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I have rarely met a political operative who believes that journalism is actually on the level.
They do not believe that journalism is agenda-free or that a journalist's only agenda is to report the truth without "fear or favor."
Journalists claim to have standards, but the political operative is hard-pressed to see what those standards might be. The only real standard seems to be to wallow in scandal and controversy. The slightest bobble, misstatement or evidence of human failing by a politician is pounced upon by the journalist with the same glee as a cat has pouncing upon a mouse.
To the operative, reporters are trouble, and the best solution to this trouble is to keep the candidates as far away from the press as possible except for scripted moments, such as speeches, and unavoidable moments that can be prepared for (i.e., rehearsed), such as debates.
There is a problem with this, however, as we look forward — and you are looking forward, aren't you? — to the presidential campaigns of 2016, which will begin this year. (Hillary Clinton told ABC's Barbara Walters that she "will look carefully at what" she thinks she "can do and make that decision" in 2014.)
Today anybody with access to the Internet can be a journalist. And keeping a candidate away from credentialed reporters does not solve as many problems as it used to.
What really got candidates in trouble in the most recent two presidential campaigns? Comments made by candidates who assumed no reporters were in the room.
The only big mistake Barack Obama made in his 2008 campaign was telling a crowd at what he thought was a private $1,000-per-person fundraiser in San Francisco that when small-town voters "get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."
The campaign had kept reporters away from the event, but Mayhill Fowler, an Obama supporter and donor, had gotten a ticket and captured Obama's remarks on her digital recorder. Aside from being an Obama partisan — Fowler had contributed the maximum $2,300 to Obama's campaign — Fowler viewed herself as a "citizen journalist" who wrote a blog for a website published by The Huffington Post.
Fowler knew that Obama might be damaged if his remarks got out, which is why she sat on her story for days. But after talking to a number of people, including her editor, she decided to publish Obama's comments.
The results were explosive. Clinton attacked Obama, saying she had grown up in a "churchgoing family" and "the people of faith" she knows "don't 'cling to' religion because they're bitter."
Clinton also told crowds that her father taught her to shoot when she was young. "Americans who believe in the Second Amendment believe it's a constitutional right," Clinton said. "Americans who believe in God believe it's a matter of personal faith."
Obama, in a rare moment of understatement, responded: "I didn't say it as well as I should have."
The Obama campaign was furious with Fowler, saying she had attended a donor-only, closed-press event and then had betrayed the campaign by acting like a journalist.
"We had a fundamental misunderstanding of my priorities," Fowler would later say. "Mine were as a reporter, not as a supporter. They thought I would put the role of supporter first."
"I'm 61," she said in another interview. "I can't believe I would be one of the people who's changing the world of media."
But she was. Typically, reporters are forbidden by their employers to contribute to political campaigns, but Fowler didn't view herself as operating under such conventional rules.
The campaign operatives had no defense for this except to screen audiences even more carefully than they already did or advise the candidates to say nothing that had not been preapproved. Which they already did. A lot.
But even that doesn't work in a world where everyone is a citizen journalist.
In May 2012, Mitt Romney held a $50,000-per-plate off-the-record fundraiser at a private home in Boca Raton, Fla., where he delivered what became known as his "47 percent" remarks.
He said: "There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right? There are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe that government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it. ... My job is not to worry about those people. I'll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives."
A bartender at the event surreptitiously recorded Romney. The video was obtained and published by David Corn of Mother Jones.
Again, the remarks were explosive. To some, they represented the remarks of an uncaring fat cat. Romney denied that but was forced to reply: "Well, um, it's not elegantly stated; let me put it that way."
When, after the campaign, Dan Balz asked Romney about his remarks for Balz's book "Collision 2012," Romney denied making the last part of the statement, even though it had been captured on videotape.
"Actually, I didn't say that," Romney told Balz. "That's how it began to be perceived, and so I had to ultimately respond to the perception, because perception is reality."
And in a world where perception is reality and everyone, including donors and bartenders, is a shaper of perception, what's a poor campaign operative to do?
Roger Simon is Politico's chief political columnist. His new e-book, "Reckoning: Campaign 2012 and the Fight for the Soul of America," can be found on Amazon.com, BN.com and iTunes. To find out more about Roger Simon and read features by other Creators writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Web page at www.creators.com.


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St. Petersburg is home to a number of world-class landmarks, and the cultural center of Russia. It also played a starring role in our Summer Russia and the Baltics itinerary. Visits to the renowned Hermitage Museum, the Winter Palace, Peter and Paul Fortress and a variety of cathedrals would all make for good stories on their own. But St. Petersburg also serves as a very good example of just how deep the focus on Destination Immersion® experiences runs within the Azamara experience.
The Azamara Quest docked in the heart of the city, and a range of tours were offered during our two-day stay. To get off the ship and roam freely in Russia, cruise passengers must be individual holders of a Russian visa. The easiest way to explore is through official shore excursions, which provide the group with an umbrella visa. Those without either cannot get off the ship – period.
Our first day in St. Petersburg was cloudy – not necessarily the weather you hope for when photographic iconic architecture. While viewing the golden onion domes and landmarks of the city, I could not help but wonder what images a nice sunny day would bring.
At night, a guitarist strummed the theme of "From Russia With Love" and a lively fireworks display could be seen in the distance.
The next day brought clear skies, and a very different feel to the city. The unusually warm weather was perfect for my Azamara Shore Excursions tour that day: "Walk Around Nevsky Prospect". Our local tour guide, Anastasia, provided helpful background as we drove through the city, and we were given three hours to roam freely.
Obviously, Azamara has no control over the weather. We got lucky there. But what we experienced was a direct result of an itinerary focused on two supremely important factors: passengers and destinations. More accurately, make that travelers and destinations, because I have never felt more like one at any other port of call in the world. Azamara did that by design – their cruises really are for those who love travel.
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In case you can't see it through your rose colored glasses, kids were rude and entitled in the "good ol' days" too. You boomers are infamous for flaunting the traditions of your parents. You committed crimes, and rejected the establishment. You writing treatise like 'Steal this book'. You invited terrible chemicals in to your bodies and called it spirtual growth. You flaunted your sexuality and begat a scourge of STDs across the country. Then you sold out and bought in with even more vim and vigor than your parents.
And funny enough, the world didn't end. And if you felt 'enttiled', well guess what: You WERE. Want to know why? The YOUNG are entitled to the future. By definition it belongs to them. As for the 'entitlement generation' you and yours embraced your entitlement and passed it on. If you don't like it, don't blame us. We didn't get a lot of choice in how we were raised.
tl;dr Your lawn. I'll stay off it now. Our interwebs. Will you do us the same favor?
For the same reason prisoners pay attention to the moods of the guards: If you don't, the consequences can be painful.
Thanks for answering Jeff`s question
Laws are relative topics, not absolutes. Using that standard, the DMCA IS a great law... when compared to Pro-IP and SOPA.
Of course, by that standard Newt Gingrich was a GREAT congressman when compared to Lamar Smith. That both of them suffer in comparison to most inanimate objects is simply not relevant.
I demand this quote be removed. This is blatant trafficking in copyrighted material.
Wait. Leave it up until we get ePARASITE passed.
Carry on.
That's cute! You think just because you possess the physical media you 'own' it.
Cosby was right! Kids say the darnedest things(tm)!
AC, I'm jealous. I'd really love to get paid to run counter-spin. Where can I sign up?
And refuted with the first line of your link:
"...so people can openly discuss or criticize government policy or conduct of public agents without fear of being charged with a seditious crime"
Let me repeat that for the cheap seats:
While 'eavesdropping' isn't 'treason' or 'rabble rousing', the obvious intent of this application of the law is to control the ability of people to refute, challenge, or highlight conduct issues of public officials.
That there is any 'grey area' in this debate boggles my mind. At its root, the question is "Does a police officers' right to 'privacy' outweigh the rights of a citizen to speak out on the policies or conduct of the government without fear of reprisal,".
Considering the Supreme Court is extremely reluctant to establish a blanket right to privacy this should be a no brainer.
I challenge you to find one case of infringement EVER filed on child porn. Just sayin.
Thanks for making that clear, AC: at 10:1 ROI (not counting non-box office profits), you can only pay back the people who took the BIG risks. I think we can all remember how risky this movie was to produce and how unlikely the audience was to embrace it.
But you're absolutely right, we just don't understand equitable accounting. Besides all those actors were just 'work for hire'... they don't deserve any of the benefits of original contribution. Like investors do.
The question I have is: Does this system work like the RIAA? If we asked Harrison Ford, would he say that he's never seen a residual check? Or is it just the Prowse's of the world who have neither clout, nor a legal staff, who catch the shaft?
This man's experience with the 'joys of going to the theater' is similar to his understanding of the copyright infringment issues: he once read some talking points.
"It's what? No the government's role is to create a stable structure in which commerce can exist, not to have anything to do with commerce itself"
-- Really? I didn't realize we were discussing the Aristotlian ideal of a government, or that I'd suddenly been transported to an Adam Smith fantasy 'laissez faire' land. The US government (and most others) specifically regulates taxes, imposes tariffs, trade restrictions and a number of other efforts in order to create a positive advantage for national commerce. When examined at thier core, most laws provide benefits explicitly for commerce. Heck, supporting commerce is in article 1 of NASA's charter.
"and its role is not to protect consumer rights, but to protect all the rights of its citizens without any prejudice to a subset."
Ahh. My mistake. I guess institutions like the FDA, FCC, OSHA, FAA don't exist to regulate the relationship between consumers and providers. And apparently some citizens are not consumers, so I guess they would be a 'prejudiced subset'. Modern governments exist to define thier own limits and the relationship between consumption and commerce. Everything else is window dressing.
"No, they really shouldn't. Not without the permission of everyone involved and certainly not with the help of the government without permission."
It's a good thing the government doesn't award research contracts and publish results. Or publish census data, or publish resources or economic reports or resource or labor statistics or national comparisons or reports on how the laws of other countries are impacting the sale of our intellectual property. By the way, many of those things use YOUR data (at the very least in aggregate form). Without your explicit permission. Would it be so unreasonable to consider this data would be accessible with at least the same level of controls as national tax data (which can be published in 'anonymous' groups small enough to identify individuals)? At no point did I suggest willy nilly letting a national database of genetic information be posted on teh web for any and all to utilize. Any effort to imply so is disingenous at best.
"Every good usage I can think of for such a database doesn't involve knowing who the person you are studying is."
Well, it's probably a good thing you're not in charge of research and development. But just because you can't think of a good reason doesn't mean there aren't any. Many of our most profound innovations are derived from someone else identifying uses for something someone else discovered and determined to be 'useless'.
"I choose not to give them another weapon against me thank you they are already significantly and sufficiently well armed."
Ok. So you have the 'fear'. But, like I said in my post
"what other consequences can you envision that would outweigh the conceivable benefits of a genuine database containing the minutae of the human genome?"
I'm not asking if you have an uneasy feeling in your gut. Your gut is full of excrement. You can choose to listen, but the advice typically stinks.
I seriously don't understand the resistance to this. It strikes me as similar to the 'fear' of a national ID plan [which typically is heralded by calls of 'the number of the beast!' or 'One World government'!]. I want to understand... but it strikes me as a Tofflerian 'Future Shock' evaluation rather than a rational stance, full of emotional but semantically null arguments that illustrate an fear of change.
Interesting card to play, old bean.
I�m surprised at the knee-jerk reaction to this article. I expect this forum to be a bit more nuanced when discussing subjects like this� especially when the crux of this argument is around the freedom of information. I can't help but think the question, and many other similar ones, will guide the next century and our definitions of ethical management, social responsibility, privacy, and utilization of technology to solve currently unsolvable issues. We might as well talk about it now.
Personally, I question the efficacy of a nation DNA database to solve crimes� but I suspect it would be a neutral to a slight positive impact in identifying previously anonymous criminals (although I think it would do wonders for identifying John/Jane Does). Assuming that no inviolate freedoms were abused, the act of identifying and addressing law breakers with some level of increased precision is a good thing. Further, data is useful. Non-anonymous data is even more useful. A comprehensive DNA database, tied to real world performance data (wage income, medical records, education history, employment, criminal participation) concievably opens up a whole new world of analysis to benefit any science defined by genetics or social dynamics.
Like virtually all scientific research, these tools and data can be used in fashions which the creators never anticipate. Many circumstances would lead to outcomes which are negative, and worst case scenarios ('the government will frame me!') are easy to identify and have an emotional argument which often can�t be answered by rational ones. However, there needs to be a rational argument divested of those challenges. Yes. It concerns me the government (any government!) would have this information. But the government already maintains enormous databases of similarly valid personally identifying information (PII). Most governments are already harvesting DNA from at least one class of the population� so the issue (in general) isn�t a problem with harvesting DNA for cross reference and analysis, but that it is widespread and without a mechanism to opt out.
I don�t dispute there are some very real forseeable consequences: It�s very likely the uninformed will attempt to use this information to pass legislation that is stupid� but that�s going to happen no matter what. The best we can hope for is better and more accurate information to make stupid, ill informed decisions from.
It�s conceivable this information could be used for eugenic experimentation. So can your gross physical attributes and birth records. Which are collected by virtually every civilized nation in the world.
The chance the government (or an �independent� employee) can frame you does increase. Slightly. Considering that I can collect the DNA for virtually anyone I have personal access to it�s not horribly challenging to plant that kind of evidence if you�re motivated. And as Assange has proven, if they want you they�ll get you. Pro tip: the real world doesn�t work like Hollywood. Stop watching so much �Chuck� and find a reason that wouldn�t appeal to Glenn Beck.
Private companies would work to use this information to drive their bottom line in any way they can. And they should. However, and this is a critical point, one of the roles of government is to facilitate improvements in commerce; and conversely to protect consumer rights. While there are sometimes egregious examples of governments failing to do this, I stipulate that most �civilized� countries do a remarkably good job at this. (If you disagree, I�d be happy to have a side bar conversation discussing the strides which have occurred over the previous century).
The question is why are some of this audience so violently against the collection of DNA? I�m not going to trot out the venerable clich�, �If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear,� we all know it�s a logical fallacy. However, what other consequences can you envision that would outweigh the conceivable benefits of a genuine database containing the minutae of the human genome? Don�t get me wrong, there are concerns and risks. They are inherent to any technological advance and the law of unintended consequences virtually guarantees there will be results no one could ever have anticipated.
However, when you open Pandora�s box there�s no going back. We have the capacity. There are valid reasons to do this work (even if the stated one isn�t probably the best). This means we�re going to get there eventually. To paraphrase Mike, information is both valuable and has a desire to be �free�. Efforts to pretend that this information somehow qualifies as �magic� and �inviolate� are self delusional, if not outright Luddish.
In a way that's true: there's very little scarier than a true democracy. Your average citizen isn't exactly a paragon of learning, morality, and ethical behavior. Government is often the brake against runaway self interest.
It's why this country has NEVER had a democracy on a national level. It's why the states initially had the power to select thier own senators, and the electoral college still exists: the unwashed masses as a group are stupid, greedy, self absorbed and reactionary.
As for the internet being a 'true democracy'... well, it does provide a 'voice' for anyone that wants one. But it also can make it look like a handful of voices are actually thousands. Like a democracy, it tends to push demagogues to the forefront of the conversation (because reasoned argument is BORING for an audience which is largely looking to be entertained).
So, in short, while I'm not one of the 'powers that be'... a 'true democracy' scares the bejesus outta me too.
With that said, I'm for Assange. Secrets have a power of thier own, and the belief you can act in secret tends to corrupt those who operate in that space. Does it concern me individuals may be endangered by the release of this information? Yes (although, probably not as much as a number of 'secret' informants). But in all honesty, I strongly doubt this is an issue of 'national security', but more one of 'national credibility'.
State department cables have a tendency to discuss our allies as well as our enemies, and often, the conversations can sound pretty similar... including intelligence on and analysis of thier capabilities. Not to mention, diplomats lie. Embarrassing, and sometimes tough to recover a workable relationship.
'Course, wouldn't be an issue if they operated with integrity at all times. Which is why I'm a fan of Wikileaks. If lack of integrity were an aberration we wouldn't need technological shield services. But it isn't, and we do.
I'm kinda staggered by the number of people that either didn't RTFA, or just assume they understand what this is about (and I include the author of this article apparently).
Karl, while I understand where you were going, you totally misrepresented the purpose and intent of this technology. This isn't 'crime prediction software'. You can't hook this tool up to Google, and suddenly have an email pop out and say "Go to the corner of 12th st and Main. Wait three minutes, then arrest the teen with the red ball cap on. He's going to rob a liquor store tomorrow."
This is a predictive analysis system. Kinda like the ones that hospitals are starting to use to flag potential child abuse visitation patterns. The intent is to actually USE the hundreds of thousands of individual case histories to try and rationalize the present, and perhaps, just perhaps get a little better at helping kids in the future.
Does this tool have the potential to be abused? Sure. But in an environment where Corrections systems dollars are thin, isn't it in our best interest to use analytics to determine where to spend time and money? Otherwise, the situation remains unchanged: a bunch of overworked, underpaid civil servants poring over hard copy and relying on thier 'intuition' on who deserves the most help, and what help to give them.
Dunno about you, but my gut is full of . It's not the place that literally life and death decisions should be made... at least, not if you can help it.
Because, as was pointed out several times, this is a _juvenile_ effort. The intent is to identify 'at risk' individuals and attempt to intervene in thier development.
The unstated assumption is that if you can mitigate the potential for criminal behavior in the formative years, the behavior will not persist in adulthood.
I gotta say, I hung out here for at least a year before I published my first anonymous comment. I then posted perhaps another dozen over the next year. I recently registed, and now have a profile, but it was only because you made it worth my while... (and tickled my vanity, by allowing me to see all of my anonymous posting tied to my email address --).
There were a number of places I used to comment, which have eliminated anonymous commenting. I don't comment there. And frankly, I don't visit them as much anymore... because it offends me to give that business something (my comments, which have a debatable value) and be charged for it.
Ah, but registration is free you say? Ah, but it takes me time to complete the form. And, it provides my information to the business, a resource which is often exploited for economic gain. Instead, I don't comment... because I'm not paying you so that I can add value to your product. Eff off.
So, thanks Techdirt. I dig you guys. It seems like every time I turn around, you're doing something to make this place a little friendlier, a little better, and darnit, it seems like you like me, you really like me.
I however will keep asking: can we get a thumb up/thumb down and a user configurable option to set thresholds for hiding strong down comments?
Hahahahaha. The future is being designed by and for the control freaks. Without trying to sound like a paranoid teabagger (tea partier, whatever) the days of anonymity are rapidly approaching thier end.
Today, most forms of 'anonymity' are public 'anonymity'. Unless you take countermeasures, anyone with a court order is likely going to be able to figure out who posted it.
Ahhhh, Mike. Did you get suckered, or do you really think this lawsuit is about who has the better product?
These lawsuits have very little to do with merit at all. This is about advertising. The commercials are expensive to produce, expensive to air, and have many associated costs every time it shows. But it costs you nothing if your commercial is shown on CNN or network news. It costs you nothing if a blog links to a YouTube video of your commercial. It costs you nothing to have the 'public' hold an 'informed' conversation on the merits of your product.
The art of the press release and the lawsuit go hand in hand. If a lawsuit is accompanied by a press release, it often is a part of a greater marketing strategy. It's also fairly cost effective, especially when you consider the company already funds a litigation team. A few filing fees, and WHAM you've got a million dollar ad campaign handed to you. Gratis. Free.
Even better, in mass market media, the conflict is the story. Almost no one runs follow up stories when the lawsuit settles... so win, lose, draw, it cost you some lawyer time you were already paying for. What did you get in response? If you're lucky, a full news cycle of running your commercial for free and people genuinely discussing your product. If you're unlucky, no one cares. The subliminal impression is the company filing has been wronged (reinforcing the key message), and the competitor is a liar (reducing the power of their ad buy).
In their defense, it's free, largely high quality word of mouth advertising. It also reduces the perceived quality of their competitors, while improving the perception of their own. When name recognition is often the most important factor in a buying decision, a few repetitions may be the difference between a new customer. Investing in the network on the other hand costs a fortune, and doesn't yield significant improvements in customer base… because more often than not it's not about offering the best product... it's about generating the best buzz.
And… the best reason of all… they do it because it works.


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It has been a very exciting few weeks in the Perl 6 world with regard to database access. mberends++ just wrote a nice blog post about how Perl 6 support for DBI is ramping up with work on MiniDBI (formerly FakeDBI). Multiple developers recently made great progress on PostgreSQL drivers and have been improving the Parrot interface to libpq, Pg.pir .
I have also been dutifully hacking on PL/Perl6, which embeds Rakudo Perl 6 into your PostgreSQL datbase via PL/Parrot, and just recently merged the plperl6 branch, which adds the first basic support for PL/Perl 6. Here is how it currently works:
- You must first install a recent version of Parrot and Rakudo Perl 6. I develop with Parrot trunk and Rakudo master because I often need very recent changes/bugfixes
- You will need a moderately recent version of PostgreSQL. PL/Parrot has been known to work with versions as old as 8.3.8, but I mostly develop on the master branch, so 9.x will probably work best
- When you type "make install" for Rakudo Perl 6, you will see that it installs a file called "perl6.pbc" into the lib/$version/languages/perl6 directory of the Parrot installation that Rakudo was configured with.
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export PERL6PBC=/Users/leto/git/rakudo/parrot_install/lib/2.5.0-devel/languages/perl6/perl6.pbc
A PBC file is Parrot bytecode, and the perl6.pbc file basically bundles all of Rakudo Perl 6 into a single file. You can play around with the Rakudo Perl 6 REPL by running:
$ parrot $PERL6PBC
which is pretty much the exact same thing as running the perl6 binary in your $PATH.
When you compile PL/Parrot with the $PERL6PBC environment variable set, it automatically creates a separate Parrot interpreter with the perl6.pbc bytecode loaded, so that Perl 6 code can be executed.
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Currently PL/Perl 6 tests are not run by default, they have their own Makefile target: test_plperl6 This is what the output of "make test_plperl6" looks like currently, on commit 44a985f123 of the perl6_args branch.
We run a total of 9 tests, 6 of which correctly run Perl 6 code and pass. You will notice that all the failing tests are relating to passing arguments into Rakudo from PostgreSQL, which is what I am currently trying to get to work. Currently I am passing a Parrot ResizablePMCArray of the arguments to a Rakudo function and executing it, but the function can't seem to see it. My guess is that Rakudo wants native datatypes and not Parrot datatypes. If you know how to create Rakudo datatypes from PIR, please let me know :) I promise you will -Ofun.
What does PL/Perl 6 look like? Here is a nice example of a PL/Perl6 function which calculates the sum of all Fibonacci numbers <= 100:
CREATE FUNCTION test_fibonacci_plperl6(integer) RETURNS int LANGUAGE plperl6 AS $$
[+] (1, 1, *+* ... 100)
If you are interested in hacking on PL/Perl 6, PL/Parrot or anything related, come join us in #plparrot on freenode, join the mailing list and fork us on github !


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This month, poker players from around the world will flood Casino Barriere d'Enghien-les-Bains for the World Series of Poker Europe. The 100-year-old casino on the outskirts of Paris will provide the backdrop for the 2013 WSOP Europe's first High Rollers no limit Hold'em tournament. Eight WSOP gold bracelets are up for grabs at the event dubbed "Baguettes and Bracelets; Champagne and Cash".
Poker at the lakeside casino will be a nice change of pace, especially for online players who stare at computer screens day in and day out. WSOP Europe hopefuls will stay at one of two hotels on the property, Grand-Hotel-Barriere and Hotel du Lac. They're famous for their geothermal hot springs, and have become popular spa destinations. Tourists have long been drawn here for the healing power the baths are known for. When a table massage just won't cut it, the geothermal hot springs as well as an assortment of soothing and rejuvenating body treatments are waiting at the spa.
What better way to shed some tension before grinding all day in WSOP Europe's eight tournament events and non-stop cash games. The WSOP Europe runs Oct. 11 – 25, giving players who elect to stick it out two full weeks to take in the surroundings. Expect to see a long list of top name contenders vying for the money, the title, and to move up the rankings in the race for player of the year.
The High Roller Tournament will start near the end of week two, followed only by the Main Event. Camera's will be present to broadcast both games on ESPN and Eurosport TV. Televised tournaments will be held in the casino's newly renovated 500 seat theatre. Most of the tournament play will take place in a convention center across from the hotel. Last year, Phil Hellmuth won the 2012 WSOP Europe Main Event, his 13th bracelet, and $1.4 million.
Players competing in the new High Rollers no limit Hold' em Tournament, will pay a €25,600 buy-in, or about $34,000. The ones who bust out early have the option to rebuy, and everyone can add on. Other bracelet events include the Ladies Texas Hold 'em(No-Limit), Mixed-Max No limit Hold ' em and Pot Limit Omaha.
When the games let out, there's a lot to see in this stylish two-story casino. There's a catch though, the casino has a dress code. Tee-shirts, shorts , sneakers and open toe shoes are out. Cross jeans off the list if your plans include a bar or restaurant. I wonder where the casino stands on ball caps?
Make it to the casino floor, and you'll find several variations on the game Roulette, Blackjack, Stud Poker, Punto Banco and an abundance of slot machines. Gamble enough and receive a personal invitation to the exclusive Salon des Princes. The salon has a bar and offers a quiet space for high-stakes gamblers to play away from the commotion on the casino floor. In season, the salon has access to a beautiful terrace overlooking the lake.
With less than two weeks until the games begin, the WSOP is literally counting down the minutes with a live counter on its website. Casino Barriere d'Enghien-les-Bains has a poker site of its own. In 2010, it joined the world of internet gaming, and Barriere Poker.fr. went online.
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Thank you all so much for your condolences regarding the loss of my sister. It helps a lot to know so many people are thinking of and praying for me and my family during this difficult time. Love, Amy
A sister is a gift to the heart,
a friend to the spirit,
a golden thread to the meaning of life.
— Isadora James
Living a Nightmare
It's been two weeks since I received the devastating news in the middle of the night that my sister died in a car accident. As the coroner said the words over the phone, I felt like I was living a nightmare. Through the seemingly never-ending river of tears that night I had to ask my husband Jody, "Is this really happening?"
I waited about two hours before calling my parents in Michigan. I wanted them to get as much sleep as they could before I uttered the words that would turn their world upside-down.
That was the worst night of my life.
Some days I still think that this all must be a horrible, awful dream and I pray that I will wake up. Yet I don't. I am already awake.
The Reality
It doesn't seem possible that my little sister Carrie Scislowicz — my only sister — could be taken from this world at the age of 31. She was just really getting comfortable with who she was and she was making a difference in the world.
The truth is she'd been making a difference in the world for years. Carrie entered into Narcotics Anonymous at the age of 19. Throughout the years, she'd overcome many obstacles in her life and inspired those who met her. Narcotics Anonymous became her second family and she was instrumental in so many people's recoveries.
My sister — who earned her law degree three years ago — had been working as an advocate for people with developmental disabilities and she was great at her job. She not only advocated for the people who were her clients, but she also helped friends and friends of friends to get the assistance they needed for themselves or their loved ones.
She was compassionate, silly, intelligent, passionate, fun, witty, sarcastic, daring and loving. She was so amazing.
Emotional Rollercoaster
In the past two weeks I've gone through the gamut of emotions — sadness, anger, rage, confusion, disbelief, guilt. I expect this to go on for a while. It still feels so surreal. Although I've seen her totaled car, read the accident report, talked to the coroner, planned her memorial service, delivered her eulogy, buried her cremated remains, and packed up and moved her belongings from her apartment to my garage, I am still having a hard time accepting this is real.
It wasn't supposed to happen this way.
The Broken Puzzle
I spent some time at the cemetery this morning talking to Carrie. It felt so foreign to sit there in the grass, talking to the ground while the tears poured down, down, down.
I'm trying to make sense of it all, but it doesn't make sense. It's like trying to put together a puzzle with pieces belonging to several different puzzles. They just don't fit.
A Long, Winding Road
In less than two weeks there will be another service to remember Carrie, this time in Michigan. Until that is complete, I don't feel like I can truly begin to heal. I can only process so much at one time.
The sadness washes over me in waves. I grieve until it hurts so much that my mind must turn it off for a while. I take a break. I try to do normal things. Today I played in the leaves with the kids. And that was good.
I don't know what tomorrow will bring, but I am thankful for the so many yesterdays I got to share with Carrie throughout the years. She was so much more than a sister to me. She was my best friend.
She won't be forgotten.
Carrie, Ava, Julian and me – Halloween 2009
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[Editor's Note: We're pleased to welcome Frank Catalano, a veteran of the Pacific Northwest technology scene, as a GeekWire columnist. His new "Practical Nerd" column will appear regularly.]
If you want evidence of how single-purpose gadgets are converging on sleek tablet form, you need look no further than the lowly airline in-flight entertainment device.
Last week, Alaska Airlines announced its new digEplayer. I had the opportunity to use the new model on two five-hour flights between Los Angeles and Washington DC.
The digEplayer, when it was originally introduced in 2003, was revolutionary for in-flight entertainment. Until that point, airlines had to wire relatively heavy and expensive dedicated systems into aircraft seatbacks to provide movie (and sometimes other entertainment) choices to passengers. The first digEplayer, the model 5500 – developed by Alaska Airlines' baggage handler Bill Boyer – had a roughly six-hour battery life, a boxy-thick early DVD player design, and was, marvelously, hand-held. If you had hands like the Hulk.
I was impressed enough to give it my Critic's Pick as "Best Post-Bust Tech Startup" in Seattle Weekly's Best of Seattle 2004, describing it as a "trade-paperback sized gadget … with a large hard disk, color LCD screen and built-in stand." Yet the concept of a handheld digital video-on-demand device was still so foreign at the time that flight attendants took to describing it to passengers as a kind of DVD player.
Back then, the digEplayer 5500 was 2.4 pounds, held ten movies, three TV shows and several hours of music. And it cost $10 for a cross-country flight.
Eight years later, Alaska Airlines' new digEplayer L7 is so light that parent company digEcor's website doesn't even list a weight, and on my flights last week it held 18 movies, 18 television shows, eleven sports programs (video and audio), 25 music videos, ten games, eight kids' cartoons and a fully functional web browser with WiFi. Its battery life is 20 hours. And in an iPad-saturated world, flight attendants didn't have to explain what it is.
So is it worth shelling out a similarly advanced price of $14 for a transcontinental flight?
The answer is a qualified yes. Both the current and original digEplayers have seven-inch screens (a model that Alaska used more recently, the XT, had an eight-inch screen), but this digEplayer has a touch screen and a much smaller, well, handprint — that is, the device is both smaller and thinner than its predecessors. It also has, aside from the greatly expanded content and web browser, a great display and good sound (with two headset jacks for sharing). It also probably gets current movies faster than they'd be available on iTunes, Amazon or Netflix.
But there are a handful (sorry) of drawbacks. All content navigation uses the same, increasingly tired, "cover flow" metaphor — there is no "list" option to avoid having to flip through multiple screens to see all the choices. The touch controls are nice, but imprecise when doing fine tasks like adjusting volume with the on-screen slider. Inexplicably, audio-only music has completely disappeared from the entertainment selections. Audio channels for classical, alternative or a half-dozen other genres are gone. The only music that remains is in the form of music videos.
For the music, all I can imagine is that someone at Alaska Airlines decided that everyone already owns an iPod or iPhone-like device, so including music was no longer necessary. But, if they do and they travel with their device, renting a digEplayer is likely also unnecessary. Recent models also play video. Dropping music was a poor decision for those of us who travel with as few devices as possible, or prefer variety on long flights.
The other major digE-pointment is the web browser and service. While the browser itself works well, there is an additional charge for Internet service from Gogo. On cross-country flights, that rivals the digEplayer rental fee. It seems Alaska or Gogo could at least promotionally bundle the first hour of web access with the digEplayer rental. And the digEplayer's virtual keyboard is oddly crippled. During a Gogo promo in which Twitter was free, I was surprised to neither find an apostrophe or hashtag, making my in-flight tweets both illiterate and isolated in the Twitterverse. (@digEplayer did respond to my childlike tweets that both keys are being added in a future software upgrade.)
The new digEplayer is worth the rental if you want a wide variety of video/web options and don't already travel with an iPad, laptop or other device that has both long battery life and lots of pre-loaded digital entertainment. Ultimately, the new digEplayer is a tablet computer, sporting many of its advances. But it's also increasingly at risk of being made obsolete by the very technology it embraces.


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Franklin, Ind., November 23, 2013 – Franklin College quarterback Johnny West hit wide receiver Kendal Butler over the middle for a 35-yard touchdown with 17.7 seconds left to lift the Grizzlies to a 17-10 win over Washington University in St. Louis in the first round of the NCAA Playoffs Saturday on a windy day in Franklin, Ind.
The Bears, playing the second NCAA Playoff game of the program's 117-year history, finished the season with an 8-3 record. Franklin improved to 8-3 and will face No. 6 University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Saturday, Nov. 30, at Noon.
Weather conditions, which included temperatures around 32 degrees at kickoff and winds gusting as strong as 28 miles per hour throughout the game, made kicking difficult. With the Bears punting into the wind in the fourth quarter, Franklin started its game-winning drive at the Washington U. 48-yard line with 49.9 seconds remaining and the score tied at 10.
"I don't think we played guarded at all," head coach Larry Kindbom said. "The wind is affecting both teams. We just played Washington University football."
After a Grizzlies' first down took the ball to the Bears' 35-yard line with 29 seconds remaining, Franklin dialed up a post route. With defenders hanging on, Butler reached for the goal line and was awarded the game-winning touchdown.
The Washington U. offense took over with 10.9 seconds left at its own 20, and senior quarterback Eric Daginella rushed up the middle for 16 yards. Daginella hit sophomore running back Cody Ratermann on a screen with 3.4 seconds remaining, and Ratermann ran for 24 yards before attempting a lateral, which was deflected and recovered by Franklin to end the game.
"They're a fast team. We haven't seen a lot of teams this year that are that quick and fly around the field that fast. They are great in pursuit defensively," Daginella said.
The Bears' defense forced three turnovers against a Franklin offense that averaged 48.6 points per game and 360.5 passing yards per game. West was held to 262 yards, two touchdowns and two interceptions on 35-64 passing.
"We watched a lot of film this week… and we noticed that [West] has a really good connection with all of his receivers," junior linebacker Fade Oluokun said. "Our goal this week was to try and disrupt that as much as possible through coverage and through pressure, and I think we did a pretty good job of doing that."
Neither team could get anything going offensively early in the game, and Daginella was picked off by Franklin's Zack Corpe at the Bears' 38-yard line with 1:35 remaining in the first quarter. The Grizzlies scored the game's first points nine plays later on a five-yard touchdown pass from West to Kyle Linville on fourth-and-one with 14:19 remaining in the second quarter.
With 1:35 left in the second quarter, senior Tate Byers picked off West at the Bears' 43-yard line to give the offense a chance to score before halftime. Daginella rushed for 13 yards on third-and-two to extend the drive and hit wide receiver Kevin Hammerlund for a nine-yard completion on the next play. The Bears drove to the Franklin 13-yard line before settling for a 30-yard Alex Hallwachs field goal as time expired to go into the half trailing Franklin 7-3.
After an Alec Stanke punt following the Bears' first drive of the second half pinned Franklin at its own 19-yard line, Oluokun forced a fumble on an end-around, which the Bears recovered at the Grizzlies' 14. On the next play, Ratermann snuck out of the backfield and Daginella found him wide open for the 14-yard touchdown pass. Hallwachs put through the extra point to give Washington U. a 10-7 lead, its first of the game, with 10:40 to play.
Sophomore cornerback Quincy Marting came up with a big interception with 8:36 to play on a deep ball over the middle of the field at the Washington U. 7-yard line which he returned to the Bears' 32.
"We put ourselves in a stem so that [West] wouldn't know what coverage we were in. I just dropped back to play a deep half and just happened to be in the right place at the right time," Marting said.
After a holding penalty and sack, the Bears punted on 4th-and-20 and gave the ball back to Franklin at their 43-yard line with 6:34 to play. The Grizzlies drove down the field to the Bears' 19-yard line, but Byers broke up a third-down pass to force Franklin to settle for three points. Kicker Mike Wood put through a 36-yard field goal to tie the game at 10 with 4:33 to play.
Washington U. could not get anything going offensively, and Franklin took over at their own 39-yard line with 2:28 left in the fourth quarter. Senior defensive back Andrew Skalman broke up a third-down pass with 1:45 remaining to force a punt. The offense took over at its own 24-yard line with 1:34 to play.
Daginella quickly completed passes to freshman Zach Strittmatter and junior Chris Levine for a Washington U. first down to the 35-yard line with 1:18 remaining. Two incompletions and a sack, though, forced the Bears' punt that set up the last Franklin drive.
"I think we played good football during the course of the year, and one thing we've tried to build in our program over the course of the years is playing a good schedule. We want to play the best teams that we can play out there," Kindbom said. "Our players were pretty deserving of certainly being there."
Daginella was 13-for-27 with 133 yards and a TD through the air. Marting had a career-high 12 tackles, an interception and a pass break-up, while Oluokun added a season-high 12 tackles, three tackles for loss, a sack and a forced fumble.
Bear Notebook: The Washington University Class of 2014 graduates with an overall record of 26-15 (.634) … WUSTL had an advantage in time of possession of 32:42-27:18 … The Bears converted 2 of 18 third downs offensively … All 10 Washington U. points came off Franklin turnovers … The Bears are now 0-2 all-time in the postseason.


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The purpose of this handout is to provide you with general information about the routine care of your dog's surgical incision. If your dog's incision requires special care, your veterinarian will discuss the details of this care with you.
Are there different methods of closing a surgical incision?
Yes. If a surgical incision extends through several layers of tissue, each layer will be closed separately. Therefore, there may be multiple rows of sutures in a single incision site. The surface or skin layer of your dog's surgical incision may have been closed with surgical glue or with one of several different types of sutures and suture patterns. The suture pattern that is used to close the skin depends on the length of the incision and how much tension is present across the incision, or on the preference of the veterinary surgeon.
As long as there is minimal tension on the surgical incision, your dog's veterinarian will use regular suture material and a standard suture pattern. In these cases, the stitches may be placed on the skin surface using a non-absorbable suture material, or they may be buried beneath the skin surface using absorbable suture material. Some surgeons prefer to use surgical glue or stainless steel staples to close routine incisions.
If the surgical procedure involved removal of a large mass, repair of a large wound, or debridement (cutting away) of infected or dead tissue, the loss of tissue may mean that the surgical incision is under a lot of tension. Excessive tension across an incision line may cause the wound to gape open and will delay healing. To minimize the tension on the incision line, your veterinarian may have used a special tension-relieving suture pattern or a type of skin suture called a 'stent suture'. If the surgical site was contaminated or infected before surgery, a surgical drain may have been placed within the incision to drain away any infectious material.
Are the instructions for care of different types of surgical incisions the same?
" The general instructions for incision care are the same for all surgical incisions. "
The general instructions for incision care are the same for all surgical incisions.
Under no circumstances should a dog with a fresh surgical incision be allowed to run off leash. Restrict your dog's activity for a period of 7-14 days, to allow the incision to begin healing. When you do take your dog outdoors, keep him or her on a short leash, and avoid long walks. Do not allow your dog to jump, rough-house with other dogs, or engage in any strenuous activity that could cause excessive stretching of the surgical incision, especially in the first few days after the operation. Excessive activity may cause the stitches to break apart, or may cause the incision to start bleeding.
Your veterinarian may prescribe cage rest or confinement in a small room in certain circumstances.
"Do not bathe your dog or allow the incision to get wet."
Do not bathe your dog or allow the incision to get wet. Never apply any cream, ointment, disinfectant or other substance to the incision unless specifically instructed to do so by your veterinarian. In particular, NEVER clean the incision with hydrogen peroxide or alcohol since these products will damage the cells and delay healing.
Do not allow your dog to lick or scratch at the incision, as there is a danger that the dog may pull out the stitches or may introduce an infection into the incision.
As long as the incision is not bandaged, inspect it at least twice daily. If a surgical drain was placed in the incision, you may be instructed to clean the drain several times per day.
What should the incision look like?
The incision should normally be clean and the edges should be touching each other. The skin should be a normal or slightly reddish-pink color. It is not unusual for the incision to become slightly redder during the first few days, as healing begins to take place.
In pale-skinned dogs, bruising is often seen around the surgical site. This may not appear until a few days after the operation and in some cases can seem excessive in comparison to the size of the incision. This is due to seepage of blood under the skin edges and it is normal.
In some cases, a small amount of blood may seep intermittently from a fresh incision for up to twenty-four hours, especially if the animal is active.
When should I become concerned?
You should be concerned and should contact the hospital immediately if you see any of the following at the surgical site:
- Continuous dripping or seepage of blood or other fluids from the incision
- Intermittent blood seepage that continues for more than twenty-four hours.
- Any swellings, excessive redness of the skin, unpleasant smells or discharge.
What should I do if my dog is licking its wound or chewing the stitches?
In the first few days after surgery, your dog instinctively may try to clean the operation site by licking. The incision may become itchy as the wound heals and the fur begins to grow back in. Your dog may respond to this itchiness by licking or chewing. It is a misconception that dog's saliva is somehow antibacterial or will promote healing of a wound.
"It is a misconception that dog's saliva is somehow antibacterial or will promote healing of a wound."
If your dog chews or licks excessively, there is a danger of the stitches being pulled out or of infection being introduced into the wound. If your dog persists in licking its incision, you may have to purchase an Elizabethan collar to prevent this behavior. Not surprisingly, many dogs find these collars strange at first and will attempt to remove them. However, after a short period most pets will settle down and tolerate wearing the collar. It is better to keep the collar on all the time, rather than to take it on and off. It only takes a few seconds of chewing for a dog to undo its stitches or damage the surgery site. If your dog does succeed in removing any of its stitches then please call the hospital as soon as possible.
When do the stitches need removing?
If your dog's skin incision was closed with sutures that were buried beneath the skin surface, they do not require removal. If your dog's incision has non-dissolving skin stitches, stainless steel sutures, or stent sutures, they should usually be removed seven to fourteen days after the operation; the actual time depends on the type of surgery performed. Your veterinarian will tell you when the sutures can be removed from your dog.
When can my dog resume normal activities?
This will depend upon the type of operation your dog underwent. In the case of a minor procedure involving a small incision, some restriction of exercise should be maintained until a few days after the skin stitches are removed. However, if a major operation has been performed or a large incision is present, a longer period of convalescence will be required, which may involve keeping your dog housebound for a number of weeks. Your veterinarian will give you detailed instructions on how long you should restrict your dog's activities following surgery.
Is there any special advice that I need to follow to care for my dog's incision?
What follows below is a checklist of things that you may need to do, depending on your dog's particular case:
O Administer the prescribed medication(s) ______________________________________ as directed on the label.
O Clean the discharges that accumulate around the surgical drain at least twice daily.
O Bring your dog in for removal of the surgical drain in ____________ days.
O Confine your dog to a crate for the next ___________ days.
O Other _______________________________________________________________________


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Right now, NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab is at the center of one of the most ambitious missions to Mars ever undertaken by humanity. Tonight, they'll be landing a sophisticated robotic rover on Mars, the Mars Science Lab (MSL) Curiosity, and waiting breathlessly as the rover makes its final descent to the surface. Very few people are allowed at JPL today, but luckily you're one of them. Last month, I took an extensive tour of JPL along with thousands of other people who came out to the JPL Open House, a free annual event where the facility opens its doors to the public.
I got photographs of all the places where Curiosity was born, trained, and is today being controlled during these final hours as it approaches its destination. Take the tour and see where Curiosity came from!
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JPL may be one of the most futuristic institutes on the planet, but it's located in a wild canyon in Pasadena, California, surrounded by nature.
Welcome to the Spacecraft Assembly Facility, where there's an enormous warehouse clean room where every spacecraft in JPL's history has been assembled, including MSL.
The room is currently empty because its latest creation, MSL, is on a very important mission right now.
Every single NASA/JPL mission logo is on the wall — here are a few of the earliest.
Another view of the clean room.
Equipment for building the rover.
Outside, an enormous container of liquid nitrogen looms over visitors.
Welcome to Mission Control, where today the whole MSL team is gathered to work on MSL's landing tonight.
It's a pretty cushy room, full of work stations arranged in a U-shape, with giant screens mounted on the walls so people can watch mission updates second-by-second.
Dimly-lit except for the display screens, the room is also highlighted in matte black furniture, making the whole thing look pretty science fictional.
This is where it's all happening right now.
Here's the In Situ Instrument Lab, where the MSL drove over Mars-like terrain so that scientists could test to see how it would handle rocks, sand, and other obstacles once it arrived on the Red Planet.
Inside, you can see the staging area, full of sand and rocks.
It looks sort of like a Hollywood sound stage.
But these simulated obstacles are going to be very real challenges for Curiosity when it starts roving on the Martian surface.
A model of part of the MSL's electronics module.
A huge poster hanging outside one of JPL's buildings expresses the lab's belief that humans might not be the only life in the universe.
Now let's visit one of the machine shops at JPL, where all the parts for the spacecraft are made with insane levels of precision.
A high-precision cutter that uses ultrathin electrified wires to cut.
The best vending machine in the entire universe — stocked with tools.
A few items on offer in the vending machine.
More machines.
More machines.
More machines.
This device is used to map points on physical objects to points in the computer designs used to create them. Basically, it's a way of checking to be sure the components of the rover match the design specifications.
Specs on that machine.
Here's another device for checking physical parts against software designs. Here you can see the machine is measuring a wheel, and in the background you can see the computer design of the wheel.
Tomorrow's rover? A robotic wall crawler, its specialized treads modeled on sticky chameleon feet, might be incorporated into future planetary rover.
Another future direction for planetary rovers — here the boxy shape is actually separated from the two wheels you see behind. The wheels can roll down a huge crater on a line, while sending data back to the other part of the rover. This future rover might be very useful for studying the craters and canyons of Mars.
From Earth to Mars, the MSL has had quite a crossing.


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Punch Bowl Cake
This recipe was created when I was trying to use up leftovers. You can make it with cookies or bananas and pudding...anything goes!—Patricia Hardin, Seymour, Tennessee
- 1 package white cake mix (regular size)
- 3-1/2 cups cold milk
- 2 packages (3.4 ounces each) instant vanilla pudding mix
- 1 can (20 ounces) crushed pineapple, drained
- 1-1/2 cups sweetened shredded coconut
- 1/3 cup chopped pecans
- 1 carton (8 ounces) frozen whipped topping, thawed
- Additional chopped pecans, optional
- 1. Bake cake according to package directions, using a greased 13-in. x 9-in. baking pan. Cool cake completely on a wire rack. In a large bowl, whisk milk and pudding mixes for 2 minutes. Let stand 2 minutes or until soft-set. Fold in pineapple; cover and refrigerate. Fold coconut and nuts into whipped topping.
- 2. To assemble, cut the cake into 1-in. cubes; place half in a 5-qt. punch bowl. Top with half of the pudding mixture and half of the whipped topping mixture. Repeat layers. Sprinkle with additional pecans if desired. Cover and refrigerate until serving.
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Chantecaille La Baleine Blue for eyesI've already had the face palette, so now I have the pair. Aren't they just gorgeous? I love Chantecaille's palettes, as you know I own a good few. Of course they are almost too pretty to use, so will be sitting in my drawer untouched for a while yet. Why buy something so expensive just to look at it you ask? That's collectors for you. :) I use plenty other cosmetics I own, but some of these I just can't touch, they'd be spoilt immediately. Maybe I'll be able to buy a back up for these like I did for my Protected Paradise palettes and then I'll use them. :) I know, I'm crazy.
Tuesday, 30 June 2009
Look what came in the post today!
I've been shopping on eBay again and this is what I bought:
Saturday, 27 June 2009
Look what came in the post today!
Other than Mac MSFs I also collect Guerlain Meteorites Voyage powders (as well as Meteorites balls, as you've already seen in a previous post here) and I've recently bought a limited edition brand new in box compact on Ebay for just £39.99! :) These compacts retail for about £100, so this is a great price, especially as the one I bought isn't available anymore in shops. It is the Winter Radiance compact. I've already got a refill in the same shade, but it is lovely to have the proper compact. Here's a picture of my new Guerlain Meteorites Voyage powder: And this is my whole collection of Meteorites powders (plus my Sheer Terracotta Powder which has the same design). Aren't they just gorgeous? :)
Sunday, 21 June 2009
MSF love
I've recently acquired two new MSFs, thanks to some lovely ladies on MUA. My new additions are Shooting Star and Naked You. I'd already had a Naked You, but it arrived broken in the post, so I needed to get a new one. :)
Naked You MSF
Shooting Star MSF
And this is my MSF collection to date. I am still missing Stereo Rose, and I have a couple of back-ups (the broken Naked You, another Light Flush - my favourite MSF) and a New Vegas which I want to swap as I don't use it that much). If anyone out there has a Stereo Rose they don't want, please let me know! :)
Edited to add: My new Soft and Gentle MSF came in the post today (sorry, no picture) and I've managed to buy a Stereo Rose MSF from a lady on MUA, so eagerly awaiting its arrival. I will update my collection picture when it arrives. :)
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Thursday, 18 June 2009
MAC Color Craft collection preview!
I've managed to buy two items from the upcoming Mac Color Craft collection thanks to my friends on Ebay. :) Cheek & Cheerful mineralized blush came today in the post and I also got Crazy haute lipglass. They are both lovely and pigmented, Cheek & Cheerful is a lovely bronzy colour (with gold veining and lots of shimmer) and Crazy Haute is a lovely dark pink colour. The lipglass is very different to the Sugarsweet collection's tri-colour lipglasses, partly because it is pre-mixed, and partly because it is really nice and pigmented. I'm really looking forward to this collection coming out as I love mineralized stuff. :) See product images and swatches below. Enjoy!
Sunday, 14 June 2009
Buy one get one free on Dior palettes! (Not really)
I went shopping today (I do that rather a lot) and this is what I bought:
5 colour Dior designer palettes in Navy and Nude Pink
Collection 2000 Mosaic Glow powder in Gold
The reason I ended up getting one Dior palette free is that after paying for the first one I realised that I had enough points on my Advantage Card to get the other one absolutely free (thank you Boots)! Which is just as well because I couldn't decide between the Nude Pink and the Navy palette, but as I'd just bought the Electric Lights palette which is blue, I opted for the pink one, but then HAD to go back for the other one. I absolutely love the shimmery powder on the top right of the palette, both shades are gorgeous and very wearable. To be honest, I loved the other two palettes too (nude and smokey), so will need to keep an eye out for those on MUA and eBay. :) I already own a lot of Dior 5-colour-palettes and I really like them, so am really looking forward to using these too. Here's my collection of Dior palettes as of April this year:
The other thing I bought is Collection 2000's Mosaic Glow powder in Gold. I already own one powder similar to this, which is a bronzy colour, and gives nice glowing finish, but it's not really a bronzer (which is just as well as I don't really do bronzers). This one is more gold in colour and gives a lovely shimmery finish, very nice. See close-up and swatch below:
Saturday, 13 June 2009
Look what came in the post today!
As I said, I buy a lot of make up from Ebay. :) So today I received one of my recent purchases: Guerlain Meteorites Pearly White in shade 04 Pastel White. This is an Asia exclusive, so bought it from Singapore. :) I already have a big collection of Meteorite powder balls and pressed powders, as the picture below shows, although I have aquired a couple of them since that was taken 2 months ago. I just love them, love their scent and the fine powders. So today I'm a very happy woman. :) I'll leave you with a picture of my Meteorites collection (as of April - I need to take new pictures of my stash). Enjoy! :)
This week's look
As I have mentioned before, I have a rather large make up collection (more on that later) and I rotate my make up in order to use everything. I don't have a very good storage system, most of my make up is stored in boxes, so I would never have the time in the mornings to try and find something that I want to wear. That's why I use a different brand every week, and this week it's Chantecaille week!
I first got into Chantecaille when I saw a picture of their gorgeous Protected Paradise palettes, and I knew I had to have them. They are very expensive at £80 each, but I managed to order them slightly cheeper from the US, and I've acquired quite a few other palettes and powders since thanks to my friends on Ebay. :) My collection as of April this year is shown below, although I have since swapped the Bengali Tiger palette and bronzer on MUA because I knew I would never use them. Not that I have used most of my Chantecaille stuff, and as you can see I even got back-ups of the PP palettes as they really are just too gorgeous to touch. Since then I have also acquired another Garden in Kyoto palette (back-up), but am still searching for a White Whale eye palette. I also have a collection of 6 mini lipglosses that I forgot to include in the photo.
Okay then, so today I used my back-up Garden in Kyoto palette to create this look:
These are the products I used, including Garden in Kyoto. Isn't it just gorgeous? :)
Thursday, 11 June 2009
Look what came in the post today!
As I said, I regularly buy cosmetics from eBay, although what I received today actually came from a lovely lady from MUA who offered to do a CP for me from the US. It's the Nordstrom exclusive Mac quad: A rose is a rose. It is so pretty, love the colours, especially the pink and purple, can't wait to try them out. (I have a weird way of using my make up, I rotate it every week, using certain brands each week - this week is Chantecaille week - more on this later, so it won't be just yet, but soon anyway).
Here's a couple of pictures of my new aquisition. Enjoy! :)
Wednesday, 10 June 2009
Pleasureflush - my new addition
Okay, so where shall I start? The reason why I named my blog Pleasureflush is that recently I've had the opportunity to purchase a brand new Pleasureflush MSF (by Mac) and I love it. :) I only got into Mac a year or so ago, I think the first product that caught my eye was the Petticoat MSF, and then there were the Electroflash mineralize eyeshadow duos, and the rest is history. :) I've already had several MSFs (I think I have 18 altogether), mostly thanks to eBay (I am a huge eBay addict) and always heard about how fantastic Pleasureflush was, so when I saw that someone was selling them on eBay, I snatched one up. It cost A LOT (I won't admit how much I spent on it, although nowhere near as much as some people claim it's worth), but it really is lovely. I got a brand new one, so it will last me forever and there is no way I'm using it up anyway! :)
I shall leave you with a couple of pictures of my lovely new Pleasureflush. It is my son's birthday tomorrow and I need to ice his birthday cake and wrap up his birthday presents, so I'm going to be busy for the rest of the evening.
If anyone's reading this, I would really appreciate if you could leave me a comment just so I know I'm not typing all this for the void. :)
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Welcome to my blog!
Hi Everyone! My name is Anita, I'm a huge make up addict and have been reading lots of make up blogs. So I thought now it's my turn to create one myself. I am a busy mother of 3, so won't be able to write too much every day, but I am bursting to show off my huge make up collection and lovely items that I own and can't really talk about with anyone else. I am a real beginner at this, so please bear with me until I get the hang of blogging. Thanks for reading! Anita xxx
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DAYTON — The Dayton Business Journal has named Edison State Community College President, Dr. Doreen Larson as one of the most influential female executives in the region. The announcement was made Sept. 24 at the Power 50 Reception in Dayton.
Dr. Larson was named to the prestigious list for her outstanding leadership in the region's higher education sector.
"Being named to the Power 50 is an acknowledgment of the expanding role that Edison State Community College is playing in the Dayton region in both College Credit Plus partnerships and industry apprenticeship programs. However, we are just getting started. Our highly accessible and safe locations in Piqua and Greenville will quickly become hubs for transfer programs and workforce pipelines alike."
Larson, an Ohio native, became the president of Edison State Community College earlier this year. Previously, she led Pierpont Community and Technical College in Fairmont, W.Va., where she served as president since 2010. Larson has previously held administrative positions at Holyoke Community College in Holyoke, Mass., and Lakeland Community College in Kirtland, Ohio. She began her career in higher education as an assistant professor of education at Kent State University in Kent.
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In order to have certain sidebar widgets show up on only certain pages and categories, I'd been using a combination of a PHP code widget and Widget Logic. Now I've found http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/section-widget/, which seems to be able to do the same thing more simply. I've got it running on one site which has ATA 3.4.2 and WP 2.8.4, and it seems stable.
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A genealogical resource (or tool) that I'm currently under-utilizing is GPS (Global Positioning Satellite) technology. There are just so many ways this technology could help with genealogical research, and I have only been taking advantage of a few of them.
First, it pretty much goes with out saying that if you have the address of a courthouse, genealogy society, library, etc, you can plug that into a car GPS unit to get you where you need to go without worrying about getting lost. But suppose you want to go to a cemetery, homestead site, mill ruins, or some such place and you don't have a street address. Continue reading


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I just discovered yesterday the possibility to run an application under the credential of a domain user, even if you're not in a domain. This is a very useful feature for me: being a consultant I work with a lot of different customers, each one with its own domain, and each one (of course) with a different user account for myself.
I cannot join all their domains so I have to work outside the domain, or I have to create a Virtual Machine with all the tools I need and then join their domain. This, unfortunately, means a lot of installation and maintenance work.
But what I discovered yesterday simply changed my life : to execute an application using a domain user, even if you're not I a domain, all you have to do is to use the /netonly option of the runas command!
To launch Excel, for example:
runas /netonly /user:THEDOMAIN\theuser "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14\EXCEL.EXE"
And that's it! Now you can browse the cubes on SSAS (for example) using the software on your machine. Cool!
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The only problem with that approach that it can not be used for automation etc since you can not specify password in this statement and hence can not be part of batch file or anything similar in nature.
If you use Start/Run with:
C:\WINDOWS\system32\rundll32.exe keymgr.dll, KRShowKeyMgr
(changing C:\Windows as needed) you can store a user name with domain and password for a specific computer/server. When you connect to that computer windows will then use these credentials in preference to the credentials you have used to log in to the computer you are on. Beware this does save them so make sure your own computer is secure - but this does allow the automation GS desires
A colleage of mine Rob pointed this out. I can't believe this really useful capability has been there and I didn't come across it. Thank you very much for this. This will really make a difference to me - for running my desktop tools within the context of another domain.
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JH: Cool! I'll try it ASAP! Thanks for sharing!
Tony: You're welcome! :)
BTW - seeing as this is a SQL blog you might want to know my tip allows you to access SQL servers using normal SQL "Windows authorization" connections across to other domains too
Yes. I was very overjoyed when I found this trick.


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Wednesday, October 17, 2012
The Fluffiest Bread in the History of Bread Making!
So fluffy!
I don't usually eat white flour, but when I do, I make sure it's worth the sprurge! You can't beat Megan's bread! It's so unbelievably soft and fluffy and light and perfect and *sigh*
Beautiful golden tops!
Instead of big loaves I made tiny little buns in a small metal baking dish. I halved the recipe, which gave me eight little buns. These buns were small but very tall! That's how much the dough rises and therefore how fluffy the bread gets. I had to cut the buns into thirds to make the sliders! So awesome! Go check out the recipe and make yourself some fluffiness! Thank you for sharing, Megan!
Today's entertainment recommendation is actually a youtube video! Do you subscribe to the Pixiwoo sister's channel? I've been following these beautiful ladies for years and I love them! Sam and Nic are professional makeup artists and they regularly do a wide variety of tutorials - everything from simple no-make-up make up looks to full on fancy-pants fashion make up. And of course, Halloween make up! This is Sam's tutorial for the character "Miss Argentina" from the movie Beetlejuice. Awesome!
And finally today's duck friend is actually a goose:
Stalkery Santa Goose sees you when you're sleeping.
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It's like that goose is saying--hey you, stop making pillows with my feathers!! Super cute. And stalkery. Hmm.ReplyDelete
And holy fluff-tastic breadness!! I can only imagine how incredible that must be warm with Earth Balance slathered all over. Mmmm.
That goose is thinking something that doesn't have your best interests at heart. Hope you were using a long lens. :)ReplyDelete
I was just trying to figure out what breads I should try and make and then I found this post. I will be making that soon it looks fantastic.ReplyDelete
holy cow, that looks SO FREAKING GOOD. I love bread most of all in the whole world. I want to dance around on its fluffy goodness and stuff it in my mouth all at the same time. Those pictures are truly glorious.ReplyDelete
That bread really does look amazing!ReplyDelete
I LOVE the Pixiwoo girls. I watch all their videos and they're great. I've learnt loads from them.
I saw that recipe and bookmarked it. Good to hear you liked it. But Megan's recipes usually look like real winners.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 18, 2012 at 9:41 AM
I used one of Pixiwoo's tutorials for my Halloween make-up last year, they're so freakin' talented! I loved the one for the corpse bride.ReplyDelete
Thanks trying out the bread recipe, and I'm glad it turned out for you! Never thought to make it into buns, must try that. How long did you bake them?Replies
That is one of my favorite tutorials! So creepy! That must have been one super cool costume.Delete
Excellent question. How long did I bake them? Hmm. I'm gonna say 14 minutes. I think. I just kept an eye on them after 12 minutes and removed them from the oven when I was satisfied with their golden little tops.
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Only two rules left for tonight's show. We've already been over paying attention to markets, knowing your stocks and playing Latin America for the short term only. Now it's time to cover a rule that might betray your contrarian leanings: Be a lemming.
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