling, probit and logit analysis, or structural equation modelling.
Course Prerequisites
The course covers the basics, but does this quickly, so consider this a refresher. If you are not familiar with basic descriptive and inferential statistics, expect to work hard during this phase. Similarly, while we begin with simple correlation and regression, we will be thinking about these in some (possibly) new ways. We will use Stata – if you're not familiar with Stata this is not a problem; it's very straightforward and students pick it up within a few minutes. We shall use Excel a little at the start as well. (If students prefer, they can use R instead.)
Remedial Reading
We will expect that you have some knowledge of descriptive statistics, statistical significance, correlation, sampling and estimation, and will only cover these things briefly. Any introductory statistics book from your field will cover these issues. One example would be:
Miles, J and Banyard, P (2007). Understanding and using statistics in psychology. London: Sage.
But there are many others that you may be familiar with, which are just as good, or even better.
If you're not familiar with Stata, a little practice would not hurt, but is not necessary, and the same goes for Excel. (Please feel free to contact me if you would like guidance on what you need to know – firstname.lastname@example.com).
Representative Background Reading
Cohen, J., P. Cohen, et al. 2003. Applied Multiple Regression/Correlation Analysis for the Behavioral Sciences. (3rd ed.). Erlbaum. (Very long, very thorough, best if your background is psychology).
Miles, J.N.V., and, Shevlin, M. 2001. Applying Regression and Correlation. Sage. (The course closely follows this book – making it worth buying to cover the course, but making it not worth buying, because the material is similar to the handouts – in addition, a second edition will be appearing soon, so perhaps you should save your money).
Pedhazur, E. J. 1997. Multiple Regression in Behavioral Research. Harcourt Brace. (Not everyone likes the style of this book, so have a look before you buy it)
Studenmund, A. H. 2010. Using Econometrics: A Practical Guide. Addison Wesley. (This book focuses on econometrics, which has a slightly different emphasis from that we will take; it's also ridiculously expensive – older editions are fine if you can get a second hand one).
A couple of more gentle starters are:
Allison, P. 1999. Multiple Regression: A Primer. Pine Forge Press.
Garson, D. (2012). Multiple regression. Statistical Associates Publishers. (This book is only available on Kindle, but it's $5.)
Different books have different emphases, and we shall be talking about some of these issues in the classes.
Background knowledge required
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It doesn't seem like it's been almost four years since Super Monkey Ball 2 dropped on GameCube. Since then, the franchise has experienced some not-so-hot ports to handheld and an amalgamated version of both GameCube titles on PS2 and Xbox. However, there still hasn't been a true sequel to the series in quite some time. While Super Monkey Ball Adventure isn't necessarily SMB 3 (or at least, it wasn't announced that way), it's the next follow-up to a cult favorite among gamers. We got to see and play a sliver of SMB Adventure during Sega's pre-E3 event in San Francisco, and fans of the now-classics won't have too much to worry about.
In a first for the series, Sega has passed the development torch from Amusement Vision, responsible for the first two games, to UK-based Travellers' Tales, whose most recent title was the sleeper hit LEGO Star Wars. No Western developer has touched the franchise, and the change is a good one. With Travellers' Tales' experience in creating fun, intuitive platformers, they've managed to take what could have been a potentially disastrous idea and made it into a fun-looking game that incorporates everything that was appealing about the Monkey Ball series.
Another new and crucial element of gameplay will involve the monkeys invoking mystical chants that change the form of their ball. Using a combination of four chant words (probably familiar to fans of the series and the nonsensical chatter of our simian heroes), "Ei," "Woo," "Yay," and "Poo," in three-word phrases, the characters can morph their ball into all sorts of practical things, from a Monkey Target-style boxing glove to take out enemies, to a wooden ball that will float on water, to an expanding ball, which was used to overcome being swallowed by an orb-devouring villain.


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Came across this post today, and I wanted to share it. No surprise Javascript is the most popular language right now. Just look at the barrage of frameworks and abstractions out there. I personally love Javascript as it allows me to prototype quickly, but I do feel the pain of its growth.
Why I prefer email development
It's no secret web developers and designers generally don't like working on emails. Heck most of us don't even like receiving or processing email, and often the emails that are "designed" are the ones we send immediately to spam or trash. However there are some reasons why email development can actually be rewarding and easier to deal with.
Concatenating and minifying WordPress plugin http requests
Chris Coyier answers listener question on ShopTalk Show podcast:
41:00 We use WordPress for all client sites and have pretty efficient gulp setup with sass compiling and concatenation. But as soon as you start to use a few wordpress plugins that all come with their own scripts and stylesheets the whole "Limited http requests" is out the window. Is there a way to get our theme to intercept the plugin scripts and stylesheets and combine them with my own and that way limit the amount of http requests?
Definitely adding Minqueue to my arsenal of WordPress plugins and tools!
Follow links vs no follow links
Another SEO mystery solved for me:
Megan Marrs, writing for WordStream
Follow links are links that count as points, pushing SEO link juice and boosting the page rank of the linked-to sites, helping them go higher in the SERPs as a result.
A no follow link is a link that does not count as a point in the page's favor, does not boost PageRank, and doesn't help a page's placement in the SERPs.
As a webmaster, you might find yourself wondering when to use the no follow attribute and when to allow for do follow links. No follow links primarily belong in:
Paid links (it wouldn't be fair to buy link juice, now would it?)
Anything involving what Google calls "untrusted content"
Disappearing icon font in Chrome
Just ran across a weird little bug while updating a client WordPress site.
On this particular site, I'm using an icon font in the header for social media icons, and in Chrome on my Mac (it may have been on Windows too, but I didn't test it) when the page loaded, the icons would not appear. To make it even harder to troubleshoot, as soon as I interacted with the page in anyway (open developer tools, hovered over the icon, scrolled, etc), they would suddenly appear. It seemed that either the font wasn't loading or some Javascript or CSS was getting hung up on something.


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Thursday, August 20, 2009
Last Vestige of the Cold War
It all started after Japan conceded at the end of WWII (The Big One, as Archie Bunker used to say) and the US and USSR accepted separate surrenders north and south of the 38th parallel for the Japanese occupation of Korea. The US installed Rhee Syng-man, and the Russians elevated Kim Il-sung as leaders of their respective occupation zones, then on 25 June, 1950, the North Korean People's Army invaded the South--the rest, as they say, is history.
The war which followed lasted three years and cost some two million lives; the "armistice" that ended the fighting resulted in an uneasy stalemate along a "military demarcation line" which vaguely follows the 38th parallel , a two kilometer wide demilitarized zone on either side of it, and a tense stalemate that has periodically resulted in violence.
And a surreal tourist opportunity.
We took the USO Tour from Samgakji, departing at 7:30 AM. The first destination was the JSA at Panmunjom, which is where armistice negotiations took place, and where today, North and South forces come face-to-face. This is also where we get the weird, "Here I am in North Korea" photo ops next to the stone-faced ROK soldier, and the shots of elite troops standing half-exposed at the building corners in case their DPRK counterparts decide to mix things up a little via sniper bullet.
I was trying to look as tough and stern as him, in a taekwondo position the US troops call "rock-ready", while being slightly worried he would see though my pose, but instead I just look constipated. It was supposed to be meta, but things don't always work out.
The blue buildings are UN JSA facilities, the gray ones are run by the DPRK. The one below is called the "recreation building" even though, as our guide explained, there is no equipment inside, and it only seems to be used when dignitaries from the south are in attendance; North Korean soldiers seem to delight on those occasions in making faces through the windows or shooting the bird. For this reason, US forces call it the "monkey house".
Stop number two was the forward observation post atop a hill inside the DMZ, manned by ROK forces. It has an observation deck outside and a large glass wall inside looking out to the DMZ and the villages of Gaeseong (the site of the original peace talks, and presently home of a North-South economic cooperation zone), Daeseongdong (Peace Village, a South Korean farming community) and Kijeongdong (Propaganda Village, known for its jamming tower and 160-m tall flagpole sporting a 30-m wide NK flag that weighs 600 lbs).
Even though they have a giant window, a landscape model and a 10 minute multimedia presentation, you are not allowed to take photographs, except behind the photo-taking line on the observation deck:
So, the photos you get look like this:
Well, I accidentally got a picture through the window before anyone said anything, not that it's some great big hairy deal:
The folks who live in Daeseongdong--Peace Village--have a pretty good set-up: they don't pay taxes, they are exempt from military service (all Korean males must serve for a little over two years before turning thirty), have an allotment of 17+ acres, and earn an average of USD 82,000.
The last stop on the tour was the 3rd tunnel of aggression, one of four tunnels discovered so far that are NK attempts to infiltrate the south. God knows how many more are there which have yet to be discovered. The idea is to have secret, rapid-access routes to Seoul and then surprise the ROK with a wave attack. One suspects this modus may be discontinued what with the development of nuclear bombs (thanks, Dubya).
The Wikipedia page says photos are forbidden in the tunnel, but I don't think that's so: I took several pictures, as did some of my fellow travelers. The round, steeply sloped tube is the tourist access--okay going down, not a cakewalk going back up:
The tunnel itself is close and cold, slightly sloped downward toward the north, well-lighted, and floored with good rubber mats. Hardhats are required, for good reason. There is a little dipping fountain of "DMZ Spring Water". It was really nothing much, but I can say I was there:
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2 comments:
- saw said...
Wish I could have gone to Panmunjom. I had a chance to when I was an American citizen, but my tour guides were Korean citizens so I couldn't have traveled to that area as Korean civilians were restricted from that area.
I did explore the tunnel though. Supposedly, there are several more tunnels that are left undiscovered. Which is an amazing engineering feat how the North Koreans could build such large tunnels while keeping it hidden.
- August 21, 2009 at 2:34 PM
- Kelsey said...
One of my regrets is that I didn't get to visit the DMZ before I left Korea.
- September 1, 2009 at 9:29 AM
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Are You A Good Person Or Just Self-Righteous?
Written by Jasmine Nwade // October 03, 2015 // Our Lives, Personal Experience, Spiritual Health
The Epiphany
Throughout the years I have met some amazing individuals, but in different seasons of their lives some of these amazing people have indulged in exploratory, less than godly behaviors. Now, while I didn't "explore" the way they did, a lot of their issues became "just another subject matter" in our everyday conversations… And if I'm being honest (and I am lol), even though I am a Christian, I must admit that while I encouraged these wonderful individuals to walk in holiness with the "stay the course" and "God has His best for you" rhetoric, I often found myself more intrigued with their struggles than broken by the pain it was actually causing them.
Though I meant well, as I look back on how deeply engrossed I was in their many escapades, I am ashamed to say (yet free enough to admit) that I depended on people's struggles as a measuring unit of my own goodness. Even though I'd always been seen as one of the most loyal and devoted friends a person could ever have, I was no "good girl"… just a self-righteous one.
When Self-Righteousness Meets the Gospel
I must admit when God first revealed my self-righteousness to me I was a little upset because I felt that I was generally a "good girl." I didn't smoke, drink all the time, have sex, do drugs, and the list went on and on. Now, I am sure that God was looking at me with His "Bruh" face" lol… like "Are you done glorifying yourself yet"? But I wasn't done. I couldn't wrap my head around how I was so wrong when I thought I was so right. I mean, come on! Not me…right?! But once I stepped back and allowed God to show me who I was, the conclusion was conclusive. The test results came back and said that I was 100% self-righteous in my actions (picks up chair and throws it across the stage in furry…or pride lol).
Thankfully I finally got over myself and shut up so God could speak. He revealed that it was not in my inactivity of certain sins that qualified me for some measure or level of goodness but rather it is only by His might, grace, and power that I am afforded the opportunity to know what good and Who Good is (Ephesians 2:1-9, Luke 18:19). I realized that I was just like Eve in Genesis 3:6…looking at things superficially and seeing them as "good" when they're actually deadly. I found that I had no true perception of what good is and who Good was, and I will never impress Him with my "goodness." Shoot! I can't even tell what is good without God!
See, the Gospel has nothing to do with us being "good," but everything to do with us realizing and submitting to who "Good" is. I realized that if our standards of righteousness are only measured in units of sin, we ourselves become slaves to our false ideas of goodness, therefore partaking in idolatry…which just makes us even better sinners than we would like to admit we are.
The Challenge
So, if you're a "good girl," allow yourself to be convicted and encouraged by the Gospel, and in turn stop measuring your level of goodness on units of sin. Ask the author of all things good to show you who He is, and He will surely guide you into all understanding and wisdom (James 1:5). Remember, in your goodness you are weak but in His goodness you are strong and covered. So take a moment and really ask yourself, "Am I A Good Person Or Am I Just Self-Righteous?" And may you allow God to show you what good truly is for you.
Prayer: God please show me who I truly am and give me the willingness to allow you change my perception and understanding of who you are and what good you have set before me. Help me Lord to stop complicating the gospel message and accept the fact that you have done it ALL for me. Thank you Lord for your goodness Amen.
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If tomorrow there was a sand shortage in the Sahara it would befuddle many. A close second is how after many years of expensive oil prices Venezulea (highest proven reserves in the world) is now asking the ladies to stop using hairdryers so that the country can negotiate an awful energy shortage. How did they get here?
The short answer is most electricity capacity in Venezuela comes from hydro - and the country is suffering drought. So blame El Niño (as President Maduro does).
The longer answer is a striking lack of investment in power capacity: despite the knowledge that consumption has risen by half over the 10 years to 2012 planners have engineered an increase in capacity of under 30%. Cue a negative externality and pleas for wet hair ensue.
In what appears to be a story of deferred pain, investment by the private sector electricity companies (and others) dried up when the late President Chávez was elected in 1998. Subsequent nationalization actions did not encourage private capital. Concurrently, consumption subsidies and price freezes on electricity boosted demand.
Told this way current travails appear more a case of poor economic management by socialists.
However, dig a bit and it is perhaps most accurately a story of a divisive political history and corruption stretching back to (at least) the nationalization of oil companies in the mid-1970s. With the subsequent oil price shock in 1978 the Venezuelan economy became a very fine example of Dutch Disease.
Arguably the key consequence of a four-fold increase in government revenue following the OPEC prices rises was an increasing cancer of corruption eating into the two dominant political parties of the day. Worsening cronyism and patronage in electoral competition became the norm; and this in time led to Hugo Chávez coming to power on the very reasonable manifesto of anti-patronage, anti-corruption and anti-poverty.
So, as with statistics, the cause (and answer) to the problem depends on which section of the time-series one starts the analysis from.


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Mr Chien was born in Shanghai, China, grew up and was educated in the United States, and is now based in Australia. He has 20+ years of corporate experience based in Australia, the United States and Singapore, and has held various engineering and finance leadership positions within The Procter & Gamble Company (P&G).
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I was waiting to get my hands on this Doodle app. All I can say finally, an easy and simple, if not the most realistic doodle video creator to hit the market. Doodly is the newest, hottest video creator app to hit the market. You will at some point need to create some kind of presentation, either for the company you work for, or for your own business.
Please understand that video marketing is huge lately and you can cash in when promoting videos. Did you know that video animated presentations, cost money to be made? So why go pay for them when you can do them yourselves? Listen, you can actually go and create your own animated presentation right now for free using powerpoint or keynote, but it won't be as easy as using Doodly.
I actually played around with it, and created a mini presentation to show you how Doodly is easy to use and how you can use it in your business. Seriously, take advantage of tools which could help you build your business online . Watch my Demo below and make sure you grab it through my links.
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White Oak Burl Series
In 2009 a client brought me a gigantic burly growth from the base of
a white oak on their farm in Bath County, wishing to have some
special pieces turned for their children. I used have of the
chunk up, but could not get to the rest of it until this fall.
There was virtually no decay in the two year hiatus. This is
amazing wood, so very dense and so amazingly dark, with the finished effect
of bog oak/aged leather. There is a good bit of bumpy nobly
texture from the drying shrinkage. Number 2 has a hump in the
bottom that heaved up while drying, so I have named it Lava Dome.
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Mayor of Melton Jeanne Douglas gave her stamp of approval to the town's new Post Office branch by cutting the ribbon at its official opening ceremony yesterday (Wednesday).
The new branch on Sherrard Street, based inside the Bargain Booze store, is open from 7am to 11pm Monday to Saturday and 8am to 10pm on Sundays.
The mayor said: "The Post Office is vital to our community and I'm sure the new improved office, and the longer opening hours and great local service, will be warmly welcomed by all people."
Postmaster Amarjit Singh said: "I hope our customers like their new look branch. I'd like to thank the mayor for taking time from her busy schedule to attend the official opening and I'd also like to thank the local community for their continued support and use of the branch."


text: Montreal native Solid Stone has released a remix of a classic from years ago. Paul Thomas – La Bombo. Solid Stone's deep and ominous style revitalizes the Progressive House piece, while still keeping the iconic saxophone riff present. The track fades in smoothly and is easy to digest. Definitely something to keep people in the zone in the late hours of the night. Solid Stone's music sits in a comfortable trifecta in between Techno, Progressive and Trance, and releases like these continue to solidify his originality in the scene.


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When I do a massive declutter, it feels only natural for me to fill up all that extra space with better, newer stuff. Ha! No but really-decluttering this time around has inspired me to refresh and update my stash. I like having options, but they have to be the right options.
Typically, I try new products here and there or if I run out of something. This time however, I wanted to do a little more revamping! I'll do more in-depth reviews once I get around to using them a few times, but for now here's an overview of my latest haul (yes- I had missions for this haul, I was intense lol).
Mission 1: Primers
I used to use primers not too long ago. They'd make my makeup look pretty good at first, but I have oily/combo skin and gave up on a lot of them because they made me greasy or felt greasy, broke me out, or didn't improve anything enough to be worth that extra step. Maybe my newer foundations were fine enough on their own and didn't need a primer so much, who knows! But I wanted to try some new primers for my skin type and to revisit the whole idea. I decided to get Pacifica Oil Control Primer , $18.00, and Cover Girl Outlast All-Day Primer, $12.99, based on some pretty good reviews on the Ulta site. Sometimes these go on sale and depending on the product, you can use an Ulta coupon. I can't wait to see how these work on me!
Mission 2: Lip products and Mascara (not pictured)
My recent lip declutter finally gave me the green light to try a few I've been eyeing. I rarely will spend a ton on a lipgloss or lipstick, but I've heard amazing things about Clarins Lip Perfector, $25.00. A little pricier for a lip product, but a friend of mine was wearing it and I had to ask her what was on her lips. It's unusual for me to ask, so it must mean it captured my attention. So that gave me the push to try it out. I purchased one in Rosewood.
I wanted to take a break from the whole matte lip thing for a minute and go for something creamier, so I decided to try the Maybelline Color Jolt in Stripped Down for $9.99 (a little pricey for a drugstore product considering how small it is)! I think it's one of their newer products, and I wanted to try something with a bit of pigment.
I know Soap and Glory makes body products, but imagine my surprise and confusion (lol) when I saw they added lipstick to their line! I purchased the Soap and Glory Sexy Mother Pucker lipstick in the shade Pommie Girl, a rosey-mauve-y pink shade (seems like I'm going for this type of shade a lot lately), and really liked how it looked on me in the store. It is a matte formula which I know can be drying, but I'll using a lip primer with it and see how it goes.
I also bought Maybelline Lash Sensational Mascara, $8.99 (no pic, my bad!)- I heard great things about this mascara on YouTube and saw that it applied well (lengthened, separated, ;looked volumized), so I had to try it out.
Mission 3: Foundation and BB Cream
I've been wanting to try some newer foundations, so I headed over to Sephora and they offered me samples to try- one of Too Faced Born This Way Foundation, $39.00, and Becca Ultimate Coverage Foundation, $44.00. Not quite cheap by any means, but trying them out will definitely help before I make any splurges. Now I'm not sure how these will work with oily skin- the lady working there recommended them, but I guess it depends on the finish you want. I prefer a demi-matte finish, maybe slightly dewy, but no shine. I don't believe these have a matte finish, but we shall see!
I'm running low on my Garnier BB Cream Miracle Skin Perfector so I wanted to buy another. I couldn't find the same exact one (my older one contained salicylic acid), so this new one is a little different but looks similar enough. The newer one is labeled as the Garnier BB Cream 5-in-1 Miracle Skin Perfector in Medium Deep for Oily/Combo Skin, $12.99. This has SPF 20 and is supposed to control shine, two things I can always appreciate!
Mission 4: Brushes
Last but not least, brushes! I don't know what it is with me and makeup brushes but I love getting new ones. Morphe (an amaaazing, affordable brush line) is now selling the Elite II collection, but before I knew they were coming out with an upgraded Elite line, I was trying to get some original Elite brushes. They were on clearance, but they were sold out for the most part.
So I ended up finding these BH Cosmetics Vegan brushes and ended up getting the Vegan Pointed Blending Brush and Vegan Contour Brush, both were $5.50 each. I have never tried anything from this brand but heard a little about them here and there, and for that price, it was worth a shot!
I was also lusting after a huge, soft powder brush and found the It Cosmetics #211 Brush exclusive to Ulta. I was able to find this one on Ebay for a lot cheaper since it's $40.00 retail (yikes!!), so you might want to check that option out first!
Mission 5: Neutralizing Eye Base
I have (and love) MAC Paint Pots and have been using Painterly as both a shadow and a base. But I wanted something a little more brightening and yellow-based, so the MAC Paint Pot in Soft Ochre, $22.00, seemed like a great option. It gets a lot of love on YouTube and other sites, so I finally went for it. I actually would've gotten the much cheaper Maybelline dupe (the Maybelline Color Tattoos are supposed to be great dupes for MAC paint pots!), but the dupe for Soft Ochre was limited edition from a few years ago. Doh!
So that concludes my haul this time around! As mentioned already, I will be reviewing these as I test them out and wear them a few times.
Have you done any beauty hauls lately? Any specific products in mind?


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Wednesday Comics
Edited by Mark Chiarello
DC Comics; 200 pp.
$49.99 color hardcover
A while ago I took a look at Wednesday Comics, the 12-week project designed to put DC characters in serialized stories meant to resemble, through their 14″ x 20″ pages, the continuing adventure strips of old Sunday funnies sections. The title's second iteration, a hardcover compilation, assembled all chapters of all 15 stories, many done by industry stalwarts.
Back then I pronounced the collection an artist's showcase and tried to support that by focusing on a trio of best uses of the novel form and the single, surprising worst. I thought it could stand as my final word on the subject.
And then I started to dream.
The most relevant one had me handing Joe Kubert money, giving him a pocketful of small coins, counting out pennies and dimes but still coming up shy of a sufficient amount. This, in my personal dream language, indicated I was short-changing Joe Kubert, one of the artists represented in Wednesday Comics.
In waking life, any new work by Kubert the Elder is worth seeking out. That said, his Sgt. Rock story, written by son Adam, does not represent a particularly fortuitous utilization of this format's extravagant scale. If anything, its rigid three-tiered grid seems a one-size-fits-all convention. Worse: Enlarged as his drawings are, they appear uncharacteristically wispy and less substantial than usual, an unfortunate sensation for a visceral war story.
In much the same way, redoubtable Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez takes little advantage of the format's possibilities with his art for a Metal Men story. It's his same, sturdy, accomplished style drawn large.
Over in the plus column, expanded parameters enhance the drawings of Lee Bermejo in his Superman tale. At comic-book size, Bermejo's drawings often seem densely agitated, struggling for a more realistic effect. Here they have more room to uncoil and achieve a greater visual plausibility. And as for Joe Quinones' contribution, I can never recall having so much of the emotional tenor of a Green Lantern tale buoyed and carried along by faces, big ol' faces, as with his gallery of caricatures.
On the minus side, a bigger tableau for Kyle Baker in Hawkman emphasizes an insurmountable awkwardness in the merger of artistic intent and machine delivery. In certain panels, the very ones that tend to jump out at you, the juxtaposing of figuration and mechanical texture is jarring if not downright ugly.
This re-review of Wednesday Comics allows me to make one point more explicit: This is a book easier to look at than to read, especially if you have problems with superheroes. Writers generally seem daunted by the responsibilities of the very wide tabula rasa and tend to preemptively counter any potential breech or lull with wordfill. (Demonstrating the wisdom of the contrary, Brian Azzarello, as is his habit, makes concision look good. Having artist Eduardo Risso to back you up doesn't hurt either.)
One learns from included biographical notes that several artists have substantial experience in animation, maybe even more than in comics-making. Some difficulty in translation results accordingly, especially in a tilt toward posture and stylization over smoothly developed narrative flow.
All of which make Ben Caldwell's Wonder Woman segment such a thoroughly beguiling failure. He too is an animator. He too uses a lot of dialogue (the surplus of interjections and cut off speech, which would be effective, natural bridges in cartoons, is excessive here, especially read over 12 continuous pages). His Wonder Woman, as Princess Diana, is cut from much the same strong, independent, spunky cloth as Princess Jasmine, Princess Ariel, Princess Mulan, Princess Pocahontas and Princess Beauty.
His is an ambitious, comparatively epic tale, of Diana's tracking down the fabled "Seven Stars" of Amazonian lore, of her first meeting with Etta Candy and with archenemy Cheetah, all in structured page segments that pay homage to Little Nemo in both slumbering flamboyance and punctuated waking.
Caldwell's stylizations are as extreme as anything you'll find elsewhere in the book. But the real sensation is in the single page, both in the role of graphic poster and episodic story unit. As composed chaos they are just crammed with panels, maybe 50 on a given page, many well under a square inch in area. Said panels can be cropped mercilessly and arranged — aesthetically! — like puzzle pieces, occasionally challenging traditional notions of funnybook directional rules. Focus, perspective and visual distances whirl. Colors take their cue from the integration of theme, mood and structure but can also be found highlighting key details, narrative asides and additional movement cues.
Oh, this is comics as a real mess (how is Granny Cipactli's enrapturing, lighted gaze emitted from her throat?) yet one honestly, enthusiastically come by. There's a pronounced conviction to the idiosyncrasies of Caldwell's use of the form, a muscle in its enforcement. You'll feel a begrudging admiration for the commitment even as you're being beaten over the head with it. The invigorating audacity at least matches the volume's daunting physical scale, something that cannot be said as often as you'd like for the book as a whole.
Tags: Ben Caldwell, Brian Azzarello, DC Comics, Eduardo Risso, Joe Kubert, Joe Quinones, Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez, Kyle Baker, Lee Bermejo, Mark Chiarello


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I have always had a job where I worked with a lot of women. For the most part, this has been a very positive experience…me being a woman and all. However, a lot of women gossip, A LOT. I have always atempted to not be a gossiper; I never wanted to be thought of as the girl who can't keep her mouth shut, or as someone that cannot be trusted. To be honest though, these attempts have always been pretty half-assed, and I've always found myself on a bench at recess gossiping about someone's divorce, date, dinner, or duds cause really, that's how us girls bond.
After years of getting burnt by the fire that gossip starts, I decided it was time to quit, for real this time. Starting my new job in NYC last year was the perfect time to turn over a new leaf. For the last 15 months I have tried my absolute hardest to not gossip at work. Now, giving up all gossiping is just too hard and I've slipped a few times, but I still consider this past year a success.
I knew that no gossiping would be tough because sometimes it feels necessary. For example, did you know that it is near impossible to make new friends when you do not gossip??? Yeah, it's true, Google it!
I knew no one when I moved to NY, and assumed I'd make tons of new best friends at work. Wrong. First of all, even as an adult, people have their cliques. Breaking into a new group is hard enough, but imagine eating lunch with a group of girls talking all about our boss, their men, and the other co-workers, and having just sworn a gossiping vow of abstinence. What do I say? How do I join in the conversation? What witty comment can I throw out there to start a new convo? Should I just sit quietly? IT'S MIDDLE SCHOOL ALL OVER AGAIN!
Eventually, I made a couple friends. Friends I can trust. Friends who do not gossip (too much). Still, I find myself wanting to be a part of the Gossip Girls at lunch. As of now, I'm known as "the girl you can trust." When I walk into a room during a huge gossip session, everyone stops, looks up, sees me, and they say, "Oh, it just Hilarie, she won't say anything." Which is true! I won't say anything…until I'm home. (Husband knows EVERYONE secrets. I can't hold in everything I hear all day everyday! I've got to let it out eventually!!)
Lately, I've felt disconnected. I have considered joining in on the gossip to bond with more people. I just want to be part of the group! I'm glad people can trust me, but I want to be in on the joke, not just the person hearing the words. Just as I as was about to give up and release a year's worth of gossip, something kind of great (and kind of sad) happened.
Remember that post about my panic attack at work? The one where I got stuck in a conversation about a sick person? WEEELLLLLLLLLL, it turns out that the person in that conversation needed me. Needed me to just listen to her. She needed someone to listen, then give her a hug, and then listen some more. NO gossiping whatsoever. Turns out that she had been very sad for a very long time and she had NO ONE to sit and listen to her.
THEN, it got even better. Three other co-workers confided in me and said they were scared to be there for our other sick friend, and thanked me for being there for her. They said that I am BRAVE. They said that whenever something is wrong that everyone knows, "Hilarie is the best person to talk to!" and "She give the best hugs!"
Seriously, if they only knew how not brave I am…and how terrified I was to "be there" for our sick friend.
I am still in shock because I have just been trying my best to not gossip or have a panic attack. I don't ever know what to say, and I don't want to be negative, so I've just been hugging everyone: Your boyfriend sucks? You get a hug! You just ended a 3-year relationship? Hug for you! Your dogs are fighting? Hug! Your mom is crazy? Your best friend lied? Got a bad haircut? Hug! Hug! Hug!
All this time that I have felt left out and struggled to keep from gossiping has been worth it! Turns out, I was doing exactly what I needed to be doing without ever knowing it. I love when life turns out this way.
Let this be a reminder to all of us…hugs are stronger than gossip. Also, doing the right thing sucks for a while, but in the end you'll be a better person for it. Now, at my current job, I may not be known for my gossiping skills (and let me tell you…they are superb), but I am so glad to be known as a friend…a friend who gives the best hugs.


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Hi everyone!!!
Long time "no see"...but I have my reasons....busy, busy summer. There wasn't much "downtime" for me to concentrate on blogging. Just enough to follow others.
Moving day with college kid...
I was feeling pretty "down in the dumps" earlier this week...everything just hit me at once. I had no more zap left...not for anyone or anything! No! Guess the result of dealing with a special needs teenager, sending another one off to college, having a potential offer on the lake house fall through and a bunch of everything else you don't need to hear about just did if for me!
Okay "nuf said"!
I'm not very good at talking when I am "down". Would rather let those close to me know with an email. So I sent off a long email to my sister in Switzerland and she picked up the phone and called me. The result of that phone call was a beautiful basket of flowers delivered to my door the very next day!!!
Here they are "sans" pink flowers....sorry forgot to take before pic...but just imagine pink "Carnies" etc stuck here and there.
Of course, I had to "mess" with them! I pulled out the pink carnations and the other "purply" pink flowers (name?) and put them in my Irish Belleek log vase and placed them on my vanity in the bathroom.
So Pwetty! and in case you wanted to proof! I bought it in a little shop in England lots of years ago!!!!! There it sits with the little kitten trinket box my mum gave me when I was much younger and a little Lenox vase I picked up at good ole' GW (Goodwill). He holds my make up brushes...which don't get used a lot!
So back to the rest of it!!!! I do ramble on...
I place the basked inside one of my Mother-in-law's milk glass bowls and put it in my old wooden crate and sat it on the built in hutch in the kitchen.....phew....I did a lot!Now you can see why the pink flowers didn't really go with everything in "Le 'utch", eh?
I yanked out a few of the daisies and stuck them in my old Coca Cola Bottles ....See? Fun! I use this old crate on my island to store cooking oils, salt and peppers, and place mats.
Finally, I laid the few wisps of deep purple flowers (name? and you can dry them!) to dry out next to my watering cans on the laundry shelf.
These watering cans are decorative. I stenciled the numbers on them...just in case I wouldn't be able to tell one was larger than the other! So with that, I now have a little flower surprise all over the house (well, at least the rooms I frequent the most!). And, I am getting back into the groove, just taking it a little slower!
Aren't sisters great????
Love you Samantha!


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62. Going West on Trans-Canada Highway. Part 1.
I have always dreamed about big journeys and adventures. I have been always amazed by ship navigators, long haul truck drivers and everyone else who go far. I have watched and read the "Long Way Round" and all other Charley Boorman's adventures countless times, I could not stop reading the amazing book "Long Ride Home" and many travel and overlanding stories and blogs. I have always dreamed to go on a big trip.
The life has given me a chance to move to one of Canada's most amazing cities – Vancouver, I could not resist to drive there all the way!
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Therefore, #4 on our countdown of best/worst things about being an aspring author is wtccibhhc?? (what the christmas cookies is big hook/high concept?) Just kidding - it's clicking on blog links that totally give you self-doubt no matter how helpful they really are (worst) vs. clicking on those that validate you and your work (best).
I finished my girl-meets-boy last January. I edited it. People critiqued it. I edited it. I added parts, subtracted parts, increased word counts, decreased adjectives/adverbs (don't get me started on "had" and "that" subtractions - oh, and "just" and "really"). I've been told that great writing trumps all. Right? RIGHT??!!
Then it occurs to me - is this big hook/high concept? I think Kiersten White caused the panic attack. I had an idea. Some of it even made it into my book. My voice, my writing, and my characters have all evolved into something I think is great. Yes, I have a hook. Really, I do. But a recent trip to Borders had me doubting it all (are you kidding me? 8 wall-sized shelves for fantasy/paranormal and one measley waist-high unit for contemporary, which, btw, was filled with huge, bestselling names because there wasn't any room for debut authors who weren't blurbed by, ironically, fantasy/paranormal authors!!!!!!!!! [that might be an exaggeration. but not by much.])


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So, it's been a little stressful in the Potter house. And we all know that when it rains, it pours.
Just 2 days after finding out about the move, the girls were dancing around in the living room & Cadence's finger got caught in Lorien's shirt sleeve when they both spun in opposite directions. Cadence let out a scream & I told them to stop messing around. I looked down at Cadence's hand & one of her fingers was pointing in the wrong direction.
Yup, let's add hospital visit to the crazy week, shall we?
Sure enough, it was broken. . . right at the tip. "You can fix it right?" we asked the doctor. "She's going to need surgery to pin it correctly!"
Let me just add this to my endless list of to dos this week. ha ha ha.
So finally after seeing 4 different specialists, we finally got a date for her surgery. Poor girl. They had to go in & re-break her finger so it would be a "clean break," set it properly, & then put 2 pins in it to hold the bones in place.
She was a real trooper. She wasn't scared at all & didn't even flinch when they put in her IV. I was amazed at how strong this kid is. She makes me so proud.
The surgery was really fast & it was a total success. Everything is good with her finger now & it can heal properly so there won't be any future side effects.
Now she has a huge cast on to hide the pins sticking out of her finger. She goes back in in 10 days to get the pins removed & a real cast put on it. Poor thing. This is not the way you want to end your summer vacation, but she's been a real trooper. I'm very grateful for her positive attitude. It's really helped out during this stressful time.
Poor Cadence. The first of 6 kids to break a bone . . . & I'm sure she won't be my last. But she did really well & I'm really proud of her.


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Ryan Zimmerman finishes second in final All-Star vote
Nationals third baseman Ryan Zimmerman fell just short in his bid to make a second straight All-Star team, finishing runner-up to Cincinnati first baseman Joey Votto in the four-day fan voting for the 34th and final spot.
Votto led the final fan voting from wire-to-wire and finished with 13.7 million total votes, the most among any of the final candidates. The Yankees' Nick Swisher beat out Boston's Kevin Youklis, among others, for the final spot on the AL team.
Zimmerman is hitting .296 with 16 home runs and 47 RBI and is on the short list of best fielders in the game at his position. Votto, however, is hitting .313 with an NL-leading 21 homers and 59 RBI. Votto also is considered perhaps the leading candidate for NL MVP.
"I'm not" disappointed, Zimmerman said. "If I had better numbers or a better first half, then I would be, but I think Votto deserves it. The guys at third base, [David] Wright and [Scott] Rolen played a great first half, and they deserved to be there."
Gene Wang
July 8, 2010; 6:47 PM ET
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Wow. Matt Capps from the Nats and not Zimm. No offense Matt, but that's a joke.
Posted by: sknyluv | July 8, 2010 9:43 PM | Report abuse
Got all these fingertip blisters for nothing.
Posted by: cokedispatch | July 9, 2010 7:10 AM | Report abuse
Nice show of class by Zimmerman.
Posted by: Hondo5 | July 9, 2010 8:55 AM | Report abuse
I thought this was the right result because Zimm is a tad off this year, especially with his throws, so Wright made sense as the starter, and Votto is having a great season. But man did Zimm make a rush that last week. I haven't seen people talk about him this way, but he's really a streak hitter. When he's hot you just can't get him out and he'll likely win any tie game he comes to bad in in the 9th.
Posted by: markfromark | July 9, 2010 5:43 PM | Report abuse
Sign Adam Dunn as soon as possible. Guys like him are rare. And what a great clubhouse guy to have around!! Man, do I like that Gonzalaz kid, we've got to get him in there more, I know its tough, maybe next year if Guzman leaves.
Posted by: exexpofan | July 10, 2010 9:23 AM | Report abuse
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