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Shiliang Wu Receives National Faculty Enhancement Award
Shiliang Wu, whose research focuses on atmospheric chemistry, air quality and global environmental change, has been named a winner of the 2010 Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award. Wu is an assistant professor of geological and mining engineering and sciences with a joint appointment in civil and environmental engineering at Michigan Technological University,
Given annually by Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU) in Oak Ridge, Tenn., the award recognizes junior faculty at institutions that belong to the scientific university consortium for their outstanding work in engineering and applied science; life sciences; mathematics and computer science; physical sciences; or policy, management or education.
"I'm delighted by the award," said Wu. "I enjoy my research, and I feel the award is saying: 'You have been doing good work, but we hope and need you to do even better.'"
Vice President for Research David Reed congratulated Wu on the prestigious award. "I believe he is the first successful applicant from Michigan Tech," Reed said. Wu's work was recognized with a Research Excellence Fund Award from Michigan Tech in 2009.
He also won a US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Early Career Award last year, receiving $299,596 from the EPA to investigate the effects of changing land use and land cover on atmospheric chemistry and air quality. He is also co-investigator with a team of Michigan Tech researchers who received $452,000 last fall from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, popularly known as federal stimulus funds. Nancy French, a senior research scientist at the Michigan Tech Research Institute in Ann Arbor, Mich., is principal investigator on that study of the impact of climate change on wildfires and the resulting impact on human health.
Wu was one of Michigan Tech's first hires in sustainability in the University's Strategic Faculty Hiring Initiative, an interdisciplinary project to attract outstanding faculty across departmental lines, focusing on various research themes.
The ORAU reviewed 114 applications before selecting 30 junior faculty members for this year's Powe Award. Each winner receives a $5,000 grant from ORAU that is matched by his or her own institution, for a $10,000 total prize. The awards are named for ORAU's councilor from Mississippi State University for 16 years and chair of the consortium's Council of Sponsoring Institutions prior to his death in 1996.
ORAU brings major research universities together with national laboratories, government agencies and private industry to leverage their scientific strength. They sponsor the Faculty Enhancement Awards to invest in the future of promising researchers early in their careers.
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New York Times bestselling author ofManhunt James L. Swanson creates anadaptation for young people of his adultbook Bloody Crimes, a suspense-filledthriller that sheds light on two fallen leadersof the North and South. One man, PresidentLincoln, assassinated, on his way to thegrave. Another man, the president of theConfederacy, Jefferson Davis, on the run,soon to be sent to prison. Their actionsforever changed the history of a nation. Onthe morning of April 2, 1865, Davis receiveda telegram from General Robert E. Lee.There is no more time—the Yankees arecoming, it warned. That night Davis fledRichmond, setting off an intense manhuntfor the Confederate president.
Two weeks later, President Lincoln wasassassinated, and the nation was convincedthat Davis was involved in the conspiracy thatled to the crime. Lincoln's murder, autopsy,and White House funeral transfixed thenation. His final journey began when soldiersplaced his corpse aboard a special trainthat would carry him home to Springfield,Illinois. Along the way, more than a millionAmericans looked upon their martyr's face,and several million watched the funeral trainroll by. It was the most magnificent funeralpageant in American history.
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Arctic Grip: Snow, Winds and Cold Combine for Sub-Zero Climes, Dangerous Conditions [Video]
The arctic blast is going to continue its grip on Grand Rapids and West Michigan through Wednesday, the National Weather Service's Grand Rapids office said Monday afternoon.
Snow and windy conditions are creating near-blizzard conditions and sub-zero temperatures with wind chills in the minus-20 degree range with a winter storm advisory across greater Grand Rapids and West Michigan. Highs are only expected to reach the single digits up to 10 degrees.
Schools, businesses and government offices are closed for Monday and Tuesday.
People are being asked to stay off roads and not travel, if at all possible.
Snowfall over the weekend for a 48-hour period through this morning was 12.2 inches near Hastings; 11.8 inches in Kalamazoo; 10.8 inches in Hopkins; and nearly 9 inches on Grand Valley State University's Allendale campus, in Dutton and East Grand Rapids, the National Weather Service reported. Six inches fell in Holland and Muskegon.
Snow showers. Areas of blowing snow. Snow accumulation 1 to 4 inches. Highs 5 to 10 above. West winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts to around 40 mph. Chance of snow 100 percent. Wind chill readings as low as minus 22.
The forecast today is calling for snow showers, with accumulations of one to three inches. The lows expected to reach near 5 below zero, with winds of 15 to 20 miles per hour and gusting to about 30 mph generating wind chills of up to 26 below zero.
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On Wednesday, more snow is expected with a 30 percent chance. Highs are to reach the upper teens and lows zero to 5 above.
The state's Emergency Operations Center was partially activated on Sunday night because of the wintry blast.
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(Hong Kong) Dragonair today (Wednesday, 8 August) announced that today's flights to and from Shanghai, Hangzhou and Ningbo are cancelled, as Strong Typhoon Haikui sweeps through Eastern China and wind speeds exceed operational limits.
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Summer Harvest HuntAugust 29, 2012
Hi folks! Trying to get my blog on with a quickie post about The Ego Co.'s latest hunt, the Summer Harvest Hunt. The hunt runs from September 1 – 21 and features items that hope to invoke a feeling of cooler, lazy days before autumn ushers in the crisp bite of the winter months. The poses, pants and jewelry are all hunt gifts.
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Tee | Tres Blah – Half Tucked Tee (Off White, August Colabor88)
Pants | Evolve – Patched Cords (Pumpkin Pie)
Hair | Exile – Sober (Raven)
Skin | Tres Blah – Adored (Light, C88 Redux)
Eyes | Vision by A:S:S – Herbalist Eyes (Ocimum)
Jewelry | Sweet Leonard – Autumn Whispering Necklace and Ring
Freckles | Tres Blah – Freckles
Makeup | Cheap Makeup – Vintage Lash 1
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I have followed Lisa Congdon through social media channels, watched her success, and admired her process. She is generous with what she shares. She knows how she wants to be represented in the market, and firmly stands for it. She tenaciously continues to build a very strong personal brand with great integrity. The fact that she immediately took on sharing this situation over social media is a huge game changer, huge. And one that couldn't have unfolded the same way if she hadn't built the solid foundation & brand strength that she has done. At this point of writing, her blog post alone has been shared on fb over 233K times, and retweeted over 23K times. That's visibility that didn't used to be possible at all. And that's Brave. Below is a perfect Eleanor Roosevelt quote by brought to life by Miz Congdon's hand.. I think she perfectly illustrated the importance of this conversation.
"When you adopt the standard and values of someone else...
You surrender your own integrity.
You become, to the extent of your surrender,
less of a human being."
-Eleanor Roosevelt
Copying. Just don't. It's as simple as that. Simple. It seems that it should be, right?
But apparently it's NOT. This is nothing-nothing-nothing new. It has been going on since the dawn of time. The second guy to make a wheel probably copied it from the first guy to make a wheel.
But did he ask? Did he put his own spin on it? Did he credit his friend?
"Art is either plagiarism or revolution" -Gauguin
"If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be called down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be called up as erudition."-CC Colton
We get our ideas from a million different places. I made my own art. Products made from my hand. Did I think of it all by myself out of my head? Of course I did. The very first piece I made was because I was inspired by something that I saw. But did not copy. It came out of my life experiences & inspirations. I made a living from my art. I sold my work in to small galleries & boutiques nationally. It was in magazines. It was in books. It was seen. Did I live through the anguish of having someone copy my art? Yes indeed. The first time it happened I literally got sick. Eventually my work was copied by a wholesaler who knew I was too small to do anything about it. This was years & years ago. Before Etsy, before social media. So you just talked about it to your friends, or maybe a lawyer. It was a small frustrating cloud of knowledge shared. It was learning how to differentiate yourself & move forward. These experiences taught me a lot. They brought small artists & wholesalers together, made us family. Then & now. Because we all experienced similar growing pains & experiences.
I knew, early on, that I would never be a copier. In any way. And I would fight the same fight for others, and educate. I am conscious of it all the time. We have to be aware. We have to speak up. In every industry it happens. Food. Music. Words. Wherever there is an original thought, it can be borrowed, innocently or not.
Individuality drove how my Mom & I chose product for our retail store, Tantau. It was important for us to be distinctive. We wouldn't buy from companies who we knew copied. I learned from that. It drove me to create, with Artist Aaron Foster, our wildly fun & successful wholesale business, Relish. We represented small artists nationally & internationally. We became known for the fact that we would always have something unique and different, we could always be counted on for handmade, unusual, fun. I would coax the artist from retail into wholesale, from local street fairs to the Halls of Harrods. ("So you can only make 40? We'll sell 40! To Sundance!) Retailers knew they could come to Relish and have something that would set them apart. I am forever proud of that stance.
In fact, one of those small artists Relish represented was Cody Foster. He made amazing things on his own, he has a fabulous curators eye & intuitive talent. He had started finding great vintage things to reproduce. We took more orders than he could even produce. It was crazy busy & exciting, that first time we showed his line on the Piers in New York. That was 2001. That's how companies grow. That's how they begin. How they choose to continue, has to sit on their own conscience. That has to be owned & directed by what they feel is right. Integrity goes a very long way. I'm very sorry he didn't grow with the same personal individuality his business started with. It undermines what is Brave.
I eventually took my entrepreneurial self to the halls of corporate. I wanted to learn more about manufacturing, about how my wire pieces could've actually been made in China or India. About how all those products out there were created. What these companies already did well. What they did or didn't take time for. As a small artist I couldn't fathom it. And as the Creative Director of a large company, I could learn. And I did, oh I did.
I thought Corporate would have it figured out. I thought they'd know about originality and integrity. For the most part, many do, but many more don't. That's why I chose to work for the two companies that I worked for. But still, things would show up on style boards that was ART by people I KNEW! It happens every day, worldwide. And it would lead to conversations & the potential of product, sometimes. I questioned & stopped many things along the way. And these were innocent idea threads, not planned plagiarism at all. But honestly, I think especially when people on the inside haven't had to sit in their dining room & make art & try to figure out how to sell it all on their own, they don't really think all that through. Just my take on it. When I started with the largest company I worked for, within week-one I taken a stand & had a gift bag pulled from production. Because I knew who's idea it was originally. And I knew it could cost both sides. You can't be afraid to stand for what you know is right. It's a big company. It had slipped through, and no one knew it wasn't designed from within, because of all the layers. And bear in mind, they educated every employee on plagiarism. Everyone watched a long video & participated in conversation about it & signed off that they would never. Refreshing, actually. But it's life, and ideas flow, and sometimes people aproach the gathering of ideas less stringently than others. Images are absolutely everywhere today. Things happen. We have to stand for awareness & promote it, take steps to educate & know where things come from.
West Elm has separated themselves from the norm. Over the past few years they have been paying attention. Taking risks. They partnered with Etsy to showcase Etsy artists.
They have figured out how to incorporate these works into their product mix both locally & in their catalogs. It's admirable, & it isn't easy. To pull key product from a tightly developed mix right before the holidays, is saying that they are firmly standing for this point of view. I think that's fantastic. I didn't expect it. It's one of the things that will take the conversation about originality to the retail level. Good for you, West Elm. There are some Brave people in that corporate office. With admirable integrity. Stay the course.
I 'm fascinated by social media & it's reach & strength. It's a powerful platform. I get new ideas & find new artists every day. It's what I DO. I'm passionate about it. I've been there. I am you. I work with small businesses & artists to help them get to places they didn't think they could. I know it can happen. And now I work again for a seasonal gift decor company, and a home decor company. I was asked to come in & help them regain a solid unique stance in the market. An exciting proposition. We have an outstanding team of in house artists, and we get to find & license & create product for many Independent Creatives. I love this part. It ties in to my experience, my passion, & others get exposure.
Live by what you know is right. Be BRAVE. Work with passion. Do what you love. Do it with your own personal integrity, and this will shine through. Always. It will win. You will.
Stand on your hands. Sing out loud.
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Eredivisie: Ajax's rivals hope speculation over De Boer unsettles Amsterdam giants
Vitesse Arnhem and FC Twente will be hoping the speculation surrounding Frank de Boer will unsettle Ajax this weekend.
Last Updated: 20/12/13 11:14am
Vitesse are currently top - two points ahead of Ajax - with a trip to Heracles ahead of them on Saturday by which point they may have been dislodged with Twente facing RKC Waalwijk on Friday.
De Boer has been heavily linked with Premier League side Tottenham who are searching for a new manager following the sacking of Andre Villas-Boas on Monday.
His agent Guido Albers played down the speculation and told Voetbal International: "Through various channels it has become clear to me that Spurs are interested, but the club has not approached Ajax.
"So for us there is not much to say about it. Frank focuses entirely on Ajax."
Leaders Vitesse Arnhem will be looking to take advantage of any slip by Ajax while also asking for an immediate response to their exit from the KNVB Beker when they travel to Heracles.
Vitesse went down 3-1 to Roda JC on Wednesday night, a surprising result given their respective positions in the league as well as their recent form.
Peter Bosz's side have enjoyed six successive victories in the league while Roda have suffered three defeats in a row but there were few complaints from the leaders.
Bosz told Omroep Gelderland: "Roda were much better.
"I noticed after a few minutes that the team was not good. We lost almost all the duels."
Neither did he give any credence to the notion the team were tired, saying: "Nonsense. If in a week you can not play three games you should choose another profession.
"Then you bring it on yourself."
Were Twente to win on Friday they would go top on goal difference although they now face opponents who have two wins and two draws from their last four matches.
Twente though are on a run of four successive wins themselves and it is an intriguing tussle.
Ajax - currently second - do not play until Sunday when they travel to face Roda.
The Amsterdam side have won their last five games and scored 16 goals in the process while conceding just one.
However, the hosts will be hoping the speculation surrounding De Boer's future will have an unsettling effect.
Feyenoord are three points behind Ajax and have a home game against FC Zwolle, who are looking for their first win since October 20.
After that, just 11 points separate Heerenveen in fifth and bottom side NEC Breda.
Heerenveen travel to AZ Alkmaar who will leapfrog their visitors with victory.
The other game on Saturday sees NAC take on second bottom SC Cambuur Leeuwarden.
The remaining three matches on Sunday see PSV Eindhoven host ADO Den Haag, FC Groningen face bottom side NEC and Go Ahead Eagles play FC Utrecht.


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Working in physics: Rewards of renewables
Thanks to concerns about carbon emissions and the rising price of fossil fuels, the green-energy industry is currently experiencing huge growth worldwide. This presents plenty of interesting and lucrative opportunities for physicists, as Gregory McNamee describes.
In 1987 an American-style fridge freezer would use about 950 kW h of electricity and cost about $150 (£80) a year to run. Two decades on, a comparable appliance uses half the electricity and costs less than half as much to run. In 1975 there were about 3,780,000 cars on the streets of Los Angeles, whereas today there are more than 5,200,000 — yet air-pollution levels have fallen by half and an increasing number of those vehicles are hybrids or rely on renewable fuels like biodiesel. Last year, half a million homes in Southern California were receiving direct solar power, either from solar electricity plants or from rooftop photovoltaic panels.
These are changing times. Students, workers, consumers, business leaders and government officials are increasingly aware that we humans have been placing enormous stresses on the environment, as global warming, water shortages, mass extinctions of plant and animal species, and the dwindling supply of fossil fuels attest.
But in all times of trouble and uncertainty there are opportunities. People all over the world are increasingly realizing that we can bring the most important power of all to bear on the problem of where our power comes from — brain power. Physics graduates have an abundance of this eminently renewable resource and are skilled at problem-solving. Indeed, the world awaiting the class of 2008 and beyond is, for all its dark clouds, full of opportunities in almost every niche of the renewable-energy business.
According to the Environmental Business Journal, the green industry in the US in 2005 was worth about $265 bn and employed 1.6 million people. Green businesses in the country have been growing at a rate of about 5% annually since then. The All-Renewable Index (ARI), an economic gauge of activity in that sector, projects steady growth even as most other areas of the international economy would seem to be cooling, while business leaders throughout the alternative-energy sector are reporting that there are simply not enough educated applicants to fill the available jobs.
Earth, wind and fire
Although it contributes a comparatively small amount of energy to the present mix, the solar industry is growing in importance. Firms that specialize in photovoltaic research, such as Switzerland's Unaxis and Germany's Sulfurcell, report a need for clear-thinking problem-solvers to make ever more efficient systems. Condensed-matter and materials physicists are particularly sought after in this area. For example, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory of the US Department of Energy recently advertised a postdoctoral fellowship in photovoltaics, which was to be awarded to a recent physics PhD with "a strong background in ink-based materials, solution patterning, liquid processing and thin film deposition". According to the Economics Research Institute, as of December 2007 a PhD physicist working in the solar-industry field could expect to earn an annual salary of about $80,000–$120,000.
As a comparatively new field, wind energy has not yet settled into easily defined career paths. As is true elsewhere in renewables, a technician is often expected to know something of the big picture, with an understanding of trends in the business and of promising research. A salesperson, similarly, needs at least a basic understanding of the technologies involved and of the challenges and benefits associated with, say, putting a wind turbine in place, while a technical writer will need to know about pretty much everything in the wind-power business, almost as much as a chief executive officer.
An engineer or physicist working in wind power certainly needs to have practical grounding in how a system that looks good on paper can be built and maintained without bringing the people who do that work to despair. In short, a successful career in wind energy is going to involve a little bit of everything. A person with wide-ranging interests and abilities will thrive in this new green-collar world, and physics is an ideal training ground — particularly since some of the major problems in the field lie in understanding the physics of moving air and its interaction with motors and turbines.
Similarly, well-rounded geophysicists are in great demand in the growing field of geothermal energy, and in the US can command annual salaries of up to $135,000. Countries such as Canada, Iceland, Italy, Japan and New Zealand have been at the forefront of geothermal development, but the industry is rapidly growing elsewhere, especially in the US and Scandinavia. Hydroelectric power and marine energy also offer many opportunities for physicists, along with some of the most vexing challenges — for example, no one has quite figured out how to harness the inexhaustible power of oceanic tides. The ideal candidate to solve that puzzle might hold a degree in physics and have a solid understanding of geophysics, mechanics, materials, aquatic biology, atmospheric sciences, oceanography, geology, mathematics and computer science — not necessarily all these fields, mind you, but at least a number of them in combination.
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Nuclear energy, strictly speaking, is alternative but non-renewable. For many reasons it is also controversial. Still, it is part of the energy mix that is likely to become more important, at least in the near term, until other, truly renewable forms of energy production are brought on-stream. In the US alone, the nuclear industry will need at least 90,000 professionals in the next 10 years simply to replace retirees; France, Italy and several Eastern European nations project similar growth as their nuclear plants are revived or renovated, even as other European nations (particularly Germany and Spain) have committed to phasing out nuclear power. For the moment, it would appear that nuclear plants will continue to operate in the UK, with plentiful opportunities. Nuclear physicists are at a premium, with median annual earnings for those working in the US of $81,350 in 2007.
Hydrogen power is increasingly important, particularly in the automotive industry. A promising area of research is the use of photochemical molecular devices to produce hydrogen gas from water. Hydrogen power is also being used to provide building heat as well as electrical energy, in the UK at least. Research scientists within the field can expect salaries that begin at just over $51,000 and rise to about $100,000.
Physicists have every opportunity to flourish in the renewable-energy field, in these and in many other areas, including energy management, building design, "green transportation", life-cycle engineering and energy education. As Scott Sklar, president of energy consultancy The Stella Group, notes: "The green industries are growing at an unforeseen rate, and they are concerned with meeting their growth potential." Physicists can help them do so — and enjoy a seller's market at the same time.
About the author
Gregory McNamee is a freelance writer based in Tucson, Arizona. His latest book, Careers in Renewable Energy, was published by PixyJack Press earlier this year.
Related Physics World articles
- Bright outlook for solar cells (in depth)
- The hydrogen economy blasts off (in depth)
- A new dawn for nuclear power (in depth)
- Do we need nuclear power? (in depth)
This article originally appeared in the September 2008 issue of Physics World
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"The ability to use recovered landfill gas to fuel our hauling fleet offers significant environmental benefits to the communities we serve in California and is a great example of how we are committed to recovering resources in waste." –Duane Woods, senior vice president for Waste Management's Western Group
One of the most enticing alternative fuel concepts these days is the conversion of the methane produced by rotting landfill trash into liquefied natural gas (LNG) that can, in turn, power a variety of heavy trucks.
Refuse companies have worked for years to make this concept a reality and it's not hard to understand why. I mean, they get paid by consumers and businesses alike to haul away the very trash that could in turn be processed at their very own landfills into the fuel powering the trucks picking up the garbage in the first place.
"Basically, your landfill becomes your own little Saudi Arabia," David McKenna, product marketing manager for engines, transmissions and axles for Mack Trucks, told me a few years ago. "And when diesel fuel is costing $2.40 to $2.80 a gallon, it suddenly becomes much more economical on a long-term basis to be able to make your own fuel."
Waste Management is one of those refuse companies that's worked hard over the years to try and find a way to economically produce fuel from the waste gas given off by their landfills (while also working with Mack to fine-tune LNG-powered refuse trucks along the way).
Now it seems WM may have finally made it happen. Working in partnership with Linde North America, part of The Linde Group, WM recently opened a landfill gas collection and refining plant at its Altamont Landfill near Livermore, California.
The plant, which Linde built and operates, purifies and liquefies landfill gas that WM collects from the natural decomposition of organic waste in the landfill. The plant is designed to produce up to 13,000 gallons of LNG a day – enough to fuel 300 of WM's 485 LNG-powered waste and recycling collection vehicles in 20 California communities. Since the commissioning process began in September, the Altamont plant – currently the world's largest landfill gas (LFG) to liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility – has produced 200,000 gallons of LNG, WM said.
[A video clip about this novel LFG-to-LNG facility is below.]
"The Altamont LFG-to-LNG facility enables us to recover and utilize a valuable source of clean energy in another practical way, reducing our dependence on fossil fuels," said Duane Woods, senior vice president for Waste Management's Western Group. "We've been working for 8 years to achieve this. Landfill-gas-derived LNG is a super ultra-low carbon fuel, as designated by the California Air Resources Board (CARB) and the Altamont project is expected to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by nearly 30,000 tons a year."
[It should also be noted that four California agencies contributed to the $15.5 million WM/Linde project, including the California Integrated Waste Management Board, CARB, the California Energy Commission and the South Coast Air Quality Management District – significantly lowering the research and development cost burden for WM and Linde.]
While WM's Altamont plant marks the first step in using landfill gas to ultimately power vehicles, it's not the first – nor the last – such effort to create usable energy from landfill waste.
Back in 2005, SC Johnson added a landfill-gas powered turbine to its largest manufacturing facility, the 2.2 million-square-foot Waxdale manufacturing plant in Racine, WI, to help it generate a total of 6.4 megawatts of electrical power, while also recovering heat from the turbines' exhaust to produce nearly 40,000 pounds per hour of plant steam to help heat the facility.
SC Johnson embarked on the co-generation plan in 2003 with the start up of the first turbine, powered solely by waste methane. After its first year of operation, Waxdale's emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases (GHGs) dropped 47%, while fossil fuel energy declined by 50%.
"The second turbine will reduce our greenhouse gas emissions by an additional 20,000 tons per year, bringing total emissions reductions from the co-generation system to 52,000 tons per year," said Scott Johnson, SC Johnson's vice president of global environmental and safety actions. "That's equivalent to the amount of GHGs generated by 5,200 automobiles annually."
[Below is a fun little video about how this "co-generation" process works at the Waxdale facility.]
Indeed, WM has been operating such LFG-to-electricity plants for some time now, operating 108 of these plants nationwide, including three alone in the Dallas/Ft. Worth (DFW) area. All told, these facilities provide the equivalent of nearly 500 megawatts of electricity – enough to power more than 400,000 homes, which is the equivalent to saving nearly seven million barrels of oil per year.
The process to convert landfill gas to energy is fairly simply, explained WM. It begins with the disposal of organic-rich solid waste into a landfill. As the waste decomposes, gas is produced and recovered by a series of extraction wells placed into the landfill. The wells are interconnected by a common collection system that transports the gas to a compression facility. There, the gas is processed to remove moisture before being delivered as fuel to an internal combustion engine, which drives a generator to produce electricity or a truck that picks up trash.
Though this is only a first step down the particular alternative fuel path, it's nonetheless a pretty exciting one – and may be but one reason some experts believe oil demand is not only going to go down and stay down in the future, but may become less pricey as well. But, again, this is only the first of many steps – we've still got a ways to go to making landfill gas a consistent and reliable source of vehicle fuel.


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One of the world's greatest entrepreneurs talks about his typically ambitious latest plans and offers a one-word summary of his life today.
Sir Richard Branson, estimated to be worth almost $5 billion, presides over approximately 100 Virgin Group companies with 60,000 employees in more than 50 countries. He is the only person to have built eight billion-dollar businesses in eight different sectors. His latest venture is Virgin Galactic, the world's first commercial space line, which he says will begin operating flights this year.
It's hard to believe that when Sir Richard was eight years old, he stuttered, couldn't read and was dyslexic. At 16, he left school to found a liberal magazine that he ran from a church crypt with two coffins as furniture. His headmaster predicted he would either go to prison or become a millionaire. At 17, Sir Richard started a Student Advisory Center to help pupils facing difficult issues, the first of his many philanthropic endeavors, which today include Virgin Unite.
In 1970, he began selling records at reduced prices through a mail-order business he called Virgin because he and his staff were so new to business. Two years later, he founded Virgin Records, which became the biggest independent label in the world with such artists as the Rolling Stones, the Sex Pistols and Phil Collins. In 1984, despite attempts by British Airways to squelch it, Branson founded Virgin Atlantic Airways, the first of many travel-related Virgin companies.
Sir Richard, who has more than 11.5 million followers across five online social networks, is a daredevil adventurer who holds records for the fastest Atlantic Ocean boat crossing and for hot-air ballooning across two oceans. He has written six books, including his autobiography Losing My Virginity. Charles, Prince of Wales, knighted him in 2000.
When we met Sir Richard, he was dressed in his typical business uniform—T-shirt, shorts and sandals—and was sitting on the terrace of his home on Necker, the Caribbean island he owns. From the way he checked the wind and looked out longingly towards the sea, we suspected he would rather be out kite surfing, but he sat still long enough for this interview.
For the last decade, you've been focusing on the Virgin brand globally. So what's next for you?
I'm very involved with the space program; it's become a personal passion. Of all the things that Virgin has done, this will be the most earth-shattering—or space-shattering. We've got 700 people signed up and we'll be in space in the early part of 2014, the culmination of 10 years of hard work. We'll also be putting satellites into space at a fraction of the current price and that will make a big difference back here on Earth because we'll be able to dramatically reduce the cost of telephone and Internet access. We're starting with short flights but in time we'll do deep space exploration and hotels in space. There's a big, exciting future.
How long will the Virgin Galactic ride be?
The initial flights will be about three hours. Then we'll be building spaceships that will be for two- or three-week flights.
And you are calling the people who go up with Virgin Galactic "astronauts"?
Yes. They are the pioneers enabling us to build the spaceship program, and we've become like a big family. We have sort of a Virgin Galactic club and we now have a charity run by the astronauts, which is trying to help young people get science degrees who can't afford [the cost].
Do you think that intergalactic space will offer opportunities for business aviation?
Yes. One of the first things we'll be doing is offering smaller business jets. Within the next decade we'll be flying people to Australia from New York in about two hours, developing spaceships that will cross continents outside the Earth's atmosphere and then pop them back into the atmosphere. Then we'll move on to much bigger commercial jets [traveling] at many times the speed of sound.
So will you be starting a business charter space company?
I'm not sure we will start our own charter company, but we'll definitely work with charter companies. We designed our initial spaceship with wings on purpose, rather than it being a conventional ground-based rocket, which is what our rivals are designing. By having the wings of an airplane, the next step is to take it point-to-point.
What happened to Virgin Charter [which Branson launched in 2008]?
The timing was not great. We ran straight into the worst recession for charter, which is unfortunate. We try things, and if it doesn't work out, we cut our losses quite quickly. I think we were a little ahead of our time. Maybe if we had hung in there it would've worked. But I don't look backwards. I move on.
How often do you fly?
I suppose I'm flying six months of the year. The day before yesterday, I came from Johannesburg and spent 24 hours in airplanes. I fly my longer flights on Virgin Atlantic—it's important that I spend time with the staff and passengers. For more complicated flights, I'll jump on a smaller plane.
What airplane do you own?
A Falcon 50EX. I need a small plane just to get out of the British Virgin Islands. And I use that for shorter distances. [Branson had owned a Falcon 900EX but sold it not long ago.—Ed.]
So the trips that you take on your Falcon are mainly business trips?
Business or charity. I try to raise $10 million each year for charity by doing about 25 speeches all over the world.
How has business aviation aided your career?
It saves time and gives me flexibility.
What would you say is your managerial style?
I think I'm a good delegator. I look for great people who are good with people. I look for the best in people, I don't criticize, and I'm a great believer in forgiving when people mess up. I look for those who inspire others and try to make sure that everything we do is the best in its field. If you create the best, then your staff believe in what you're doing 100 percent and they'll work to make sure it succeeds. And I think people seek out the best.
You said in your book that you could know in 30 seconds about a person's character. How?
I've changed my mind about that. I used to think that I could sum somebody up in 30 seconds, and often in business, you have to make decisions quickly. But I've learned that that's a mistake. People can be quite shy or diffident when you first meet them, but underneath they can be really special. So I take back what I said in my book and I'll put it right in my next book.
Virgin Limited Edition [a collection of vacation retreats] has seven properties. Do you plan to open more?
I was in South Africa last week and I looked at a beautiful vineyard. I love creating these kinds of places, so we will definitely continue to do so.
You always start by creating a family home, and then you open them up to paying guests. Why not keep them private?
I think it would be a terrible waste just to have them sitting empty for many months of the year, and it wouldn't be much fun for the staff. We have a lovely home on Necker, which we use to relax, but I also work from here. I sit in my hammock and hopefully conceive some big, good ideas. We meet some absolutely fascinating people here, whether it's Larry Page from Google or Jack Dorsey from Twitter or Bill Gates. It's a big magnet, which attracts interesting people, and those interesting people help make the world go around.
What is it about Necker that resonates so much with you?
There's no more beautiful place to live. You look out and you don't see another house. And there are more species on these 72 acres than on any Galápagos island. We get the humpback whales once a year, in December, and that's special. I wake up every morning here at 5:30, which I'd never do in Europe. I play tennis, go kite surfing when the wind's right, go sailing, surfing, swimming. Life is richer and funner for living here.
What's the most important thing you're teaching your children?
I think they're both beyond the stage of being taught anything. I like to think they're grounded. They want to make a difference, and they're great fun to be around. We do an adventure together every year. Last year we climbed Mount Blanc, the year before we kite-surfed across the English Channel, and next year we may climb the Matterhorn. We'll be going into space together.
What will be your legacy?
Well, I hope I would have made a positive difference in a number of areas. I think quite a lot of entrepreneurs look up to entrepreneurs like myself and hopefully they've learned a bit. I hope that our not-for-profits can solve some world conflicts—one of our Elders is trying to solve the Syrian crisis. [The Elders is an international organization of political leaders and peace and human-rights activists that Branson cofounded with Nelson Mandela and rock star Peter Gabriel.] Others have suggested that the Russians and Syrians give up their chemical weapons, and that helped avoid the bombing. I think hopefully we can make a difference in some of these areas.
What's the biggest lesson you've ever learned?
I've spent time with Archbishop Tutu and Nelson Mandela, and they taught me the act of forgiveness. One of the first things that Nelson Mandela did when he got out of prison was invite the man who had sentenced him to life in prison and the judge to dinner. That's after he'd spent 28 years in prison. So when we won a big court case against British Airways, one of the first things I did was invite Sir Colin Marshall, the chairman of BA, to lunch and we became friends. I think if you fall out with somebody, life's too short to have enemies. It's important to befriend your enemies.
Why do you keep working when you could be enjoying retirement?
I love keeping my mind active. And I think if you get into a position in life where you can make a difference, it'd be horrible to waste that position. There are so many situations in the world that need addressing. I can pick up the phone and get through to pretty much anybody and I don't want to waste that unique position.
Leadership is what to you?
Leadership is making a positive difference and inspiring a team, getting them to believe in what you're asking them to do. There's no point in being a leader unless you create something worth leading, and I think we've managed to do that.
Where do you see the Virgin brand 10 years from today?
My aim has always been to make it the most respected brand in the world, not the biggest. If we can pull off the space program, I think that will hopefully seal that.
What do you want to accomplish before you retire?
I won't ever retire, so it's more before I die. I'd love to make a difference on getting the globe on the right footing as far as global warming is concerned. I'd love to make a difference in trying to lessen the number of conflicts that take place every decade. I'd love to make a difference in protecting some of the species in the world that are in critical danger and to persuade governments to treat their children better when they suffer from issues like drug problems and, instead of imprisoning them, help them to overcome their problems.
You said in your book that your first 43 years were about survival, but the book ended in 1993 when you sold Virgin Music. If you had to describe your life today in one word, what would it be?
NAME: Sir Richard Branson
BIRTHDATE: July 18, 1950 (age 63)
POSITION: Founder and chairman of the Virgin Group
EDUCATION: Stowe School, a British boarding school, which Branson left at age 16
TRANSPORTATION: Uses Virgin Atlantic for most long flights and his own Falcon 50EX for routes the airline doesn't cover. Also owns spaceships and plans to fly in one of them. (One Virgin Atlantic airplane is named "My Other Ride's a Spaceship.")
PERSONAL: Married for 24 years to Joan Templeman Branson. Two grown children, Holly and Sam. Leisure pursuits include kite-surfing, surfing and tennis.
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NEW YORK, Feb 20 (Reuters) - Robin Roberts, a co-host of
ABC's "Good Morning America," returned to the popular morning
news show on Wednesday, five months after a bone-marrow
transplant for a rare blood disorder that was triggered by
cancer treatment.
Roberts, 52, was welcomed back with a special edition of the
show that began with a taped message from President Barack Obama
and his wife, Michelle.
"Good morning, America, and welcome back, Robin," the first
lady said.
Roberts said she had waited 174 days to return to the show
and was pinching herself so she knew it was real.
"This is really happening," she said. "Faith, family and
friends have brought me to this moment and I am so full of
Roberts took a medical leave of absence in August to fight
the blood disorder myelodysplastic syndrome. Five years earlier
she had been treated for breast cancer.
ABC News announced that Roberts will interview Mrs. Obama
later this week for next Tuesday's show. The first lady's
program to fight childhood obesity will be among the topics.
"Robin, we just want you to know that the whole Obama
family, we've been thinking about you and praying for you and
rooting for you every step of the way," Mrs. Obama said in the
Oprah and former U.S Secretary of State Hillary Clinton were
among the celebrities who offered Roberts their best wishes on
her return to "Good Morning America," which has bumped NBC's
"Today" show from the top spot in the ratings last year.
The show has remained ahead while Roberts was away as guests
co-hosts filled in for her.
Roberts said she first realized something was wrong with her
health a year ago while covering the Academy Awards in Los
Angeles. She saw a doctor after suffering from exhaustion and
the blood disorder was discovered.
Her doctors said they will monitor her condition to make
sure she does not overdo it. The nurses and doctors who cared
for her were on the show Wednesday, along with her siblings and
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Piedmont sitting at the foot of the mountains is justly regarded as one of, if not the finest wine growing region in Italy. The noblest grape found in the region in undoubtedly Nebbiolo, with the DOCG's of Barolo and Barbaresco at the forefront of production. Barbera and Dolcetto come in second and third, and being earlier ripening are often found located on those sides of the hills that receive less sunshine. The wines from Piedmont are intrinsically food friendly wines, a fact understandable given the culinary strength of the area.
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Casual yet elegant, Rim Talay restaurant is caressed by sea breezes and looks out over the glittering waters of Patong bay. Serving both an international buffet and an à la carte menu of delicious continental food, this Phuket restaurant ensures that no one in the family will be lacking for choice. Join us in the mornings for a decadent full breakfast spread and watch the island awaken with colour.
During the day, the open-air restaurant at Amari Phuket also doubles a pool bar so you can enjoy a signature cocktail or a cold beer while you lounge in the sun.


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- PowerPoint 2010 lets you use your mouse as a pointer, so there's no need to brandish two devices. Check out the steps involved in this post from the How-to Geek.
- 17 memory tricks you need to know sounds like one we could all use, and not just for public speaking. Here's the article from Manage Your Life.
- You can view presentations or attend a presentation broadcast on your mobile phone -- the former is a nice trick for practicing in odd moments. The PowerPoint blog shares how, here.
- Do you have a SlideShare strategy? Or are you just not sure how to use it? Check out this article from Social Media Snippets, with ideas and resources. As a reminder, you can upload your presentations to SlideShare using a special tab on The Eloquent Woman on Facebook.
- More tips for dealing with a conference backchannel on Twitter, from Tim Nekritz, based on a recent conference experience, with a hat tip to Joe Bonner for pointing me to this.
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Having worked on CORBA for quite a number of years, I decided in 2002 that I wanted to explore more advanced and elegant ways of developing distributed applications. The result is Ice (Internet Communications Engine), a new middleware that is more powerful and easier to use than CORBA. Distributed Programming with Ice is a tutorial and reference for this new middleware.
This article was published in Jan 2004 in IEEE Internet Computing; it describes Ice in a few pages and is a quick way to get acquainted with some of its features before delving into the documentation.
This article was published in Feb 2004 in ACM Queue Magazine; it describes how a massively multiplayer online game called Wish uses Ice for its communication needs, and how the scalability requirements of the game influenced the design of Ice.
This article was published in June 2006 in ACM Queue Magazine; it discusses some of the reasons why CORBA ultimately turned out to be a failure.
This article was published in June 2007 in ACM Queue Magazine; it describes the current sad state of API design, suggests how to do better, and outlines cultural changes we need to make in order to get over the API malaise.
Steve Vinoski and I have written a CORBA book called Advanced CORBA Programming with C++, published by Addison Wesley Longman.
DynAny mapping.
This bibliography includes a few other bits and pieces I have written over the years.
Frequently, people ask me how to pronounce my name. Quite a lot of speculation has been circulating around this topic, including musings about the relative "gutturalness" of the Scottish "ch" (as in "Loch") versus the Bavarian "ch" (as in "Kochtopf" ;-) To settle the argument once and for all, I decided to put up a wave file with myself speaking my name. I figured that this would be the definitive answer to how to pronounce my name, seeing (or, more accurately, hearing) that this is how I pronounce it myself.


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< Architectures | ARM | Using
The easiest way to get started is to download a prebuilt root filesystem built from F12 packages that includes yum. This is suitable to chroot into, and then installing additional packages as needed using yum. You will also need a suitable kernel for your device. Below is a list of guides for installing Fedora on specific ARM hardware or through emulation.
- Using Fedora ARM with Qemu
- Using Fedora ARM with Sheevaplug
- Using Fedora ARM on a Sheevaplug from USB drive
- Using Fedora ARM on a Sheevaplug with the rootfs on a SD Card
- Using Fedora ARM on a BeagleBoard-xM with the rootfs on a SD Card
- Installing Fedora ARM on a Sheevaplug
- Installing Fedora ARM on a Guruplug
- Installing Fedora ARM on a Beagleboard
- Installing Fedora ARM on a Pogoplug
- Installing Fedora ARM on TrimSlice PRO
If you have additional questions, would like to become involved or share your experiences using Fedora on ARM you can drop by #fedora-arm on IRC Freenode. Or join the Fedora ARM mailing list:
- Mailing list: firstname.lastname@example.com (archives)
Fedora ARM 资源库
The work to date is available from: ftp.linux.org.uk.
最新 发行版: Fedora 12
The following is available for F12:
- A set of patches necessary to make Fedora packages build for ARM.
- A set of binary RPMs from the base F12 repository, but no updates repository. Source RPMS are currently unavailable.
- A prebuilt root filesystem to help you get started quickly. (Default root password is "fedoraarm")
旧的 Fedora 发行版
See this page.
We also provide:
- an ARM cross toolchain, built from Fedora sources.
- a utility called Rfsbuild for building ARM Root File Systems.
- Script to build prebuilt root filesystems


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GOP's money problem: Age
The Republican Party's on the hunt ahead of 2016 for younger voters — and younger megadonors.
Conservative super PACs were dealt a blow in the past nine months, when two of their biggest benefactors died, Texas billionaires Harold Simmons and Bob Perry.
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Combined, the two men, who were the second- and third-biggest donors behind the Adelsons in the 2012 elections, gave nearly $50 million last cycle — that's more money than the next 10 Republican donors combined.
( Also on POLITICO: Why the GOP could win it all in 2014)
The void the two leave behind represents an even bigger problem for the Republican Party: just as it struggles to attract younger voters, it also must win over younger elite donors.
Insiders fear that if it can't, Republicans risk losing ground in the big money race to Democrats, who already rely on younger supporters to fuel their super PACs.
"People are obviously anxious to move on from the past," said Kent Burton, who bundled money for Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential campaign. "Of course, we want more young people involved. The party is for economic growth and opportunity for all. We believe that our party has more to offer the younger people — and even minorities — than the Democrats."
Burton said he believes others will step up to help fill the void.
( Also on POLITICO: Poll: GOP excited for midterms)
"There are significant contributors who will be willing to step in. I think there will be resources to support the party and there are a lot of reasons to be optimistic," Burton said.
Among the top 10 Republican donors of the 2012 election cycle, only one was under the age of 60 — Peter Thiel, who is 46 – and only three were under 70 – Miriam Adelson, 68; Robert Mercer, 67; and Robert Rowling, 60, according to public records. On the Democratic side, half of the top 10 donors were under 70 and three were under 60.
Other donors believe they haven't yet done an adequate job in making the case to up-and-coming big political contributors.
( Driving the Day: GOP don't want to make themselves the story)
Shaun McCutcheon, another big GOP donor who is the plaintiff in the latest campaign finance Supreme Court case, said the money gap is an issue.
"It's definitely something the party needs to be concerned about," McCutcheon said. "It's an ongoing effort that they are interested in more generally bringing more young people into the party. But most of the conversations I've had are just about getting young people more active in politics, not necessarily from a fundraising point of view. I think they're still counting on more established Republicans to give in a big way. They don't expect to get that much money from younger people."
Still, McCutcheon conceded that "donors in both parties tend to be in the older group because it has to do with where you are in your careers. Major donors are going to be people who are further along in their careers and have been around for a while."
( Also on POLITICO: Key 2014 Senate races for defense sector to watch)
But the numbers aren't insignificant.
Perry and Simmons had been in the giving game for years, kicking in nearly $115 million to Republican candidates, party committees and outside groups since the 1980 election cycle, according to CQ Moneyline. That only includes gifts to groups that must disclose their donors, so their true contributions could be much higher.
Simmons gave $25.8 million to federal candidates, party committees and super PACs during the 2012 election cycle. His wife gave another $1.3 million and his company, Contran Corp. gave $4 million to super PACs.


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Yemeni journalist Abdulelah Haider Shaye blames Obama for his continued imprisonment
From the moment Yemeni journalist Abdulelah Haider Shaye was sentenced to five years in prison in 2011 for allegedly supporting al Qaida's Yemen-based affiliate, his punishment has been controversial – and not just because it represented the jailing of a respected writer and the trial was widely condemned as a sham by groups such as Amnesty International and the Committee to Protect Journalists.
What irks many Yemenis, and free press advocates around the world, is that they believe Shaye remains in jail solely because of pressure from the administration of President Barack Obama.
Shaye repeated the claim in a letter that was made public Monday.
"It's inaccurate to say the Americans imprisoned me because some of them defended and supported me and opposed my detention," Shaye wrote, according to a translation of the letter that was published this week on the Yemen Times' website. "Actually, the only person responsible for kidnapping and detaining me is Obama."
The outcry over Shaye's case is nothing new. But the drama surrounding it seems particularly relevant now, because it melds two of the issues that are swirling around the Obama administration: its targeted killings of suspected terrorists and the accusations of a general disregard for freedom of the press reflected in its aggressive hunt for the sources of government leaks.
Shaye gained fame and attention for his interviews with figures associated with al Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula. Before his arrest and imprisonment, he was best known for revealing, based on his own on-the-ground reporting, that a December 2009 bombing in the village of Majalla in southern Abyan province was not a Yemeni airstrike on an al Qaida training camp, as originally claimed, but an American sea-based missile strike on a Bedouin encampment that killed dozens of civilians, including 14 women and 21 children.
Shaye's ability to garner rare access to leaders of al Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula aroused the suspicion of authorities, and he was arrested in August 2010. After being denied a lawyer and kept in solitary confinement for 34 days, he was taken before a court in late September that year and was charged a month later. His five-year sentence for "participating in an armed group and having links with al Qaida" was handed down in January 2011.
Local and international human rights groups cast his trial as a sham, leading many to claim that his arrest and conviction were politically motivated.
"There's strong indications that the charges against Shaye are trumped up, and that he has been jailed for daring to speak up about U.S. collaboration in a cluster munitions attack which took place in Yemen," Amnesty International said in a 2011 statement.
"What this is really about is his reporting on Majalla and other issues," said Abdulrahman Barman, Shaye's lawyer. "That's why America wants him in jail."
Barman, along with most of Shaye's other supporters, argues that it's ultimately the American government that's keeping his client in jail.
Shortly after Shaye was convicted, then-President Ali Abdullah Saleh was on the verge of pardoning him. Then came a call from Obama. According to the official White House account of the call on Feb. 2, 2011, "President Obama expressed concern over the release of Abd-Ilah al-Shai, who had been sentenced to five years in prison for his association with AQAP." The White House release used an alternate spelling of Shaye's name.
Nearly two and a half years later, Saleh's successor, Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, said he planned to secure Shaye's release. Speaking with reporters May 6 during a meeting with United Nations officials, Hadi left listeners with the impression that Shaye would be freed before Ramadan, the Muslim fasting month, which starts July 8.
Subsequent statements from Yemeni officials have walked back from Hadi's assurances, while an official close to the president – who spoke only on the condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to discuss the issue publicly – blamed differences between Sanaa and the Obama administration for the uncertainty about Shaye's release.
"We remain concerned about al-Shai's potential early release due to his association with Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula," Bernadette Meehan, a National Security Council spokeswoman, said in an email Friday.
Analysts of al Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula claim that to this day, neither the Yemeni nor the American government has offered any substantive evidence to support the charges against Shaye.
"Several officials involved in the case have assured me that the evidence exists," said Gregory Johnsen, a Yemen analyst and author of "The Last Refuge," a recently released book on Yemen and al Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula. "None have been able to explain why it hasn't been presented."
Lesley Clark contributed to this report from Washington.


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My first week of junior high, and I saw this pretty Hispanic girl in my class skillfully rim her eyes with a black eyeliner pencil without using a mirror. I couldn't believe she was so good at it already—it was so grown-up. As a child I use to study the faces of the sales girls that worked the checkout counter of the department store; their thinly drawn eyebrows, heavily eye shadowed lids, and lips perfectly outlined with dark lip-liner. I thought this is what I'll do when I'm older like them, I'll look grown up like this.
By the time I reached high school the dark lip-liner was gone but those masterfully made up girls still existed. Even the girls that came casually dressed in baggy jeans, and t-shirts still had on faces that could give the Kardashians a run for their money. Why did these girls care so much that their faces be painted but not put the same effort into their outfits, I wondered? Even my mother who didn't wear much makeup always paused to put lipstick on and swipe some powder on her face before entering even a grocery store. What is about keeping the face presentable? Is it a Latina cultural thing?
There's this notion I've heard that Latinas are taught from an early age to always look our best for the world, for our men, and for ourselves. While of course I know this doesn't apply to all or only Latinas, I can't help wondering when I see the older mujeres constantly painting their faces if it was something their mami's taught them to do. What makes this cultural ideology intriguing to me is that it conflicts with a societal perspective that pertains one who is concerned with their personal appearance to being vain, which I think is why sometimes I am uneasy about people seeing me apply my makeup. But I don't see these women as vain when I'm look at them, I'm just curious about the motivation behind why it's important for them to do it?
Heavy makeup has always made me feel like a little girl wearing mommy's makeup. Although I was really good at snatching my mother's new lipsticks from her bathroom counter, (she always had the best colors). I never really became an expert at putting makeup on. Somewhere along the line, I don't know if it was my mother always nagging me about putting a little something on my lips, but I became known for always having on bright red lipstick. Now whether wearing simple makeup or none at all, I never go out without my bold colored lips. I don't feel like myself without seeing that pop of color on my lips, it makes me feel pretty. Perhaps this is the motivation for why we do it?
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