text: Barbie Loves Stila Cobalt Clutch & Purple Pumps Smudge Pot Reviews, Photos, Swatches Reviews 9/09/09September 09, 2009 Barbie Loves Stila Cobalt Clutch & Purple Pumps Smudge PotBarbie Loves Stila Cobalt Clutch & Purple Pumps Smudge Pot ($20.00 each) are two of the three new smudge pot shades released with Stila's Barbie Loves Stila Collection for the fall season. (Little Black Dress is the third shade–and it is on its way to me; as soon as I have it, you know I'll be reviewing it!)Purple Pumps is a shimmery shade of violet with a lighter violet-purple shimmer laced throughout the creamy gel liner. It is one of the sheerer smudge pots I've tested, but it can be layered for a more opaque look. I found layering was best achieved with a stiff, flat bristled brush (I used MAC's 249).Cobalt Clutch is a ridiculously vibrant shade of sea-water blue with a slight sky blue sheen (but more of a sheen than a shimmer). It goes on opaque without any need for layering, unlike Purple Pumps, and the shade is definitely intense. It will definitely look stunning as an eyeliner, but it could be used as a base for some really in-your-face eye color. (I am fairly certain it is the vibrant blue used in the Stila Smitten With Kitten Collection promotional image.)I've always been a fan of Stila's smudge pots. They're smudgeproof, budgeproof, and wear all day without fading or creasing. They come in a variety of shades–one surely to entice you–and they'll last you forever. I haven't had any of mine dry out on me yet, either, which is a huge plus, because some gel liners have a tendency to dry out within a year.Product: 9/10Value: 8/10Ease of Use: 8/10Packaging: 8/10Recommendation: These are not to be missed if you're a gel liner fan (or a Smudge Pot fan in general!), because these are some bright-eyed shades you don't see often.Availability: Stila CosmeticsSee swatches… Purple Pumps Cobalt Clutch Purple Pumps, Cobalt ClutchPlease do not republish these photos without permission. Thank you!


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JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The judge who granted bail to Oscar Pistorius says he is related to a woman suspected of killing her two children and then committing suicide last weekend.
Magistrate Desmond Nair confirmed on Tuesday that the woman, whose body was found at her home Sunday evening along with those of her sons, is a first cousin.
The woman's brother, Vishal Maharaj, identified her as Anusha Maharaj. Police suspect her of administering a substance that killed her children, and taking her life by ingesting the same substance. Police say suicide notes were found.
Nair presided over dramatic bail hearings for Pistorius last week in a case followed closely around the world. The double-amputee Olympian is charged with premeditated murder in the shooting death of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, on Feb. 14.

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At a cellular level, the development of the nervous system and in particular axons, neurons and neuroblastoma cells is governed by a complex chemical and biological mechanism. A well-known model for this mechanism involves what are understood to be the key elements in this process, called Retinoic Acid and Notch. The model seeks to capture their feedback and interaction both inside and outside the cell. Communication across the cell membrane is achieved via so-called signaling pathways which are assumed independent. However while the model has proven consistent in a number of respects, recent evidence suggests that in fact the signaling pathways may interact with one another. The present study seeks to model and investigate the impact of this interaction in terms of the underlying mechanisms for symmetry breaking and pattern formation. Generalizations to a wider class of Reaction Diffusion equations will be discussed and numerical examples presented.
This is joint work with Majid Bani.
The study of pattern formation for chemotaxis PDEs (partial differential equations) started with the identification of blow-up solutions. If, however, the model is adapted to allow for global existence of solutions, then another interesting pattern formation process arises. Local maxima form and they show an interaction of merging (two local maxima coagulate) or emerging (a new maximum is formed). This dynamics can lead to steady states, periodic solutions or to (what we think is) chaotic behavior. I will show that this pattern interaction is very typical for a wide variety of chemotaxis models and I will discuss possible ideas on how to understand this complicated pattern interaction.
Joint work with K. Painter and Z. Wang.
In this talk we discuss two related multiphase models for simultaneous heat and mass transfer process during bread baking. Our main objective is to provide an explanation and a remedy to the observed erroneous and/or divergent results associated with the instantaneous phase change model used in the literature. We propose a reaction-diffusion model based on the Hertz-Knudsen equation, where the phase change is not instantaneous but determined by an evaporation/condensation rate. A splitting scheme is designed so that a relation between these two models can be established and the non-intuitive numerical instability associated to the instantaneous phase change model can be identified and eliminated through the reaction-diffusion model. The evaporation/condensation rate is estimated from balancing these two models and reasonable and consistent results are produced by using the estimated rate. For the evaporation/condensation rate beyond the estimated value oscillation, solutions with multiple regions of dry and two-phase zones is observed. We show that these are caused by an instability intrinsic to the model (which we call diffusive instability) and the effect of the diffusive instability to the bread-baking simulation is also explained through a linear stability analysis and supported by numerical tests.
This is a joint work with P. Lin and W. Zhu.
In this talk I will discuss a two-spike solution to the Gierer-Mienhardt system posed in two-dimensions. I will construct a differential equation governing the separation of the spikes. I will then show that if the distance between the spikes is below a critical value, one spike will be destroyed. If the distance between the spikes is above this critical distance a Hopf bifurcation may occur as the spikes move apart.
This is the series of study on the stability of traveling wavefronts of reaction-diffusion equations with time delays. In this talk we will consider a local and nonlocal time-delayed reaction-diffusion equation, respectively. When the initial perturbation around the traveling wave decays exponentially as x® -¥ (but the initial perturbation can be arbitrarily large in other locations), we prove the asymptotic stability of all traveling waves for the reaction-diffusion equation, including even the slower waves whose speed are close to the critical speed. This essentially improves the previous stability results for the faster speed waves with small initial perturbation. The approach we use here is the technical weighted energy method, but the weight function is more tricky to construct due to the property of the critical wavefront, and the difficulty arising from the nonlocal nonlinearity is also overcome. Finally, by using the Crank-Nicolson scheme, we present some numerical results which confirm our theoretical study.
We study the spectrum of the advection-diffusion operator
A common scenario in cellular signal transduction is that a diffusing surface-bound molecule must arrive at a localized signaling region on the cell membrane before the signaling cascade can be completed. In order to determine the time-scale for this process, we calculate asymptotic results for the mean first passage time for a diffusing particle confined to the surface of a sphere in the presence of multiple partially absorbing traps of small radii. In addition, asymptotic results are given for the related problem of calculating the mean first passage time for a diffusing particle inside a sphere with small traps on an otherwise reflecting boundary condition. The asymptotic analysis relies on detailed properties of certain Green's functions related to the sphere. The asymptotic results are shown to compare favorably with full numerical results.
Joint work with Dan Coombs (UBC), Ronny Straube (Max Planck Institute, Magdeburg).
We consider a reaction diffusion model for competing pioneer and climax species. A previous work has established the existence of traveling wave fronts connecting two competition-exclusion equilibria in certain range of the parameters, while in this paper, we explore the possibility of traveling wave fronts connecting the pioneer-invasion-only equilibrium and the co-invasion equilibrium. By combining the Schauder's fixed point theorem with a pair of the so-called desired functions, we show that the model does support such co-invasion waves in some other ranges of parameters. We also determine the minimal speed for such co-invasion waves in terms of the parameters, and discuss some biological implications and significance of the results.
This a joint work with Zhaohui Yuan.
We analyze a nonlinear biosensor model involving a parabolic equation with Robin boundary condition and an ODE. The existence and uniqueness of the solution is obtained by topological methods. The long-time behavior and system case are also discussed. A finite volume method is applied and convergence, stability and error estimates, and some numerical simulations are obtained for the approximate solution.
The work is done with Dr. Allegretto Walter and Dr. Lin Yanping.
In this talk, I will report our recent research on monotone wavefronts for cooperative and partially degenerate reaction-diffusion systems. The existence of monostable wavefronts is established via the vector-valued upper and lower solutions method. It turns out that the minimal wave speed of monostable wavefronts coincides with the spreading speed. The existence of bistable wavefronts is obtained by the vanishing viscosity approach combined with the properties of spreading speeds in monostable cases.
This is joint work with Jian Fang.


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Cyndi Lauper cancels book signing over storm fears
CYNDI LAUPER has cancelled a book signing in New York City as the area prepares for another incoming storm.
America's East Coast was battered by superstorm Sandy last week (ends04Nov12) and as the clean-up operation continues, residents in New York and New Jersey have been warned to brace themselves for more high winds and heavy rain.
Lauper was due to sign copies of her new autobiography, Cyndi Lauper: A Memoir, at a Barnes & Noble bookstore in New Jersey on Wednesday (07Nov12), but the singer has now cancelled the event over the storm warning.
A post on her Twitter.com page reads, "The instore at Barnes and Noble in New Jersey is cancelled do to (sic) another big storm. Please stay safe and don't drive in it. Thanks x Cyn."


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Microsoft announced this week that it will be releasing Microsoft Office Communications Server (OCS) 2007, Office Communicator 2007, and Office Live Meeting on October 16 of this year.
The three products make up Microsoft's unified communications product line. OCS, which will work with certain PBX systems, gives businesses the ability to administer Voice over IP systems, videoconferencing, instant messaging, and e-mail. As a client to OCS, Office Communicator 2007 brings instant messaging, video, and voice capabilities to the desktop, plus it features a significant amount of Office integration. To complete the company's unified communications suite, Office Live Meeting acts as the centerpiece for online gatherings. Its functionality includes whiteboards, polls, a seating chart, mood indicators, a document viewer, desktop sharing, and a meeting lobby.
When the release date comes in October, the products will be introduced through a public webcast co-hosted by Bill Gates and Jeff Raikes. The webcast will start at 9:15 a.m. PDT.


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McMurray, Stenhouse Jr. advance into all-star race
Concord, NC – Jamie McMurray and Ricky Stenhouse Jr. gained eligibility for the NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race after finishing 1-2 in Saturday night's Sprint Showdown at Charlotte Motor Speedway.
McMurray took the lead from pole sitter Martin Truex Jr. on the opening lap and then ran in front for the entire 40 laps in the preliminary event. He will start 20th in the 90-lap all-star race.
After the first 20-lap segment, McMurray and most of the other front runners pitted, while Casey Mears was one of those who elected to stay on the track. McMurray made a two-tire change and came out of the pits first.
Mears led the way for the start of the second 20-lap segment, but McMurray quickly passed him after the restart to take the top spot for good.
"My car was really balanced tonight, and the track has got a lot more grip than what we practiced with," McMurray said.
Stenhouse, a rookie in the Sprint Cup Series this season, finished 1.2 seconds behind McMurray to earn the 21st starting position in the all-star race. It will be his first appearance in it.
"We did the first part, and we're really looking forward to the all-star race," Stenhouse said. "It's very exciting. It was the first time running in the Showdown and making it out. That's good."
Jeff Burton placed third, followed by Paul Menard and Truex. Danica Patrick finished on the lead lap in ninth. Patrick is the favorite to win the fan vote, which gives that driver the last position in the 22-car field.


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Victory Over Big Red Lifts Bulldogs Into First-Ever Postseason National Tournament
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Mady Gobrecht scored a game-high 15 points in her final regular season game at Yale to lead the Bulldogs to a 58-51 victory over Cornell and help the Bulldogs clinch their first-ever post-season WNIT bid. Megan Vasquez added 12 points for Yale, which finished the regular season at 10-4 in the Ivy League mark and 14-14 overall.
The 10-4 Ivy League mark matched the best Ivy League finish in the program's history. The only other time Yale finished at 10-4 in Ivy League play was in the 1988-89 season.
The Bulldogs, who trailed by as many as seven in the second half, ended the game on a 10-2 run on "Senior Night" at the John J. Lee Amphitheater. Gobrecht and senior captain Yoyo Greenfield were honored at center court in a pre-game ceremony.
Yale's two seniors helped ensure they would play at least one more game at Yale.
Cornell took a 49-48 lead with 4:16 left in the second half following a Taylor Flynn putback. Last night, Yale couldn't overcome late-game adversity.
Tonight was a different story.
Vasquez started the comeback with a jumper. Next, Michelle Cashen found Gobrecht underneath the hoop for a layup to give Yale a 52-49 lead with 2:53 left.
Once it gained the lead, Yale never gave it up.
"We managed to buckle down down the stretch," Yale head coach Chris Gobrecht said. "We learned a lot in 24 hours."
The final six points of the game were scored by Vasquez at the free throw line. Yale made 18-of-22 free throws in the game.
The second half didn't start as well as it ended for Yale. Allyson DiMagno hit a three-pointer 22 seconds into the half to give the Big Red a six-point lead.
DiMagno, who tied for a team-high 14 points, hit one of two shots at the line to give Cornell its biggest lead of the game with 17:25 left in the game.
Yale stormed back. Janna Graf and senior captain Yoyo Greenfield hit back-to-back 3-pointers to cap a 14-5 Yale run to give Yale its first lead of the second half with 12:20 left.
With the win, the Bulldogs are headed to the postseason. The trip to the 2011 WNIT marks for the fourth post-season appearance in Yale history.
"They're excited about playing in the postseason," Coach Cobrecht said of her team. "I'm happy for the seniors who get to play in at least one more game."


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My countdown to my debut novel's release and a chronicle of my attempt to not go stir crazy while waiting. (I post here on Mondays and Fridays. See you then!)
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Welcome SheWrites Blog Hoppers!
19 comments:
- Carolyn said...
Hi Samantha. Pretty page. Thanks for the cupcake. Congratulations on the publication of your upcoming book, but who's counting?
- February 17, 2011 at 11:16 PM
- Janel said...
Oooh! Cupcakes! :) Just "hopping" by today for the Blogger's Ball.
- February 18, 2011 at 12:26 AM
- Fi said...
Fellow blog hopper here. Thanks for the cupcake. Love your site (and Dr Who - I could actually do with a TARDIS in my life, I need the space). Looking forward to following you.
- February 18, 2011 at 1:13 AM
- Cathy Kozak said...
Can't wait for another glimpse from Before Ever After. I'll be waiting on your doorstep tomorrow...
- February 18, 2011 at 2:19 AM
- Brenda Kezar said...
Congratulations on your upcoming release!
I enjoyed your agent interview, especially the "work on the next one" question. That's something I'm going to have to grapple with soon.
- February 18, 2011 at 2:20 AM
- C.M. Villani said...
Mmmmmm....cupcakes. :)
- February 18, 2011 at 4:20 AM
- Samantha Sotto-Yambao said...
Carolyn - Thanks! Who's counting indeed? ;-)
Janel - *waves* Glad you liked the cupcakes!
Fi -I'll be sure to let the good Doctor know the next time he swings by :)
Cathy - There's a little twist to the next Field Trip. See you on the bus!
Brenda -Thanks! I'm glad it helped. :)
Christina - You can take some home with you, dear :)
- February 18, 2011 at 6:20 AM
- Karen Wojcik Berner said...
Greetings from another blog hopper. Thanks for the cupcake.
Congratulations on your novel's upcoming release.
Great blog.
- February 18, 2011 at 7:24 AM
- llevinso said...
Hopping by...glad that a few of you bloggers are passing out treats! :)
Congrats on the upcoming release of your book!
- February 18, 2011 at 8:37 AM
- Samantha Sotto-Yambao said...
Karen - Thank you! I just stopped by your blog as well. Great stuff. Good luck with your second book! :)
llevinso - Thanks! :) I loved your blog. Looking forward to reading your reviews!
- February 18, 2011 at 9:06 AM
- Dawn Brazil said...
Hello Samantha, fellow SheWriter here. Congrats on publication. Love the excerpts from the novel. I wish you every success with it.
- February 18, 2011 at 9:19 PM
- Samantha Sotto-Yambao said...
Thanks for dropping by Dawn! I really appreciate your kind words about the book :)
- February 18, 2011 at 9:54 PM
- Julie said...
Hi Samantha! I'm also a fellow SheWriter, congratulations on the publication of your book! That's wonderful, I wish you much success. Glad to have found your blog, and thanks for the cupcakes! :)
- February 19, 2011 at 4:49 AM
- Anne K. Albert said...
Great blog...and Dr. Who? OH, YEAH!
- February 19, 2011 at 7:05 AM
- Samantha Sotto-Yambao said...
Julie - Thank you! So glad you could stop by! :)
Anne - Yay! Another Dr. Who fan! Great to meet you! :)
- February 19, 2011 at 8:10 AM
- Helen Smith said...
Hi Samantha. I'm here from She Writes. I like the sound of your alternate universe - and congratulations on your blog award.
- February 19, 2011 at 4:56 PM
- Samantha Sotto-Yambao said...
Hi, Helen! Thanks! Nice to meet you :)
- February 19, 2011 at 9:49 PM
- M Kathy Brown said...
Hi Samantha!
Met you when you stopped by my blog, and I'm so glad you did :~)
Enjoy your site...and...L-O-V-E your Sci-Fi!!!!
It's something I am sooo picky about, that I usually just stick to movies. But after seeing your writing style and the small insert "Meet the Novel"...my oh my! I can hardly wait! (Like your countdown meter, too ;)
- February 20, 2011 at 9:20 AM
- Samantha Sotto-Yambao said...
Hi Kathy! Oh, wow! Thank you! I'm thrilled you like it!!! Looking forward to sharing writing experiences with you :D
- February 20, 2011 at 5:18 PM


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NCLB Update
Teacher Awards
Deputy Secretary
Grant Policies
Regional Needs Assessments
IG Report
Official Statement
Upcoming Events
NCLB Update (http://www.nochildleftbehind.gov/)
It has been a busy two weeks on the stump for Secretary Spellings. First, on April 14, she testified before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee regarding lifelong learning (http://www.ed.gov/news/speeches/2005/04/04142005.html), highlighting the No Child Left Behind Act and the President's high school initiative ("No government program available at age 20 can make up for a poor education from ages 5-18"), as well as the President's proposals to reauthorize the Higher Education Act and the Perkins vocational program ("President Bush's proposals will help create a seamless educational continuum from K-12 through college and beyond -- to serve young students and adults seeking to adapt to the ever-changing global economy"). Second, on April 18, she discussed with school principals the Department's new "common-sense approach" to working with states that focuses on results for students (http://www.ed.gov/news/speeches/2005/04/04182005.html). "We all have learned much over the last three years, and now we need to use this new information to improve the way we do our work," the Secretary explained. "We know the heavy lifting of closing the achievement gap and making this law a reality takes place in your schools, and we want to know what is working and what needs to work better." Third, on April 19, she addressed the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce on maintaining a robust economy. (http://www.ed.gov/news/speeches/2005/04/04192005.html). "As local leaders, you know that the best way to keep your economies growing and your communities strong is to close the achievement gap," the Secretary stated. "States with the best school systems will end up with the best jobs."
Meanwhile, the Department is accepting nominations for its annual American Stars of Teaching awards, which recognize teachers who are improving student achievement -- using innovative strategies -- and making a difference in the lives of their students. Anyone can nominate an American Star; after the Department receives that nomination, a verification form is sent to the principal at the teacher's school. For more information, please go to http://www.ed.gov/teacherinitiative/.
Teacher Awards
Speaking of star teachers, congratulations to Jason Kamras, who was just named National Teacher of the Year, the first time in the contest's 53-year history that a District of Columbia educator has won the top prize. Kamras joined Southeast's John Phillip Sousa Middle School in 1996 and has initiated several innovative programs that have helped boost math scores. Consequently, his students have met the district's adequate yearly progress targets every year since the No Child Left Behind Act was implemented. He will now take a year off, with pay, to serve full-time as a national and international spokesperson for education. For more information, please go to http://www.ccsso.org/projects/National_Teacher_of_the_Year/. (Note: Kamras was recognized at the White House on Wednesday. The President's remarks are available at http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/04/20050420-1.html.)
Also, the White House recently recognized 95 teachers with the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching. For example, Florida's Rachel Hallett organized an archeological dig for a 60-foot dinosaur skeleton behind her middle school. She built the dig area and the dinosaur to give her sixth-graders a chance to get out of the classroom and learn how scientists gather data in the field. Every awardee receives a $10,000 gift from the National Science Foundation. For more information, please go to http://www.paemst.org/.
Deputy Secretary
President Bush has nominated Raymond Simon, current Assistant Secretary for Elementary and Secondary Education, to be the new Deputy Secretary of Education. Under Secretary Spellings' agency reorganization plan, the Deputy will oversee all K-12 education policy, including the No Child Left Behind Act, the President's high school initiative, and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. (The Undersecretary, yet to be nominated, will oversee all higher and adult education policy.) Clearly, Simon's one-and-a-half-year term in the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education and past experience as teacher, administrator, and director of the Arkansas Department of Education make him a natural choice for this critical post. For more information, please go to http://www.ed.gov/news/pressreleases/2005/04/04152005a.html.
Grant Policies
The U.S. Department of Education is transitioning to Grants.gov, a web site that allows individuals and organizations to find and apply for grants from all grant-making agencies electronically. If you are planning to apply for federal grants, please note the following:
All potential applicants for grants should register early at Grants.gov. Do not wait until the grant opportunity you are interested in is posted.
The Department has changed its policy and procedural requirements for permitting applicants, under certain circumstances, to submit paper applications for competitions that otherwise require the electronic submission of applications through Grants.gov or e-Application.
The Department's Grants Forecast (http://www.ed.gov/fund/grant/find/edlite-forecast.html) indicates which competitions might decide to use Grants.gov this year; however, the application notice for each competition is always the final authority.
In addition to the preceding information, potential applicants for grants should read the Federal Register notice published by the Department's Chief Financial Officer on February 10, 2005 (see http://www.ed.gov/legislation/FedRegister/other/2005-1/021005d.html).
For information on Grants.gov, call the Grants.gov Help Desk at 1-800-518-GRANTS.
And how about a grant opportunity? The Teaching American History Grant Program -- which requires e-Application -- supports projects to raise student achievement by improving teachers' appreciation and understanding of traditional American history. Grant awards assist school districts, in partnership with entities that have extensive content expertise (such as colleges and universities, libraries, and museums), to design, implement, and demonstrate "effective, research-based professional development programs." Applications must be received by June 14. For more information, please go to http://www.ed.gov/programs/teachinghistory/.
Regional Needs Assessments
Last week, after a year of conducting educational needs assessments of their regions, the 10 Regional Advisory Committees (RACs) submitted their final reports to the Secretary. RAC members identified major challenges to the successful implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act and considered types of technical assistance that might mitigate the challenges. Nationwide, four themes emerged: better integration of and more effective use of existing resources; more rigorous use of scientifically based research and data in decision-making; broader engagement with parents and other stakeholders; and strengthening the capacity of state educational agencies. For more information, please go to http://www.rac-ed.org/Default.aspx?tabid=294
IG Report
The Department's Inspector General, John Higgins, has completed his investigation of the agency's FY 2003 contract with Ketchum Communications. While noting "Department officials made some poor management decisions, including the failure to provide critical information to decision-makers, and exercised poor judgment and oversight," Higgins found "no violations of contract law" and "no evidence of any ethical violations in the formation of the Ketchum contract and Graham Williams Group work requests." Secretary Spellings accepted the IG's findings and concurred with recommendations for providing better oversight of contracts. For more information, please go to http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/oig/a19f0007.html.
Official Statement
On April 20, Department Press Secretary Susan Aspey issued the following statement regarding the National Education Association's lawsuit against the Department:
"Today's announcement is regrettable. No Child Left Behind is, at its core, about fairness and educational opportunity for all students. The preliminary results are in, and in just three short years, states across the nation are showing strong gains in student achievement. The achievement gap -- decades in the making -- is finally starting to narrow. President Bush and Congress have provided historic funding increases for education.... Four separate studies assert the law is appropriately funded and not a mandate.... [And] we're not alone in our efforts. Respected, national education organizations, including the Council of the Great City Schools and the Council of Chief State School Officers, are working with us to continue this unprecedented national progress. We intend to continue moving forward in partnership with national and state education leaders...."
Upcoming Events
National Charter Schools Week is May 1-7. The Department's Office of Innovation and Improvement has events scheduled for the week at high performing charter schools across the country, including Boston, Chicago, Dearborn (MI), Denver, Greenville (SC), Philadelphia, San Diego, San Francisco, and Woodland Hills (CA). Also, a kick-off celebration is planned at Thurgood Marshall Academy in Washington, D.C., on May 2. For more information, please go to http://www.ed.gov/news/events/csweek2005.html.
Time is running out to register for one of the Department's 2005 summer workshops for teachers and principals. The Phoenix and Tampa workshops are full! Still available: Cincinnati (6/20-22), Minneapolis (7/11-13), Bethesda, MD (7/25-27), and San Jose, CA (8/1-3). For more information, please go to http://www.teacherquality.us/TeacherToTeacher/Workshops.asp.
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Pour the cheesy mixture over a one quart dish of sliced potatoes.
Bake about an hour and serve!
Only one more recipe until the giveaway! Until then....
Now it's time to link up all of your creations!
Here are the rules:
1. You can link up as many posts as you'd like.
2. The post has to be made from scratch.
3. The post you link up MUST CONTAIN A RECIPE!
4. If you want to put my button somewhere, that'd be cool. You can grab the code for the Made From Scratch Tuesday button on the top right of my sidebar.


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This is for calla. She ask for help on making these. I pray that this helps.
Pick three colors. cut these into 2.5 inch squares
press each square in half
Then in half again to find center
open up square and place pin in the middle and close again only in half once
Take 2 squares wrong sides together. (this is your middle color. Center on the ball and pin at the four corners.
using same color. press square in half and instructed previously.
open and place pin in the middle. close square
Pin this to the middle of you square on the ball
fold top corner down to bottom and pin
fold other corner down to bottom and pin. Now pin the other side corners down. You will have 4 pins across the bottom. Do this three more times rotating ball 90 degs. each time.
you will end up with 4 triangles on this piece.
Now place two more squares on the opposite side of the ball. Be sure to measure to keep the distance even or your design will be uneven. Pin this down at the four corners as well. You repeat for this side what you have just finished for the other side.
Using measuring tape measure from the point down 3/4 inch.
insert second color
proceed as you did for the first color. You are only adding 4 squares at a time. You will be adding to the middle of the previous square.
This is how it looks after adding second color. No flip ball over and repeat this step for the other side.
Now measure 3/4 in. from the point between the these triangles and pin the same color.
This is what it looks like.
Flip ball over and repeat for other side. Second layer done.
Now for the third and final layer. Remember to work form the inside triangles out. repeat in same manner as previous row.
Now for the embellishments
I use a hot glue gun to hold down the rick rack. You can use rick rack or ribbon here. That is your choice. I just put pins in to hold the lace.
All finished. Just let your imagination flow and have fun with these. The direction originally said to measure 1/2 in from center for the placement of the triangles. I did not like this because the middle color did not show well. I also did not have to add an extra row if I measure 3/4 in. Do not be surprised if you use a lot of pins. I think there are about 250 pins in one ball more or less.


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Knee Brace, Universal Size
Easy on/easy off brace
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text: The jury began deliberation Wednesday in the Chicago trial of the man accused of killing three members of singer-actress Jennifer Hudson's family. William Balfour, 30, is charged with the shooting deaths of the star's mother, brother and nephew in October 2008. Prosecutors argued Balfour -- the ex-husband of Hudson's sister, Julia -- killed her family because she left him and was seeing another man. Reporters from the Chicago Tribune said via Twitter the photo with which prosecutors ended their argument depicted Julia's dead 7-year-old son, Julian King, grinning with his arms raised over his head. It was shown shortly before a break to prepare for the start of the defense's closing argument. Prosecutors said witnesses, Balfour's statements to police and overwhelming circumstantial evidence, including cellphone records, "point to one place and one place only," the Tribune reporters said. The lawyers noted Balfour is charged with home invasion, kidnapping, burglary and possession of a stolen vehicle, which could help qualify him for a life sentence in prison without parole, if he is convicted. Balfour is accused of kidnapping Julian after shooting and killing the boy's mother- and brother-in-law, and then stealing his brother-in-law's sport utility vehicle, shooting the child and leaving his body in the vehicle where it was discovered two days later. The Chicago Sun-Times reported Assistant Public Defender Amy Thompson said in her closing arguments authorities didn't consider any other suspects than Balfour and lacked evidence to prove he committed the crimes. Thompson called into question Balfour's possible motive, saying Julia continued to have sex with Balfour after she alleged he threatened to kill her family, so she couldn't have been that afraid of him. Balfour's attorney said victim Jason Hudson, the brother of Jennifer and Julia, was a drug dealer with enemies who could have killed him, his mom and his nephew. "The one constant in this case is that every piece of DNA evidence absolutely excludes William Balfour," the Sun-Times quoted Thompson as saying, adding the gun used in the triple homicide had DNA on it linked to two other people. "They have evidence they ignore. There is DNA on this gun, it's just not his. There's not no DNA on his gun. There's just not William Balfour's on this gun. ... This wasn't a whodunit. They weren't trying to figure this out. They had their man, they spread it across the news. They were just trying to prove it by building a case any way they could." Thompson concluded by describing her client "as an innocent man." "They have an obligation to find the people who actually did this. Not just for William Balfour, but for the Hudson family," she said.


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On December 18, 1878, the last of the Molly Maguires, John Kehoe is executed in Pennsylvania. The Molly Maguires, an Irish secret society that had allegedly been responsible for some incidences of vigilante justice in the coalfields of eastern Pennsylvania, defended their actions as attempts to protect exploited Irish-American workers. In fact, they are often regarded as one of the first organized labor groups.
In the first five years of the Irish potato famine that began in 1845, 500,000 immigrants came to the U.S. from Ireland (nearly half of all immigrants to the U.S. during those years). The tough economic circumstances facing the immigrants led many Irish men to the coal fields in the mountains of eastern Pennsylvania. Miners worked under dangerous conditions and were severely underpaid. Small towns owned by the mining companies further exploited workers by charging rent for company housing. In response to these abuses, secret societies like the Molly Maguires sprung up, leading sporadic terrorist campaigns to settle worker/owner disputes.
Industry owners became increasingly concerned about the threat posed by the Molly Maguires. Franklin B. Gowen, president of the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company, hired the Pinkerton Detective Agency to infiltrate the secret society and find evidence that could be used against them. James McParlan, who later became the most celebrated private detective of the era, took the high-risk assignment and went undercover within the organization. For more than two years, he established his place in the Molly Maguires and built trust among his fellow members.
Eventually, several Molly Maguires confessed their roles in the murder to McParlan. When he was finally pulled out of the society in February 1876, the detective's information led to the arrest and conviction of 19 men. In June 1877, 10 Molly Maguires were hanged on a single day. In December of the following year, Kehoe was arrested and hanged for the 1862 murder of Frank Langdon, a mine foreman, despite the fact that it was widely believed he was wrongly accused and not actually responsible for anyone's death. Although the governor of Pennsylvania believed Kehoe's innocence, he signed the death warrant anyway. Kehoe's hanging at the gallows was officially hailed as "the Death of Molly-ism."
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text: Jock Coats April 26, 2011 Economics Intellectual property: an unnecessary evil Jock Coats April 26, 2011 Economics 6429 intellectual-property-an-unnecessary-evil Intellectual property rights – better thought of as intellectual monopoly rights – are an unnecessary evil. They are unnecessary because all their stated, utilitarian aims can be achieved by other means. They are an evil because granting artificial rights to non-property restricts everyone else's property rights. They are more likely to be used to stifle the creativity, innovation, and emulation that underpins technological and cultural advance; and they concentrate wealth and power in the hands of privileged non-creators more interested in milking selected others' efforts. Dignifying them with the phrase "intellectual property" is a contemporary conceit to conceal crude market interference through state granted privilege with the flimsiest gossamer of respectability. The primary origins of patents lie in maintaining the state's coffers, and of copyright in state censorship of ideas. Property rights arise from a desire to prevent conflict over scare resources. Ideas, patterns, recipes and processes are non-scarce. Intellectual monopoly laws impose different time periods and restrictions. From time to time legislators arbitrarily decide to protect previously unprotected categories of invention. Even legislators then don't regard them as genuine property, ownable in perpetuity by the first owner and their heirs until they chose to dispose of it. However, many claim that, without intellectual monopoly, those with innovative and creative minds would not use those faculties, insufficiently rewarded for their creativity. This is by no means self-evident. If... Dickens could make money from Americans without copyright Musicians could feed themselves before Edison Plant breeding could bloom before the US Plant Variety Protection Act of 1970 Software got written before the 1981 SCOTUS decision in Diamond vs Diehr Most of the 2009 Billboard Top 40 music earners made most of their income from live performances, not recordings Harry Potter novels sold enough in their first twenty-four hours to keep J K Rowling in style ...why do we think they need state protection now? The plain truth is that because of the grip of the small number of media giants who control the production, marketing and distribution of their favoured artists, many more undiscovered artists subsist on live gigs in local venues. And because of the modish patent trolls who have no intention of ever exploiting their patents, many innovators never even know someone else "owns" an idea until the writ arrives end up broken. 19th century libertarians ranked Intellectual Monopoly as state created privilege that impoverishes the majority. We should heed them: they are still destructive, unnecessary, statist and evil. Further reading: Stephan Kinsella's "Against Intellectual Property" at the Mises Institute (and an audiobook version of it by me) Stephan's thinktank, the "Centre for the Study of Innovative Freedom" (C4SIF) "Against Intellectual Monopoly" by Michele Boldrin and David Levine and the supporting website "Against Monopoly: Defending the Right to Innovate" …and if you are minded to do a bit more study on Intellectual Property from a libertarian perspective, though Stephan Kinsella's Mises Academy course "Rethinking Intellectual Property: History, Theory and Economics" is coming to the end of its current run, you might keep an eye out for it running again. April 26th is "World Intellectual Property Day". Jock Coats blogs at OxFr33.


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Florida is a well known place because of those tourist attractions that continue to attract a lot of tourist. Because of the constant increase of numbers of visitors and immigrants, the Florida commercial real estate has become more active and more in demand. This is why there are lots of real estate investors and entrepreneurs who want to invest with the Florida commercial real estate as their site for their businesses.
There are several ways in order to earn from this commercial real estate. You can buy one for the hopes of the increase in value will do well because of great demand and great potential and buying Florida commercial real estate property for you to used as site for your business. With the tourists that keep on coming back in Florida for sure any of these ways will surely help you generate bigger income.
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The number one factor that you need to consider is the location of the commercial property that you plan to acquire. Studies show that a good location can boost sales by more than half. So if your purpose in acquiring a commercial property is for your business you have to choose the commercial property that is accessible, visible and convenient for your client.
Since demand is greater for them a property having good locations will surely have increase value. And because of this it is hard quite hard to find a Florida commercial real estate property that has good location that are close to major destinations but having the right resources, a competent agent get you on your way to have one.
There are factors that affect the market value of the commercial property. The most visible factor is the locations and by this, the closer to major destinations that expensive the value is. Beachfront properties are some of the most expensive commercial real estate in Florida.
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AUSTIN -- University administrators who have experimented with four-year fixed tuition at their colleges testified Wednesday on the pros and cons of a statewide implementation.
The House Higher Education Committee heard testimony on a rewrite of a bill by Rep. Dan Branch, R-Dallas, that would require universities to offer a guaranteed tuition option for undergraduates with the goal of providing parents and students some certainty that prices will not go up once they are enrolled. It would apply to both first-time freshmen and transfer students.
Branch said locking in tuition rates would be an incentive for students to graduate in four years. The other option would be a year-to-year rate.
But Diana Natalicio, president of the University of Texas - El Paso, said the plan isn't one sized fits all and hasn't been too successful at her university.
"The response was lukewarm at best, only 58 entering freshmen students opted to participate in the program the first time around," Natalicio said.
UT-El Paso tried out fixed rate tuition in 2006 after tuition prices were deregulated in 2003.
She said many students attending the school are considered "at-risk" and live paycheck-to-paycheck and don't typically do more long-term financial planning. Some students also have many obligations in their home lives that they work to support, she said.
Natalicio said tuition at the university has also remained quite affordable so the plan did not provide much incentive. Tuition at UTEP has risen about 7 percent since 2003.
UT-Dallas president David Daniel said he has noticed a completely opposite response. Daniel said he was skeptical of the program before joining on at the university in 2005, but decided to try it out to maximize predictability.
UT-Dallas has the most expensive tuition in the state, about $11,600 before fees, partly because of its specialization in technology and engineering degrees. It has risen about 11.2 percent since 2003.
"Students would come to UT-Dallas and then two years later tuition would go up tremendously and they would throw their hands up."
Daniels said UT-Dallas had a 32 percent graduation rate in 2005, which went up to 51 percent this year, but he isn't sure whether the four-year guaranteed tuition was a component of that.
"It should be available for people who want to do it, but it should be option because what works at UT-Dallas works obviously quite well but the socioeconomic profile a UTD student is totally different from a UTEP student," Natalicio said.
Gov. Rick Perry has made four-year fixed tuition a priority for the current legislative session as part of a greater plan to make college more affordable and accessible for students.


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In a continuing effort to bring to you the very best in Scotch pornography, I sampled — one shot bottles — Johnnie Walker's annual release of specialty Scotches, and I'm ready to tell you what was good.
Now I don't know who actually has the money to buy some of these whiskies. I'm trying to imagine how much disposable income I'd need before I'd devote $936 plus tax for a single bottle. It's not a matter of having $936. It's a matter of having money to buy everything you can think of and then having $936 left over. However, I know there are countless highrollers among the readers of this blog, and maybe you're one of them.
And there's some good news in here, too. Not everything is $936. Or $600. There is some good Scotch to be had here for about $100 (a little less if you shop), and as that price is perhaps just twice as much as a bottle of premium Scotch — and sometimes twice as good — it can be justified as a reasonable purchase.
For example, my second favorite Scotch that I tried is the 12 Year Old Lagavulin, which lists at just over a hundred dollars.
Also — something else to consider. Most Scotch you buy in a store, including Single Malts, are essentially Scotch and Water already. The Scotch comes out of the cask at 55% alcohol and is reduced, by adding water, to either 40% or, more likely (in the case of single malts), 43%. So if you buy a bottle of 12 Year Old Lagavulin at full cask strength, it's really like getting 20 percent more Scotch for your money. See? Basically, I'm treating you to my inner justification for dropping 100 smackers on a good Scotch.
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We say "an oblique face can by synthesized" but not defining it in an interoperable way doesn't make sense to me. > Where "most word processor users" means "how Word does it"? ;) Word and Windows copied behavior from all existing word processors. It's been #6 since late '70 in word processor market, zero exceptions, so it was rather easy to copy for a word processor. Today there are not many word processors in the market but the other one from a Japanese company, Ichitaro, does #6 too. As I wrote before and as Ambrose confirmed, the most common case for paper-based typography is #3/#4 for Japanese, #2/#4/#6/#8 for Latin characters, and not well defined :( for mixed-case. You can't say whether IE is wacky or WebKit is unless we define, and I guess it justifies the motivation to define the way we would like it to be synthesized. I prefer to prioritize word processors as I believe it is the majority, but I can live with other options too if there were consensus. But leaving this undefined doesn't look right to me. /koji -----Original Message----- From: John Daggett [mailto:email@example.com] Sent: Monday, February 04, 2013 8:36 PM To: firstname.lastname@example.com Cc: 'WWW International' (firstname.lastname@example.com); CJK discussion (email@example.com); firstname.lastname@example.com Subject: Re: [css3-fonts] Synthesizing oblique, to which direction in RTL and vertical flow? Koji Ishii wrote: > In the font-style property[1], it says: > > A value of 'italic' selects a font that is labeled 'italic', > or, if that is not available, one labeled 'oblique'. If no > italic or oblique faces is available, an oblique face can > by synthesized by rendering the normal face with a > sloping transformation applied. > > But it does not state to which direction the slope should be. > > There is no question for slope direction in LTR scripts, but is > controversial for RTL and for vertical flow. Could this be clarified? > > For RTL, there was a post to www-style in 1999[2], and there are some > discussions on the web[3]. It looks to me that back-slant is the right > way to go but I'm no experts here. I'm not sure I see a reason for wading into these waters. "Synthetic oblique" is done the same way by all user agents today, modulo the wackiness in vertical text in IE10. Synthetic italics, along with synthetic bold, are holdovers from the days of word processors with "Italic" and "Bold" buttons that simply applied synthetic transforms if real faces didn't exist. The right answer here is really to use a font designed the way an author desires, be it left or right leaning for RTL scripts. I really don't think we should try to resolve anything here for the CSS3 Fonts spec. > For vertical flow, there are several possibly right answers as in the > picture here[4], and my investigation concluded that it varies by who > you ask to: > a. Most word processor users consider #6 is the right answer. > b. Professional printers and font designers think differently by > context; #2 or #6 for primarily Latin context such as citations, > and #3 for primarily Japanese context. In addition, for primarily > Japanese context, authors would like to specify directions and > angles. > c. WebKit renders #8 today, and IE10 renders #6. Where "most word processor users" means "how Word does it"? ;) Here again, the right answer is to use an italic face. For upright ideographic characters I'm mystified why someone would consider #6 to be correct, the rendering of basic ideographic characters shouldn't vary whether it's included in horizontal or vertical runs. The Webkit rendering (#8) seems like the better choice. In this case also, I don't think we should try and resolve anything related to this issue for CSS3 Fonts. Regards, John DaggettReceived on Tuesday, 5 February 2013 20:09:00 UTC
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Planting trees keeps Hefley happy
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While many other farmers are in the process of tearing out trees and burning brush piles to gain tillable land, Jon Hefley of rural Marion works steadily to plant and maintain rows and rows of trees and bushes in various stages of growth.
"I do it because it makes a good windbreak for the farm," Hefley said. "We need more wildlife habitat, not less. My wife, my daughter, and me — we love trees. It doesn't bother me a bit that while everybody else is tearing them out, I am planting more trees. It's something I really believe in and enjoy doing."
In the past several years, Hefley planted 400 oak trees, 200 to 300 cedar trees, and "bunches" of bushes.
Last fall he concentrated on putting in close to 100 golden currant, sumac, choke cherry, sand hill plum, and Peking cotoneaster bushes around the perimeter of his farm at 1753 Nighthawk Road. He also planted trees across the road in the 55-acre pasture he owns.
"I think so many people are going to start realizing what a mistake it is to take out trees just to gain a couple more crop acres," he said. "The amount of topsoil lost to wind erosion plus the cost of cutting out that quarter mile of hedge and plowing out the roots, I don't see how it can be good. I think in the long run it's better to take a little moisture loss around the edges than to watch it all blow away."
Hefley kept his newly planted trees and bushes growing through the past years of drought conditions by faithfully giving each plant a 5-gallon bucket of water, two to three times each week.
"I planted them far enough apart that I can drive my big truck down through there with the two water tanks on the back," he said. "There are some that I have to carry buckets to, but I reach them all with water."
In addition to watering his trees and bushes, Hefley also fertilizes them to promote growth.
"I use fertilizer spikes, starting with the small indoor ones and then graduating to the larger ones, depending on the size of the tree," he said. "Sometimes my wife asks me if I am ever going to quit because I spend a lot of time on my trees. It keeps me moving, keeps me out of the recliner. I enjoy this kind of work."
Different kinds of wildlife are also starting to enjoy Hefley's planting work. He has seen turkeys, deer, pheasants, quail, and even badgers in and among his tree rows.
"They do eat some of the seedlings," he said. "The small oaks were like candy to the deer. Some of them grow back, others I will have to replace. The bushes, especially, are pretty hardy and can take a nibble or two."
Hefley protects small bush seedlings with plastic netting that keeps the rabbits from causing too much destruction.
"I have a friend who hunts in the area and he took a picture of a doe with one of my tree nets stuck on her nose," he said. "I knew exactly where she had been."
Hefley said he gets his tree starts in bundles from Kansas State University. The cedar trees he planted he dug up from a neighbor's pasture and replanted on his own land.
"It's a lot of hard work," he said. "But I enjoy it so much. In the fall, it is especially beautiful around here, with all the red, orange, and yellow leaves. Some people tell me they stop along the road just to enjoy the colors. The beauty of it all can just be breathtaking."
Hefley, who owns and operates The Lumberyard, Inc. in Hillsboro, said he was waiting this spring to see how things greened up and then would decide what he needed to replant at the farm and at his pasture acreage.
"I want to get some more oak trees and probably some more bushes," he said. "I look forward to spending my evenings outside, watering and planting trees. It makes me happy."
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Running the Kusam Klimb is probably the most insane thing I've ever attempted, and I liked it. The 23km race course ascends from 9 to 1482 meters within 7.7kms from the start. The first 2kms were on paved roads so I was able to keep the lead runners in my sights until we got to the narrow trail head. Soon it became so steep we had to power hike. Since it had been raining often the previous week the race trail higher up was muddy. At times I was on all fours crawling along, glad that I had worn heavy duty gloves. I stopped to refill my drink bottles at a stream fed by the melting snow above us. It took about two hours to get to the top where we were above the clouds near the peak, scrambling across snow drifts. What an unforgettable view that was.
I entered runnable sections of forest not long after the course passed by a lake and the second checkpoint. Soon I found myself running alone and wondered if I had somehow wandered off the Kusam Trail, but then I would see a small pink ribbon up ahead tied to a branch telling me that I was going in the right direction.
After reaching an old logging road I picked up speed following switchbacks down towards a mist filled valley. Along the way I came to a broad stream with water calf deep. It cooled my burning feet as I ran across. The third check point had Nanaimo bars and Gatorade to offer, which I took advantage of. Just past this, I met a fellow runner, leaned against a tree, suffering with muscle cramps so I stopped to give him some salt capsules (later, at the finish, he thanked me, saying that he couldn't have finished without them).
The last six kilometers I ran steadily, descending over a mixture of logging roads and quad wheeler trails, passing several runners. I tripped at one point, going head over heals and landed on my back, but quickly got up and shook it off.
I heard the finish line before I could see it. They were blasting rock music and making announcements over a loud speaker. I finished strong, smeared with mud, in a time of 4 hrs and 35 minutes, happy to have completed the most crazy race of my life.
Thanks to all the volunteers who helped to make this event go smoothly.
A couple of weeks after running the Kusam Klimb race I spoke at Aaron House Fellowship in Courtenay, B.C. and had a chance to share some about the experience.


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