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Best concealer ever.
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Posted by 4733042005193992106 on Mar 27, 2013
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I have a background in cosmetics (makeup and skin care) and have tried almost everything on the market. I'm really concerned about all the "junk" that enters the body through the skin and have the last few years changed everything I use from commercial brands to products that are good for me, not only looks good. I've had problems with finding a good concealer though. I've always ended up using YSL Touche Eclat. Not even really good mineral brands had a good enough concealer. I'm stunned by this one! Never ever thought that a concealer to this price could replace the YSL. But this is amazing! This color blends perfectly into my skin and skintone and it doesn't show and cover what is supposed to be covered but still makes the skin look radiant. I even use it under my eyes. A good concealer brush is a must for this and I use the one Ecotools has. I will never change concealer again. A friend of mine tried it and loved it so much that she bought one too. I highly recommended this product!!
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Excellent for under eye circles! Not very good at covering blemishes or dark spots in medium to dark skin tones (too light). Very light weight. Could be use as highlight!
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It made my dark circles disappear! Perfect for any problems on the skin!
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gives my skin great tone, conceals all the unperfections and doesn't give me any artificial looks that other concealers do.
The only concealer I'll ever buy!
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At first I wasn't sure about ordering this, as I have always used touch stick type concealer for my dark under eye circles. However I liked the natural ingredients and the lack of chemical preservatives, so I ordered it. And I am sooo happy I did because this works! It blends well, matches my skin tone nicely (I have fair skin) and lasts all day with out fading or disappearing! It even hides blemishes well. Far superior to the products I was using, it is now an essential part of my make up and I'll never go back. I highly recommend this!


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At 85, Eugene "Smitty" Smith still drives an 18-wheel tractor-trailer truck, picking up milk from area farms and delivering to creameries for Clouse Co. in Frederick.
He has been driving for 56 years, and intends to continue as long as he has good health.
"I do it because I like the exercise, and I like to get out and socialize with the farmers," Smitty said.
Smitty began delivering milk when it was transported in cans. The farmers would fill the cans with milk and he would haul them to the dairy, unload them and bring the cans back the next day.
Today, farmers use pipelines to dump the milk into trucks, and several farmers use robots to milk cows, Smitty said.
The job has taken him to a lot of places, including Wisconsin, North Carolina and Ohio, and he has clocked at least 1 1/2 million miles on the truck he's driving, Smitty said.
"There's many a night I haven't been home," Smitty said, tearing up as he recalled not seeing his two sons, Rick and Jeff, often enough. They were asleep when he came home late at night and asleep when he left early the next day.
"I tell you the truth, it's a rough life hauling milk," Smitty said. "You leave in the morning, and you never know if you'll break down."
Some routes are easier than others. You make eight or 10 stops on some routes, others require only one or two, and it's in all kinds of weather, he said. Combine that with inconsiderate motorists who cut you off without warning, driving a big truck can be challenging, Smitty said.
"He's still a better driver than most people I know," Clouse Co.'s terminal manager Kimberly Young said.
"He's always had that kind of work ethic, working seven days a week, and he handles that truck just as good today as he did many years.
"But he can be a handful. He's not afraid to speak his mind."
Smitty works part-time. He doesn't wear glasses, except to read the newspaper, he said, and his workmates wonder how he is able to read the small numbers on the milk tank gauges and dipsticks.
"I make a mistake once in a while, but everybody does that," he said. "I've been fortunate that my eyesight is still good, and I just passed a DOT (Department of Transportation) physical."
The physical is required to drive a truck.
To aspiring truck drivers, Smitty said if you want to spend a lot of time away from home, then delivering milk across state lines is the right job.
"We always say it's not a job, it's an adventure," said Young, who has worked with Smitty for 28 years, starting when she was a teenager.
"Smitty has bailed me out of a lot of jams, coming in on his days off and being asked at the last minute, or when someone calls in sick," Young said. "I keep trying to get him to adopt me."
Driving an 18-wheeler in the late 60s, early 70s was enjoyable, when traffic was not like it is today, Smitty said.
He has not had any major accidents, only a couple of fender benders, Smitty said. Driving on the Washington Beltway "gets your nerves riled up. It's busy all the time, and there's no slack, and one thing I want to say is, I wish people would stop talking on the telephone and drive," he said.
"I've seen some fellows going down the road working the computer," Smitty said.
As for unforgettable experiences, "I'd like to forget about a lot of them," he said.
He recalled the blizzard of 1996 when he was working for W. H. Mercer: "I left one morning and was gone for four days and three nights," he said.
"My father is an extremely loyal, hard-working, humble man who enjoys immensely having simple conversations with ordinary folks of all types," Rick said. "Part of his job satisfaction all these years has been his love of animals and the many people he gets to meet and talk to."
He has been on the road a long time, the driver said.
"I don't know how much longer I'll be doing it. It depends on my health, but so far, I've had excellent health," Smitty said.

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Fender's Bassman 410 Neo cabinet delivers the full, tight and punchy bass sound you'd expect from a 4x10" enclosure, and does it with sparkling vintage Fender looks and a remarkably lightweight design.
Features include four 10" Eminence® U.S.A. neodymium-magnet speakers, compression driver horn with attenuator, lightweight plywood enclosure with classic Fender '60s "blackface" styling and Speakon connectors, removable casters and spring-loaded heavy-duty handles for easier transport. Rated at 1,000 watts program (500 watts continuous) at 8 ohms.
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|Model Name:
|Bassman® 410 Neo, Black
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|Amplifier Type:
|Speaker Enclosure
|High Frequency Horn Attenuator
|Speaker Jack:
|Two 1/4" Parallel, One Neutrik Speakon®
|Power Handling:
|1000 watts (Program), 500 watts (Continuous) Handling Capability
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|One - Compression Driver High-Frequency Horn
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|7-Ply 5/8" Meranti Plywood
|Two Side-Mounted Spring-Loaded Steel Flip Style
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|Black Textured Vinyl Covering with Silver Grille Cloth
|Amplifier Depth:
|16.25" (41.3 cm)
|Amplifier Width:
|26" (66 cm)
|Amplifier Height:
|24.5" (62.2 cm)
|Amplifier Weight:
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|Four - 10" Fender® Special Design Eminence® Neodymium
|8 ohms
|Unique Features:
|10" Eminence® U.S.A. neodymium-magnet speakers, compression driver horn with attenuator, lightweight plywood enclosure, Speakon connector, removable casters, spring-loaded heavy-duty handles
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The new 4K TVs shown by several manufactures this year at CES are either the next big thing in television or just a more expensive version of same old, same old. The truth for most people is probably something in between.
LG this week unveiled the company's first 4K (3840x2160 screen resolution) LED TV model LM9600. At 84 inches diagonally, it was not only one of the highest resolution TVs at the show (Sharp showed a prototype 8K TV) but also one of the largest.
Because there is no 4K content available and no expectations that 4K content is coming in any serious way any time soon, the main benefit of 4K resolution is that you can get a bigger picture (or sit closer) without seeing any pixel structure and you can get full 1080p resolution 3D with polarized glasses. That's important, especially to LG, because they've been driving hard the benefits of passive polarized 3D over active.
I was able to get up close and personal with LG's LM9600 TV. On the CES show floor it was only being demonstrated in 3D mode with some footage prepared by LG, not Blu-ray material.
First off, the TV uses LG's LED Plus technology which means it's edge-lit, but incorporates zones of local dimming. The rep at the TV didn't know how many zones. I was also told it's a 240Hz screen, but was unable to get complete confirmation on that.
The TV's colors were dramatic, maybe a bit too dramatic and over saturated, but that could be a combination of the content and the way the TV was set up for the event. These sets aren't usually calibrated to home theater specs when viewed in a convention center—they're set up to be bright and bold under super bright lighting.
The first thing you notice as you approach the TV is how close you can get without seeing any pixel structure—I approached to within a foot or so, and even then the picture was smooth, even along edges. At more normal viewing distance, the TV was incredibly sharp. Note, this was all in 3D mode.
Wearing polarized 3D glasses (LG must have handed out thousands of them at CES this year), the picture didn't exhibit any of the softening that can be associated with a standard 1080p passive TV set because in this case, each eye received a full 1080p picture. The 3D effect was very convincing. In one scene when a fencer thrust his foil at the viewers the entire crowd swayed back to get out of the way. The hand guard of the foil appeared to be inches from my face, but looked detailed and real. The image showed no crosstalk or flicker that I could notice.
In other scenes some objects grew softer in appearance as they moved out of the mid-field, either backward or forward, of the 3D image. Flowers that looked sharp as they were further back became cloudy as they moved closer to the viewer.
Black areas also looked strong, but the content on the screen was mostly bright and colorful, so it's difficult to judge how well the black levels really are at this point.
It will be good to see how this TV looks with 3D Blu-ray movies, but we'll have to wait for review samples. I also want to see how it looks upscaling regular 1080p for 2D viewing.
The model will come with LG's new suite of smart TV features including the Magic Remote with voice and gesture control.
This model is planned for release sometime in the second quarter of this year. The price hasn't been released yet, but expect it to not be cheap.
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For our first case study, we'll be analyzing TierPoint, which holds data centers across the United States. The TierPoint Dallas data center is one of it's biggest and most popular. They also have locations in Baltimore, Seattle, Oklahoma City, Spokane, and Philadelphia. TierPoint is rapidly growing and acquiring large data centers across the U.S. are a force to be reckoned with in the industry.
But most importantly, how is their website?
Layout Grade: A
TierPoint just had a nice redesign and they site has dramatically increased its usability. It's easy to navigate and find details about their business and services. Simplicity is often the best formula for a clean website and they have executed perfectly.
Visitors Grade: B +
According to Alexa rankings, TierPoint is the 290,383 most trafficked website in the world. One important factor to keep in mind, is that they are targeting a very small market and the site and their marketing strategy is not designed to attract the masses. They are targeted a very specific audience of small businesses. So, traffic numbers can be very situational. Could they have increase the amount of targeted visitors going to your website? Of course. There's always room for improvement. Especially since their competitor, Equinix has an Alexa ranking of 73,992.
Content Grade: C
A "C" grade for content might be a little harsh, but I think there are some content issues. One thing they do really well is explain almost every detail about their business. HOWEVER, one critical thing that they should consider improving, is to focus more on educated their audience. If I was interested in cloud services or using a data center, I would have a laundry list of questions. I think at this point, they aren't answering many possible questions that a client may have. In essence, they need to ramp up their client education and focus on getting more results in advance. A highly detailed and targeted blog would be perfect.
URL Grade: A
TierPoint is a perfect brand name. It's easy to remember and it's great for SEO purposes because it doesn't have unnecessary keywords stuffed into it. They are actually trying to build a brand and that's exactly what Google wants.
Personality Grade: B
There is no doubt that TierPoint is trying to be as professional as possible with their website and approach. That's always a great strategy. But, being professional and being robotic or corporate are two entirely different things. In today's world, people and businesses want to see a face behind whatever the company that they may be purchasing a product or service from. Marketing and sales has become more personal than ever and being too corporate or robotic with a business can actually be harmful. Every industry is different, but injecting some personality into a business can work wonders.


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WASHINGTON -- Metro has proposed across the board fare increases next July to increase about $30 million in revenue to help with repairing the aging system.
The proposal would raise the average trip on Metrorail 10 cents per trip, on Metrobus 15 cents per trip, and 25 cents to park in a Metro lot.
"The money goes towards improvements. People are seeing improvements every day. What has been discussed today was really a fare increase that is a little bit less than the inflation over the last two years," says Metro General Manager Richard Sarles.
Metro riders are no doubt familiar with the track work on the weekends, a byproduct Sarles says of the last regime that didn't pay enough attention to maintaining the system. He says it'll take the agency until 2017 before it reaches the point it should have been when he took over the job in 2010.
Fixing escalators will be another point of emphasis with the additional revenue. Starting next year, Metro will spend about $150 million dollars to replace or modernize 128 escalators across the system. Metro has a total of 588 escalators.
Metro is also proposing eliminating the cash surcharge on Metrobus and instead charging a flat $1.75 rate. SmarTrip riders currently pay $1.60, while riders who pay in cash must pay $1.80.
The 5A bus to Dulles International Airport and the B30 route to Baltimore-Washington International Airport would see their fares jump from $6 to $7, with Metro saying they need to keep itself competitive with other similar services taking passengers to the airport.
Metro Senior Economic Advisor Mark Schofield also told board members that the agency is considering two options for parking, although those options may not take affect next July.
The first would be a system where Metro would charge different rates to park at different stations. Schofield says certain garages and lots are overcapacity, whereas others are barely utilized. He suggested charging higher rates at locations overcapacity and lower rates at those under-capacity. The idea could be similar to the variable toll rates on the 495 Express Lanes in which operator Transurban fluctuates the price based on congestion on the road. That way, Transurban believes, the amount of cars using the lanes can be largely controlled.
Second, Schofield said Metro is re-examining their policy at the Largo station parking lot on Sunday afternoons. Right now, Redskins fans who park there to go to FedEx Field pay $25, but cannot tailgate in the lot. Schofield says most fans don't park there because of those restrictions and the price, so Metro would consider whether it should lower the price or even eliminate the fee altogether to make the lot more competitive against other parking facilities near the stadium.
All these proposals are contingent on one very important detail: the government shutdown doesn't last too much longer. Ridership on Metro is down about 20-percent since the shutdown because of the large federal workforce that uses the system. Sarles says each day Metro loses a few hundred-thousand dollars in revenue. Although he didn't give a specific figure, it appears the figure is between $350,000-$500,000 per day.
Sarles was asked whether a prolonged government shutdown or not reaching a deal on the debt ceiling would change the equation for the fare increases in 2014. The answer appears to be yes, but when asked what that magic date is when he'd have to consider steeper fare increases to combat the shutdown, he didn't give specifics.
"That's one of the things we're examining and monitoring. I haven't set a date on that," says Sarles.
"There are a number of issues here. There's less ridership because of fewer employees working. The District has not made it's contribution. There are questions about SmartBenefits. All these things are out there. The best thing that could happen is that this situation gets resolved shortly. As it continues to go on, we're certainly not taking in the revenue that we have to take in. It affects us this year. We have made certain cuts, but it doesn't make up for the revenue lost," he says.
As Sarles referenced, the District of Columbia did not make its quarterly $74 million payment to Metro's operating budget. D.C. Mayor Vince Gray says the payment wasn't made because the city doesn't have the money, due to the government shutdown. No appropriations means a budget hit and cash flow problems.
Meanwhile, Sarles also took an opportunity to express his deepest regrets to the incident on the Red Line outside Union Station where contract worker Harold Ingram was killed on Sunday morning.
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Fender introduces its first ever multi-effects unit in the form of the Mustang Floor-a versatile high-performance floor unit that delivers pro-level amp modeling, effects and artist preset sounds in a richly varied wealth of musical styles. And you don't have to be a tech expert to use the Mustang Floor-it's easy to use right out of the box.
A natural offshoot of our Mustang series amplifiers (basically a Mustang amp without the power amp and speaker), the Mustang Floor is designed for a variety of applications, only one of which is a great multi-effects unit for any basic guitar amp that puts more than three dozen digital effects at your feet. It's also a modeling preamp with low-impedance speaker-emulated outputs for running direct to a PA system, a modeling preamp with line-level outputs for use with a power amp and speakers, a silent practice system with stereo headphone output and auxiliary input perfect for playing along with an iPod or other media player, and a fantastic tone machine for direct-to-digital USB recording.
Mustang Floor features include nine footswitches and a solid aluminum treadle-style control pedal, intuitive Mustang III control panel and LCD window, 12 amp models, 37 effects, 100 onboard factory and user presets, "individual stompbox" mode in which amp models can be bypassed, headphone output and auxiliary input, dual XLR and dual 1/4" line outputs with level control (outputs can be programmed for optimal response with PA system, power amp or guitar amp), chromatic tuner, and easy USB connectivity for high-quality low-latency audio output and interface with free Fender FUSE™ application. Fender FUSE™ software, included as a free download, offers on-screen parameter control, deep editing, "hidden" parameters, unlimited preset storage, easy firmware upgrades and additional free content from Fender, Fender artists and other users worldwide. Additional control available with optional EXP-1 pedal.
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I like the option to use your tablet, laptop or pc to control your sounds, but it lacks the drum machine like my Digitech Element XP has. At the other hand the Digitech lacks the first mention option, ideal would be if this SP had this option also. Once Fender had such an Amp the G- Deck version ....
I love this unit. I not only use it for my guitar fx but also use it as an external fx module for Ableton Live. Using Fuse I can process fx in recordings on the fly. The only complaint I have is the delay, just can't seem to dial it in properly. Overall though, it's a sturdy and great unit. Would buy it all over again. Oh, and I must mention Fender support for Fuse. Had an issue with downloading presets and they responded quickly. Together, we solved the problem
Belalan owns this item
Just about loving it! Put it in front or in the rear of your amp or plug headphones in. You can tweak just about everything on this unit, and use computer to do more. The expression pedal/s can control the amp, effects or the volume-great idea!
Use it to record tracks. My only beef is the tuner button is the same as tap button and all the lights are red but one. But it's got A To Z, Really like a ring modulator.
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Got this to juice up my Frontman 212 a bit. So for the price of the Frontman and the Mustang Floor, I have all the cool tones, with more than enough power for a very reasonable price. I have the Blue Tolex covered Frontman, and it looks great and wounded good before I got the Mustang. Very happy with this combination.
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Love the box. Tough as nails. Sounds great. Control layout intuitive while playing and easy to tweak presets on the device. The only reason I would not buy this product again is the software. It is obvious that Fender dumped a lot of time into making it look 'cool', but it is practically unusable. For example, you cannot do something as simple as re-order the presets by dragging them and dropping them. I had to write my own software to do that. Having been away from the manual for a while, I went back this morning to overwrite some presets and cannot figure out how to do it intuitively. This product would be 5 stars all the way of Fender would dump the Silverlight graphic interface and give me something that is quick, simple and intuitive.
Forbescraft owns this item
I have had this unit for about six months now and I like the features it provides. The unit is all metal construction and the buttons are heavy duty, unlike some other units like this. The amp models and effects are really good as well. I have been playing around with rolling back the volume on the guitar to clean up the tone and it works pretty well on most of the amp models. There are two issue that are bugging me about the mustang floor. One is when I set up an effects chain with the wah effect, when I engage it I lose a little bit of volume. Two, the gain from the USB port is not set at the same level across all presets. You have to go in to each preset and set the USB gain level. This not necessarily a bad thing, but it can be a little annoying to do it for each "preset". All and all this a very well built unit with a lot of features. Well worth the street price you can pick this thing up for.
Orkboy59 owns this item
I researched a few floor units before going with the Mustang. It's really easy to get up and running with this effects unit and it has a lot of features. There aren't as many sounds, etc as some of the competitors, but that's ok. There's enough to work with to get a variety of clean/OD/distortion settings that sound really good. Easy to edit on the fly. I'm looking forward to USB-ing it to my computer and possibly adding the expression pedal at some point. Great addition to the arsenal!
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|Model Name:
|Mustang™ Floor, 120V
|Model Number:
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|Amplifier Type:
|Nine Foot Switches, Preset Access Knob, Amp Button, Stomp Button, Mod Button, Delay Button, Reverb Button, Utility Button, Save Button, Exit Button
|Effects Loop:
|1/4" - (One Input/One Output)
|One - 1/4"
|Auxiliary Input:
|1/8" Stereo
|Headphone Jack:
|1/8" Stereo Speaker Emulated Headphone Output
|Line Out:
|Four - (Two 1/4" and Two XLR)
|Amplifier Depth:
|20.5" (52.1 cm)
|Amplifier Width:
|8.7" (22 cm)
|Amplifier Height:
|3.25" (8.2 cm)
|Amplifier Weight:
|9 lbs. (4.08 kg)
|12 Amp Models, 7 Stomp Effects, 11 Modulation Effects, 9 Delay Effects, and 10 Reverb Effects
|Unique Features:
|100 fully customizable presets with dozens of built-in effects, amplifier models and speaker simulation, full integration with Fender® FUSE™ software for use with computer, dual-mode footswitch buttons for selecting presets in one mode and bypassing effects in second mode, tap/tune footswitch button for tapping in delay times and optional MS-4 four button footswitch (P/N 0080996000) available for additional features, one standard MIDI input jack, one standard MIDI output jack and one standard Type-B USB jack.
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Nov. 24, 2013
Essays in which writers bid farewell to New York City, genre popularized by Joan Didion in 1967, are finding renewed life as a new generation of writers works out its own love-hate relationship with city; several such works have been published in book Goodbye to All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving New York. MORE
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Media Decoder blog; Zola Books start-up announces it will sell e-book of Slouching Towards Bethlehem, as well as other digital books, by author Joan Didion in effort to persuade book buyers to flock to its website; Zola is hybrid that is designed to be bookseller, curator and social networking site all in one. MORE
Jul. 11, 2013
Pres Obama awards National Humanities Medal, nation's highest honors in arts and humanities, to two dozen people whose work represents 'a lasting contribution to American life'; recipients include Joan Didion, Tony Kushner, George Lucas and Elaine May. MORE
Jun. 24, 2012
Anita Gates reviews Westport County Playhouse production of Joan Didion play The Year of Magical Thinking, directed by Nicholas Martin and starring Maureen Anderman (Metropolitan/Connecticut). MORE
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John Banville reviews book Blue Nights by Joan Didion. MORE
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November 24, 2013, Sunday
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November 4, 2013, Monday
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About Last Night | Old and Young New York Collide at a Gala for the Whitney
Artists, starlets, titans and hipsters rubbed shoulders and gawked at the nude models at last night's annual fund-raiser for the museum, which honored Ed Ruscha.
October 24, 2013, Thursday
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July 11, 2013, Thursday
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George Lucas, Herb Alpert, Allen Toussaint, Renée Fleming and Tony Kushner are among this year's recipients of the National Medal of Arts. National Humanities Medals will go to Marilynne Robinson, Kay Ryan, Anna Deavere Smith and Joan Didion,...
July 8, 2013, Monday
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Old Friends Help New York Review Celebrate 50 Years
The literary journal celebrated its 50th anniversary at Town Hall with Joan Didion, Michael Chabon and others.
February 6, 2013, Wednesday
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Mean Streets to Grub Street? Scorsese Films New York Review's 50th Anniversary
Neither the magazine nor the director will say whether the shoots are part of a formal documentary project.
February 5, 2013, Tuesday
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Viking Europe, Viking Neptune, Viking Pride and Viking Spirit are four sister ships that set the bar for river cruising in Europe when they were launched in 2001. They feature a beautifully designed layout of public areas and a wraparound deck that allows guests to enjoy scenery in the open air any time they wish, even during canal lock transiting or while sailing under low bridges; each ship accommodates just 150 guests in spacious staterooms, most with windows that open.Read full description
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RestaurantThe restaurant is where all meals are served during your cruise. Because it features panoramic windows, you will not miss any of the scenery while you are dining. It seats 150 guests at 28 tables which vary in size, accommodating 4, 6 or 8 guests per table. The dining room is open seating, so you are free to sit where you like—a great way to make new friends. The atmosphere is casual but elegant, with high-quality table linens, china, cutlery and glassware. The room has a stereo system for playing quiet music during meals.


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Police and rioters: the social media war
MEDIAWATCH, Tuesday, 9/8/2011. We look at videos and photos posted by looters in London as well as how they organise themselves using social media and mobile phones. However, the police and civil society are fighting back and are also making use of social media.


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CIA challenges accuracy of movie 'Zero Dark Thirty'
Film focuses on Osama bin Laden raid
WASHINGTON - The CIA joined on Friday the chorus of those challenging the accuracy of a new movie on the Osama bin Laden raid that suggests that harsh interrogation techniques used on suspected terrorists helped the agency find the man considered behind the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the United States.
In an unusual move, the acting director of the CIA, Michael Morell, issued a statement to employees on Friday that emphasized that "Zero Dark Thirty" is not a historically accurate film.
Of particular concern are the harrowing scenes at the beginning of the movie that depict a suspected terrorist being interrogated at a secret CIA prison overseas with waterboarding and other so-called enhanced interrogation techniques. The suggestion in the movie is that those coercive techniques aided in identifying the courier who eventually led to the compound in Pakistan where bin Laden was living.
Morell acknowledged that the interrogations played a role but said that they were not as important as the movie implied. "That impression is false," Morell said. There were multiple streams of intelligence, according to Morell. "Some came from detainees subjected to enhanced techniques, but there were many other sources as well."
Morell also criticized the film for implying that just a few individuals were responsible for the successful operation when in fact hundreds were involved. He also took exception to the "liberties" the filmmakers took in depicting CIA officers, especially ones who had died. "We cannot allow a Hollywood film to cloud our memory of them," he said.
Morell acknowledged the agency had interacted with the filmmakers but said the movie is a "dramatization, not a realistic portrayal of the facts ... we do not control the final product."
Morell's comments followed objections earlier in the week from Sens. Dianne Feinstein, Carl Levin and John McCain, who called on Sony Pictures Entertainment to publicly state that the movie is not based on fact.
"'Zero Dark Thirty' is factually inaccurate, and we believe that you have an obligation to state that the role of torture in the hunt for Osama bin Laden is not based on the facts, but rather part of the films fictional narrative," the senators wrote.
In response to the senators' criticism, filmmakers Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal said the film condenses 10 years of intelligence work into a 2 1/2-hour film.
"We depicted a variety of controversial practices and intelligence methods that were used in the name of finding bin Laden. The film shows that no single method was necessarily responsible for solving the manhunt, nor can any single scene taken in isolation fairly capture the totality of efforts the film dramatizes," their statement said. "We encourage people to see the film before characterizing it."
"Zero Dark Thirty" opened in theaters on Wednesday.


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How Mosses Have Sex in Spite of Their Swimming-Challenged Sperm
July 27th, 2012 | 3
Last summer I was hiking in the tundra near Gray's and Torrey's Peaks when I came upon a moss that looked strange. It had little flattened discs that looked something like this: What were these things? Then I happened to pick up a book called "Gathering Moss", and suddenly I knew what it was I [...]Keep reading »
Ferns, Secret Ninja Ferns, and their Alluring Asexual Bits
May 6th, 2012 | 5
A fern may seem a simple thing. It's a leaf; it sprouts from the forest floor. But it's much more than that. Ferns were one of the first plant forms to evolve, and they retain features that show it. For instance, unlike mosses and their wacky buddies the liverworts, ferns possess true stems (which usually [...]Keep reading »
No Silly Love Songs? Celebrate Valentine's Day with Our Latest E-Book: Love, Sex and Science
Will "Love Will Keep Us Together" or is it true that "Love Is a Battlefield"? Whereas the topic of romance has provided limitless inspiration for artists, writers and musicians, scientists are just as fascinated by affairs of the heart, though they seldom sing about it. Cupid's unpredictable arrow explains little, so it can be more [...]Keep reading »
The Original Cupid Was a Sociopath
February 14th, 2014 | 5
"Winged Cupid, rash and hardy, who by his evil manners, contemning all public justice and law, armed with fire and arrows, running up and down in the nights from house to house, and corrupting lawful marriages of every person, doth nothing but evil." —Lucius Apuleius, The Tale of Cupid and Psyche (late second century A.D.) [...]Keep reading »
Beware the Ultimate Orgasm: Autoerotic Fatalities
September 6th, 2013 | 1
The recent headlining report of a 70-year-old man who inserted a fork into his urethra in a misplaced effort to obtain sexual gratification—and who, in the process, unleashed a collective wince heard 'round the world once the x-ray image of his sounding went viral online—shines a light on the lengths some people will go to [...]Keep reading »
Hearts of Stone: Sexual Deviants in Antiquity
August 8th, 2013 | 3
Paraphilias change with the times—and with the materials at hand. One of the reasons that completely new forms of sexual deviancy continue to emerge, while others vanish, is the fact that, as society changes, so too do the cultural factors upon which sexual imprinting occurs. In 1975, the scholars Alex Scobie and Tony Taylor argued [...]Keep reading »
Bromidrophilia: Beauty is in the Nose of the Besniffer
"Coming home soon; don't wash," Napoleon Bonaparte once wrote to his wife, Joséphine. It's unclear from this snippet of a love note if the most famous Emperor in French history had a certifiable case of bromidrophilia—a paraphilia in which the individual finds the natural body odors of attractive people to be the most arousing erotic [...]Keep reading »
Meet the Feeders: Getting Off by Getting Fat
August 2nd, 2013 | 2
"If I offered you a million dollars if you could have an orgasm in the next 60 seconds," said the psychologist to the woman, "what would you do or fantasize about in order to achieve that orgasm as quickly as possible?" "I would use my vibrator and probably run the other hand over the thicker [...]Keep reading »
Apotemnophilia: A Cut Above the Rest (of the Sexual Deviancies)
Apotemnophiles (from the Greek, apo, away from + temnien, to cut) are individuals who exhibit an intense desire for one of their own limbs to be shorn off. The available evidence suggests that a strong motivation for many of them, if perhaps not every single case, is autoerotic in nature. In 2005, the psychiatrist Michael [...]Keep reading »
(Ever)lasting Beauty: A Sexual Attraction to the Elderly
July 31st, 2013 | 4
Gerontophilia is an "erotic age orientation" in which one is most strongly aroused by the elderly, and so it is at the opposite end of the spectrum from pedophilia. In fact, perhaps the most bizarre theory concerning its etiological (or clinical) origins was put forth, without any supporting data, by the British psychiatrist T. C. [...]Keep reading »
Paraphilic Infantalism: The Case of the Old Baby
July 30th, 2013 | 6
Autonepiophilia, or paraphilic infantalism, involves impersonating a baby to achieve sexual gratification. You may have encountered such pampered individuals on an old episode of Jerry Springer or some other tabloid venue that paraded them out on stage, but in fact these "Adult Babies," as they refer to themselves, are not as uncommon as you might [...]Keep reading »
Partial for Protuberant: The Man Who Was Into "Outies"
Here's a question for you: When did you last spend some serious, quality time with your belly button? As for me, it was the bellbottomed year of our Lord 1979 that I last engaged in a literal bout of navel-gazing, back when I was a hyperactive preschool contortionist bending myself into an awkward ball just [...]Keep reading »
Getting a Little Racy: On Black Beauty, Evolution and the Science of Interracial Sex
May 31st, 2011 | 18
A few weeks ago, Satoshi Kanazawa, a blogger at Psychology Today who was already notorious for his dubious claims about racial differences, especially with respect to intelligence, proclaimed on the basis of a bizarre data analysis that Black women are "objectively" the least attractive females of all the races. Objectively, mind you, which implies that [...]Keep reading »
Probiotics, the Immune System, and Mouse Balls
January 30th, 2014 | 3
I don't think I'm alone in my prurient interest in research related to sex, since those posts tend to be wildly popular. At the same time, I try mostly to stick to my field of expertise while blogging, and the intersection between sex and the immune system doesn't happen that often (unless we're talking about [...]Keep reading »
Sexually Transmitted Food Allergens
A few years ago, while casting out to twitter asking for immunology-themed post ideas, Christie Wilcox mentioned that a friend of hers seemed to have an allergic reaction after having sex. It turns out, "seminal plasma protein allergy" (or SPPA) is actually quite common, and I wrote a post about it. While doing research for [...]Keep reading »
Breaking Brick Stereotypes: LEGO Unveils a Female Scientist
September 2nd, 2013 | 14
It's 11:47 am on the Sunday before Labor Day, and I'm staking out a LEGO store inside a Byzantine shopping mall on the outskirts of Boston. I am here with a coterie of children and parents, the lot of us waiting impatiently while three LEGO associates in black shirts and khakis make their last-minute preparations [...]Keep reading »
We Can't Blame Everything on Powerful Men
November 16th, 2012 | 4
There's certainly been no shortage of news headlines proclaiming that we can now add former CIA director General David Petraeus to the list of powerful men who have been brought down by very well-publicized sex scandals. It's particularly dismaying to see how many of these headlines are broadly asserting, as news outlet headlines often do [...]Keep reading »
The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Natural Selection and Evolution, with a Key to Many Complicating Factors
June 21st, 2011 | 16
June is Pride Month in the United States, and in communities across the country, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered Americans are celebrating with carnivals, parades, and marches. Pride is a rebuke to the shame and marginalization many LGBT people face growing up, and a celebration of the freedoms we've won since the days when our [...]Keep reading »
We all need (a little bit of) sex
November 2nd, 2010 | 2
Sex costs amazing amounts of time and energy. Just take birds of paradise touting their tails, stags jousting with their antlers or singles spending their weekends in loud and sweaty bars. Is sex really worth all the effort that we, sexual species, collectively put into it? Despite many teenage frustrations and MTV, most biologists think [...]Keep reading »
Finding the "Ideal" Partner When You Feel Insecure
Many people – too many people – are drained by efforts to cover up their sense that they are essentially inadequate and flawed. This causes many problems in their lives, including feeling chronically distressed about their intimate relationships. The good news is that there are ways to help alleviate these problems. One part of the [...]Keep reading »
The Warning Signs That Depression Is Affecting Your Relationship
March 6th, 2014 | 2
Adapted from When Depression Hurts Your Relationship: How To Regain Intimacy and Reconnect with Your Partner When You're Depressed. Copyright 2014 Shannon Kolakowski. If your relationship is struggling, depression may be the culprit. A resounding body of research has shown how closely depression is related to relationships in a cyclical fashion: depression affects the quality [...]Keep reading »
Can Chimpanzees Teach us Anything About Differences Between Boys and Girls?
January 6th, 2014 | 7
Whether there exist differences between boys and girls is passionately debated (for example, see this debate about gender disparity between Stephen Pinker and Elizabeth Spelke). Some studies have found that girls are more sociable than boys, but prefer to play with just one other person, while boys prefer a larger group to play with. However, [...]Keep reading »
A Glimpse Into the Sexual Lives of Chimpanzees
Brittany Fallon is a PhD candidate at the Université de Neuchâtel who works on the Sonso chimpanzee community of the Budongo Forest Reserve in Uganda. Here she shares some of her insights into their sexual displays. In today's focal party, the main characters are Nambi, the Alpha female who engages in regular sexual relations [...]Keep reading »
5 (Scientific) Reasons to Stay Single This Summer
July 19th, 2013 | 2
For better or worse, humans do not have a distinct "mating season." Healthy females ovulate every month, which means that mating too can take place any time of year. And that's just the "reproductive" sort of sexual behavior, which is to say, a very small portion of the sexual behavior we merrily exhibit. So then, [...]Keep reading »
Common STD Grows Resistant to Treatment in North America
January 8th, 2013 | 4
The most commonly acquired sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in the U.S., chlamydia and gonorrhea, are usually cleared out swiftly and easily with a dose of oral antibiotics. But one of these infections is growing bold and finding ways to evade treatment. More than 321,000 cases of gonorrhea are reported each year in the U.S. alone—and [...]Keep reading »
50 Shades of Sea Slug Sex: It's Stranger Than You Think
August 24th, 2012 | 2
Two-part barbed penises, a physical struggle and 20 minutes of penetration. That's how some sea slugs do it. But the real shocker is that, for one species at least, those in the female role seem to engage in these bizarre, violent sexual encounters more often than might be biologically necessary. Nothing about sea-slug sex sounds [...]Keep reading »
How Computers Could Reduce the Spread of HIV
July 27th, 2012 | 6
Condom use, earlier treatment and increased education have gone a long way to reducing HIV spread in the U.S. Nonetheless, some 4,000 inhabitants of New York City still became infected with HIV in 2009. Injection drug users make up a small portion of the new infections (just over 4 percent in NYC, and about 9 percent [...]Keep reading »
Moss Sperm Smells Sweet Enough for Sex
July 18th, 2012 | 2
Moss, that cushy, moisture-loving ground cover, is more promiscuous than we thought. These plants might not have the sexy flowers of a peony, but according to new research, they do manage to attract small pollinators with a subtle sweet smell. Previously, scientists had presumed that these primitive plants needed a layer of water for their [...]Keep reading »
For Unendowed Fish, a Fake Dinner Leads to Sex
The promise of a nice dinner might not always win over a woman, but for some male fish, a tasty-looking lure seems to get the girl pretty reliably. The trick is to make sure the offering resembles the local cuisine and then they can reel in the ladies hook, line and sinker. Swordtail charachin (Corynopoma [...]Keep reading »
Ramachandran's Lab Looks into Whether You Can Be a Man in the Morning and a Woman at Night
April 19th, 2012 | 8
A graduate student of famed neuroscientist Vilayanur S. Ramachandran has found a group of men and women who report that their sexual identity can switch involuntarily to that of the opposite sex and back again. The transgender metamorphosis, these people assert, can occur several times a day and at inopportune moments. It is also accompanied [...]Keep reading »
Poor Diets Lower Sperm Counts
March 13th, 2012 | 2
Fellas, want a better chance of passing along your genes? Try laying off the fried food. A more healthful diet will not only help you get fitter, but, new research indicates, it might also increase the odds that your sperm are in better shape, too. A whole host of factors might impair male fertility—including alcohol [...]Keep reading »
Sex Is Safe for Many with Heart Disease, Report Says
January 19th, 2012 | 4
Sex might seem like a risky occupation for the more than 27 million Americans who have been diagnosed with heart disease. But that's not necessarily so, says a new report. The risk varies greatly depending on the severity of a person's condition—as well as how stressful (or, perhaps, exciting) the sex is. Cardiac patients whose [...]Keep reading »
Only Epilepsy Brings More Activity to Women's Brains than Does 'Self-Stimulation' to Orgasm
November 15th, 2011 | 3
The pop psychology section of Barnes & Noble is filled with self-help books that dutifully explain how the brain is the body's primary erogenous zone. Now researchers have spliced together a series of fMRI images to make a movie that shows the extent to which that clichéd adage rings true. A video, shown on an [...]Keep reading »
Mistaken Octopus Sex Identity Leads to Multi-Armed Wrestling Match [Video]
The octopus, by in large, practices very safe sex. You would, too, if you and the object of your affection were both cannibals. But the algae octopus (Abdopus aculeatus) has developed a relatively sophisticated mating system that involves far more close contact than many other octopus species. In populations of these cephalopods, males and females [...]Keep reading »
16 Arms + 6 Hearts = Love? Watch an Octopus Blind Date Live
February 14th, 2014 | 1
This Valentine's Day, two octopuses are getting set up on a blind date. And you can watch what happens. Ace, a male giant Pacific octopus (Enteroctopus dofleini) between 40 and 50 pounds and two-and-a-half to three-years old, and YoYo, a female of a similar size and age, will be introduced for the first time [...]Keep reading »
Odd Male Octopus Flaunts 2 Unexpected Arm Phalluses
Is that a case of bilateral hectocotylization, or are you just extra happy to see me? Or so might a female octopus say if she met the young subject of a new report about a certain biological oddity—or oddities. A rare juvenile octopus was captured off the coast of Alaska flaunting not one but two [...]Keep reading »
Unusual Offshore Octopods: Lady Octopus Attracts Mates with a Glowing Kisser
June 21st, 2013 | 1
Many animals go to great lengths to attract a mate. This goal is especially challenging for a solitary animal, such as the octopus, living in the large, lonely ocean. Another major disadvantage: being a deep-sea octopod that lives in the dark, vast water column. But the females of Bolitaena pygmaea have a peculiar—and apparently effective—strategy: [...]Keep reading »
Unusual Offshore Octopods: Argonaut Octopus Builds a "Shell" for Swimming [Video]
The vast majority of octopus species live along the sea floor—whether that is in the sandy shallows off a tropical coast or in the dark depths around hydrothermal vents. But a handful of octopuses spend their lives swimming in the open seas, many using internal air-filled swim bladders to stay buoyant. But females of one [...]Keep reading »
Octopuses Get One Chance at Love [Video]
March 12th, 2013 | 3
The octopus is a solitary creature. Most known species of octopus avoid the company their own kind. And you might, too, if you knew your conspecific were capable of cannibalism. So in public aquariums, these animals are usually kept in separate tanks to keep them safe (and to avoid any unsightly encounters in front of [...]Keep reading »
Rare Social Octopuses Break All the (Mating) Rules [Video]
February 27th, 2013 | 6
Of the hundreds of known octopus species, most are anti-social, practice safe sex (to avoid getting eaten by a mate) and lay just one clutch of eggs before dying. The poorly understood larger Pacific striped octopus, however, seems to break from these conventions: They are somewhat social, they mate face-to-face, and the females produce multiple [...]Keep reading »
Sex and the Married Neurotic
February 14th, 2014 | 2
There are few things in this world that I truly loathe. One of those things is the show Everybody Loves Raymond. Why, you might ask? First of all, it's actually quite hard to really 'love' Raymond. From what I've seen of the show (which is admittedly not much), he seems to care about three things: golf, [...]Keep reading »
Sex Makes You Rich? Why We Keep Saying "Correlation Is Not Causation" Even Though It's Annoying
August 20th, 2013 | 15
On Saturday, my Twitter feed alerted me to a totally non-sensationalistic Gawker article called More Buck For Your Bang: People Who Have More Sex Make The Most Money. "Scientists in the adonis-laden European country [Germany] found that people who have sex more than four times a week receive a 3.2 percent higher paycheck than those [...]Keep reading »
Decoding Sexual Desire: Why You're Into It—or Not
October 11th, 2011 | 8
Desire. When you have it, nobody questions it. When it is absent, it can be tricky to talk about. After all, the subject is delicate, and what is the point? You probably have little clue what is going on anyway. Luckily, scientists are looking out for you—because it is not even close to being just [...]Keep reading »
German Court: Circumcision Is Cruel and Usual Punishment
July 14th, 2012 | 23
Conventional wisdom has it that the only thing that will unite races, religions and political factions will be the landing of a hostile Martian space ship. It's a little hard to plan for the exact moment of the next Mars attack. So invoking global terror from extraterrestrials might not be such a great strategy for [...]Keep reading »
Wordless Wednesday: Research Snapshots 8 – taking measurements
Research snaphots from what's active on my desk right now. Yes, this is what has my attention these days – anogenital distances, AGD. Simple basic physical measures of anatomy of AGD can tell scientists a lot of important information about a species. In most mammaliam species AGD is a dimorphic – meaning different in size [...]Keep reading »
The House that Fitz Built: A Scandal Explanation of the Polygyny Threshold Hypothesis
I don't watch Scandal but I have a pretty good idea of the major plot lines and characters. Thanks to the awesomeness that is Social Media and #BlackTwitter, I have a close captioning service that is beyond compare. I never felt the desire to pipe up until now. Episode 308 of Scandal was the talk of my [...]Keep reading »
#DispatchesDNLee back on Oklahoma Research Grind & on the Road
I'm back, in Oklahoma and in the research saddle as it were; and I am as busy as ever. My research field trip to Tanzania was a success. I got a lot done and collected much data. Plus, I completed an entire behavioral experiment. And of course, I soaked in the culture, wildlife, and natural [...]Keep reading »
Love & Lust in the Animal Kingdom presented by the NY Academy of Sciences
I'm coming to the east coast in 3 weeks. I'm honored (and excited) to participate in the New York Academy of Sciences Science & the City event on Lust and Love in the Animal Kingdom! It will be a conversational panel discussion (not individual presentations) about the science sex and love. Science & the City, [...]Keep reading »
Feministing Friday: Why does the F-word bother some men?
January 18th, 2013 | 26
That word would be FEMINISM. (click on images to embiggen and read) Late night on Monday, January 14, the day before Dr. Martin Luther the-King Birthday I happened upon a Twitterbeef. I was a casual observer noting the typical side-eyes of Luvvie (I totes love her – in her totality. She's funny, smart, innovative. ERRTHANG, [...]Keep reading »
Hip Hop Evolution Files: What's so special about tight vaginas?
December 13th, 2012 | 15
Keri Hilson with Lil Wayne Lil Wayne's monologue really says it all: mami i dig your persona right, you look baby mama type, i know that got you kinda hyped, my ice is albino white, i hope your vagina tight i go underwater and i hope your piranha bite hahaha Why does vagina muscle tone [...]Keep reading »
The Intersection of Culture and Science – Hip Hop, Feminism, Sex, & Sexual Selection
The Intersection of Culture and Science – Hip Hop, Feminism, Sex, & Sexual Selection: That's essentially what my presentation (and my time interacting with students and faculty) at Denison University was about. It was a blast and most exciting talk I have every given (outside of my dissertation defense). Hip Hop and Science is a [...]Keep reading »
Wordless Wednesday: My Favorite Pollinators
June 20th, 2012 | 2
June 18-24, 2012 is Pollinator Week. Join me is raising awareness of the importance of pollinators our ecosystems. How well do you know your bees? Take this quick and see: Bee Identification.Keep reading »
Feministing Friday: Why Serial Monogamy is bad propaganda for women
March 2nd, 2012 | 11
Feminsiting Friday is a series of posts dissecting hip-hop and pop culture for its sexist influences and/or portrayals on women and girls. Offering insight as an evolutionary biologist, I promise to be analytical, scathing, and downright snarky. I began the series at my previous blog, SouthernPlayalisticEvolutionMusic on the Southern Fried Science Network. I still have [...]Keep reading »
Hip Hop Evolution Files: Examining Infidelity from a Biological Perspective
October 25th, 2011 | 2
It takes two the cheat, but actually cheating involves at least three individuals. First are the two betrothed lovers and next there is the one who indulges the betrayer. Cheating is one of the most popular relationship topics of all time. It never seems to get a rest. Why is that? Well, the affair itself [...]Keep reading »
Breaking Brick Stereotypes: LEGO Unveils a Female Scientist
September 2nd, 2013 | 14
It's 11:47 am on the Sunday before Labor Day, and I'm staking out a LEGO store inside a Byzantine shopping mall on the outskirts of Boston. I am here with a coterie of children and parents, the lot of us waiting impatiently while three LEGO associates in black shirts and khakis make their last-minute preparations [...]Keep reading »
August 28th, 2014 | 1
This post is part of a collaborative narrative series composed of my writing and Chris Arnade's photos exploring issues of addiction, poverty, prostitution and urban anthropology in Hunts Point, Bronx. For more on the series, look here. ————————- OBJECTIVE: To examine the comorbidity of severe mental illness with sexual offending in men. METHOD: A case-control [...]Keep reading »


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I agree with a lot of what you say, and I will even go one further: I believe "going for maximum shield block uptime" is a pipedream. That is that even at maximum shield block uptime and trying to cover gaps with shield barrier, trying to "always have it covered" and going for TDR rules is a bad idea. Honestly I think that giving current tanking mechanics... YOU'RE GONNA TAKE A FULL HIT. Why not gear towards assuming that is going to happen and using sblock and sbar manually instead of automatically as situations required, and having a big huge stock of HPs so that small regular hits don't matter, and big boss hits aren't as relevant.
I said it as a joke in another thread, but I'm starting to convince myself of it:
Stat Priority should be as such:
Hit/Expertise to cap
Gem stam, go for hybrid socket bonuses that give exp/mastery/stam
reforge to mastery after hit/expertise.
Seems like a sound strategy to me. What are your thoughts Krennick?


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LEXINGTON, Ky. - Police reports say a pedestrian who was struck and killed by a fire truck in Lexington was "not visible" at the time of the crash.
The Lexington Herald-Leader ( http://bit.ly/VFqjGr) cited the documents it obtained on Thursday through an open records request in reporting that pedestrian Lauren Roady had a "walk" signal and was in the crosswalk when she was hit. However, the report said it was 10:04 p.m. and raining when the accident happened and Roady, who was 5-foot-3 and 120 pounds, had on dark clothing when she was hit.
Police say the 27-year-old Roady, of Washington, D.C., died shortly after being struck Saturday. She was in town for a running competition.
Police say charges are unlikely to be filed against the driver of the truck.
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