Bathroom

I'm designing my ultimate bathroom. It has to has marble walls with stones floor. Then I want a his and hers areas. Finally I want the "frosty" windows separating the bathroom for the other rooms for lots of natural light.

AMMERICANNN IDOOLL

Season 9 for Crystal! Can't stand the other guy!

 

American idol s9

Crystal Bowersox GO GO GO Can't stand the other guy!

 

allergies in dogs??

Oh no... I think that  Snoopy has canine allergies! Snoopy is litterally biting his fur away... I feel so sad for him! I did some research and found that he has all the symptoms described in thisdog allergies site ... Not sure if I should call the vet??? Snoopy cannot stand the vet...

lunch?

Hmmmm... I don't know what to eat for lunch? I have some cheddar and some french bread and tomatoes left in the fridge... What about some grill cheese?

Lunch

Hmmmm... I don't know what to have for lunch? I have some mozza and other cheese left in the fridge and a bunch of bread and avocado left in the fridge... Yay grill cheese time!

Artificial life in labs

I saw this in the paper this morning

From Times Online : Scientists create artificial life in laboratory

Synthetic life has been created in the laboratory in a feat of ingenuity that pushes the boundaries of humanity’s ability to manipulate the natural world.

Craig Venter, the biologist who led the effort to map the human genome, said yesterday that the first cell controlled entirely by man-made genetic instructions had been produced.

The synthetic bacterium, nicknamed Synthia, has been hailed as a step change in biological engineering, allowing the creation of organisms with specialised functions that could never have evolved in nature. The team at the J. Craig Venter Institute in Rockville, Maryland, is investigating how the technology could yield microbes that make vaccines, and algae that turn carbon dioxide into hydrocarbon biofuels.

Isn't that amazing?

Watching Star Trek...

I love watching Star Trek Enterprise... Yeah I know I'm such a nerd lol! Just I can't help it... I'm in love with that show!

News of the day

By LA Times

Gulf oil spill: Interior secretary, other officials to be questioned by Congress

May 16, 2010

News of the day

From the New York Times

NEW ORLEANS — After more than three weeks of efforts to stop a gushing oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico, BP engineers achieved some success on Sunday when they used a milelong pipe to capture some of the oil and divert it to a drill ship on the surface some 5,000 feet above the wellhead, company officials said.

Gulf Spill: Readers' Reports



Where have you seen the impact of the spill?

Submit Your Report



As the oil spill reaches land, we would like your updates and photographs of what you’re seeing. Photos are optional but recommended.

Multimedia

Multimedia Feature

Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Multimedia Collection

Related



    *

      Green: Gap in Rules on Oil Spills From Wells (May 17, 2010)

    *

      Giant Plumes of Oil Forming Under the Gulf (May 16, 2010)



After two false starts, engineers successfully inserted a narrow tube into the damaged pipe from which most of the oil is leaking.



“It’s working as planned,” Kent Wells, a senior executive vice president of BP, said at a briefing in Houston on Sunday afternoon. “So we do have oil and gas coming to the ship now, we do have a flare burning off the gas, and we have the oil that’s coming to the ship going to our surge tank.”



Mr. Wells said he could not yet say how much oil had been captured or what percentage of the oil leaking from a 21-inch riser pipe was now flowing into the 4-inch-wide insertion tube. “We want to slowly optimize it to try to capture as much of the oil and gas as we can without taking in a large amount of seawater,” he said.



So far, the spill has not spoiled beaches or delicate wetlands, in part because of favorable winds and tides and in part because of the use of booms to corral the oil and chemical dispersants.



The capture operation on Sunday was the first successful effort to stem the flow from the damaged well, which has been spewing oil since a rig exploded on April 20 and sank.



The announcement by BP came on the heels of reports that the spill might be might much worse than estimated. Scientists said they had found giant plumes of oil in the deep waters of the gulf, including one as large as 10 miles long, 3 miles wide and 300 feet thick.



BP officials pointed out that even if the tube was successful, it was only a stopgap measure. The real goal, they said, is to seal the well permanently.



Preparations continued on Sunday on a plan to pump heavy drilling mud into the well through the blowout preventer, the safety device at the wellhead that failed during the accident.



In the procedure, called a top kill, the mud would be used to overcome the pressure of the rising oil, stopping the flow. The mud would be followed by cement, which would permanently seal the well.



Mr. Wells said Sunday that BP was a week to 10 days away from trying the maneuver.



The mud would be pumped from a drill ship, the Q4000, that is in place on the surface. Mr. Wells said the ship had more than 2 million gallons of mud on board — far more than needed — to pump into the well, which had reached about 13,000 feet below the seabed when the accident occurred.



In a brief interview, Mr. Wells said that a “junk shot,” an effort to clog the blowout preventer with golf balls and other objects before the mud is used, was still a possibility.



But in an apparent indication of the tube’s success, BP was already building a backup version.



The tube is basically a five-foot-long section of pipe outfitted with rubber seals designed to keep out seawater, attached in turn to a milelong section of pipe leading from the drill ship to the seafloor.



It was one of several proposed methods of stanching the flow of at least 210,000 gallons of oil a day that has been threatening marine life and sensitive coastal areas in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida. BP officials have emphasized that none of the methods have been tried before at the depth of this leak.



At the briefing, Mr. Wells was asked about reports from a research vessel that discovered the huge plumes of oil. He said that he did not know anything about them, but that the Unified Area Command, the cooperative effort involving BP and state and local agencies, was seeking more information.



The plume reports added to the many questions that have been raised about the amount of leaking oil, which many scientists have said is far higher than the official estimate of 5,000 barrels, or 210,000 gallons, a day. That estimate was reached using satellite imagery, flyovers and visual observation, company officials have said.



The reports also raised concerns about the use of oil dispersants underwater, which the Environmental Protection Agency approved on Friday after several tests. Normally, dispersants are used on the surface, and scientists have said that the effects of using them underwater are largely unknown.



Representative Edward J. Markey, Democrat of Massachusetts and chairman of the Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment, criticized BP, saying it had failed to respond substantively to his requests for more information about how it had reached its estimate of how much oil is leaking. He also said the company had refused to engage independent scientists who might offer a better assessment of the amount.



“BP is burying its head in the sand on these underwater threats,” Mr. Markey said in a written statement on Sunday. “These huge plumes of oil are like hidden mushroom clouds that indicate a larger spill than originally thought and portend more dangerous long-term fallout for the Gulf of Mexico’s wildlife and economy.”



BP began trying to insert the tube on Friday, but an effort to connect the pipe leading from the drill ship to the tube failed and the device had to be brought back to the surface for adjustments.



“This is all part of reinventing technology,” Tom Mueller, a BP spokesman, said on Saturday. “It’s not what I’d call a problem — it’s what I’d call learning, reconfiguring, doing it again.”



Around midnight Saturday, the tube was reinserted and worked for about four hours before it was dislodged after being mishandled by the submersibles, Mr. Wells said.



“At that time, we were just starting to get oil to the surface,” Mr. Wells said.



The oil was going to the Discoverer Enterprise, a drill ship, which has equipment for separating water from oil and can hold about 5 million gallons of oil.



Though that attempt failed, it was important because it demonstrated that features designed to keep hydrates from forming were working, Mr. Wells said. Hydrates, icelike structures of methane and water molecules that form in the presence of seawater at low temperatures and high pressures, forced BP to abandon an earlier effort to corral the leak with a 98-ton containment dome.



Henry Fountain contributed reporting from New York.

 

GREAT DAY!

I'm walking on sunshine yyeeeyyeee  Oh no... Monday tomorrow >_< But at least it's gorgeous outside... Beach day!

Japanese food

I had lunch with Sam today. We went to that place we really enjoy. I ordered a a sushi combo.. I love japanese food!

Watching TV

Tonight we are watching Ugly Betty .Ugly Betty is a great

Young Professional Association meeting

I'm attending a Young Professional Association event tonight. The event is pretty interesting. They're inviting a few speakers. I hope I will meet lots of great people!

 

How to train your dragon - love it!

I give How to Train your Dragon 10/10. This may be 10% too high of a mark but who cares. Dreamworks Animation certainly deserves this mark. This is the best animated movie I have seen in the last three years.

I find it so funny compared to Avatar . I thought that themovie is so much better in terms the storyline and the character development. The script was remarkable. Note: I did not watch it in 3D because 3D movies give me headaches.

Nonetheless I found the visuals to be spectacular even without it. The movie is so good, it feels like Pixar HAD to be involved . Is it possible that Dreamworks has finally figured it out? In many parts just like when I watched UP (my favorite 2009 film), I felt like it had to be written by pet-lovers because the writers show so much much comprehension on building the bonds between a man and an animal.

This bond between the kid and the dragon makes the movie so believable and I savoured every minute of How to Train your Dragon. "How to train your dragon" is smart and brilliant. My favorite scene : Toothless trying to force a smile. This movie is a great movie for all children and adults. I definitely recommend "How to train your dragon".

The Disappeared

Read it and weep. That's what I did. The Disappeared is a quick but meaningful punch to the gut. In only 228 pages, the author Kim Echlin does not waste a word or phrase in this despairing depiction of love and loss in a Cambodia torn by war. Spanning decades and continents, from the dingy blues clubs of Montreal to the killing fields outside Phnom Penh, Anne Greves weaves a mournful path of despondency and strength as she follows the man she loves into the darkest recesses of human depravity.

An amazing story of love, courange, humanity and inhumanity...

Remington WDF 1600 or why I love shaving

After my old electric shaver stopped working, I started using manual shavers. But after all the money spent on Gillette blades and disposable razors, I decided to try another electric shaver. After reading a few reviews, I made my choice. There are no doubts about it, the Remington WDF 1600 is one of the best women's electric shavers I've ever used.

A lot of reviewers mentioned that it might take up to 3 weeks for this electric razor to give a close shave, but I haven't encountered that problem at all. On the very first use, it gave me a very comfortable and close shave, almost if not just as close as a regular razor. I can barely feel any stubble even 2 days after shaving! One thing I love about the Remington WDF 1600 is that it has a nice sturdy shape that holds well in your hand. The WDF 1600 charges fast, really fast! This is very convenient when you realize that you have no more batteries in the morning, just before going out to brunch with your new date! It is easy to use and cleans like a breeze! And the Remington WDF 1600 is totally affordable. Don't bother spending more on a fancier shaver because this one gives you everything you need, ie a great and smooth shave!

I recommend this product for any girl who is tired about spending more money on disposable razors, are looking for a close shave at an affordable price.