text: An Invention that Changed the World; HSU Alum and Hall of Leaders Inductee Dies NEWS RELEASEFriday, December 14, 2012 To Willis Whitfield the idea seemed simple; to keep a research lab free of dust particles, why not let air be the janitor? Whitfield, the inventor of the clean room, would change the world of technology, electronics, hospitals, labs, and even NASA. The 1952 graduate of Hardin-Simmons University died November 12, 2012, at the age of 92 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Whitfield graduated with a B.S. in physics and mathematics. He went on to pursue graduate studies at George Washington University after accepting a position at the Naval Research Lab in Maryland from 1952 to 1954, where he supervised research on solid rocket fuels and motors. It was there that his innovative methodology caught the attention of Sandia Labs in New Mexico, one of the nation's most sensitive defense research centers. While at Sandia Labs, Whitfield was project leader for advanced development studies of microwave propagation measurements and contamination control /clean room development. It was there that the vision of the Laminar Flow Clean Room became a reality and the world and all of its future possibilities changed. His clean rooms blew air in from the ceiling and sucked it out from the floor. Filters scrubbed the air before it entered the room. Gravity helped particles exit. Such a simple concept, but no one had tried it before.Willis held three patents, two of which were the Laminar Clean Room and the Laminar Flow Bench. The third patent was a sludge irradiation device. His bit of engineering genius would open up the world of miniaturizing electronic and mechanical components with the introduction of contamination-free laboratories. Most modern electronic devices, from iPods to communications satellites use micro-electronics made possible by Whitfield. The emerging field of nanotechnology would not be possible without a particle-free environment and, likewise, hospitals and pharmaceutical firms continue to make extensive use of the technology that dropped the rate of surgical infection and allowed pharmaceutical manufacturers to guarantee a pure product. Peers were just as quick to recognize Willis for enabling entire new fields of research and product technology. Receiving numerous awards, Whitfield was recognized by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers with the Holley Medal in 1969, which put Whitfield in the company of such people as Henry Ford for the automobile, Edwin Land for the Polaroid Land camera, William Shockley for the transistor, and Elmer Sperry for the gyroscope. Also in his honor, Clean Room Magazine named Dr. Whitfield as its first Hall of Fame inductee, and the Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technology presents an annual Willis J. Whitfield Award for substantial contributions to the field of contamination control. Whitfield was recognized by both the New Mexico Society of Professional Engineers and the Scottish Society of Contaminations Control for outstanding pioneering discoveries in clean room technology and outstanding contributions to economic development. Sandia Labs commissioned a statue of Whitfield, now a prominent feature of the courtyard of the new Microsystems and Engineering Science Applications Laboratory. Whitfield received an honorary doctorate in science degree from HSU in 1970, and in 2006 Whitfield was inducted into the HSU Hall of Leaders. Whitfield retired from Sandia Labs in 1984 after 30 years of service. He is survived by his wife, Belva, also an HSU graduate; son, Joe Ray and wife, Joy, of Portland, Oregon; son, James Donald of Albuquerque, New Mexico; a brother, Lawrence Whitfield; and sister, Amy Blackburn, both from Dallas, Texas.


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Diversity in immune-cell interactions: states and functions of the immunological synapse
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A GARRISTOWN mum-of-three, inspired by her friend's daughter, raised over €3,000 for Crumlin Hospital after she ran the Dublin Marathon.
A GARRISTOWN mum-of-three, inspired by her friend's daughter, raised over €3,000 for Crumlin Hospital after she ran the Dublin Marathon.
THERE has been confirmation of news broken by the Fingal Independent more than a year ago that primary care centres for Swords and Balbriggan would not be on the final list of projects to be built through a Public Private Partnership using 'stimulus' money from the Government.
BALBRIGGAN Harbour has claimed the life of a 60-year-old local man who died 24 hours after he was witnessed entering the waters of the harbour.
EMPLOYEES of facility management company, Noonan, whose head office is in Swords, raised over €10,000 for St. Francis Hospice after the completed a 130km relay run.
A BRAVE five-year-old Swords boy has become the face of a fundraising campaign for Beaumont Hospital where he received a new lease of life after undergoing a radical operation.
A SWORDS-based solicitor has put himself forward to run in the 2014 Local Elections as a Fianna Fail representative.
'WE are in show business, not in the pub business' - the words of the head of the Wright empire of bars, restaurants and nightclubs that dot the Fingal landscape and won the company's founder this year's Fingal Dublin Chamber of Commerce, Business Person of the Year.
Children from St Margaret's National School joined RTE star Ryan Tubridy to launch the SVP Annual Appeal.
DESPITE having 10,000 people waiting up to eight years for a local authority home in Fingal, the council has dropped a bombshell by admitting that it has authorisation to build just two new council houses in the Balbriggan and Swords electoral areas over the next two years.
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THE site director at MSD in Swords has said that the company's decision to close its plant in the town over the next three years 'is not a reflection of the site's performance or the highly skilled people working here'.
A NEW Educate Together secondary school in Balbriggan is one of three new schools announced for Dublin by the Minister for Education who made a decision on the patronage of nine schools across the country in all, four of which will be wholly run by Educate Together.
THE latest HIQA report on the Oberstown Campus in Lusk has found good standards of care for children in the facility but said that aspects of its management can improve.
A LOCAL group bidding to construct a permanent BMX track in Balbriggan have received good news this week with €35,000 in funding for the project from the National Lottery on the way.
A TRACTOR run organised in memory of a local man who sadly passed away earlier in the year has raised a staggering five-figure sum for charity.
THE findings of a new survey showing that business confidence in the economy has grown over the last six months has been backed up by experience on the ground in Fingal, according to the Fingal Dublin Chamber of Commerce.
MINISTER for Health, James Reilly said the news that MSD Swords is to close is 'deeply upsetting' for the affected workers and their families but he said that there was still hope that jobs would be saved on the site with a new investor.
THE delivery of an Educate Together secondary school in Balbriggan will answer a real demand in the area and 'improve the diversity of choice' available to parents in the town.
A TEENAGER who sped through a Fingal village after he drove away from a garda checkpoint before fleeing on foot because he had no insurance was placed in temporary custody at Balbriggan District Court while the sitting judge considered what to do with him.
A KINSEALY-based shipping firm Manifests Ireland has been awarded the coveted accreditation of Authorised Economic Operator (AEO) issued by EU Customs.
THE new state-of-the-art Malahide Pastoral Centre, which is fast becoming the hub of the local community, has been officially opened.
THE people of Rush are being mobilised to help the destitute people of Kalibo parish in the Philippines, who have been devastated by the horrific might of Typhoon Haiyan.
ONE of the best known family-owned businesses in the country, Fingal-based Keelings has cliniched a major awaard at the the Bord Bia Food and Drink Awards at the Royal Hospital Kilmainham.
A BALBRIGGAN man who pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of father-of-one Ciaran Noonan, who went missing from East Wall in Dublin over two years ago, will be sentenced in January.
THE money has been counted, the sore feet rested and now the Fingal Independent can reveal that this year's annual charity walk for Cappagh in Oldtown raised a whopping €9,300.
A NEW book featuring an account of the lives, loves, hatreds, failings and greatness of ordinary people based loosely on the social history of actual events is now on the shelves.
SKERRIES did the try-scoring but the victory went to Armagh as John Murphy's charges tasted defeat for the first time this season at the Palace Grounds last Saturday.
THE Dublin Ladies County Board are seeking applications from suitable candidates for the positions of Senior and Under-21 team managers.
FORREST Little Golf Club's Ladies captain hosted the annual Captain's Dinner recently with over 100 golfers in attendance.
A GROUP of first-year students from Balbriggan Community College were recently crowned FAI Post-Primary Leinster Futsal champions.
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AFTER three weeks of cup action Skerries Town returned to the bread and butter of the league in some style on Sunday when they hosted bottom-of-the-table Glenmore Dundrum in Park Lane.
A BALBRIGGAN man that has worked tirelessly campaigning on behalf of people living with arthritis, has been shortlisted for an award at this year's Volunteer Ireland Awards.
THE committee involved in campaigning for a long-promised community centre for Brackenstown residents feel they have been 'led down the garden path' by Fingal County Council.
A NEW Local Area Plan for Rathingle in Swords has been approved by councillors and will allow for the construction of between 170 and 190 new homes in the area on a six hectare site.
LOCAL Fine Gael representative, Bob Dowling, has welcomed the repairs of the railings on Donabate Bridge.
AS PART of a youth exchange programme with a group from West Belfast, teenagers from Swords/Baldoyle Youth Services have travelled to the city to take part in a range of activities.
THE transfer of land needed for Fingal County Council to allocate playing pitches in Kettle's Lane in Kinsealy will happen soon, the local authority believes.
A BALBRIGGAN home threw open its very well insulated doors recently when it was chosen as one an example of how to run the most energy efficient homes.
SKERRIES Educate Together National School is fighting back against the bullies by hosting a training day to develop 'anti-bullying ambassadors' in the school.
A COMMUNITY-wide initiative in Skerries to tackle bullying is gathering momentum and is building on a massive turnout last month at a town hall meeting on the subject at the Little Theatre.
UP to 30 men in Garristown have decided to grow beards to raise funds for St John's Ward at Crumlin Children's Hospital.
A HIQA (Health Information and Quality Authority) report on the quality of foster care services in the Dublin North region has reported that most children report feeling 'happy and safe' in foster care in the region but there were areas where the service could improve.
ORGANISATIONS who already have volunteers working for them or are considering getting volunteers involved can benefit from a short course delivered by the Fingal Volunteer Centre in Ballyboughal this week.
FAIR City's Mondo and his Panto dame delighted shoppers when the stars of The Helix Pantomime visited Swords Pavilions Shopping Centre to welcome Santa last week.
A NEW film set in Fingal is set to be released next April and has become a family affair.
A VERY real Santa Claus combined with some fake snow to turn St George's Square in Balbriggan into a winter wonderland as the town's spectacular Christmas Lights display was switched on by a very lucky young boy.
PREPARATIONS are in full swing for the switching-on of the Christmas lights in Donabate on Saturday at 4.30 p.m.
ALL roads in Fingal will lead to Church Road in Malahide on Saturday for the annual Christmas market at St. Andrew's Parish Centre.
THE hugely popular Draiocht Arts Centre has scooped a runners-up spot in the All-Island Pride of Place awards.


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hey when i bought this sampler i had a good feeling, great cast of cigars, just a couple of duds but i see it like this #1 grand habano #2 oliva cain #3 perdomo #4 conuco sixty #5 AB maxx my top 5 , in the middle the la floridita and the famous nic 3000 were not bad at all...the duds rocky patel and the nub cameron, but all in all a very good large ring sampler .you get a chance to "try em before ya buy em" so if you like a nice cast of big gars try this sampler ohhh yeaaa.i like
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If your looking for large ring cigars? Not quite sure what your looking for? Then this sampler is a must buy! This sampler is and all-star line up that will impress the most discriminating smoker. The biggest hits for me were; MAXX the Freak, Antano 1970, CAO American Potomac, Grand Habano #5, and RP Rosado Sixty. The biggest misses were; The 777, and Famous 3000.
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You probably already know that Dashiell Hammett's "The Maltese Falcon" is the seminal hard-boiled detective novel. You probably already know Sam Spade is the quintessential American gumshoe. You might even know that "The Maltese Falcon" has been chosen as Beaumont's city-wide "Big Read" for May.
But you might not know what the Falcon was actually made of … or the name of Spade's lawyer. Ah, but after you read this classic, you'll be able to pass The Bayou's pump-priming trivia quiz with flying colors, right? Go ahead test yourself now.
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It is very important to understand that the Mother of God, the Most Holy Theotokos, was a virgin her entire life. She never hung around boys or went out on dates. She did not read books or magazines about boys. She did not have silly conversations or joke around about bad things. She did not even think about the kinds of things we see and hear every day at school, on the radio and on television. What kind of virgins are we? Απολυτίκιον. Ήχος α΄.
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My Brother: | Why is it called a building when it's already built? |
My Brother: | If money doesn't grow on trees, why do banks have branches? |
My Brother: | When something is shipped by ship it's called cargo, but when something is shipped by car it's called a shipment... |
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The Best of Cards Against Humanity: It's kind of like the extremely offensive version of Apples to Apples.
I played it for the first time this evening with my friends and here were the best ones. (They aren't meant to be taken seriously, of course!)
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The last few posts bring up the issue of what you really need. For my recently concluded search, I had some needs, and some wants:
Must securely hold and protect my laptop both in its every day capacity going to and from my office, as well as the more rigorous demands of plane travel.
Must provide sufficient organizational features for my files, personal items, tech items, etc...
Be comfortable to wear, to put on, to take off.
Provide easy and ready access to everything I put in it.
Be workable both as an every day carry without feeling excessively large, and then also have the room to expand for travel without being too restrictive. In other words, the bag needs to be flexible and adaptive.
Be a high quality bag that I'm confident will last a number of years with hard use.
Those are the musts. Non negotiable.
The wants?
Look pleasing to my eye, be something I enjoy seeing in my home or office every day.
Give me a sense of quality workmanship, that the bag wasn't slapped together with cheap crappy materials in a factory in China, but was made with world class materials by people committed to putting together some special to own and use.
I enjoy quality in my life. I don't like using cheap, ugly, poorly designed stuff. I'd rather save up for something nicer than buy two of something cheaper. It doesn't need to be fancy, and in fact I don't like 'fancy' designs'.
The Tom Bihn Brain Bag is something that makes me smile every time I pick it up. It looks, functions and feels different than anything else I tried.
But I have employees who don't give a rip. Give me something cheap and light and as long as my laptop won't break in it, that's fine. It's gotta work for the individual.


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The day before yesterday I wrestled with two Subversion problems. The first one was that whenever I tried to check a file out of an https:// mounted directory, I got a strange OpenSSL-error report. An old version of Subversion worked perfectly fine. It turned out to be a problem that the WebDAV library was not compiled against the most recent version of OpenSSL. A re-compilation of the WebDAV library solved the problem.
The problem I encountered afterwards was that Subversion kept rejecting my repository's certificate. In order to solve it I had to add a pointer to the server's .pem file to the Subversion configuration file. I mistakengly used the wrong configuration file, but eventaully Ben Collins-Sussman corrected me on the IRC. Then I discovered my certificate got expired, so I created a new one that will be good for the next 30 years, and re-tried.
This whole business took a few good hours, but now everything is working and I'm happy.
The IGLU Server
What kept me busy yesterday was an entirely different problem. It turned out that the Israeli Group of Linux Users's web-server version of Squishdot had a cross-server scripting problem. Upgrading it requires a lot of manual steps, and we got sick of Zope anyhow. So I had to install a new content management system. I first tried phpBB, but could not get it to look more or less like the original Slashdot-like way. So I switched to PostNuke, and managed to configure most of it yesterday and today.
I finished the last "Intro to Software Systems" exercise today (yay!). I'm enjoying the vacation before the next test.
I kept thinking my bike had a flat wheel. Yesterday, I went to take them to the bike fixer and it turned out there was still a lot of air in the wheels. So, I tried to fill the rest of it. However, in the front wheel, the filling caused all the air to come out. Aaarrggh!
Failed Linux Install
The one who contacted me about Knoppix, called again, and he gave me a life to his apartment. I brought my Knoppix CD and the Mandrake CDs with me. It turned out his computer was constructed out of "components he found in the garbage". Thus, we could not get either Knoppix or the Mandrake installation CD to load, no matter what we tried.
I invited him home to see my Linux system in action. When he left he was quite impressed from it. I'm still disappointed that we could not get Linux to install there.


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How Giving Comes Around
From the time you were a child, you've been told that volunteering is good for you. And it's true, physiologically as well spiritually. Studies done by organizations like the Corporation for National and Community Service show that health markers, such as blood pressure and pulse rate, improve in their volunteers. The same goes for depression and self-esteem. These studies even found that volunteers live longer than non-volunteers.Every major religious and spiritual path includes community and selfless service as a hallmark. In the yoga tradition, seva (pronounced "say-vuh") is considered the ultimate means to achieve happiness in this lifetime. Think of it this way: as a soul experiencing what it means to be human, seva is a profound way to learn. You share in a diversity of experiences that allow you a boost in confidence because you see yourself at your best. Sign up to serve at a soup kitchen, walk dogs at the local shelter or plant tomatoes at the community garden. Be humble, be bright and light up your little corner of the world.
Recommended: The Call of Service: A Witness to Idealism by Robert Coles
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Eat Less, Live Long, Save Money
A very interesting study done years ago found that rats who were fed the minimal requirement of calories lived twice . . .
Raisin Your Spirits
Iron in the Afternoon
It can't be helped. On those days when you're giving it your all, there's an inevitable lull in the afternoon.
First Drink of the Day
Water You Waiting For?
Let there be water! Most people don't drink enough water throughout the day. You get too busy . . .
The Seventh Rib
Source of Your Creativity
In the Book of Genesis, God creates Eve from Adam's rib. It's a curious aspect of the story. . .
As the Crow Flies
Eliminate Your Problems
If you eat three meals a day, you should move your bowels as much. If this is not the case . . .
May Showers
Wash Your Hair the Yogi Way
Here in the West, as the summer approaches and the body begins to detox, its natural processes...
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A Contract With Your Heart
"To err is human/ to forgive divine." You know it is best to overlook the shortcomings of others.
Confront It
Put Fear Under the Microscope
The mind does what it does, it's pretty much always going. By cultivating a relationship with it, through meditation, you begin to notice patterns.
Be the Lesson
Experience is the Best Teacher
You have a trove of experiences to draw from, which automatically means you have wisdom to share.
What's in a Name
Verbalize Your Projection
No matter where you come from or where you intend to go, you are known to those around you by a word.
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Here's a look I did a couple days ago with my purples. Purples are my favorite color and I was pretty pleased with how it turned out. I think Make Up Forever has THE BEST purple eyeshadows out there...
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The Rundown *MAC unless otherwise indicated*:
Monistat Chaffing Gel (primer)
Studio Fix Fluid NC50
Studio Sculpt Concealor NW45
MSF Dark
Black Radiance Plum Sorbet blush
Black Radiance Illuminating Shimmer
MUFE #9 (lid)
Quarry e/s (crease)
MUFE #92 (outer v)
Vellum e/s (brow highlight)
Blacktrack f/l (upper lid)
Stila kajal onyx e/l (lower lid)
L'oreal Extra Volume Collagen mascara
Vino l/l
NYX Iced Lavendar Round l/s
Victoria's Secret Beauty Rush gloss in Smoothie Moves
Fast Friends l/g (Hello Kitty launch)
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Purple Look!
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Urban Decay Cream Shadow/Face of the Night
Monday, April 27, 2009
My Haircut! Pics!
Friday, April 24, 2009
My Favorite Things Friday: Benefit's Gilded
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Mother's Day Beauty Gift Ideas Part I
Hey Beauties!
As you all know, Mother's Day is quickly approaching (May 10th!) so I thought it would be a good idea to highlight some of the nice beauty gift sets that are popping up in honor of the woman who birthed us, fed us, dried our tears, wiped our butts and err...spanked them when we needed it (or time out...you know...however she got down. LOL!) :-)
So if you're looking for some beauty related goodies to gift your beauty-obsessed mom OR if you're a mom and you just want to treat YOURSELF (nothing wrong with that!) look no further. These sets are a great value and the products are amazing....
Clinique 'The Kissers Superbalm' Mother's Day Set
Four wonderful moisterizing glosses in various shades (GREAT for summer) with a cute pink and white bamboo makeup bag. This set costs $25 and is available at Nordstrom.
Lancome 'Beauty Essentials' Mother's Day Set
This set includes a full-size Définicils Pro Mascara in Black, promo-size Cils Booster XL, promo-size brushes (#4, #12 and #18), Color Design eyeshadow palette (including Island Kiss, Simmering, Lounging Lizard, Cinnamon Toast and Filigree) and a beautiful bronze travel case. This set costs $95 and is available at Nordstrom.
Philosophy Amazing Grace Mother's Day Set
"This amazing grace mother's day gift is sure to delight with a perfumed buffing wash (8 oz.), perfumed firming body emulsion (8 oz.) and spray fragrance (2 oz.) in philosophy's signature scent" from nordstrom.com This set costs $59.50 and is available at Nordstrom.
Prescriptives 'Real Results' Mother's Day Set
"Build up moisture. Fill in lines. Look more lifted. Achieve younger-looking skin with this must-have trio, packaged in an orange cosmetics bag. Set includes a full-size Intensive Rebuilding Eye Cream (0.5 oz.), travel-size Intensive Rebuilding Moisturizer (1 oz.) and travel-size Instant Gratification Skin Renewal Peel (1 oz.)." from Nordstrom.com This set costs $65 and is available at Nordstrom.
Happy Shopping!! :-)
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Happy Earth Day!!
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Prescriptives Motor-Eyes Instant Action Mascara
Check it out....
Have any of you ladies used a vibrating mascara wand before? If so, did you like?
I have to be honest, I haven't tried it before and really have no desire to. Seems kinda gimmicky to me, plus I do a good job of applying my own mascara without the vibrations/oscillations. LOL Am I missing out on something? Holla at your girl...
You can now enjoy free standard shipping with any purchase through 4/25 at Prescriptives.com just enter code Motoreyes at checkout.
Monday, April 20, 2009
Beauty Series: Milan's Rouge Mondays!
I was watching a good movie LOL! Something important happened at the moment I snapped the pic which is why i'm looking up like that :-)
Friday, April 17, 2009
Favorite Things Friday: Biosilk Silk Therapy
Happy Friday, Beauties! Whew...we made it through the week! :-)
Its time for the next installment of my favorite things! I've been getting a lot of questions and inquiries on my hair and what I use so I'm excited to highlight this product that has been a staple in my hair routine for...hmmm...probably 2-3 years now.
Biosilk Silk Therapy is a lightweight, moisterizing and replenishing treatment that coats and protects the hair while giving it a healthy shine.
Here's the product description from Folica.com:
"BioSilk Silk Therapy is the perfect, lightweight, replenishing treatment to protect and maintain hair and skin and keep it in optimum condition.
The concentrated silk molecules of the BioSilk Silk Therapy impart a smooth and silky feel while providing brilliant high gloss shine with only a few drops. This ideal treatment will protect the hair from build up will not weigh it down; additional sunscreens safeguard the hair from UV damage, pollution, and dryness."
Features and Benefits:
- Lightweight, leave-in replenishing and reconstructing treatment that eliminates frizz and repairs split-ends
- Silk proteins penetrate the hair, bonding and strengthening it from the inside out
- Added Vitamin B provides maximum moisture retention
- Brilliant high gloss shine with botanical extracts and Vitamin E add softness
- Added UV protection from sun damage
- Great when used with a flat iron
- Ideal for all hair types
I love this stuff! For me, it is the perfect fit. I have VERY oily hair. I get my hair done every 2-3 weeks (wash, condition, blow dry, flat iron) and after about a week my hair is usually pretty oily without me putting anything on it. Therefore, I tend to stay away from heavy serums, oils, and moisterizers because they weigh my hair down and make it unbelievably greasy. Yet, I needed something that would keep my hair healthy, give it a natural shine AND protect it from heat styling (if you use any kind of heat on your hair you really should use a heat protectant to avoid damage) WITHOUT being greasy. Biosilk Silk Therapy does all of that and then some!
I usually only apply once every week or so after I unwrap and style my hair. I apply a very SMALL amount in the palm of my hand (a little bit of this product goes a long way!), rub my hands together then I rub and finger-comb it throughout my hair paying special attention to my ends. After that I'm good to go! It has a pleasant smell and another great thing about this product is that it is safe to use on your skin. Therefore, if you apply just a wee bit too much to your hands...rub it over your arms, elbows and knees for added moisture! I love products that are multi-functional! :-)
You can find Biosilk Silk Therapy at your local CVS drugstore or HERE.
Have a great weekend, Beauties!
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Seche Vite Dry Fast Top Coat
The greatest thing in my nail polish wardrobe is Seche Vite Dry Fast Top Coat. I tend to change my nail polish every 2-3 days (sometimes I'll go 4 if I'm really busy). I like changing up the colors and I like the look of fresh, glossy polish. But...I'm super busy. Like I don't have enough hours in the day to accomplish the things I need to accomplish AND actually sleep enough so I don't pass out.
Seche Vite Dry Fast Top Coat has changed the game for me. I can now change my nail color as often as my heart desires WITHOUT having to wait hours for the polish to dry down completely. This means my nails are dry and ready to go (no smudging, prints, nicks, etc) in 5-10 minutes tops (depending on if I do 2 or 3 coats of polish) and the shine...it's amazing! *swoon*
I can usually find Seche products at my local drugstore (like CVS) but if not, you can always purchase HERE.
Take care, beauties!
Also, quick shout out to one of my favorite guys...my brother Troy! Happy Birthday big brother! Mimi loves you vewwwwwy much! *muah* :-)
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Quick Makeup Fix: Smudgees!
Have you ever banged out the perfect eye look only to add liquid or gel liner that looks wonky because the line isn't straight? Have you ever applied liner to your lower lash line only to have it travel raccoon style down under your eyes by mid-day? Or (my personal favorite) have you ever applied two coats of fresh fabulous mascara and then before it was dry....sneezed...leaving mascara dotted around your eyes?
Yup...that's me all the way.
I always end up grabbing a q-tip and trying to work it out and correct my mistakes, which can really be a pain.
However, today as I was flipping through my new Lucky magazine this product caught my eye. They're called Smudgees and I think they might be the answer to my makeup mistakes....
Product Description:
"Smudgees™ are cotton-tipped wands that are just over two inches long. The custom-shape is pre-moistened with an eye-makeup remover created especially for smudgees™. Precise moistening of each smudgees™ and the alcohol-free and oil-free formula mean rinsing is not required and drying is almost instantaneous.
Because each smudgees™ is individually wrapped in small, air-tight foil packets, they can be easily tucked into a pocket or purse to use whenever and wherever this annoying problem occurs. The individual, one-use packet is fast, disposable, portable, and most importantly, 100% hygienic for the delicate eye area. A small notch cut into the package allows for easy opening." from smudgees.com
Ummm...sold! I love that they're individually packaged and pre-moistened with just enough makeup remover to get the job done.
You can get a 20 pack of smudgees for $7 at Smudgees.com!
Have you tried these? What do you use to correct your makeup mistakes?
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Tuesday, April 14, 2009
China Glaze Kicks Collection!
China Glaze has a new collection out that is definitely for the Summer! Inspired by vibrant b-girl kicks, this collection features shades of vibrant greens, blues, purples, pinks and oranges. I'm officially in love! Check out some of the shades...
From L-R: Sky High-Top, Paper Chasin', & Fly
I want them all! Check out and purchase the full collection HERE for just $2.99 each!
Custom Made/Pre-Made Palettes
Prescriptives Mineral Bronzer!
The new mineral line is available for purchase at all Prescriptives counters and at Prescriptives.com
Monday, April 13, 2009
New MAC Collection: Double Dazzle!
New Series!! Milan's Rouge Mondays
Hey Beauties!
So this is a new series that I've been thinking about for a while now. Most of you probably already know that I LOVE lipgloss. Its like...my thing. But aside from that, I also ADORE a good blush...or cheek rouge, if you will. :-) For years I thought blush was one of those things that black women just really shouldn't wear. Mainly because I didn't know how to apply it and make it work for me. Boy, I couldn't have been more wrong! Blush (done right) can totally transform your face (in a good way!) and make you look fresh and bright. I have amassed quite a collection for myself just in the last couple of years and I would like to share it with all my Milan Rouge readers along with helpful tips and tricks to rockin' blush the right way. So tune in every Monday...you won't be disappointed! :-)
First up today is one of my all-time favorite blushes and one of the first I ever purchased. I just want to give you a little backstory to this one to show you how I came to fall in love with blush in the first place...about 3 years ago I was planning my wedding so I had a crapload of bridal magazines that I would look through daily for ideas and inspiration. So I had this one particular bridal magazine with Kerry Washington on the cover and I was IN LOVE with her makeup. I was most intrigued with her cheek color. She had this peachy glow to her cheeks that was sooo pretty and I had to have whatever it was that achieved that look. Fortunately, the magazine listed each product used on her cover look and to my surprise the cheek color was MAC's cream colour base in Virgin Isle. At the time, the only cream colour base I owned was Pearl and I only used that every now and again as a base for my eyeshadows. All the times I had been to MAC, I never really paid attention to any of the other cream colour bases that could be used as blushes because...well...as I said, I wasn't into blush.
But THIS..THIS I had to have. So I headed to look online for it...and I couldn't find it on the regular MAC website. So I called my MAC freestanding store and one of the MUA (makeup artist) told me that Virgin Isle was a Pro product. Arrrghhh...err...okay. I found the closest Pro store to me and headed there (I was serious ya'll). So when I get there, the store was busy (surprise, surprise) so I head over to the cream colour base display to look for Virgin Isle myself. I really had no clue what it actually looked like in the pan so as I'm glancing at the display I decide that the light peachy color I was looking for was not there. Just to be sure, I waited for a MUA to help me and when I asked for Virgin Isle she led me back over to the display...grabbed a BRIGHT orangey-coral pot of ccb and handed it to me. Um...say what, now?! I was instantly intimidated and initially thought that the magazine had made a mistake. THIS bright coral color couldn't possibly have created the soft warm peach glow on Kerry Washington's cheeks....
So I told the MUA that it was MUCH brighter than I expected and I didn't think it would work for me...as I handed it back to her. She insisted that the color would look beautiful on my cheeks and asked if she could try it on me. Well since I drove all the way down there...may as well...so I let her. She went to grab a #187 brush and came back and went to work. She lightly dipped the brush in the pot twice and I could feel her stippling the color on the apples of my cheeks and then swirling it around lightly to blend. When she was done she handed me a mirror and I was FLOORED. THIS was IT! The color I fell in love with on the magazine cover! I wanted to hug her...but I didn't. LOL. I happily paid for it and took home my first blush...and a cream at that! I didn't get the 187 brush because I had already purchased a Sephora stippling brush that was comparable to the MAC one.
So 3 years later, I'm a certified blush fanatic, I still have Virgin Isle (a little goes a loooong way) and its STILL my favorite. I wore it yesterday to Easter Sunday church services and brunch with the family and it never disappoints.
I love the warm, natural peachy glow it gives. And yes I used my stippling brush to apply the same way the MUA at MAC showed me a few years ago. Honestly, the stippling brush (or skunk brush as some people call it) is a Godsend. I now have powder blushes and blush cremes that are even brighter than my Virgin Isle that I LOVE...I just apply them with this brush which helps blend the color beautifully thus avoiding looking like a clown. :-)
Unfortunately, I realized today as I was editing this post that Virgin Isle seems to have been discontinued. BOOOOO!!! :-( I can't find it on the MAC Pro site. If you want it, you may want to call around to other MAC Pro locations to see if they have any in stock that they could send you. I'm going to try to secure a back-up if I can. It's THAT fabulous! Even if you can't find Virgin Isle, I hope this post (and future posts in this series) will help you step out of your comfort zone and try something different. You can try some of the other cream colour bases and blushcremes that MAC has to offer in vibrant shades. The moral of the story is that you shouldn't be afraid of the bright, vibrant shades of blush because 9 times out of 10 you CAN make it work. This is especially true of my black and brown sistas...color IS our friend. :-)
Blush Cream Tip: Once you apply the cream blush, lightly dust a translucent powder over your cheeks to set and help it last throughout the day!
Have a great day, beauties!
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Friday, April 10, 2009
Beauty Series: Favorite Things Friday!
Hey Beauties!
Happy Friday!! I hope everyone had a wonderful week so far. One more work day to get through and the weekend is here.
Today I'm starting the first installment of a new series that I plan to do every friday. As the title suggests, I'll be highlighting some of MY favorite things...hey Oprah can't have all the fun. :-)
I hope you guys enjoy it!
First up...an oldy but goody and one of my all-time favorite, must have, carry with me everywhere I go products: Smith's Rosebud Salve!
This product single-handedly saved my lips this past winter season. I wear this practically every day under my lipstick/gloss and reapply throughout the day to maintain soft, supple, chapped-free lips! Its soft and moisterizing with a pleasant rose smell and I love the vintage metal tin packaging. You can also use Rosebud Salve to moisterize dry hands, elbows and knees...there's really no excuse to be ashy. LOL
A little goes a long way and its super affordable...$6 bucks! Next time you're in Sephora, grab a tin of Rosebud Salve...your lips will thank you.
Have you tried Rosebud Salve? What's your favorite go-to balm?
Take care, beauties!
Thursday, April 9, 2009
Cosmetic Bags
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The proper installation and maintenance processes that building managers can use in an effort to keep their boilers on line and, hopefully, avoid unnecessary expenditures.
By PAUL BARRA, chief engineer, and KAREN CAULFIELD, underwriting manager at Liberty Mutual Property
With the approach of the Winter Solstice, building managers in most parts of the country have brought their heating systems on line. This change brings with it both the seasonal tenant tug-of-war over preferred temperature levels and the constant inspection, testing and maintenance needed to keep the heating system up and running.
A building owner could be responsible for these additional expenses including any resulting business income loss and continuing expenses associated with the uninhabitable building.
While an expanded equipment breakdown insurance policy could provide business interruption and extra expense coverage to pay for these indirect expenses, the hassle of dealing with damaged equipment and the possibility of losing customers and goodwill still remain.
In addition to handling the day-to-day operation of a commercial property, building managers are responsible for keeping operations compliant with a wide range of state and federal laws and building codes. Among these are the codes and laws established by the Authority Having Jurisdiction (AHJ) governing construction, installation and operation of boilers.
All 50 states have separate laws and rules governing boilers, with some more stringent than others, and building owners are responsible for ensuring their equipment conforms with all of the requirements of the local AHJ.
Additionally, all states have adopted the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Boiler and Pressure Vessels Codes of Construction that boiler manufacturers must adhere to and the National Board of Boiler and Pressure Vessel Inspection Code that inspectors and repair firms must follow. All AHJs also have other requirements that may be unique to their jurisdiction and could include exemptions to their requirements due to size, use or type of equipment as well as the adoption of other codes and standards.
To ensure their equipment meets all of the appropriate codes and laws, building managers should only employ qualified service technicians who follow the manufacturers' instructions and recommended practices for installation. Managers should also keep the area around boilers free of obstruction and maintain clearances to meet code requirements, as well as provide access for inspection, servicing and repairs.
One of the most common causes of boiler failure is overheating due to a lack of water inside the boiler. Water in the boiler serves a dual purpose--extracting heat from the fuel to heat the building and keeping the metal surfaces in contact with the flame at a low temperature so they do not overheat, become weak and fail.
To ensure that the boiler retains an adequate amount of water, both steam and hot water boilers have a low water fuel cutoff (LWCO) safety control device that shuts off the fuel when water in the boiler drops below a predetermined safe operating level. A LWCO can be either a standalone unit or a multifunctional unit that is equipped with other controls such as a lock out and manual reset device, an automatic make up feed water valve or a feed water control.
Two common types of LWCOs are the float and the probe and either can be used for steam or hot water applications. Typically float types are used on steam boilers and probe types on hot water boilers.
The float type LWCO consists of a casting that houses a chamber where a float mechanism actuates an electric switch at a preset level to enable or disable the fuel firing system. It works in the same way as a toilet bowl float controls the water level in the tank. The probe type LWCO uses a metallic rod, or electrode, that is inserted into the boiler water at a preset level. When the water is in contact with the probe an electrical circuit is completed and the fuel firing system is enabled. When the water level falls below the probe and is no longer in contact, the electrical circuit is opened and the fuel firing system is disabled.
As with any mechanical or electrical device, LWCOs require regular maintenance and testing to ensure proper operation. Some typical problems encountered with float and probe type LWCOs include:
-- Faulty installation that results in the unit not functioning as intended
-- Jumper wires that render the unit inoperable by bypassing the electrical circuit that shuts down the burner and fuel system when a low water condition exists
-- Accumulation of sludge and sediment in the float chamber that prevents movement of the float assembly with water level fluctuations
-- Collapsed, bent or punctured float assemblies that inaccurately reflect true water level
-- Sludge and scale encrusted probes or electrodes that complete the electrical circuit without water being present
-- Corroded, bent or broken probes or electrodes that operate at a false water level
Building managers can head off these problems through:
-- Installation and maintenance of equipment by qualified technicians who follow the manufacturer's instructions and code requirements
-- Periodic inspection of controls and control panels for any modifications
-- Periodic float chamber flushing by qualified technicians to remove sludge and sediment
-- Maintaining boiler water chemistry within the limits set by the manufacturer or water treatment consultant
-- Annual disassembly and inspection to ensure the unit is intact (All the plugs on cross tees should be removed during any inspection of the LWCO.)
-- Periodic testing, disassembly and inspection of probe devices and circuits to ensure they are intact and operating as intended
During any LWCO testing, the burner must remain operational in order to verify shutdown when the water level reaches the preset low point. Common testing techniques include:
-- The quick drain test simulates low water conditions and should be performed weekly on float type devices for both steam and hot water boilers. For hot water boilers, a means to temporarily isolate the device must be provided during this test that automatically returns it to its normal position. Without the temporary isolation, the entire hot water system would drain before the LWCO functioned. By opening the drain valve on the bottom of the float chamber, the float will drop in the chamber, open the burner control switch, and shut off the burner and fuel system.
-- The slow drain test is performed on steam boilers and results in a gradual loss of water level that would reflect actual operating conditions. This test requires two qualified technicians and should be performed annually. This test is not suitable for hot water boilers, as it requires draining the entire system.
While the boiler is in operation, the feed water is shut off and one technician slowly opens the boiler drain valve while the other technician watches the water level closely as it drops in the gage glass. The burner should shut off before the water reaches the lowest visible level in the glass, the drain valve should be closed and the water level returned to its normal operating level. The burner will then restart. If the burner does not shut off, the drain valve should be closed, the water level restored to normal and the boiler shut down until the LWCO is functioning properly.
-- Probe type LWCOs can be tested weekly by activating a test switch on the device. This test verifies that the loss of the circuit created by water covering the probe will shut down the burner and fuel system.
While boilers require a lot of maintenance to be reliable, the money spent on hiring qualified technicians who work on the system is far less than what would be spent if a boiler breaks down. By using all available sources of information--including their insurers and brokers--building managers can strive to remain compliant with local AHJ regulations and stay open for business.
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The ongoing Health Services Union scandal could claim another scalp this week with pressure mounting on Michael Williamson to be sacked from Unions NSW.
Mr Williamson has been suspended as HSU president since October last year on full pay at more than $300,000 a year following allegations he had embezzled union funds.
Media reports claim Mr Williamson will be dumped as vice president of Unions NSW on Thursday if he doesn't resign this week.
He is also under pressure to resign from three paid board positions at First State Super, State Government Employees Credit Union and State Water Corporation.
NSW Labor state opposition leader John Robertson, a former secretary of Unions NSW, said it was important for the union movement to send a very clear message by pushing Mr Williamson aside.
"He should absolutely go," Mr Robertson told reporters in Sydney on Sunday.
"It's important that the union movement sends a very clear message they're not going to tolerate this sort of behaviour in the union movement."
The peak union body, ACTU, booted out the HSU on Thursday until it cleans up its act.
Fair Work Australia (FWA) last week referred a 1100-page investigation report into three former and current HSU officials and another person to the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) to consider possible criminal charges.
The report contained 181 workplace law and union breaches.
The investigation looked at the alleged misuse of an HSU credit card by former union boss and now Labor MP Craig Thomson for prostitutes and cash withdrawals.
Mr Thomson, the member for the NSW seat of Dobell, says he is innocent and will continue to co-operate with authorities.
But the FWA report is now the subject of a legal gridlock with the DPP saying it doesn't have a brief of evidence or investigation powers.
FWA will table its report in the Senate in a month to six weeks.
Mr Robertson declined to say if he wanted Mr Thomson, a former HSU national secretary, dumped from Labor, after a Fair Work Australia report that makes allegations of workplace law breaches against three former or current HSU officials and another person.
"I'm not going to get into the speculation that the media's been engaged in about who those four people are," he said.
He said the ongoing saga would damage the Labor movement.
"It's a lingering odour that won't go away," he told Sky News on Sunday.
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Blink-182 Ready to 'Really Get Back to Risk-Taking' with Next Album
"We can take the next step and really get back to risk-taking," Blink-182′s Tom DeLonge told Radio.com.
Not Fade Away: Blink-182′s 'Untitled' Grows Up
"It was very forward for us, it was such an adventurous recording. That really felt good because we'd turned the corner from a pop-punk band to conceptual and progressive, um, punk band."
Blink-182 To Perform 2003 Self-Titled Album At Intimate LA Shows
Travis Barker of Blink-182 talk about their intimate Palladium shows, making a new album, when his kids are allowed to get their first tattoo, and what it will be like playing their 2003 self-titled album from back to front.
From Blink-182 to Bacon-182: Inside Producer Mark Trombino's Punk Rock Donut Shop
Producer Mark Trombino has helped Blink-182 and Jimmy Eat World, as they say, make the donuts, from Dude Ranch to Bleed American and other pop-punk gems along the way. Now Trombino is literally making donuts… with a nod to his punk past.
Blink-182 Honors 9/11 With Proceeds From Brooklyn Show Going To Charity
Originally scheduled as a day off, Blink-182's Tom Delonge Mark Hoppus and Travis Barker opted to add a Brooklyn show tonight as a 9/11 tribute and a means to generate money and awareness for two hospitals.
New Blink-182 Album Will Be Out In 2014, Mark Hoppus Says
Blink-182 are going to release a new album in 2014. They just have to start writing it.
The Transplants' Rob Aston On New Album: 'We Make Punk Rock, It's Our Forte'
"We've always had really good chemistry together, especially when it comes to creating music," said Aston. "We're all kinda on the same page. Sometimes it's kinda like a dysfunctional marriage but a marriage nonetheless."
The Story Behind Blink-182′s 'Enema Of The State' Album Cover
During a recent reddit session, blink-182′s Mark Hoppus thanked loyal fans by revealing a few secrets about their 1999 pop-punk masterpiece, "Enema of the State."
Blink-182 Plans Auction To Assist Oklahoma Tornado Survivors
blink-182 will soon launch an auction to generate funds for those affected by the Oklahoma tornado.
Travis Barker Gives Free Drum Lessons
bilnk-182′s Travis Barker has launched a web tutorial series where he shares his skills. What's a paradiddle? Come on, try to keep up.


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Josh Hamilton: From Sinner to Baseball Saint
His story is one that every person dreams of; being at your absolute worst and rising out of the ashes back to the top of your game. For Josh Hamilton, the Texas Rangers' outfielder, he is now living the dream.
Hamilton grew up with baseball. Thriving in high school, twice named Gatorade's High School Player of the Year, he was drafted by the Tampa Bay Devil Rays in 1999. From there he played on the Rays minor league team until 2000. Prior to the 2001 season, his decent into drugs began and his baseball future began to slip away.
From 2001-2004, Hamilton played in only a few games and was suspended by Major League Baseball for violating their drug policy. At that moment, it seemed as if Hamilton's baseball life was over.
He went to rehab and began to train again in 2006 under heavy watch of MLB. He was drafted in the Rule 5 draft by the Chicago Cubs. The Rule 5 draft is to prevent teams from obtaining too many young players for minor league teams when other teams would play them in the pros.
After the Cubs obtained him, he was quickly sent to the Cincinnati Reds where he played 90 games and had a batting average of. 292. In a trade with the Texas Rangers, Hamilton finally acquired the success he had always longed for.
In 2008, the Rangers traded Edinson Volquez and Danny Herrera for Hamilton. This move proved to be his claim to fame. With 21 home runs and 95 RBI, he is setting the pace for the rest of the baseball world. As if his year couldn't get any better, he was elected to his first All-Star game with the most votes among outfielders.
He went on to participate in the Home Run Derby and would shatter the record for home runs in one round by hitting 28. Although he didn't end up winning, Hamilton still knew the impact of what happened.
When asked how he felt after the Home Run Derby he simply replied, "I want to thank my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ."
This year Hamilton has not only shown humility but also proved to people that no matter who they are, they can overcome the troubles in their life and come out standing on top.
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Why is CranioSacral Therapy so Important?
CranioSacral Therapy (CST) is a light-touch approach that can create dramatic improvements in your life. It releases tensions deep in the body to relieve pain and dysfunction and improve whole-body health and performance.
Few body structures have more influence over your health and well-being than your central nervous system. And few body systems have more impact on your central nervous system than the craniosacral system -- the soft tissues and fluid that protect your brain and spinal cord.
Every day you endure stresses and strains and your body absorbs them. But your body can only handle so much tension before the tissues begin to tighten and potentially affect the brain and spinal cord.
Unfortunately, this can compromise the function of the central nervous system -- and the performance of nearly every other system in your body.
CranioSacral Therapy releases those tensions to allow the entire body to relax and self-correct. Using a gentle touch -- starting with about the weight of a nickel -- practitioners evaluate your internal environment. Then they use distinctive light-touch techniques to release any restrictions they find.
By freeing the central nervous system to perform at its best, CranioSacral Therapy naturally eliminates pain and stress, strengthens your resistance to disease, and enhances your health and well-being.
And because it's so gentle, CranioSacral Therapy can be effective for all ages, from newborns to elders.
"I'd never heard of it. I wasn't even sure I could spell cranial sacral. But I trusted Ellen Haverstick and her expertise in the most effective, cutting-edge techniques in physical therapy
I wasn't disappointed.
Actually I was amazed at the overall feeling of relaxation and well-being that flooded my body from the top of my head to the tips of my toes, the minute she started. Cranial sacral therapy touched every part of me - physically and emotionally - that needed soothing.
Truly, Ellen's hands are magic and I am an enthusiastic believer in the positive results of cranial sacral therapy."
--Carol A.
What Conditions Does CST Address?
CranioSacral Therapy improves your body's ability to take better care of you. It helps relieve a full spectrum of pain, illness and dysfunction, including:
What Can I Expect From A Session?
A typical CranioSacral Therapy session takes place in a quiet, private setting. You remain fully clothed as you relax on a comfortable, padded table.
Your therapist begins by gently touching various parts of your body to monitor the rhythm of the fluid that is flowing around your central nervous system.
By carefully listening with the hands to locate areas of weak fluid flow or tissue motion, your practitioner can trace those areas of weakness throughout the body to the original source of dysfunction.
Delicate manual techniques are then used to release those problem areas and improve the form and function of your central nervous system.
A CranioSacral Therapy session can last up to 90 minutes. It can be used alone or integrated with other therapies to create powerful effects.
What you experience from your own session is highly individual. The sessions are generally deeply relaxing, creating feelings of warmth or gentle pulsing in the areas the therapist is working on.
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text: Let me start off the post by saying, that I absolutely love this artwork! Last Tuesday, Atlanta emcee and vocalist Lyric Jones released her first full-length album, Jones St. The 16-track project has guest appearances from Grammy Award winning Esperanza Spalding, Phife Dawg (A Tribe Called Quest), J-Live, Playboy Tre, Young Scolla and more. I remember last week when Kevin Nottingham was talking about how great it was, and I was extremely jealous because I wanted to listen to it. But I said, I know it will be worth the wait. Well, it definitely was worth it. The album reminds me of just taking a nice walk around the neighborhood. It brings back many memories. I'm extremely happy for Lyric Jones for a great job well done! Stream the entire album below via bandcamp. Jones St. is avaliable for purchase on iTunes.


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Sometimes I need a reminder to be thankful for what I have. And I have a lot.
I have a beautiful family. Yes, my kids have some medical issues, but they're still wonderful kids (and by "wonderful" I mean "only drive me crazy 80% of the time"). I have a good job that (barely) pays the bills. I have a loving, intelligent, diligent wife who has her hands full keeping us all in line. I'm in terrific shape (save for my stupid calf muscles…I wonder if I can trade those in somewhere), we have a working car and can afford to pay our mortgage, and I get to write and share my books with the world. Some of you even buy them. ;D
It's easy to lose sight of what's important. My biggest flaw is jealousy. Every time a fellow Indie author – my friends, mind you, people I interact with and promote and genuinely want to see do well – becomes suddenly successful where I still haven't, I burn with envy. I don't mean to. I really don't. But I start trying to figure out what they're doing that I'm not; I get angry because sometimes they haven't been at this as long as I have, or because they seem to be finding this success effortlessly, while I'm busting my ass. I fume and I berate myself, and it makes my angry. Not the lack of success, so much, as my jealousy. Seriously, what is wrong with me? If I can't learn some patience and diligence and just be happy for others, should I even be doing this? I work my ass off, often spending every hour outside of work writing, blogging, promoting, editing, and what do I have to show for it? Why do I even bother?!
I've had this debate with myself more than once. It happened again this weekend, and I spent more time in angst over what I could do to find the success I wanted than just doing the important things.
Like appreciating my family.
As I've mentioned before on this blog, my daughter has generalized epilepsy. We've been trying to get her seizures under control for years through a combination of techniques, mostly different drug combinations. There have been stretches where she's been seizure-free for almost a year, and other times where she's back to having a seizure every few weeks.
She's been a trooper through it all. She's weathered the storm, dealt with the sleepiness and side-effects of her medication, dealt with limitations on her social life (she isn't allowed to drive, for example) and her stymied growth, both emotionally and scholastically. It's been so long since she's started having seizures I can barely remember the time before.
Lib is the one who deals with the reality more often than I do. She's on the phone with the neurologist, with the pharmaceutical companies, with the school. She's driving our daughter to doctor's appointments, picking up prescriptions, trying to work with counselors to make sure our daughter gets a quality education with the assistance she needs.
I know it's hard for my daughter. I don't tell her often enough how proud I am of her.
Last night, as she was putting her laundry away, she had another seizure. Lib heard it happening, but I was closer, and I rushed to get to her, but just a second too late. She'd already fallen straight back and landed, head first, on the linoleum.
With so much attention paid to concussions these days, I was scared what might have happened. No, not scared…terrified. I've only been this afraid a couple of times in my whole life. Once was when I was in a car crash. Another was when my Mom called to tell me Dad had been taken to the hospital after he'd stopped breathing, and she didn't think he was going to make it (and, as it turned out, she was right).
I put a lot on myself. I have a terrible habit of hoarding all the guilt. All I could think, over and over again, was that I should have caught her, was that I needed to have been there just a few seconds earlier. She'd fallen and hurt herself, and it was all my fault.
Of course it wasn't – I see that now (after repeated smacks in the head from my wife). But that didn't alleviate the guilt, which was maybe a bit easier for me to deal with than the fear. I just wanted my little girl (yes, I know she's seventeen, she's no longer a little girl, but she's my little girl, and always will be) to be okay.
We got her to the ER once she'd recovered from the actual seizure…that always takes a while, and she's quite groggy, sometimes even cute, as she tries to figure out what's going on, what happened, and why we're all staring at her. Lib had to get her dressed (she was in a robe when the seizure took place), and I understand that my daughter tried to put a shirt on over her robe. ;D
My hats off to our local hospital. They were quick and efficient and polite. The doctor looked like a body double for Patrick Dempsey in Gray's Anatomy (my daughter wanted a picture of her catscan, so she asked the doctor "Could I get a picture?", and he asked "Of me?"), and the guy who came to give her the catscan was a total country bumpkin (but in a very endearing sort of way). She was comfortable while my son (up many, many, many hours past his bedtime) played Angry Birds and watched Game 4 of the Spurs-Jazz series on my Kindle Fire, asking repeatedly if it was time to go yet and helpfully informing every person we met that he was the patient's brother, and that she "Lost her mind" because she hit her head.
The catscan came back negative. She has nothing more to show for this ordeal than a bump on the noggin and a shortened night's sleep (plus a day off, which we all felt was pretty warranted).
I took a lot more from it.
I obsess over stupid things. I always have. Sometimes I try to build them up and make them seem important so my obsession seems rational…but there are only a few things that are really, truly important. I know that, and knew it already. Sometimes I need a reminder.
So book sales be damned. Countless hours working myself to death be damned. I'll do what I can do in the time I have, and I can say that from this point on I'm going to have a lot less time to work. I'm going to be allocating those hours to appreciating what I have now…what I was afraid I'd almost lost.
Sorry to go on so long. My point, for those brave few who might have made it this far, is this: don't lose sight of what's important. It's easy to do. And, trust me, you don't want it to take a near tragedy to bring those things back into focus. Spend what time you must on your work, whatever that work may be. Spend the rest appreciating what you have, and being thankful for it.


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I would describe Super Bowl Week not the game itself, but the buildup to it thusly: Thousands of journalists bound by custom and formula all writing and saying basically the same things while trying unsuccessfully to repackage them for an audience that not only has already heard these stories, but is sick enough of them to scream.
In other words, pretty much what I am doing right here with my Super Bowl Week primer, a list of top 10 story lines, a national cheat sheet for my media brethren set to descend locust-like upon New Orleans for the upcoming 49ers-Ravens game.
1. Ray Lewis: Baltimores great linebacker (and ex-Hurricane) will be at the emotional epicenter of this game, a role for which he is insanely well suited. Ray is a baller. I dont just mean once the game starts. Hes bawling during the national anthem, pulling muscles with his squirrel dance and giving pregame speeches so fiery the field under his feet is left charred and smoldering.
Your Friend the Media will plumb the soul of the Canton-bound Lewis and wonder aloud if he is the greatest defensive player ever. Coverage of him mostly will be breathlessly rosy, although some the Serious Journalists Who Know It Isnt All Fun and Games will be unable to resist the temptation to revisit the 2000 murder indictment, later dismissed in exchange for Rays testimony against two other men. (These same Serious Journalists also will be writing densely this week about the leagues concussion crisis, a story no less important because nobody cares to read about it.)
My hope? After a million floral retrospectives and odes to Lewis swan song have been reverently crafted, Ray casually mentions the day after the game that he has changed his mind and isnt retiring, after all.
2. The Harbaughs: Bro Bowl! Har-Bowl! Super Baugh! This has not been reported anywhere else, to my knowledge, but apparently Jim and John Harbaugh will be the first head coach brothers ever to duel in a Super Bowl. And oh how the media swoons with enchantment! Father and former longtime college coach Jack Harbaugh, 73, will be more popular in New Orleans next week than beignets at Café Du Monde. Mom Jackie will need a phalanx of bodyguards to fend off the rush of reporters all seeking warm memories of a Harbaugh childhood, and tears, if she wouldnt mind.
For an offshoot, there also will be much contrasting and comparing of the Harbaughs with the NAwlins-based Mannings: Peyton, Eli and patriarch Archie. (Its why I have bought stock in media use of the phrase first family of football.)
My hope? A major news outlet (thinking Yahoo!) will have the exclusive, intriguing interview with heretofore unknown third brother Jasper Harbaugh, but it will turn out Jasper never existed and was the work of the same guy who duped Manti Teo.
3. Bountygate: A Super Bowl held in New Orleans the season of the Saints crippling Bountygate scandal and resulting penalties will spawn a thousand reheated analyses. (Not to mention vicious postgame booing of Roger Goodell as he presents the Vince Lombardi Trophy.)
4. Media Day: This is the one day during Super Bowl Week when both teams appear in the stadium and thousands of media members swarm upon them. The occasion is such that an investment in media references to circus atmosphere might be prudent. This event is renowned for the Wacky Foreign Journalist, typically a Mexican radio bombshell in a low-cut wedding dress asking the quarterbacks to marry her, and also for the Adorable Kid Reporter, typically a 12-year-old there for Nickelodeon who gets ushered to the front of the line by handlers rudely elbowing through the crowd of legitimate journalists.


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BY STEVEN DiMARTINO
As a cold front sinks south this morning over the Philadelphia and New York City metropolitan areas, high pressure will take hold from the eastern Great Lakes. This high pressure system will provide clear skies today with a drop in humidity. However, temperatures will rise into the upper 80's to lower 90's along the coast and mid to upper 90's away from the coast. There is a chance that a few locations could touch 100 degrees this afternoon, especially in the Philadelphia metropolitan area.
This evening and tonight, a few isolated thunderstorms will be possible as a few disturbances move through the region. These thunderstorms will be capable of frequent lightning, heavy downpours, large hail, and wind gusts over 50 mph. Otherwise, hazy conditions are expected with fog developing towards morning. Temperatures will fall into the upper 60's to mid 70's for lows by tomorrow morning.
Hazy, hot, humid, and at times stormy weather conditions can be expected tomorrow on through Sunday. Hazy conditions with high levels of humidity will lead to dangerously hot conditions as the heat index pushes into the mid 90's to the mid 100's. Meanwhile, isolated thunderstorms will be capable of heavy downpours, frequent lightning, large hail, and wind gusts over 50 mph. Temperatures will range from the upper 60's to mid 70's for lows and upper 80's to mid 90's along the coast and mid to upper 90's away from the coast.
A cold front will move through the region on Monday with scattered showers and thunderstorms. A much cooler air mass will take hold by Monday afternoon as high pressure builds into the region. High pressure will remain in control through Wednesday with comfortable weather conditions. Temperatures will range from the upper 50's to mid 60's for lows and lower to mid 80's along the coast and mid to upper 80's away from the coast for highs.


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ANTI preference of the pyramidalized radical center to the two fluorines in difluoro cyclic compounds.
Date: May 2008
Creator: Tanna, Jigisha
Description: An extensive study of disubstituted cycloalkanes like CnH2n where n=3,4,5 and 6 using DFT((U)B3LYP/6-31G(d) and 6-311+G(2df,2p)) calculations is presented focusing on the effect of pyramidalization of the radical center. A potential energy surface (PES) analysis shows that the radical prefers to pyramidalize anti to the two cis fluorines in the disubstituted cycloalkanes. The degree of pyramidalization for 1,2-difluorocyclopropyl radical is 43.9o away from the cis fluorines whereas for 1,3-difluorocyclobutyl radical, 1,3-difluorocyclopentyl radical and 1,3-difluorocyclohexyl radical is 3.8o, 5.4o and 14.5o respectively away from the cis fluorines. The importance of this pyramidality effect in these compounds is discussed in context with the carbon-hydrogen bond dissociation energies (BDE's) because the preference of the radical centers to pyramidalize anti to the fluorines affects the bond dissociation energy. Importance of steric effect and unfavorable electronic interactions have been extensively explored in planar permethylated cyclobutadiene (Me4CBD) and cyclooctatetraene (Me8COT) using ((U)B3LYP/6-31G(d) and 6-311+G(2df,2p)) calculations. It is thought that steric interactions dominate electronic interactions in Me8COT, while this works opposite in case of Me4CBT. Instead, in Me4CBD the number of unfavorable electronic interactions between π bonds and out-of-plane hydrogens plays the dominant role in determining the relative energies. Interactions between the π bonds of CBD and ...
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Despite the shock news, the Walford couple eventually decide to track down their grandchild and find out that she is now living in a care home, something that reminds them of their unfortunate upbringings as they both grew up together in a foster home.
Newbie Danielle Harold is set to play his relative, sharp and cocky but likeable Lola Pearce who quickly forms a close bond with her grandparents after having been deserted by everybody else in her life. However, after Billy and Julie decide to allow her to live with them, it remains to be seen if the other residents of Albert Square notably Billy's adoptive son Jay Brown (Jamie Borthwick) will accept Lola.
Newcomer Danielle Harold is set to appear on screens as Lola Pearce soon.
Commenting on her new role, Harold said: "I am so excited to be joining Eastenders. I have watched the show all my life and I never thought that one day I could be in Albert Square. It feels strange to be walking around Walford with people I have grown up watching – I still have to pinch myself."
Eagle-eyed viewers may remember Danielle from her appearance on C4 reality series Jamie's Dream School earlier this year. We think Danielle will be an excellent addition to the cast and can see a glimpse of former show favourite Stacey Branning (Lacey Turner) in the new character. Lola will appear on screen in a few weeks.


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Kevin Ogletree has another chance at No. 3 wideout
Source: ESPN Dallas - Jun 3, 2012 at 2:02 PM
IRVING, Texas -- There must be something the Dallas Cowboys like about wide receiver Kevin Ogletree.
He was poised to become the No. 3 wide receiver last season until some guy named Laurent Robinson stole the show. Robinson finished with 54 catches for 854 yards and 11 touchdowns. He caught a touchdown in five consecutive games. That's seven in five weeks.
When plays broke down, quarterback Tony Romo sought Robinson's abilities to scramble away from defenders and get to open spots on the field to make plays.


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Sebastian Vettel of Red Bull Racing made it nine wins in a row after he won the 2013 Formula 1 season ending Brazilin Grand Prix at the Interlagos circuit on Sunday.
This achievement by Vettel puts him on par with the all-time greats of the sport. He has equalled the number of most consecutive wins of 9 in a season set by Alberto Ascari in the 50's and has also matched most number of wins in a season of 13 by compatriot Michael Schumacher.
It was a superb drive from Vettel who did not put a foot wrong in a race that he dominated from start to finish. Behind him was his outgoing teammate Mark Webber who raced his last at Interlagos. In third place was Fernando Alonso of Ferrari who managed to stand on the Brazilian podium for the eighth time in his career.
Jenson Button was the driver of the day as he finished in fourth place for McLaren, their best result of a bitterly disappointing season, in which they failed to score a single podium – something that hasn't happened in a long time for them. Button had started the race in 14th position but managed to make all the way up the grid in the season ending race. His teammate, Sergio Perez also put up a great show before finishing in sixth place for the day.
A fifth place for Nico Rosberg and ninth place finish for Lewis Hamilton ensured Mercedes finished the constructors' championship in second place behind Red Bull Racing. If Alonso had just finished a place above or even his teammate Felipe Massa had, they could've displaced Mercedes from their second place, but it wasn't the case.
Massa, who drove his last for Ferrari, finished seventh and will be bitterly disappointed with a drive-through penalty that he had to serve for cutting the put exit line twice. If it wasn't for the penalty, he could've finished above Perez or even Rosberg.
Nico Hulkenberg for Sauber came home in eighth place while Red Bull driver for 2014 Daniel Ricciardo rounded off the top ten drivers.
The 2013 Formula 1 season has come to a close and the Formula 1 fraternity will be taking a much-needed break before getting ready for the 2014 season in January with the tests.
Stay tuned to Formula 1 Planet – Your most reliable source to all the Formula 1 news from around the world!