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More on Christmas Mass in Beijing, the persecution of the church in China, and the history of Christianity under Chinese Communism.
Review of "The Thomas Ligotti Reader," edited by Darrell Schweitzer
I've been a fan of Thomas Ligotti for some time. My friend Michael Lotus (of America 3.0 fame) first recommended I read him when I checked out Songs of a Dead Dreamer from the college library. Teatro Grottesco and The Nightmare Factory are Ligotti at his intellectual best, while My Work Is Not Yet Done is laugh-out loud hilarious.
But my appreciation for Ligotti dramatically increased after reading The Thomas Ligotti Reader. Like the book H.P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life by Michel Houllebecq or the documentary, Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown, The Thomas Ligotti Reader provides a context for stories, emphasizing their themes and ideas, and making the body of work seem like an organic whole.
I was particularly surprised at the central role The Shadow at the Bottom of the World plays in Ligotti's writings. Before reading the Reader, I know of Ligotti's philosophical horror and non-fiction work (both Ligotti's The Conspiracy Against the Human Race and David Benatar's Better Never To Have Been) which are non-fictional expression's of Ligotti's nihilophilia. But several piecesin the Reader emphasize unusual aspects of Shadow, including its final position in Grimscribe, its use of the first-person plural "We" as narrator, and the text and symbolism in the story to argue it a high water mark of a gnostic writer.
To me, this last element made Ligotti's writing more sensible. Ligotti has long struck me as someone who is accurately describing what a Godless universe, by philosophical necessity, would be like. A pandemonium he describes in The Cult of the Idol is a more cynical, and perhaps more wise, view of the pantheism much appreciated by intellectually lazy hippies. But Ligotti's view is not just that the universe is indifferent, but actively hostile. Thus, atheism ends not in indifference, but in Catharism.
I read The Thomas Ligotti Reader in dead-tree edition.
Review of "The Treasure of Rennes le Chateau" by Bill Putnam and John Edwin Wood
There's a chapter of my life, that began when I played Gabriel Knight 3 and read Holy Blood, Holy Grail, that ended when I read this book. That game — and from that game, that book — were gateways too so much. My love of Dark Ages history (including great books of real history, like Before France and Germany, Mohammad and Charlemagne, and The Long-Haired Kings, an affection for the idea of the Mediterranean (I stayed in Italy for several weeks after high school), a consideration of how a conspiracy would actually have to be structured (my dream of secret war and a a book, and so on.
The part of my life ended with reading The Treasure of Rennes le Chateau.
But that's the end. Here's the beginning.
The facts as we know them: Around a hundred years ago, Father Berenger Sauniere in rural southern France became suspiciously wealthy, with a cumulative lifetime income estimated at a few million dollars (after accounting for inflation). He had a number of visitors at his house, was investigated by the local Bishop, and eventually lost his power to lead Mass at the local Church. He died before the ecclesiastical trial reached a resolution.
The story is much more interesting, because its also inarguable that there's an actual conspiracy with actual forged documents, layered on top of this. Whether or not there is a treasure, there are documents that contain cyphers, references to ancient societies, and bizarre false clues and dead-ends.
What the world knows about Rennes le Chateau was primarily filtered thru Henry Lincoln, who encountered a real group (albeiet with a fraudulent history) that called itself the "Priory of Sion," and which has an unusual fixation on the Merovingian Dynasty and King St. Dagobert II (feast day December 23) — a sainted boy king
Henry Lincoln also added a new layer to the mystery, much (apparently) to the bemusement of the actual conspiracy he nearly uncovered. Dusting off his early French, he translates "Sangraal" not as "San Graal" (Holy Grail) but "Sang Raal" (Royal Blood), and from there reconstructs an improbable chronology where the Dagobert II was a blood-descendent of Jesus Chrst, and that secrets to this extent were buried in southern rural France — the discovery of which by Priest Berenger Sauniere led to his millions. Lincoln also added some geometric interpretations, which lead themselves to a reconstruction of the history of the mile (among even less probably claims)
This stuff later spawned a pretty good video game…
And a film series you may have heard of. (Lincoln's co-authors lost their lawsuit on The DaVinci Code.)
Putnam's and Wood's book is an exhaustive, well researched, extremely well document demolition of nearly every conspiracy theory associated with Rennes le Chateau, and the persuasive presentation of evidence of a more mundane conspiracy (Sauniere was illicitly selling masses, and may have engaged in some light grave-robbing.) Even elements which struck me as probable enough (such as the location of certain church-sites) are addressed, with everything from first-person research, to cryptographic analysis, to computer simulations of the probability of certain features appearing by chance.
The number of myths the authors systematically demolish is impressive. Rennes-le-Chateau wasn't the Visigothic cty of Rhedae. The placing of churches around Rennes doesn't fit any sort of pattern, mundane or not. Berenger Sauniere supported his (real) generosity by scamming those seeking prayers for the dead. The inflection point of the entire story seems to have been a small remodeling task, which made the priest as power mad as one who is content in a small, remote town can be.
The Treasure of Rennes le Chateau is certainly not the first book you should read about this maze of facts and secrets. But if you've encountered any of it, and you are interested in any bit of bit, The Treasure of Rennes le Chateau is a must read.
No Freedom in the Ghetto
The academic ghetto (composed of the humanities, International Relations, sociology, and so on) is a place of low-employment and low-wages. There are four types of people in the academic ghetto:
- Pimps who run the game. They are the professors.
- Escapees who are about to get out. They are (graduates who leave the field but use their skills.
- Losers, who those sucked into the system until their time, youth, and money desert them. They are non-tenure track instructors.
- Disaster tourists, who get a thrill out of the place. They are students or others who for whatever reason don't need the degree for employment.
Pimps are in zero-sum competition with each other. This conflict leads all pimps to give up freedom in exchange for safety.
Pimps act tough, but only because they are in a dangerous environment. They are prisoners of the lack of jobs and opportunities. There is no freedom in the ghetto.
A pimp may lord it over losers and strut for disaster tourists, but his life is essentially one of fear. Signs of weakness are pounced on. The only safe approach is to stay within your square block, not venture outside, and avoid conflict (while appearing not to). Original thinkers are weeded out, punished, or otherwise compelled to keep their heads down.
A sad example of this occurred this year at the formerly interesting group blog, Duck of Minerva. As I described it in a post from August…
An example of this was at The Duck of Minerva, a blog dedicated to celebrating one alley in the academic ghetto (International Relations). A humorous post on identifying and infiltrating old boys networks by a professor at a research university, Brian Rathburn, entitled "Intellectual Jailbait: Networking at APSA†was taken down, all comments on that post were deleted ,Brian was forced to issue a self-criticism, Brian's post became a non-entity (substantively replaced by Steve Saideman's post "Networking is Hard Work"), and two thinly veiled attacks on Brian were posted, (Daniel Nexon's "Sexual Harassment in Political Science and International Studies and Laura Sjoberg's Let's talk about sex). .
To go back to the analogy, Brian, Daniel, and Laura were pimps who engaged in a turf war. Steve instead gave in to the system, avoiding conflict with the most generic post possible.
The results?
- Brian… blogger at Duck of Minerva, until he resigned
- Daniel… blogger at Duck of Minerva, until he resigned
- Laura… blogger at Duck of Minerva, until she resigned… this week
But Steve — who wrote a generic and grey post, who kept his head down — he's still there. He even said he likes his job. Brave stuff.
If you are young and thinking of entering the humanities ghetto — don't. If you're already there — run.
Review of "The Sciences of the Artificial," by Herbert Simon
It is perhaps the curse of the successful explorer that, after new lands have been found and the surveys made, his own writings become collections of obvious cliches and bizarre assertions. Surely Christopher Columbus felt this. In 1492 you are a visionary and a hero. But by 1505 everyone knows there is a large land mass west of Europe, and no one believes it is China.
Herbert Simon's The Sciences of the Artificial is, objectively, one of the worst books I have ever read.
There is some obvious discussion of local maxima and satisficing (picking the best solution you can find, rather than holding out for the perfect one), some more-or-less obvious if somewhat simplistic speculations about how business functions (it might be modeled as a problem-solving entity), and an incredibly tedious discussion of "standard social sciences model" (SSSM) psychology, in which a the interpretation of some early psychology studies is tortuously interpreted to imply that the human mind runs on a relatively small number of simple algorithms, albeit in a complex environment.
(If you read the Wikipedia page on SSSM , you will find criticisms that the SSSM is a ridiculous straw-man, and that it was "comical" to assert anyone believed it. But Herbert Simon, very definitely pushes such a view in his book.)
Indeed, Simon's discussion of psychology is so dangerously wrong-headed I will spend a paragraph here refuting it. Simon describes the human memory system, and describes two systems long-term memory (which he is generally accurate about) and "short term memory" (which appears to be a confused mix of working memory, associated with general intelligence, and sensory memory, which provides the awareness of taste, etc). In mainstream psychology, long-term-memory and working-term memory as associated with the automatic, highly parallel, intuitive, and effortless "System 1″ cognition system, and the manual, serial, logical, and painfully slow "System 2″ cognition system. In academia these two systems are often studied under "dual process theory," and in the military they are described as part of the OODA loop."
While Simon does not use the "System" nomenclature, his description of it is oddly incomplete, basically missing the most important studies of the last few decades to provide an oddly limited view of human thinking. The only mental processes he implies occurs in System 1 is the passive maintenance of memories. And while he cites such famous studies as "The Magic Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two" (a measure of the range of working memory) and B.F. Skinner," influential System 2 studies simply do not occur.
Now…. the reason for this is that Simon wrote The Sciences of the Artificial in 1969, and the last edition was published in 1996, perhaps the last year that his view on psychology could be taken seriously. Simon is a Nobel prize winner and, even more prestigious, a Turning Award winner. The reason for his digressions into "satisficing" and "organizational behavior" is he coined the term satisficing, and is a founding father of organizational behavior. The Sciences of the Artificial is like a letter from Columbus in 1505, describing his views on geography: Cliched, tired, ridiculous, and an artifact of a pathfinder.
I read The Sciences of the Artificial in the Nook edition.
Interactive Fiction: Depression Quest
After reading about The Vanishing of Ethan Carter from Game Informer, I came across "Depression Quest."
"Depression Quest" is a hypertext-based depression simulator. Unlike the interaction fiction I recently reviewed, there's no graphics engine: the "game" is a series of pages with a sound-track.
But it's quite moving. The game shares themes with both Dear Esther and Gone Home, but by firmly placing the events in the real world the themes of sadness and loss are reinforced by an alarming veracity.
"Depression Quest" is free, but you can pay what you want, and any funds go to a mental health charity.
West Virginia: Yet Another tdaxp State
Those following my electoral travel conquest of the United States no doubt have been asking: when will West Virginia join the tdaxp horde?
Answer: Saturday
Thanks for Catholicgauze for taking me to Harper's Ferry, West Virginia!
Review of "American Icon: Alan Mulally and the Fight to Save Ford Motor Company," by Bryce G. Hoffman
I've read some books on disaster tourism and the collapse of Detroit — Detroit: An American Autopsy by Charlie LeDeuff and Sixty to Zero by Alex Tayler III are examples of the form.
But there is life, hope, and economic success in Detroit too. There are some who are alive. Who fight, and who want money.
Bryce Hoffman's American Icon: Alan Mulally and the Fight to Save Ford Motor Company is not an objective book. And Hoffman is not an objective author. Icon is clearly written with the cooperation of Alan Mulally and Ford. It is a pean to a genius CEO who notes obvious issues (executives don't like to say bad things about themselves), implements industry-standard decisions that are de rigeur in many industries (tracking systems that can identify which worker but a specific faulty part in a specific product), and deceives his way to the stop (thru treatment of certain underlines, as well as the entire United Auto Workers).
But my point isn't to drag Mulally thru the mud. It's a fact that while Mulally's American competitors were going bankrupt, Ford was able to ride out the financial storm. Indeed, the only competition that Alan Mullaly's Ford has for the most innovative, most successful American auto company is certainly Elon Musks's Tesla. Ford isn't the leader in hybrids. But it is #2. And like Tesla, it's building on successes.
It's unlikely that Mulally will ever be the recipient of a cult like Steve Jobs. But nor is American Icon simply paid publicity, like Who says elephants can't dance?. Rather, American Icon is like Dean Barrett's travel knowledge: proof that the writer is alive, the subject is alive, and all the faults of joys of human struggle are playing out on a healthy subject.
American Icon is a well written book, and Ford seems like a well managed company. In most cities and most industries, this would not be remarkable. But given the collapse of Detroit and the death of General Motors and Chrysler it is a celebration of life.
I read American Icon: Alan Mullaly and the Fight to Save Ford Motor Company in the Nook Edition.
Reviews of Interactive Fiction
Reviewed in this post:
"Dear Esther"
"The Stanley Parable"
"Gone Home"
I had the three best days of computer gaming in my life.
I used Steam (an app store, mostly used for Windows games) for the first time when it was required to use Half Life 2. My experience was so bad I've not touched it again for a decade.
But in ten years, a lot have changed.
Steam is now an awesome app store for computer games of all sorts, including interactive fiction. Unlike game which focus on fighting, shooting, or twitching, Modern interactive fiction focuses on telling a story thru the interface of a computer game.
Each of these "games" took between 2 to 5 to play. All were haunting.
The Most Haunting: Dear Esther
Dear Esther, a gorgeous video game that takes place outdoors on the Hebrides, revolves around three texts. The first appear to be written by the protagonist to a woman, Esther. The second is a fictitious history of the island, written by Donnelly. (A similar device is used in The Third Policeman, which constantly refers to works by the imaginary de Selby). The third is a passage from the Acts of the Apostles
Meanwhile, Saul was still breathing out murderous threats against the Lord's disciples. He went to the high priest and asked him for letters to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any there who belonged to the Way, whether men or women, he might take them as prisoners to Jerusalem. As he neared Damascus on his journey, suddenly a light from heaven flashed around him. He fell to the ground and heard a voice say to him, "Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?â€
"Who are you, Lord?†Saul asked.
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After finishing Dear Esther I felt much older, and much sadder. The feeling stayed with me for some time.
The game has a beautiful soundtrack, that you can listen to for free on Spotifiy.
The Most Thought-Provoking: The Stanley Parable
(note the trailer above starts like a typical review. It's not. It's made by the people who created the game itself)
It's extremely hard to describe The Stanley Parable without giving it away. The game is subversive in that word's best sense — the best description I have heard is "Stanley is game that knows it is a game being played by those who know they are playing a game that knows it is playing a game."
Fortunately, Stanley Parable also has an amazing and free demo, which teases the meaning of the game without giving it away. You can play the free Stanley Parable Demo on Steam.
The Most Political: Gone Home
If I had not played The Stanley Parable and Dear Esther the day before and after I played Gone Home, Home would be one of the top games I've played in years. As it is Home is a fine game, and the story stays with you.
You begin Gone Home on your parents front porch after a trip abroad. A note from your sister tells you that she has left, and not to follow her. The dor is locked, and no one is home. While walking through the house you gradually discover what has happened — both in the last year and the last decades — with the artifacts left behind by the overlapping stories of your father, mother, and sister.
As the pieces fit together, Gone Home takes on an increasingly strident tone, and you're left with a very clear impression of which politicians and issues the authors support, and which they despise. The focus on issues that matter a great deal to many now — and will be largely irrelevant to those in the future — limits the appeal of Gone Home both to those who are around now (effectively excluding those of different voices) and in the future (who simply won't care).
Interactive fiction is a beautiful, moving, and even controversial form of art.
The first video game was made in 1947. That means video games are 66 years old. By comparison, the first moving pictures were shot in 1841. 66 years later was 1907.
We are in the 1900s of video games.
The future is going to be incredible.
Travels to the Far East
Several years ago on Coming Anarchy, "Curzon" jounred across Far East, including the cities of Tokyo, city of Nanjing, Shanghai, and Suzhou.
I just got back from a month long trip, in which I visited these cities as well as a few new ones, such as Phnom Penh and Ubud. The journey was remarkable, and the admiration I had for the writers over at Coming Anarchy played a big role in keeping me interested in traveling.
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Phonological Development
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Phonological development refers to the gradual acquisition of an adultlike system of speech sounds that are used to convey meaning in a language. Phonological development can be considered in terms of both perception and production of speech sounds.
Historical Background
Historically, the development of speech sounds has been characterized in terms of the development of articulation abilities, with recent attention being paid to the notion that a larger set of rules and linguistic representations may also govern how individuals acquire speech sounds.
Current Knowledge
Research has demonstrated that infants are aware of speech sounds long before they are able to produce them. For example, infants at 1 month of age are able to discriminate speech sound categories such as the difference between phonemes /p/ and /b/ (i.e., categorical perception; Eimas, Siqueland, Jusczyk, & Vigorito 1971). Over time, infants also develop the ...
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Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.
First edition
|Judy Blume
|United States
|Young adult
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Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. is a 1970 book by Judy Blume, typically categorized as a young adult novel, about a girl in sixth grade who grew up without a religious affiliation. Margaret's mother is Christian and her father is Jewish, and the novel explores her quest for a single religion. Margaret also confronts many other pre-teen female issues, such as buying her first bra, having her first period, coping with belted sanitary napkins (changed to adhesive sanitary pads for recent editions of the book), jealousy towards another girl who has developed a womanly figure earlier than other girls, liking boys, and whether to voice her opinion if it differs from those of her friends.
Plot summary[edit]
The main conflict in the novel comes from Margaret's need to settle her mixed religious heritage. She deals with her issues of belief in God, as the story is frequently interlaced with her praying by beginning with the title's words "Are You there, God? it's me, Margaret." In school, she is assigned a year-long independent study project; she chooses a study on people's beliefs, which proves to be more than she can handle as she is finding out a lot about herself as well. She also is dealing with conflict between her grandparents on both sides of her family, as her maternal grandparents are trying to guarantee that she is indeed Christian as she was born with a Christian mother. Margaret enjoys spending time with her paternal grandmother, who seems to accept her for who she is and is more accepting of her son's interfaith marriage, although she has referred to Margaret as "my Jewish girl" and introduced her to synagogue services for the purpose of showing her granddaughter what the Jewish faith entails, while her Christian grandparents claim her as a Christian. When her Jewish grandmother tells Margaret to remember that she's a Jewish girl, Margaret denies this and claims not to believe in God, which angers her grandmother. The ambiguities of her interfaith identity are particularly highlighted in a scene — following a heated argument with another girl — in which Margaret visits a church, finding her way to the confessional booth; there the unseen priest inquires as to her problems, but — believing at first that the priest is God Himself speaking to her and not comprehending the concept of Christian confession or its confidential nature — she simply responds "I am sorry," before running out of the church in tears.
|Are you still there God? It's me, Margaret. I know you're there God. I know you wouldn't have missed this for anything! Thank you God. Thanks an awful lot...
Margaret moves from New York to the New Jersey suburbs, where she encounters Nancy, who leads her into a club where they talk about boys, bras, and periods. She becomes attracted to Phillip Leroy, a boy at school, and kisses him at a party while playing Two Minutes in the Closet (see Seven Minutes in Heaven)
Main characters[edit]
- Margaret Simon – Protagonist of the book. She is 12 years old, an only child, and is starting the 6th grade. She's just starting puberty and noticing boys, plus she's uncertain of which religion she prefers to follow.
- Barbara Simon (Hutchins) – Margaret's stay-at-home mother, who is Christian.
- Herbert Simon – Margaret's father, an insurance salesman, who is Jewish.
- Sylvia Simon – Margaret's grandmother and Herbert's mother. She refers to Margaret as "my Margaret" or her "Jewish girl". She is trying to convert Margaret to Judaism.
- Nancy Wheeler – Margaret's neighbor and her first new friend in Farbrook, NJ.
- Gretchen Potter – A friend of Nancy whose father is a doctor, and is a member of the Four PTS's.
- Janie Loomis – Another girl in the Four PTS's with Nancy, Gretchen, and Margaret. She inevitably is the last of the four to get her period.
- Evan Wheeler – Nancy's older brother.
- Moose Freed – Evan's friend and a boy Margaret takes a great interest in.
- Miles J. Benedict Jr. – Margaret's sixth grade teacher who is in his first year as a teacher.
- Laura Danker – A classmate of Margaret's who is tall and very developed for her age.
- Phillip Leroy – A classmate of Margaret whom she initially likes.
- Mary and Paul Hutchins – Barbara's estranged parents, who all but disowned her for marrying outside her religion.
In 2010, the book was placed on Time's top 100 fiction books written in English since 1923 - ″Blume turned millions of pre-teens into readers. She did it by asking the right questions—and avoiding pat, easy answers.″.[1]
Subsequent book[edit]
Blume's success with Are You There God? It's Me Margaret inspired her to write another book, Then Again, Maybe I Won't, which is slightly like this book, but from a boy's perspective. This novel deals with Tony Miglione, a boy of the same age as Margaret who is dealing with puberty as well, although his transition from childhood to adulthood is quite different from Margaret's.
In popular culture[edit]
- Chuck Palahniuk's novels Damned and Doomed seem to invert and pervert this book's ideals by introducing each chapter with the line, "Are you there Satan? It's me, Madison."
- In the sixteenth episode of Lost's second season, Sawyer is seen reading the book.
- In Supernatural's fourth season, the second episode is called "Are You There God? It's Me, Dean Winchester" in homage.
- In 2007, Chelsea Handler published a book titled Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea.
- The book is referenced during the riffing in several Mystery Science Theater 3000 episodes.
- In the Popular (TV series) the ninth episode of the second season is entitled "Are You There God? It's Me, Ann-Margret"
- In 3rd Rock from the Sun first season, fourteenth episode, Tommy says he had to do a book report on the book as an excuse.
- In Shrek The Musical, Fiona's solo, "I Know It's Today" includes a line that goes "Are you there, God? It's me, Fiona."
- In Frasier Season 10, Episode 9, Frasier Crane appeals to God in an effort to save his brother Niles, who's just had a cardiac episode. Frasier uses the phrase "Are you there God? It's me Frasier Crane".
See also[edit]
- ^ Grossman, Lev (6 January 2010). "All Time 100 Novels". Time Magazine. Retrieved 21 January 2015.
External links[edit]
- Judy Blume's website
- Works by or about Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. in libraries (WorldCat catalog)


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on 8/15/2011 7:00:00 PM
Age: 19-24
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Maybe my favorite MAC lipstick aside from Hue. I absolutely love this. It's the perfect dark mauvey/brown nude lipstick that I've been searching for. I, personally, love the Satin finish and don't find it drying or difficult to apply at all. For me it's the Creemsheen and Amplified formulas that I have the most trouble with. I'm definitely going to have to stock up on this one because I'll probably use it every day when Fall comes around. I love everything about it.
on 7/24/2011 1:22:00 PM
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Concerning this color, I'm on the fence. Sometimes it looks pretty and natural, but other times it washes me out. I think it's more difficult for fair complexions to pull off pale nudes. It is a pretty nude, but it's too light and I find that the Satin formula (which I normally love) makes it look dry and pasty. I wear C-Thru lipglass on top of Viva Glam II and it gives it more dimension and makes it look less dry.
on 7/14/2011 4:00:00 PM
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This is a nice neutral nude lip color. It can be drying so I have to make sure I moisturized my lips before I put this on. If I put on too many layers of this lipstick, I can look like a ghost. So I just I dab 1-2 layers of this lipstick and a little bit of lipgloss, and it's perfect :)
on 7/12/2011 8:03:00 PM
Age: 19-24
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Hair: Brunette, Wavy, Medium
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This is a lipstick I grab for when I want nude lips. This color comes out to a beige pink with a purple undertone. Doesn't make my Lips look super dead yet it brightens up my face. I don't mind the scent and taste. As with all lip products, just make sure you moisturize your lips before applying, especially nude lipsticks!!!!
Goes on creamy with a slight sheen but does feel a bit dry and stiff within couple hours. Staying power is a 4/5. Def will repurchase once I run out of this!
EDIT: this color reminds me of loreal's fairest nude except this lipstick is more of a purple base and fairest nude is more pinky. I still prefer this color over fairest nude!
on 7/12/2011 4:59:00 PM
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I love the whole concept of the Viva Glam line. This is my go to everyday lipstick. Its not a ghostly nude or a barbie pink. It gives your lip a hint of color that can be worn throughout the year no matter the season. MAC describes it as a muted pink-beige with shimmer. However the shimmer is very subtle, actually its not existent to me. You honestly cant go wrong with this lipstick. You can wear it wit a lip liner or by itself. Just get it.
on 6/30/2011 11:02:00 AM
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I'm a makeup artist in training and I recently bought this at the nearest MAC store to me. I've used this product on several people already and they said that they would definitely purchase this product and others in the same line. It has a nice, soft nude look, good for wearing to work/school if applied in little amounts. The downside I've noticed that when I apply it on clients, they comment that it's really moisturizing for the lips. But as little as 45 minutes afterwards, they commented on how dry and stiff their lips felt. Very good product over all, a have to buy for me. For those of you who do not mind a little dry lips, I recommend you to go ahead and purchase this product.
on 5/5/2011 2:42:00 PM
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Its nice, but I have to get used to the light nude look. Its so pretty and to be honest I'm not much of a lipstick type girl but the simple prettiness of this makes me want to learn to wear it. Its so creamy and not matte but not slick and shiny either. Very nice.
on 4/22/2011 9:31:00 PM
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Skin: Combination, Fair-Medium, Cool
Hair: Blond, Other, Other
Eyes: Blue
This has been my go to lipstick for quite sometime now. I use it with Spice lipliner almost everyday. It's a simple nude lipstick that can be worn everyday to work or even on the weekends. I have enjoyed this lipstick and cannot run out of it it. It is considered on my M.A.C. essentials.
on 3/7/2011 1:56:00 AM
Age: 19-24
Skin: Combination, Tan, Warm
Hair: Black, Wavy, Medium
Eyes: Brown
Yes!! I have finally found a nude I love. I did feel it wore off quickly but I think I just need to learn how to wear lipstick better (this is my third and I rarely wear them). So far though, happy. Plus the packaging is way cute.
on 3/2/2011 12:31:00 PM
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I absolutely love this lipstick! I originally thought of this as another nude lipstick but it actually shows up darker on me. I am NC42 for reference and a sucker for nude l/s. But I still love this and use it for my everyday make up! The staying power is good, about 3 hours. But I took one lippie off because this has the tendency to make my lips dry and just make it look chappy. Overall though, it's a good match for me and I love the color!
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Hi Tim, I am not 100% sure on how to or if it is even possible to add another sidebar, I will find out for you and reply here when I have further information. However, you could use the Widget Logic plug-in, which allows you to show/hide widgets on a per post/page basis.I have bookmarked your topic.
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Hey Danny, I know about widget logic but my issue is that I've already used the universal plugin to add a widget area in the header. But I want to add another widget area below the content. Thats why I thought I might need to create another sidebar, otherwise there's nothing i can add.. Looking forward to hearing back on this one
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Osama Bin Laden is "Ben Mavet," screamed the covers of Yedioth Ahronoth and Maariv this week. The phrase, which comes from Samuel I, usually refers to someone condemned to death or deemed to be deserving of death—it's akin to saying someone's a "dead man" in English—but in this case was, of course, referring to an actual dead man. The long-awaited demise of the bearded "rav hamehablim," or "master terrorist," prompted Nahum Barnea, one of Israel's most prominent columnists, to wonder how it could be that Bin Laden was found but Israeli captive soldier Gilad Shalit has yet to be located. Former Justice Minister Daniel Friedmann wrote that he was "frightened by the thought of what would have happened" had the al-Qaida leader been killed by Israeli soldiers. The nightly news—including Channel 2, which ran a large photo of Bin Laden over the word "Husal" ("Assassinated")—focused less on Israel than on the cheering crowds in New York and Washington, while columnist Ari Shavit discussed how the victory would serve as a "ruah gabit" (literally a tailwind, meaning a boost) for President Barack Obama in his reelection bid.
Hamas' condemnation of the U.S. killing of the "Arab holy warrior" added fuel to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's opposition to the Hamas-Fatah reconciliation agreement, which was signed this week. As Israel withheld millions of dollars in Palestinian Authority tax revenues because of the deal, outgoing Shin Bet security service director Yuval Diskin warned reporters in an exit interview that the financial move might have serious consequences. "If we and the Americans and the Arab countries don't give money, there won't be a Palestinian Authority," he said, adding that despite the unity deal, he doesn't foresee genuine cooperation between the rival Palestinian factions. Meanwhile, several Israeli legislators representing Arab parties attended the signing ceremony in Cairo, sparking condemnation by right-wing Knesset members, one of whom said, "It's time these MKs became members of a Hamas parliament and left the Israeli Knesset."
Former Labor leaders Amram Mitzna and Amir Peretz have both been heralded as the possible saviors of their party—but the fact that those predictions didn't exactly pan out didn't stop Mitzna from declaring his candidacy for party chairman or Peretz from launching his election campaign this week. A recent poll found that of all the leading prospective candidates, Mitzna would bring Labor the most seats in the next election, while Peretz came in fourth. Though he did not say he would negotiate with Hamas, Mitzna said the Palestinian reconciliation "is their decision" and that he wouldn't turn away any potential peace partner. Echoing Yitzhak Rabin's comment that peace is something you make with your enemies, Mitzna noted that, after all, "We can't go make peace with the Swiss."
Israel's Supreme Court granted former President Moshe Katsav a few more days of freedom this week. Katsav, who was due to begin serving a seven-year sentence for rape and other offenses this coming Sunday, has won a deferral until Wednesday, when the court is scheduled to hear his request to further push off the day he goes behind bars. In the meantime, security guards are being assigned to the Katsav "pesel"—the Hebrew word for both statue and idol—on the lawn outside the president's residence in Jerusalem and told to keep an eye out for possible Independence Day vandalism, Maariv reported. Visitors will, however, be allowed to be photographed next to Katsav's likeness—"if they want to, of course," the story adds archly.
On the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day this week, Israeli papers provided data on how quickly survivors are dying out. "Thirteen thousand Holocaust survivors halchu le'olamam in Israel in the past year," Yedioth said on its cover, using a Hebrew euphemism for dying that literally means "went to their world." Also this week, the paper reported that the Interior Ministry has decided that when it begins issuing new biometric ID cards in a few months, the serial numbers will start with 6 million, in memory of the Jewish victims of the Holocaust. One blogger questioned the wisdom of this decision, asking: "Is the long-term plan here to turn the entire country into Yad Vashem and all citizens into walking exhibits?"
One of the pilots who will be flying a Boeing 767 in Israel's annual Independence Day aerial demonstration Tuesday is 40-year-old Smadar Shechter, the first, and so far only, female El Al captain, Yedioth reported this week. "It will be a great honor to fly on Independence Day with the Israeli flag on the tail of the plane, while I'm over the capital," she said. The headline's focus on the Hebrew word for a female captain—it read "Good Morning, This is Smadar the Kabarnita Speaking"—indicates that it's something Israelis are not used to hearing. But that doesn't mean they don't like it, said Shechter. "The truth is that it's really fun for them," she told the paper. "The passengers feel good that they have a female pilot on the plane. They're really enthusiastic when I speak."
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....I have no issue with adjusting the texture map sizes myself in PSP. Done it enough that it has become pretty routine.
Of course sometime next week (fingers crossed) I should finally be able to say goodbye to memory and OpenGL issues.
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Jonathan said that he told Sleiman that if all seven had been killed, Nigeria will make every effort to retrieve their bodies.
But even as Jonathan spoke, Monday, Nigeria was hit by more extremist violence.
Two secondary schools were attacked in the northeastern city of Maiduguri, leaving a teacher dead and three girl students injured, military spokesman Sagir Musa said. He blamed the Boko Haram sect and said local security forces had killed three of its members in a counterattack.
Hours later, at least 16 people were killed in explosions at a bus station in the northern city of Kano, according to medical officials. No group claimed responsibility for the blast, but suspicion fell once again on Boko Haram.
"The federal government will not be stampeded, for any reason whatsoever, into abandoning its unrelenting war against terrorists in the country," said Nigerian presidential spokesman Reuben Abati in reaction to the Kano blast Monday.
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Feminist Majority Foundation Campaigns Against Beverly Hills Hotel Amid Human Rights Controversy
At issue is an edict by the hotel owner, the Sultan of Brunei, to impose a law in his country on Friday that would allow the stoning of gays and women.
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Detectives Investigating Shooting At Westlake Village Hotel
Authorities Thursday were investigating a shooting inside a Ventura County hotel.
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Bruins forward Nathan Horton is progressing in his recovery from the concussion he suffered last month, as coach Claude Julien told reporters prior to Saturday's game that the right wing rode the stationary bike for the first time on Friday.
Horton has not played since being hit by Flyers forward Tom Sestito on Jan. 22. It his second concussion since last June, as he suffered a severe concussion in Game 3 of the Stanley Cup finals.
The Bruins also recalled forward Jordan Caron, though Julien told reporters the 2009 first-round pick will not be in the lineup Saturday.
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WALLA WALLA - One person's whimsy is another person's nonsense. Art has always been an eye-of-the-beholder matter.
Anyone remember how heated people got over the pipe-smoking pioneer mother in the Tom Otterness covered wagon piece for Pioneer Park? Or how in late 2006 a plan for incorporating harrow plow discs to make music in a piece downtown struck such a sour note with merchants that it was withdrawn?
In the case of the Inland Octopus mural, the issue isn't as much about taste as intent, city officials say. Is the painting of the giant purple octopus peeking over a castle wall meant to serve as a sign for the Main Street toy store? Or is it a color splash of art popping from the historic downtown for all to enjoy? And should it make a difference if the painting serves both functions?
The mural will be part of a discussion Monday during a Walla Walla City Council work session at City Hall, 15 N. Third Ave. It is one of four items on the agenda for the 4 p.m. meeting, said Mayor Barbara Clark. A 60-minute block has been budgeted for the item, the final piece on the agenda, she said.
In the five weeks since artist Aaron Randall painted the mural on the downtown storefront at 7 E. Main St. the giant mollusk has been the talk of the town. Partly because it came as a surprise cap to a long Labor Day weekend. Mostly because in the ensuing weeks city officials have debated whether the estimated 600-square-foot painting is illegal and should be removed.
"Nobody's saying you can't have an octopus," City Attorney Tim Donaldson said. "It's just four times too big."
But in a mass e-mail calling for supporters to attend Monday's work session, Inland Octopus owner Bob Catsiff said removal of the painting would be "a case of selective enforcement of the code.
"The definition of 'sign' in the code is so hopelessly open-ended that anything could be considered a sign," he wrote.
After moving his 5-year-old toy store to its current location last April, Catsiff presented a proposal for the mural to the Downtown Walla Walla Foundation. The foundation's Design Committee, a group that can make recommendations but has no legal authority for design, rejected the concept.
Foundation Executive Director Elio Agostini also reportedly presented the concept to staff for the city, which does have legal authority. It reportedly told him the mural would not be allowed.
Catsiff began looking for which law, code, statute or ordinance would be violated if the mural was painted. He maintains the piece is art, not a sign. Even so, he believes the sign ordinance is so vague that virtually everything from flower pots to bike racks with the city's logo could be considered signs.
He commissioned Randall for the job. The mural was painted over Labor Day weekend without a right-of-way permit or other municipal approval.
Supporters of the mural have been outspoken in their criticism of the city, taking to social networking sites and message boards to voice their love for the painting and imploring officials to spend their time on more critical issues.
To those involved, however, this is critical. For Catsiff, the mural represents his freedom of expression, as well as a strategy for the success of his store. A livelihood whose sales contribute to the city's bottom line.
For the city, it's an issue of fairness and precedence. The sign code clearly provides a set of enforceable dimensions for which all other downtown operators abide and in doing so have contributed to the stability of the retail corridor, officials say. If this purported violation is allowed, what else might be next from another merchant with more questionable taste?
Few have denied that the mural fits well with the theme of the store. In fact, that's where the debate gets more complicated. Among the hundreds of comments posted on Facebook and message boards over the last month, some mural supporters have not only characterized the issue as a case of the government picking on the merchant, but worse - hitting a beloved toy store where it hurts the most: in the hearts of children.
Donaldson knows how upset the prospect of removing the mural has made some residents. Apart from the rumor that more than one well-capitalized downtown business person has offered to help Catsiff with any potential legal battle, there are the calls Donaldson has received from folks who want to see the painting stay.
"People are saying, 'You're only doing this because you don't like it.' But there's nothing nefarious going on here," Donaldson said.
"People want to paint us as bad guys. But if this stays, what do we say to the next people - 'Well, gee, if you do it over a weekend when we're not here and it's already out there we're not going to do anything about it. Otherwise, the sign code applies?'"
If, indeed, officials determine the piece is not a sign but instead qualifies as public art, it raises another issue. The sculptures that line the city streets and the mural at Heritage Square Park - all of which were bequeathed to the city as public art - were subject to a public process that included hearings and pre-approval. The mural was not.
Downtown officials believe there may be a middle ground with the Inland Octopus piece. Agostini wonders if removing just the octopus part would remove the "sign" characterization by the city.
Whatever the outcome may be, he said downtown will be made better by the process.
"If (the mural) is left there, I would absolutely accept it," Agostini said. "But if it is forced to be taken down, I will accept that, too."
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The sign code:
The Walla Walla Municipal Code defines a sign as "any device, structure, fixture (including the supportive structure) or any other surface that identifies, advertises and/or promotes an activity, product service, place, business, political or social point of view or any other thing." The municipal code defines a "wall sign" as "any sign attached to or painted directly on the wall, or erected against and parallel to the wall of the building, not extending more than twelve inches from the wall."
How work session will proceed:
Different from a traditional City Council meeting, a work session is a more casual meeting where no formal vote is taken, said Mayor Barbara Clark.
Council members sit at the big conference table in their chambers and listen to a report from city staff. In this case, City Attorney Tim Donaldson will present his findings. Council members then have an opportunity to ask questions of staff members.
Afterward, people in attendance at the meeting will be given an opportunity to ask questions or make comments.
The mural is one of four items on the agenda. A time period has been roughly allotted for each item. The mural has been given a 60-minute allotment and will be the last item discussed.
Other items also on the agenda and their rough time estimates are: budget development, 10 minutes; Walla Walla Valley Farmers Market improvements, 15 minutes; and Columbia REA service on Dell Avenue to AMCOR, the proposed plastic bottling manufacturer, 20 minutes.
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