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Products/Makeup You Can't Live Without
I asked around the office to find out "what is the one beauty product you can't live without?" Click here to read the one I did a while ago. It's summer and it's a whole different ballgame. I'll go first--
I love Nivea lotion. Not just any Nivea lotion--they have a lot of products. It has to be this specific lotion for me--Essentially Enriched for very dry skin. Being in the sun and the pool on most weekends, this lotion I think is the best to moisturize with. You can find it at any drugstore.
Jennifer said: Here are a couple things I use on a daily basis that I love for summer...
Clinique's Moisture Sheer Tint SPF 15: I refuse to wear super thick or heavy makeup during the summer...This is super lightweight and moisturizes without making my skin oily. Plus, it has SPF 15 for daily sun protection. (It costs $26--you can get it at any Clinique counter or here is their site.)
Burt's Bees Super Shiny Lip Gloss (Nectar Nude): It's not sticky like other lip glosses I've tried, but it still adds shine & color. I bought it at Walgreen's.
Kristin likes: I LOVE Hawaiian Tropic Lime Coolada After Sun lotion. It smells great and it really quenches super-dry sun soaked skin, cools a sunburn and really helps your tan stay longer. I can usually find it at Walgreens or Target in the summer.
Also, I can't live without ChapStick Classic Cherry. I have small conniption fits when I can't find it in my purse and I will immediately go to the store if I run out. It's as essential as TP to me, all year round. Especially in summer and winter! You can find it just about anywhere. (Thank goodness!)
Lindsay: Kiehl's Lip Balm...has spf 4 in it. Good for me because I get freckles on my lips and it's not tested on animals. Get it on their site. The best ever!!
Feel free to put your favorite product below.
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Possum grease sounds like it would be good for dry hair!
What is reCAPTCHA?
reCAPTCHA is a free CAPTCHA service that helps to digitize books.A CAPTCHA is a program that can tell whether its user is a human or a computer. You've probably seen them Ñ colorful images with distorted text at the bottom of Web registration forms. CAPTCHAs are used by many websites to prevent abuse from "bots," or automated programs usually written to generate spam. No computer program can read distorted text as well as humans can, so bots cannot navigate sites protected by CAPTCHAs.
About 60 million CAPTCHAs are solved by humans around the world every day. In each case, roughly ten seconds of human time are being spent. Individually, that's not a lot of time, but in aggregate these little puzzles consume more than 150,000 hours of work each day. What if we could make positive use of this human effort? reCAPTCHA does exactly that by channeling the effort spent solving CAPTCHAs online into "reading" books.
To archive human knowledge and to make information more accessible to the world, multiple projects are currently digitizing physical books that were written before the computer age. The book pages are being photographically scanned, and then transformed into text using "Optical Character Recognition" (OCR). The transformation into text is useful because scanning a book produces images, which are difficult to store on small devices, expensive to download, and cannot be searched. The problem is that OCR is not perfect.
reCAPTCHA improves the process of digitizing books by sending words that cannot be read by computers to the Web in the form of CAPTCHAs for humans to decipher. More specifically, each word that cannot be read correctly by OCR is placed on an image and used as a CAPTCHA. This is possible because most OCR programs alert you when a word cannot be read correctly.
But if a computer can't read such a CAPTCHA, how does the system know the correct answer to the puzzle? Here's how: Each new word that cannot be read correctly by OCR is given to a user in conjunction with another word for which the answer is already known. The user is then asked to read both words. If they solve the one for which the answer is known, the system assumes their answer is correct for the new one. The system then gives the new image to a number of other people to determine, with higher confidence, whether the original answer was correct.
Currently, we are helping to digitize books from the Internet Archive and old editions of the New York Times.