11/21/09

Rain Warning In Kelantan, Terengganu Upgraded To Orange - Bernama

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Rain Warning In Kelantan, Terengganu Upgraded To Orange

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KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 21 (Bernama) -- The rain warning for all districts in Kelantan and Terengganu has been upgraded to orange stage with moderate monsoon rain expected to continue until next week, according to a statement by the Malaysian Meteorological ...

Warning on strong winds and rough seasSin Chew Jit Poh

Heavy Rain In Kelantan, Terengganu And Pahang Until TuesdayBernama



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Auto-love found on: That Will Buff Out


This may be the first time I’ve associated “forward-thinking” with the institution of marriage. Cutest oxymoron ever?


I can see the wedding invitation: “In lieu of gifts, the bride and groom have requested that guests reconsider their global carbon footprint.” Aww. That Will Buff Out got me all teary-eyed. 

Nanaimo Bars, Spice Rack, and How To Roast Vegetables Most popular posts published November 13-19, 2009

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Popular posts published this past week included a roundup of candy barks and brittles, holiday cakes, how to open wine without a corkscrew, and how to make extra-sweet sweet potatoes. Read on for the top ten posts from the past week!

15. Break off a Piece! Barks and Brittles for Sharing
14. 8 Cakes To Go With Your Holiday Pies
13. Knife Skills: Do You Know the Best Way to Clean Knives?
12. How To Roast Any Vegetable
11. Classy and Irresistible: 8 Very Tempting Bundt Cakes

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AGE 5 MINAH STONE.. LUNCAI KER?

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Hippos are photographed biting a crocodile to death


You've probably seen - presumably on TV - Nile crocs Crocodylus niloticus interacting with Common hippos Hippopotamus amphibius (if you've seen it in real life, lucky you). By and large the two seem to keep apart. Having said that, there are certainly photos of the two sharing the same sandbanks. And then there are those instances of hippos scaring crocs away from carcasses, the weird reports of hippos mouthing and chewing the backs and tails of resting crocodiles, and those cases where crocodiles have been seen to walk or run across hippos' backs.



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What can certainly be said to be the most remarkable croc-hippo encounter yet reported was photographed by Czech wildlife photographer Václav Šilha last year, and yesterday they were featured in various national newspapers. Here's the best photo (in my opinion: you may already have seen it November's BBC Wildlife magazine).

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Twitter’s New Headquarters in San Francisco



For those of you who follow us on Twitter ( you can follow us on Twitter here – @freshome) this might be an interesting post because Twitter moved into a new, much larger office in San Francisco. The space, which was previously Bebo’s SF office, is right around the corner from their old one. The space was decorated by a few members of the Twitter team with a number of Twitter-themed elements like birds and @ symbols. The space is simple and clean, but I think that you should check out some of the pictures that were posted to the web by Twitter employees below and say what you think about the new offices in a comment below. – Photos via Twitter Flickr Account

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Men often treat their friends better than women do

ResearchBlogging.orgWho's more 'sociable,' men or women? Common sense says it's women, right? And many research studies back this impression up: Women are more interpersonal, more connected, more interdependent than men. Women are more likely to share intimate information with each other than men. But is that really the whole story?

There is also research suggesting that men have larger social networks than women do, and that male-male friendships last longer than female-female ones.

A team led by Joyce Benenson conducted a set of three studies that may shed some light on the question. In their first study, they identified 30 male and 30 female undergraduates at a small, Northeastern U.S. college. Half of each group was specifically recruited because they said they had some kind of conflict with their roommate. The other half said they were planning on living with their roommate for the rest of the school year. Each student was asked to rate their satisfaction with their roommate on a scale of 1 to 5. A score of 4 or 5 was defined by the researchers as 'satisfied.' So were there gender differences? Here are the results:

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The male students were significantly more likely to be satisfied with their roommates than female students, whether or not they had a conflict with their roommate. The students also rated their roommates on social interaction, interests, values, and hygiene, and male students gave significantly higher ratings for their roommates than females for every category except hygiene.In a second study, the researchers surveyed three separate institutions to see how frequently male and female students requested to change roommates. Here are those results:
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How to Give Anything Away

How to Give Anything Away: "A few suggestions for where to donate your stuff, money, or time."

Health-Care Bill Includes Taxing Cosmetic Surgeries; Zac Efron Reveals Hair Secrets


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PLASTIC SURGERY

• "Botax" may become a reality. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid unveiled his $848 billion health-care bill on Wednesday. Page 2,045 contained a section that would impose a five percent tax on cosmetic procedures and surgeries. [Fox News, Kaiser Health News]

HAIR

• Zac Efron: "I've never told anyone this before. This is a hair scoop. Shower before you go to bed, and then sleep on your wet hair. Towel-dry it. In the morning, it's all messed up naturally. If you have that messed-up thing going when you wake up, it's more willing to stay that way. That's Zac's hair tip." [Time]

Twilight's Nikki Reed had to wear a blonde wig for the second film because her naturally dark hair was too damaged from bleaching it after the first movie. [Glamour]

• Beard expert Dr. Alan Peterkin says that Brad Pitt's beard says to the world that he's “tired of being a part of one of the most beautiful couples in the world. He wants to try a new look.” On why he has a long beard in the first place: “Most men growing facial hair around his age are being ironic. It's a bit of a wink of the eye; ‘I'm not taking this too seriously and nor should you.’“ [Us]

MAKEUP

• Beauty.com enlisted Erickson Beamon to create a limited-edition makeup bag, which is available for any shopper who spends more than $100. [Beauty Counter/Style]

FRAGRANCE

• The new High Line Park on the west side inspired a new fragrance by Bond No. 9, which launches on March 1 at Saks Fifth Avenue, and smells like gardens. [WWD]

Costume National's first men's scent hits Barneys New York next week. The previous six fragrances for the house have all been unisex. [WWD]Health-Care Bill Includes Taxing Cosmetic Surgeries; Zac Efron Reveals Hair Secrets:

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Filed Under: beauty marks, beards, beauty, botax, botox, brad pitt, costume national, dr alan peterkin, erickson beamon, fragrance, hair, high line park, makeup, nikki reed, plastic surgery, twilight, zac efron

Japan Goes Mad for 13-Year-Old Fashion Blogger Tavi



Tavi Gevinson is getting more famous by the day. She was all over New York Fashion Week — on many a front row, at that — and “defines Rodarte for Target,” the Mulleavy sisters told Teen Vogue. (Teen Vogue adds the designers have been fans of her “cutting fashion commentary” since they first read her blog StyleRookie, and even sent her a custom pair of hand-knit fall-2008 tights.) Anyway, the Japanese are the latest to catch Tavi fever. She will be the guest of honor at Comme des Garçons’s holiday party on Friday, November 27 in Tokyo. WWD reports she has several photo shoots lined up with Japanese magazines for her trip, as well. Though she's just 13, Tavi is practically a seasoned pro — she appeared earlier this year on the cover of Dasha Zhukova's first issue of Pop. So she's a trusted fashion critic, high-fashion muse, and celebrity blogger. And we are blogging in a messy gray cubicle without custom-made designer legwear. Where did we go wrong? Oh yeah. Aging. No bitterness here!

TAVI IN TOKYO [WWD]

Filed Under: kids these days, comme des garcons, designers, rodarte, tavi gevinson

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Mac mailbox from Te Atatu in Auckland...

Flowchart Helps You Determine What Crap to Eat

 

If your crippling ennui is such that you can’t even decide between a Seven-Layer Burrito and a Quad Stacker, Eating the Road has an amusing flowchart that should help you navigate the bevy of fast-food options. It's based on queries like “Are you drunk?” and “Are you drunk on malt liquor?” Kudos to the site for reminding chicken cravers that Chick-fil-A is closed on Sundays. Classic rookie mistake.



Flowchart Helps You Determine What Crap to Eat

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Suicide Jump

All he could hope for was the long awaited agony of turning crunchy, and then the sweet relief of a small child stepping on him to feel the crunch under his shoe (or a 24 year old guy who still enjoys that... yea I'll go out of my way to do it.)

Which Came First

To which I always retort: "Not my problem!&quot ... kidding ...

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Large Hadron Collider ready to restart



The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) says it expects to restart the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) by this weekend after more than a year of repairs. The 27 km (17 mi) particle accelerator was launched last year, but suffered a failure from a faulty electrical connection, damaging 53 of the smasher's 9,300 superconducting magnets. Repairs are now completed, and the plan is to begin injecting protons into the LHC this weekend, on the path to search for particles such as predicted-yet-unobserved Higgs Boson. Collected below are some photographs of the repairs, and of the LHC and some of its experiments in various stages of construction. (30 photos total)



Combining two major ATLAS inner detector components. The semiconductor tracker is inserted into the transition radiation tracker for the ATLAS experiment at the LHC. These make up two of the three major components of the inner detector. They will work together to measure the trajectories produced in the proton-proton collisions at the centre of the detector when the LHC is switched on. Photo taken on February 22nd, 2006. (Maximilien Brice, © CERN)

Large Hadron Collider ready to restart

MorumbiShopping: Vitche, Tikka



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Advertising Agency: Leo Burnett, São Paulo, Brazil

Creative Director:Ruy Lindenberg

Art Directors: Renato Butori, Henrique Del Lama

Copywriter:Mário Cintra

Art Buyer: Mauro Moura

Published: June 2009
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Squirrel Fight

Sorry for the late update (morning) but the Phillies just *WON* game 1 of the world series. Go Phillies!

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Mind Blowing Hyperrealistic Sculptures



Artists that produce photorealistic sculptures, for the most part, aim to show us our bodies and life as it really is.
Technically, artists who strive for a high resolution level of detail in painting or sculpture are called “hyperrealists”, although all hyperrealists are also considered to be photorealists.
Every detail is slavishly recreated as close to the real life model as possible, even if the sculpture is larger than the original scale.
Photorealistic sculptors create truly amazing sculptures that will make you feel wonder, revulsion and the sense of looking in someone else’s mirror.
In this post we feature sculptors Ron Mueck, Evan Penny, Jamie Salmon, Duane Hanson, Sam Jinks and Adam Beane who produce sculpture that seems alive in every detail, right down to veins and rashes on skin. This compilation should give you a cross section of modern photorealistic sculpture.

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Origami money hats, sent in by a maker - anyone know where this is from?

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Faesthetic #12

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The newest issue of Faesthetic is out! #12 includes a large feature and recap on This Must Be The Place, Think Faest by Forest featuring Caroline Hwang, and over 100 pages of “Home” themed art. Pick one up!


Also, some interesting reviews of Chris and my recent show in The District Weekly and Gazettes.

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15 Uses for Newsprint

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Excited to announce 15 Uses for Newsprint, a promotional newsprint poster zine by the illustrators and designers in the Pencil Factory, Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Definitely honored to be included with so many talented people! A huge thank you to Jennifer and Josh for organizing everything.


Take a look here and purchase here!

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