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Thursday, October 20, 2011
Kim Kardashian in houndstooth tights
Showing off her love for houndstooth print yet again Kim Kardashian wore these houndstooth print tights yesterday. I'm pretty sure it's the Alexander McQueen ones. You can get them at net-a-porter.com here. You can also find similar ones in your local stocking-store.
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Kim Kardashian in Dubai at Millions of Milkshakes press conference - October 13, 2011
If you are lucky enough to be in Dubai you might have seen or met Kim Kardashian and her mon Kris, while they were in Dubai last week. They are filming Kourtney and Kim take New York 2 right now. Can't wait to see it in November.
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Black and white knit and fur in Vogue China November 2011
Just love these pictures with Fei Fei Sun. The knit in the third pic is AMAZING and so is the fur coat in pic no. 5. I love black and white. It is so elegant and the combo is very in this fall and winter. Enjoy these beautiful pictures.
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Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Kardashian sisters in houndstooth - print
I love black and white and a dress, cape, blouse, skirt or purse in houndstooth print is so classic. You can go full-on with the print or wear a skirt together with a solid color or put on a houndstooth print scarf or leggins. I just got myself a houndstooth print dress from H&M. It's great with a bright red lip for this look if you really want to go classy. All three Kardashian sisters have been wearing houndstooth print lately and they look fab!
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Kim Kardashian makeup look - tutorial
FACEKim's makeup artist Joyce did this look. She used Photo Finish Foundation Primer by SMASHBOX to prep Kim's skin. For this look she used HD Invisible Cover Foundation by Make Up For Ever.She use Secret Concealer by Laura Mercier. *Try blending from the outer corners in to keep concealer from settling in fine lines under the eyes for flawless coverage. The stick form makes it easy to use! She likes to set Kim's gorgeous skin with Super Matte Loose Powder by Make Up For Ever. *A powder that gives the skin a soft focus on and off camera.
EYESJoyce filled Kim's brows in with Brow Zing by Benefit. *she always use the lightest shade in brow products for a more natural look. She first applied Multi- Acton Concealer by YSL to the Kim's eye lids. She first applied Eyeshadow in Midnight Cowgirl by Urban Decay to the entire lid. She then applied Eye Shadow in Midnight Cowboy Rides Again by Urban Decay to Kim's Lashline and lightly smudged it up.. She finished the shadow off by blending Eye Shdaow in Midnight Cowboy into the eyelid crease. Aqua Eyes Eyeliner in Mat Black 0L by Make Up For Ever, is what she used to line the inside of the upper and lower lash line as well as on the water lines. She then applied Liquid Eyeliner by Dior to the top lash line and slightly winged it out. For this look she applied individual lashes to Kim's upper lash lines and finished them off with Plush Lash Mascara by M.A.C. Cosmetics to make them pop. Remember, to finish off the eye, she curled her lashes using Shu Uemura eyelash curler.
CHEEKSTo give Kim's cheeks a touch of color she first applied Blush in Deep Throat by NARS to the apples of her cheeks. Just under the apples of her cheeks she applied Peach Leopard Brightening & Perfecting Bronzer by Too Faced to the hallows of her cheeks.Right above the apples of Kim's cheeks she applied Urbanglow Cream Highlight in Moonshine by Urban Decay to highlight her cheekbones.
LIPSTo define Kim's gorgeous lip shape she used Lip Liner in Sangria by Bobbi Brown. Creme Lipstick in Ravishing Me Red by Revlon is what she used to fill in the lip. She finished her lips with Gloss Pur in 10 Pure Redcurrant by YSL to give a glossy coat.
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Monday, October 17, 2011
Racel Zoe's amazing office space with shoes, clothes, nailpolishes and bags
There's a reason that Rachel Zoe is one of the biggest stylist out there. She has amazing style. Just take a look at all these things from her office. To see more pictures of the actual office go to my interior design blog here
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Sunday, October 16, 2011
Kim Kardashian in Dubai, UAE - October 15, 2011
Kim was wearing an Alice&Olivia dress. You can find it a net-a-porter.com
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Current maxi- love at net- a- porter
Net-a-porter.com really is the best designer online store in my opinion. Here's 4 dresses that I really like. The first Lanvin-print dress is so cool. J. Lo wore it this summer here. The others are great too. Would wear them with a long-sleeve shirt underneath.
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Saturday, October 15, 2011
And the winner is....
Thanks for entering this giveaway. Nancy over at fanceeenanceee.blogspot.com is the winner of this giveaway. Nancy send me an email (email@example.com) with your adress and I'll ship the lipstick and nailpolish to you Monday. There'll be a new giveaway soon so remember to follow:)
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Thursday, October 13, 2011
Kim's 3 wedding dresses by Vera Wang
Kim sure had a fairytale wedding. I've seen both episodes of the wedding special and after seeing it I'm really nervous for my own wedding next summer. It seems it's normal that the couple is hating each other up to the day. I'm already stressed now finding the location, food and all the other stuff on a budget...
Kim wore three different Vera Wang dresses, one more beautiful than the other. To remember her dad Kim had a piece of her dad's old shirt sown into each dress in form of a heart. Kim really has a big heart herself. The wedding was over the top and everything was black and white, even the guests all wore black and white. Which one of her dresses is your favorite?
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Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Kim Kardashian at Atlantis Palms hotel in Dubai United Arab Emirates - October 11, 2011
Kim is in Dubai right now and she looked amazing as she came to her hotel yesterday. I wish I lived in Dubai so that I could have a chance to meet her. I know a couple of Dubai - bloggers have been giving away tickets to meet Kim, so if you're are one of the lucky ones, we would love to hear from you and see some pictures:)
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Homicide Detective David Bagini awakens in a strange world only to discover that he is, in fact, the 42nd clone of the Bagini line. With no memories of why his Prime entered into a clone contract, he wants answers. The first problem is his Prime is dead and Bagini 42 is in charge of the investigation. The second problem is all the clues point at a clone from his line and they already know all his tricks. How can he solve his own murder when every suspect has his name and face?
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- John C.
- 11-03-13
We have met the enemy and they is us.
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This is a clever little SciFi book.
You're a detective--one of the best--expected to solve a murder. Failure to do so may cost you and everyone related to you their existence. The murder victim is you. The murderer may be you. You may also be an accomplice. The police chief is interfering in the investigation (also you). And there probably isn't any move you can make that the murderer(s) can't anticipate.
Perhaps the best aspect of the book is it's glimpse into the essence of individuality and self-discovery. It's a nature versus nurture experiment taken to the extreme.
10 of 10 people found this review helpful
- Russell
- 25-04-15
Best Clone Detecive Book Ever Written
Okay, I've only read one Detective Clone book - but this was such a great science fiction romp, it merits a lot of superlatives.
David Bagini wakes up as the 42nd clone in a line of top notch homicide detectives in a clone colony. He is imprinted with the memories of David Prime when the original was at the peak of his career. One of those memories is a distaste for ever cloning yourself as he learns his other self sold out his moral code for a comfortable life.
42 has been created to solve a rather unique homicide. It seems that the original David Bagini has been murdered and the most likely suspects are one or more of the other Bagini clones. 42 couldn't have done it because he was created after the crime was discovered. Clones are disposable items in this new world and a human that murders one is given a slap on the wrist for something akin to property damage. Murdering a human or prime is another matter and the entire Bagini line is in danger of being disposed of and restarted if the perpetrator cannot be found.
So can this newest Bagini clone outwit the killer clone? How can you go up against another version of yourself who can anticipate all of your moves? Actually another interesting wrinkle employed by Berhneimer is to explore how another version of yourself could actually get on your nerves. All the clones in the Bagini line do not get along. They try to alter their appearance to gain individuality and one of them (no 11) even went with religion to cope with the clone life provoking puzzlement and disdain from the rest of his duplicates.
The twists we usually expect with a mystery novel are enhanced with the clone perspective - a version of you looks like he committed the crime, but really it was a different version of you - no wait it was that other version who did it. And, why is the clone you report to (number 2) not telling you everything you need to know to solve the case.
I loved this book and would like to see a sequel. You will too.
9 of 9 people found this review helpful
- Professor
- 09-01-13
Agatha Christie Style
Science fiction detective story
in the best traditions of Agatha Christie.
The best is to compare it to Hercules Poirot style of investigating.
Try to imagine that you were so good at your work ( Homicide detective)
that you were offered a contract to create copies of yourself
with all your skills and memories.
And now it's time for the best part:
you were just awakened in some strange place,
you are told that your number is 42(funny)
and you have to solve a murder of yourself committed by yourself,
you have 40 suspects and all of them know everything you know
and more,everyone of them knows your every skill and trick up your sleeve.
It's a great book I highly recommend it.
15 of 17 people found this review helpful
- Erik
- 24-12-12
Another great book from Jim!!!
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The Author does a great job mixing in little tidbids of his/my favorite quotes, characters of other novels. He actually mixed in some funny quips about Hitchhickers guide to the galaxy. He includes these in most of his bokks, hhis little pop culture references are great.
In this book he does a good job keeping things straight so you don't get lost with the mass of clones in the story. Some people seem to have a couple hundred clones of themselves in the city/planatoid. very twisty plot and hard to figure out who dunnit. Great writing style with some snarky comedy referenced in. Must read!!!
4 of 4 people found this review helpful
- Bryan
- 19-05-14
Clever concept!
What did you love best about Prime Suspects?
The concept is fantastic! The duplicitous notion of the same basic man cloned into so many different aspects of the same murder mystery (hard to answer w/o giving things away here!!) was extremely well thought out, especially in the notion of how each starts at the same point but develops some differently defining characteristic, making them not so clone-like afterall, yet all thinking on the same vein, creating complications along the way
What was one of the most memorable moments of Prime Suspects?
His interaction with Victoria and Carol at Victoria's apartment
Have you listened to any of Jeffrey Kafer's other performances before? How does this one compare?
Yes, a non-fiction piece. This was different. I'll admit that I went into this already of the opinion that Kafer is a strong narrator, having heard his rendition of Age of Context, but not sure what to expect from fiction. I had high expectations. I think he met them, but not the way I expected him to, which I liked even more. In every narrator you can gleam something different, some strength they have. Kafer has a real knack for the subtle. He was not broad with his characters (ironic given they were clones, right?), but painted them together somewhat seamlessly so you rarely had trouble differentiating them and in the end I think that paid off rather nicely. Seriously 42 people of the same genes? It takes a Kafer to make that come across in audio!
3 of 3 people found this review helpful
- mary
- 24-07-15
It could happen....
The recent headline about a successfully cloned sheep influenced how I listened to this audio book. A society based upon human clones. Humans are reluctant to relocate to different planets. This is due to the harshness, high mortality, lack of modern conveniences among a few things. Earth is over populated and desperate for the resources. Some one comes up with a bright idea. Pay off desirable humans with wanted jobs, personalities and more. Offer them a portion of their clones paycheck. Build luxury homes, and other accommodations. You have your donors (aka Primes). Clones are treated as second class citizens. They are considered disposable by humans. The story is from the view point of a hardened police officer. He is 'made' because a Prime has been murdered by one of his clones. Bagini Forty-Two is made from his Prime before said Prime had undergone clone counseling. Unlike other clones, he has no knowledge about being a clone. Forty-Two's thoughts about cloning are 'I'll never do that'. The story is a murder mystery with a lot of twists in the plot. It shows potentially what could happen with humans. It shows how clones could deal with being cloned and each other. I enjoyed this very much. The conflicts about clones and cloning are kept supportive. Forty-Two deals with cloning in such a way as to make him a different thinker from most clones. He thinks outside the clone and his maker box. There is a little predictability with enough twists to keep story interesting. I strongly recommend this book. Forty-Two is under pressure to solve the murder or the entire Bagini Line will be terminated. Jeffrey Kafer reads the story well. His voice is not unlike past movie and television cops.
2 of 2 people found this review helpful
- The Bookwyrm Speaks
- 06-05-15
Who solves your own murder? Your clone, of course.
I was given this book by the narrator through Audiobook Blast in return for an honest review, so here goes. I really enjoyed this story. David Bagini has been murdered, and it's up to David Bagini 42, the 42nd clone to find the killer. The story is set on a planet where The "Primes" License out their clones for different work. These are based on the specialty of the Prime, such as being a renowned chef, a great cop, or a famous detective. When Prime Bagini is killed, a new clone is created to solve the crime, one who has no conflicts of interest or any possibility of having been the killer. Bagini 42 has to contend with hostile versions of himself, a conspiracy that goes way deeper than expected, as well as his own feeling about what being a clone is all about. The story is well fleshed out, with lots of action and traditional detective drama, as well as cool sci-fi elements that are blended in really well. I thought the characters were fleshed out really well, especially seeing as how they are basically all versions of the same people. The Author manages to create individuality among the clones, with their own strengths and foibles gained through life experience. The ending I didn't see coming, so the twist really was effective. I would recommend this book for anyone looking for a fun sci fi book that will fill you up while leaving you wanting more with these characters.
2 of 2 people found this review helpful
- Frank Lamb
- 20-03-15
Keeps you guessing.
I enjoy a good story that keeps you guessing. Yes, some of it was predictable. But it does not let on who did it until the final reveal. Loved that part!
2 of 2 people found this review helpful
- 16-02-14
Witty and entertaining.
I'm not real big on the idea of clones, but I have a hard time turning down a sci-fi mystery. I loved the main character's point of view. From the very beginning I was intrigued by his insights. The descriptions of the other clones and their antics kept me rolling. The plot line in the story had some good twists and will keep you guessing. Narrator Jeffrey Kafer did a good job and I'd listen to other books performed by him. A very entertaining little book.
2 of 2 people found this review helpful
- DabOfDarkness
- 14-12-13
A great mix of humor, nitty-gritty, and tough cop.
Would you consider the audio edition of Prime Suspects to be better than the print version?
While I have not read the print, I would say yes because the narrator, Jeffrey Kafer, did such an excellent job.
What other book might you compare Prime Suspects to and why?
Blade Runner by PK Dikc, Hardwired by Walter Jon Williams, Nightside series by Simon Green.
What about Jeffrey Kafer's performance did you like?
His sarcasm and how he pulled off the smart-ass jokes.
If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?
When you suspect yourself, break out another duplicate to find the culprit.
Any additional comments?
I thoroughly enjoyed this novel. In a world where clones are dispensable and are little more than slave labor, David 42 must muddle his way through with less than cutting edge tech. He's a copy of a younger, still idealistic David Prime, and hence doesn't have some of the moral flexibility as some of his other 'brothers', such as the partyer, the drug addict, or even the religious commune dweller. For every clone working, the Prime gets a piece of their paycheck, allowing him or her to live in luxury. The clones live and mostly work in this section of the city, in low-rent crappy housing and eating at cheap, vomit-inducing diners. The Primes live and play in Prime City, serviced by mask-wearing clones (makes it easier to ID them as 'servants'). Most clones have to take on second jobs to have the money to upgrade their living arrangements, such as working as a mall cop. Yes, the quality of life for clones is not all that for the vast majority of them.
A great mix of humor, nitty-gritty, and tough cop makes this an exciting mystery adventure. David Bagini was once one of the best detectives in the galaxy. Not only does 42 have to go up against swamp thugs, a therapist, bureaucracy, and a steep learning curve, he also has to be far more clever than all the other Bagini clones; they all know the tricks of the trade – how to catch a murderer, but also how to avoid being caught.
Since clones are dispensable, they tend to have lots of casual sex. With that statement, you might think there was plenty of that in the book. Nope. Well, not in detail. The orgies are referenced just often enough for the reader to understand that is not what David 42 is looking for. Sadly, he is stuck in a society where casual sex is the norm and long-term, in depth relationships is a deviation. Not like the guy needs that added frustration to his already full agenda of catch the murderer(s) of David Prime and quickly before Those On High decide to scrub the entire Bagini line. Every. Last. Bagini. Clone. Yeah, gone for ever.
While the pacing of this adventure was pretty quick. David 42 was a multi-tasker, such as interviewing a potential suspect while taking the time to learn the latest police-issue firearm at the range. I really liked that 42 didn't simply wake up and know everything; he had to learn, and learn quickly, as he went. The guns, the hoppers (flying vehicles), the scroll (kind of like a PDA but much, much cooler), and even all the things clones do to individualize themselves. There's tatts, piercings, constantly changing hair colors, etc. David 42 had a whole culture to learn.
Of course, 42 is a nod to Douglas Adams and there are some jokes through the book that fans of Adams will get. Towel!
All that goodness in less that 5 hours of reading time. My one minor criticism, and it is small, is that I would have liked to see a few more female cops. The novel has female lovers, waitresses, therapists, and finally, 1 female cop. Most of the ladies had well rounded characters and individual traits and the main character did not treat them as sex objects. Yet, it is far future SF and do like to think that certain jobs will balance out in the future – like lady cops and house husbands. Still, minor negative comment on an otherwise very worthy novel.
The Narration: Jeffrey Kafer was a treat to listen to, pulling off the sarcasm, the asshole remarks, the tough cop that is secretly lost and trying to bluff his way through this freaking mess. Yeah, Kafer delivered.
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PENSACOLA, Fla. – The Georgia College men's basketball team (1-1) dropped its first contest of the young season Sunday at the University of West Florida (2-0), losing 66-46 in day two of the McDonald Fleming Moorhead Tip-Off Classic.
Yesterday's hot shooting that helped the Bobcats to a season-opening win over Palm Beach Atlantic University left Georgia College today, as it hit just 28 percent (17-61) from the field and 12 percent (3-25) from long range.
Senior forward Scott Ferguson (Roswell, Ga.) led the team in scoring at 17 points, coming one rebound shy of a double-double. Junior guard Royal Thomas (LaGrange, Ga.) was the next highest scorer at eight points, adding five rebounds off the bench.
West Florida jumped out early, starting on an 11-2 run on the first 4:12 of play. The Argos hit the halftime horn up 35-26. It was more of the same in the second half, as the Bobcats were beat 31-20 in the second stanza.
The Argos had four scorers in double-figures, led by Nate Johnson with a 17-point, 11-rebound double-double. It's the third double-double Georgia College has given up in its two games this season. UWF shot 44 percent (24-54) from the field, but struggled from behind the arc at just 2-of-13 (.154 ).
The Bobcats are back in action Tuesday, Nov. 20 at 8 p.m., traveling to Clark-Atlanta University for more non-conference action.
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The older sister of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, Randi led the company's marketing efforts for six years. Among other initiatives, she was responsible for directing Facebook's U.S. election and international politics strategy, launching the live streaming industry with her media partnerships around Barack Obama's presidential inauguration. She was nominated for an Emmy Award for her work partnering with ABC News to webcast coverage of the 2010 midterm elections on both the network's website and Facebook.
Zuckerberg left Facebook in August of 2011 to start R to Z Media, a firm that will launch later this year to help companies take advantage of social media. She was recently appointed to the United Nations Global Entrepreneurs Council, the World Economic Forum's Global Council on Social Media and the U.S. Broadcasting Board of Governors Commission on Innovation.
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A few years back, beleagured publisher THQ signed a deal with Adidas to make a fitness game based on the German firm's miCoach technology. The deal was that game had to be on shelves by January 2012. It's not, and is nowhere to be seen, so either THQ forgot all about it, or there were serious problems at THQ.
Which sounds about right.
Either way, Adidas is now suing for at least $10 million, because it claims revenue has been lost as a result of the game they'd been promised not being an actual thing. Which again, sounds about right.
In addition to the fact the game was never delivered, Adidas allege that THQ also refused to "turn over video game publishing materials to an alternative developer of Adidas' choosing".
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Paul Krugman is getting flak over a comment he made this weekend on TV.
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"If we discovered that, you know, space aliens were planning to attack and we needed a massive buildup to counter the space alien threat and really inflation and budget deficits took secondary place to that, this slump would be over in 18 months," he said. "And then if we discovered, oops, we made a mistake, there aren't any aliens, we'd be better--"
Eric Falkenstein voices the natural objection, which boils down to: Krazy Keynesians are so eager to spend your money on anything, that they argue a false Alien scare would somehow be a good thing.
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The primary facing the economy is damaged private sector balance sheets. Due to the collapse of the housing bubble, people are still too deep in debt, and it's this high debt service/desire to pay down debt that's sapping cash from other areas (spending, investment, etc.).
If this fear of an alien invasion prompted the government to spend, say, $1 trillion on telescopes and lasers, then if nothing else, that would be $1 trillion more in private sector income, and thus $1 trillion spent towards private balance sheet repair. There's no exception to this. If the government spends money it becomes desperately needed private sector income.
Now unfortunately you're left with $1 trillion in lasers and telescopes that were never needed, so obviously that's a tragic waste.
It would be much better if that $1 trillion were spent fixing clogged airports, heavily used bridges, and aging train stations. Then you'd get the $1 trillion in balance sheet repair AND you'd wind up with usable assets afterwords. But that would take political will that we don't have. That kind of political will only arises at a time of extreme existential crisis, like an alien invasion threatening all mankind.


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Apple is definitely coming out a television, said venture capitalist Marc Andreessen at the DealBook conference this morning.
He thinks it comes out in 2014, maybe 2013, and if not either of those, then definitely by 2015. So, in the next three years.
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Well if they have farms, milk, butter, and cheese in Berkeley, CA, then having MEMS in Berkeley is the next logical step, right?
And if you had stumbled in, or otherwise found yourself in, the Pyramid Alehouse on Gilman in Berkeley Wednesday evening, you would have found they not only have MEMS in Berkeley (Al? Clark?), they also have excellent draft beers (that wasn't moo juice we were drinking), good pizzas, healthy (?) sweet potato fries, and a whole bunch of MEMS people standing outside on the Alehouse patio enthusiastically networking over the aforementioned imbiss.
It's the monthly roving Bay Area MEMS after-work get-together, and it's attracted more people tonight than anyone (including the loose band of organizers: Dave Cook, Alissa Fitzgerald, Roger Grace, Mary Ann Maher, Magnus Rimskog, among others) thought would make the trek up from Silicon Valley, or from campus up the hill. (31 miles from Petaluma to Berkeley for me, a trip the car knows well, owing to two daughters who are now both Cal grads.)
Here we are heading into the holiday season in late 2009, a year we will mostly remember as our annus horribilus, and yet I hear repeated again and again in the floating conversations tonight phrases like "we just filled our job posting", "we just hired more engineers", "we have engineering recs open", "I need to hire a sales manager", or "I'm here recruiting."
The US government is on record saying the recession is easing, but I'm not believing it until the jobs come back. It's a historical fact that many of the jobs (sexing chickens in Petaluma) never come back. This is surely to be the case in Silicon Valley moving forward, just like it's been the case in Pittsburgh, PA, from my grandfather's time to today. (Anyone need an experienced Linotype operator?)
But as they say in hip-hop (check out the excellent recorded work from Atmosphere, if that's how you roll), "When life gives you lemons, you paint that s— gold."
I think a lot of silicon lemons are turning into MEMS gold right now. If the party chatter is any sign, I think 2010 may be an annus mirabilis for MEMS and for the MEMS workforce, at least by 2009 standards.
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STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS – 9:00PM (Everywhere)President Obama monopolizes your television for 90 minutes this evening to tell you the State of the Union is strong, and that we'll all have flying electric cars within the next 15 years and that we HAVE to do something about education, and that you will totally have a job soon. In between, people will clap for too long and Republicans will openly NOT clap, which many will deem tasteless. Meanwhile, I'll be watching DVR'ed episodes of "Beavis & Butthead," because I like to plan for these sorts of television emergencies. ANTICIPATION: FLAME WAR!
JOAN & MELISSA: JOAN KNOWS BEST? – 9:00PM (WE) If the President's ramblings aren't your thing, head over to WE for the premiere of this new show starring Joan Rivers and her kid Melissa as Joan moves from New York into Melissa's LA place. I strongly advise you to not watch this show in high definition. ANTICIPATION: CAN WE TALK?!
BIZARRE FOODS – 9:00PM (Travel Channel) Andrew is in Pennsylvania tonight, hitting up a place where, according to my guide, "a Japanese chef prepares potentially poisonous sexual organs." I assume those organs belong to Paris Hilton. EASIEST JOKE EVER! ANTICIPATION: POISONED GENITALS!
RUPAUL'S DRAG RACE – 9:00PM (VH1) Season premiere! RuPaul trots out a whole new group of aspiring Divines and puts them through the paces. Tonight, the girls have to do a Christmas Card photo shoot on a trampoline. Why a trampoline? It's drag, people. You need bounciness. Also involved will be Bruce Vilanch. Because really, why not? Will this show ALSO contain poisonous sexual organs? That I cannot divulge. ANTICIPATION: TRANTASTIC!
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34 HASKINS & SELLS May Depreciation of Mines and Mining Machinery and Equipment By JOHN R. FINCHER (In-charge Accountant, New York Thirty-ninth Street Office) THE various methods of depreciation in common use, or advocated by writers on the subject, are based generally on the principle that the cost, less residual value, of the facility being depreciated should be amortized in some manner during the period of its usefulness. This principle undoubtedly is correct in theory for all ordinary enterprises in which the production, or return, bears some uniform relation to the use of the facility; but its application in the case of mining is questioned because of the inherent differences in economic conditions of operation. The fundamental difference between the accounting for a mine and for another ordinary enterprise is first observed after the project has been fully equipped and operations have begun. After the mineral lands have been acquired, either through purchase or lease, the initial expenditures necessary to equip a mine for operation will consist of the cost of mine development work, such as shafts, slopes, tunnels, gangways, airways, drainage, etc., and the machinery and equipment necessary to handle the mineral output and waste material. After operations are begun there will be continually recurring expenditures for extensions of the mine workings and for additional machinery and equipment made necessary by such extensions, all of which will be required merely to maintain, without at all increasing, the average quantity output of mineral. It is generally agreed that the initial cost of equipping a mine to begin operation must be capitalized. The subsequent expenditures for development and extensions, however, constitute a problem upon which there is much difference of opinion. If the practice is conformed to the accounting theory that the cost of all facilities expected to have a useful life of more than one year should be capitalized and depreciated over the period of usefulness, the property accounts would continue to increase until the very end of operation, causing progressive increases in the charges for depreciation. This would prove unsound because the increasing charges for depreciation would tend to increase the per-ton cost of mineral production progressively for each succeeding operating period. In the early stages of operation of a mining project the per-ton cost of mineral production is comparatively low, because the recoverable mineral deposits are easily accessible. As mining progresses the deposits become daily less accessible and the maintenance of a stable output requires extensions of the workings and entails ever-increasing costs for transportation, while the greater depth of the workings entails greater costs for lifting and drainage, and added cost for the disposition of waste. If to the ever-increasing direct costs of mining we should add depreciation charges which mount higher each year, the per-ton cost of production during the later stages of operation would increase to a figure out of all proportion to the cost at the beginning. When we reflect that, aside from market fluctuations, the last ton of mineral produced is worth not one cent more than the first, the error in applying the principle to mine accounting becomes doubly impressive. In theory, profits or losses arising from a business project can be accurately determined only when the undertaking is fully completed and the business is liquidated. Business expediency, however, has brought about the general custom of stating accounts annually, at which time the profits or losses of a going concern are approximated by estimating such factors as cannot be definitely determined. Little difficulty is experienced in applying this method in the case of ordinary enterprises which encounter fairly uniform conditions from year to year; but a mining enterprise has
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Justin Bieber's name was nowhere to be found when the nominations for the 2013 Grammy Awards were announced.
And Bieber admits in an interview airing tomorrow on "Ellen" that not being nominated at all despite the critical and commercial success of his latest album, Believe, was definitely "a big bummer."
"I was looking forward to [possible Grammy noms], but I know it will happen one day," says the platinum-selling heartthrob, who was up for Best New Artist and Best Pop Vocal Album two years ago but lost out to jazz artist Esperanza Spalding and Lady Gaga, respectively.
2013 Grammy nominations: 5 biggest snubs and surprises
"I'm so young, I'm only 18," he adds. "I'm just blessed to be able to do what I love every day. And the AMAs was a lot of fun for me so...Hopefully, one day."
Of course the American Music Awards were fun for Bieber--he won three trophies, including Artist of the Year!
And Ellen had to ask how it came about that Bieber was wearing overalls (one strap undone, natch) when he met Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper last month, a fashion faux pas that caught him a lot of heat from the peanut gallery.
Justin Bieber murder plot?! Two fugitives conspired to strangle and castrate pop star, investigators say
Though Bieber was being honored on that occasion, he insists that the head of the government came to him.
"I was at my concert," he recalls. "I was doing, like, a meet and greet, meeting all my fans and stuff, and [Harper] came to the venue where I was performing."
"He brings flags with him?" Ellen asks. "Yeah, they brought them," asserts Bieber.
Selena Gomez costar Elisabeth Shue calls Bieber "really cool"
"Well, that's not fair," Ellen protests, "because it looks like you went to his office dressed like that! But he brought flags to make it look like you're under-dressed. That's not fair."
"I know it wasn't fair but that was really my event," Bieber insists. "I really promise, if I would of went to his environment, I would have been all done up."
To ensure he's never caught in a formal situation dressed informally ever again, Ellen then presents Bieber with his own pair of tuxedo-printed overalls. For the boy who otherwise has everything.
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TORONTO - The Toronto stock market closed higher amid an easing of tensions in the conflict between Ukraine and Russia and reassuring inflation data from China.
The S&P/TSX composite index ran up 65.33 points to 15,261.64.
The Canadian dollar was ahead 0.43 of a cent to 91.58 cents US.
U.S. indexes were also positive as traders felt more inclined to take on risk, following reports Friday that Russia called an end to military exercises near Ukraine and withdrew troops to their bases.
"We're seeing a little bit of that risk abate and I would caution investors about getting too complacent on one side or the other when it comes to geopolitical tensions," said Craig Fehr, Canadian markets specialist at Edward Jones in St. Louis.
"In the very near term, it's going to remain a headline risk for the market for the foreseeable future," Fehr said.
But gains started to deteriorate late in Monday morning after the Ukraine government announced that the Red Cross will lead an international humanitarian aid operation into Ukraine's conflict-stricken province of Luhansk with assistance from Russia, the European Union and the United States.
Such initiatives have previously faced sustained opposition from Ukraine and the West, who had feared they could act as a pretext for sending Russian troops into rebel-held territory.
The Dow Jones industrials was well off the highs of the day but still up 16.05 points to 16,569.98, the Nasdaq climbed 30.43 points to 4,401.33 while the S&P 500 index was ahead 5.33 points to 1,936.92.
Meanwhile, China's consumer price index in July stayed at 2.3 per cent, well below the official target for the year of 3.5 per cent. That gives the central bank room to ease access to credit if needed to shore up economic growth, which was 7.5 per cent in the latest quarter.
TSX leadership came from the financial sector, ahead 0.57 per cent with investors unfazed by a move by ratings agency Standard & Poor's on Friday to revise its outlooks to negative from stable on almost all Canadian banks. It comes a week after Ottawa launched a public consultation on its proposed "bail-in regime," which seeks to protect taxpayers from having to foot the bill for bailing out a big bank in the event that it runs into financial trouble.
Industrials were up 0.75 per cent.
The base metals was well off session highs, closing flat as the positive news from China failed to lift metal prices, with September copper unchanged at US$3.17 a pound.
The gold sector edged up 0.27 per cent as increased appetite for risk pushed December gold down 50 cents to US$1,310.50 an ounce.
The energy sector was slightly higher while September crude on the New York Mercantile Exchange gained 43 cents to US$98.08 a barrel.
Shares of Tekmira Pharmaceuticals Corp. (TSX:TKM) continued to charge ahead following a U.S. regulatory decision that relaxes safety precautions on the Vancouver-based company's experimental drug for treating Ebola. Its stock surged $2.84 or 12.35 per cent to $25.84, after jumping 47 per cent on Friday. Tekmira has a $140-million contract from the U.S. government to develop its drug TKM-Ebola, but last month a small human trial of the experimental drug was put on hold after safety issues emerged.


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Earth Week is nigh, and that means everyone's gonna start paying lip service to the idea of "being green" for 7 days.
Pardon my cynicism, but I hate "trendiness" and unfortunately being "green" has become one of those hip new trends.
And before you give me the smackdown, let me say this: I appreciate those folks who truly make the green effort. Who were doing it BEFORE the term "green" was being bandied about by folks like NBC. To those folks: I love you and appreciate the work you do. I really really do.
But my cynicism rides on the back of the trend-sucking "greensters," the folks who get elbow-deep in earthiness for a week and then go back to eating their McD's sandwiches, the folks who have turned environmentalism into a money-making scheme, the folks who serve sausage at an Earth Week event.
Yeah, you heard me correctly. I was recently invited to an event celebrating Earth Week, an event being held by a "green team," in which they are serving waffles, fruit smoothies, and sausage. SAUSAGE.
I'm sure you, my darling vegan friends, can understand my utter stupification without me even having to say a word.
But yes: sausage.
Because, as a friend of mine stated in response, "Nothing says sustainable like sausage."
Let's dabble in just a couple of stats here...
"Large hog farms emit hydrogen sulfide, a gas that most often causes flu-like symptoms in humans, but at high concentrations can lead to brain damage. In 1998, the National Institute of Health reported that 19 people died as a result of hydrogen sulfide emissions from manure pits."[1]
"Huge open-air waste lagoons, often as big as several football fields, are prone to leaks and spills. In 1995 an eight-acre hog-waste lagoon in North Carolina burst, spilling 25 million gallons of manure into the New River. The spill killed about 10 million fish and closed 364,000 acres of coastal wetlands to shellfishing. "[1]
Hog farms are horrible polluters of both air and water. Horrible.
And yet: no one seems to note the ridiculousness of serving sausage at an Earth Week event.
When I brought this to their attention and suggested they perhaps consider serving veggie sausage instead (since, um, serving sausage contradicts the whole point of Earth Week) I was met with an uncomfortable and brief response in which they agreed to offer veggie sausage AS AN OPTION.
Now, let me put you straight on this: I'm not even arguing from a vegan standpoint in getting annoyed with this. I'm arguing from an "I hate hypocrisy, you dumb fucking idiots" standpoint.
Serving sausage at an Earth Week event is idiotic and oblivious and sends out a contradictory message to everyone in attendance.
It is the same thing as using styrofoam plates at an Earth Week event.
And having someone point this out to you, and then placating them with the reassurance that you'll have veggie sausage AS AN OPTION? Even MORE idiotic.
If the "green team" had obliviously stated they were using styrofoam plates at their Earth Week event, you KNOW they would immediately receive dozens of WTF responses to their activities. The difference is, there's no way in HELL they would respond by saying, "Well, hey, how 'bout we offer PAPER plates AS AN OPTION? We'll serve on styrofoam, but if you really want a paper plate, we'll have a few dozen there for you to take advantage of." Even the dumbest, least environmentally aware people IN THE WORLD would laugh their asses off if a "green team" were to offer this up as their remedy.
Offering veggie sausage as an option IS THE EXACT SAME THING.
Hey, as a vegan, I'm glad that I got them to offer the veggie sausage option.
But am I going to attend this event?
Hell the fuck no.
I am not reinforcing people's hypocrisy. And I'm not going to go support a group of people that aren't ashamed to be reinforcing the illusion that meat is NOT an environmental issue.
THAT'S why I half hate Earth Week. Because it makes all the hypocrites and dumbasses float to the surface for 7 days.
God bless those of you who really work your asses off in your environmentalism and *gulp* "greenness." Bless your generous, lush, dirty little hearts.
But to the rest of you: have fun doling out exorbitant money on "green" products and patting yourself on the back for how eco-responsible you are while you grill up your hamburgers on the grill next to your $400 composter.
Props. Douchebags.
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In 1996, Lush's "Ladykillers" was the Spice Girls' "Wannabe" of girls who smoked clove cigarettes. I heard it for the first time in ten years the other night and was startled to remember all the words, and now the fucking thing will not exit my mind, so I found it on YouTube and put that and a link to the lyrics after the jump (click the pic!) because I don't think you will find a more timeless message in more hilariously dated packaging. The lyrics are sooooo much more meaningful 12 asshole-rich years later.
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What Type of Investor Are You?
Fund managers and financial advisers often provide risk-profile questionnaires to help you determine what type of investor you are, based on your tolerance to risk, investing timeframe and investment knowledge.
Knowing your investor profile is crucial to working out what type of investment suits you, although this awareness alone is no substitute for a financial plan from a qualified professional, as it cannot take into account all of your personal circumstances and financial needs. Here is a basic risk-profile questionnaire, similar to those the professionals use.
How to use the risk profiler
Using the risk profiler involves three steps:
Complete the questionnaire.
For each of the questions, choose the response you identify with most, with only one answer per question.
Calculate your score.
Beside each answer is the score it carries. Add the scores for your answers together to get your total score.
Review the selection.
Match your total score with its investor type, shown in the table at the end, to see if it reflects your attitude to risk. You may need to take into account other personal financial circumstances that may see you selecting a different type.
The risk-profile questionnaire
Take the time to think carefully through each of the questions, even if you're only completing the questionnaire out of interest. Down the track you may decide the results could be a useful starting point for your investing journey.
- What do you want to achieve when you invest?
- An investment that does not fluctuate in value. (1)
- Keep the value of my investments with regular income on which to live. (2)
- Maintain regular income with some exposure to capital growth. (3)
- I'm not worried about income, just maximising the growth of my investments. (4)
- How long are you prepared to hold investments for?
- Two years or less. (1)
- Three to five years. (2)
- Six to ten years. (3)
- More than ten years. (4)
- How would you react if your investments were to fall in value by 15 per cent over a one-year period?
- Help! Take all my money out and put it in a bank deposit account. (1)
- Take out some of my money and move it to a 'safer' investment strategy. (2)
- Wait until I recover the loss and then consider other investments. (3)
- Stick to my guns and follow the recommended strategy. (4)
- Wow! It's 15 per cent cheaper to invest more money in the same investment. (5)
- What is your willingness to risk short-term losses for the prospect of higher long-term returns?
- Low. (1)
- Not sure. (2)
- Moderate. (3)
- High. (4)
- Choose the most appropriate response to the following statement: I am willing to experience the ups and downs of the market for the potential of greater returns.
- Strongly disagree. (1)
- Disagree. (2)
- Neither agree nor disagree. (3)
- Agree. (4)
- Strongly agree. (5)
- Choose the most appropriate response to the following statement: My main concern is security; keeping money safe is more important than earning high returns.
- Strongly disagree. (5)
- Disagree. (4)
- Neither agree nor disagree. (3)
- Agree. (2)
- Strongly agree. (1)
- When it comes to investing, how experienced do you think you are?
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The scores
Now add up the scores for all of your answers and match the total score with the categories in the table to see what type of investor the questionnaire indicates you are. You may want to do some further research to find out the investing characteristics of these investor types and adjust the result, depending on your personal circumstances.
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I love this event that Dianne over at The Whole Gang hosts every Friday. This week the ingredient is eggplant…ooh…one of my favs!! I buy at least 1 eggplant per week and love to eat it roasted with other veggies. I slice the eggplant in rounds and place paper towels on each side and then pound with a frying pan to help lessen the bitterness. I found this tip on another food blog (though I don't remember where….I am getting old!) and it really works. Then I slice into chunks or leave in rounds. After they are in the shape I want, I toss in some olive oil (EVOO as Rachael Ray says), sea salt & pepper. Then I roast in the oven at 375 or so for 20-40 minutes. I have also grilled in place of roasting & they turn out great! Another idea? Cut the eggplant lengthwise and then use a the base for a burger and top with your choice of toppings & then top with another slice of eggplant.
Here is a favorite, simple recipe I use for eggplant.
Easy Eggplant Parmesan
1 medium eggplant
1 medium zucchini
Mozzarella Cheese (or sliced fresh mozzarella)
Parmesan Cheese
Marinara Sauce (I used homemade today, but have used Prego 3 Cheese in the past)
1. Preheat oven to 400.
2. Slice eggplant & zucchini.
3. Spread sauce in the bottom of a glass pyrex dish. Start to layer eggplant & zucchini and cheeses with sauce. Repeat until ingredients are gone.
4. Bake at least 30 minutes. Test the eggplant with a fork, it should be soft. Broil for a couple minutes to brown up the top.
**I have seen a variation of this recipe with ricotta cheese too. That would make it more a meal, suitable for vegetarians.
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Don't Quit Your Day Job: Creativity Is About Passion, Not Paychecks
from the doing-it-because-you-want-to,-not-because-you-have-to deptThere are many who argue, despite historical and ongoing evidence to the contrary, that creativity will die out if creators cannot be guaranteed some sort of livable wage. It's almost as if any creator who creates as a hobby or potential second job either a) is being shortchanged by disruption, piracy, etc., or b) shouldn't be taken seriously because they haven't abandoned their day job.
It's an odd assertion. Most groundbreaking creative efforts were conceived and carried out while the creators worked in a variety of other non-creative jobs. It was only after these breakthroughs that these artists went on to live solely on the earnings of their creative works. Somehow, we're now expected to believe that without piracy and other disruptions, creators would be making better, livable wages, possibly right out of the gate.
That whole thought process ignores the reality. Not having a paycheck tied to your creative endeavors means being able to fail more often and experiment more freely, without having to worry about hurting your current source of income. Case in point: three developers who solved a problem most companies didn't know they had, all without having to "give up the day job."
For the past two years, Brandon Medenwald, Justin Kalvoda, and Bill Burgess have held down full-time jobs while also launching their company, Simply Made Apps.On it's face, it seems terribly simple: build something better. And yet, no one had really tackled it before. So they took a weekend off to knock out the framework early last year and since then have been refining it based on customer feedback.
Their only product is an app called Simple In/Out, which solves a problem that drove Brandon crazy. He explains, "In my fulltime job as a web programmer, we had an old magnetic in/out board like they use in sales offices to keep track of who is in the office and who isn't. Five or six years ago, they transitioned to a Web-based version.
"I was constantly frustrated with it, because some of the roughly 40 people in our firm wouldn't use it. The board became extremely out of date. For years, I was joking that I could write a better piece of software in a weekend, but then over beers in a bar with two friends, it dawned on me we could solve this problem by using the GPS chips in cell phones."
For the first four months, the app was free. Last September, they introduced pricing that was based on the number of people being tracked on the company's board. Prices start at $5 per month for 4 to 10 users, and gradually step up to $160 a month for 250 to 1,000 users.Creativity very often springs from those tied to day jobs. These three don't sound even remotely "tied." It's not about sustaining yourself from a nights-and-weekend project. It's about being passionate about what you do with your nights and weekends. These days, anyone with a spark of creativity has hundreds of free-to-cheap tools at their disposal. The barriers to entry have been demolished, whether it's music, movies or software. It's not money that drives these creators: it's passion. And if you ignore that fact, and cling to past business models, you're going to find yourself trailing the pack very quickly.
Although the trio are far better programmers than they are marketers, today they have over 1,600 registered companies. More importantly, they have something they love so much that they occasionally use their vacations to devote extra time to their "nights and weekends" startup.
None of them hate their real jobs. None are eager to quit. They come across as smart, patient people who want to solve interesting problems that other companies aren't solving.
"In a big corporation," says Brandon, "I'd be fearful of the little people out there doing something that they are passionate about, because, passion trumps money." He and his partners love what they do, and feel fortunate to be able to solve interesting problems.The three were able to get this off the ground using spare time and around $100 each, which covered "licenses, a Web domain, a 'doing business as' name, etc." From $300 and a few nights and weekends to 1,600 paid users, all without having to "quit the day job."
Even though the company is turning a modest profit, he says, "Because we love what we do, we don't have to be concerned about turning a profit, which means we are extremely dangerous people when it comes to our dedication to improving services
Those arguing that creativity is tied to a steady paycheck are relics looking back fondly at the days of gatekeeping, when competition was low because the barriers were too high. It has nothing to do with wanting future artists to be properly "protected" against disruption and everything to do with keeping more people out. That sounds more than a little like fear.
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Estimating badger social-group abundance in the Republic of Ireland using cross-validated species distribution modelling
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The badger (Meles meles) is an important wildlife host for bovine tuberculosis (bTB), and is a reservoir of infection to cattle. Reliable indicators of badger abundance at large spatial scales are important for informing epidemiological investigation. Thus, we aimed to estimate badger social group abundance from a large-scale dataset to provide useful information for the management of bTB in the Republic of Ireland (ROI). Robust estimates of species abundance require planned systematic surveying. This is often unfeasible at large spatial scales, resulting in inadequate (biased) data collection. We employed species distributional modelling (SDM) using 7724 badger main-sett (burrow) locations across the ROI at a 1 ha scale. This dataset was potentially biased as surveying was directed towards areas with cattle bTB-breakdowns. In order to manage sampling bias, we developed a model where the environment was sampled using pseudoabsences geographically constrained to the potential survey area only (constrained model), in addition to a model where all of the ROI was sampled (non-constrained model). Models predic- tive performance was assessed using internal (splitting the national-scale dataset) and external validation on independent datasets; the latter included 278 main setts from a local-scale unbiased intensive survey (755 km2). Finally, the relationship between predicted probability and observed abundance at local-scale was used to infer number of social-groups at the national level. The geographically constrained model showed moderate discriminatory power, but good calibration in both the internal and external valida- tions. The non-constrained model resulted in higher discrimination but poorer calibration in the internal validation, indicating a limitation for national-scale predictions. Interestingly, there was a strong cubic relationship between predicted probability-classes and observed sett density in the local-area (R2 = 0.85 and 0.96; for the non-constrained and the constrained models, respectively). At the national-scale, the preferred model predicted a total of 19,200 (95% Confidence Interval: 12,200–27,900) social groups. Our analyses demonstrated that under a critical perspective large-scale potentially biased datasets can be used to estimate variations in species abundance. The abundance predictions are in keeping with recent independent estimations of the badger population, and will be a valuable index of species abun- dance for epidemiology (e.g. risk mapping), species management (e.g. informing vaccine strategies) and conservation planning (e.g. assessing population viability).


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