BenDeLaCreme and Darienne were Cougars

But in Monday night's "Glamazon by Colorevolution" episode the first of two in a Rupersized series, Mrs. Obama was the inspiration behind Mama Ru's first challenge of the night: queens man-handling fruits and veggies while adorned in bright press-on nails.As BenDeLaCreme stripped a banana, pulling each layer apart seductively, Ru yelled out, "One skin, two skin, three skin, four skin." Laganja Estranja ended up being the best at this challenge, which was probably as objective as a breathing contest.But the main challenge of the night was filming a 30-second cosmetics mercial, with the ladies split up in pairs.Data is stored on a cloud While Ru would probably tell you that they were randomly assigned partners, CLEARLY producers set up one pair with the idea of generating some fireworks: BenDeLaCreme and Darienne Lake, who've been rivals in recent weeks and created some awkward tension during Ru's work room interrogation.

Each couple had a theme: BenDeLaCreme and Darienne were Cougars, Laganja and Adore were Mean Teen Girls, Bianca Del Rio and Trinity were Working Girls, and Courtney Act and Joslyn Fox were Hot Stay-At-Home Mamas."I don't want to sell you any promises because I don't know what's gonna happen when I get up there," said Trinity."I'm trying to drag pun intended you out," said Ru.When it came down to the actual mercial performances, one would think Courtney Act and Joslyn Fox would be a match made in heaven, especially since Joslyn admitted that she was a bit starstruck by Courtney Act, and they seemed to get along better than the other pairings. However, when it came for their session with Ru and Michelle Visage, the two were a little too much like the Real Housewives: vapid and without dimension on screen. Yet, Courtney Act thought they nailed it, while Joslyn realized that this Australian bigwig was kind of a big bitch.In BenDeLaCreme and Darienne Lake's Cougars segment, Darienne channeled Kirstie Alley quite well, even if the ladies seemed to tackle more of Courteney Cox's face instead of what it means to be in Cougartown.Adore and Laganja ended up winning the challenge for their Mean Girls spot, which probably should have gone to Bianca Del Rio and Trinity, especially since Trinity got rid of the marbles in her mouth, and Bianca looked lovely on the runway Ru: "That is quite an impressive tulle, I might add".

Data is stored on a cloud

 Data is stored on a cloud. Collaboration takes place in real time. Coordination of work is baked into the tools. Work can be accessed from a broad range of puting devices of all types. These tools all build on the modern SaaS model, so they are easy to get, work outside your firewall and e with the safety and security of cloud-native panies.The cultural changes enabled by these tools are significant. While it is possible to think about using these tools "the same old way," you're likely to be disappointed. If you think a new tool that is about collaboration on short-lived documents will have feature parity with a tool for crafting printed books, then you're likely to feel like things are missing. If you're looking to improve your organizational effectiveness at munication, collaboration and information sharing, then you're also going to want to change some of the assumptions about how your organization works.

 The fact that the new tools do some things worse and other things differently points to the disruptive innovation that these products have the potential to bring the "Innovator's Dilemma" is well known to describe the idea that disruptive products often feel inferior when pared to entrenched products using existing criteria.Based on seeing these tools in action and noticing how organizations can re-form around new ways of working, the following list piles some of the most mon pitfalls addressed by new tools. In other words, if you find yourself doing these things, it's time to reconsider the tools and processes on your team, and try something new.
Some of these will seem outlandish when viewed through today's concept. As a person who worked on productivity tools for much of my career, I think back to the time when it was crazy to use a word processor for a college paper; or when I first got a job, and typing was something done by the "secretarial pool." Even the use of email in the enterprise was first ridiculed, and many managers had assistants who would print out email and then type dictated replies no, really!. Things change slowly, then all of a sudden there are new norms.In our Harvard Business School class, "Digital Innovation," we crafted a notion of "doing it wrong," and spent a session looking at disruption in the tools of the workplace.

Timing and location of withdrawal is poorly understood

Nearly half of the wells fracked since 2011 were in areas with "high or extremely high" water stress; more than 55% were in areas experiencing drought, said the analysts. Extremely high water stress is defined as 80% of available surface and groundwater already allocated for municipal, industrial and agricultural uses.However, there's still a lack of reliable, publicly available water-use and management data in many areas of the country, which has hindered industry efforts to develop "appropriately flexible and adaptive best management practices. Timing and location of withdrawal is poorly understood, particularly as water needs in fracturing spike at early stages of development."

That hasn't stopped some of the biggest E&Ps from going it alone, using non-potable water sources whenever possible.Drilling tools are packed with'puter sensors that adjust on the fly Analysts said that choice has to b'e the "default management choice for shale development." Water for fracking could be sourced from surface water, groundwater fresh and saline brackish, and wastewater or through recycling.Analysts dug deeper into individual E&P'pany practices to learn about best management practices now in place. What they found was "little evidence of group-level, formalized water policies and management systems." Overall, there's been "poor industry performance on water disclosure."

The best example of water accounting found was by Occidental Petroleum Corp. Oxy, now headquartered in California, where regulations often are stricter than in other parts of the country. In addition to providing water withdrawals that are broken out by water sources freshwater, municipal, non freshwater, Oxy details produced water recycling data and produced water management.Chemical disclosures on the voluntary FracFocus website also have progressed, according to researchers. In that category, Apache scored tops on toxicity reduction in North American operations.More regulations by local and state regulators also are in the offing, and E&Ps should consider preparing for them now. Today, mandates for baseline water testing pre and post drilling are required only in Wyoming and Colorado. Pennsylvania doesn't require testing, but "the relevant resumption of liability for pollution of nearby water sources applies," analysts said.

Drilling tools are packed with'puter sensors that adjust on the fly

When the BP spill happened, said Takahashi-Kelso, "It was déjà vu. The same materials, same kinds of boom, same. It does not mean that simple technology is a bad thing, but I would say that the tools available haven't changed much in 25 years."
Others noted that Exxon, and the spills since, are probably inevitable as long as the U.S. is still extracting, transporting, and using oil.Said Athan Manuel, director of the lands protection program at the Sierra Club, "It's sad that we're here 25 years later still talking about the same issue –- the consequences of our dependence on fossil fuels."A new oil spill over the weekend, this time from a barge in Texas' Houston Ship Channel, has provided another example of the dangers that can'e from oil accidents.

The limit on liability for vessels like the Exxon Valdez was set at $10 million; for offshore production facilities, the limit was set at $75 million.The House passed a package of reform measures in 2010 following the BP blowout. But it never passed the Senate.But'panies still struggle with execution of the response plans when a spill does happen.But as environmental groups have noted, the amount of money'panies would be forced to pay has not gone up with inflation.From the office'puter to the drill site, to the wells that can stretch more than three miles underground, nearly everything in Pennsylvania's natural gas industry is different from just a few years ago.Drill holes are longer and smoother.

Drilling tools are packed with'puter sensors that adjust on the fly. Rock holding the gas gets cracked hundreds of times every few feet. Sand silos, 60 feet high, double as light towers at sites where rigs move in and out, around the clock, faster than before.Even in the offices of gas'pany executives working the shale boom, specialty software coordinates the rapid-fire scheduling."We didn't have any of that even 10 years ago," said Jeff Boggs, vice president of drilling at Consol Energy Inc. in Cecil. "So the advancement, just from the Marcellus ... would be like going from the industrial age to the'puter age."Drilling'panies working in Appalachia report such advancements as they perfect the science of cracking shale.

Airlines resisted putting in stronger cockpit doors

Airlines resisted putting in stronger cockpit doors, too, to protect against hijackers. If you wait for a business to do the right thing...Modern airplanes like the Boeing 777 are full of sophisticated devices to municate with air traffic controllers and broadcast their position, including two transponders, several VHF radios, a satellite phone and text and data-link systems. One of them, the Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System, or ACARS, handles textlike transmissions over radio or satellite links.
This handout from the Australian Maritime Safety Authority shows the satellite images of the two objects that officials say could possibly be related to Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. Credit Australian Maritime Safety Authority

But those systems can be vulnerable to tampering by outsiders or can just be turned off by pilots, or anyone else knowledgeable with airplane operations. Industry officials say pilots need to be able to turn off any transmission system in case it starts a fire.Similar concerns emerged after the 9/11 attacks,
Part of building stronger munications capacity is having the technology to support it when terrorists turned off transponders that broadcast a plane's identification number and other information, hiding the planes' identities from civilian controllers. Once an airplane is outside radar range, usually 200 miles from the coast, American airlines insist on getting munications from pilots at least once an hour to track their aircraft. Without these updates, a plane might fly hundreds of miles beyond its last point of munications before anyone was even aware it was missing.

These shor ings could e to an end thanks to a long-planned transition from radar to satellite-based systems that are expected to greatly increase tracking accuracy by the end of the decade.But in the meantime, Robert W. Mann, an aviation consultant in Port Washington, N.Y., said rescue operations could be considerably accelerated if airplanes were required to automatically send basic flight information via satellite such as position, altitude, speed and direction at much shorter intervals.Such a system could also be designed to keep transmitting as long as an airplane was airborne or generated power.

Part of building stronger munications capacity is having the technology to support it

Over the last several years, airlines have been installing satellite-based Wi-Fi systems for passenger entertainment that could also be used to facilitate data-streaming, Mr. Mann said.
"It's ironic that we have this technology so passengers can pay to watch reruns of 'Charlie's Angels,' but that we still have to make the safety case for their use," he said.This shift is all the more critical as a new generation of airplanes can fly longer distances over water and traffic grows rapidly throughout Asia and the Pacific.Smaller nonprofits find it particularly difficult to keep up with the time and tools needed to create more visibility about their causes and to take advantage of the social network. This challenge directly impacts their capacity to build more relationships and fundraise.

Part of building stronger munications capacity is having the technology to support it. For many small nonprofits, that's the first hurdle. When there's inadequate internal capacity for focused munications efforts, attempts will be spotty. And inconsistency is the devil in the details.
Happily, there are tools that can help your nonprofit b e a sophisticated user of online and mobile media without it being cost prohibitive. Today there's so much demand for tools to take advantage of social networking platforms that sorting through the options can be overwhelming. Following are some popular and free or reasonably priced choices.

A Nonprofit Tech for Good r mendation, Wibbitz, converts text-based posts and articles into interactive videos. Since videos have proven to be a hugely popular form of engaging people online and via mobile phone, that makes Wibbitz a highly useful tool.It can be added to Web pages or articles and requires an iOS 7.0 or later operating system. Wibbitz is patible with iPhone, iPad and iPod touch and is optimized for iPhone 5. You'll need to have iTunes on your device to use Wibbitz.Qwiki automatically turns pictures and videos from events you've captured on your iPhone into brief movies to share. Go to qwiki  to see impressive examples of how it works. It requires iOS 5.1 or later, is patible with iPhone, iPad and iPod touch and is optimized for iPhone 5.
Nonprofit Tech for Good also suggests a look at Windows Live Writer to generate HTML code.

This musical play, set in an Islamic Baghdad of early medieval times

The fundraiser, which includes a raffle, food music and beer, is being held at Tom and Jerry's Sports Pub in Milmont Park from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.Follow Daily Local News staff writer Jeremy Gerrard on Twitter On Broadway in late 1953, the Tony Award production Kismet began its run of 583 performances.
This musical play, set in an Islamic Baghdad of early medieval times, featured two songs which attained wide popularity: the romantic Stranger in Paradise and the lively Baubles, Bangles and Bright Shiny Beads.Competitive Robotics club members battle it out at the Engineering Expo The latter, which occurs in a scene at a bazaar market lane, provides this column's focus on various words referring to trinkets: little items of little value, shiny or not as given below with background summaries.

"Bauble" derived from a"bination of French "beau" and "belle" and generally denoting any small pretty item as either a decorative wearable accessory hairpin, ring or a child's toy.
"Bangle" from a Hindi term meaning "circle:" bracelets or anklets worn in jingling sets of two or more."Bead" related to "bid" and "fide" faith with original basis as something "asked for by praying:" originally by means of a prayer per bead on a handheld string set, but later applied in designation of ornamental items like beads on a necklace."Trinket" has the root notion "piece" from the French basis "tranche" sliced or chopped off segment with "et" adding the idea of "small" to refer to debris bits from the crafting of gems from chunks of shiny metal or colourful crystallized rock.

"Trifle," meaning "something of little importance," was adapted in English from French "truffe" as also related to "truffle" with the sense "little lump" which arose from "tuber" for a globular root found at the base of some vegetables and thus also for a subterranean black lump mushroom as a delicacy of French cuisine."Bagatelle" also refers to something of little significance from the Italian "bacca" for "berry" probably from some types being inedible but used ornamentally.Old pieces of fabric often as rags of generally little value, yielded the following terms: frippery, falbala, and paltry.Small odd devices may carry indefinite designations such as "gadget" from French "gachette" meaning "little bolt" originally invented for sliding into a catch place for locking a gate or door or as "doo dad doo hickey" from an observer's uncertainty with the thought "What does it DO?".