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- this electric retractable landing gear can be widely applied to various medium and large-scale aerial photography using multi-axis aircraft . through radio 2 motion switcher to control tripod retracting and lowering action, in order to avoid blocking footage tripod for cameras providing 360-degree horizontal rotation shooting space for multi-axis aircraft aerial photography to provide more good shot experiences.
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- Can be directly fixed on the 16mm/20mm/22mm/25mm multi-axis aircraft fuselage tube (you need buy tube fastener & fixtures seperately)
- Occupy a receiver channel , compatible with all receivers
- Stand on two servos to take power from the receiver , no additional power supply
- Via two motion switches on the radio to control tripod Collapse and Expand
- Collapse and expand electronic angle can be fine-tuning
- Built-in retractable buffer controller slowly
- Hide -and-drop state, both physical locking mechanism to prevent tripod malfunction
- After power , regardless of what state the remote control switch , tripod always default to put down
- Aluminum + Carbon fiber structure, with high reliability and load carrying capacity
- Maximum ground clearance : 400mm
- Weight: about 535+5g (Sent via DHL/FEDEx may takes fees via size 1.5kg)
- Operating voltage :5-6V
- Power consumption : <0.2W ( standby ); <5W ( run-time )
- Controller: Normal receiver
- Main support tube diameter : 25mm
- Bar diameter : 14mm
- Bar length: 500mm
- Tripod split angle: 110 degrees
List of items :
- 2x main support tube
- 2x bar
- 2x aluminum lazytongs
- 2x large torque servos
- 2x buffer controller
- 1x Servo Y line
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First, the tripod Power supply: tripod can be directly powered using the receiver can also be used separately powered UBEC module ( recommended ) , power supply voltage range of 5-6V, higher or lower than this range , the following may occur :
1 Press the operating instructions can not stand to run correctly ;
2 servos were burned ;
3 Foot control board burned.
4 each stand after power , regardless of whether the remote boot , and regardless of the remote control channel is in the down position , will automatically stand fast
Down and locked , if the power front leg in the stowed state , make sure there is enough down tripod room space , or it may occur the following risk :
- Stand down process is forcibly blocked , it will burn servos and control panel , it may damage the stand of the mechanical structure ;
- Stand fast down, to prevent the hand from being crushed ;
- run stand to ensure that no other travel range equipment and lines , in order to avoid foot retractable process, the other device is pinched , pulled off the line .
Second, the tripod installation, flat top tripod mounted horizontally as far as possible , tilt tripod installation can cause split ends is not enough or too much distance , leading to instability or tripod stand bearing capacity is not enough.
Third, in actual use , should be possible to slow the plane landed smoothly descend to the tripod to avoid violence caused strong impact , takeoff and landing should be possible to complete the formation of the ground , try to avoid taking off and landing on the slope

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'Butler' remains on top
"Lee Daniels' The Butler" served up another box office-topping weekend, earning $17 million, according to studio estimates Sunday.
That was enough to lead all films on a late August weekend known as a dumping ground for studios following their summer blockbusters and before the start of the fall moviegoing season.
Daniels' historical drama about a long-serving White House butler starring Forest Whitaker and Oprah Winfrey, last weekend opened with $24.6 million for the Weinstein Co.
With a cumulative total of $52.3 million, "The Butler" is headed for a domestic haul of $100 million. It has followed the release pattern of another movie about race and domestic service: the 2011 drama "The Help," also released in August. The Weinstein Co. hopes that "The Butler" will similarly lead to Oscar nominations.
Paul Dergarabedian, analyst for box-office tracker Hollywood.com, attributed the success of "The Butler" particularly to the marketing power of Winfrey and a savvy choice of a release date with little competition.
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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 270 diseños de 34 diseñadores freelance.
We are looking for a striking logo design to launch a brand new, powerful organization, a logo that will stand out and present the right image internationally. The ZenAlina name is made up by the words Zen, meaning to be focused and fully aware, here and now; insight, peace, clarity, depth and significance, and Alina, meaning noble, intelligent, beautiful and outgoing. ZenAlina also suggest speed, action, power and the fact that we cover everything from A to Z. Now, let your imagination run free for the Font, Lettering, Graphic, Format, Colors, etc... just integrate the meaning of ZenAlina into the logo. Beside the official logo, it will be great to have a recognition sign (unique, simple, easy to print).
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Striking artwork, something modern, powerful and forward-thinking, the logo must offer association with expertise, relevance, knowledge and business excellence. Going along with the strategies of "ZenAlina", our new logo must be confidence inspiring, visionary, innovative and original at the same time. We are looking for an elegant logo design to enhance our company's image and match our business values: to Always Excel, Always Inspire and Always Deliver. Giving the logo an modern style, a sleek silhouette.
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Hillfields Family and Community Trust provide low cost therapeutic counselling for anyone who has experienced parenting at an early age (under 25), anyone whose parents were under the age of 25 at the time of their birth.
Lifespace is a charitable counselling service based at the University of the West of England. Members of the public can self refer, and receive free or low cost counselling. The clinic is a run by the university as a service to the local community,...
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ARA provides a range of therapeutic services for people with drug or alcohol misuse problems in Bristol and North Somerset.( We also provide one to one counselling in those areas and in other parts of the South West for people expereincing problems...
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Psychological & Counselling Services for Adults, Older Adults, Professionals, Trainees & Employees. Medico Legal reports for Civil Claims also undertaken. Extended Opening hours near Bristol: Weekdays 7.00am to 9.00pm & Weekends 10.00am to 4.00pm.
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Wessex Counselling & Psychotherapy, celebrating more than 30 Years of Psychodynamic Counselling, psychotherapy and Counsellor Training in Frome, Bristol, Bath, Street and surrounding Areas. We are happy to take GP referrals. We help people and we...
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FBI searches Lee Police Department; Chief Buffis retains attorney
LEE -- A day after FBI agents carried out a search at the Lee Police Department, the town's police chief confirmed to The Eagle on Tuesday that he has retained an attorney.
The police chief, Joseph Buffis, a 33-year veteran of Lee law enforcement, wouldn't comment further, nor would he identify his lawyer.
While the FBI's search of the police department on Monday generated buzz and churned the rumor mill in town, what federal authorities actually are looking into remains a mystery.
Federal, state and local law enforcement agencies involved in the investigation aren't revealing the reason for it, fending off questions with a blanket response: They don't comment on active inquiries.
The Eagle did confirm Tuesday that the FBI carried out a court-authorized search at the Lee Police Department on Monday and at a home in Pittsfield, according to Special Agent Greg Comcowich, the FBI's media coordinator in Boston.
No one would say if the investigation is focusing on Buffis, who was at work on Tuesday, or if it extends to others in his department. Comcowich declined to answer whether the home belongs to an employee of the Lee Police Department.
Buffis' neighbors on Elaine Drive in Pittsfield said if there was any law enforcement activity Monday at the house, which is set back from the street via a long driveway, they didn't notice.
FBI Supervisor Mark Karangekis, who heads the Springfield office of the FBI, is leading the investigation. On Tuesday, Karangekis said no one had been arrested as of that afternoon.
Karangekis also declined to disclose the nature of the investigation, the reason behind Monday's search, and what -- if anything -- had been confiscated from the police department.
The FBI is working with Massachusetts State Police detectives assigned to the Berkshire District Attorney's Office, Karangekis said. The DA's office confirmed Tuesday that state police attached to its office assisted in Monday's investigation, but an office representative would say nothing more.
"It would be inappropriate to comment further since it isn't our case," said Frederick Lantz, the spokesman for Berkshire District Attorney David F. Capeless.
Lee Board of Selectmen Chairwoman Patricia Carlino and Town Administrator Robert Nason also declined to comment on the case and referred an Eagle reporter to the FBI office in Springfield.
Buffis, a 54-year-old Lee native, was promoted to police chief in September 2011. He had held the sergeant's position in the department since 1994, and he was a patrolman before that.
Eagle staff writers John Sakata, Dick Lindsay and Andrew Amelinckx contributed to this report.
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The NFL Network will premiere A Football Life this Thursday at 9 p.m. ET. We know you've all been waiting for this ever since 2009, when Belichick became the first person ever wired for an entire season, and so we've gone ahead and put together some of the highlights for you.
But first, a warning: we have a sneaking suspicion that the main reason the generally reserved (that's putting it mildly, of course) Belichick agreed to this whole ordeal is that the man rarely speaks. And when he does, it is not exactly riveting. This is one area in which Rex Ryan will always win.
Still, we've seen the first episode of A Football Life, and it is pretty fascinating to listen to Belichick and Tom Brady sort out the best way to deal with Ed Reed before their Week 4 game against the Ravens, and to hear Belichick trash-talking players like Reed and Ochocinco before the kickoff. That is, of course, where he seems most comfortable using actual words. And as with everything NFL Films does, the series is well-produced, rivetingly insider-y, and scored with dramatic string music. Rudy would be proud.
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2013 looks to be bringing plenty more heat for the New Balance category, with retros in order from as high up as the New Balance 1500 to as low down as the New Balance 373. It's hard not to be most excited over the former category, with the made in the UK staple making itself known immediately with a quartet of clean looks. Click through with us to check out the rest of the range and drop us a line in the comments on which January New Balance release you're looking forward to most.
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Federal Campus Speech Codes Broad, Unconstitutional
The Departments of Justice and Education have teamed up to mandate new campus speech codes that are unconstitutional and violate the First Amendment, according to the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE).
An extremely broad definition of sexual harassment has been mandated by the Departments of Justice and Education which, says FIRE, will make virtually every student in the United State a potential harasser. The plan was outlined in a letter sent to the University of Montana that was said to serve as a "blueprint" for every college and university that is federally-funded throughout the United States.
"The letter states that "sexual harassment should be more broadly defined as âany unwelcome conduct of a sexual nature'" including "verbal conduct" (that is, speech). It then explicitly states that allegedly harassing expression need not even be offensive to an "objectively reasonable person of the same gender in the same situation"—if the listener takes offense to sexually related speech for any reason, no matter how irrationally or unreasonably, the speaker may be punished."
This is a complete change from the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights' previous stance on sexual harassment from 2003. Then they stated that harassment must go beyond verbal expression or symbols, and that the conduct must be evaluated as harassing by a reasonable person.
The punishable forms of âharassmentâ by the federal government now include any expression related to sexual topics that offends anyone. This could include things as harmless as a presentation on safe sex, a debate about sexual morality, a performance of "The Vagina Monologues", a discussion of gay marriage or a classroom lecture of Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita — or a joke that is sexually themed that is overheard by someone who finds it offensive for any reason.
The regulations are so broad that harassment also includes an invitation to go out on a date or a flirtation that is not welcomed by the recipient.
"The federal government has put colleges and universities in an impossible position with this mandate," said Lukianoff. "With this unwise and unconstitutional decision, the DOJ and DOE have doomed American campuses to years of confusion and expensive lawsuits, while students' fundamental rights twist in the wind."
This makes almost every student on campus a harasser. Mary Lou Byrd from the Washington Free Beacon found that college students are worried about this decision:
"My take on this is that the definition of sexual harassment on college campuses is too broad," said Joseph Pareres, a junior in Manhattanville College. "This definition puts students at risk of being accused of sexual harassment for no valid reason."
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Fluid Acrylics are highly intense, permanent acrylic colours with a consistency similar to heavy cream. Produced from lightfast pigments, not dyes, they offer very strong colours with very thin consistencies. No fillers or extenders are added and the pigment load is comparable to GOLDEN Heavy Body Acrylics. Unlike mixtures of heavy-bodied paints and water which produce weak colour and films by dilution, Fluid Acrylics contain high pigment levels suspended in an acrylic polymer vehicle. The result offers fine dispersion, high tinting strength, durability, flexibility and good adhesion. Fluid Acrylics are ideal for spraying, brushing, staining, and can be mixed with other GOLDEN Products. Blend with Airbrush Medium for spray application. Excellent for fabric application. GOLDEN Historical Colors are authentic recreations of paint colours that have been in use for hundreds of years and were considered essential to the working palettes of past masters. For metallic and reflective effects a selection of Heavy Body Iridescent and Interference colour is available in this range as well.


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John C. MacInnis is a member of the Embedded and Communications Group at Intel. Courtesy Intel Corporation. All rights reserved.
Embedded systems using the Intel architecture must include a firmware stack that initializes CPU cores, memory, I/O, peripherals, graphics, and provides runtime support for operating systems. While Intel architecture-based PC designs typically use a full BIOS solution as a firmware stack, many embedded systems are designed with a more optimized firmware layer known as a boot loader. The job of the boot loader is to quickly initialize platform hardware and boot the system to an embedded real-time operating system (RTOS) or OS. Until recently, many embedded operating systems were designed to boot the device and enable all the drivers and networking on the board with no power management per se.
As Intel architecture expands into more differentiated types of embedded systems, power management becomes increasingly important both for saving electricity costs as well as maximizing battery life in mobile systems.
OS-directed Power Management (OSPM) using Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) methodology provides an efficient power management option. For system developers, an ACPI design can help yield full PM control with quick time to market and cost savings. It offers flexibility by pushing state machine management and policy decisions to the OS and driver layer. The OS creates policy decisions based on system use, applications, and user preferences. From a maintenance and support perspective, patches, updates and bug fixes are better managed at the OS and driver layer than in the firmware.
A Note About Firmware Terminology: Since the first IBM clones in the early 1980s, the PC BIOS has been the predominant firmware layer in most of Intel architecture system designs commonly referred to as x86. It has been observed that many Embedded Intel Architecture product designers have unique requirements not always completely satisfied by the standard PC BIOS. This article uses the terms "firmware" and "boot loader" to denote the distinct differences between a PC BIOS and the hybrid firmware required for many of today's embedded systems.
Dynamic System Power Management
Many types of embedded systems built on Intel architecture are necessarily becoming more power-savvy. Implementing power management involves complex state machines that encompass every power domain in the system. Power domains can be thought of globally as the entire system, individual chips, or devices that can be controlled to minimize power use, as illustrated in Figure 1.
Power and Thermal Management States
G0, G1, G2, and G3 signify global system states physically identifiable by the user
G3 -- Mechanical Off
G2 -- Soft Off
G1 -- Sleeping
G0 - Working
S0, S1, S2, S3, S4 signify different degrees of system sleep states invoked during G1.
D0, D1,…, Dn signify device sleep states. ACPI tables include device-specific methods to power down peripherals, while preserving Gx and Sx system states; for example, powering down a hard disk, dimming a display or powering down peripheral buses when they are not being used.
C0, C1, C2, C3, and C4 signify different levels of CPU sleep states. The presumption is that deeper sleep states save more power at the tradeoff cost of longer latency to return to full on.
P0, P1, P2,…, Pn signify CPU performance states while the system is on and the CPU is executing commands or in the C0 state.
T0, T1, T2,…, Tn signify CPU-throttled states while the CPU is in the P0 operational mode. Clock throttling is a technique used to reduce a clock duty cycle, which effectively reduces the active frequency of the CPU. The throttling technique is mostly used for thermal control. Throttling can also be used for things such as controlling fan speed. Figure 2 shows a basic conceptual diagram of a clock throttled to 50 percent duty cycle.
Power Consumption and Battery Life
Power consumption is inversely related to performance, which is why a handheld media player can play 40 hours of music but only 8 hours of video. Playing video requires more devices to be powered on as well as computational CPU power. Since battery life is inversely proportional to system power draw, reducing power draw by 50 percent doubles the remaining battery life.
System PM Design Firmware: OS Cooperative Model;
In Intel architecture systems, the firmware has unique knowledge of the platform power capabilities and control mechanisms. From development cost and maintenance perspectives, it is desirable to maintain the state machine complexity and decision policies at the OS layer. The best approach for embedded systems using Intel architecture is for the firmware to support the embedded OS by passing up control information unique to the platform while maintaining the state machine and decision policies at the OS and driver layer. This design approach is known as "OS-directed power management" or OSPM.
Under OSPM, the OS directs all system and device power state transitions. Employing user preferences and knowledge of how devices are being used by applications, the OS puts devices in and out of low-power states. The OS uses platform information from the firmware to control power state transition in hardware. APCI methodology serves a key role in both standardizing the firmware to OS interface and optimizing power management and thermal control at the OS layer.


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Welcome to He Tangata
This website is under construction.
The website design is temporary. There is no logo or graphics yet. Everything is held together with sticky tape and number-8 wire. But we are on a journey already, a journey that will bring us to an idea and a book and hopefully a lively website, all about He Tangata.
He Tangata is about putting people first in IT. Not technology or process. If we put people first we can achieve efficency and effectiveness. We can transform our processes and improve our technology and leverage our partners. More projects will succeed and more will stay succcessful without backsliding over time. If we put people first.
This would be a huge additional cost to projects if we factored in cultural change, communication, motivation, training/coaching, feedback/assessment, and all the other people costs that are under-estimated, hidden in operational expenses or ignored entirely. That would be a good thing. if we knew the true costs of making a project successful we'd do a lot less of them and fewer of them concurrently, further improving our success rate.
This is my passion. I know some about training and professional development, about managing people, about process improvement, but I have much still to explore about HR or culture or cultural change as they apply to IT. To create He Tangata I need to learn. Come along with me on the journey as I learn and grow He Tangata. No, as we learn and grow He Tangata together. I need your help. Throw stuff into the pot. Teach us. Toss the ideas around. Beat them into shape. Keep us on track.
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The book of He Tangata wasn't published: Karen Ferris's book Balanced Diversity did the job for me. But I hope after that we will all go on together, developing the ideas, helping each other out, growing He Tangata as a movement to change the way people do IT around the world, to Put People First. After all, IT is the people.


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Will Ripley joins CNN from 9News
Will Ripley, 32, a 9News investigative reporter for the last three years, is jumping to a plum assignment as CNN's Tokyo correspondent effective March 8.
Feb. 20 is his last day at 9News. He'll spend a week with CNN in New York, a week at headquarters in Atlanta, then off to his new life. He's working on his Japanese.
"I got Rosetta Stone Japanese and have been studying morning and evening," he said. "I'll have a tutor in the bureau and will be working with native speakers, some of whom have been with CNN for 20 years."
The hire has been in the works the last few months. He'll join a three-person staff in the heart of Tokyo — a senior producer, bureau manager and photographer. "I've been Skyping with them," he said. He'll have an apartment a five-minute walk away.
They're brainstorming ideas about U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy, the Fukushima nuclear plant and the aftermath of earthquake, so he can "hit the ground running."
Ripley has spent 15 years in local TV news. He joined KUSA from KRGV in South Texas in 2011 where he picked up Spanish and did enough border and South American coverage (on cartels, gang problems, etc.) to serve as international reporting experience. Before that he worked for smaller stations in Missouri. His dream since watching Christiane Amanpour as a kid was to be a foreign correspondent.


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Monday, April 09, 2007
Why Canadians Should Want An Election
There is no doubt that the Conservative government has formulated policy within the idea of a early election. The rash of big ticket expenditures, a transparent election budget, all co-ordinated to maximize vote potential. Little regard for long-term fiscal responsibility, out of control government spending(8% rise) and what amounts to direct voter buying, as it relates to the mythical imbalance. The government is operating with short-term goals in mind, sacrificing balance for political expediency.
Let's say that an election doesn't happen, despite the transparency of the government, then what? You hear talk of a fall election, when Flaherty will release a financial statement. There is already speculation that if an election is delayed, the Conservatives will look for further tax relief prior to a call. In other words, if this moment is lost, we can expect another rash of irresponsible, short-sighted spending announcements, with voter appeal the only consideration. Canada can't afford to have a government that is forever in election mode, it will take a fiscal toll, not to mention no sense of real responsibility.
The Tories have spent with an election in mind, the best thing for Canada's long-term interest is simply to have that election. The alternative is more of the same, while the government squanders.
9 comments:
- Anonymous said...
There will be an election. Harper has to go now, otherwise it may be the Fall of 2008.
He is not going to let Dion a year to organize.
- 11:30 AM, April 09, 2007
- Steve V said...
I agree. Having said that, I suspect the Tory braintrust expected better polling results, which may cause some hesitation. If you look at the Conservatives standing, it gives another angle to Dion's "never has so little been done with so much" line. The "orgy" of spending was clearly done with the intention of getting the Conservatives into majority terrority, the fact that hasn't happened may give them some pause.
- 11:35 AM, April 09, 2007
- Anonymous said...
Then why don't you expand this into something different.
Why Dion should muster the votes in the House of Commons to defeat the Harper government?
If he can, then the election can be delayed. Dion can form a coalition government and control the timeline for a new election.
- 11:39 AM, April 09, 2007
- Steve V said...
" Dion can form a coalition government and control the timeline for a new election.'
I'm not really sure that is realistic option at this point.
- 11:41 AM, April 09, 2007
- EUGENE PLAWIUK said...
There will be a spring election....in 2009.
- 12:21 PM, April 09, 2007
- Anonymous said...
My Gut feeling NEVER was wrong/only I was wrong when didn't follow it..../
And now I feel Bully Boy Steve can be kicked in the arse and he will go off into the sunset ...in case an election is held in the near Future..... so Go For It!!!
if you feel like laughing Go to my webpage here .I had a really ugly feeling so it came out of me..as a cartoon..
marta from Vancouver
- 2:28 PM, April 09, 2007
- Anonymous said...
As long as the competitive nature of political partisanship persists, having another election won't solve the issues of "bugetary electioneering" and "perpetual campaigning" if we get another minority, regardless of which party forms government. What needs to happen (and don't ask me when or how) is for all the parties to realise that there will be NO MAJORITY GOVERNMENT in the forseeable future and that all parties in Parliament must have a role in creating policy and passing legislation. Partisanship must stop being about competition and start being about representing the values of a constituency in a workable, negotiated compromise.
- 11:48 PM, April 09, 2007
- JimBobby said...
Dalestreet's on the money, sez I. With the rotten separatist BlocHeads entrenched as deeply as they are, minority governments are what we'll get far more often than not. Harper and the rest of the House o' Comments need to grtasp that reality. Canajuns don't wanna spend $300 mil on an election every year an' a haff. With that cycle, nothing gets done.
The Grits can't possibly win a majority. The Cons can't, either. They need to fergit about an early election and work like MP's instead o' like candidates.
Callin' fer an election an' thinkin' it's gonna get rid o' Harper is not only denyin' the realitty of the polls but it's puttin' up a roadblock in the way of real action. Canajuns want parliament to do it's job an' that job is workin' fer Canada not fer the LPC, CPC, NDP or BQ.
If the minority won't obey the will of the majority, the MP's need to make 'em obey. An election ain't the way to get anything done.
- 3:12 PM, April 10, 2007
- Steve V said...
That is a good point, and I did consider it. Minorities do breed voter friendly budgets.
- 3:47 PM, April 10, 2007


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I've never experimented acid or done any kind of psychedelics. People say it's great, except for all the flashbacks and stuff. From my never-tripped point-of-view, Dyad looks like it simulates an chemically altered mindstate pretty damn well. It's got a lot more going for it than just that, though.
Shawn McGrath is making Dyad and, in the video above, he talks about the unique mix of ideas and mechanics that he's combining in the racing/shooting/puzzle hybrid. I'm terrible at the level he had me play but watching him play a far harder level later is like watching someone do a magic trick. You'll get to handle the dizzying experience when Dyad comes out later this summer.


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ABC Family's 'The Mistle-Tones': 5 reasons to watch
Television movies during the holiday season are a particular delight. Mostly because — from the random storylines to the even-more-random casting — they're completely crazy. Tonight's entry from ABC Family, an original two-hour movie titled The Mistle-Tones airing at 8 p.m., is no different. Thus, here are the five reasons you should tune in:
1. Cat fighting between Tori Spelling and Tia Mowry! Well, there's no real fighting — physically, anyway. But the Beverly Hills, 90210 and Sister, Sister alums trade a lot of spicy words, as the pair battles to rule the holiday group-singing circuit. Which brings me to…
2. The soundtrack! It's already available on iTunes. If you like Glee and the holidays, then you'll love this. Spelling's group The Snow-Belles sing Mariah Carey's holiday standard "All I Want for Christmas," while Mowry's Mistle-Tones group sings "Please Come Home for Christmas." They all come together in holiday unity to sing "The Twelve Days of Christmas," too. It's really special.
3. Tori's wardrobe! She wears a loony fur hat at one point and, thankfully, she turned in a winky performance suggesting she realizes just how silly her role and the whole movie is.
4. Carl Winslow pops up! That's right — the ever-classic Reginald VelJohnson plays Tia's dad. From TGIF's Family Matters to… ABC Family's The Mistle-Tones. Yep. It doesn't get any better than that. And truly, with that casting, it's clear that ABC Family very squarely knows its viewing audience.
5. The sing-off competition! Simply put, it's just amazing. That's when Tori's group sings "All I Want for Christmas," and there are other entries from acts like Ludacris Kringle (yes, really!) and The Chest Notes, a group of what seem to be singing Chippendales dancers. Nothing will kick off your holiday season quite like four half-naked men singing "Deck the Halls," trust me.
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Jimmy Fallon, Mariah Carey, The Roots, a bunch of awesome little kids sing 'All I Want for Christmas Is You' — VIDEO
When is it okay to start listening to holiday music? — POLL


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Hosmer remains out with fracture in right hand
PHOENIX -- It's been a week since first baseman Eric Hosmer was last in the Royals' lineup.
"It feels like a month," Hosmer said.
He's out with a fractured third metacarpal in his right hand, the result of being hit by a pitch on July 20 by Jon Lester, then with Boston.
Hosmer missed a couple of games with a bruise, then tried to come back at Chicago, but he was still hurting. He missed four more games, then started three games but aggravated the injury on July 31.
X-rays revealed the fracture and he was pronounced out three to six weeks.
"It's doing a lot better," Hosmer said on Thursday. "I believe they said after two weeks they're going to re-X-ray it. I guess there's about a week to go. Hopefully the X-rays come up and we see something good and we can start swinging and do some activities."
Right now he's doing nothing, but the Royals have been able to overcome the loss of his hot bat. When he played during July, Hosmer hit .366 (26-for-71) in 22 games with six doubles, two homers and 11 RBIs.
That raised his season average from .246 on June 30 to .267.


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Scott, Robert Falcon
Robert Falcon Scott, 1868–1912, British naval officer and antarctic explorer. He commanded two noted expeditions to Antarctica. The first expedition (1901–4), in the Discovery, organized jointly by the Royal Geographical Society and the Royal Society and well equipped for scientific research, was concerned with exploration of the region around the Ross Sea. Scott's achievements included sounding the sea, discovering King Edward VII Land (now known as Edward VII Peninsula), surveying the coast of Victoria Land, and making a long, important exploring trip on the antarctic continent itself; he reached a new
"farthest south"
of 82°17′. On his return to England, Scott was promoted to captain in the navy and wrote an account of his expedition, The Voyage of the Discovery (1905).
In 1910 he again set forth for Antarctica, this time in search of the South Pole. His Terra Nova reached its base on the Ross Sea in 1911, and in November he started southward on foot toward the pole. Scott and his four companions pulled their heavy sledges by hand across the high polar plateau, proceeding in subzero weather the entire way. When they reached the South Pole on Jan. 18, 1912, they found that Roald Amundsen, the Norwegian explorer, had preceded them by about one month. On their retreat the heroic party was beset by illness, lack of food, frostbite, blizzards, and autumn temperatures 10 to 20 degrees lower than Antarctica's bone-chilling average. All five members died, the last three overwhelmed by a blizzard when only a few miles from their depot. Their bodies were later recovered, together with Scott's diaries, the records, and the valuable scientific collections. Scott's journey has been considered by many one of the epic events of British exploration, but many modern biographers and scholars have accused him of a fatal inexperience in polar travel and a general incompetence that doomed him and his men. Scott's diaries and the scientific findings of the expedition are contained in Scott's Last Expedition (2 vol., 1913).
See A. Cherry-Garrard, The Worst Journey in the World (1994); D. Preston, A First Rate Tragedy (1998); T. H. Baughman, Pilgrims on the Ice (1999); R. Huntford, The Last Place on Earth (1999); S. Solomon, The Coldest March (2001); R. Fiennes, Race to the Pole (2004); D. Crane, Scott of the Antarctic (2006); E. J. Larson, An Empire of Ice (2011).


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Michelle Obama Hilariously Breaks Down Why Melania Trump's Inauguration Gift Exchange Appeared So Awkward
The former FLOTUS also explained to Ellen Degeneres how Barack stepped in and saved the day.
NEW YORK – A Guantanamo Bay detainee brought to the United States for trial on charges he helped the bombing of two U.S. embassies in Africa while he was an aide to Osama bin Laden cannot use allegations of torture by the CIA to dismiss the indictment, a judge said Monday.
U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan made the ruling in Manhattan after months of consideration of documents, much of their contents redacted, that were submitted by attorneys for Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani and the government.
Kaplan said that Ghailani might be able to sue the government for civil damages or seek criminal prosecution of those who abused him if he can prove his rights were violated by torture, but that he cannot eliminate an indictment charging him in the August 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies.
The ruling by Kaplan could set a precedent if other Guantanamo detainees are brought to the United States for trials in the civilian court system. Some of them also allege they were tortured. The judge said there were precedents set by other court cases for his findings.
He said a defendant would have to prove the government could win a conviction only by using information gained through torture for him to win dismissal of the indictment.
The judge noted that 224 people, including 12 Americans, died in the attacks on the embassies in Tanzania and Kenya in August 1998. Already, four others are serving life sentences after a 2001 U.S. trial.
Ghailani was interrogated at a secret CIA-run camp abroad after his July 2004 arrest. He was later sent to Guantanamo Bay. Last June, he became the first detainee to be brought to the United States for trial in a civilian court.
Steve Zissou, a lawyer for Ghailani, declined to comment.
Ghailani was accused by the government of being a bomb maker, document forger and aide to Osama bin Laden, who is also charged in the indictment. Ghailani has pleaded not guilty and has denied knowing that the TNT and oxygen tanks he delivered would be used to make a bomb.
Ghailani's lawyers have said he was subjected after his arrest to enhanced interrogation for 14 hours over five days. The CIA as part of its enhanced interrogation program after the Sept. 11 terrorism attacks at one time used 10 harsh methods, including waterboarding, a form of simulated drowning.
The former FLOTUS also explained to Ellen Degeneres how Barack stepped in and saved the day.
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After making the switch from Windows using WAMP and sendmail, to Mac using MAMP Pro and hopefully Postfix I am having issues getting the emails configured correctly. I have fully configured the Postfix Smart Host to use a live email account to send the emails.
When I check the mail.log
Jul 22 11:29:28 John-MacBook postfix/smtp[544]: C5B2926C91C: to=<email@example.com>, relay=mail.mysite.com[220.127.116.11]:25, delay=603, delays=602/0.07/0.13/0.03, dsn=5.7.1, status=bounced (host mail.mysite.com[184.108.40.206] said: 553 5.7.1 <email@example.com>: Sender address rejected: not owned by user email@example.com (in reply to RCPT TO command))
Jul 22 11:29:28 John-MacBook postfix/cleanup[550]: 4607426CA90: message-id=<email@example.com>
Jul 22 11:29:28 John-MacBook postfix/qmgr[502]: 4607426CA90: from=<>, size=2447, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Jul 22 11:29:28 John-MacBook postfix/bounce[548]: C5B2926C91C: sender non-delivery notification: 4607426CA90
Jul 22 11:29:28 John-MacBook postfix/qmgr[502]: C5B2926C91C: removed
Jul 22 11:29:28 John-MacBook postfix/smtp[543]: 4607426CA90: to=<firstname.lastname@example.com>, relay=mail.mysite.com[220.127.116.11]:25, delay=0.19, delays=0.01/0/0.08/0.09, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (250 2.0.0 Ok: queued as 5E2E8D807E)
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status=bounced : Sender address rejected: not owned by user firstname.lastname@example.com (in reply to RCPT TO command))
I notice here that "email@example.com" doesn't exist, actually "john" is my Mac username. How can I force Postfix to always send email using firstname.lastname@example.com? This is the email address it should be using to send the email which I enter into the MAMP PRO control panel.


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Visit Vocations Toronto at www.vocationstoronto.ca, a resourceful site in answering these questions.
The reading from the Book of Exodus also teaches us about supporting one
another in prayer. Prayer does not need to be something that is just a
solitary experience. We are called to live in community, in one way or
another. Even a Christian hermit must have a relationship with a Christian
community. The question for the hermit is always this: whose feet do you
This reading from the Book of Exodus shows us how we support one another in
prayer. We do this by holding up the hands of one another. What a
wonderful symbol expressing how to help one another. Our hands are so
often how we earn our living, whether it be by manual labor or some type of
desk job. We get tired and others have to support us. Even parents get
tired of caring for their children and of earning a living in order to
support their families. Who is holding up their hands?
The Gospel is even more delightful today. We can just imagine the widow
coming to him and insisting on justice. The judge changes his ways finally
because he thinks that she may come and hit him! We should all be laughing
at this image, while at the same time admiring the courage of this widow
who does not give up but pursues her own cause relentlessly. How
relentless are we in prayer? When we don�t get what we want or even what
we need, do we keep on insisting with our God?
We can end our reflections by listening to the Second Letter to Timothy
once more, especially the final part of our second reading today: proclaim
the word; be persistent whether it is convenient or inconvenient; convince,
reprimand, encourage through all patience and teaching.
This is the same teaching of the other two readings: persistence whether
it is convenient or inconvenient! We must continue to learn to pray all of
our lives. We must continue to learn how to persevere and be persistent
all of our lives. Let us never stop asking God for what we want and what
we need. Let us tire Him out with our persistence! If we are not
persistent, then it is clear that we don�t really want or need whatever it
was for which we were praying.
My sisters and brothers, God wants us to ask Him for all that we truly need
in our lives. May we respond to Him.
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The Dama de Honor, the shopping trolley and the squid
Take one pasty white English guy - regular correspondent from this parish, Andy Hudson - his father and a retired footballer from Denmark and send them on an extended European Football Weekend to Spain....
"That's tasteless."
"You finish it off."
"I don't want it."
"Pass the tortilla."
The food wasn't burger and chips. Sitting outside the Estadio Manuel Martinez Valero, scene of Hungary's 10-1 destruction of El Salvador during the 1982 World Cup, we were almost alone. Two guys sat drinking coffee at the next table. We had ordered a round of beers and received snacks to accompany the drink. Squid? At football? Go on then. A mouthful later and we had all cast it to one side.
Elche 2-2 Numancia (08:10:11)
It was an hour before kick-off and Numancia were in town to take on Elche in Liga Adelante, the Spanish Second Division. A pocket of sullen looking teenagers walked past; five lads giving 'their' walk and girl, wearing an Elche top and tiny shorts. Other than that, there was little to give away that there was a game in town and about to kick-off shortly.
Estadio Manuel Martinez Valero
We took up three of the 36,017 seats available; 8,216 other fans joined us. After 30 minutes, a group of fans to our right, banners proclaiming them as the Ultras, started up a series of chants that would last for the remainder of the game. Teens postured and shouted sporadically; girls tried to catch the eyes of lads; Numancia were awful yet still claimed a 2-2 draw which, in truth, was more about the inability of the Elche forward line to strike a shot on target despite being lined up all game as though they were on a driving range. As the final whistle sounded, a solitary Numancia fan wandered to the front of the stand, hung a banner over the front, and congratulated her team. The Elche fans, in a state of disbelieve that they couldn't get all three points, plodded through the discarded sunflower seed kernels and left. The pub afterwards, still at the stadium, had more atmosphere. And there were only 8 of us in.
Santa Pola 2-2 Alcoyano B (09:10:11)
If Elche, who lost out on playing in La Liga this season on away goals, was a disappointment then Santa Pola CF was going to make up for it….and then some. It was 11am on Sunday morning; the sweat poured off me, in part due to the heat and possibly due to the excessive alcohol intake during the previous week. Thirty minutes until kick-off and enough time for a few cheeky beers. Luckily, the first thing you see when you walk into the ground is the bar. I was drawn towards it, along with almost all of the crowd. As the players finished their warm-up on the pitch, a guy with a drum wandered across the halfway line, followed by a group of his mates. The players moved to one side.
As CD Alcoyano 'B' kicked-off, the group of Santa Pola fans were standing on the terracing, banging their drums and blowing their horns; they kept this up for the entire game. I grabbed another beer, took off my top (ladies, I know…I should've given warning of this) and watched four goals shared between the two teams; a last minute equaliser for Santa Pola clinching their point in this Regional Preferente de la Comunidad Valenciana clash (the fifth tier of Spanish football).
He bangs the drums. #topical
Santa Pola's coming to town
Santa Pola were flat out at the back
CD Altet 0-5 CF Union Deportiva Ilicitana (09:10:11)
As the drumming eventually stopped, I made a dash out to catch the bus to nearby El Altet. After spending ages hunting for fixture lists and relying on Google translate, I had found a game being played in a league two levels below Santa Pola. El Altet, in the shadows of Alicante airport, was a ghost town. For the whole of the previous week they had been celebrating their fiesta, and while I was watching Elche the previous evening, the townsfolk were drinking far too much alcohol and setting off huge fireworks. Their local team, CD Altet were hosting newly formed CF Union Deportiva Ilicitana at the Campo Municipal El Altet.
Now a short history lesson: on the other side of the airport is a town called Torrellano. Their team merged CD Illice in 2009 to create Torrellano Illice Elche Parque Empresarial CF and then joined up with their big-boy neighbours, Elche CF. They won promotion to the Segunda Division B (the Spanish fourth division) and were then promptly bought by a businessman who moved the club to Valencia and changed their name to Huracan Valencia CF. In their place came CF Union Deportiva Ilicitana n Elche. Meanwhile, a new team was set up in Torrellano.
Anyway, back to girls. I mean footballs. A great big shopping trolley full of footballs on the touchline is enough to warm even the coldest of hearts. And that's what you get at El Altet; you keep your fancy ball sacks. Before kick-off, there was an extended walk-on/walk-off by three girls who obviously had something to do with the fiesta, considering the sashes they wore. A small 'cantina' was selling bucketloads of Cruzcampo and when I wasn't at the bar, the local fans were all buying coffee. The visitors cantered to a 5-0 victory and were then presented with a trophy by the Dama de Honor. I wonder if that happens after every CD Altet; if so, then I'm buying a season ticket. The trophy wasn't so bad looking.
Headers and trolleys guaranteed at El Altet
Aye, aye, captain
Who needs Real Madrid?
Hercules 1-0 CD Alcoyano (11:10:11)
There was one match to go during my Spanish sojourn and this was the BIG one. This was the Alicante derby (no, not this one) between Hercules and CD Alcoyano, based in Alcoy which is 37 miles away from Alicante. This would be it: blood; sweat; tears; a huge crowd; away supporters.
The bars were packed close to the Estadio Jose Rico Perez. I flicked through Marca while sitting at the bar, doing my best to look like a local; until people started speaking Spanish to me. Entering the stadium, it was obvious where the Spanish fans were during the European Qualifier held there the previous Tuesday. Discarded sunflower seed kernels were splattered in front of many of the seats while a number of seats, presumably where Scotland fans had been in the home end, were clean. The stadium was spruced up and other than the kernels, everything was clean.
95 away fans had made the long journey south-west (I counted them after taking a picture of the away end) but with their tickets being 20 euros and equivalent seats in the home end being 12 euros then I'm sure some of the sensible ones took advantage of the cheap tickets. The game kicked-off with a pocket of Hercules fans behind each goal all going crazy and urging their team to victory.
After a goalless first half, it was the home side who took the lead a minute after the restart. With a decent atmosphere building inside the stadium, it was almost as if Zeus, the god of sky and thunder and thunder in Greek mythology and father of the demigod Hercules, interpreted the support as some kind of rain dance the sky suddenly burst open with rain.
With only two areas of cover in the stadium, and that being limited to just a few rows of seats on either side of the ground, fans hurried up each of the two bigger stands. Those sitting behind each goal tried to endure the soaking for a minute or two and then many started dashing down the seats and taking cover in the concourse under the stand. The brave souls who remained in their seats took shelter under banners, fashioned headwear from carrier bags or simply took no notice. And what of me? Pah…rain will never deter me from watching football.
Despite being reduced to ten men, the home side held on to their 1-0 lead to remain top of Liga Adelante as they look to make an immediate return to La Liga. After the match, I made an immediate return back to my Santa Pola digs, via the pub when I got off the bus. Spanish football: it's bloody great once you get past the squid.
Gracias Sergio. One of the best rain protection items we've ever seen. That was until....
....this bad-boy hat turned up. It should be the essential headwear at every football ground
Follow both Andy Hudson and European Football Weekends on Twitter
Read more of Hudson's travels on Gannin' Away and on his all-singing, all-dancing Swedish football website HERE.


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Women's history pioneer Gerda Lerner dies at 92
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Gerda Lerner, a pioneer in the field of women's history and founding member of the National Organization for Woman, has died in Wisconsin. She was 92.
Her son says his mother died peacefully Wednesday night at an assisted-living facility in Madison, the city where she founded a doctoral program in women's history at the University of Wisconsin.
Lerner was born in Austria to a privileged Jewish family in 1920, and spent six weeks in a Nazi prison as a teenager. She later wrote that the experience taught her how society manipulates people, a lesson she saw reinforced by academics who suggested history was only about men.
She eventually came to the U.S. and established the nation's first graduate program in women's studies at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, N.Y.


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If all goes as scheduled, Sir Isaac Newton's apple tree—which inspired him to formulate his Universal Law of Gravitation—will launch to space next Friday at 2:20PM Eastern Time. Not the whole tree, mind you, but just this piece:
The piece has been donated by the Royal Society, alongside an image of Newton himself. According Dr Piers Sellers—the astronaut who will carry the artifacts:
We're delighted to take this piece of Sir Isaac Newton's apple tree to orbit. While it's up there, it will be experiencing no gravity, so if it had an apple on it, the apple wouldn't fall. I'm pretty sure that Sir Isaac would have loved to see this, assuming he wasn't spacesick, as it would have proved his first law of motion to be correct.
Now, there is a great idea: They should just get Newton's body from Westminster Abbey and launch it into space. [Daily Mail]


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Beehive Controls
Beehive Controls are a lightweight component model for J2EE, based on the standard J2SE J'*_avaBeans model and extended with J2SE 5.0 / JSR-175 annotations.
Open Specifications
Feature / specification proposals should be posted here for discussion. Documents that are substantially developed will be moved into svn and made available from the project web site.
- Assembly and Binding: Definition of "assembly", a build-time stage where controls can do code-gen and side-effect their J2EE container. Discusses an approach to allowing users to specify implementation bindings for control types.
- Controls Packaging: Describes the base JAR packaging model for controls, how it relates to J_*'avaBeans packaging and introspection, and the annotation syntax for setting manifest and descriptor information.
- Controls Threading Model: Describes the threading model for control users and developers.
- Controls Versioning: Describes the annotations and semantics around versioning of controls source artifacts.
- Implementing Annotation-based Programming Model Features: Describes a general mechanism for adding annotation-based features to the controls programming model via J_'_'avaBean contextual services.
- System Controls: A set of starter controls to make the runtime more generally useful out of the box. Beehive includes four "system" controls – JDBC, JMS, EJB, and web services.
- Testing Controls


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Jillian York and Trevor Timm, writing for the EFF, explore the possibility that the Syrian government used satellite phone surveillance to pinpoint the locations of journalist Marie Colvin of the Sunday Times of London and French photographer Rémi Ochlik, who were murdered in Homs, Syria this week.
On Monday night, Colvin appeared on CNN, telling Anderson Cooper that "the Syrian army is shelling a city of cold, starving civilians." Responding to Syrian president Bashar Al Assad's statement that he was not targeting civilians in the barrage of rocketfire raining on Homs, Colvin accused the regime of "murder" and said: "There are no military targets here…It's a complete and utter lie that they are only going after terrorists." A few hours later, she was dead.
The Telegraph quoted Jean-Pierre Perrin, a journalist for the Paris-based Liberation newspaper who was with Colvin in Homs last week as saying: "The Syrian army issued orders to 'kill any journalist that set foot on Syrian soil'" and that the Syrian authorities were likely watching the CNN broadcast. The Telegraph then described how "[r]eporters working in Homs, which has been under siege since February 4, had become concerned in recent days that Syrian forces had 'locked on' to their satellite phone signals and attacked the buildings from which they were coming."
How could this happen?
Read more: Satphones, Syria, and Surveillance | Electronic Frontier Foundation.


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I love make up. I love having a nosey around make up counters (looking at you in particular Urban Decay) and getting myself into a flurry of excitement over the bright sparkly colours. Bright green lipstick? Sure, why not? I mean it looked great on The Hulk. Liquid eyeliner so waterproof that it requires four make up wipes and the ability to scrub for 17 minutes straight to remove? Yeah, go on then.
But what I don't love is being told by my employer during an ambush intervention meeting that I basically looked like shit without make up. Oh, and that I was also to wear a minimum of concealer, eyeliner and mascara every day to work.
Apparently, my strange behaviour (not wearing make up to work for three days) had caused quite the feeling of mild hysteria in my boss. She politely enquired if I was enjoying my job, if I was happy in the workplace, if everything was okay in my personal life and even if my favourite type of green tea was available in the staff kitchen. In other words she buttered me up nicely before ramming a shit sandwich through my non-lipstick coated lips.
She simply said very matter of fact the following: 'You need to wear make up everyday to work because I don't think you look presentable or professional without it.' This was by no means a joke; it was indeed a genuine request regarding the state of my face. Not my work, or my ability to do the job that I've been hired to do but instead I was reprimanded for my decision to not wear make up every single day.
I'm the first to admit – I'm pretty lazy. And I don't mean your average 'I'll have an extra 5 minutes in bed snooze', I mean super lazy, as in: I can sleep for 15 hours straight without feeling guilty. Obvs if I had to choose between an extra ten minutes in bed or painfully jamming contacts in my tired little peepers and then move on to the regime of concealer, eyeliner, mascara AND foundation every single day well I know which one I would choose.
You may be wondering exactly what exciting and glamorous job I have that requires me to wear make up every day – is she a make up artist? Is she an air steward? Is she a model? Erm no…I actually work in marketing (after my original plan of becoming Lena Dunham's bezzie mate failed) for a national beauty brand. By beauty I don't mean make up, by the way, I mean hair removal but we say beauty to make it sound a bit more fluffy.
So anyways, I was fucking outraged and what I really wanted to do what shout the following: 'So hold up…I'm expected to work over 40 hours a week, plan numerous events and deliver many a campaign, handle work out of hours, and paint my face – every single fucking day?' But of course this is real life – not a movie, and I'm not rich enough to get fired, so in defeat I nodded politely and shuffled back to my desk whilst resisting the temptation to shed a few tears.
This ambush meeting has effectively taken away my choice to control my appearance, and also raised a few angry voices in my head. Why are women constantly expected to wear make up? Why in 20-fucking-14 do the highest ticks of approval for women still centre on our physical appearance and beauty? Why is it acceptable for my employer to judge my presence in the workplace by my appearance as opposed to my skillset? Why do men not get told to whack on a bit of concealer and lippy? And since when is not wearing make up deemed unprofessional?
The beauty industry does a fan-fucking-tastic job of creating imperfections that we didn't even know existed in ourselves and convincing us that they hold the key to making it all better. Obviously, the whole "making it all better" goal simply means to get us all looking a certain way to fit in with tightly controlled and unattainable ideals of beauty. It would be really useful if they honestly told us 'Soz ladies, unless you can Photoshop your physical appearance with a magic wand every single living moment you probably won't look like the model on the make up poster", but that's not in their financial interests, so they keep on pushing the dream.
I used to constantly obsess over my appearance thanks to magazines, the media generally, and looking at filtered snaps of everyone else around me who appeared super gorgeous on social media, but then one day I just stopped caring. Instead I focused my efforts into other things like baking, writing and stalking Idris Elba online. And you know what? When I realised that it's really not that important for me to have a full face of make up and perfect hair every day I felt much happier.
By being cool with how I looked and my body I got back my confidence and regained some of the self-esteem that went temporarily missing during my teenage years. But sadly it seems that for women the beauty industry, media and society (my employer also) kind of want to take this away from us. Instead they want us buy into the idea that confidence and self-esteem is achieved only through buying into The Beauty Myth (love you forever Naomi Woolf) rather than our beautiful natural selves.
So it looks like I won't be skipping into the office singing 'I woke up like dis' in my best Beyoncé voice, but instead I think I'll be handing my notice in very soon and finding an employer that values my skills, as opposed to my ability to perfect winged eyeliner at 7am in the morning.