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Nail art and polish blog - freehand nail art and swatches! Neglelak blog, frihånds neglekunst og neglelak swatches!
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5 coats!! That is soo not ok. Love the color, but I think there are similare polishes with better formula.SvarSletSvar
No, it isn't - but formula-wise (except for the sheerness) it is outstanding..Slet
For a color this beautiful and a formula that sounds perfect? Yep, I would be okay with five coats but only if I have enough time to sit down, relax and do my nails without people pointing at their watches ;)SvarSletSvar
You are a patient woman LOL, but I see what you are saying about the time enough/being relaxed!Slet
OMG, 5 coater is fa too much for me. Shade is pleasant.SvarSletSvar
I'm afraid for me too :)Slet
It's a beautiful yellow, but 5 coats is definitely too much for me too.SvarSletSvar
It is, but yes - too many coats!Slet
IT's a shame about the formula but the color is lovely!SvarSletSvar
It is a pity it's sheer - otherwise it's perfect!Slet
Five coats is way too much for me, but the colour is beautiful! :-)SvarSletSvar
Yep - for me too :)Slet
I'm glad you like it, but please do not link spam!SvarSlet
It does look lovely but seems a lot of workSvarSletSvar
LOL - it sure was :DSlet
*eyes pop* 5 coats! It's a really lovely yellow and looks amazing on you. I think if the polish is worth the 5 coats then I'd say it's okay! LOL as long as we have the time for it though ;-)SvarSletSvar
LOL - yes, I don't think I will have this kind of time ever ;)Slet
5 coats! well that's too much for normal polish application, but the color is very beautiful.SvarSlet
Not 5! If it looks unique and very pretty and needs 4 coats, I'm not ok with it, but I would try to use it... and get very frustrated every time I have to redo a nail... and then take it off...SvarSletSvar
Yes, my thoughts exactly, that many coats + base coat never really dries even with the best fast drying top coat :(Slet
love the color, but hate five coats :/SvarSlet
Five layers? Plus a layer of basecoat AND a layer of topcoat? Like, seven layers? No, no polish is pretty enough for that :DSvarSletSvar
Yep, that's so true :DSlet
Wow! Colour is just lovely. That is beyond any doubt.SvarSlet
I wouldn't bother with five coats, but I don't have problem with slightly VNL so I'd probably stick with three coats and be quite happy with it.Svar
So might I be, but not with my old, ridged nails ;)Slet
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Home Prices Are Up By The Most In 6 Years
In relation to a story that my good friend and colleague Jerry Dahmen had a while back regarding the Sioux Falls housing market being hot, here's a look at things from a national perspective.
Market researcher CoreLogic says prices were up 4.6% in August from a year ago, the largest year-over-year gain in six years. The report parallels others showing recent strengthening in home prices, which are still down about 30% from their 2006 peak.
Much of the recent increase is traceable to tightening supplies of homes for sale. In August, existing single-family home sales were up 9% year over year, but the supply of listed homes for sale was down 18%, according to the National Association of Realtors.
"Inventories drive prices," says Christopher Thornberg, an economist with Beacon Economics.
As home prices rise, more people will eventually list homes for sale. And as they do, price gains may slow, says Zillow economist Stan Humphries.
August was the sixth consecutive month that home prices were up on a month over month basis, CoreLogic says. That is a reversal from last fall, when prices were still falling. CoreLogic expects September home prices were up 5% year-over-year, too. But, it says they likely slipped 0.3% in September from August as the summer season ended.
"As people perceive that prices have bottomed, they're coming back into the market," says Mark Goldman, real estate expert at San Diego State University.

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Brian De Palma's Greetings and its sequel, Hi, Mom!, will play as a double feature on Tuesday, January 15 as part of the series "New Yawk New Wave," which runs from January 11-31 at the Film Forum in New York. The series was conceived by J. Hoberman, and programmed by Bruce Goldstein and Jake Perlin. A New York Times article by Nicolas Rapold states that the series includes more than 50 New York-centered films spanning from 1953 to 1973 (the two De Palma films were released in 1968 and 1970, respectively). Most of the films were independent features filmed on the streets of New York.
"The selection is multifaceted," writes Rapold. "Here are Brian De Palma's pre-Carrie counterculture trips Hi, Mom! and Greetings, starring a young Robert De Niro; the smart-aleck culture jam Putney Swope of Robert Downey (father of Hollywood's Iron Man); and the first feature by the avant-garde godfather and exhibitor Jonas Mekas, a founder of the movement called the New American Cinema."
Also included in the series are Jim McBride's David Holzman's Diary, John Cassavetes' Shadows, and two early films from Martin Scorsese, Who's That Knocking At My Door and Mean Streets. Hoberman tells Rapold, "One of the ironic things about Mean Streets is that it's mainly shot in Los Angeles. But the New York stuff is so vivid that he's really able to make it feel like it's completely a New York film."
De Niro recently referred to this period of independent filmmaking in an interview with The Wrap's Brent Lang. "There are so many more independent films than there were when I was in my 20s or 30s," De Niro said in response to a question about the state of the movie business. "You had Brian De Palma, Robert Downey and some other people, but the independent films being made then were a different type of thing. They were done on a Super 8, not a feature like they are today, and they didn't get studio distribution in the same way."
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Is money ruining ultrarunning? Probably. I'll leave that up to the old guard to discuss. What I'm talking about is one effect of the growth of our sport–the raised level of competition. What once was a sport with just a few top runners now hosts dozens of fast men and women at major races all over the globe. The influx of competition has paralleled the rise in popularity of the sport. The bottom line: ultrarunning is no longer just a bunch of hairy dudes running in the mountains. It's a legitimate sport that supports some of the world's best athletes.
As someone trying to compete in this cutthroat world of long-distance stardom, I find myself always seeking out new avenues to improve as an athlete. And after trying every shortcut that Men's Health magazine could throw at me, I decided to start actually training. And it worked, unfortunately, which meant I would have to continue working hard if I wanted to do well. So for the past two years, I have trained like a real athlete and have seen a steady improvement in my abilities since then. The takeaway? Hard work helps you get faster. Damn.
Anyway, after five years of serious ultrarunning, if you'll allow me to indulge myself a bit, I'm pretty solid on the running-a-long-way part. I can generally go 50 or 60 miles in a push if I want to. I seldom do, since I save those efforts for the races. But in general terms, I have the strength and endurance on most days to run for many hours. That doesn't mean that training isn't important, but it does shape the way my training is structured. Generally I will do longer training runs early in the season, then shorten and sharpen them up as the season progresses. This is part of something I do called a 'training plan', which uses 'science' to make me 'better'. And you know where it all came from? A coach.
Before I had a coach, I had the general idea that training involved long runs, speedwork, hill work, cross training, stretching… other stuff. It was all so vague. I ran a lot and sometimes fast and competed enough that I improved quickly. But by the end of 2011, I realized that to continue to improve, I would need help. I couldn't just 'wing it' anymore.
Fortunately, at that point, Jason Koop reached out to me. Jason works at Carmichael Training Systems in Colorado Springs and is actually a much more accomplished ultrarunner than myself. Just last year he ran Hardrock, Leadville, and Wasatch, placing well in all three. The upside to this is that he knows what he is talking about. He understands the sport of ultrarunning, which is absolutely essential in a coach. Couple that understanding with a massive knowledge of the science of training as well as more than 10 years of experience with some pretty impressive athletes (like Dean Karnazes), and he is clearly the best coach EVER. I'll fight you if you disagree.
Working with Jason gave me the structure and logic to my training that I had lacked in the past. He coached me to a level of ability that allowed me to win the Lake Sonoma 50 and Transvulcania last year, then run an hour and a half faster at Hardrock than I had the previous year. He knew how to train me, our personalities matched, and things lined up.
But you know what he makes me do? Intervals. Lots and lots of intervals. We started out last year with 5 x 4-minute intervals, and depending on the race for which I am training, those have fluctuated up to 4 x 12 minutes, 4 x 20 minutes, and even a few 2 x 30-minute intervals. Each type of interval works different aerobic systems for different purposes, but they all share one thing in common: they rock my world. No longer is 'training' just a bunch of long running in the mountains. Nowadays, more often than not, I find myself sprinting at absolute aerobic capacity up dirt or paved roads, pacing myself by time and effort. Sometimes I'm inspired, sometimes I'm destroyed, but at the end of every set, I am always proud of myself. The structure of training allows me to work really hard at the times that matter and relax the rest of the time, knowing that I really am doing all that I need to be a better athlete.
(Just kidding. I can't ever relax. I'm always on edge, freaking out, panicking that I could/should be doing something MORE to be fasterfasterfaster!)
Several years ago, another competitive ultrarunner told me he isn't interested in doing intervals or cross training. "That's not why I run, man," he said. "I don't enjoy that." I didn't have much of a response because his attitude makes sense. If you don't enjoy something, don't do it. And if you are a mountain runner only because you love to run in the mountains, why pollute that experience with road intervals?
Yet I continue to run intervals, and I won't stop anytime soon. Although, sure, I would prefer to run in the mountains, I know that doing intervals will make me faster. My goal is to be the strongest, fastest, best mountain runner in the sport. Sure, I'm still a long way off, but that's the goal, and I know that doing intervals will give me the aerobic ability to compete on the high level at which ultramarathons are regularly run these days. Interspersing my long mountain runs with focused intervals three times a week undoubtedly makes me faster, and that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make for the overall goal.
And you know what? I like the intervals, too. I don't just suffer through them in order to be faster on race day; in a certain way, they are some of the most rewarding runs I do. Few other workouts provide the empirical structure that allows me to gauge my ability like intervals do, and rarely elsewhere do I get the amazing sense of accomplishment that intervals provide. By doing intervals, I know that I am making myself better within the confines of the sport which I have chosen. Everything else in my life seems so ambiguous; intervals are objective.
What's it like? Nose running, spit flying, my vision almost eclipsing, I can feel my heartbeat in my throat. I pump my legs as hard as possible. They feel heavy, thick, swollen. Only the balls of my feet touch the road and as the incline steepens my steps seem to make no progress at all. I can feel the parts of my body that aren't getting enough blood, like my hands growing colder, and I can feel the invigoration of oxygen in each breath. Everything in my body depending upon everything else, and I'm dying, man. This is it, I cannot keep this up but I have two more minutes and how can I go on?
I don't know. Just don't stop. I usually imagine Rob Krar catching up behind me and that makes me push a little bit harder. When the interval finally ends, I maintain a jogging pace that is little more than moving up and down on my toes. Eventually I recover enough to jog slowly downhill. And after just a few minutes, I turn around and do it all again. And it hurts just as bad.
But I'm young and strong and getting better with each step. The competition drives me to be the best that I can be. Hopefully that inspiration will carry me through my training and well into the next race. I like seeing our sport advance; the growth allows everyone to progress as individual runners. And even if I have to forsake the sanctity of the mountains for the crush of the road, I'll do it to improve, to grow, to be better.
Call for Comments (from Meghan)
- Do you do intervals?
- Do you loathe them as much as you love them?
- Can you tell if they make you a faster, stronger runner?


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What lies behind Britain's 'special relationship' with Bahrain?
On 14 March 2011 Saudi Arabia sent hundreds of troops into Bahrain to help crush a growing protest movement. More than 30 people died, hundreds were injured and thousands arrested.
The response of the British government was to support and condone the action. We know that Saudi forces used armoured vehicles supplied by Britain as they entered the country, and we know that the Foreign Secretary, William Hague, was told about the plan in advance.
Britain's military support for the Saudis has continued apace, with arms sales reaching US$5.8 billion. Some may recall the humiliating sight of Prince Charles doing a sword dance for the Saudi royal family in order to lubricate a deal on behalf of BAE Systems.
Arms sales to Bahrain have also increased, with the most recently published figures showing that Britain has licensed almost US$66 million worth of military and dual-use exports to the regime since 2012. These have included assault rifles, explosives, pistols, naval guns and sniper rifles.
As important, has been the increase in political support. The House of Commons' Foreign Affairs Committee recently concluded: 'Both the government and the opposition in Bahrain view UK defence sales as a signal of British support for the government'.
Britain's relationship with the regime was embodied in GREAT British Week celebrations put on in January by the British embassy in Bahrain to mark what organizers called 200 years of 'friendship and strong bilateral relations'. The event saw a 250-strong delegation including such luminaries as Prince Andrew, Philip Hammond, the Secretary of State for Defence, a host of weapons companies, such as Rolls Royce and BAE Systems, and even a big red London bus.
The festivities were a far cry from the experience of Bahraini citizens on the receiving end of government-sanctioned abuse. King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifah of Bahrain has subsequently introduced a law that imposes jail sentences of up to seven years and a fine of up to 10,000 dinars (US $26,500) on any citizen who publicly insults him.
Unfortunately this was not an isolated event. GREAT British Week was only the latest in a long line of events promoted by the British government to strengthen its relationship with the dictatorship. Since then, Prince Charles has made a visit to the regime with Britain's ambassador emphasizing that the UK-Bahrain relationship 'is a warm, close and long-standing one'. Similarly, British Prime Minister David Cameron has met with the regime a number of times, last year receiving the King in Downing Street. After the meeting, Cameron used the opportunity to talk up a possible deal over Eurofighter jet sales, but said nothing of Bahrain's human rights situation.
In its most recent 'Human Rights and Democracy' report, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) listed 27 countries of concern. Bahrain was not included. The report concluded that, despite all of the evidence on the contrary, human rights were improving in the Gulf country. The report concluded that: 'The UK remains committed to providing the government of Bahrain with the support and assistance it requires'. The decision was widely criticized by human rights organizations, with Human Rights Watch saying 'we believe that the FCO continues to overstate the extent of reform in Bahrain and downplay serious and continuing rights abuses there'.
Of course Britain is not alone in aligning itself with tyrants and ignoring human rights concerns. The most recent European arms exports report, which covers licences for 2012 shows that during the 2011 Saudi invasion into Bahrain EU member states licensed US $43.5 million worth of weapons to the regime. In 2012, despite the deteriorating human rights situation, this figure increased by over 150 per cent, resulting in almost US $111 million in licences. The profitable nature of these relationships has muted criticism, which has been instrumental in ensuring that pro-democracy activists in Bahrain are campaigning in an environment characterized by violence, intimidation and repression.
Earlier this year the Stop The Shipment campaign succeeded in halting a huge cargo of South Korean teargas canisters to Bahrain. Following international attention, South Korea's arms export licensing agency Defense Acquisition Programme Administration (DAPA), announced that due to political instability and pressure from international rights groups it would cease all teargas exports to the regime.
This has set a precedent that needs to be built on with a European-wide embargo on all future arms sales to both Bahrain and Saudi Arabia. Only by putting a stop to the political and military support that is strengthening them can we ensure that when the next anniversary of the invasion comes the human rights situation and the prospects of their citizens will look stronger than today.
Andrew Smith is the spokesperson for Campaign Against Arms Trade.
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The Divide in Technologists…
Sexism & Those That are Building Tech
There seems to be a pretty distinctive divide in the technology industry today. There are the young, open minded, devop oriented, free-thinking individuals and then there are the old guard of IT. This later group still brings the "booth babes" and finds an incessant need to assume all women aren't technologists (which I might add is utter bullshit). This is when I'm going to rant for a minute.
Ok guys, pull your heads out of your collective asses. I've spoke to 11 ladies that are hard core technologists, that would take your old guard IT and replace your sorry ass with a shell script plus some cloud computing and leave you to the dogs. They're programmers, devops pros, hackers and entrepreneurs Simply, they kick as much ass as anybody, so shove off.
This however brings up the question, "Why the hell does the conference still perpetuate this bullshit with booth babes and mindless dribble?" Seriously, can we focus on the technology, the reason we're here? To learn, to build, to maintain, create and extend our services and capabilities that we work with? Can we not have a mass of "talent" come and stand around just so aging IT guys can ogle their breasts with roaming eyeballs?
Don't get me wrong, beautiful people are great, and when done tastefully things can be fun. One of the ladies I work with mentioned it'd be great if Thor showed up and hung out at the conference (cuz ya see, we have a product called Thor, and this data company had Data attend. (Brent Spiner)).
I could go on. Simply put, companies and conference organizers need to own up and get with the times. For those of us that are a little evolved past nuckle dragging we should stand up to this time of nonsense. There's a reason we're at a conference and it damn well shouldn't be to devalue people as objects and ogle various body parts.
Ok, back on track with the successful bits. There were, after all a lot of successful bits and the sexism is a small, yet very sad and noticeable part of the event. The other good news is the amount of women's groups that are getting together these days to code (and I also find it unfortunate that to create a positive environment, women usually have to entirely disengage with men, and it is generally men's fault) Yup I said code. Rails Girls, Code n' Splode and many others. So if you're reading this and are female, check these groups out and get hacking & devoping.
The Big Move, PaaS is Starting to Rock!
VMware made serveral announcements around Cloud Foundry, which is pretty huge. The momentum is still growing, the community is still growing, and the energy is contagious. There's been some egregious accusations and suggestions that the Cloud Foundry ecosystem is going to collapse. This is, however one of the more absurd notions I've heard in months. This definitely falls into the category of FUD flinging with no concrete notion. Lucas (@cardmagic) from AppFog lays out a bit of reality though, and the 20k people at VMworld and the thousands using and hundreds coding to Cloud Foundry give a resounding shout of,
Cloud Foundry is not collapsing, VMware is not taking an unfair advantage, and they're in a position to win along with all the rest of the advocates of PaaS and open source. The thing is, things can indeed be win-win. They don't have to be win-lose and the later thinking is negative to the industry and counter to the reality of open source.
Either way, toss any ideas this is going away out of your minds. I know most of you already have.
Smart People, Networking and a Few Rounds
The greatest thing about these conferences is the ability to network and meet face to face with hundreds of people that I do business with everyday. These range from people I hack code with, to people I help implement Cloud Foundry or people that simply are involved in the community too. To me, the most valuable ROI is the networking at a conference. Just to throw a few out there, I got to catch up with…
- Dave McCrory @mccrory – This guy is awesome, if you get to work with him you're a lucky soul. He's heading up WMG as SVP of Platform Engineering now to get some cool things built and build out a solid team, which I look forward to hearing about!
- Andy Piper @andypiper – Andy is VMware's Cloud Foundry Dev Advocate of Great Britain. I got to meet Andy a while back and got to team up with him and many others to catch up on Cloud Foundry, see were things are heading, talk through some ideas and generally cause mischief around San Francisco.
- James Watters @wattersjames – I always love running into this guy. Top notch smart, snarky and always ready to go through who's who and who's doing what in cloud technology. He's the VMware Director of Ecosystem for Cloud Foundry and they're damn lucky to have this guy!
- Brian McClain @brianmmcclain – When I was originally writing Brian's name out, I mispelled it "brain" and almost just left it this way. Brian is all over the Cloud Foundry realm working with BOSH, pushing forward with Cloud Foundry in an enterprise environment, and generally always ready to dive into the tech heavy deep end. Always great chatting with Brian about the details and whatever random code adventures come up!
…and there were dozens of others I got to catch up with. Mark Kropf, Ken Robertson, Daine Mueller, Jeremy Voorhis and almost got to catch up with Derek Collison too. Well, there's always the next trip to San Francisco! If you're into the Cloud Foundry space, into PaaS technologies, or just interested definitely reach out, follow these guys on twitter, and make an effort to meet them.
VMware's VMworld Summary
VMworld was good times, for sure. There were the hiccups as I pointed out, but overall a great experience, the organizers did a solid job (still would help if they could crack down on the companies that perpetuate sexism and BS over content on the booth/show floor, but otherwise, kudos on a job well done). It was great catching up with the brain power in the industry and finally meeting many people I'd been wanting to. I even wrote more than a few lines of code and tested out a few deployment ideas based on the conversations. This, in the end, is exactly what the conference is truly about. Cheers!


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|Vintage Lilly Pulitzer fabric
And it would have driven Mummy Darling crazy.
|Lilly Pulitzer in her original shop in Palm Beach
Image courtesy of The Preppy Princess
MD owned half a dozen Marimekko shifts in the late 1960s, that she treasured and wore in rotation during the summer, and she also had Marimekko scarves and tea towels, and even sheets. She liked the bright colors and patterns of Marimekko, which she thought suited her to a tee. Besides, there was something almost radical about wearing Marimekko at the time. It was kicky and "now" and was from über-cool Scandinavia, like the furniture that was gradually replacing the antiques in our living room, that MD had inherited from her grandparents.
|Vintage marimekko from the 1960s
Image courtesy of marimekko
|Durie Desloge and Wendy Vanderbilt in Lilly, in 1964
Photographed by Slim Aarons
But only a year or two later, much to MD's indignation, she found that Lilly Pulitzer had been engaged to supply new school uniforms at the National Cathedral School for Girls, where my sister Hermione was a student. And MD had to buy a set for her. She didn't have a choice in the matter. I still remember her fuming, "I can't believe it! I said I'd never buy any of that Lilly Putziger crap, and now I have to!"
|Slim Aarons' photographs of Lilly and her Palm Beach followers,
from Aarons' book Once Upon A Time
It was not until I went to Saint Grottlesex in the early 1970s that I thought about Lilly again. Even though there weren't all that many girls at the school in those days (it had only just gone co-ed), a lot of them wore Lilly dresses and skirts, just like their mothers. And they carried Lilly bags, too, and some of them even had Lilly patchwork quilts in their off-limits rooms. It was actually kind of weird to see these teenage girls wearing what appeared to Reggie as rather matronly dresses in pretty pastels, when his own sisters were in the full throes of hippiedom. But there was something quite attractive about it, too, and Reggie liked it. And it wasn't just the girls at Saint Grottlesex who wore Lilly. Quite a few of the boys did, too. A number of Reggie's male friends at the school had shorts and long pants from Lilly, and swim trunks, as well. And they looked really good in them.
|Lilly-wearing Palm Beach residents, Mr. and Mrs. Donald Leas
Likely photographed by Slim Aarons
Image courtesy of Dwellers Without Decorators
One year I stayed at Saint Grottlesex a couple of days beyond the usual departure date for the summer break, and I had the dormitory where I lived to myself. While there, I came across a pair of Lilly shorts that one of the boys had left behind. They were orange, with lions printed on them, and I was delighted to find that they fit me perfectly. But I also remember feeling somewhat strange when I put them on, as if I was slipping my feet into the forbidden. I knew what MD thought about Lilly, yet I was attracted to it. Not just for the way it looked, all summery and Palm Beachy, but also for the pretty and attractive people I knew who wore it. MD be damned, I thought, as I looked at myself in the mirror. I'm going to keep these shorts.
|My Lilly swim trunks
And I pretty much did, until the mid 1990s, when I saw a pair of Lilly swim trunks in the window of a store in Manhattan. And I bought them, and wore them on Fire Island Pines, where the standard-issue bathing suit at the time was a far racier Speedo, or "banana hammock," as my preppy girlfriends called them, wrinkling their noses. But I must admit, Reggie felt a bit of an imposter wearing his pink-and-green Lilly on the beach that summer, and the suit quickly found its way to the back of the drawer, never to be worn again. I still have it, though.
|A close-up of my trunks, showing the
"Lilly" that appears in all of her prints
Fast forward, to today on Nantucket.
Last weekend, when our friends George Pinckney and Ford Waring were visiting us, we went into the Lilly shop in town to look around. Neither George nor Ford, both of whom are old-line WASP southerners, are strangers to Lilly. In fact, George once had a pair of Lilly shorts that he wore in the mid-1980s that I coveted and that he no longer owns, much to his regret. We learned in the store that Lilly has discontinued, or at least drastically reduced, its menswear offerings, and what little they had left was aggressively marked down for an end-of-summer sale.
|Boy's Lilly trunks, bought on Nantucket last summer
George walked out of the store with a colorful pair of trousers (seen in the center photograph, below) that he happily bought at a fraction of their original marked price. Even though there was clothing there that fit me, I can't bring myself to wear today's Lilly, even ironically. I guess that MD's influence over me remains strong, even from beyond the crematorium.
|Current Lilly menswear offerings
Image courtesy of New York Magazine
But that doesn't apply to all Lilly. I am okay with owning and wearing vintage Lilly, particularly if it's from the 1960s and 1970s, which is what I consider to be Lilly's heyday. And, coincidentally, that's exactly what we found not more than a few minutes later while strolling through the streets of Nantucket.
Well, actually, it found us. Here's how: As the four of us walked by a white clapboard building in town, a pretty young blonde standing by the doorway called out, "Hey, you guys!" Once she got our attention she said, "We've got vintage Lilly inside, come check it out!" I suppose the sight of us, all wearing some combination of Lacostes, khakis, madras, ribbon belts, white bucks, and Gucci loafers--plus George's shopping bag from the Lilly store, and Ford's and Boy's bags from other expected shops--just might have signaled to her that we were likely customers. For it turned out she was a barker for a trunk show of vintage designer and couture clothing that Classic Collections, a Palm Beach dealer, had for sale inside.
|Boy, in his vintage Lilly jacket
Photograph by Reggie Darling
Tucked away among the rooms of women's clothing and accessories was a yard-wide rack of men's Lilly sport jackets from the 1960s through 1980s for sale. Both Ford and Boy tried them on, but only one of them fit Boy. Like a glove. Supposedly dating from the 1970s, the jacket is made out of a Lilly fabric of green, yellow, blue, and white in a fish-and-seashell design. The buttons and label have Lilly's classic menswear lion-head logo from that era.


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The UA Curry 4 Low is a low-top version of Stephen Curry's fourth signature shoe with Under Armour. It debuts in an all-red "Nothing But Nets" colorway on December 31st, 2017 for $120. The shoe features sock-like construction, woven materials, and "SC30" branding on the midsole. Read the articles below for further release details and price information.
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MONTREAL – The father of a Nova Scotia teen whose suicide brought the issue of Internet bullying to the forefront says she tried to convince him they should go public on the matter.
Glen Canning said the plan to go to the media was hatched by his daughter, Rehtaeh Parsons, in the months leading up to her death this past April.
Canning told a news conference in Montreal on Thursday that both he and Parsons' mother decided at the time that going public was not the right thing to do, even though the former photojournalist could have easily made it happen.
With all his daughter was going through, Canning felt at the time she would have been overwhelmed by the media exposure.
But now, he says he would go public under similar circumstances.
"She wanted to do something like that but I felt at the time there was so much going on in her life, it would have been overwhelming," Canning said. "Looking back, I wish I'd done that."
He said he would advise parents of kids who have been victimized by cyberbullying and are being ignored by authorities to go that route with the caveat that the child be aware of the cost of going to the press.
Sometimes, that option might be inevitable, he noted.
"If your child is being cyberbullied and getting threats online, on Facebook and text messages and it goes on and on and on and you've been complaining, what are your options here?"
Canning was in Montreal to give a lecture organized by Concordia's Centre for Gender Advocacy and to lend support for better services for sex assault victims at post-secondary institutions.
Bianca Mugyenyi of the centre said Concordia's plan to open a sexual assault centre is a start, but more needs to be done.
"What we're dealing with is a cultural problem, a societal problem and so a lot of work needs to be done with respect to consent and consent education," Mugyenyi said.
"We really need to end rape culture ultimately … we need to believe survivors, we need to protect them, we need to support them and we need to end victim blaming."
Canning knows this all too well. His own daughter's death was brought on by months of bullying following an alleged sexual assault.
Rehtaeh's family has said the girl felt helpless after a digital photo of her allegedly being sexually assaulted circulated around the school.
Parsons was admitted to hospital in March 2012, a few months after the alleged November 2011 assault, and became suicidal.
The 17-year-old girl hanged herself in April this year and was taken off life-support three days later.
Her death drew international media attention after her parents went public in the days that followed.
Canning has pressed Nova Scotia's political parties to launch a judicial inquiry into his daughter's death.
Canning said it's heart-breaking when a child musters up the courage to denounce bullying and the school fails to act, as was his experience.
He believes it is a conversation all Canadians need to be having.
"You need to get people start talking about this and you need to get people to start engaging their governments too," said Canning.
"Sometimes governments will do what's most popular or what's easiest and you can't let that happen. You have to make them do what's right — and that's putting kids first."
In August, two teens were charged with child-pornography charges. The case was reopened one week after Parsons' death when, according to authorities, they received new and credible information from someone who was willing to co-operate. Initially, police had said there wasn't enough evidence to lay charges.
Canning lamented that his daughter never saw justice served while she was alive.
"The bullying that goes on today is not a part of growing up, it's not a rite of passage for anybody," said Canning.
"We've given our kids a communication tool that is like a dragon that's not tamed at all.
"They can spread stuff so fast and to so many people and there's no way to contain it and we're not teaching kids to use it responsibly and we're not holding kids accountable when they don't."
Note to readers: This is a corrected version; a previous story said Rehtaeh Parsons committed suicide in 2012


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The Cost of Raising a Child AKA Why You Need Life Insurance
Each year the government (the USDA to be exact) publishes how much it costs to raise a child to 18. The number is staggering. It's more money than most of us can imagine coming up with, which is why life insurance is so important. You can cover that sum—$233,610—for a modest monthly premium. A healthy 30-year-old, for example, can get $250,000 of term life insurance coverage for 20 years for about $13 a month. That is a small price to pay for both peace of mind, and having your child be OK financially if something were to happen to you.
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Microsoft may have ended support for Windows XP, but free antivirus software vendor Avast projects that for millions of users, that won't mean squat.
Avast had previously reported that 23.6 percent of its users were still running Windows XP. In the days before Microsoft ended support of Windows XP on April 8, Avast surveyed close to 165,000 of those users. The results, released in in a blog post on Monday, indicate that 27 percent of Avast's Windows XP users don't plan on doing anything, even though Windows XP systems are theoretically vulnerable to attack from hitherto unreported vulnerabilities.
Avast itself has reported that Windows XP users are attacked several times more frequently than those running Windows 7.
Avast, like other antimalware vendors, has committed to supporting Windows XP for two years or more. Microsoft, too, has commited to antimalware updates until July 2015. But using antimalware as the duct tape for an otherwise unpatched system is generally considered unwise, as Avast itself notes. "This number is relatively high considering the security risks involved with the OS and makes one wonder how many XP users are not concerned about their protection and aren't planning on upgrading their OS, buying a new PC or seeking AV that will support them," the company noted.
Avast says it has over 200 million users who have downloaded and run its free antimalware suite, giving it a significant user base to query. Of the 164,496 users who responded, Avast said that that 21 percent of its Windows XP users were unaware that Microsoft was ending support for Windows XP. That might explain why only 15 percent of those Windows XP users were planning to upgrade their operating system, according to Avast. And only 5 percent of users plan to buy an entirely new PC, even though that, too, is strongly advised.
Avast also recommends that its customers switch away from Internet Explorer 8, whose version for Windows XP will no longer be supported. In its place, the company recommended users move to Google's Chrome browser, which updates itself.
Can antimalware protect the average PC? It depends on the needs, said Michael Silver, an analyst for Gartner, in an email. "Characterizing anti malware as a patch is really inaccurate," he wrote. "However there are companies that claim their antimalware software will specifically look for malicious activity based on security holes found after support ended, for example, Arkoon Extended XP. For some users and organizations that will be sufficient. For others, especially where compliance is an issue, an unsupported version of Windows is really a non-starter."
However, Silver added an important caveat: "Even a patched OS has risks. If you did enough to reduce surface area for attack, you could create a Windows XP system that's more secure than the typical Windows 7 PC," he said.
Avast executives could not be reached for comment, though a spokesperson did confirm the survey results for our article.
We talked to people who've consciously chosen to stick with Windows XP. By and large, those users believe that Windows XP PCs are essentially appliances, and good online behavior can eliminate the threats that come from malware and drive-by downloads.
Microsoft, meanwhile, has offered everything from free data transfer to discounts on new PCs to encourage users to switch. Even corporations and governments that have paid Microsoft dearly to extend support have to have a transition plan in place. But a significant percentage of those who have invested in Windows XP appear to be wedded to that OS. That choice is undoubtedly leaving them vulnerable to future problems.


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Friday Dose of Cute: Simple Puppy Pleasures
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.....but..Bear, I just wanted to play stick with you.:-(ReplyDelete
You in the Midwest have a non-weather weekend, please. We in the Pacific Northwest are still awaiting Spring, but it is not too windy. Chilly, wet and some snow.
Ahhh, to be the dog!! :)ReplyDelete
- Anonymous5/28/2011 7:09 AM
that puppy wanted the big dog to play "stick" and he just wouldn't do it....ReplyDelete
That is cute....It looks like the little one is saying, "Alright, stop rolling around and play with me!" LOLReplyDelete
- Anonymous5/28/2011 11:17 AM
Is there anything more fun to see than dogs at play? They are such wonderfully fun creatures!ReplyDelete
Happy Memorial Day weekend to you!
Wonderful story in pictures. Made me smile.ReplyDelete
i needed that dose of cute. adorable dogs!ReplyDelete
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Lance Down Under: Are Armstrong's seven-figure appearance fees worth every dollar?
Editor's note: Since he embarked on an ambitious return to cycling at the 2009 Tour Down Under, opinions on Lance Armstrong's undisclosed appearance fees have ranged from "staggering" and "embarrassing" to an "opportunity to showcase South Australia to a global audience." Anthony Tan reports on the impact of cycling's…
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Editor's note: Since he embarked on an ambitious return to cycling at the 2009 Tour Down Under, opinions on Lance Armstrong's undisclosed appearance fees have ranged from "staggering" and "embarrassing" to an "opportunity to showcase South Australia to a global audience." Anthony Tan reports on the impact of cycling's leading figure in Australia and the sustainability of the TDU event post-Lance. Note that the Australian dollar is trading at 99 cents U.S., so for simplicity Australian currency figures in this article have not been converted.
Golfing sensation turned scallywag Tiger Woods was paid $1.5 million to play in the Australian Masters golf tournament in November 2009, although Woods' fee was minuscule compared to his loss of sponsors, income and ability to win at will after his spate of sexual indiscretions were made public.
Last December, chat show queen Oprah Winfrey's visit to Australia cost taxpayers somewhere between $3-5 million. The economic benefit of her visit was said to be $71 million, with Brand Finance Australia saying the 'Oprah Effect' will see tourism revenue increase by several hundred million dollars over the next three years. To be aired sometime this year — her 25th and last series — 'Oprah's Ultimate Australian Adventure' show, where she brought 300 disciples Down Under for a week-long party, will be broadcast to 215 syndicated networks in the USA and to 140 networks around the world according to Tourism Australia. The 'Big O's' weekly TV audience is a reported 180 million-strong; 40 million are American.
A few weeks later at arguably the best fireworks celebration in the world on New Year's Eve, Sydney's 12-minute-long pyrotechnic extravaganza cost taxpayers $5 million. Sydney Lord Mayor Clover Moore quoted an estimate of $156 millon in economic activity generated by the fireworks, watched by 1.5 million people around Sydney Harbour and a record 1.1 billion around the world.
Upon his competitive return to cycling at the 2009 Tour Down Under, Lance Armstrong — who is set to ride his final professional race outside the U.S. at the 2011 event in South Australia — was reported on numerous occasions to have been paid somewhere between one and two million dollars.
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In 2009 Armstrong said initial rumors of a $2m appearance fee were "outrageous."
But asked repeatedly by Crikey.com.au why the actual sum — which the seven-time Tour winner confirmed to the New York Times he was treating as income, not monies towards charity as a media officer for the State Premier Mike Rann said it was for — remains undisclosed to the public, the web site was told by a spokesperson for the then-State Tourism Minister, Jane Lomax-Smith: "Any payments associated with teams or cyclists taking part in the Tour Down Under are commercial-in-confidence. This has been the case since the inception of the race 11 years ago."
The Armstrong factor
According to figures from the South Australian tourism department (see table), economic impact jumped from $17.3 million to $39 million between 2008 to 2009, with visitor attendance going from 548,000 to 760,500 over the same period.
"The 2009 Tour Down Under has broken almost every record for a sporting event held in South Australia," Premier Rann said. "Lance's decision to make his cycling comeback at the Tour Down Under was an incredible boost for the event and gave us the opportunity to showcase South Australia to a global audience."
Unsurprisingly, Lance enjoyed the event and pocket money so much he returned in 2010. The event did continue to grow — economic impact from $39 million to $41.5 million, spectator numbers from 760,500-770,500 — although the growth was marginal rather than exponential. And, according to information sourced by VeloNews, a key indicator fell by almost half: the value of editorial media coverage, which skyrocketed from $43 million to $226 million from 2008-09 — a 425 percent increase — fell to $124m in 2010, a drop of 45 percent (the latter figure unreported in the original press release).
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Again his appearance fee last year remained hidden from public eyes but according to budget papers from the South Australian government, obtained by the Adelaide Advertiser newspaper in October, a discrepancy of $1.995 million between the budgeted total for tourism expenditure ($15.055 million) and estimated final expenditure ($17.05 million) was outstanding in the 2009-10 financial year.
Former Minister Lomax-Smith — who has since been replaced by John Rau as SA Tourism Minister — also appeared to change her tune as to why Armstrong's fee was not disclosed, telling The Australian newspaper, "There are many people who'd like to steal our major events and our sports and arts activities. We don't want to help those people who we know are sniffing around by giving them an idea of how they're managed."
In budget estimates questioning last December, Minister Rau said the near $2 million discrepancy could be attributed to Armstrong's appearance fee.
Income, not charity
Opposition sports minister Terry Stephens told Crikey.com.au: "… it is not Mike Rann personally that is paying Armstrong — it is the people of South Australia. "Now that Armstrong has decided that Mike Rann is a terrific Premier I think that he should make his commercial agreements public."
In January last year Armstrong endorsed Premier Rann's re-election on his Twitter page, followed by 2.7 million people, where he tweeted, "Rann is my man;" Rann was re-elected in March.
Independent politician David Winderlich added: "I don't see any reason why they shouldn't disclose how much they are spending on sportsmen like Lance Armstrong — unless of course they are ashamed of it" — and labeled Armstrong's endorsement of Rann "backdoor" political advertising.
Minister Stephens says that's exactly the reason, calling the amount "staggering:" "At a time where they are cutting through the public service like an axe, they are obviously embarrassed about Lance Armstrong's fee," he told Adelaidenow.com.au.
But what of Armstrong's contributions to overcoming cancer in South Australia? Surely that offsets the fee, you might say.
So far it's been in name only; the state's new $27 million-dollar Flinders Centre for Innovation in Cancer will incorporate the LiveStrong Cancer Research Centre, originally scheduled to open in August but now expected to be operational in February 2012. The LiveStrong charity has made monetary donations to other Australian states but has strangely overlooked the region he's most familiar and adored in. (One of Armstrong's requirements for racing the TDU, however, was financial support from the SA government to cancer research; at last year's race, Premier Rann said his government gave a $7.5 million commitment to the LiveStrong Centre, along with $5.2 million annually in operating costs.)
Whatever the reason for not telling us, it's irrefutable the Santos Tour Down Under is a well-managed and run event. It's also undeniable the 'Lance factor' contributed to its profound growth in 2009 though perhaps not as much last year (from 2009-10, visitation increased just 1.3 percent and economic impact up 6.4 percent) and possibly less again in 2011, where he's likely to be paid the same fee again.
What's a million bucks between friends, anyway?
For the future of the TDU and cycling in general, Lance's lessened impact is not such a bad sign.
Cycling must — and will — go on without Armstrong, and aside from the Tour de France, which will always be held in the highest regard and be the most prestigious to win, race organizers, if their events are to not just survive but thrive, must find ways of retaining or building their audiences achieved during the Era of Lance. Inviting the world's best teams to compete and being part of the World Tour is one such method.
WorldTour status means longevity – to the detriment of Continental teams
TDU organizer and Oceania Cycling Federation president, Mike Turtur, says there's good reason why he chose to accept ProTour event (now called WorldTour) status four years ago.
Over the years, Turtur has being accused of promoting the interests of his event ahead of the growth of domestic teams and Australian cycling, stymieing the ability of local squads to continue given their inability to participate in the country's premier event, thus losing interest from local sponsors. His detractors argue that the Amgen Tour of California (AToC), a hors catégorie (HC) event which can invite ProTeam, Pro Continental and Continental teams, is how the TDU should operate.
"I can show you figures from the year that we were a hors-class (sic) race to the year we were ProTour — the visitation, the economic benefit, the participation level in every aspect of the race went up by at least 40 percent. That's business," he told this writer in November, responding to criticisms from Michael Drapac, the eponymous owner of Australian Continental cycling team, Drapac-Porsche, that he has only his interests at heart.
One of Mr. Drapac's gripes is that the TDU is "the only cycling event in the world calendar that, even before it was ProTour, has never had a privately funded (local) team participate in it." He also said events like the AToC "protect the resident teams and the event is integrated into the national calendar in some way," asking: "What is the consequence of an event which exploits the popularity of the sport to the detriment of the better interests of the riders?"
Drapac also believes the TDU's stance indirectly encourages riders to pursue an all-or-nothing bid to go to Europe in the hope of turning professional, rather than have the option of studying secondary or higher education or taking a trade apprenticeship while continuing to race, preparing them for life after cycling.
For the record, TDU spectator attendance went from 357,000 to 548,000 (a 53.5 percent increase) and economic impact from $11.5 million to 17.3 million (50.4 percent) between 2007 (pre-ProTour) and 2008, according to SA government figures.
The AToC, which has always been a HC-ranked event, saw its spectator numbers rise from 1.3-1.6 million people between the same period (+23.1 percent); and in 2009 and 2010 it was 2 million, according to information on the race's web site. Armstrong raced only in the 2010 event, where he crashed out in the fifth of eight legs.
"Whether he (Mr. Drapac) accepts that or not, unfortunately that's the way it is. Now, if we turn around and say, 'We don't want a successful race; we want to cater for the handful of Australian teams that operate in Australia', then the race would last one year. The race would die because visitation wouldn't be there, economic benefit wouldn't be there … all the aspects that this race requires to reach, in terms of maintaining funding (from the SA government), would cease."
Tour of California faces "a real dilemma," says TDU boss
As for the Tour of California, five editions young compared to the TDU which is in its 13th year, Turtur says the race has "a real dilemma on their hands."
"They have massive participation by local registered teams that have been part of that race since its inception. If you look at our race, we did not have that situation since we first started in '99, and we continued on throughout the years not having participation by Australian-registered teams because during those years, in my opinion, none of the Australian-registered teams were offering this race any interest, in terms of promotion or bringing extra people to the race. And secondly — more importantly — in my view, they weren't at the level required to participate at this race. Everyone knows during that period, from '99 to the present day, the Australian teams were barely in the development stage. It's got to another level now, but still, nowhere near the American level.
"So what the Tour of California now have to consider," Turtur said, "is if they go WorldTour, then they are going to deny the greater majority of American teams that participate in their race, and have done since year one — whereas we never had that."
If the level of cycling in Australia reached a level to that of the U.S., would he consider revoking his WorldTour license to be able to invite locally-registered Continental and Pro Continental teams? (Since the TDU became a ProTour event in 2008 only one Pro Continental team —BMC Racing — has been invited, which was last year, when Cadel Evans was world champion.) "That would be absolutely suicidal. We will kill our race overnight," said Turtur.
"I mean, it's just too silly for words to consider. We would never give up our status — we worked too hard to achieve it. And I'm saying from a business point of view, from a tourism point of view … all other considerations outside of cycling — and let's face it, the only reason this event became what it was, was because of the funding and the package and the proposal we put to government to sell it as a tourism event. The continued success will only be if we maintain the race at the highest possible competition level, and at the moment that's WorldTour. We've got our spot; we've got to protect that with everything we've got.
"This is a government-owned event, and at the moment, the government has about a 50-50 split with (other) sponsorship (money) with the cost of putting the race on. And they're happy to continue it on that scenario, as long as the visitation and economic benefit numbers continue to be at the level they are now. They have a formula they use: for every dollar they put in, they (must) get a minimum of eight dollars' return. At the moment we're exceeding that. And as soon as those numbers drop off, we're in trouble. Simple as that."
Other ProTour events not in the black
Turtur has a point. It's well known that if your event's not owned or affiliated with Tour de France organizers ASO, or RCS or Unipublic, organizers of the Giro d'Italia and Vuelta a España, and you don't have government support, it is going to be a struggle.
Serge Arsenault, organizer of the two ProTour events in Canada last September, expected to lose around one million Canadian dollars on a budget of $4.6 million. A TV host-cum-entrepreneur who owns French cable channel Évasion, Arsenault's plan for his two one-day races in Québec and Montréal is to eventually bring the teams in as partners, to share in both the costs and revenue from that all-important money-spinner: television broadcasting rights. It's a concept that sits unevenly with ASO, which jealously guards its races — and TV revenues.
Turtur said the reported $41.5 million in economic benefit to the State of South Australia the Tour Down Under generated last year was far in excess of the minimum one-for-eight dollars return: "… the government, for what they put in to the race, are over the moon with the return they're getting. Absolutely delighted."
Tour Down Under stages map
Goss wins TDU pre-race
Cavendish/Greipel sprinter battle on tap
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Armstrong and team train in Australia
All Tour Down Under stories
Premier Rann, who was introduced to Twitter by Armstrong, is up for re-election in 2013.
Armstrong, more than likely, will have his back again and, more than likely, will tweet so too. And while he may still be powerful — although physically-speaking, less so than his heyday — his countenance is unlikely to be as efficacious as Oprah's endorsement of Barack Obama to the White House in 2008.
Editor's note: Realizing life in advertising was nothing like Mad Men and buoyed by the Olympic Games in his Australian hometown of Sydney, Anthony Tan turned his back on a lucrative copywriting career in 2000 to pursue something more cerebral. Combining wordsmithing with his experiences as an A-Grade club racer and a season racing in Europe, a career as a cycling scribe beckoned. … More than 10 Grand Tours and countless classics later, it's where he still is today. He has been a contributor to VeloNews since 2006.


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They were on a five-game winning streak, a run that got them back in the Top 25 for the first time since the third week of the regular season. Things couldn't have turned any worse for the defending national champions Tuesday night.
And it wasn't because No. 25 Kentucky lost to No. 7 Florida 69-52. With 8 minutes to go, star freshman Nerlens Noel went down with a knee injury.
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He had eight points, six rebounds and three blocks before getting hurt. He entered the game averaging 10.6 points, 9.6 rebounds and a national-leading 4.5 blocks.
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It's because I can't take the misinformation anymore.
I was recently contacted by the company that manages my stock to open up a new Web site log-on account. During new account creation, it asked me to input a secure password. So, I put in my normal password that is 21 characters long followed by 10 characters that are unique per Web site, but only uses lowercase letters. The length of the base password prevents basic password cracking and guessing, while the additional characters make the overall password (or pass phrase) unique so that no two resources ever have the same password.
At 31 characters long, my password is all but unhackable. Attackers will need to find another way to compromise my account rather than trying to guess it or crack it with brute force.
But of course, as usual, the finance company's Web site required that my password be complex, using three of four presented sets of characters, such as at least one uppercase character or one nonalphanumeric symbol. So although the password could be only six characters long, according to their policy, it also had to be complex.
The conventional thinking is that the additional complexity presents such an increased workload for the hacker that complexity is the holy grail of password hacking prevention. After all, conventional wisdom says that all the good Web sites require complexity. Heck, a Microsoft Windows log-on password requires complexity. Every new password policy I read requires complexity -- but gives scant consideration to the equal (or better) importance of longer password length.
They're all wrong! Character-for-character, password length is more important for security than complexity. Requiring complexity but allowing passwords to remain short makes passwords more vulnerable to attack than simply requiring easier-to-remember, longer passwords.
For everyone using six- to nine-character passwords with "complexity," I appreciate it. I get paid to break in to systems for a living, and you make my job easier.
Strength is provided by increasing the number of possible passwords the attacker has to guess (let's call this the keyspace even though it really isn't appropriate in this context). The keyspace is represented mathematically as X^L, where X is the number of possible characters that can be in the password and L is the length. If you do the basic analysis, you can see that changes in L are more significant, character for character, than changes in X.
But conventional wisdom will have you believe that increasing complexity forces the password attacker to use significantly more possible characters in their attack. In the X^L formula example, forcing the use of capitalized letters requires the value of X to go from 26 for all possible lower case letters to 52 for both upper case and lower case letters. And if you include nonalphanumeric characters, X goes up to 94 to support all the normal single characters you can type on a 101 keyboard. Windows will allow you to use any Unicode character, which includes upwards of 65,000 different symbols.
Of course, most people only use the 94 standard keyboard keys. And if people actually evenly used the 94 characters of potential complexity, short passwords would be uncrackable, because 94^8 = 6,095,689,385,410,816 possible passwords -- which is uncrackable using anything known today or in the near future.
The problem with this analysis is that complexity cannot be guaranteed, and for the most part will be circumvented by your end-users. Whether you give them 94 characters or 65,000 characters to choose from, most will choose to include the same 32 characters (several studies have discussed this, including this Microsoft debate).
This means that the effective password space for most environments is 32^L, plus a few more characters. In the study cited above, 10 percent of the cracked passwords only used the included 32 characters. It's important to note that this was a sample of passwords within a company that had a higher state of security than most organizations.
And because most users also use dictionary words as the root to their "complex" password, and follow other common conventions (capitalized letters are at the beginning, numbers are at the end), a simple hybrid attack will break most of them in less than a day. Trust me, I know -- I do it for a living.
There is no easy way to force true password complexity in most environments without a software addition, other than to generate truly random passwords and hand them out to users. They will probably hate you for doing so, but the greater concern is that writing down their passwords makes them even weaker than noncomplex passwords.
If you can't guarantee true password complexity (and you probably can't) length is your best bet. I'd guess that a typical good, knowledgeable password hacker can crack up to nine-character passwords within normal levels of ability and resources. At 10 characters, it becomes very hard to crack, regardless of complexity.
So, when trying to increase the strength of your passwords, my advice is to consider length as much or more than you consider complexity. For my money, length is all the protection I need. Make your admin and root passwords 15 or more characters long and forget about complexity -- at 15 characters-plus, they are all but uncrackable.
If you still don't believe me, participate in my password cracking challenge. Win $100 and books. Odds are that you'll crack the 10-character complex challenge long before the 15-character no-complexity password.


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Rose petals floating on water is the aspect of 100% Love that lends it a serene and wistful quality. Luminous accords are arranged like delicate patterns on Japanese silk, their translucence evoking a gentle touch. The composition captures the moment when one loses oneself in a reverie of perfect contentment. If this sensation could be bottled, 100% Love comes close.
100% Love was created by Sophia Grojsman, the nose behind fragrances like Jaipur by Boucheron, Eternity by Calvin Klein, Paris by Yves Saint Laurent, and Trésor by Lancôme. 100% Love is a fascinating fragrance in terms of the development of Grojsman's artistic vision, whose earlier creations have been revolutionary in terms of their structure, where most of the formula was made up of only a few ingredients, with carefully chosen accents ornamenting the composition. In case of Trésor, four materials comprise 80% of the formula. The result is a panoramic, rather than a sequential composition, unfolding like a fan. ...
100% Love is panoramic as well, yet it pairs complexity with translucence. Delicate rose petals layered with a dusting of chocolate are the central facet of the composition, which is also ornamented subtly with incense. Rose is a note that Grojsman is famous for, be the lush pink petals of Paris, a soft apricot tinged flower of Trésor, or an imaginary blue blossom of Yvresse. It is interesting to see that in 100% Love rose has an abstract quality, as if painted in watercolours. It does not explode in a cascade of petals like the other fragrances mentioned, yet its dream-like aura is what makes the composition especially beguiling. Chocolate note provides a lovely sweet touch, yet nothing about the composition is particularly gourmand. It folds many associations within its ethereal form, from the first flowers to the first kiss.
It persists caressing and gentle, its quiet beauty underscored by a sense of confidence its creator instilled in the composition. Indeed, the concept and the name could not be more fitting. Like The Different Company fragrances, 100% Love requires to be sprayed liberally in order to create a thin veil of scent over the skin. While there is a special ethereal beauty to the composition in its current EDT concentration, S-Perfume will release a more concentrated version early next year.
S-Perfume based in New York is a small perfume company that creates fragrances in collaboration with the well-know perfumers such as Sophia Grojsman, Thierry Wasser, Alberto Morillas, Christophe Laudamiel, Jacques Cavallier, and Annick Menardo. S-Perfumes are available from STUDIO at Los Angeles Fred Segal, Colette Paris, and Mother Tokyo (03 5433 1748). Online, samples and fragrances are available directly from The Shaping Room/S-Perfume.
Painting: Paul Gauguin. Nave Nave Moe (Sacred Spring). 1894. Oil on canvas. The Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia. From abcgallery.


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