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Today, I bring to you, a very fine selection of awesome from Bliss.
You NEED the Bliss Fabulips Set.
So bloody awesome peeps!
You might think you don't need it but I beg to differ.
The Bliss Fabulips Set not only includes the newly released Bliss Fabulips Foaming Lip Cleanser in a full size but also three more great products to get your lips super soft. All yours, all full size, all for $45 bucks. Swing!
My lips tend to go dry and flaky around the Winter so adding this into my stash right now is the perfect solution to keeping my lips smooth, soft, hydrated, and flake-free! Good bye chapped, dry lips, hello Fabulips!
The sets includes the following full size products:
- Bliss Fabulips Foaming Lip Cleanser
- Bliss Fabulips Softening Lip Balm
- Bliss Fabulips Sugar Lip Scrub
- Bliss Fabulips Instant Lip Plumper
Who would have thought spoiling your lips would be this fun?
Bliss Fabulips Foaming Lip Cleanser is the first step of the set. This an effervescent bubbling formula with cocoa butter, shea butter and rice bran extract to gently cleanse lips, lift away impurities like food residue and makeup. Honestly, washing your lips sounds crazy as hell but it's actually a really cool product. It starts off a thick gel which you massage onto your lips. It begins to foam up almost instantly, I'm talking shaving cream style foaming action! I'm a kid at heart so I got a complete kick out of how this goes all bubbly crazy on my lips. You can leave this on a minute or two and it'll foam and sizzle away, it's kinda ticklish. After, you simply wipe it away with a tissue. Done!
The results?
Well, cleansing, as I said, sounds kinda weird..but actually it removes minor flaking action and makes lips feel super smooth and soft. Likey! It sounds like a gimmick but it actually works to create very smooth, softer lips but try not to lick it off as it tastes like delicious orange candy!
For the next step you'll use Fabulips Sugar Lip Scrub which is a dense balm made up of finely granulated sugar, almond, and wallet shells. This is actually one of the easiest scrubs I've had the pleasure of using thanks to the finer texture of the grains. It rubs in easily and gently exfoliates lips. Rub it on and simply swipe it off with a tissue, done! Flakes gone, smoother lips, quick, easy, simple!
Now you have a choice, if you're heading out for a night on the town you'll want to follow up with Bliss Fabulips Instant Lip Plump which is a cool, minty gloss that makes lips look fuller. The formula isn't tacky and wears comfortably well. The thickness of the gloss gives the illusion of fuller lips.
If you're heading to bed Bliss Fabulips Softening Lip Balm is a soft shea butter and jojoba oil lip balm. This is a moisturizing treatment that leaves lips soft with a touch of shine. It's kinda the perfect treat to leave by your bed side to apply prior to bedding down at night.
I loved this set. It just tickled me for some reason and it actually works! The products are all full size so you're getting quite a nice bang for your buck.
Overall, Bliss Fabulips is a go here!
Big Muse Approval!
You NEED this one!
Do check it out at Sephora.com or www.blissworld.com
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This review contains a sample product sent for consideration by PR.
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9/8/11 12:51 Eve:
I want this so bad. I've had chronic dry lips since I was 14 (seriously, I can't go more than a couple of hours without balm T_T) so I really want this set!!!
9/8/11 13:01 Cj:
I really wanted to try mine last night but I wasn't feeling good Now I'm really excited to try em tonight!
9/8/11 13:39 Cj:
Have you tried the triple oxygen mask? From what you wrote the lip cleanser sounds just like it! Well a lip version of it lol.
9/9/11 11:37 Cj:
Hey Muse So I tried it all last night and OMG! My lips have never felt this smooth before! Now I just needa find someone to kiss lol 😛
9/9/11 12:12 Cj:
I do but I don't really tweet at all lol. Just follow a few celebs n youtubers I like xD
9/8/11 13:34 Cait:
ahh i want this so bad lol….$45 it a little pricey for my lips though most of my cash goes to my pain in the butt skin haha
9/8/11 15:39 Karyn:
Is this LE? If not I know what I'm asking for from Santa!!!
9/8/11 18:53 Tammie:
I want this! My lips are always flaky/dry~. But $45 is a bit steep, even though the value is very good 😐
9/9/11 12:26 Tammie:
Ah yeah, that's coming up soon huh! Will do! Although I can't guarantee that I won't get some makeup instead still haha…I am so impractical!!
9/9/11 1:22 Ashley:
The foaming cleanser sounds like the Bliss oxygen mask for the lips! I love oxygen masks… Hmmm 😉
9/9/11 12:03 Majick:
"finely granulated sugar, almond, and wallet shells."
Wallet shells? THat must be why the price is so high! ROFLMAO Sorry, feeling just a little corny today and I couldn't help myself. Your typo made me smile.
THis looks like a great haul for F&F. Everything in here looks great.
9/9/11 14:29 Rainbow:
Muse, I've always wanted to know: how do you wear lip balm to bed? Maybe it's just me, but I have a chronic fear that during the night it will all literally go from lips to pillow to sheets, hair, and face!
9/9/11 22:47 1sorry_grrl:
OMG! Now I _have_ to have this!! Thanks for the great review.
9/10/11 12:20 Claudia:
Wow that looks fabulous! I am obsessed with keeping my lips smooth and I have very thin lips so plumping is good! Would you say this scrub is better than the lush lip scrub?
9/12/11 0:40 Ally:
It's taking everything in me to not go on Sephora this very instant and purchase it. Or…. utilize all those promo codes that Bliss keeps sending me for their site.
9/12/11 2:54 Ana:
I was eyeing this on the Sephora website the other day while I was searching for lip scrubs (in the end I realized my DIY honey and sugar lip scrub works just fine, lol). This set looks very fun and tempting but idk… just feel kinda silly buying a whole kit for my lips!
9/13/11 3:01 Ruthless:
Nah, I'll stick to Jack Black lip balm, it's the most awesome thing for lips ever
9/21/11 3:32 Andrea:
Muse! I love your blog! I can't it enough! I saw this set at sephora! I'm def picking it up since my lips are always super dry!!
I love love love your blog! keep up the good work! 😀
9/21/11 3:33 Andrea:
can't say it* lol


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Lee Harlin Bahan earned from Indiana University of Bloomington a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing and authored the chapbook Migration Solo. Her work most recently appeared in North American Review. An avid canoeistreally!she hopes this journal someday has t-shirts printed and puts them up for sale.
Returning, inexplicably, to The Shit Creek Review for what is often delicately referred to as number two, Norman Ball has had nearly a hundred poems, articles and essays published over the last few years in venues bound by a singularly overriding vision: lax quality control. As further evidence that the apparent nadir in a writer's life is often but a low-lying plateau from which new depths are soon plunged, Norm has a number of poems coming out shortly in the American Drivel Review. How's that for some shit?
Australian Sam Byfield is addicted to China, where he teaches English in a university, travels, studies Mandarin and writes. He has been published or has work forthcoming in print and online magazines Meridian, Diner, The Pedestal Magazine, Stirring, Eclectica, The Avatar Review, foam-e and others. He is an editorial assistant for Lily Lit Review and a 2006 Sundress Best of the Net finalist.
Michael Cantor, New York-born, and a former business executive, has lived and worked in Japan, Europe and Latin America; and now resides on Plum Island, north of Boston on the Massachusetts coast. His poetry has appeared in Measure, The Formalist, Dark Horse, Iambs & Trochees, Texas Poetry Journal, The Atlanta Review, and many other journals and anthologies.
K.R. Copeland is a hopelessly romantic sociopath who openly admits to being a poet, but only in the privacy of her fully-padded living quarters. She's been published a bunch, has a chapbook available through Dancing Girl Press, and acts as the Art Director at Unlikely 2.0.
Brian Dion's work has appeared in Candelabrum and the Raintown Review and he was a runner-up for the 2005 Grolier Poetry prize. He is active in his local Community Theatre and resides in Massachusetts with his wife and daughter.
Richard Epsteins poems have been published in obscure literary journals, little magazines, and academic quarterlies and have been doing so for a long time now. If you haven't noticed, that's your fault, not his. Now, it seems, they'll appear in excremental zines, too, which, considering his academic background in 18th-century British literature, seems entirely appropriate. He lives in Denver. His own, somewhat more sanitized blog, can be read at http://rhepoems.blogspot.com/.
Rhina P. Espaillat has published three chapbooks and six full-length books, most recently Agua de dos rios ("Water from Two Rivers"), a bilingual collection of poems and essays. Her next, due out in April, is a collection of her short stories, also bilingual, titled El olor de la memoria ("The Scent of Memory").
Anna Evans is a British citizen but permanent resident of NJ, where she is raising two daughters. She has had over 100 poems published in journals including The Formalist, The Evansville Review, Measure and e-zines such as Verse Libre Quarterly. She has been nominated three times for a Pushcart Prize and was a finalist in the 2005 Howard Nemerov sonnet award. She is editor of the formal poetry e-zine The Barefoot Muse and is currently enrolled in the Bennington College MFA Program. Her first chapbook Swimming was published in March 2006 by Maverick Duck Press.
Larry Fontenot was a Featured Poet at the 1996 and the 2000 Houston Poetry Fests. A chapbook, Choices & Consequences, was the winner of the Maverick Press 1996 Southwest Poets Series Chapbook competition. Larry also won the 2000 Alsop Review Poetry Competition for his poem "Mowing Deconstructed". His poem "Wile E. Coyotes Lament" was published in The Years Best Fantasy and Horror, 12th Annual Collection in 1999.
Angela France lives in Gloucestershire and is enjoying middle age. She runs a local live poetry event - 'Buzzwords' - and writes for self-indulgence, as an antidote to demanding work with challenging young people. She has had poems published in, or forthcoming in: Acumen, Iota, The Frogmore Papers, Rain Dog, The Panhandler, The Shit Creek Review, Voice and Verse, and in anthologies The White Car and Mind Mutations.
Jude Goodwin's poems can be read in print journals including Cider Press Review, Burnside Review, and Comstock Review, as well as various online journals. They have won and placed well in the IBPC: New Poetry Voices competition, were short-listed in the CBC Radio Literary Awards, and recently received Honorable Mention in the Jessie Bryce Niles Chapbook Competition. Jude is currently considering publishers for her first book of poetry. She lives in BC, Canada where she freelances as publisher/editor/author and illustrator for various small journals and papers.
R.S. Gwynn is University Professor of English and Poet-in-Residence at Lamar University. No Word of Farewell, his selected poems, came out from Story Line in 2001.
Daniel Haar works as an economist in Washington, DC, but in his little free time he would rather read works of medieval theology than modern economics. This leaves even less time for poetry, but he enjoys its pleasures too.
Juleigh Howard-Hobson: Besides winning the Australian RSL ANZAC Day Award for her poetry, Juleigh Howard-Hobson's poetry has most recently been, or will be, included in The Barefoot Muse,The Raintown Review, Contemporary Rhyme, Strong Verse, Workers Write!, The Quarterly Journal of Food and Car Poetry, The Arabesques Print Review, Mezzo Cammin, Shatter Colors Literary Review, Poem, Revised (Robert Fiske, ed) and The Hypertexts. She was a finalist for the 2006 Morton Marr Poetry Award. English-born, she has lived in the UK, Australia and both sides of the US. She now resides in the Pacific Northwest with her artist-blacksmith husband, their three home-schooled children and a library of classically wrought literature... too many volumes of which are sadly out of print.
Rose Kelleher sometimes writes.
Janet Kenny has metamorphosed from painter to classical singer to anti-nuclear activist, researcher, writer, illustrator and poet. Started in New Zealand and zigzagged across the globe to finally settle in Australia. She has published fairly widely as a poet. Some of her poetry can be found at her website.
Danielle Lapidoth lives with her husband and children in Zurich, Switzerland, where she runs an editing business, teaches English and writes poetry, flash fiction and essays while her family sleeps. She has work published or forthcoming in Lily: A Monthly Literary Review, Barnwood, Midstream, Lightning Bell, Literary Mama and Mamaphonic
Amanda Laughtland writes poems, works in a public library, teaches at a community college, and publishes a very small zine called Teeny Tiny. Amanda's zine and other endeavors are described at http://www.teenytiny.org. Her chapbook, I Meant to Say, is available from overhere Press.
Dave McClure had written sporadically all his life, but became hooked about ten years ago when he started contributing to a number of on-line forums and workshops. He writes in English and modern Scots, mostly in form, and with no particular life theme, preferring to ring the changes in subject matter and style. If he ever 'finds his voice' it'll be time to stop. He has heard it said that in order to publish, one must submit for publication. This sounds too much like hard work.
Mary Meriams first book of poems, The Countess of Flatbroke (Modern Metrics, 2006), features an afterword by Lillian Faderman and a cover design by R. Nemo Hill.
Tim Murphy's latest books are Beowulf, A Longman Cultural Edition, co-translated with Alan Sullivan, 2004, and Very Far North, Waywiser Press (London), 2002.
Henry Quince has been an academic, jazz pianist, editor, copywriter, and voiceover man. A recidivist wanderer, he lives in Australia. He's had the odd poem or two published here and there. Others have been widely refused. (Since the poems are all top-notch, he says, it must be the red wine splashes on the paper.) Read some of Henry's work at his website.
Bee Smith lives and gardens on an acre of West Cavan in the Irish Republic. Born in Queens, NY she lived in England for 20 years before moving country a second time. She is the co-author with Helen Shay of a poetry collection, Binary Star. Poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Magma, The sHOP, Writing Women, and many small press publications. She writes a regular astrology column for Sagewoman and has a website www.beesmith.com.
A. E. Stallings was born in 1968 and grew up in Decatur, Georgia. She has received numerous awards for her poetry, including the Richard Wilbur Award, the 2004 Frederick Bock Prize, a Pushcart Prize, and the Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award. Stallings studied classics in Athens, Georgia, and now lives in Athens, Greece. She is married to the journalist John Psaropoulos, and they have a son, Jason.
Alan Sullivan translated the Beowulf with Timothy Murphy for A.B. Longman. His poems have appeared in many venues, including The Hudson Review, Poetry, The Formalist, and Chronicles. He blogs at seablogger.com.
Wendy Videlock sometimes writes poems.
Richard Wakefield lives near Seattle, Washington, with his wife and their two daughters. He teaches American literature at Tacoma Community College and the University of Washington Tacoma, and is the poetry critic for the Seattle Times. His poetry has appeared in Seattle Review, Atlanta Review, Light, Hellas, The Formalist, Tampa Review, and others. His articles, essays, and reviews have appeared in American Literature, Sewanee Review, Light, Midwest Quarterly, and others. His collection of poetry, East of Early Winters, received the 2006 Richard Wilbur Award and is available from the University of Evansville Press.
Kirby Wright was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii. He is a graduate of Punahou School in Honolulu and the University of California at San Diego. He received his MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. Kirby has been nominated for two Pushcart Prizes and is a past recipient of the Ann Fields Poetry Prize, the Academy of American Poets Award, the Browning Society Award for Dramatic Monologue, the San Diego Book Award, and Arts Council Silicon Valley Fellowships in Poetry and The Novel. His forthcoming novel is set on east end Molokai, a stone's throw from a minefield of sting rays.
Valori Herzlich was born in Latvia, and educated in New York City. She has worked as an art director, designer and illustrator; and now spends her time quilting, drawing, practicing Yoga, and dealing with massive quantities of champagne corks and freshly opened eggs.
Hanka Jaskowska is a 21 year old living in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. She is currently studying Art and Design, taking the first steps in fulfilling an ambition of a career in prop-making and sculptural costume for theatre/screen. One of her primary hobbies is photography, within which she can be often be found being looked at strangely for finding interest in the less interesting things.
C. D. Russell has an itchy shutter finger and is patiently persuading her camera to lie. She prefers to photograph cows.

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NIH Research Matters
May 14, 2007
Genetic Roots of Bipolar Disorder Revealed
The first genome-wide study of bipolar disorder has found that no single gene is sufficient to cause the disorder. Rather, several genetic variations appear to boost the disease risk, especially in combination. The implicated genes provide potential new targets for drug development and may ultimately lead to more effective treatments.
Bipolar disorder, also known as manic-depressive illness, affects nearly 6 million American adults and some children. It brings extreme and sometimes disabling mood swings, ranging from elation, over-excitement and irritability to crippling exhaustion and depression. Lithium and other mood-stabilizing medications help many patients cope with the disorder, but some people don't respond to current therapies. Scientists suspect that variations in inherited genes influence each person's disease risk and response to medications. By identifying these variations, researchers hope to develop new and more targeted therapies.
To detect genetic variations associated with bipolar disorder, scientists at the NIH National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) collaborated with researchers from the Universities of Heidelberg and Bonn and several U.S. facilities to compare the genomes of adults with and without bipolar disorder. Their investigation relied on a new research method called a genome-wide association study, which involves scanning thousands of genetic markers for tiny variations that appear more often in people that have a particular condition than in those who don't.
For this study, lead investigator Dr. Francis J. McMahon of NIMH and his colleagues pooled the genetic material of adults with bipolar disorder, which allowed them to scan the entire group at a small fraction of the cost of scanning each person's genome individually. The genetic material of the healthy group was pooled and scanned separately. Altogether, the study included more than 1,200 patients with bipolar disorder and over 1,400 healthy subjects. The scientists then zeroed in on the gene variations that occurred more often in the people with bipolar disorder and examined them individually. Their results were published online on May 8, 2007, in the journal Molecular Psychiatry.
The researchers identified at least 15 genes that were significantly associated with bipolar disorder. Although each variant appeared to contribute only modestly to disease risk, the likelihood of developing bipolar disorder increased substantially among those with more variants. Variants in one particular gene called DGKH seemed to pose a greater risk than others. DGKH produces a protein that plays a key role in a biochemical pathway that is believed to give lithium its therapeutic effects.
"Treatments that target just a few of these genes or the proteins they make could yield substantial benefits for patients," McMahon said. "Lithium is still the primary treatment for bipolar disorder, but DGKH is a promising target for new treatments that might be more effective and better tolerated."
The researchers plan to make the results of their genome-wide scans available on a Web site, to assist other scientists who are pursuing similar lines of research.
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It's so hard to resist buying that one little skein of Aquarella - it's so beautiful and watercolor-y and amazing. But with just 65 yards, finding a project that will use one skein is challenging. This is my answer to that conundrum: wear it as a super fat & cozy headband with ties in front or back, or even under the chin, or use it as a little neckwarmer. Knits up easily in an evening and would make a wonderful quick gift.
Your purchase of this pattern constitutes your agreement to use this pattern only for personal, non-profit use without specific written permission from the designer. Items made from this pattern may not be sold, nor may the pattern itself be copied, sold, or distributed in any way. You may print one copy for personal use but may not print multiples to distribute, nor may you share the digital file with others.


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Have a Little Faith in People: Woody Allen, 'Blue Jasmine', and Returning to Form
6 Feb 2014 // 9:14 PM
Blue Jasmine goes some way towards restoring our faith in Woody Allen's talent. Against the odds, and late in the game, Woody has hit a home run. He actually has returned to form, this time.
What Is Summer in New York Without Woody Allen?
2 Aug 2012 // 6:10 PM
Woody (and Penelope, and Alec, and Ellen, and Greta) on Woody: The director and cast of To Rome With Love talk fame, fans, and Fellini.
In Defense of Woody Allen's Recent Work
19 Jul 2012 // 5:02 AM
Before you jump to conclusions about To Rome with Love, consider what it is you are criticizing. Is it the man? Or is it the man's reputation?
'A Moveable Feast' in 'Midnight in Paris'
27 Feb 2012 // 4:00 PM
Ernest Hemingway compared Paris to a moveable feast because no matter what time it is, Paris is always the magnificent city of lights. Woody Allen expands upon Hemingway's testimony in the magical Midnight in Paris.
'Top Five' Is the First Film to Fully Showcase Chris Rock's Genius
16 Mar 2015 // 9:10 PM
Top Five is one of the most original and satisfying comedies in years.
In 'Magic in the Moonlight', Ideas Trump Characters
4 Dec 2014 // 9:10 PM
The fundamentalist atheism and myopic intellectualism of Woody Allen's latest depiction of an older man/younger woman dynamic makes it a pale imitation of his best work.
Cannes 2015: Woody Allen's 'Irrational Man' Is More of the Same
16 May 2015 // 7:00 AM
The 2015 Cannes Film Festival finds Woody Allen mining the same tropes of crimes and misdemeanors that he does with each film.
Watch the New Trailer for Woody Allen's Latest, 'Irrational Man'
6 May 2015 // 9:41 AM
The latest picture by Woody Allen unsurprisingly depicts a neurotic, upper-middle class man that seeks help from the women in his life.
Joaquin Phoenix Aces Role in Woody Allen's 'Irrational Man'
20 Jul 2015 // 7:07 AM
Irrational Man will likely change no one's mind about what to do with Woody Allen.
Woody Allen to create show for Amazon on heels of 'Transparent' success
14 Jan 2015 // 4:13 AM
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CNBC: Cohen wants 49% of Mets for $200M, ASAP
Earlier today, Kate Kelly issued the following report on air for CNBC:
Stevie Cohen has offered to buy a 49 percent stake for about $200 million dollars, which is the cash that the Wilpons and Katz were hoping to raise. But, he does want some board seats in the Mets organization and he wants some significant say over how they do what they do. However, voting control within MLB would remain with the Wilpons, which is something that they have been insistent upon all along, as well as not wanting to sell a majority stake, which gives you sort of the 49 percent number. So, I'm told that talks are at a little bit of a stalemate right now. Cohen is demanding sort of stiffer terms than the organization was originally prepared to offer, but they are not dead. They are still happening and the goal is to get this thing done ASAP."
Earlier this week, the New York Post and New York Times both reported that Cohen was the front-runner to buy in to the team's Ownership.
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Weekend Road Trip
The Hawks practiced earlier today before heading out of town for a rare Friday/Saturday road trip. In fact, it is only one of five pairs of back-to-back road games all season, and the only one that falls on Friday/Saturday.
Ironically, the two teams that Atlanta will face this weekend squared off against each other last night in Indianapolis. The result: a 136-112 Pacer victory.
"I saw some of the tape of that game," said Larry Drew after today's practice. "It was a track meet and a shootout. "
The challenge for Drew will be to keep his own players from playing that open, run and gun style that sub-.500 teams resort to at this point of the season.
"We still have to play a certain way," said LD. "We are trying to get ourselves ready for the playoffs. We don't want to take a step back and just start playing a way that's not very characteristic of us. Our focus is to go into the playoffs with momentum."
Jamal couldn't help but smile when commenting on the freedom that "JC2" has been given as the Wizards play out the final stretch of games.
"20 shots per is normal for (Jordan Crawford) right now," said Jamal. "I'm happy for him, it's going to make him a lot better a lot faster. He's basically learning on the fly right now."
Josh Smith (right knee) and Jason Collins (left ankle) will both remain in Atlanta this weekend and receive treatment on their injuries.
"Injuries are part of the game," Collins said from the locker room today. "I've had lots of sprained ankles in my basketball career, and this is another one on the list."
The advantage right now for the Hawks is that there is no rush to get either player back. As long as they are well enough to receive treatment and get some conditioning in on the side, then the only game they need to make sure they are healthy for is Game 1 in Orlando.
The Hawks franchise record for road wins in a season is 22. This year's squad currently has 20 wins away from the Highlight Factory with three road contests remaining on the schedule.


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Iran's nuclear facilities weren't the only ones affected by Stuxnet back in 2010. The same year, the malware also made its way to the systems of Chevron – the American oil giant.
Mark Koelmel, the company's general manager of the earth sciences department, told The Wall Street Journal that although Stuxnet infected their systems, it was neutralized before it could cause any damage because they were prepared to handle such threats.
On the other hand, Koelmel warns that the "downside" of creating Stuxnet will probably overcome what they've actually accomplished with it.
If, in 2010, the US was launching sophisticated attacks, now, they're the ones concerned about cyberattacks initiated by their adversaries.
Last month, US officials accused Iran of being responsible for creating the Shamoon malware – the one involved in the attacks against Saudi Aramco and Qatari gas company RasGas.
US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has revealed that only a few countries possess the capabilities to create such malware, which is why Iran is the main suspect.


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Three years ago, I detested baseball. I thought it was endlessly boring, I didn't enjoy watching it, and I never thought I could enjoy playing it.
However, a job opportunity opened up and a cursory knowledge of baseball was required. Interested in a job in the sports industry, I gave baseball a second chance and sat down with some buddies to take me through the game.
I ended up loving it. Which brings me to this year.
Watching the Giants sweep the Tigers in the World Series on Sunday night, I was struck by the ways in which metrics in baseball and social media are similar.
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In the midst of the announcers discussing ridiculous stats (the most ridiculous of them all was the fact that relieving pitcher Affeldt for San Francisco had his third child this year, and the last two times he had a kid the team he was playing for won the world series) I reflected on how the way stats are viewed has changed over the course of baseball's history.
One of the biggest changes is the slow shift in understanding from what are useless metrics and which metrics actually matter. This is comparable to the shift in understanding of useful metrics in the social sphere and surprisingly there are a number of useful parallels between the two industries.
Runs and RBIs
A run is a point a team earns by advancing a player around all the bases and back to home plate to score. The team with the most runs wins the game. How can this not be an important thing to measure? As it turns out, measuring a player's runs is actually one of the most useless stats in baseball.
Yes, runs themselves determine wins, but measuring them on a player to player basis is not as useful as it seems. Unless that player hits a home-run, they have no control over whether or not they get to cross home plate. The people who have all the power are the ones who bat AFTER them, because if they succeed in getting a hit they get to send the runner home.
In social media metrics, even as we continually grow and learn how to track this uncontrollable beast in better ways, many marketing reports are still plagued by a "tracking runs" mentality.
In the social media world, runs are the number Likes, Followers, Subscribers, etc. They are inarguably useful as they determine the audience who will see your message, give some form of credibility, and in some circumstances can even be viewed as what determines a metaphorical winner.
I mean, there are even people who will go so far as paying in order to win (similar to Barry Bonds and the steroid era of baseball).
Using this as the only measure of someone's capabilities is tantamount to only paying attention to a ball players Runs stat. Just because you have a lot of "runs" attached to your account doesn't mean you are an expert in bringing them in.
Unless you hit a lot of home-runs, it may very well be other people who are helping you win at Social Media.
Baseball clued into this shortcoming early on (1920 to be exact), and although runs are still tracked, they now primarily focus on Runs Batted In (RBIs). For those who aren't familiar with this term, this is the number of base runners you send to home plate after succeeding in getting a hit.
This is a much more valuable stat as you can see who performs in clutch situations, converts on scoring opportunities, and helps your team win ball games.
Similarly, we need to track our online or social RBIs, which would be a measure of an individual's engagement with their audience. This includes both conversations they have with people and the number of times their content is shared.
Other than performing as a star player and bringing in fans through brand awareness, the level of engagement that people have with your content, either through feedback, endorsement, or sharing, is the best way to "bat in runs".
Content is usually shared because it is good. Good content is usually recognized by a wide audience. People want to follow people who produce good content.
This are how you collect your runs and showcase yourself as a social media powerhouse.
Wins Above Replacement
Wins Above Replacement (WAR) is a measure of how many wins a team would have with a star player playing their position versus a replacement level (minor league or bench) player playing in their place.
For example, if you have a solid first baseman with a WAR of 5 who gets injured and replaced by a bench player, the team would supposedly win 5 less games with this new player playing their position.
These calculations, however, are unstandardized as a variety of different sources calculate WAR slightly differently, measuring slightly different variables to produce a value.
There are so many factors that need to be taken into account that this kind of predictive modeling starts to seem pretty fantastical. It also can't account for a minor leaguer who tears it up at the majors, or the rest of the team going on a hot streak.
The reason I bring up such a controversial statistic is that companies and marketers continue to try and come up with their own version of the WAR statistic: influence.
The problem is that influence in the real world isn't really something that you can measure. It's something that we might be aware of but we just can't look at someone who is an expert and simply know that they are influential.
Arguably it should easier to get a handle of this in the realm of social as there is concrete data available, but there are too many factors (some that are not currently quantifiable) that we simply don't have the ability to track.
Influence calculations are not only unstandardized, but several of the formulas are not openly available for critique or scrutiny. Even with the best of intentions and regardless of how popular they may be, most measures of influence are not credible or useful simply because they lack the necessary scope.
Until a formula is determined, or a standardized understanding of what "influence" is, tracking it seems to be an act of futility. All these attempts may result in the discovery that some things are intangible, out of quantifiable reach and will remain (at the very best) only educated guesses.
Human Factor
Along with all of these statistics, I find myself constantly needing to remind myself that these numbers aren't being attributed to robots, but to human beings. Even though these athletes might be (arguably) the best players in the world, they aren't perfect nor are they perfectly consistent. Any number of things could render these trend indicators completely valueless.
The same goes for metrics in the social space because the value of a certain page or profile is only as good as the person (or people) who runs it. And even with the vast experience and a statistically sound portfolio even the best of those people will make mistakes.
So as useful as metrics might be to give you direction, don't treat them like the end all be all. Some of the most talented people I know only use metrics as guidelines, and go with their gut most of the time (similar to a good manager would when substituting in a pinch hitter late in a game).
There is a level of innate ability within each person who has found success online, and sometimes that needs to be trusted over the stories the numbers are telling you.
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Water cannot form unless a ton of energy aids the process (to our best understanding).
Our Earth science so far cannot replicate water in the laboratory yet within any reasonable cost effective manner.
Originally posted by iunlimited491
Very cool. S&F.
Anybody care for a quick swim?
Your link isn't working for me though.
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Originally posted by muzzleflash
Water doesn't just form or decay like they are implying.
Just because it turns to vapor or back into water or is filtered a thousand times, it is still in fact the same water it was before.
Where did all the water come from to begin with? Ice asteroids is one of my favorite theories, but there are other possibilities.
Maybe this is the oldest known "isolated water", but as far as we know all the water on Earth is actually the same age. There is no way to date a water molecule with reasonable accuracy that we are aware of at our primitive technological level.
I content this water no older than the water I drink everyday.
Would be cool to be disproved but I have my doubts.
Originally posted by Shadoefax
In any event, I not sure why any scientist would want to replicate (synthesize) water in a lab. It's not like water is hard to find.
So it is impressive compared to the water which was recently rained down on the ocean off the coast of Chile, which was then inside a Sea Bass, which was eaten by a guy at Pappadeaux in Westmont, Illinois, who later urinated into Lake Michigan, where the very same waterthat fell as rain off the coast of Chile entered the water treatment facility in Chicago, traveled through pipes to my home, circulated through my RO filtration, amd then was gladly chugged down as a refreshing beverage in the heat today.


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Fulcrum BioEnergy
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Lobbying$700,000 Spent
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Lobbying on Behalf of Fulcrum BioEnergy
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Firm Hired Amount Fulcrum BioEnergy $250,000
Most Frequently Disclosed Lobbying Issues
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- Environment & Superfund,
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- Energy & Nuclear Power,
- Fed Budget & Appropriations
Most Frequently Disclosed Bills
Bill No. Title S.1462 American Clean Energy Leadership Act of 2009 S.1733 Green Taxis Act of 2009 H.R.2454 American Clean Energy And Security Act of 2009 H.R.5142 Grow a Renewable Energy Economy Now--Jumpstart Other Biofuels Act of 2010 H.R.5343 Advanced Biofuel Investment Act of 2010 H.R.4853 Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010 H.R.5893 Investing in American Jobs and Closing Tax Loopholes Act of 2010 S.3513 Bonus Depreciation Extension to Create Jobs Act S.3663 Home Star Retrofit Act of 2010 S.3793 Trade Adjustment Assistance Extension Act of 2010
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- Toggle 1 EPA Clean Air Transport Rule 2009
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WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen was more kitten than lion on Wednesday, sticking to her guns that the central bank can hold short-term interest rates steady until the middle of next year and then raise them gradually, and downplaying recent strong inflation readings.
In its latest dot-plot forecast, the Fed did see a slightly faster pace of tightening in the cards. But the slight increase was overlooked by the market that focused more on Yellen's remark that the recent inflation data was "noisy."
The S&P 500 index SPX, +0.88% jumped to a record close following Yellen's remarks.
In contrast to Bank of England Governor Mark Carney, Yellen suggested the Fed is comfortable that it can hold rates steady for a considerable time after it ends its asset purchase program. Last week, Carney warned that the first interest-rate hike could come sooner than the market expected.
Economists said the latest Fed projections point to a first rate hike in June 2015. Short-term interest rates have been steady near zero since December 2008.
Zach Pandl, senior interest rate strategist at Columbia Management Investment Advisers, said investors took Yellen's remarks as "a green light" to continue to expect low bond yields.
He said Yellen made some warnings about volatility that were similar to Carney, but not as blunt or forceful.
The Fed chairwoman said that investors should not take ultra-low rates for granted.
It is important "for market participants to recognize that there is uncertainty about what the path of interest rates, short-term rates, will be, and that's necessary because there's uncertainty about what the path of the economy will be," she said.
As expected, the central bank trimmed bond purchases by another $10 billion, staying on track to end its long-running stimulus program before the end of the year. This is the fifth straight meeting with a $10 billion cut in the asset purchases. The Fed will now buy $35 billion a month in Treasurys and mortgage-related assets, starting in July.
Fed officials tweaked their forecast for interest rates at the end of 2015 from the bank's 1% estimate in March. The Fed now sees the fed funds rate closer to 1.25% by then.
The dot plot also showed the fed funds rate was likely to rise closer to 2.5% in 2016 instead of 2.25% as previously predicted.
At the same time, the Fed lowered its forecast for "longer run" interest rates to 3.75% from closer to 4%. The last change is important because it signals the central bank won't push up interest rates all that high during this recovery phase.


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Deals with descriptions. Data can be observed but not measured. Colors, textures, smells, tastes, appearance, beauty, etc. Qualitative → Quality
The scientist focuses his or her observations on the dependent variable to see how it responds to the change made to the independent variable. The new value of the dependent variable is caused by and depends on the value of the independent variable.
Order - all living things exhibit complex, but ordered organization.
Growth and Development - Information carried by genes controlled the pattern of growth and development in all organisms.
Regulation - The environment outside the organism may change drastically, but the organism can adjust it's internal environment, keeping it within appropriate limits.
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The material surrounding the nucleus of a cell. It consists of a matrix in which the cell's organelles are suspended. Two types. Ectoplasm - concerned with cell movement. Endoplasm - contains most of the cell's structures.
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Dyffryn Gardens
For groups
A great day out
Whatever the season, Dyffryn always has something to offer. From grand lawns to a tropical glasshouse, an arboretum and a large Victorian mansion, there is plenty to keep you occupied all day. We offer discounted rates for larger groups as well as morning coffee, light lunches or high tea on request.
Group benefits
- Reduced price for groups of 15 or more
- Free coach parking
- Free house tours on request
- Garden tours only £1 per person
- Members go free
- Private lunch areas available on request
- Free entry for your coach driver and trip organiser
How to book
To book your group visit please fill in the booking form and email it to us two weeks before your visit. If you have any questions please email or call on 029 2059 3328.
House and garden tours
Please book your tour at least two weeks in advance as certain dates may not be available.
- House tours are free and can be booked between 10.30am and 11.30am.
- Garden tours are £1 per person and can take place throughout the day.
Getting around
We have a designated wheelchair and pram route around the gardens which is outlined on our map.
On certain days we also have a golf buggy to give young and old legs a rest.
For those with mobility issues we have electric scooters and wheelchairs to hire free of charge.
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So far I have had 17 SMS messages on the new UK mobile number from people saying "hi" and suggesting sites to see!
So far I have had 17 SMS messages on the new UK mobile number from people saying "hi" and suggesting sites to see!
Father Z, are you celebrating any public Masses in London we can come to?
I think I have an early Mass (Novus Ordo in English) tomorrow morning at St Bede's. I will be helping there during the week. I don't have anything more exotic at this point. I suppose I could say a TLM on a day when I don't have a parish Mass for some people.
I gotta hand to Fr Z. He is a gutsy man giving out his number to the public like that.
Hi Father,
If you're a Shakespeare fan, you might check out As You Like It playing at the Globe. Nothing like being among the groundlings in the open air, don't you know.
I've heard tell that they used to sell oranges during performances at the original Globe in Elizabeth's time, both to slake the crowd's thirst and cut down on the stench of London's assembled undesirables. And in a pinch, an orange rind can encourage a particularly hammy Hamlet to get on with the scene, wot?
Welcome, welcome as always. It's a good feeling whenever Fr Z is somewhere out there in the metropolis, even if he is staying the wrong side of the river :-)
I'm in the next parish (and same Deanery) to Fr Chris – St Anselm's, Tooting Bec.
A couple of stops from from St Bede's – Clapham South on the Northern Line to Tooting Bec.
Any slight chance you will be in Oxford this week? We are still coming down off our high over the good news about J.H. Cardinal Newman and the singing of the Te Deum at the Oratory. I'll stand you for a pint at the Eagle and Child (or Lamb and Flag).
Denis: Sorry… this weekend keeps me in London.
Peter: I know about the Globe and was there once. I would LOVE to take in a play while here.
I understand that there are free tours of the Rose site next weekend!
Matthew: I am not worried about this UK number being out there. Besides, I had to change my number and this is a fast way to get it out to my acquaintances here. And if people want call or send SMSs … okay.
Just wondering if you are going to be in the UK for a while since you have a number just for that. What did you have before, just an Italian number?
Welcome to Britain! If you were coming up to Scotland, my husband Benedict Ambrose and I would
buy you dinner! Maybe next time?
Graham said he belongs to the parish of "St. Anselm's Tooting Bec". What a lovely name!
I know, of course, where the "Anselm" came from but whence cometh the name, "Tooting Bec"?
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BERLIN, Ohio — When people drive through the rural communities of Holmes County, Ohio, they typically notice the farms, the Amish, the tourist shops, and the restaurants.
But, there's another cluster of activity that's growing and maturing, and it's taking place out in the woods — inside nearly one-third of the county that is forested, and inside hundreds of sawmills and wood shops, retail and manufacturing centers.
That cluster, in its broadest form, is the lumber and timber industry. And in it's narrowest form, it's the three main products made from timber: lumber, furniture and wood pulp.
Across Ohio, 8.147 million acres are under forest cover, which is about 31 percent of the state. More than 86 percent is privately owned.
In Holmes County, more than 91,100 acres were forested as of 2012, or about 34 percent of the county, and nearly all of that forestland is privately owned.
By the numbers: Check out our infographic on the economic impact of Ohio's forestry industry.
Across Ohio, the forestry industry contributed an estimated $22.05 billion to the state's economy in 2010, employing 118,000 full-time and part-time workers.
In Holmes County, the industry provides more than $420 million annually in industrial output, and an additional $24.7 million in taxes. More than 3,000 people work in the forestry industry in Holmes County.
The county has between 450 and 500 individual wood shops, including many small shops operated by Amish owners. They make everything from construction-grade lumber to building components, furniture and chipped wood products.
"I don't think it can be over-estimated what the wood industry means to our (county)," said Shasta Mast, executive director of the Holmes County Chamber of Commerce. "It's incredibly important to the economy of Holmes County."
The area is believed to be the largest cluster of hardwood furniture makers and retailers in the nation.
While the numbers are large, and the demand for wood products is great, the supply is even greater. In fact, the supply is even greater than it was many decades ago.
"We have more available timber today than what we would of had in 1910, all because of select (harvesting) and the management of it," said Ernest Hershberger, who owns the Homestead Furniture retail store in Mount Hope.
And the numbers back him up. Ohio's timber volumes have grown significantly over the past 20-plus years, with a 37.4 percent increase in total growing stock, and a 67.6 percent increase in sawtimber (trees capable of producing lumber).
In 2010, the state grew 1.86 billion board feet of wood, while just 750 million board feet of lumber were harvested.
In other words, Ohio forests are growing more than two times the volume of timber being harvested.
Hershberger, who has been in the retail furniture and manufacturing business since the early 1990s, said many customers are surprised to learn Ohio's forestry numbers are growing, especially customers from the West Coast, where hardwoods are scarce.
"They almost don't believe it," he said.
Hershberger is currently expanding and doubling his manufacturing plant to keep up, adding an additional 24,000 square feet. His company produces high-end custom furniture for the retail and commercial markets.
He is one of several hundred "secondary use" facilities in Holmes County, meaning he makes end-use products for the consumer market.
A few miles south, in the town of Berlin, is Yoder Lumber, a diverse company that handles timber harvesting, processing and business-to-business manufacturing.
Mel Yoder, CEO, has been with the company 50 years and today helps oversee a workforce of about 190. The company operates its own timber harvesting crew, and contracts with three additional harvest crews. They do most of their harvesting within a 100-mile radius of Holmes County.
Yoder figures about 60-65 percent of his lumber goes into furniture, and the rest into home construction and flooring.
Good management. Like Hershberger, he said the timber supply is going up, and it's all because landowners are doing a better job of management.
Part of good management is recognizing when trees need to come down.
"Some people fall in love with their trees," Yoder said. "They grew up with them, so they don't want to cut them, but we tell them it's the same as if you had a crop of corn out in the field. If you let it get overripe and overage, it will fall down and be of no value at all."
And when trees fall, they often take other trees with them or cause damage, including the spread of disease.
Yoder said people often want to know if he replants what he harvests, and he usually doesn't. The reason is, he practices selective harvesting, and nature replants on her own.
"An oak tree drops an acorn in the ground and they'll sprout and come back," he said. "I tell them God provided the ideal tree planter: squirrels and chipmunks."
In a year's time, his company harvest about 8.5-9 million board feet of timber, and he also buys logs from other crews and some logs that landowners deliver on their own.
About 75 percent of what he harvests are red oak, white oak and poplar, in addition to cherry, hickory, maple and other species. The hardwoods are the highest value and most abundant species for most Holmes County timber harvesters.
Oak and hickory make up about 60 percent of the species in the county, followed by maple, beech and birch at 22 percent.
But Yoder said it's important that loggers be able to harvest and market all species, because landowners expect a thorough job, no matter what kind of trees they have.
The logs that Yoder harvests are run through sawmills at one of two locations: either his Charm, Ohio, sawmill, or at the Buckhorn location south of Millersburg. From here, the wood can go many directions, depending on its condition and its best use.
If the wood is full of knots, it's more likely to be used for pallets or construction. If it's free of knots and of a good color, it's likely to be used to make boards for the furniture industry, or interior housing components — such as wood floors, molding and stairs.
The least likely place anything will go is in the trash. That's because today, the company uses all parts of the tree, including the bark for mulch, and the sawdust and scraps to fire the wood-fired drying kilns.
The kilns are used to dry the lumber and typically take the moisture level down to about 6-8 percent.
When the boards are dry, they're ready to be used for manufacturing or construction. Depending on the use, they often require some additional millwork and conditioning.
Yoder Lumber handles this process inside its "dimension plant." At this step, boards are cut to size, sanded and cut into smaller pieces to remove knots.
The knot-free pieces are then jointed together with glue, to form solid, knot-free boards that can be used as tabletops, or for stair-step parts.
Yoder Lumber doesn't actually build furniture, but the boards and components that leave the plant are often shipped to local manufacturers and retailers, who will make their own furniture, stairway, install a hardwood floor, or whatever else they are building.
Because there are so many end-users of lumber in Holmes County — especially among furniture shops — about 125 have joined together to form a marketing group called the Hardwood Furniture Guild.
The group is administered by Mast and the Holmes County Chamber of Commerce, and helps to link furniture builders with buyers.
The guild's website, www.hardwoodfurnitureguild.com, allows buyers to search for builders by name, but also by the type of furniture they want.
The guild also provides members with wood industry news, and each year, members hold the Ohio Hardwood Furniture Market — an annual trade show for furniture makers.
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Next week, part II will focus on items that are made once the timber is harvested.
(Some data from the Ohio State University Extension forestry fact sheets, 2012; the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service; and a scholarly report for the U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities)
Mr. Chris, You have produced a great story on wood and timber in Ohio and especially Holmes County. A positive view on timber harvesting. So needed. Thanks.
Chris, outstanding article. You do an excellent job capturing the value of the forest products industry in Ohio and the huge part the Holmes County businesses play in wood manufacturing. Yoder Lumber Co. Inc. and Homestead Furniture are two of the shining examples of the businesses that take the wood from the tree to the magnificent finished products. Too few Ohioans know hat Ohio grows some of the world's finest hardwoods and that they are sustainably grown and harvested. When they use Ohio wood products, they are buying locally and helping the local economy and employment. The Ohio Forestry Association appreciates your skill and effort with this message.
really informative article. thank you for not making this a puff piece or a political one.


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