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Game 25 lineups, 25-man roster
at 1:05 p.m. ET in Tampa
1. Curtis Granderson, CF
2. Nick Johnson, DH
3. Mark Teixeira, 1B
4. P.J. Pilittere, C
5. Robsinson Cano, 2B
6. Nick Swisher, RF
7. Marcus Thames, LF
8. Ramiro Pena, SS
9. Marcos Veccionacci, 3B
Pitching: A.J. Burnett
1. Jose Bautista, 3B
2. Aaron Hill, 2B
3. Adam Lind, DH
4. Vernon Wells, CF
5. Lyle Overbay, 1B
6. Edwin Encarnacion, 3B
7. Travis Snider, LF
8. Jose Molina, C
9. John McDonald, SS
Pitching: Brian Tallet
1. Shaun Marcum
2. Brian Tallet
3. Ricky Romero
4. Brandon Morrow
5. Dana Eveland
1. Jason Frasor
2. Kevin Gregg
3. Scott Downs
4. Shawn Camp
5. Casey Janssen
6. Jeremy Accardo
7. Merkin Valdez
1. Jose Bautista, RF
2. Aaron Hill, 2B
3. Adam Lind, DH
4. Vernon Wells, CF
5. Lyle Overbay, 1B
6. Edwin Encarnacion, 3B
7. John Buck, C
8. Travis Snider, LF
9. Alex Gonzalez, SS
1. John McDonald, SS
2. Randy Ruiz, 1B/DH
3. Jose Molina, C
4. Mike McCoy, UTIL
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I hope this isn't some kind of cruel april fools joke, Tallet doesn't belong in the rotation.
No 4th OF?
No 4th OF?
McCoy is technically the 4th OF.
4th OF is basically McCoy
Is that the actual order that the rotation is set in Jordan ? come on Cito, Tallet as the number 2 ?
I think it's ridiculous that Tallet is ahead of Romero.
does this mean that tallet is the home opener starter?!!
when will i wear my ricky romero home opener t-shirts then????
after the first couple weeks, the rotation placing doesn't really matter. Each pitcher pitches every 5 days.
I hope they are able to get Ruiz into the lineup often enough.
I cannot believe that Tallet is our No.2 guy, and Cecil is in the minors, way to reward him for pitching his *** off this ST. Tallet has done everything in his power to prove that he should not be in the rotation. What a joke!
as far as 4th OF goes, Lind can play the field and someone else takes DH.
I've been waiting to talk about he Opening Day roster all spring! If anyone's interested: http://nopadsnohelmets.mlblogs.com/
i continue to see the most negative comments being posted here. come on people, we are suppoed to be excited about the new season not bitch and complain about every roster move made from now until cito is gone. comon, we all know that the only person in the organization that has two… TWO world series belts in his resume is…. CITO, also, does anyone other than myself think that cito isn't making the moves anymore? anyone? anyone? didn't think so, quit your bitching, just be excited that baseball exists and Canada at all, I'm happy with Tallet being second, he's more experienced and maybe he's more ready than romero is. common he's coming off a rookie season give the guys who know what they are talking about a little slack, comon guys, you are old enough to type therefore you are old enough to stop complaining like children..
sincerly: dedicated blue jays fan that doesn't pretend to know more than the people in the bussiness.
Of all the very positive things that took place in this spring training, the very best, imo, was to see Nadir Mohamed come down and address the players and confirm the commitment from ownership.
One can tell how big an impact this had from the players comments:
"That's the big guy," Travis Snider said with a smile.
"I think from an organizational standpoint," Blue Jays center fielder Vernon Wells said, "from the 25 guys on the roster to the manager and coaches, knowing that support is there wholeheartedly, not just with the passion, but also with the finance of the whole thing, it was fun just to get a chance to hear him speak. He's a pretty cool CEO of a multibillion-dollar company.
"It just gives you a better sense of what's truly going on behind the scenes. Team president and CEO Paul Beeston has preached nothing but how good our ownership is and their goals and building this organization back to a championship-caliber organization. To have Nadir come down and speak, all ears and eyes were tuned into him, and he's a pretty special individual."
"He's a great speaker," Snider said. "He's got a pretty big franchise to run, and to take a day off to come down here and watch a baseball game and then speak to the team — that was great."
The Toronto Blue Jays are indeed fortunate to have Rogers as the owner and I'm sure all fans owe a big thank you to Tony Viner, Paul Beeston and AA for making this happen..
m_vandeneykel33-Welcome to the blog-haven't seen you post before. Funny, not one of the posts on this blog above dissed Cito and yet you feel the need to come on here and diss the fans for dissing Cito. Am I missing something here?
Personally, I think its great to see so many fans care about their team. Check out some of the "headline blogs" getting 130 to 200 posts per blog entry-that's almost Yankee numbers.
What it shows is Jays fans are excited about the direction the team has taken under Beeston and AA. If they didn't give a crap they wouldn't be here.
There are different opinions, sometimes arguments, everyone has a view and opinion. You're certainly welcome here to join in, but there really isn't any need to diss any other poster for being passionate about this team. It could be a whole lot worse-there could be no one here.
i was just talking in general, from many other blogs, i'm just sick of it, the cito bashing that is. i'm excited to see how this season unfolds, they are not gonna win so..does it really matter who is playing? , im just glad there is baseball in canada period. gsjays- i am new to blogs, thank you for the reminder on how blogs "work", anywho looking forward to monday, jays vs tex…gonna be sweet
It is precisely because they are not going to win that it is important who plays. Just about everyone understands that this is a tremendous opportunity to allow young players, like Cecil, develop at the major-league level. This is why people get passionate when they see a reliever like Tallet put into the starting rotation and the expense of a younger player, like Cecil. As for Cito, we have seen him take at-bats away from a player like Ruiz and give them to a player like Millar who was struggling. When asked why, Cito said it was to help the guy get a contract next year with some other team. In fact, he said something similar this year. Therefore, I think some of us are a little worried that this might be his modus operandi this year — a year when we can least afford not to develop our young players. Anyway, that is what I think. 🙂
An excellent article in the Star today concerning Nadir Mohamed's visit and speech to the players yesterday. Here's a hint as to the contents of the article, the post heading is "Perkins: Ownership will spare no expense to win World Series."….
m_vandeneykel33-Actually the Jays blogs are pretty tame ( Cito bashing) by comparison to the Yankee blogs or some of the others. Spend some time on some of their blogs after the Yanks lose 3 in a row and you'll see they're looking to hang someone, fire the manager, move the team-I mean it's like panic city. The name calling and rude remarks is amazing.
I hope we never see that here, particularly over the next 2-3 years as the team is building to contend, because as exciting as all the future looks these young kids are going to make mistakes, go into slumps and generally screw up from time to time-Snider being a perfect example.
As he struggles to settle in we need to show patience, support him when he makes a mistake and cheer when he does something right because one day it will simply all kick in and imo, we'll have a monster on our hands who will contend for the mvp virtually every year.
That being said, last year Cito did have some methods of playing guys that really irritated Jays fans-like Millar as an example. So it's not surprising he gets bashed for some of his decisions from time to time, since if no one cared, they wouldn't even bother to post here.
Personally, with the quality of reporting we're getting from Bastian this year-which is the best of all MLB beat reporters, I hope fans continue to drop by and post, if for no other reason to show Bastian his honest straight forward Jays news reporting is appreciated.
Ok Ok.. I can understand why people would get upset over putting millar in the lineup last season, i too was a little confused on why he was getting at bats over ruiz but, comon, there has to be a reason on why cito insists on putting a more "valuable" player on the field whether or not its skill or just a good attitude, for all we know ruiz is a cancer in the clubhouse…noone is saying anything, but who knows, millar was a good guy to have on the bench, a good mentor, a guy who was slack, maybe helped releive some tension when halladay was pitching(or not), who knows, this year, i believe overbay does deserve to play, he's getting paid what.. 7 mil? you gonna keep a good defensive player ont he bench paying the guy that much? plus, us jays fans should be excited that overbay "may" get us a potential all star prospect somewhere down the road if he does get traded, who's gonna want to trade for a guy who sat on the bench the whole season? i'm no expert but i certainly wouldn't want a guy like that, definatly not giving anyone a good prsopect for a guy like that, i dunno, i have too much respect for guyts who have played in the big leagues over a guy who's been a career minor leager, right now the team is looking in the future, we have ruiz for what, 5 more years? yes i would like to see cecil pitch this year, but i also dont' want to see young pitchers blow their chance too early, we've seen that before. All im saying is that there has to be a method to cito's madness (or the guys in the top office) for that matter, yes i love this blog, and you are right, other teams are much worse in their blogs, i have read them, especially phillie fans..wooeee, are they brutal, im glad we aren't that bad, i just can't handle the cito bashing anymore but that is just my opinion
Actually, Cito said why he kept playing Millar which was for the same reason he's going to play Overbay every day or almost everyday in spite of the fact Overbay has sucked against left handers since 2004. The reason was/is to help them get a good contract once they become free agents.
Frankly, Cito deserves to be bashed for that attitude, particularly when he's getting paid $2 million a year by the Jays. His responsibility is to the club, not to helping the players get a new contract as free agents. By the way, I love Cito, I just don't like some moves he makes-the above being one of them, but I rarely bash him.
I think we'll need to agree to disagree on Overbay's value, since I think if he was traded today, the very best we could do is get rid of his contract. The more likely scenario is we'd have to pick up at least 50% of his contract cost. The reason is what happened to the FA market this year, guys like Overbay were being signed at $2.5 to $3.5 mill., not $7 mill. like Overbay gets paid and the guys who signed for that range hit left handers better than Overbay.. In addition if we do hang onto him and let him become a FA, I doubt we'll even get a draft pick for him, since I doubt he'd be offered arbitration.


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HowardNeville Yobo Senderos BainesDonovan Osman Arteta PienaarYak SahaI think that we should win this, although we're gonna be short on defenders without Heitinga or Distin. Does anyone know when Hibbert is coming back? I thought he was only supposed to be out two weeks?
Why no Distin? He's not injured or ineligible
No Mikel? I think he's so vital to us in Europe and definitely worth a start.I think the team pretty much picks itself, the only question is what to do with Bilya, Donovan and Pienaar. All can play on both wings and behind Saha so it'll be interesting to see who he puts where. I think it was Pienaar mainly who had the duty of supporting Saha, with Arteta and Osman also alternating late runs.
No, no Mikel. I think its been too much too soon for him lately, and I believe we can do it without him starting. Ideal game for Victor IMO.
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Editor's note: The Roxie not only is an integral part of the San Francisco film community, but has been closely involved with countless SFFS exhibitions, screenings, and festivals over the years. We asked Roxie programmer Mike Keegan to write about the importance of theatrical exhibition as they approach their Kickstarter fundraising deadline. Read Part 1 of his post here.
Over the last couple of years, there has been a groundswell of theaters across the country that have used this as an opportunity to reinvent the way they operate. Super-focused programming is an important element, as is truly engaging with your audience, programming for that audience and that audience, in turn trusting the left turns you throw in there every once in a while. Along the way, something really neat accidentally happened—in this hyper-connected, everything-on-demand age, regionalism snuck back in to movie going. Cinefamily in LA, the Hollywood in Portland, the Alamo Drafthouse in Austin, the 92YTribeca in Manhattan—there are a lot of titles we have in common, both old and new, but we also show a lot of stuff, both old and new, that are of interest only to our particular regions. And I think that is AWESOME.
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The Olympics bring together top athletes from around the world to compete on a global stage under the warm glow of the international media spotlight. Boosters not only hail the Games as the apex of sporting prowess, but also as a vehicle for urban regeneration, economic development, and international goodwill. Yet historically the evidence for such claims is circumstantial at best. Throughout the history of the Games, critics continuously question the logic of the Olympic movement, with all its attendant promises and spectacular practices. Activists regularly challenge the economics of Olympic funding and how that ties to security issues, the increasingly hyper-commercialized nature of the Games, and the role of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as a sovereign power. The London 2012 Olympics provide a useful lens for understanding these dynamics.
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Harvard hits the road for the first time this season after compiling a 3-2-0 record in a five-game homestand (Photo: Justine Agaloos).
Complete Game Notes
College Hockey News: Vesey Follows Family Success
ECAC Hockey: Vesey Captures Second Rookie of the Week Honor
Hockey's Future: Healthy Fallstrom Brings Offense, Leadership to Harvard Offense
The Matchups
After completing its season-opening five-game homestand with a 3-2-0 record, the No. 17/- Harvard men's hockey team hits the road to take on archrival No. 10/10 Cornell Friday at Lynah Rink, before heading to Hamilton, N.Y., to take on Colgate Saturday. Friday's game against the Big Red will be televised on NBC Sports Network, marking Harvard's first televised game of the season.
Last Season vs. Cornell
While Harvard had a tough start to the series against the Big Red, the Crimson had the last laugh, topping Cornell in the third meeting of the 2011-12 campaign.
The power plays were on display in the first matchup at Bright Hockey Center last season, as the Big Red skated away with a 4-2 win. Three first-period goals, including two power-play strikes from Nick D'Agostino, gave the guests a commanding 3-0 lead after one period. Marshall Everson and Alex Fallstrom answered back with power-play scores of their own in the second period, but a John Esposito tally in the third gave Cornell the two-goal win.
The rematch at Lynah Rink saw Everson strike again on the man-advantage to knot the score at 1-1 after the first. Joakim Ryan put the hosts up 2-1 with a goal in the second but Alex Killorn scored in the back half of the third to push the game to overtime and an eventual 2-2 tie.
The teams' third meeting of the season came in the ECAC Tournament semifinals and a ruthless Harvard attack saw the Crimson post a pair of goals in each period to breeze to a 6-1 win and earn a spot in the tournament championship game. Patrick McNally got things started less than five minutes into the game and Killorn followed suit less than three minutes later. Colin Moore '12 and Marshall Everson scored in the second period and Killorn and Everson each tallied their second goals to give Harvard a 6-0 edge, before Cornell got its only goal with 1:06 left in the game.
Last Season vs. Colgate
Entering the teams' first matchup of the year in search of its first league and overall win, the Crimson overcame two seperate one-goal deficits to post a 4-2 victory over the Raiders. Robbie Bourdon gave Colgate a 1-0 lead after one period but Rence Coassin's '12 marker at 3:54 of the second allowed Harvard to draw even. A power-play goal from Austin Smith gave the lead back to Colgate but man-up tallies from Patrick McNally and Alex Killorn gave Harvard a 3-2 edge at the second intermission. Colin Blackwell's first collegiate goal in the third secured the 4-2 victory for the hosts.
Goals from Marshall Everson and Peter Starrett '12 gave Harvard a 2-1 lead after two in the rematch in Hamilton, N.Y., but Austin Smith scored the equalizer at 12:28 of the third frame and the game would end in a 2-2 tie.
Championship Quality
The Crimson and Big Red have combined for three NCAA titles, with Cornell capturing two and Harvard one. They rank first and third in ECAC regular-season championships (Harvard 13, Cornell 9) and first and second in league tournament crowns (Cornell 12, Harvard 8). The rivals have accounted for nine of the 22 ECAC regular-season and tournament titles awarded over the last 10 seasons. For six of those nine championships, the other rival was the runner-up.
Either Harvard or Cornell has won or shared the Ivy League crown in 38 of the league's 55 seasons, with Harvard totaling 21 titles and Cornell 19. The teams shared the honor in 1983‑84 and 1984-85.
First of Many
Freshman Brian Hart, a second-round draft pick of the Tampa Bay Lightning, collected his first collegiate goal in Harvard's 4-0 shutout of Rensselaer Saturday. Hart is the third player in Harvard's highly-touted freshman class to score a goal this season.
Helping Hand
Sophomore forward Tommy O'Regan has logged an assist in his last four games. He has the longest active point streak on the team heading into the Cornell game, and the four-game stretch marks a career long.
Veni, Vidi, Vesey
Through five games this season, rookie Jimmy Vesey has shown that the same goal-scoring prowess that earned him EJHL Player of the Year honors last season, has carried over to his college career. The rookie ranks tied for 13th in the nation in points per game (1.40) and leads all freshmen in that category. He is also second in the country in goals per game (1.00), behind junior Eric Robinson (1.17) of Dartmouth. He has two multi-goal games to his credit and has earned ECAC Hockey Rookie of the Week honors twice this season.
Three in a Row
After Jimmy Vesey took home league Rookie of the Week honors Oct. 30, Harvard's first week of action, classmate Kyle Criscuolo made it two in a row for the Crimson, earning the honor for the week of Nov. 6. Criscuolo had a pair of goals and an assist and finished +3 in Harvard's ECAC and Ivy opening weekend, as the Crimson captured a 3-2 win over Brown and fell to Yale, 5-1.
Vesey extended the streak to three for Harvard, and two out of three for himself, when he earned Rookie of the Week honors for the week of Nov. 13. Vesey got Harvard on the board in a tough, 6-2, loss to No. 8/7 Union Nov. 9 and helped the Crimson rebound with a pair of unassisted goals in a 4-0 blanking of Rensselaer a night later.
Harvard has now had a player take home league Rookie of the Week honors every week the team has been eligible this season.
Finally, a First
Brendan Rempel's game-winning tally against Brown Nov. 2 represented the first goal of his collegiate career. His goal means that every member of the class of 2013 has registered at least one goal in their collegiate careers. Rempel was also the first defenseman to tally a goal this season for the Crimson.
Production Lines
After Harvard's top line had a strong showing against Bentley in the season opener, with each player tallying a goal and finishing a collective +8, the third line proved to be the catalyst in Week 2. The trio of Kyle Criscuolo, Brian Hart and Tommy O'Regan had a hand in three of Harvard's four goals and finished a combined +6.
Ted Donato shifted the lines for the Union/RPI weekend, skating an all-freshman trio as his second line. The group of Jimmy Vesey, Hart and Criscuolo accounted for four of Harvard's six goals, and finished with a combined +5 rating.
Scouting the Big Red
For most of the 2012-13, Cornell has been the highest-ranked ECAC and Ivy League team in the national polls, scaling to as high as No. 4 in the Nov. 5 renditions. A pair of victories at home against Colorado College kick started the Big Red's season, and a 3-1 win at Colgate moved Cornell to 3-0-0 to start the year. The Raiders managed a tie in the back half of the home-and-home, and a trying road trip last weekend saw Cornell drop a 5-3 decision to Princeton Friday and a 4-1 result to Quinnipiac Saturday.
Sophomore defenseman Joakim Ryan enters the weekend with the team lead in points (six) thanks to a team-high six assists. His 1.00 assists-per-game average is tied for eighth in the nation, and third among defensemen. John Esposito, Joel Lowry and Greg Miller all have identical point totals at 3-1-4 on the year, and blueliner Cole Bardreau also has 1-3-4 points on the season.
Junior Ithaca, N.Y., native Andy Iles has played every minute in goal for the Big Red this season. He brings a 2.14 goals against average and .927 save percentage into the matchup with the Crimson.
Scouting the Raiders
It has been an up-and-down season thus far for the Raiders, as they enter the Dartmouth-Harvard weekend with an overall record of 4-6-1. A 10-2 blowout of Niagara in the season opener was soon forgotten, thanks to a pair of losses to Miami (Ohio) and one to Bowling Green. Colgate bounced back with a three game win streak, topping the Falcons, RIT and Quinnipiac to improve to 4-3 on the season. Since the win, Colgate has gone 0-3-1, with losses to the Bobcats and Cornell coming last weekend. Colgate enters the weekend in search of its first ECAC victory.
Like the Big Red, a defenseman entered the weekend with the team lead in points. Sophomore Spiro Goulakos (4-5-9) is tied with rookie forward Tylor Spink (3-6-9) with nine points on the season, with Goulakos' 0.82 points-per-game average ranking tied for 18th in the nation among defensemen. Rookie forward Kyle Baun is close behind with 4-4-8. Goalies Eric Mihalik and Spencer Finney have both gotten looks in net through 11 games, with Mihalik holding better numbers (.899 save percentage, 2.62 goals-against average) entering the weekend.
Colgate enters the weekend as the ninth-most penalized team in the nation, averaging 15.9 penalty minutes per game. That total ranks third in the ECAC, behind only Quinnipiac (17.4) and Rensselaer (17.4).
Shutting The Door
For the second time in five games, goalie Raphael Girard posted a shutout, blanking RPI, 4-0, Saturday. In his 14th career start and 19th career game, Girard recorded his first collegiate clean sheet, stopping 31 shots in a season-opening 5-0 win against Bentley. Harvard had previously gone nearly two years without a shutout, with the most recent one prior to this season coming Nov. 6, 2010 at home against Rensselaer. Kyle Richter '11 blocked 19 shots in the 1-0 win over the Engineers.
Girard's effort against Bentley also marked the first time since 2000 that the Crimson recorded a shutout victory in its first game of the season.


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Another Questionable Study By Brad Bushman Claims Violent Video Games Are Bad For Children
from the when-everything-looks-like-a-scapegoat... dept
Brad Bushman, the Ohio State University researcher who (usually in conjunction with Craig Anderson) has somehow managed to ignore a body of work to the contrary, has again produced a study that claims video games turn players into monsters. His study, conducted with the aid of Italian researchers, makes a couple of specific claims based on the observed behavior of the 172 subjects.
- People playing violent video games are more dishonest than those playing non-violent games.
- People playing violent video games exhibit less self control than those playing non-violent video games.
Subjects either played violent games (Grand Theft Auto III or GTA: San Andreas) or non-violent games (Golf3D or Pinball3D). During their playtime, they were given a bowl of M&Ms to snack on, but were first warned that eating too much candy in one sitting was "unhealthy."
Let's stop right here for a moment and consider the credibility of researchers who (presumably with a straight face) told teenagers that eating too much candy would make their tummies hurt. The health implications of a single bowl of candy in a research setting are effectively nil, but this ridiculous instruction is used as evidence that violent video games adversely affect players' judgement.
According to Bushman's research, players playing violent games ate more than those playing non-violent games. Ipso facto, violent game players have less self-control.
Moving on.
Post-playtime, players were given a set of logic questions to answer and received a raffle ticket for each correct answer. The "catch" (as it were) was that players were allowed to collect these tickets themselves from an envelope. Research showed those playing violent games were eight times as likely to grab more tickets than they actually earned, thus suggesting players of violent games are more subject to moral turpitude.
An additional factor thrown into the mix was a post-play "game" which gave players the option to blast losing players with a loud noise through their headphones. (There was actually no one on the receiving end of the blasts, which is kind of a shame…) Violent game players were much more prone to do this, again suggesting those under the influence of Grand Theft Auto tend to be more aggressive and harmful towards others.
The problem with Bushman's study is that it collects evidence on short-term effects (behavior observed during or shortly after play) and uses that to suggest there are long-term repercussions inherent in playing violent games. It's completely unsurprising that those who had played Grand Theft Auto would be more prone to blast other players with noise than those who played a sedate game like Golf. (It would be interesting to see this comparison done more aggressive sports games -- like football, hockey or boxing.) Both games demand a different mental approach and a game containing violent behavior would likely see a short-term rise in aggression in most players.
Also, when players have just finished playing a game where their protagonists can break all sorts of laws, taking a couple of extra tickets just doesn't seem to be a big deal. But this is behavior viewed nearly immediately after playing. A reasonable amount of "cool down" time would likely reduce this number. Stealing a raffle ticket from a research project is a far cry from exiting the building and punching people or making off with their vehicles.
The less said about the candy "evidence," the better. But, if nothing else, we are again observing behavior during and shortly after gameplay, not long-term indicators.
It needs to be highlighted that the negative behavior was more prevalent in those who "scored highest on a measure of moral disengagement." This suggests the underlying factors are pre-existing, rather than created by gameplay. Research subjects with moral issues were more morally suspect. Go figure. Bushman wants to believe the video games alter the morals of players, but his own research states otherwise. In fact, Bushman himself states otherwise.
"Those who are most morally disengaged are likely to be the ones who show less self-restraint after playing."Even the "moral disengagement" is questionable. Take a look at one of the questions used to indicate "moral disengagement."
"Compared to the illegal things people do, taking some things from a store without paying for them is not very serious."Well, no kidding. Someone doesn't have to be suffering from outsized "moral disengagement" to realize that stealing from a store is a much less serious crime than other criminal acts (like, say, stealing directly from another person). Anyone who disagreed with this statement has some moral issues of their own.
Bushman's study involved 172 students, a grouping that will generally produce statistically solid results. But compare those 172 who seemingly proved Bushman's theory ("violent video games are unquestionably bad") to a recent study involving 11,000 children that spanned 10 years. A broader base, spread over time, indicated that video game playing had nearly no discernible effect on children.
Bushman's (and Anderson's) body of work has tried to prove that violent video games make people violent, but has actually done little more than see him push preconceived notions under the pretense of "science." His research tends to indicate short-term effects but his statements assert players of violent video games are incapable of resetting their moral compass. He's been called out before for his flawed research and cherry-picked "analysis." This is more of the same. Bushman ignores the results his own "moral disengagement" test and makes the claim that violent video games make otherwise good people aggressive, dishonest and (LOL) eat more candy.
Because of his past "research," Bushman (and Anderson) will continue to be the go-to man for talking heads who want their own perceptions of Big Bad Video Games confirmed. Those willing to see past the headlines will find little more than a researcher repeatedly confirming his own bias.
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"Breaking Bad's" "Granite State" lines up the loose ends for the finale
On the night it was crowned best drama at the 2013 Emmys and Anna Gunn was named best actress in a drama, "Breaking Bad" offered a rather straightforward, even simplified episode. Perhaps to dot i's and cross t's before the final installment, to line up what we know are loose ends, the "Granite State" episode was more literal, less complex than most. Lining things up before the big finish.
Walt makes his escape to a new identity and a remote cabin in New Hampshire, a landscape worlds apart from Albuquerque. The best visual had to be the chemo bag hanging from the deer antlers.
Skyler, terrorized by the neo-Nazis, agrees not to mention Lydia to the police.
Jesse is stuck with Uncle Jack, Todd and the rest of the maniacs who keep him alive in order to keep him cooking meth, 92 percent pure, in fact. The torture continues, as he witnesses Todd killing his girlfriend ("nothing personal" is right up there with "sorry for your loss" in terms of the murderous Todd's sociopathic responses.)
Walt's telephone apology/excuse to his son at school reiterates the theme he's struck from the start: it was all for the family. He made mistakes, but things happened that he never intended. Passive voice, passive father.
In a too-neat coincidence, Walt glimpses his former partners on Charlie Rose at a bar in town. Walter White is gone, they say. The sweet, kind man they knew is no longer out there. They can't speak to the Heisenberg fellow, but Walter White is no more. That, too, seemed a tad simplified. The transformation, Mr. Chips to Scarface is complete.
Walt is now shaggy, going full Heisenberg with the pork-pie hat; his family home is behind a fence, he's told. He leads the DEA to his N.H. locale. And that brings us to the finale.
Who scrawled "Heisenberg" on the wall of Walt's home? What happens to the ricin? Is there any possibility that Jesse Pinkman lives through the finale? How about Walt? Will he answer to cancer or the law or some other finality? Does Lydia live to make more money on the pure blue meth? And does Todd ever get his comeupance? The finale is Sept. 29.


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I got very excited when my fabulous colleague Charlie White passed this thing from Duracell and Xantrex* on to me, saying that the write-up would need my touch. "Ah, it's a clunky, chunky boombox for hunky construction-worker types that plays CDs and never breaks, even when you drop something builder-y and heavy on it," I thought. (Yes, my idea of home decoration is painting my nails in front of reruns of Dallas, although I'm good with the vacuum cleaner and spirit level when my man is drilling holes in walls.)
Anyway, this is a battery pack. The Duracell Powerpack 300 is an 18-hour battery (is that any relation to the 18-hour girdle? Just asking, like.) with jumper cables, a flashlight, air compressor and two AC power outlets. So, no CD player, then.
And then there's something below that I thought might be a portable solarium, but I am big enough to admit my mistakes. The Powerpack Solar does the same thing as the Powerpack 300 and, by harnessing the fabulous discoball of the sky that is the sun, it will charge your electric-y things. I guess this is useful if you're a Bedouin warrior living in the Sahara Desert, far from a socket. Isn't that right, Charlie?
*Isn't Xantrex a tranquilizer? Now then, I'm sure I left my nail file somewhere round here...
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Pinterest's power has rapidly grown over the past year where the image-based social network has driven the highest percentage of traffic and sales especially for Retailers. It's no longer seen as just a silly image gallery, Pinterest really does have commercial potential.
Retailers clearly understand the power of Pinterest as when looking at the top 100 retailers 30% of them have already implemented Rich Pins. Plus the percentage rises to 42% when looking at the top 50 retail companies (source).
So there is really no reason why you shouldn't give Rich Pins a go.If you haven't heard of Rich Pins and the benefits then read on so you don't miss out.
Rich Pins, also known as 'Super Pins' or 'Enhanced Pins' are a fairly new addition to Pinterest features for business. These enhanced pins show viewers more information than usual pins making them more powerful for businesses.
In the simplest way, Rich Pins work the same as Schema does for your website; they highlight additional information which can be displayed in the Pinterest Pin Feed, underneath the pinned image. Therefore Rich Pins will not only display the image but also additional information such as description, price, stock availability, location or more. Such richer pins can then appear as more relevant and useful to the pinners who can reward your hard work by clicking on your pin, repining or liking it.
Okay so Rich Pins looks better than the usual ones but how do these enhanced pins affect your business? Well, read on as you might be surprised what this additional information underneath your pin can help you with.
Whenever you change something on your website, for example the price of a product or adding ingredient to your Recipe this information will be automatically updated on the pin as well. No manual changes needed!
Pinners/users can easily see additional information about the pin making it more useful and relevant. Image as well as text-based content in a pin can increase relevancy which in turn can lead to more informed decisions.
I think this feature is one of the best Pinterest adds-on. If you decrease the price of your products by more than 10% Pinterest will send an automated email about the price drop to the people who pinned your product. This is all done for free!
Target worked together with Pinterest to trial the Rich Pins for their products. These pins included the additional information such as price and product availability. After implementation of these pins Target experienced a massive increase (+70%) in traffic from Pinterest. I guess that's a pretty good reason why you should implement Rich Pins, especially if you're an ecommerce business.
More traffic, free email notifications about price drops and more information underneath the pin can have a positive effect on your bottom line. Just imagine if your product was pinned by 500+ people and you dropped the price by over 10%… 500 price drop notifications in your potential customers' mailbox.
You can currently implement 5 kinds of Rich Pins; Place, Article, Product, Recipe and Film Pins.
If you use the Place pin you can highlight information such as showing a map and address as well as phone number. Place Pins are perfect for travel enthusiast and travel brands. These pins form an interactive map board where you can see the pins by location.
You can create Place boards that reflect your business, for example top burgers, running rotes, top bars, best hikes, and more. Place pins should be a must for companies with franchises/agents across many cities or even countries; such as Restaurants, Wedding organisers, and more. Here's a great example of how these Place Pins are used;
Pinterest have already partnered up with companies such as Airbnb, Foursquare, Citysearch, and more in order to automatically include location info on their Pins.
You can learn more about the Place pins as well as how they are used by companies on the Pinterest site.
Implementing Product Pins is a must for any ecommerce business as these pins allow you to highlight the Current Price, Availability and Where to buy. As a bonus you will also get free price notifications alerting pinners that you've dropped the price (explained in more detail later in the post).
Below is an example of an enhanced Product Pin from Nordstrom
Article pins enable you to provide your readers with more information about your blog post/article than just an image. You can highlight Author, Article Title, Description as well as URL. As a bonus Pinterest will add automatic CTA for your pin, such as 'Read this on …'
Check out the BBC and its Article Rich Pin below;
Recipe pins are great if you are a business operating in food industry or have a blog where you regularly share your culinary recipes. Rich pins will definitely help you bring your Recipe/Food pins to the next level; you will be able to display recipe details including cooking time, ingredients, servings, description, ratings as well as related recipes (which must be from the same domain name).
Your 'normal' food pins will be transferred into delicious-looking images with useful information underneath.
The Woman's Day Pinterest account has a lot of great Recipe Pins;
With Enhanced Film pins you can mark-up movie details such as Release date, Actors and Ratings.
Netflix has already mastered this feature;
Similarly to Schema mark-ups, successful implementation of Rich Pins requires a bit of coding. You will need to manually amend the specific Rich Pins templates so they correspond with the data on your website and then upload it to your website's code.
Rich Pins are available only for business accounts, however if you're a blogger using personal Pinterest profiles you can easily upgrade to a business account. This will take you only a couple of clicks;
There are two methods you can use to implement Rich Pins; oEmbed or Semantic Markup (Schema.org or Open Graph templates).
Below are the tags you will need to add to your page's code so the information can be displayed underneath the pinned image;
Here are the methods you can use as well the tags for specific Rich Pins;
If you have a site build on WordPress than the Open Graph tags should be added automatically. Although, I would recommend installing powerful plugins such as Yoast SEO. Once downloaded and installed, go to plugin Settings and click on 'Social'. Now tick the box that says 'Add Open Graph Meta data and you're good to go.
However, there a lot of additional tags you can also add; these are not required and if you want to use these you will need to manually add them to your code.
For example, if you would like to mark-up image, published time, article tag/keyword you will need to add these to the code. You will find the full list of additional tags for all the types of Rich Pins on the Pinterest developers page.
There are already a few free and paid plugins you can use to simplify Pinterest Rich Pins integration on your website;
Once you implement all the suggested tags you will need to validate the page by adding the URL to Pinterest Validator.
I've tested the Open Graph method on my WordPress blog and validated a couple of my recent blog posts;
On the left hand side you can see what tags have been recognised; it shows that my blog post is missing the 'Authors' tag;
If your implementation was successful you can click on 'Apply Now'. I thought Pinterest would let me know once they were implemented however there was no email or notification coming my way. So I waited…
I asked myself the same question but couldn't find the answer to that. So I've recently published a new blog post and pinned it to my Pinterest account without using the Pinterest Validator and surprise, surprise my mark-up data showed up;
So I guess once you validate a couple of pages (I did validate 3 latest blog posts) Rich Pins will be enabled for your website.
You can apply Rich Pins to your Products on Shopify too – here's a quick guide on how to apply these for your products.
Are you using Rich Pins? Have you got any tips how to quickly implement them? Have you experienced any effects of Rich Pins on your traffic, engagement or bottom line? I would love to hear your thoughts, tips or ideas.
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Great post! Really useful! Thanks!
Hi Lenka, Thank you for this post!! It was so helpful. I downloaded Rich Pins today and it's great. The only issue that I am having, and cannot find an easy answer to, is the fact that all of my Rich Pins display the Title Separator (I'm using Yoast SEO) after the title of the post. It does not look aesthetically pleasing. This is my pinboard: https://www.pinterest.com/twofisht/twofishtraveling-articles/ Can you help? I haven't been able to find an answer on how to remove this for the purposes of Rich Pins. Thank you!!
"it shows that my blog post is missing the 'Authors' tag"
i ran into the same problem regarding our foodblog. How important is this author tag?
Interestingly, i checked the code on my page and i found the correct author name tag. Anyway, the pinterest validator didn't recognize it..
thanks for your article!
This article is great! Really helped.
I am having a probelm with rich pins. I have an ecomerce website run through wordpress but my ruch pins are showing as article pins and not product pins and I have no idea how to change it? I have been looking for answers all day!
How can we generate geo targeted rich pins?
we have country specific websites for australia, usa, canada etc.
What we need is people from australia should only view the Rich pins from australia and the same way should show the rich pins country specific.
Current situation is people from australia can view pins from both .com.au and .com websites so that sometimes people from australia are trying to buy from us website which is not ideal.
I have a specific question about customizing the rich pin code, either via oembed or opengraph. We use our site to sell both to retail clients as well as wholesale clients. Our wholesale clients need to create an account to be able to view our wholesale prices. I'd love to setup Rich Pins on our site but when I do so, it shows the price range for our products from the lowest wholesale price to the highest retail price. This is very misleading when viewed on Pinterest since the average consumer cannot purchase from us at the wholesale pricepoint without a wholesale account and login. I'd like to find a way to filter out the wholesale information from the info that the code is pulling. Do you know if there is a way to do that? I'm thinking maybe something keyword related or even just a filter that doesn't show content that is priced under a certain amount.
Thanks for your insight!
Huge help! Thanks for sharing.
Do you have any idea how to do rich pins on wordpress.com?? They don't have a Yoast plug-in
thank you very much for your guide.
I notice that ecommerce sites are using it on their product pages but not their category pages. Is there a technical reason for this?
Hi, many thanks for the article, but does all my products eventually appear in my pinterest account?
Or do I have to pin each one?
Or is it a case of waiting for others to pin it?
Many thanks
Looks like Pinterest changed the way article Pins appear just since last week. You'll notice the BBC article rich pin linked above no longer shows the website's icon or author. Although I can't find any documentation of this change!
Hi Lenka,
thank you very much for your guide. I have tried to get the rich pins recipe for a few weeks but pinterest haven't showed it yet. Did you get an email from pinterest that the validation is ok?
Regards, Maja
What if I want to use a photo as the pin, but have that photo be different than the one on my site (the site having the rich pin code). You see this a lot on Pinterest where there a photo of a collage, or a recipe image with a title superimposed and a logo, but although that photo looks ideal on Pinterest, it looks gunky on my webpage. Is there a way to get the enhanced info to pull from the site, but not have to embed that specific photo on the site?
I like and Pinned your article. The examples are particularly useful!
Just wondering why you don't offer Pinterest as one of your default share buttons? And why, when I did pin your article, it wasn't pre-populated with a description you supplied?


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Obama overlooked key points in giving OK to offshore drilling
WASHINGTON — Weeks before the world had ever heard of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, President Barack Obama stood in the Roosevelt Room of the White House poring over maps of oil drilling sites in the Gulf of Mexico, Alaska and elsewhere.
Satisfied that he knew all he needed to know and confident that it was safe, he decided to propose expanded offshore drilling.
"This is not a decision that I've made lightly," he said when he unveiled his proposal on March 31.
"Oil rigs today generally don't cause spills," he added two days later. "They are technologically very advanced. Even during Katrina, the spills didn't come from the oil rigs, they came from the refineries onshore."
On April 20, the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded, setting off the largest oil spill in U.S. history. It drove Obama to freeze the proposal he'd just made.
An in-depth review by McClatchy reveals how Obama reached that initial decision to expand offshore drilling _ and why he failed to get information that might have led him instead to delay or oppose it and perhaps even raise questions about the deepwater drilling that was already under way.
Obama did roll back some of the offshore drilling that the George W. Bush administration had approved on Bush's last day in office. However, Obama never challenged the Bush era's fundamental faith in the oil industry or its ability to clean up a massive spill. Instead, he embraced expanded offshore drilling, in part to win Republican support for broader legislation to curb climate change.
"He deserved to be more skeptical," said Stephen Hess, a veteran of four White Houses back to the Eisenhower administration and an expert on how presidents do their job.
"They hadn't thought through the various ramifications. They should have, obviously. But it didn't seem obvious at the time."
"Not well thought through," said Rick Steiner, a retired University of Alaska marine scientist. "If they had really done their job, they would have understood there was high risk here."
Indeed, Obama and his team overlooked some important points as they prepared to give the green light to more offshore oil drilling. Expanding the drilling was something he'd promised to do during his campaign, when gas prices topped $4 a gallon, and it was a lure he planned to use to win Republican votes for legislation aimed at curbing climate change.
Among their oversights:
- Obama thought that funneling information through White House "czars" such as energy and environment adviser Carol Browner would get him all the data he needed.
Top Obama administration officials say that they did an exhaustive job marshaling information for more than a year, and that the president asked what he needed to ask when it arrived at his desk. Anyone, they said, would grow complacent about the safety of offshore drilling after decades without a major spill.
"It's really important to understand you have decades of nothing going wrong," said one senior administration official, who spoke only on the condition of anonymity as a matter of White House policy.
"The last time you saw a spill of this magnitude in the Gulf, it was off the coast of Mexico in 1979," a second senior administration official said. "If something doesn't happen since 1979, you begin to take your eye off of that thing."
Obama's management of the March 31 oil decision is important not simply because the April 20 disaster turned a global spotlight on the entire subject. The governing style of Obama, a new president with no prior executive experience, has been subject to constant second-guessing.
How he makes decisions when no one is watching is arguably as illuminating — perhaps more so — as how he decides when the whole world is watching, such as his long deliberation last fall over whether to send more troops to Afghanistan.
Then, he held three months of meetings, publicized with White House photos released to the media and documented with briefings to reporters backed by notes taken during the sessions.
This time, he met twice with the top administration officials on the oil drilling question. Aides couldn't recall details of the deliberations, such as the date of the last meeting with the president or the length of the memo they gave him on oil drilling.
"I had never had an inquiry about how we made that decision," one top aide said, until after "one of them blew up in the Gulf."
For Obama, a former campaign adviser said, the decision to expand offshore drilling was born in the 2008 campaign, when gasoline prices were soaring and Republican rival Sen. John McCain of Arizona was scoring with his promise of more production — drill, baby, drill — to drive down prices.
Obama also warmed to new offshore drilling as part of a bipartisan proposal in Congress, led by Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., to allow expanded drilling while pushing higher fuel efficiency.
The president and his political aides looked at proposing expanded drilling as a way to win Republican support for a broader energy bill aimed at climate change.
"Involving offshore drilling way back in the campaign, and then in March, has been part of a series of bank shots all intended to address other issues, as opposed to being a free-standing priority," said an environmental activist who's close to the White House, who asked not to be identified because he was criticizing the administration.
"It was not a full-blown policy proposal," the activist said. "It was bait in the water."
"Absolutely not true," Browner said in an interview. "There was a lot of time and energy spent on this ... trying to determine what was the appropriate thing to do."
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar gathered information about oil drilling for a year, including public hearings in Alaska, California, Louisiana and New Jersey. More than 530,000 comments were collected.
Browner was the West Wing aide responsible for taking Salazar's recommendations and all viewpoints to Obama. She's the assistant to the president for energy and climate change, with a deep background in environmental work. She was an aide to Al Gore, the director of the Florida Department of Environmental Protection and the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency in the Clinton administration.
She said she didn't advocate choices inside the White House.
"My job is to be an honest broker ... on behalf of the Cabinet agencies," she said, "to ensure that they are able to present their best recommendations to the president and that he has all of the information he needs to make a decision."
Despite the brouhaha over Obama's reliance on White House aides dubbed "czars" to oversee areas of policy, all modern presidents rely on top aides to funnel information to them, particularly when it comes from more than one department.
Bush, for example, insisted that one presidential assistant "own" any given issue so the president would know whom to go to and who could be held accountable, according to Bradley H. Patterson, the author of an authoritative book on White House management, "To Serve the President."
After being updated periodically by Browner on the discussions that were under way, Obama received the final summary of recommendations first in a memo — aides couldn't recall how many pages it was — then in a meeting for a final decision.
In the Roosevelt Room, Obama met with Browner, Salazar and others, including Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, Deputy Chief of Staff Mona Sutphen and Budget Director Peter Orszag.
Administration officials said they heard dissent and changed the proposal in response. They banned drilling in Alaska's Bristol Bay and refused to propose new drilling leases for Alaska's Beaufort Sea.
"There were people who argued that certain areas should be protected, so, for example, the Beaufort Sea got protected," Browner said.
However, the March 31 decision left in place plans to allow Shell Oil to start drilling five exploratory wells already leased in the Beaufort Sea, plans that weren't frozen until May 27, five weeks after Deepwater Horizon exploded.
Obama never reached out himself to prominent dissenters such as marine scientist Steiner, who'd argued to Interior against expanding offshore drilling. Steiner had worked on oil spill responses from the Exxon Valdez in 1989 through today's Gulf spill.
"He didn't talk to me," Steiner said.
As he reviewed the pending decision, Obama didn't ask for more information about the Minerals Management Service. Now infamous but little-known then, the MMS is the primary agency that oversees oil drilling.In 2000, it prepared a report that warned of the possibility of a major spill that could start with a fire atop a rig, noting that "retaining well control in deep water may be a problem," and said that spreading oil could both remain underwater and rush ashore.
That report was shelved during the Bush years as the government bowed to the claimed technological infallibility of the oil industry. In fact, the agency became known for cozy relationships between regulators and the oil industry, something Salazar set out to fix when he took office last year.
Obama recently conceded that he was wrong to trust the oil companies.
"Where I was wrong was in my belief that the oil companies had their act together when it came to worst-case scenarios," he said. "Now, that wasn't based on just my blind acceptance of their statements. Oil drilling has been going on in the Gulf, including deep water, for quite some time. And the record of accidents like this we hadn't seen before."
He also laid some blame on the MMS.
"Prior to this accident happening, I think there was a lack of anticipating what the worst-case scenarios would be. And that's a problem," he said. "And part of that problem was lodged in MMS and the way that that agency was structured. That was the agency in charge of providing permitting and making decisions in terms of where drilling could take place, but also in charge of enforcing the safety provisions."
Yet Obama didn't ask about the MMS when he was weighing whether to expand drilling on the Outer Continental Shelf.
"In making OCS decisions, you wouldn't have necessarily needed to ask about sort of what information MMS has," the first senior administration official said. "In making the OCS decisions, the focus was not based on MMS information per se."
The official said that the president "was aware that Ken Salazar had been making changes in terms of the ethics issues that had been quite significant in the prior administration" and the president was satisfied that Salazar "had taken important steps."
While not asking about the MMS is potentially embarrassing in hindsight, presidential expert Hess said it was unrealistic to expect a president to know much about an otherwise obscure agency.
"MMS is probably an agency that never crops up on the White House radar. It's in the bowels of the bureaucracy," Hess said. "No president pays equal attention to every piece of the bureaucracy."
Obama also didn't personally quiz the Coast Guard or Adm. Thad Allen, who'd run an oil spill exercise off Louisiana in 2002 and who'd be the national commander of any federal oil spill response.
"Not that I'm aware of," the first senior official said.
"The president understood that there are safety plans associated with each lease. What are they called? Contingency response plans, something like that. ... That's part of the safety checks and balances in the system."
The administration officials also noted that Obama's drilling proposal would require further studies and permits before any drilling started.
Some presidents like to reach outside official channels for unfiltered advice. Bill Clinton, for example, loved to call people late into the night.
Obama did, too, when he was seeking the office. For example, he reached out to private-sector experts — such as Duke Energy CEO Jim Rogers — discussing energy with them in his campaign headquarters for three hours straight one Monday in June 2008.
"That was the beginning, I think, of the thought process" leading to expanded offshore oil drilling, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said.
The president also has expressed a desire to seek outside expertise since the oil spill.
"We're relying on experts who've actually dealt with oil spills from across the globe," Obama said at a news conference, adding that he and his administration would talk to the National Academy of Engineering, the National Laboratories and experts in academia.
He didn't seek such outside expertise until the spill, however, at least not to ask about oil drilling technology in deep water or oil-spill response plans.
"Beyond routine meetings with 'green group' environmental organization CEOs and policy staff, I don't think the administration reached out," said Dianne Saenz, the communications director for Oceana, one of the environmental groups. "We did not know the specifics of the March 31 announcement on expanded offshore drilling areas before it was made."
Browner said Obama did reach out.
"He's met several times with representatives of the environmental community who would have raised this issue," she said. "He also has met with various groups of business leaders who were interested in energy reform, some of whom would have raised this issue.
"They were not brought in specifically on this issue; they were brought in on energy more broadly."Asked why Obama didn't ask for outside opinions as he did in his campaign, she said that he now had staff do that.
"You have all these advisers; their job is to go out and do those sorts of things," she said. "Our job is to synthesize this information and bring it back to him."
Inside the White House, aides say that they and their president did the best they could, given the context before the unprecedented accident.
"The best piece of evidence we had was that there hadn't been a problem for decades," Browner said. "There are very few industries where you can probably look back over a several-decade period and not have a large-scale problem."
"Nobody expected the damned thing to blow up," said Hess, the presidential scholar. "A lot of things don't get that presidential attention because the president is busy and historically, statistically, it's not apt to happen very often.
"If somebody tells you something happens in Kandahar, you better challenge it if lives are at stake. But most things in the bureaucracy, you have some faith in the people you've asked to gather the information."
Ultimately, it's up to Obama to decide whether he's satisfied with how he reached his decision to propose more offshore drilling.
A president's decisions are only as good as the information that generates them. That point was driven home in early 1961, when an inexperienced President John F. Kennedy blindly signed off on what would become the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba.
Kennedy learned. Afterward he personally questioned experts skeptically, including his own generals. Eighteen months later, facing the Cuban Missile Crisis, he developed an advisory system that remains a model of executive decision-making, one that helped the world escape its closest brush with nuclear war.
The full text of Obama's March 31 speech
White House message machine spins faster than ever
Obama concedes mistakes in oil spill as he halts drilling
Citing gulf oil spill, Obama to suspend Arctic drilling
For more McClatchy politics coverage visit Planet Washington


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Player of the Week - No. 5
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Oklahoma Baptist outside hitter Kristin Pressley has been named the NAIA Volleyball Player of the Week, the national office announced Tuesday. Pressley was selected based on her performance from Sept. 26 – Oct. 2 and was chosen out of a pool of conference player of the week selections among 23 conference/independent/unaffiliated groupings.
Pressley powered the 20th-ranked Bison to four wins over the past week, racking up 79 kills in the process. She posted double-doubles in all four matches, including a 26-kill, 23-dig performance in a Sooner Athletic Conference (SAC) victory over Lubbock Christian (Texas) on Oct. 1. She tallied 63 digs, five service aces and a .251 hitting percentage in 15 sets.
The 5-11, sophomore from Mansfield, Texas, ranks third in the NAIA in total kills with 375, 18th in total digs with 407 and 25th in kills per set with 3.75. She leads Oklahoma Baptist (18-9, 5-0 SAC) in all of those statistics.
The next Player of the Week announcement will be on Oct. 11.
Nominees: Lindsey Davis, Mid-Continent (Ky.); Bethany Beckman, Arizona Christian; Yiting Cao, Spring Hill (Ala.); Lindsey Adams, Siena Heights (Mich.); Linjun Ji, MidAmerica Nazarene (Kan.); Regina Trapp, St. Thomas (Texas); Emilee Schutta, Jamestown (N.D.); Leah Keller, Kansas Wesleyan; Hannah Scholz, Montreat (N.C.); Casey Chernin, Missouri Baptist; Lindsey Oberacker, Point Park (Pa.); Taylor Reuther, Xavier (La.); Brittney Thomas, Mount Mercy (Iowa); Nicole Graybeal, Lewis-Clark State (Idaho); Kate Kendall, Illinois Tech; Gloria Kemp, Embry-Riddle (Fla.); Shayna Schacher, Hastings (Neb.); Madison Serrano, Westmont (Calif.); Shannon Cahill, Campbellsville (Ky.); Sara Schum, Indiana Southeast; Kate Denlinger, Indiana Wesleyan; Sarah Holgen, Southern Oregon; Ashley Iwanski, Saint Mary (Neb.); Rachel Vartanian, Holy Names (Calif.).
2011 Composite Winners
Week 1: Danica Markovic, Texas at Brownsville
Week 2: Paula Ferreira, Columbia (Mo.)
Week 3: Yiting Cao, Spring Hill (Ala.)
Week 4: Kim Weaver, Cornerstone (Mich.)
Week 5: Kristin Pressley, Oklahoma Baptist


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Reformed Covenant Theology's Inconsistent Hermeneutic
March 1, 2010
(Due to computer problems, I will not publish the Best Blogs Digest for Feb. Please check back in March.) By Greg Gibson Here's some good news in Reformed Covenant Theology circles. Dr. Gary Crampton, seminary professor and author, has changed his view from paedobaptism to credobaptism. Praise God for Gary's willingness to follow Christ wherever […]


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Cotton Flower
"Cotton is a vegetable hair or filament constituting the wing of the seed of the different species of Gossypium, a plant growing both in the temperate and tropical climates, indigenous in Asia, Africa, and south America. All the varieties of the plant require a dry and sandy soil. In general it flourishes most luxuriantly and yields produce of the best quality on the coast. In the United States a large proportion of the crop is grown W. of the Mississippi."—(Charles Leonard-Stuart, 1911)
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Indystar.com: Genius at work: 12-year-old is studying at IUPUI.
When Jacob Barnett first learned about the Schrödinger equation for quantum mechanics, he could hardly contain himself.Yahoo News: For 12-year old astrophysics prodigy, the sky's the limit.
For three straight days, his little brain buzzed with mathematical functions.
From within his 12-year-old, mildly autistic mind, there gradually flowed long strings of pluses, minuses, funky letters and upside-down triangles -- a tapestry of complicated symbols that few can understand.
He grabbed his pencil and filled every sheet of paper before grabbing a marker and filling up a dry erase board that hangs in his bedroom. With a single-minded obsession, he kept on, eventually marking up every window in the home.
Strange, say some.
Genius, say others.
But entirely normal for Jacob, a child prodigy who used to crunch his cereal while calculating the volume of the cereal box in his head.
"Whenever I try talking about math with anyone in my family," he said, "they just stare blankly."
So do many of his older classmates at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, who marvel at seeing this scrawny little kid in the front row of the calculus-based physics class he has been taking this semester.
"When I first walked in and saw him, I thought, 'Oh my God, I'm going to school with Doogie Howser,' " said Wanda Anderson, a biochemistry major, referring to a television show that featured a 16-year-old boy-genius physician.
Elementary school couldn't keep Jacob interested. And courses at IUPUI have only served to awaken a sleeping giant.
Just a few weeks shy of his 13th birthday, Jake, as he's often called, is starting to move beyond the level of what his professors can teach.
In fact, his work is so strong and his ideas so original that he's being courted by a top-notch East Coast research center. IUPUI is interested in him moving from the classroom into a funded researcher's position.
"We have told him that after this semester . . . enough of the book work. You are here to do some science," said IUPUI physics Professor John Ross, who vows to help find some grant funding to support Jake and his work.
"If we can get all of those creative juices in a certain direction, we might be able to see some really amazing stuff down the road."
"My fear was that he would never be in our world"
Teenage college student?
Developer of his own original theory on quantum physics?
Paid researcher at 13?
This is not what Jake's parents expected from a child whose first few years were spent in silence.
"Oh my gosh, when he was 2, my fear was that he would never be in our world at all," said Kristine Barnett, 36, Jake's mother.
"He would not talk to anyone. He would not even look at us."
Child psychologists assessed Jake at the time and diagnosed behavioral characteristics of a borderline autistic child. He was impaired, they said, and had a lack of "spontaneous seeking to share enjoyment," difficulty showing emotion and interacting with others.
Diagnosis: mildly autistic.
"My biggest fear," his mom said last week, with tears welling up in her eyes, "was that he had lost the ability to say, 'I love you' to us."
By age 3, Jake was the focus of a more intense evaluation from a team of psychologists, therapists and a diagnostic teacher.
Their report indicated that while Jake continued to struggle with social activities and physical development, he was showing signs of academic skills that were above his age level.
Diagnosis: Asperger's syndrome, a somewhat milder condition related to autism.
After hearing this, Jake's parents decided to pay closer attention to the things their first-born son was doing -- rather than the things he was not.
For example, Jake often recited the alphabet -- forward and then backward. He used Q-tips to create vivid geometrical shapes on the living room floor. He solved 5,000-piece puzzles (rather quickly). And he once soaked in a state road map and ended up memorizing every highway and license plate prefix.
And perhaps most amazingly, he could recite the mathematical constant pi out to 70 digits.
"I'm at 98 now," Jake said, interrupting his mom during an interview.
And then, a week later, he was up to 200 digits after the decimal point -- forward and backward.
At 3, his head was in the stars
The Barnetts decided it was time to follow Jake's lead, adopting a method that some parents of children with autism use -- floor-time therapy -- to help foster developmental growth. They let their children focus intently on subjects they like, rather than trying to conform them to "normal" things.
For Jake, that meant astronomy. As a 3-year-old, he loved looking at a book about stars, over and over again.
So off they went on a tour of the Holcomb Observatory and Planetarium at Butler University.
Kristine Barnett will never forget the day.
"We were in the crowd, just sitting, listening to this guy ask the crowd if anyone knew why the moons going around Mars were potato-shaped and not round," she recalls. "Jacob raised his hand and said, 'Excuse me, but what are the sizes of the moons around Mars?' "
The lecturer answered, and "Jacob looked at him and said the gravity of the planet . . . is so large that (the moon's) gravity would not be able to pull it into a round shape."
"That entire building . . . everyone was just looking at him, like, 'Who is this 3-year-old?' "
After that, the Barnetts began to feed Jake's hunger for knowledge, through more books and more visits to the planetarium. By the time he was 8, he got permission to sit in on an advanced astronomy class at IUPUI.
Meanwhile, his math skills were reaching astronomical levels.
By the time he was in fifth grade, Jake had become bored with elementary math. He was a student, first at Carey Ridge Elementary School and then at Westfield Intermediate School, an experience he now says he enjoyed for a while.
"The first couple of years were great, but then eventually the math started being, like, OK, we've been discussing this for a while, and it really isn't that hard," Jake said. "Can I move on to calculus now? Can I move on to algebra now?"
The boredom did not go unnoticed at home. Jake was coming home from school quiet, huddling in a safe space in the house and starting to show signs of withdrawing.
"I was really afraid we were going to lose him back into the world he was in when he was 2," his mom said.
Frank Lawlis, a Texas-based psychologist who serves as a testing supervisor for the American Mensa organization -- a society for geniuses -- said it would not have been unusual for a child with symptoms of autism to regress backward after a brief time of growth.
"One of the aspects of autism is that these kids' brains grow at an accelerated rate and then, generally speaking, there is kind of a reversal that happens," said Lawlis, who last year wrote "The Autism Answer," a book for parents of children with autism.
"The theory is that the brain reaches a certain capacity, can't grow, becomes inflamed, and then a reversal effect occurs. It's just a theory, but it's very common."
That did not happen to Jake, thanks in part to a third psychological evaluation done nearly two years ago. It showed that this fifth-grader was not regressing but was simply bored and needed to be stimulated -- in a very big way.
As in dropping out of school.
"Indeed, it would not be in Jacob's best interest to force him to complete academic work that he has already mastered," clinical neurophysiologist Carl S. Hale, Merrillville, said in a report provided by the Barnetts.
"He needs work at an instructional level, which currently is a post college graduate level in mathematics, i.e., a post master's degree. In essence, his math skills are at the level found in someone who is working on a doctorate in math, physics, astronomy and astrophysics."
The Barnetts were blown away. They knew Jake was smart, but doctorate-level smart?
"I flunked math," Kristine said with a laugh. "I know this did not come from me."
Off to college, where he tutors classmates
Encouraged by this new assessment, the Barnetts made the tough decision to pull Jake out of Westfield Washington Schools and enroll him in IUPUI's early college entrance program that caters to gifted and talented kids -- although typically they are advanced high school students, not 12-year-old whiz kids.
As he prepared for the more rigorous work of a college class, Jake decided he ought to make sure he could master all high school-level math that would be required in college.
"In one two-week period, he sat on our front porch and learned all of his high school math," Kristine said. "He tested out of algebra 1 and 2, geometry, trigonometry and calculus."
At this point, Jake's math IQ -- which has been measured at 170 (top of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children) -- could not get any higher.
"You could tell right off the bat, his performance has been outstanding," said Ross, who, at age 46 with a Ph.D. from Boston University, has never seen a kid as smart as Jake.
"When he asks a question, he is always two steps ahead of the lecture," Ross said. "Everyone in the class gets quiet. Poor kid. . . . He sits right in the front row, and they all just look at him.
"He will come to see me during office hours and ask even more detailed questions. And you can tell he's been thinking these things through."
Jake is driven by Mom or Dad from his home in Hamilton County to IUPUI's campus, where he attends classes a few days each week. In between classes, he spends time at the Honors College lounge, where he has become a go-to guy for much older classmates needing tutoring.
"A lot of people come to him for help when they don't understand a physics problem," said Anderson, his class partner. "People come up to him all the time and say, 'Hey Jake, can you help me?' "
"A lot of people think a genius is hard to talk to, but Jake explains things that would still be over their head."
His professor has noticed.
"Is he a genius? Well, yeah," Ross said. "Kids his age would normally have problems adding fractions, and he is helping out some of his fellow students."
If Jake stays on track, Ross could see him working someday at a government lab or an observatory. Maybe he'll be a professor or a highly respected researcher.
"He can do anything he wants."
A normal boy, except for the numbers
Despite this new experience, his parents insist that Jake remain close with his friends in Westfield. Social activity is important, they know.
For Jake, life is not all centered on math and astrophysics.
He also likes playing video games. ("Guitar Hero" and "Halo: Reach" are his current favorites.) He plays basketball with friends, has a girlfriend and recently attended his first dance.
He likes music -- classical, which he plays by memory on a piano, but he also plays some contemporary songs he hears on the radio. He loves sci-fi movies and the Disney Channel. He watches documentaries on the History Channel.
A normal kid.
But then, late at night, when the TV is off, the homework is done and everyone in the house is sleeping, the numbers start to percolate again.
They percolate so much that he has trouble sleeping. His parents got so worried a few years ago that they took him for medical tests, but no malady was diagnosed. He just can't fall asleep easily.
"A lot keeps me awake," Jake said. "I scare people."
The numbers that keep him from snoozing are the same that led him to develop his own theory of physics -- an original work that proposed a "new expanded theory of relativity" and takes what Einstein developed even further.
His mom, still not sure whether her son was truly a genius at work or a kid at play, decided to send a video of Jake explaining his theory to the prestigious Institute for Advanced Study near Princeton University, one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry.
That's where astrophysics Professor Scott Tremaine does his work. Tremaine is one of the world's leading scientists and is an expert in the evolution of planetary systems, comets, black holes, galaxies -- all the stuff Jake really likes.
In a letter to the Barnetts, Tremaine confirmed the brilliance.
"I'm impressed by his interest in physics and the amount that he has learned so far," Tremaine wrote in an email, provided by the family. "The theory that he's working on involves several of the toughest problems in astrophysics and theoretical physics.
"Anyone who solves these will be in line for a Nobel Prize."
He then encouraged Jake to spend as much time as possible to learn more and to further develop his theory.
Contacted by The Indianapolis Star, Tremaine confirmed the exchange of notes.
"I have seen a YouTube video in which Jake describes his theory, and I have spoken with his mother and corresponded with both her and Jake by email," Tremaine said. "I hope that Jake continues his interest in physics and mathematics."
Thinking big is what he does
Meanwhile, Jake is moving on to his next challenge: proving that the big-bang theory, the event some think led to the formation of the universe, is, well, wrong.
He explains.
"There are two different types of when stars end. When the little stars die, it's just like a small poof. They just turn into a planetary nebula. But the big ones, above 1.4 solar masses, blow up in one giant explosion, a supernova," Jake said. "What it does, is, in larger stars there is a larger mass, and it can fuse higher elements because it's more dense."
OK . . . trying to follow you.
"So you get all the elements, all the different materials, from those bigger stars. The little stars, they just make hydrogen and helium, and when they blow up, all the carbon that remains in them is just in the white dwarf; it never really comes off.
"So, um, in the big-bang theory, what they do is, there is this big explosion and there is all this temperature going off and the temperature decreases really rapidly because it's really big. The other day I calculated, they have this period where they suppose the hydrogen and helium were created, and, um, I don't care about the hydrogen and helium, but I thought, wouldn't there have to be some sort of carbon?"
He could go on and on.
And he did.
"Otherwise, the carbon would have to be coming out of the stars and hence the Earth, made mostly of carbon, we wouldn't be here. So I calculated, the time it would take to create 2 percent of the carbon in the universe, it would actually have to be several micro-seconds. Or a couple of nano-seconds, or something like that. An extremely small period of time. Like faster than a snap. That isn't gonna happen."
"Because of that," he continued, "that means that the world would have never been created because none of the carbon would have been given 7 billion years to fuse together. We'd have to be 21 billion years old . . . and that would just screw everything up."
So, we had to ask.
If not the big bang, then how did the universe come about?
"I'm still working on that," he said. "I have an idea, but . . . I'm still working out the details."
In some ways, Jacob Barnett is just like any other 12-year-old kid. He plays Guitar Hero, shoots hoops with his friends, and has a platonic girlfriend.
But in other ways, he's a little different. Jake, who has an IQ of 170, began solving 5,000-piece jigsaw puzzles at the age of 3, not long after he'd been diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome, a mild form of autism. A few years later, he taught himself calculus, algebra, and geometry in two weeks. By 8, he had left high school, and is currently taking college-level advanced astrophysics classes—while tutoring his older classmates. And he's being recruited for a paid researcher job by Indiana University.
Now, he's at work on a theory that challenges the Big Bang—the prevailing explanation among scientists for how the universe came about. It's not clear how developed it is, but experts say he's asking the right questions.
"The theory that he's working on involves several of the toughest problems in astrophysics and theoretical physics," Scott Tremaine of Princeton University's Institute for Advanced Studies—where Einstein (pictured) himself worked—wrote in an email to Jake's family. "Anyone who solves these will be in line for a Nobel Prize."


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I've decided for the next challenge, not to include a required aspiration or the need to start with a child. I will be using my 5th Generation child, after she becomes a young adult, for this Challenge. (This way I can keep up with where I am - maybe? )
I've taken the pertinent information from Carl's Sims Guides to use for this challenge. The guide has some good advice and information that will be beneficial to us all, for this career.
The Sims 4 Business Career
Management Branch
The Sims 4 Business Career features both Management and Investor Branches. (We will be following the Management Branch for this Challenge). Both of these may offer you opportunities that could, at random, make your Sim some extra money based on what you select and some random variation. The Career relies heavily on the Charisma and Logic Skills, no matter which branch you take. While it starts with an Ideal Mood of Energized, it shifts to Confident at Regional Manager (level 5) while the Career offers you to select a branch upon reaching level 7. At this point it is necessary that you choose to follow the Management Branch for this challenge. Since Emotional buffs are fairly easy to get, you don't need any special traits to pursue either of these Careers. However, Outgoing and a Popularity Aspiration (to give the Gregarious Bonus Trait) may be helpful to levelling Charisma and making Friends. While Friends are not necessary, it's just a perk to be able to have your social interactions succeed more often and perhaps level Charisma faster.
The starting Daily Task, Fill out Reports, can be found on the Computer under the Web menu. Filling out Reports may sometimes give your Sim a Bored Moodlet, "Paperwork Drudgery". This is tough, as it takes a few hours to do and you're already gone for the 9-5. Just accept that your Sim has less time in the early levels and will eventually get a better job without the boring paperwork.
Business Career
(Since the game actually tells you what is required for advancement to the next level - I've chosen not to include that information here.)
1 Mailroom Technician
2 Office Assistant
3 Assistant to the Manager
4 Assistant Manager
5 Regional Manager
6 Senior Manager
Management Career
The Management Career Branch features Confident Aura items, which are appropriate for the Career however not very useful for gaining progress in it because they don't work when you're out of the room. They may, however, help with the success rate of Make Business Calls (found on the Phone under Household), which may only be done from 8PM-8AM on Weekdays - meaning your Sim needs to do them after work hours. Making these calls can help you get promoted faster so long as you have the Skill requirements met. Sims who make successful calls may get a Confident or +2 Embarrassed Moodlet depending whether they succeed or fail at the deal. It's more important you complete them than if you bother to make them. I'd do them after work so that there is no chance of going into work totally embarrassed and risking some kind of freak accident emotional death. In order to get Confident before Work, you can simply Psych Self Up using a mirror or make your Sim brush their teeth.
Management Career Branch
7 Vice-President
8 President
10 Business Tycoon
So basically, the goal is to top out in the Business Career following the Management Career Branch and becoming a Business Tycoon.
Hoping if you choose to do this you will share your Business Adventures with us in a new post. Thank you!!


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When Too Faced had their sale, I bought their Borderline Anti-Feathering Lip Pencil which is a clear-transparent thick lip pencil that you use to outline the borders of your lips to prevent feathering and bleeding of your lipstick or lipgloss basically keeping it "inside" the invisible border. You can also use it all over your lips for better control and hold for your lipstick or gloss.
Product: 4 out of 5
Packaging: 5 out of 5
Quality: 4 out of 5
Overall: 4 out of 5
Would I buy again? Yes
Price: $18.50, TooFaced.com, Sephora.com
They describe it as: Keep your lipstick and now even lip gloss from traveling beyond your lip's borders with Borderline; a matte colorless lip pencil designed to fill in and plump up vertical lip lines while it locks down your favorite lip products. Apply to the area just outside the natural lip line to forego feathering and pamper your pucker with skin soothing moisturizing and firming ingredients. Our one-color-fits-all wonder pencil will revolutionize the way you wear lip gloss. No more sloppy fading creeping color.
How to use:
-Smoothly sketch or draw Borderline on or around lip area.
-Create a natural lip shape by staying slightly inside the lip. To plump up lip shape apply around your lip area slightly outside your natural lip line.
-Fill lips in entirely for super control.
Magical Performance - Colorless protection lays an invisible layer to wear with any shade of lip color.
Flawless Pout - Provides an anti-feathering barrier for lipstick and lip gloss.
Lip Lock Down - Line within the natural lip shape or overdraw if necessary, Borderline will keep lip products right where you want!
Infinite Skin Tones - Matches any skin tone.
Ingredients: Trimethylolpropane Triisostearate, Petrolatum, Synthetic Beeswax, PPG-3 Benzyl Ether Myristate, Polyethylene, Mineral Oil, Oleyl Alcohol, Methylparaben, Propylparaben, BHT, Butylparaben, Citric Acid. May Contain (+/-): Mica.
- No odor/smell- Completely odorless, just like wax
- Easy to apply, no tugging on the lips, similar consistency to that of chapstick
- Comes with its own sharpener
- Kept my lipstick "within the border"
- Feels moisturizing, doesn't give you that dry feeling
- Lipstick/gloss doesn't last too long (like similar products like this)
- Price ($18.50 seems a lot to me for just wax, LOL) but I would buy it again
Overall? I like it, I am sure there are better ones out there, but this one works fine for me and keeps my lip color from bleeding outside the outlines of my lips. I rarely re-apply my lipstick/gloss when I am at work so I use it in the morning before I go to work and that's it...
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Sunday, November 9, 2008
Product Review & Tutorial: Too Faced Borderline Lip Pencil
15 comments
- Mac It Pink said...
ohh thanks for the review!! I was eyeing this product a month ago!!
<3 Penelope
- November 9, 2008 at 9:32 PM
- Askmewhats said...
Your lips is "pucker" worthy :D Love it, it does makes a big difference@
- November 9, 2008 at 11:23 PM
- kawaiikao said...
thanks for the great review! i never knew things like that even existed out there hah!
- November 10, 2008 at 12:08 AM
- Iyah said...
WOW! I love your lips! They look so full and... well luscious :)
- November 10, 2008 at 12:10 AM
- jeSmakeup said...
this looks really interesting.. i really want it.. but im kinda confused... o_O
- November 10, 2008 at 12:15 AM
- Anastasia said...
You have amazing lips, you'd put Jessica Alba to shame.
I bought that Ly Na Pearl cream you reviewed, and WOW! I've been getting constant breakouts on my chin for like a month, with new ones flaring up when the old ones disappeared, it was driving me nuts. Just 4 days using the Ly Na cream at night, and now they're ALL gone, not a single pimple anywhere on my face, and no marks where the old ones were. I'm astounded!
- November 10, 2008 at 3:43 AM
- Shen said...
nice puckers! :)
- November 10, 2008 at 5:54 AM
- MakeupByRenRen said...
i've been wanting a product like that!
- November 10, 2008 at 6:35 AM
- Anonymous said...
Yesterday, i was wondering if there is a product like this because i have been wearing my red l/s. Thanks for this!!! I wonder if some other brand carries one like this but cheaper than $18???
- November 10, 2008 at 8:31 AM
- Phyrra said...
Very pretty!
- November 10, 2008 at 3:26 PM
- Janaina Tanaka said...
Hi Vanessa
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I love this review!!Thank you!!!!
- November 10, 2008 at 4:17 PM
- Linh said...
I love the red lipstick you are wearing in the pictures! Do you mind sharing the name of it?
Thanks! :)
- November 10, 2008 at 9:48 PM
- Vanessa said...
Hi Linh! It's MAC's "Port Red" lipstick (LE) from the Naughty Nauticals collection.
- November 10, 2008 at 10:12 PM
- Mrs.Zeus said...
Thanks Vanessa for reviewing this product!!! I think I'll pick up one tom'row and do you recommend anything to nutralize the lip color for applying different shade of lipstick.
- November 11, 2008 at 1:02 AM
- yummy411 said...
hey nessa! you are usu the avon pusher... have you tried avon's clear lipliner? if so how does it compare?
- November 12, 2008 at 5:18 PM


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