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I remember in 2001 when I started to learn Java how awesome it was compared to C / C++. No more malloc, no more free, no more pointers, lots of easy to use Collections. Plus built in GUI tools e.g. AWT (remember that!) and Applets (*shudder*). Well lately it's been a blast learning Objective-C, which is C but objectified🙂 For those Java programmers out there that want to ramp up quickly here's a quick translation guide – it doesn't explain C pointers etc but you should get a good idea for the significant syntactical/stylistic differences between the two languages. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iRv-8qQxPlMVKLgHPGbkgK4QeruHJ7tqfkEYJxXmd2o/edit?usp=sharing I am sure I have more to add Please let me know if you find any problems or misstatements
Creating a Free Computer Science Degree
Everyone who wants to go to college and can afford to should do so. But what about those who want to, but simply cannot afford to? Yes college pays off over the long term (even at todays exorbitant rates in the USA). But for some families they just see the cost side of the equation. The decision, once clear cut, is becoming a bit more nuanced. For example read
150 of 3500 US Colleges worth the investment
MOOCs (Massively Open Online Courses) are a very interesting recent phenomenon – the idea that you could put college-level courses online and make them free is truly amazing. The high drop-out and poor attendance rates for MOOCs show something important is missing from your average MOOC.
And I think the thing that is missing is the "social" aspect of schooling. When you go to college you make a public commitment to education – at least to your friends and family – that says "I am going to do this". Then you get to class, make friends and you have an incentive to stay. You see your friends get on, maybe see them and others succeed and have higher scores and now you have a competition oriented incentive that takes hold.
I think the "Social" incentives and support, if they could be captured and ignited, would be a fascinating enabler for MOOCs.
Last year I also saw this article "$200K for a computer science degree? Or these free online classes?" that provided a listing of a number of college level courses from the likes of Stanford, MIT and Princeton that could form the basis of a Computer Science education.
And so my creative side (which doesn't get out much) got to thinking. What would it take to have a space, with WiFi, and a collaborative work environment in which people could take these courses with mentorship and guidance from professional software engineers and perhaps some college educators looking to "give back". Not much I think.
If you pair with local software companies (desperate for software engineers of all stripes) you could put together a challenging but realistic education to help propel these kids to a good future.
A key advantage of this "free education" would be the freedom to sculpt a syllabus that is more personalized that the traditional CS degree. Some folks I know from my CS class and my later 20 years of experience are suited to different tracks. Not due to inherent ability or intelligence but a result of what they are inherently interested in. Look some folks just want to get a better job. Others are more committed to a large up-front educational investment (of time).
In addition, we need to recognize that attending college from 18-22 and then retiring at 65 without further educational investment in between is a 20th century concept whose usefulness has passed. We need an educational model that looks more like a "continuous improvement" model – maybe a few courses to bootstrap, then a course or two every year, year-after-year. More like Scrum – less Waterfall.
When I graduated college the key skills were: Unix, C, RDBMSes and CORBA and we were hot about Neural Networks and 64 kbps ISDN lines
Today: We have Internet technologies, Objective C, Java, C# – a plethora of NoSQL technologies – the cloud, mobile etc etc.
Pretty much I'd say your technology skills need a near complete revamping every 3-5 years. True, the principles don't change that much, but the tools, technologies in use and the problems being solved definitely do.
A Computer Science education has milestones but is NEVER done!
So what syllabus would I pick? Well I think the InfoWorld article is a good start but I would add
Hardware Classes
Computer Architecture @ Princeton
Computer Architecture @ Saylor.org
The basics of microprocessors is critical for this being a true CS education. Being hands-on is a challenge but maybe there are opportunities with local "maker" communities.
And that's probably a minimum. A course in electronics and digital logic design would be good in addition.
Math & Statistics
I can hear the groaning, but you won't get far in technology without understanding basic stats (averages, standard deviation, medians, probability distributions etc. But here are some good places to start.
Introduction to Statistics @ Berkeley (EdX)
Introduction to Statistics @ Stanford (Coursera)
Advanced Level: Computing for Data Analysis @ Johns Hopkins (Coursera)
Everyone should have statistics – but for the feel of "true" CS degree you'll want a bunch of work on calculus, discrete math, geometry – they are critical in advanced areas of image processing, crytography, computer graphics etc.
Software development and computer programming are a craft and I think a healthy smattering of hands-on practical exposure in a business environment is critical. It will need to be done for a large chunk of time (3-6 months at a time) and will help to ground the student and focus them on how to hone their craft.
In addition project work with peers is another great way to get this much needed practice time.
Mobile & Internet Technologies
In any CS degree – basic principles and math is critical as well as the need for core systems knowledge. But the kids should get a flavor of the "cool" technologies too.
Mobile: Objective-C / iOS or Java/Android
Web Development: HTML/CSS, Javascript and perhaps some Ruby/Rails (to show people how a dynamic language can make you more efficient)
Not to mention UX design.
So much to learn – but it doesn't have to be all at once. Get enough to get a solid SWE / Web Developer job and then continue to learn – one course at a time, perhaps one each semester – that should be enough.
The Challenge
Could we take MOOCs and pair them with local SWEs and college educators and provide a solid CS education at a very low price? I think the answer is Yes. You don't need the massive classrooms. The stadiums. The dorm rooms. The cafeterias. You can probably figure out something around text books too. Yes you need a space. Yes you need WiFi. You can "employ" some of your better students as mentors too and have them give back before they leave.
I choose the analogy of the "Model T" where Ford created a car affordable to the middle classes (all while paying his workers well above average) and he helped created a revolution in manufacturing.
In the end, it is the result, that proves the model – if you can get these kids hired into good Web Developer and Software Engineer jobs at good companies with near-typical salaries / benefits what more would you need?
AWS Migration Patterns
|A typical "in house" 3-tier web architecture
|Parallel Architectures before the "Big Bang" switchover
|Hybrid architecture to lower switchover risk
Get your surprises before you go "all in"!
1) Billing – it's not what you think it is! You're usage is often very different than your original cost estimation (Hint: It's mostly EC2 + Database)
p.s. One extra bonus – once you've got the "ramp-up and migration" process down, you can use the same process to stand-up more instances of your architecture in different regions. Sadly for now, you can't have RDS create a read-replica in a different region but you CAN look into putting in place a scheme for putting local writes on an SQS queue / SNS topic and persisting it remotely to give yourself a "roll your own" data replication methodology.
[Edit: I just found out that AWS RDS *does* support cross-region replication link]
It is time for a revolution in Tech hiring: Why we need to copy Baseball's farm system
Lets just be real for a moment – there's not enough software talent in the world today. There just isn't. At least in the West for sure – the US and Europe for definite. Also I don't buy what the IEEE says – not by a long shot. There's lots of resumes out there – not much talent (a lot of that mismatch – lots of people, not enough "talent", I think, is just really due to a lack of training).
What's wrong with hiring and recruiting today?
Anyway no matter how good your recruiter is, they're all fighting for the same small talent pool with the same toolset (LinkedIn).
In addition: resume screening, and interviewing is so flawed with holes and assumptions it's ridiculous. How can you boil down 20 years of technology experience to 1 or 2 pages? How can you get a sense of how someone will perform in month 1, month 6 and month 60 based on a five or six 45 minute conversations with artificial problem sets?
It worked for "Build a Bear"
You can hire all the recruiters you want or hire the "best" recruiter, but there is an easier solution. A famous man once said:
"The best way to predict your future is to create it"
(that man was Abraham Lincoln by the way, although I believe it is also attribute to Alan Kay)
The devil is in the details
During that 6 months you see these people during ups and downs, during challenges, in teams and working by themselves. You see them learn, adapt and hopefully have fun – isn't that the ULTIMATE employability metric?
Isn't that exactly what we need? A pipeline of prospective talent? Not every software team needs uber-developers. Sometimes a few good Web devs are all you need. I doubt Healthcare.gov needed Top-10%ers.
What's the payoff?
Such a system would be a win for employers – it's a win for kids who might not get an opportunity to go to college or otherwise get a STEM career and this would also create a larger pool to recruit from – so it's a win for recruiters.
It could also be used to increase diversity within technology ranks.
In addition it would take pressure off the H-1B system of work visas that are so over-subscribed their quota for a year is filled in 5 days! For those senior tech folks already out there – they might be thinking more supply will reduce salaries – but even despite AMAZING demand for people there has been flat salary growth especially at the high end. So much for the law of supply and demand eh! And no – 65,000 H-1Bs is not the cause of flat salaries when these positions go unfilled for 12 weeks or more and Microsoft has over 3,300 openings. Question for another day – so why are those IT salaries flat?
Anyway here's my proposal – Software and IT firms need a farm system – Employers can't find the talent no matter how much they pay (unless they're facebook or apple probably) – so they need to create the talent they need. It's a win for employers and society as a whole. Probably some unintended second order effects but lower unemployment, fewer crazy hours in software, and some more diversity of backgrounds can't be a bad thing net net.
You can already see the demand for such a system with companies like App Academy (in SF), Launch Academy (in Boston), the Academy for Software Engineering and the Flatiron school (both in NYC) getting off the ground. But I see the likes of Facebook, Google, Apple doing their own programs the same way the each baseball team has their own farm system.
Thoughts? Could this work? What would prevent its adoption?
All Scalability problems have only a few solutions . . .
I was having a great conversation before with some technical folks about some very very hard scalability and throughput (not necessarily response time) issues they were facing.
I racked my brain to think of what I had done in the past and realized it came down to a few different classes of solutions. First and foremost though the key to finding the answer is instrumenting your code and/or environment to find out where the bottleneck(s) are.
1) Simplest: Do less work
Kind of obvious but if it's taking you 10 hours to read through some log files and update the database perhaps the easiest thing is to do LESS work. e.g. read fewer log files or do fewer database updates.
You could use techniques like reservoir sampling. But maybe you have to calculate a hard number – the total cost of a set of Stock market trades for example – estimates don't work. Then again perhaps your log files don't need to be so big? Every byte you write has to be FTP'd (and could get corrupted) and that byte has to read later (even if it's not needed).
I find a lot of people forget another alternative here that involves the theme of "Do less work". Basically if you have a good (enough) model of your input data stream then you can get a "fast but slightly inaccurate" estimate soon and then get "eventual consistency" later. It's kind of like that old adage – "You can have it fast, correct and cheap. Pick two!" or like the CAP theorem – something's gotta give. Every dev team should have a Math nerd on it – because Mathematicians have been solving problems like this for decades.
2) Simple-ish: Tune what you already have
Maybe you've got a MySQL DB – does it have enough memory? Perhaps Network I/O is a bottleneck – dual NICs then? Check your NIC settings too (I've hit that once – 100 Mbps settings on GBps network). Perhaps you need to lower priority on other jobs on the system. Is your network dedicated? What's the latency from server to DB (and elsewhere).
Maybe when you FTP data files you should gzip them first (CPU is cheap and "plentiful" relative to Memory and I/O – network and disk). If the write is not the problem, perhaps you can you tune your disk read I/O? Are you using Java NIO? Have you considered striping your disks? Not suprisingly for Hadoop speedup many of the tuning recommendations are I/O related.
Perhaps you have a multi-threaded system – can you throw more threads at it? More database connections?
For the database: Reuse database connections? Do you really need all those indexes? I've seen it be faster to drop indexes, do batch uploads and reapply indexes than to leave the indexes in place. Are you seeing database table contention – locking etc?
3) Moderate: Throw hardware at it
Seems like a cop-out for a developer to say throw hardware at it but if you look at the cost of (say) $20k in better hardware (more memory, faster memory, faster disk I/O etc.) vs. spending 4 developers for a month (costing in the US anyways $40k+) it's clear where the upside is at. Developers are probably the most scarce/precious resource you have (in small organizations anyway) so spend their time wisely. They'll appreciate you for it too!
3) Harder: Fix or redesign the code you have
This is what coders usually do but it's expensive (considering how much devs cost these days).
Are there more efficient algorithms? How about batching inserts or updates?
Do you have a hotspot – e.g. disk I/O due to 10 parallel processes reading from disk?
Is the database a bottleneck – perhaps too MANY updates to the same row, page or table?
If throughput (and not response time) is your issue then perhaps making things quite a bit more asynchronous, decoupled and multi-threaded will improve your overall throughput.
Maybe instead of a process whereby you: Read tonnes of data from a file, update some counters, flush to DB all in the same thread
You decouple the two "blocking" pieces (reading from disk, writing to DB) and that way you can split the problem a bit better – perhaps splitting the file and having more threads read smaller files? Drop all intermediate data into some shared queue in memory (or memcached etc.) and then have another pool of threads read from that shared queue. Instead of one big problem you have two smaller problems each whose solution can be optimized independently of the other.
Kind of a mix of "Fix the code" and #1 "Do less work" is when you realize you are redoing the same calculations over and over again. For example taking an average from the last 30 days requires you
do get todays new data but also re-retrieve 29 prior days worth of data. Make sure you precalculate and cache everything you can. If you are summing the past 30 days of data for example (D1 . . . D30), tomorrow you will need (D2 . . D31) – you can precalculate (D2 . . D30) today for tomorrow. Not that math is hard for CPUs but you get the idea . . . . spend CPU today to save I/O tomorrow!
An example of being smart about what you calculate is here in this MIT paper "Fast Averaging". If your data is "well behaved" you can get an average with a lot less work.
Decoupling with Queues is my favorite technique here but you have to be smart about what you decouple.
4) Hardest: Rearchitect what you have
Developers love to do this – it's like a greenfield but with cool new technology – but it should be the last on your list. Sometimes however it's just necessary. Amazon and eBay have done it countless times. I am sure Google and Facebook have too. I mean they INVENTED whole new systems and architectures (NoSQL, BigTable, DynamoDB etc.) to handle these issues. Then again Facebook still uses MySQL :-)
Again all of these approaches, if they are to be successful and a good use of time rely on knowing where your bottleneck is in the first place – identifying it and beating on that problem until it cries "Momma!"🙂 But lets never forget that the classes of solutions are pretty constant – and the choice basically come down to how much time and money can you afford to fix it.
Ok over to you dear reader – what did I miss, what did I forget? Is there another class of solution?
7 Steps to Software Delivery Nirvana
1) Hire great people
Communications Skills
Knowledge & Programming Skill
Remember you won't get everything you need – if you need to give up something go for a "fast learner" who doesn't have all the technical knowledge (he or she will get there)
2) Hire great people and know what the customers priorities are
Manage Requirements Risk
Fast beats perfect – Be prepared to demo/ship -> learn -> iterate.
3) Hire great people, only build what you need and set expectations
Manage Design Risk – especially do NOT "over design" – keep it simple and refactor as you learn
YAGNI remember "Done beats perfect"
Spot dependencies up front and prepare to manage them
4) Hire great people and show progress
Manage Development Risk – especially estimates & dependencies
– Unit Tests
– Coverage
– Continuous Integration
5) Hire great people and show a quality product
Manage test & delivery risk
Regular (continuous) releases to customers
Quality != Bug free. "Shipped beats perfection"
6) Keep your great people
Remove demotivators
– people and processes
– recurring bugs etc.
Encourage them to learn new things (balancing against delivery risk)
Understand what motivates developers & testers: autonomy, mastery and purpose.
Different people want different things: many managers think developers want to be managers.
Well if you look at most managers they don't seem too happy to me. It's a hard job.
Lot of people like to design and build and solve technical challenges.
7) Sharpen the saw
- Keep your CI fast
- Keep learning
- Retrospectives
- Balance
- There's more to life than building software
What is NOT AS important (emphasis on "AS")
1) Waterfall vs. Agile
2) Scrum vs. Kanban
3) Java vs. C# vs. Python vs. Ruby
4) SQL vs. NoSQL
Yes each delivers some incremental improvement (in SOME context – not ALL contexts). But if you don't have great people it won't matter if you use Waterfall, Scrum, Kanban in Java, Python or Ruby.
What I love about code . . .
After doing more managing than normal and getting back to coding I realize just how much I like to code and why . . . .
Code either works or it doesn't. There's no room for subjectivity between it and me.
And if it doesn't, you can fix it. It doesn't have to be cajoled, mentored, advised or given feedback.
You don't need to worry about the motivation of code.
You don't need to worry about what code thinks about you – you can test it as much or as little as you want. It just does it's job – gets compiled / interpreted and executed.
The code doesn't care if your dependencies are in place or not – it just *IS*.
The code doesn't worry about reorgs or P&L or whether it's executed in your own datacenter or AWS or your desktop or laptop.
It doesn't care if you have documentation or not, code coverage or not, customers or not.
But as much as that's awesome, we live in a world that is so much more – a world where perception matters. Where we work in teams with people who are people – different, fallible, with ups & downs, with other stuff going on and often with different priorities and different motivations. Where reorgs and P&L matter. Where ultimately we need to build a product that people love (or at least like).
Code is awesome – but as Coders we can't just live in that world – most of the "real" problems in Software are people problems – the coding problems are easy in comparison.
POSTSCRIPT: After re-reading this I should give some props to 1 Corinthians – replacing "love" with "code"🙂


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The Prep for Colour Collection is a short and sweet collection. I'm not even sure why they bothered with any color cosmetics, and I could have gone for repromotes of great permanent neutrals, too — just because MAC does have a great neutral range. The collection includes one lipglass ($14), three eyeshadows ($14.50), Prep + Prime Skin Brightening Serum ($40), Prep + Prime Face Protect SPF 50 ($30), and Prep + Prime Fortified Skin Enhancer SPF 35/PA+++ ($30). I don't have photos of Prepped for Glamour Eyeshadow yet, which I will purchase when it launches in-store on Thursday (so check back then!).Read Full Review
The Summer Season: MAC Show Orchid Lipstick
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The Summer Season is a series of posts featuring bright, vibrant shades of coral, orange, and pink lipsticks and lipglosses — all perfect for a summer of fun — that runs through July 2010.
Upcoming MAC Collections: Summer 2010
Upcoming MAC Collections: Summer 2010
Don't let MAC overwhelm you! Here's what you can expect over the next few months from MAC. It seems like a lot, but I swear it feels much lighter than last year.
- Prep for Colour (April 8th)
- Pret-a-Papier (April 22th)
- Mineralize Eye Shadow (Repromotes, April 29th)
- Superglass (May 6th)
- Chromagraphic Pencils (May 13th, PRO Only)
- Nudes (May 13th, PRO Only)
- Opulash (April 22nd at Nordstrom; May 27th Elsewhere)
- To the Beach (May 27th)
- Pigments on Counters (June 10th)
- In the Groove (July 8th)
- Alice + Olivia (July 8th)
- Digi-Pops: Lip Server (July 15th, Nordstrom and The Bay Only)
- Digi-Pops: iPalette (July 8th, The Bay; July 16th, Nordstrom)
- Digi-Pops: Brush Browser (July 8th, The Bay; July 16th Nordstroms)
- Look in a Box (July 8th The Bay; July 16th Nordstroms)
In April, MAC will launch Prep for Colour and Pret-a-Papier as well as repromote Mineralize Eye Shadows. Prep for Colour is a collection centered around prepping and priming products with three new eyeshadows and lipglass in terms of colour. Pret-a-Papier is a full color collection featuring a few repromotes in the launch, but there is one new paint pot (Coral Crepe), as well as a theme of neutrals, corals, and peaches within the collection. This is the bigger launch for April.
In May, we'll see the release of Superglass, Chromagraphic Pencils, Nudes, Opulash, and To the Beach. However, keep in mind that Chromagraphic Pencils and Nudes are only releasing at PRO stores, which means you cannot find these products at counters or freestanding stores. From my understanding, these PRO only products are permanent, though! Superglass is a medium coverage, ultra glittery gloss–think Dazzleglass but on steroids. Opulash is short and sweet featuring a new mascara only available in one shade (black), and if you're near a Nordstrom, you can grab it on April 22nd. To the Beach is the biggest launch of May, and I'd go as far as to say it's the biggest launch of summer, with aqua-green packaging. It's a full color collection, and I know a few of you have been saving up for this already!
In June, MAC leaves us feeling pretty empty or else they're being kind and giving you some time to recover. Right now, June only shows a roll out of pigments to counters and additional shades to freestanding stores. Counters do not normally carry pigments, but they will in June. There are also some previously PRO-only shades that will be available at both counters/freestanding locations. Keep in mind that some of them may not be eye-safe, so ask before you purchase…
In July, there's really only three collections to fret over: In the Groove, Alice + Olivia, and Digi-Pops/Look in a Box aka Nordstrom's Anniversary Collection. In the Groove is a full color collection, so there is plenty to choose from here so budget accordingly! Alice + Olivia is a short and sweet collection with only nine products (but no repromotes!)–three new dazzleglass cremes, three new pigments (!), and three new nail lacquers. Digi-Pops has three parts, but they're all part of Nordstrom's Anniversary Collection, along with Look in a Box. Those with freestanding stores will find iPalette pretty dull, as it is merely a selection of permanent pan eyeshadows for customers to build their own palettes.
I know it seems heavy, but these are really the main collections: Pret-a-Papier (April 22nd), To the Beach (May 27th), In the Groove (July 8th), and Alice + Olivia (July 8th). Digi-Pops will roll out new Dazzle lipsticks (supposedly to be released later on to freestanding stores, but I have no confirmation yet), while the rest of Digi-Pops is standard anniversary fare or primarily repromotes/permanent shades, so it's not as big as you think. (Oh, and skip the brush sets… buy one or two full-size MAC brushes instead of a set.)
What collection(s) are you looking forward to the most?
MAC Nudes Collection (PRO) & Chromagraphic Pencils for Summer 2010
MAC Nudes Collection (PRO) & Chromagraphic Pencils for Summer 2010
U.S. Launch Date: May 13th, 2010 @ PRO Stores Only
Lip Erase ($18.00 U.S. / $21.50 CDN)
- Pale Flesh tone NC 27 Shade (Matte) (PRO)
- Dim Flesh tone NC37 Shade (Matte) (PRO)
Chromagraphic Pencil ($14.50 U.S. / $17.50 CDN)
- NC15/NW20 Flesh tone NC15/NW20 shade (Matte) (PRO)
- NW25/NC30 Flesh tone NW25/NC30 shade (Matte) (PRO)
- NC42/NW35 Flesh tone NC42/NW35 shade (Matte) (PRO)
Pro Longlash ($13.00 U.S. / $15.50 CDN)
- Barelash Flesh tone shade for brow and lash (PRO)
Pigment ($19.50 U.S. / $23.50 CDN)
- Naked Fleshy beige with pearlized pigments (PRO)
- Naked Dark Medium beige with pearlized pigments (PRO)
- Naked Deep Dark Dark beige with pearlized pigments (PRO)
Chromagraphic Pencils ($14.50 U.S. / $17.50 CDN)
- Basic Red Primary Red (Matte) (PRO)
- Genuine Orange Bright orange (Matte) (PRO)
- Primary Yellow Bright clean yellow (Matte) (PRO)
- Landscape Green Lush bright green (Matte) (PRO)
- Marine Ultra Bright naval blue (Matte) (PRO)
- Rich Purple Dense purple (Matte) (PRO)
- Black Black Deepest black (Matte) (PRO)
- Pure White Whitest white (Matte) (PRO)
- Hi-Def Cyan Cyan blue (Matte) (PRO)
- Process Magenta Matte magenta (Matte) (PRO)
Thanks to the lovely Emily for details!
MAC Mineralize Eye Shadows for Summer 2010 & Pigments at Counters!
MAC Mineralize Eye Shadows for Summer 2010 & Pigments at Counters!
As part of MAC's permanent Mineralize unit, they switch out the mineralize products from time to time. They will switch in different Mineralize Eyeshadows (all previously released) as of April 29th, 2010, while Pigments will become a permanent part of counters on June 10th.
Mineralize Eye Shadow ($19.50 U.S. / $23.50 CDN)
- Pink Split Rose with bronze and pale blue veining/Pink with gold pearlized pigments (Frost)
- Fresh Green Mix Golden Olive with blue, gold, and aqua veining/Lime mono (Frost)
- Play On Plums Peachy gold with pink and bronze veining/Bronzed burgundy (Frost)
- Sea & Sky Silvery pale blue with deep blue and silver veining/Bright blue mono (Frost)
- Odd Couple Warm gold with lavender and bronze veining/Purple mono (Frost)
- Illusionary/Burning Ambition Pale gold with icy shimmer/Sinfully rich coco (Frost)
Pigments on Counter & Freestanding ($19.50 U.S. / $23.50 CDN)
- Antique Green (MAC Stores ONLY)
- Bright Fuchsia (MAC Stores ONLY)
- Blue Brown
- Copper Sparkle
- Corn Flower
- Dark Soul
- Fuchsia
- Full Force Violet
- Gold
- Golden Lemon
- Golden Olive
- Grape
- Kitschmas
- Magenta Madness
- Melon
- Naked
- Neo Orange
- Old Gold
- Rose
- Rose Gold
- Tan
- Teal
- Vanilla
- Violet
Thanks to the lovely Emily for all the details! )
MAC Art Supplies Collection: Overall Review & Round-up
OVERALL, Art Supplies is either totally up your alley or something you can easily skip. It's not really a must-have collection, but it offers some nice pieces and some not-so-fabulous pieces.Read Full Review

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1. Springlake-Earth: The Wolverines made the area round in 1999 and return the best two-way lineman in the district, Ben Angeley.
2. Farwell: The Steers were a playoff team in 2A last season and make the drop in 2000.
3. Bovina: Like Farwell, the Mustangs make the drop from 2A and just barely missed the playoffs last season.
4. Sudan: The Hornets lost a ton of their players over the past two seasons and enter a rebuilding mode.
5. Anton: The Bulldogs made the playoffs last year, but the district is much tougher than seasons past.
6. Whiteface: The Antelopes struggled last year and the new district will give little room for error
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Farwell at Springlake-Earth, Oct. 13:
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District 3-1A bears little resemblance to 1999 with only Springlake-Earth as a holdover. Anton, Sudan and Whiteface move in from 5-1A. But the biggest impact will be felt with two former 2A teams, Farwell and Bovina, setting up camp. The overall depth of the district has improved dramatically, however Springlake-Earth remains the team to beat.
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Sept. 1: Anton at Hale Center, 7:30 p.m.; Bovina at Hagerman, 8 p.m.; Abernathy at Springlake-Earth, 7:30 p.m.; Kress at Whiteface, 7:30 p.m.
Sept. 8: Smyer at Anton, 7:30 p.m.; Bovina at Lorenzo, 7:30 p.m.; Dimmitt at Springlake-Earth, 7:30 p.m.; Petersburg at Farwell, 7:30 p.m.; Whiteface at Crosbyton, 7:30 p.m.; Olton at Sudan, 7:30 p.m.
Sept. 15: Anton at Hart, 7:30 p.m.; Olton at Bovina, 7:30 p.m.; Springlake-Earth at Sundown, 7:30 p.m.; Farwell at Portales, N.M., 7:30 p.m.; Sudan at Plains, 8 p.m.; Spur at Whiteface, 7:30 p.m.
Sept. 22: Anton at Lubbock Christian, 7:30 p.m.; Floydada at Springlake-Earth, 7:30 p.m.; Nazareth at Farwell, 7:30 p.m.; Abernathy at Sudan, 7:30 p.m.; Whiteface at Morton, 7:30 p.m.; Bovina, open.
Sept. 29: Motley County at Anton, 7:30 p.m.; Bovina at Sundown, 7:30 p.m.; Springlake-Earth at Idalou, 7:30 p.m.; Hart at Farwell, 7:30 p.m.; Sudan at New Deal, 7:30 p.m.; Lubbock Christian at Whiteface, 7:30 p.m.
Oct. 6: Vega at Bovina, 7:30 p.m.; Farwell at Olton, 7:30 p.m.; Sundown at Sudan, 7:30 p.m.; Whiteface, Springlake-Earth, Anton, open.
Oct. 13: Sudan at Anton, 7:30 p.m.; Whiteface at Bovina, 7:30 p.m.; Farwell at Springlake-Earth, 7:30 p.m.
Oct. 20: Springlake-Earth at Anton, 7:30 p.m.; Bovina at Farwell, 7:30 p.m.; Whiteface at Sudan, 7:30 p.m.
Oct. 27: Anton at Bovina, 7:30 p.m.; Sudan at Springlake-Earth, 7:30 p.m.; Farwell at Whiteface, 7:30 p.m.
Nov. 3: Whiteface at Anton, 7:30 p.m.; Farwell at Sudan, 7:30 p.m.; Bovina at Springlake-Earth, 7:30 p.m.
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Does anyone else think it is quite a coincidence that the IRS debacle has popped up just as the Benghazi investigation is exposing the obvious relationship between that cover-up and the re-election of Obama? What other President in our history has gone to sleep while a U.S. consulate was under attack and an ambassador was missing?
Do you remember those ads Hillary Clinton ran when she was trying to become the Democrat's presidential candidate instead of Obama? You know, the 3 a.m. wake up call? Guess she was right, but Barry had to get his rest for that all-important fundraiser in Las Vegas. A little thing like the Benghazi terrorist attack certainly wasn't worth staying up for to actually do your job, right?
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'What difference does it make' in Benghazi? A lot
Hillary asks, "What difference, at this point, does it make?" What difference does it make that the talking points were changed 12 times? What difference does it make that the administration lied about the circumstances of the Benghazi attack? What difference does it make that our Secretary of State lied to the relatives of the dead as their caskets were being unloaded from the aircraft?
What difference does it make that the "main stream media" had little interest in the cover up? What difference does it make that whistle-blowers are threatened and intimidated?
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To answer Gretchen Godfrey's letter about God and faith is not fact, or even an opinion; she stated it's a belief that cannot be proven.
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Weekly offering from the Tennessee Department of General Services. This government surplus event includes wheel loaders, police interceptors, pickup trucks and more.
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Producing a spectacular spread of multicoloured palm bursts in the sky, building to a large electric finale
Impressive red, gold and blue glitter tails to large bursts followed by red and green sequences of glitter tails to bursts, finishing with a volley of whistle tails to large gold strobe bursts
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