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Chanel Charme & Superstition Rouge Coco
Just out of interest I swatched the ones from the spring collection and noticed that two of the shades seemed different as there was more slip and they felt more moisturising.
Charme Rouge Coco (£23) #40 is a shimmery cool toned pink with a semi sheer finish. Its such a flattering delicate shade of pink and has just a touch of brightness to it, its gives a very youthful look.
Superstition Rouge Coco (£23) #38 is a sheer shimmery golden beige nude with a bit of warmth. I have very few nude lip colours as the majority look rather unflattering on me. This shade manages to work as its not overly beige and the sheerness allows some of your natural lip colour to show through, which adds a bit of pink to the mix. I really like this shade and its one of the best "nudes" I have found.
Whilst I would still not say these are what I would class as hydrating/moisturising lipsticks, they are definitely not as drying as the other Rouge Coco's I have tried. Another difference is that the colour pay-off is more sheer, which works well for these two shades. If I was blind testing these I wouldn't have thought they were from the Rouge Coco range.
Here are the ingredients, as with all Chanel lipsticks these are scented.
Below is a quick eye look with the Éclosion quad I reviewed here
I bought all these from John Lewis
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Ah, I feel so privileged, you've granted my wish for an Eclosion look! It's so very delicate, it definitely has an early Spring feel. Superstition look particularly pretty, though perhaps a bit sheer for pigmented lips. Like you, I'm not a huge fan of the formula, I much prefer the Coco Shines, so I didn't even glance at these. Instead, I was wondering what you thought of the Tigerlily e/s...been resisting, but not sure for how long! xxxReplyDeleteReplies
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Well I didn't want to incur your wrath and not post a look ;)
I do think you'd find Superstition a bit sheer for your tastes. I'll tell you what I thought of Tigerlily when I swatched it..Orange.. there didn't seem to be any pretty undertones to it either, it just seemed to really clash with my skintone.
Charme Rouge Coco looks perfect! I love the eye makeup as well!ReplyDelete
Those two shades are lovely, anyone needs a nude and a light pink in my book! And nice to hear that they're more moisturising than the previous ones!ReplyDelete
Once again, you did some excellent shopping! :)
Oh, how I love the look of Superstition! I know it wouldn't suit me, but still I can't help drooling over it...sigh.ReplyDelete
And I really like the eye look, very subtle and sweet :))
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Hi Nina,Delete
Thank you :) You say sweet and immediately my mind thinks I want chocolate and yet I have none....
I think with Superstition it will be either a love or hate type of shade for a lot of people. Do you happen to know if we are getting that Roses Ultimes collection here? x
I picked up Superstition a while back. It's pretty, but haven't used it much. I need to start rotating my lipsticks as I end up using the same thing every day! I love the eye look you did with the Eclosion palette :)ReplyDelete
That eye look is so pretty and not at all what I would have anticipated from the colours in the quad. You have an excellent eye for what colours work for you and how best to use them.ReplyDelete
I prefer the Allures myself, they feel more mositurising. I have only Mademoiselle and Sari Dore and I don't intend to get more. Your rouge coco shines are amazing!ReplyDelete
Hi Jacqueline,ReplyDelete
You remind me that I bought a Rouge Allure recently that I really like, I must do a post on that. I do have a bit of a thing for the coco shines ;)


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A Roald Dahl book with a good moral at the end. The family likes hunting for fun, and the girl next door uses her magic finger to teach them a lesson about being hunted. "Oh, that magic finger, I cried. What has it done to my friends."
I found the huge ducks and the idea of eating the apples the way described hilarious!
Quentin Blake's illustrations are great.
This is a great book for children. The illustrations by Tony Ross are a great accompaniment to Roald Dahl's prose. I really enjoyed the magic/fantasy element to this story. My only disappointment is that the little girl wasn't named. And without her there wouldn't have been a story. Please note that young readers may have trouble reading the book, but I do believe it is a book that young readers would enjoy having read to them. Also, the copy I read was the University District Branch's and is not the 1966 edition of this book. UNI's copy is the 1993 edition featuring the illustrations by Tony Ross (copyright 1989). This particular book is also 64 pages long.
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As part of the expanding effort to merge police and military operations – and make Posse Comitatus irrelevant – police in Columbia, South Carolina, will use military police to control revelers after a football game this weekend.
"Columbia police are preparing for the big crowds expected after the Georgia-South Carolina football game Saturday night," WISTV reports. "Officials say campus police, Richland County sheriff's deputies, the South Carolina Highway Patrol and Fort Jackson's military police will help with crowd control after the game."
In addition to the military, officialdom in Columbia plan to establish Fourth Amendment busting DUI checkpoints, barricades, and an observation tower "to keep the crowd under control" and "ensure order."
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We've all giggled at examples of technopanic in the past. We laughed at ER doctors warning about walking and texting at the same time. We snickered at the notion that Google's steetview was a threat to children. Some of our palms may have met our faces at the notion that digital drugs could be a real life danger.
It turns out the joke is on us. SkyNET is coming, my friends, and we're going to lose the war. And you know why? Because of football, hockey and boxing.
So says Rick Telander in a piece for the Chicago Sun Times, in which he declares that traumatic head injuries in those sports are stealing away our ability to fight the machines. Seriously. I couldn't make this stuff up. To preface, it should be noted that Telander isn't some crackpot pseudo-journalist. He is the senior sports columnist for the Chicago Sun Times, hired away from Sports Illustrated, where he was also a Senior Writer. He attended Northwestern University on a football scholarship and then went to training camp with the Kansas City Chiefs. Personally, I think he might have taken a few blows to the head himself.
Telander starts off talking about the trauma of head injuries in pro sports, namely boxing, football and hockey. We're okay so far. Bruising from sustained blows to the head lead to long term medical effects in players -- something that is becoming a growing issue. Then Telander goes completely off the reservation in answering his own question as to why this is more important now than ever:
"Consider it wasn't until last year that the devious and know-nothing NFL Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Committee was restructured with seemingly authentic and un-buyable neurologists at the helm, and the word ''Mild'' was dropped altogether. Mild. Brain injury. Ha. I am reminded here of ''minor'' surgery, which, of course, is surgery on somebody else."
Hmm, well okay, the NFL is beginning to take brain injury more seriously. But the problem has been known for some time. It's thanks to boxers becoming pale drooling ghosts of their former selves that we have the term "punch drunk". But whatever...
"Second, we live in a world that is progressing into a vast arena in which mankind has never lived, never even comprehended, the stadium of human-enhanced computer dominance. It is a place where intelligence, real or artificial, will be all. Scientists say that by as early as 2045 there may well be a computer that dwarfs mankind. By then, according to the current cover story in Time, a computer might exist that will surpass ''the brainpower equivalent to that of all human brains combined.'' That's smart. Unless we're really dumb. And we're not, except when we do dumb things, like let our heads get damaged continually and call it something like ringing a bell. In our new environment, how can anyone allow his or her IQ, or their children's, to be lowered?"
Uh, what? Because technology is progressing, head injuries are now more important? And we can't play football? Or hockey? Or box? But why, Rick, why?
"If you think the talk of silicon joining and even replacing the organic mind is nonsense, remember that your own laptop does the work a global library once did. Consider, as Time points out, that ''your average cell phone is about a millionth the size of, a millionth the price of and a thousand times more powerful than'' the best computer at MIT 40 years ago...But the olden days are gone. And you can be assured that if the battle between machines and humans ever becomes confrontational, it won't be won by fists and forearms, helmets and sticks to our delicate heads."
And there you have it. We cannot have football, hockey or boxing because the war against the machines is coming and we're turning those who would lead us in that fight into men with brain-mush in their formerly bright heads. Because prospective General Brett Favre has clearly shown how acclimated with the dangers of technology he is. And no one is cautious around new technology media like budding Admiral Chad Ochocino. Hell, I don't even want to think about a Colonel Patrick Kane leading the charge against a host of Terminators.
Once again, we all agree that brain injuries in sports are a bad thing. But the idea that it's suddenly become more important due to the rise of the machines? That seems like the product of one too many sports-related brain injuries.
My suggestion? Just make it mandatory that all machines on earth must do a ten year stint playing football or hockey. Today's matchup, the Texas Toasters up against the Rochester Refrigerators! Join us next week on ESPN when the Carolina Computers skate the ice against the San Diego Smartphones! I could go on, but I'll leave you with Boers and Bernstein's take on their radio show, the most listened to sports show in Chicago (the good stuff starts around 4 minutes and 30 seconds...):
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Baltimore's Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine, site of a key battle in the War of 1812 and birthplace of "The Star Spangled Banner," will be in the spotlight during many of the Star Spangled Sailabration events June 13 to 19.
Officials say they expect 20,000 or more people to visit the star-shaped fort on each of two days, June 16 and 17, for shows by the Blue Angels and for fireworks and a concert on the evening of June 16.
About 6,000 people are expected June 18 for ceremonies marking the 200th anniversary of America's declaration of war against the British, on June 18, 1812.
Another large crowd is expected at the fort on June 19 for the Parade of Sail, when tall ships and other vessels pass the fort as they leave Baltimore on the way to other ports.
By contrast, about 1,000 defenders were present at the fort when Marylanders fought off a British invasion in September 1814, a turning point in the war.
"I would say this the most complex event we've ever hosted here at Fort McHenry," said Vincent Vaise, the fort's chief of interpretation. "I think it will draw people from the entire Mid-Atlantic region. It's going to be a once-in-a-lifetime event."
The National Park Service prepared for the crowds by opening a $15 million visitors center in March 2011 and by upgrading exhibits and completing additional improvements to the fort and its grounds within the past year.
Vaise said approximately 250 park employees and volunteers will be on hand to assist visitors during the busiest days — up from the usual contingent of about a dozen people.
He said the fort and visitors center will actually be closed to the public on June 16 and 17, because the crowds are expected to be so large, but the grounds will be open and food vendors and a temporary gift shop will be set up on the property.
Built between 1798 and 1802 as part of the nation's defense preparations, the fort was named for James McHenry, a Baltimore resident who was secretary of war under Presidents George Washington and John Adams. Occupying a strategic site at the tip of the Locust Point peninsula, the fort withstood heavy shelling by a British fleet in September 1814. It was the only battle at the fort, and it inspired Maryland attorney Francis Scott Key to write "The Star Spangled Banner," a poem that became the national anthem in 1931.
The property served as a fort until 1912 and become a national park in 1925. It was designated a national monument and historic shrine in 1939, making it the only park in the country to have that double distinction.
Organizers of the Sailabration event are arranging for a shuttle service to transport people from M&T Bank Stadium to the fort on June 16 and 17, because traffic and parking will be restricted on Fort Avenue, the main road leading to the fort. Admission to the fort property is free and visitors are encouraged to bring supplies such as sunscreen, blankets, lawn chairs and bottled water.
Vaise said the fort property has the capacity to accommodate 20,000 to 25,000 people at a time. He added that he is optimistic that the events will give people a better appreciation of the fort and its role in history.
"We hope that all the attention will help people associate the American flag and the national anthem with Fort McHenry," he said.


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Question: My UPS is dead and I need to dispose of it. Is there any kind of special consideration here (is it dangerous?), or can I just dump it into the trash?
The answers to those three questions are yes, it can be, and no. Most of the batteries used in UPS systems are lead-acid, the same technology used in a car battery, so most of the things you've heard about those apply here. The batteries are sealed, and as long as that seal remains intact, the biggest danger—exposure to the sulfuric acid within—is minimal. Hit it with the compaction used by most garbage trucks, however, and you run the risk of giving someone an acid bath.
Even if the acid weren't an issue, however, you wouldn't want to just dump the battery into the local municipal waste stream. Lead is a potent toxin, with both immediate and chronic effects, so it needs to be disposed of properly. That's also true of cadmium, an ingredient of the primary alternative to lead-acid batteries, the Ni-Cd. So, no matter which type of UPS you've got, the contents of its battery are toxic. Try to avoid eating it, and don't just dump it in the trash.
Because they have toxic ingredients, disposal of batteries is regulated by the Environmental Protection Agency. The rules there are rich in bureaucratese (an example: "Batteries, as described in Sec. 273.9, that are not yet wastes under part 261 of this chapter, including those that do not meet the criteria for waste generation in paragraph (c) of this section."), but the EPA has also provided some human-readable advice. The feds are not the only ones with regulations; most states and a number of municipalities have their own rules governing how spent batteries are handled. The end result of this regulation is that the manufacturers of batteries that contain toxic waste are responsible for recycling them once they're no longer in use.
Notice that's "recycled," and not "disposed of." The rules require that the batteries get recycled, and many major manufacturers have banded together to form a non-profit company that collects the batteries and sends them into a single recycling stream; the vast majority of the lead and cadmium reclaimed from batteries ends up right back in other batteries. Many companies have their own programs in place for returning the spent batteries to them (APC's program, for example, lets you download a prepaid shipping label online).
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So I was going to post last night, but the BF was hogging the laptop...that will be fixed soon because (shhh! im getting him one for Xmas!) so hopefully I won't have to share anymore. LOL.
The BF and I went to Camarillo Outlets last night, I realized that a weekday is the best time to go there because there was literally NO ONE there as opposed to the weekends where it's packed and good luck trying to find parking...
I went to the CCO store and picked me up some items (after I just said that I wasn't going to shop anymore!) but since MAC items are so much cheaper there, I can't refuse! I also got my AVON haul!
I picked up: MAC Fluidlines in "Haunting" and "Nightfish" which I love! Haunting makes a great purple/lilac base and nightfish is an awesome color because it's dark but not as bold as black. I also picked up 2 lipsticks, "Scanty" and "Creme de Femme", my friend sent me more of the "Sweet Sienna" pigment which I heard is sold out almost everywhere, and an eyeshadow in "Endless Love" from the Nocturnelle collection (which I am selling so email me if you are interested, I already have a similar color).
First, my AVON Haul: Lipsticks in "Nude Pink" and "Magnificent Mauve", and "Rich Red" Lip Radiance Lipgloss ("Red Romp" Dupe)
MAC Attack!
Fluidline Swatches:
Scanty is more of a cream (amplified cream) so it goes on smooth...
Creme de Femme is a nice frosty pinkish color, it's darker than Scanty in person
I also went to Walgreens before we headed home and picked up an Isadora Palette and a Wet N' Wild pink lipstick, if you haven't noticed I have an obsession with PINK Lipsticks! I totally love the Isadora eyeshadow palettes, they have gorgeous colors and are very well pigmented. Walgreens had them on sale for HALF OFF!
Comparisons of all the pink lipsticks, "Snob" is still my favorite! :)
And since I have been posting pics of babies, I thought id add one of my BF when he was in the 2nd grade, look how cute he WAS haha, he looked like a good boy, and now he's just a rotten brat!
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So I was going to post last night, but the BF was hogging the laptop...that will be fixed soon because (shhh! im getting him one for Xmas!) so hopefully I won't have to share anymore. LOL.
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- Anonymous said...
Hey girl, thanks for stopping by my page. I stopped by your page a couple of times and I'm so drawn to all the pictures. Heheh. You take super nice pictures of all the new stuff you get & everything else. I was going page by page and I was like, OMG, how many pages is this? I didn't get to the very end though =( But I do love your work as well. Alrighty then, take care<33
<3 Tina
- November 30, 2007 at 9:36 AM
- Ethereal Prey said...
crikey! nice haul! I was gonna go get the pink eyeshadow palette from wet n wild but then i realized i cant' pull off pink eyeshadow...but do a look and inspire me! Camarillo has a betsey johnson outlet!!!! I heard that one was much bigger than the one on the east coast!!!! so jealous!!!!
- November 30, 2007 at 1:36 PM
- B said...
Fab haul! It was Isa Dora that first drew me into make-up. I used to work at Wal-Greens as a manager and loooove stocking the beauty department just too see what kinds of things that had. I have that quad too! Sooo where is this Cosmetics Company Store? Help a sista out! I would love to goooo. Enjoy your new goodies and have a fab weekend. I'm off to MAC Pro off of Roberson to see what I CAN afford in Stylistics. Haha.
- November 30, 2007 at 2:11 PM
- Anonymous said...
I am so jealous of your haul.
I've seen Isadora at walgreens before but I am not familiar with the brand so I didn't even taken 2nd glances. But is it good? How good is it compared to drugstore like NYX/Milani?
I have access to some NYX e/s and all Milani e/s here
- November 30, 2007 at 2:54 PM
- Linda said...
Hey I love reading your blog! anywho, I work at Walgreens and jsut to let you know Isa Dora is being discontinued that's why they're so cheap. I just marked my stuff down to 75% off. Most stores should be doing that now.. so since you love it you should grab it quick.
- November 30, 2007 at 3:04 PM
- Anonymous said...
Hi Vanessa!!
I was @ Walgreens last night too. Are the Isadora products any good?
I remember you saying several times on your blog that milani has a blush like Nars Orgasm but I cant find it anywhere? Do i got it right? Its a Milani blush right? I also checked their website and didn't find it.
2 weeks ago I went to CCS and didnt find anything i wanted so went home emptyhanded. Great Haul!
- November 30, 2007 at 4:11 PM
- www.Cosmetic-Candy.com said...
Hi Vanessa!
You know have made me totally want snob? But now I like the look of Creme De Femme.
Which do you recommend for a daily shade? My colouring is similar to yours...
- November 30, 2007 at 5:04 PM
- Vanessa said...
Kiki- Milani no longer has the blush, it has been discontinued long time ago, I bought mine off of eBay.
- November 30, 2007 at 5:36 PM
- Christiana Divine @ Memoirs of A Shopping Addict said...
Hi Nessa,
I REALLY like that Nude Pink lipstick you got, and pretty much all of the MAC ones you got! :D You REALLY REALLY make me want to get snob... i swear. LOL. :P
- November 30, 2007 at 6:04 PM
- Karen said...
What a wonderful haul! I want Haunting now.
And isn't your BF so cute. :)
Have a good weekend, Vanessa!
- December 1, 2007 at 9:22 AM
- megx3 said...
Hi!! i really enjoy reading your blog!! i hope you can stop by mine and help me out!! hehe
- December 1, 2007 at 9:59 PM
- Vanessa said...
Megx3- I am unable to get to your blog, it says I have to be invited... :(
- December 1, 2007 at 10:47 PM
- Anonymous said...
is nightfish similar to dipdown? thanks
- February 7, 2008 at 12:49 AM
- Vanessa said...
Chelle- No Nightgish is more of a greyish black, almost black but not as black as black if that makes any sense....it's not brown like dip down.
- February 7, 2008 at 12:53 AM


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Since my boys have off of school on Monday, the discussion came up tonight as to why.
Colin: "Because of Martin Luther King."
Cameron: "Junior."
Colin: "Yeah. Martin Luther King, Jr."
(This was funny to me in an of itself, because Colin--the oldest, of course--is always the one with the vast knowledge in our home--Cameron rarely gets to 'one up' him. However, it continued.
Cameron: "Mrs. Winkler told me all about who Martin was."
(Insert stifled giggle from me here. Cameron continues, with quite a bit of emphasis, since all eyes were on him.)
"He was a black man. And he preached. He preached aaaaaaaallllllll over because back then, there were bad men. They were white and they hid behind bushes. When little black kids came along the bad white men would take them away from their mommies and daddies and the white men would make the kids go live at their farms and cut down their corn. They were called snaves."
(I am rolling by this point...internally, of course.)
"The police told Martin not to preach anymore. But he just had to. He had to preach that those white men weren't doing what they were supposed to be doing! He just had to. So they arrested him and took him to jail. Then a bad, bad man shot him and now we have Martin Luther King--(looking pointedly at Colin) Junior-- day."
I think, for a six year old, he relayed a pretty good bit of understanding of what Mr. King did for civil rights. And I think he treated Colin to a bit of information in the process.
Win win.
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
What Martin Luther King, Jr. means to a six-year-old
Since my boys have off of school on Monday, the discussion came up tonight as to why.
2 comments:
- Kara said...
LOL :) Love those boys!
- January 10, 2012 at 9:11 PM
- Robbie said...
Can I just tell you that where I live, some people call the holiday "James Earl Ray Day"? lol.... I am sure your boys would have a field day with that, knowing that the bad bad man sort of has his own day :)
- January 10, 2012 at 9:14 PM


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Kal Raustiala is professor at UCLA School of Law and the UCLA International Institute, where he teaches in the Program on Global Studies. Since 2007 he has served as director of the UCLA Ronald W. Burkle Center for International Relations. The Burkle Center is UCLA's primary academic unit for interdisciplinary research on international affairs. From 2012-2015 he served as UCLA's Associate Vice Provost for International Studies. A graduate of Duke University, Professor Raustiala holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School and Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, San Diego. In 2016 he was elected Vice President of the American Society of International Law.
Professor Raustiala's research focuses on international law, international relations, and intellectual property. His recent publications include "Governing the Internet," American Journal of International Law (2016); "Fake It Till You Make It: The Good News About China's Knockoff Economy," Foreign Affairs, (July/August 2013); "NGOs in International Treaty-Making," in The Oxford Guide to Treaties (2012); and Does the Constitution Follow the Flag? The Evolution of Territoriality in American Law, (Oxford, 2009). His most recent book, The Knockoff Economy: How Imitation Sparks Innovation (Oxford, 2012), written with Christopher Sprigman of NYU Law School, has been translated into Chinese, Korean, and Japanese.
Professor Raustiala has been a visiting professor at Harvard Law School, Columbia Law School, Princeton University, the University of Chicago Law School, Melbourne University in Australia, and Hebrew University in Jerusalem. In 2016, he was the Yong Shook Lin Visiting Professor of Intellectual Property at the National University of Singapore. Prior to coming to UCLA he was a research fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies Program at the Brookings Institution, a Peccei Scholar at the International Institute for Applied Systems, and an assistant professor of politics at Brandeis University. A life member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Professor Raustiala has served on the editorial boards of International Organization and the American Journal of International Law and is a frequent media contributor whose writing has been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, the New Republic, the New Yorker, Wired, the International Herald Tribune and Le Monde.


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I recently found a book on Project Gutenberg, Witchcraft and Devil Lore in the Channel Islands, while doing some research on the Islands (I have ancestors from St. Peter Port, Guernsey, and from a few places in Jersey). The book, first published in 1886, includes court transcripts of witch trials — including the purported witches' "confessions" — in the original French followed by English translations by John Linwood Pitts, who put the book together.
In his introduction to the book, Pitts notes the curious use of colons in the transcripts "where they would not be required as ordinary marks of punctuation. These correspond, however, to similar pauses in the original records, and evidently indicate the successive stages by which the story was wrung from the wretched victims. They are thus endowed with a sad and ghastly significance, which must be borne in mind when the confessions are read. It must also be remembered that these confessions were not usually made in the connected form in which they stand recorded, but were rather the result of leading questions put by the inquisitors, such as: How old were you when the Devil first appeared to you? What form did he assume? What parish were you in? What were you doing? &c., &c" (Pitts 7).
To illustrate the kind of torture that was administered to accused witches at the time, Pitts provides an example of a witch trial that took place in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1591 (only 26 years before the trials he writes about). A Dr. Fian was accused, among others, of practicing witchcraft and was tortured. He eventually confessed before the king, but after he was released, he retracted his confession, saying that he only confessed out of fear of enduring more pain. The king (James I) then accused him of having made a new contract with the Devil, and Dr. Fian was "put to the question" again. Pitts includes an excerpt from C.K. Sharpe's Historical Account of the Belief in Witchcraft in Scotland that precisely describes the torture involved:
His nailes upon all his fingers were riven and pulled off with an instrument called in Scottish a turkas, which in England wee call a payre of pincers, and under everie nayle there was thrust in two needles over, even up to the heads; at all which tormentes notwithstanding the Doctor never shronke anie whit, neither woulde he then confesse it the sooner for all the tortures inflicted upon him. Then was hee, with all convenient speed, by commandement, convaied againe to the torment of the bootes, wherein he continued a long time, and did abide so many blowes in them, that the legges were crusht and beaten together as small as might bee, and the bones and flesh so bruised that the blood and marrow spouted forth in great abundance, whereby they were made unserviceable for ever; and notwithstanding all those grievous paines and cruell torments, hee would not confess anie thing; so deeply had the devill entered into his heart, that hee utterly denied all that which he had before avouched, and would saie nothing thereunto but this, that what he had done and sayde before, was onely done and sayde for fear of paynes which he had endured. After this horrible treatment the wretched man was strangled and burnt. (7)
The "bootes" referred to above are the bootikens — boots attached from the ankle to the knee through which wedges were driven into the legs. Other infamous torture instruments often used against accused witches include the Pear, thumb screws, the Rack and ducking stools. I won't go into a description of them here; the curious can always look up the details elsewhere.
Having read all this, here is one of the "confessions" provided in the book, dated 4 July 1617, an exact translation with all punctuation intact —
Marie, wife of Pierre Massy, after sentence of death had been pronounced against her, having been put to the question, confessed that she was a Witch; and that at the persuasion of the Devil, who appeared to her in the form of a dog: she gave herself to him: that when she gave herself to him he took her by the hand with his paw: that she used to anoint herself with the same ointment as her mother used: and had been to the Sabbath upon the bank near Rocquaine Castle with her, where there was no one but the Devil and her as it seemed: in the aforesaid form in which she had seen him several times: She was also at the Sabbath on one occasion among others in the road near Collas Tottevin's; every time that she went to the Sabbath, the Devil came to her, and it seemed as though he transformed her into a female dog; she said that upon the shore, near the said Rocquaine: the Devil, in the form of a dog, having had connection with her, gave her bread and wine, which she ate and drank.
The Devil gave her certain powders: which powders he put into her hand, for her to throw upon those whom he ordered her: she threw some of them by his orders upon persons and cattle: notably upon the child of Pierre Brehaut. Item, upon the wife of Jean Bourgaize, while she was enceinte. Item, upon the child of Leonard le Messurier. (16)
The colons have a gruesome percussive effect. They're slight little beats of silence that thump with the mystery of the torture happening behind the proverbial curtain. Even their appearances are like the heads of two tiny nails driven into the flesh of the paragraphs.
I'm not pointing this out for macabre pleasure. I'm making this point because it not only reveals the brutality of medieval European witch trials, which are usually only delicately mentioned in passing because an actual examination is often too horrifying a prospect; it also serves a lesser but still significant purpose: it proves the incredible power of punctuation.
People with poor grammar skills tend to use punctuation as if it were merely decoration, throwing in quotations for petty emphasis or commas whenever they want the reader to pause (even if the pause is natural and doesn't have an effect on the intended meaning anyway). I'm not talking about typos here; this is often an issue of wholesale insistence on littering prose with useless signage. Oppositely, naive, self-described and -righteous grammar snobs place a dictatorial embargo on the creative bending (or breaking) of grammar rules out of an almost pathological respect for said rules.
There is a valid middle ground, of course. Punctuation rules are established to provide stability in written communication as well as to clarify what is being written. However, there are instances in which these very rules can — and should — be bent or broken to signify something important — in the above case, whatever happens "off stage" (although the original transcriber likely only wanted to create a sense of continuity while respecting the breaks in the confession for reasons of accuracy). In cases of fiction, poetry and other forms of creative literature, rule-bending or -breaking might be used in similar ways: to communicate something about the story, the narrator or other characters that otherwise can't be expressed for whatever reason. Consider Faulkner's or Joyce's run-on sentences in their stream-of-consciousness styles that simulate the free, connected-yet-disorganized flow of thoughts and impressions in a person's mind. Also consider Emily Dickinson's frequent use of em-dashes instead of other punctuation, which creates a lingering echo, especially in the last lines. Remember e.e. cumming's playful, liberated use of punctuation symbols to highlight words and phrases, disrupt the flow, or to reinvent the meanings of those very symbols.
There is a place and purpose for rules, of course, but there is also a place and purpose for breaking those rules. And, quite often, it's the fact of the rules' existence that gives the breaking its power and meaning.
Pitts, John Linwood. Witchcraft and Devil Lore in the Channel Islands. Guernsey, 1886. The Project Gutenberg. Web. 2 Dec. 2005.


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The owners are Joe Robinson and Jay Hackemer, both graduates of Warsaw Central School Class of 1974. Joe Robinson is a graduate of the State University of New York at Canton and received additional training at the State University of New York at Geneseo. Jay Hackemer is a graduate of Hudson Valley Community College and received additional training at the University of North Carolina. Each has over 30 years of experience in serving families. Joe and Jay are both active in a variety of civic activities and believe community service is a cornerstone of their philosophy.
In September of 2008, the partners purchased Harmon-Watson Funeral Home, located at 35 North Main Street in Castile, NY, from the Watson family. The facility is an historic 1837 Greek Revival home and has served the community as a funeral home since 1947 when the late Stanley Harmon founded the company. In more recent years, the firm was under the direction of the late Gerald Watson.
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at the moment i couldnt afford the bravo pump, so it would be a 40 dollar department store one,
the only thing im concerned with is if it is going to have enough pressure to fill it, I do see why it would not, but i've read that some times it doesnt, eventually im sure i will have both a manual and electric, but i only want to buy one at the moment
Welcome to KF.big_d wrote:what do you use? this topic has probably been discussed a bunch of times, but im new
That's fine, but just be aware that the air inlet near the base is likely to inhale sand very easily, which will kill the pump pretty fast. The rubber seals and the lubrucant will get gummed up and eventually wear more quickly, and it will be more difficult to pump becasue of the friction.big_d wrote:thanks guys! I tried out the electric it sucked was also missing the charger, so i returned it and picked this one up, and it fills it faster then the electric, works like a charm, perfect!
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LOS ANGELES (AP) - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is encouraging celebrities to tweet during the Oscars.
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Set v. i.
1. To pass below the horizon; to go down; to decline; to sink out of sight; to come to an end.
Ere the weary sun set in the west. --Shak.
Thus this century sets with little mirth, and the next is likely to arise with more mourning. --Fuller.
2. To fit music to words. [Obs.]
3. To place plants or shoots in the ground; to plant. "To sow dry, and set wet."
4. To be fixed for growth; to strike root; to begin to germinate or form; as, cuttings set well; the fruit has set well (i. e., not blasted in the blossom).
5. To become fixed or rigid; to be fastened.
A gathering and serring of the spirits together to resist, maketh the teeth to set hard one against another. --Bacon.
6. To congeal; to concrete; to solidify; -- of cements, glues, gels, concrete, substances polymerizing into plastics, etc.
That fluid substance in a few minutes begins to set. --Boyle.
7. To have a certain direction in motion; to flow; to move on; to tend; as, the current sets to the north; the tide sets to the windward.
8. To begin to move; to go out or forth; to start; -- now followed by out.
The king is set from London. --Shak.
9. To indicate the position of game; -- said of a dog; as, the dog sets well; also, to hunt game by the aid of a setter.
10. To apply one's self; to undertake earnestly; -- now followed by out.
If he sets industriously and sincerely to perform the commands of Christ, he can have no ground of doubting but it shall prove successful to him. --Hammond.
11. To fit or suit one; to sit; as, the coat sets well.
Note: [Colloquially used, but improperly, for sit.]
Note: ☞ The use of the verb set for sit in such expressions as, the hen is setting on thirteen eggs; a setting hen, etc., although colloquially common, and sometimes tolerated in serious writing, is not to be approved.
To set about, to commence; to begin.
To set forward, to move or march; to begin to march; to advance.
To set forth, to begin a journey.
To set in. (a) To begin; to enter upon a particular state; as, winter set in early. (b) To settle one's self; to become established. "When the weather was set in to be very bad." --Addison. (c) To flow toward the shore; -- said of the tide.
To set off. (a) To enter upon a journey; to start. (b) Typog. To deface or soil the next sheet; -- said of the ink on a freshly printed sheet, when another sheet comes in contact with it before it has had time to dry.
To set on or To set upon. (a) To begin, as a journey or enterprise; to set about.
He that would seriously set upon the search of truth. --Locke.
(b) To assault; to make an attack.
Cassio hath here been set on in the dark. --Shak.
-- To set out, to begin a journey or course; as, to set out for London, or from London; to set out in business;to set out in life or the world.
To set to, to apply one's self to.
To set up. (a) To begin business or a scheme of life; as, to set up in trade; to set up for one's self. (b) To profess openly; to make pretensions.
Those men who set up for mortality without regard to religion, are generally but virtuous in part. --Swift.
Set v. t. [imp. & p. p. Set; p. pr. & vb. n. Setting.]
1. To cause to sit; to make to assume a specified position or attitude; to give site or place to; to place; to put; to fix; as, to set a house on a stone foundation; to set a book on a shelf; to set a dish on a table; to set a chest or trunk on its bottom or on end.
I do set my bow in the cloud. --Gen. ix. 13.
2. Hence, to attach or affix (something) to something else, or in or upon a certain place.
Set your affection on things above. --Col. iii. 2.
The Lord set a mark upon Cain. --Gen. iv. 15.
3. To make to assume specified place, condition, or occupation; to put in a certain condition or state (described by the accompanying words); to cause to be.
The Lord thy God will set thee on high. --Deut. xxviii. 1.
I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother. --Matt. x. 35.
Every incident sets him thinking. --Coleridge.
4. To fix firmly; to make fast, permanent, or stable; to render motionless; to give an unchanging place, form, or condition to. Specifically: --
(a) To cause to stop or stick; to obstruct; to fasten to a spot; hence, to occasion difficulty to; to embarrass; as, to set a coach in the mud.
They show how hard they are set in this particular. --Addison.
(b) To fix beforehand; to determine; hence, to make unyielding or obstinate; to render stiff, unpliant, or rigid; as, to set one's countenance.
His eyes were set by reason of his age. --1 Kings xiv. 4.
On these three objects his heart was set. --Macaulay.
Make my heart as a millstone, set my face as a flint. --Tennyson.
(c) To fix in the ground, as a post or a tree; to plant; as, to set pear trees in an orchard.
(d) To fix, as a precious stone, in a border of metal; to place in a setting; hence, to place in or amid something which serves as a setting; as, to set glass in a sash.
And him too rich a jewel to be set
In vulgar metal for a vulgar use. --Dryden.
(e) To render stiff or solid; especially, to convert into curd; to curdle; as, to set milk for cheese.
5. To put into a desired position or condition; to adjust; to regulate; to adapt. Specifically: --
(a) To put in order in a particular manner; to prepare; as, to set (that is, to hone) a razor; to set a saw.
Tables for to sette, and beddes make. --Chaucer.
(b) To extend and bring into position; to spread; as, to set the sails of a ship.
(c) To give a pitch to, as a tune; to start by fixing the keynote; as, to set a psalm.
(d) To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state; to replace; as, to set a broken bone.
(e) To make to agree with some standard; as, to set a watch or a clock.
(f) Masonry To lower into place and fix solidly, as the blocks of cut stone in a structure.
6. To stake at play; to wager; to risk.
I have set my life upon a cast,
And I will stand the hazard of the die. --Shak.
7. To fit with music; to adapt, as words to notes; to prepare for singing.
Set thy own songs, and sing them to thy lute. --Dryden.
8. To determine; to appoint; to assign; to fix; as, to set a time for a meeting; to set a price on a horse.
9. To adorn with something infixed or affixed; to stud; to variegate with objects placed here and there.
High on their heads, with jewels richly set,
Each lady wore a radiant coronet. --Dryden.
Pastoral dales thin set with modern farms. --Wordsworth.
10. To value; to rate; -- with at.
Be you contented, wearing now the garland,
To have a son set your decrees at naught. --Shak.
I do not set my life at a pin's fee. --Shak.
11. To point out the seat or position of, as birds, or other game; -- said of hunting dogs.
12. To establish as a rule; to furnish; to prescribe; to assign; as, to set an example; to set lessons to be learned.
13. To suit; to become; as, it sets him ill. [Scot.]
14. Print. To compose; to arrange in words, lines, etc.; as, to set type; to set a page.
To set abroach. See Abroach. [Obs.] --Shak.
To set against, to oppose; to set in comparison with, or to oppose to, as an equivalent in exchange; as, to set one thing against another.
To set agoing, to cause to move.
To set apart, to separate to a particular use; to separate from the rest; to reserve.
To set a saw, to bend each tooth a little, every alternate one being bent to one side, and the intermediate ones to the other side, so that the opening made by the saw may be a little wider than the thickness of the back, to prevent the saw from sticking.
To set aside. (a) To leave out of account; to pass by; to omit; to neglect; to reject; to annul.
Setting aside all other considerations, I will endeavor to know the truth, and yield to that. --Tillotson.
(b) To set apart; to reserve; as, to set aside part of one's income. (c) Law See under Aside.
To set at defiance, to defy.
To set at ease, to quiet; to tranquilize; as, to set the heart at ease.
To set at naught, to undervalue; to contemn; to despise. "Ye have set at naught all my counsel." --Prov. i. 25.
To set a trap To set a snare, or To set a gin, to put it in a proper condition or position to catch prey; hence, to lay a plan to deceive and draw another into one's power.
To set at work, or To set to work. (a) To cause to enter on work or action, or to direct how tu enter on work. (b) To apply one's self; -- used reflexively.
To set before. (a) To bring out to view before; to exhibit. (b) To propose for choice to; to offer to.
To set by. (a) To set apart or on one side; to reject. (b) To attach the value of (anything) to. "I set not a straw by thy dreamings." --Chaucer.
To set by the compass, to observe and note the bearing or situation of by the compass.
To set case, to suppose; to assume. Cf. Put case, under Put, v. t. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
To set down. (a) To enter in writing; to register.
Some rules were to be set down for the government of the army. --Clarendon.
(b) To fix; to establish; to ordain.
This law we may name eternal, being that order which God . . . hath set down with himself, for himself to do all things by. --Hooker.
(c) To humiliate.
To set eyes on, to see; to behold; to fasten the eyes on.
To set fire to, or To set on fire, to communicate fire to; fig., to inflame; to enkindle the passions of; to irritate.
To set flying Naut., to hook to halyards, sheets, etc., instead of extending with rings or the like on a stay; -- said of a sail.
To set forth. (a) To manifest; to offer or present to view; to exhibt; to display. (b) To publish; to promulgate; to make appear. --Waller. (c) To send out; to prepare and send. [Obs.]
The Venetian admiral had a fleet of sixty galleys, set forth by the Venetians. --Knolles.
-- To set forward. (a) To cause to advance. (b) To promote.
To set free, to release from confinement, imprisonment, or bondage; to liberate; to emancipate.
To set in, to put in the way; to begin; to give a start to. [Obs.]
If you please to assist and set me in, I will recollect myself. --Collier.
-- To set in order, to adjust or arrange; to reduce to method. "The rest will I set in order when I come." --1 Cor. xi. 34.
To set milk. (a) To expose it in open dishes in order that the cream may rise to the surface. (b) To cause it to become curdled as by the action of rennet. See 4 (e).
To set much by or To set little by, to care much, or little, for.
To set of, to value; to set by. [Obs.] "I set not an haw of his proverbs." --Chaucer.
To set off. (a) To separate from a whole; to assign to a particular purpose; to portion off; as, to set off a portion of an estate. (b) To adorn; to decorate; to embellish.
They . . . set off the worst faces with the best airs. --Addison.
(c) To give a flattering description of.
To set off against, to place against as an equivalent; as, to set off one man's services against another's.
To set on or To set upon. (a) To incite; to instigate. "Thou, traitor, hast set on thy wife to this." --Shak. (b) To employ, as in a task. " Set on thy wife to observe." --Shak. (c) To fix upon; to attach strongly to; as, to set one's heart or affections on some object. See definition 2, above.
To set one's cap for. See under Cap, n.
To set one's self against, to place one's self in a state of enmity or opposition to.
To set one's teeth, to press them together tightly.
To set on foot, to set going; to put in motion; to start.
To set out. (a) To assign; to allot; to mark off; to limit; as, to set out the share of each proprietor or heir of an estate; to set out the widow's thirds. (b) To publish, as a proclamation. [Obs.] (c) To adorn; to embellish.
An ugly woman, in rich habit set out with jewels, nothing can become. --Dryden.
(d) To raise, equip, and send forth; to furnish. [R.]
The Venetians pretend they could set out, in case of great necessity, thirty men-of-war. --Addison.
(e) To show; to display; to recommend; to set off.
I could set out that best side of Luther. --Atterbury.
(f) To show; to prove. [R.] "Those very reasons set out how heinous his sin was." --Atterbury. (g) Law To recite; to state at large.
To set over. (a) To appoint or constitute as supervisor, inspector, ruler, or commander. (b) To assign; to transfer; to convey.
To set right, to correct; to put in order.
To set sail. Naut. See under Sail, n.
To set store by, to consider valuable.
To set the fashion, to determine what shall be the fashion; to establish the mode.
To set the teeth on edge, to affect the teeth with a disagreeable sensation, as when acids are brought in contact with them.
To set the watch Naut., to place the starboard or port watch on duty.
To set to, to attach to; to affix to. "He . . . hath set to his seal that God is true." --John iii. 33.
To set up. a To erect; to raise; to elevate; as, to set up a building, or a machine; to set up a post, a wall, a pillar. (b) Hence, to exalt; to put in power. "I will . . . set up the throne of David over Israel." --2 Sam. iii. 10. (c) To begin, as a new institution; to institute; to establish; to found; as, to set up a manufactory; to set up a school. (d) To enable to commence a new business; as, to set up a son in trade. (e) To place in view; as, to set up a mark. (f) To raise; to utter loudly; as, to set up the voice.
I'll set up such a note as she shall hear. --Dryden.
(g) To advance; to propose as truth or for reception; as, to set up a new opinion or doctrine. --T. Burnet. (h) To raise from depression, or to a sufficient fortune; as, this good fortune quite set him up. (i) To intoxicate. [Slang] (j) Print. To put in type; as, to set up copy; to arrange in words, lines, etc., ready for printing; as, to set up type.
To set up the rigging Naut., to make it taut by means of tackles. --R. H. Dana, Jr.
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Blood and Beauty by Sarah Dunant, narrated by Edoardo Ballerini
Published in audio by Random House Audio, published in print by Random House
From the publisher:
By the end of the fifteenth century, the beauty and creativity of Italy is matched by its brutality and corruption, nowhere more than in Rome and inside the Church. When Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia buys his way into the papacy as Alexander VI, he is defined not just by his wealth or his passionate love for his illegitimate children, but by his blood: He is a Spanish Pope in a city run by Italians. If the Borgias are to triumph, this charismatic, consummate politician with a huge appetite for life, women, and power must use papacy and family – in particular, his eldest son, Cesare, and his daughter Lucrezia – in order to succeed.
Cesare, with a dazzlingly cold intelligence and an even colder soul, is his greatest – though increasingly unstable – weapon. Later immortalized in Machiavelli's The Prince, he provides the energy and the muscle. Lucrezia, beloved by both men, is the prime dynastic tool. Twelve years old when the novel opens, hers is a journey through three marriages, and from childish innocence to painful experience, from pawn to political player.
Thoughts on the story:
The Borgias rival the Tudors as one of the most dramatic families of the European Renaissance. Dunant approaches the family with a very literary and somewhat reserved bent. In the early pages of Blood and Beauty I worried that I would have a difficult time getting into the book because Dunant keeps the reader very distant from her characters. I need not have worried, though. Dunant tells the story of the Borgias beautifully and with such reality and tension that even knowing the history and where all of their lives were headed, I was completely rapt.
Thoughts on the audio production:
Edoardo Ballerini. You guys. He's fabulous. Like, he's just really fabulous. I've got a serious audio crush on him now. Every part of his performance is masterful.
Amazing. The book, the audio edition, all of it. Read it or, even better, listen.
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