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UPDATE: The random number generated was 14, which means Joy B is the winner of the nail polishes! Thank you to everyone who entered!
I love the Petra color!
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I love the Cynthia color!
I love Jem form the Mirror collection.
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I love Anja...such a pretty inky purple!
I love the Petra (from Smoke) and Jem (from Mirrors)!
I love Richelle-such a pretty gold foil.
ALL.. but if I have to pick one from this collection, I say Jem!
My favorite is Marina...
I love the color jem. :)
I love Zoya's Valerie! Jewel tones are amazing in clothes, even better in nail polish!
Love Jem!!!
I love Yara from the mirrors collection. I just bought my first green polish recently and I loved it.
In love with Cynthia and Jem! My two favorites from this collection!!
I thin Yara looks really cool
Wow all of the colors are so beautiful!! I especially like Petra from the Smoke collection and Jem from Mirrors :)
Zoya Dree! I would love to have her.
From Smoke & Mirrors my favorite shade would have to be Neeka or Petra. My favorite shade from any collection is probably Freja!
Luna is my favorite that Zoya carries, but they are all pretty!
I love Jana from the smoke collection!
I really like most of their polishes, but I have to say that my favorite color is Soho Punch.
I love Amber...sooo pretty and neutral.
Austine is my favorite.
i love jem and would love to get my hands on another 2!
From this collection, dree and neeka are my favorites!
Dree! So dreamy.
Gilda from the Sparkle Collection is my all-time favorite!!
Dree is my absolute favorite from this collection!
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Jana is the color for me! Sharon
I am on a purple kick right now: jem and petra are gorgeous!!
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Petra for sure!
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I in love with Cynthia. :)
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Loving the Jana shade!
I think my new love is Veruschuka!
I love Jem..and hey! I'm from Pittsburgh :)
Out of this kit..Jana. I'm more into the lights colors...but I'd LOVE to have this kit. I just discovered Zoya, and only have 3 colors. I also need a base coat and top coat. THanks for the chance! ~melody in oregon~
My absolute favorite color is Jew in the mirrors collection! So deep and sultry.
I covet Dree, but I guess I'm in the minority!
I covet Dree, but I guess I'm in the minority!
It's a close one between the Yara and Neeka but ultimately the purple wins out!
I love Anja! The jewel tone is amazing!
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Cynthia looks amazing!
Of those, the Petra looks awesome. I've been looking for a good grayish lavender. Of my personal collection, I really like my light, sea-foam-green-ish one. I think it's called Jade. :)
I like Codie.
jem or cynthia definitely :)
jem or cynthia definitely :)


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Here are some examples of what I'm talking about (taken from the gazetteer of the area around Dwimmermount):
2806 ElphameSo what do you think? Is this too little detail? Too much? Just right? If these don't hit your personal sweet spot, what does? And how would you change these entries to make them more in line with your own philosophy of setting detail?
Population: Unknown; Alignment: Neutral; Ruler: Linwa Nirmalan, Elf 8, N; Resource: MarketElphame is the elven "capital" in the north, a secluded, fortified settlement closed to most outsiders. Its precise population is unknown, owing to the secretive nature of the elves, but is reputed to be in the hundreds.
2911 GlorisPopulation: 300 Men; Alignment: Lawful; Ruler: Mayor Gillet Hodemer, 0-Level, L; Resource: FarmGloris is a small community whose inhabitants make their living by farming and trading with the friendly goblins of the nearby Makrono Marsh (see above).
3413 Ghaz DroonanBuilt into the side of a mountain, the mighty dwarf hold of Ghaz Droonan stood for centuries as an example of the great works of the sturdy Children of the Earth. All that changed when a plague of unknown origins swept through its halls and exterminated its population. The source of the plague has never been determined and a foul miasma lingers still, discouraging any dwarf from ever returning.
3627 The OutyardThe Outyard is an immense subterranean complex hewn out of the Thunderhome Mountains (see above) and populated by giants. In Thulian times, the giants were kept at bay, but, in recent decades, they have become more active, raiding the settlements of Men and dwarves.
4004 Castle GreenholtPopulation: 200 Men; Alignment: Neutral; Ruler: Nycaize Ouyquant, MU 7, NCaste Greenholt is home to a powerful magician who has set himself up as protector of the Greenholt Forest (see above). Some believe this is because the forest hides a secret of the Great Ancients, while others believe he entered into a pact with the elves of Elphame (2806). Whatever the truth, the magician and his men do their best to prevent anyone from entering the forest without his permission.
4221 The City Out of TimeWhether this city even exists is open to debate among scholars. Legends claim that, on certain nights -- naturally there is debate as to which ones -- an ancient city filled with treasure appears for a short time before disappearing again. Legends also claim the city has magical guardians that slay any who attempt to make off with its treasure.

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Princeton University students are showcasing their many opportunities to experience life abroad through "International Eye," an exhibition of photographs taken by undergraduates on five continents while participating in international study, internships, service and research.
The exhibition is being shown in residential colleges this spring and currently may be seen weekdays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. until March 25 in the James S. Hall '34 Memorial Gallery in Butler College. It then will be on display in the Rockefeller College Common Room until April 30. All of the winning photos also may be viewed online.
The exhibition has been presented for the last four years and was created through an international photo contest sponsored by the Office of International Programs (OIP) this past fall. Twenty-nine photographs were selected from more than 300 submissions snapped in 45 countries by 120 students concentrating in 28 departments. Most of the international experiences were funded by Princeton programs and departments.
"The exhibition is a great outlet for students to share their new perspectives with the broader campus community," said Nancy Kanach, senior associate dean of the college and director of OIP. "As students bring their international experiences back to the Princeton campus, they influence campus culture and inspire others to pursue similar experiences."
"This is not just about the places students go, but about the way they see and experience those places," said Giorgio DiMauro, associate director of the Study Abroad Program.
Undergraduates were asked to submit photos that told a story about their time abroad, lent a fresh perspective on the monuments, cityscapes and landscapes they encountered, or revealed an aspect of the culture within which they found themselves.
First, second and third prizes were awarded in five categories — cityscape/architecture, abstraction, landscape/nature, people and innovations for successful societies. Another 14 images received honorable mention.
New this year, the fifth category was created to reflect the socially engaged themes of the Innovations for Successful Societies program, a joint initiative of the Bobst Center for Peace and Justice and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
Photographer Allan MacIntyre, lecturer in the Lewis Center for the Arts, selected the winning photographs, along with staff from the Innovations for Successful Societies program for the new category.
"We are very grateful to our judge, Allan MacIntyre, for lending his creative and technical eye and making the contest a truly artistic one," DiMauro said.
Sophomore Luke Cheng, a concentrator in operations research and financial engineering, won Best in Show and Best in Category in abstraction for his photo "A Small World," taken in Hangzhou, China. Cheng taught English to middle school students in rural China during the summer of 2011.
Other Best in Category winners were:
* People: senior Chad Wiedmaier, "Passing the Flame," taken in the Bwindi Impenetrable Rain Forest, Uganda
* Cityscape/architecture: junior Qi Fan (Jenny) Zhang, "Next to Nothing," taken in Freetown, Sierra Leone
* Landscape/nature: senior Cheyenne Tait, "Red Cedar Tree From the Rainforests of Queensland," taken in Kuranda, Australia
* Innovations for successful societies: junior Dora Huang, "Windy," taken in Jaisalmer, India
Second and third prize winners were:
* Second place: sophomore Sheng Zhou, "Lost Faces," Berlin, Germany
* Third place: junior Emilly Zhu, "David and the McDonald Goliath," Venezia, Italy
* Second place: senior Elizabeth Cooper, "Simplifying," Bodh Gaya, India
* Third place: senior Alex Simon, "Bucking the Occupation," Bethlehem, West Bank
* Second place: junior Victor Li, "Raining Umbrellas," Nanjing, China
* Third place: sophomore Linnea Paseiro, "Tangled," St. Petersburg, Russia
* Second place: junior Hannah Safford, "Leopard Yearling," Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya
* Third place: junior Zeerak Ahmed, "Here Comes the Sun King," Oxford, England
Innovations for successful societies
* Second place: senior Sojung Li, "Big City Tangled Lights," Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
* Third place: sophomore Tristan Perez, "Boats on the Phewa Tal," Pokhara, Nepal


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Dr. Phil McGraw has booked the first on-camera interview with the man who allegedly concocted the girlfriend hoax that ensnared Notre Dame football star Manti Te'o.
A "Dr. Phil Show" spokesperson confirmed on Friday the interview with Ronaiah Tuiasosopo, the man accused of creating an online persona of a nonexistent woman who Te'o said he fell for without ever meeting face-to-face.
The ruse was uncovered last week by Deadspin.com, which reported that Tuiasosopo created the woman, named Lennay Kekua, who then supposedly died last September.
No further details of the "Dr. Phil" interview, including its airdate, were announced.
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International Seminar: Guarani Jesuit Missions
On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the World Heritage Convention, the Fundación Ortega Gasset with the support of UNESCO Montevideo and Dirección de Patrimonio de la Secretaria de la Nación (Argentina) are organizing an international seminar: The Convention for the Protection of World Cultural and Natural Heritage forty years after its adoption: The case of the Guaraní Jesuit Missions.
The Seminar aims for a collaborative assessment of the impact of the implementation of the World Heritage Convention in Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay, and to reflect upon related issues that are not yet resolved. It will also provide a platform to present documents to improve the knowledge circulation and the diffusion of good practice for the management of culture and heritage.
The three-day meeting will be open to the public, featuring experts guest speakers and discussions of related regional case studies. Attendees must complete the pre-registration form and send it by e-mail before August 15. Participation is free.
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NPR's business news starts with Boeing's battery problem.
Boeing's new fleet of Dreamliner 787 aircraft is grounded. But there is one in the air right now. The FAA cleared the plane's flight this morning from Fort Worth, Texas to Seattle. Engineers at the Boeing factory there will study the plane's lithium ion batteries and look for ways to reduce fire risk. Regulators around the world grounded the Dreamliner last month after batteries overheated on two planes. Only crew are aboard the 787 currently on its way to Seattle.
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Chapter 25
Jesus gives the parables of the ten virgins, the talents, and the sheep and the goats.
1 aThen shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten bvirgins, which took their clamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom.
2 And five of them were wise, and five were foolish.
3 They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them:
4 But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.
5 While the bridegroom tarried, they all aslumbered and bslept.
6 And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the abridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him.
7 Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their alamps.
8 And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps aare gone out.
9 But the wise answered, saying, Not so; lest there be not enough for us and you: but go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves.
10 And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were aready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was bshut.
11 Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us.
12 But he answered and said, aVerily I say unto you, I bknow you not.
13 aWatch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.
14 ¶ For the kingdom of heaven is as a man travelling into a far country, who called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods.
15 And unto one he agave five btalents, to another two, and to another one; to every man according to his several ability; and straightway took his journey.
16 Then he that had received the five talents went and traded with the same, and made them other five talents.
17 And likewise he that had received two, he also gained other two.
18 But he that had received one went and digged in the earth, and hid his lord's money.
19 After a long time the lord of those servants cometh, and areckoneth with them.
20 And so he that had received five talents came and brought other five talents, saying, Lord, thou adeliveredst unto me five talents: behold, I have gained beside them five talents more.
21 His lord said unto him, Well done, thou good and faithful aservant: thou hast been bfaithful over a few things, I will make thee cruler over many things: enter thou into the djoy of thy lord.
22 He also that had received two talents came and said, Lord, thou deliveredst unto me two talents: behold, I have gained two other talents beside them.
23 His lord said unto him, Well done, good and afaithful servant; thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.
24 Then he which had received the one talent came and said, Lord, I knew thee that thou art an ahard man, reaping where thou hast not sown, and gathering where thou hast not strawed:
25 And I was aafraid, and went and hid thy talent in the earth: lo, there thou hast that is thine.
26 His lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and aslothful servant, thou knewest that I breap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strawed:
27 Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received mine own with ausury.
28 Take therefore the atalent from him, and give it unto him which hath ten talents.
29 For unto every one that hath shall be agiven, and he shall have babundance: but from him that hath not shall be ctaken away even that which he hath.
30 And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
31 ¶ When the aSon of man shall come in his bglory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:
32 And before him shall be gathered all anations: and he shall bseparate them one from another, as a cshepherd divideth his dsheep from the goats:
33 And he shall set the sheep on his aright hand, but the goats on the left.
34 Then shall the King say unto them on his aright hand, Come, ye bblessed of my Father, cinherit the dkingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:
35 For I was an ahungred, and ye bgave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a cstranger, and ye took me in:
36 Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye avisited me: I was in bprison, and ye came unto me.
37 Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink?
38 When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee?
39 Or when saw we thee asick, or in prison, and came unto thee?
40 And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have adone it unto one of the bleast of these my cbrethren, ye have done it unto me.
41 Then shall he say also unto them on the aleft hand, bDepart from me, ye ccursed, into everlasting dfire, eprepared for the devil and his angels:
42 For I was an ahungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink:
43 I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.
44 Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?
45 Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the aleast of these, ye did it not to me.
46 And these shall go away into aeverlasting bpunishment: but the crighteous into dlife eeternal.


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Saturday, June 12, 2010
Thousand Island Dressing - Pink Saturday
From the kitchen of One Perfect Bite...It's baaack! While I'm not sure it ever went away, there was a long stretch of time when no one would admit they still ate this classic American salad. I speak, of course, of wedge-shaped iceberg lettuce that's been cloaked in the folds of a creamy dressing. The salad first appeared in the 1920's, but the height of its popularity came during the 1950's and 1960's when it was a standard feature on dinner tables across the country. There are few dishes easier to make and I'm fairly certain that its popularity coincided with the appearance of bottled salad dressings on supermarket shelves. While the preference these days seems to be for blue cheese, in those early years Thousand Island was the salad dressing of choice. I am a traditionalist and wouldn't dream of serving this salad with anything other than the ubiquitous salmon pink dressing. That, however, is where my homage ends. This dressing bares no resemblance to the one that was popular in the fifties. It carries with it a touch of the Orient and enough other ingredients to set your palate singing. I really think you like this. You'll need four wedges of iceberg lettuce to make this salad. Don't cut them until you are ready to dress the salad. Lettuce browns quickly when cut with a knife, so don't get too far ahead of yourself. This is the recipe I use to dress the salad.
Thousand Island Dressing...from the kitchen of One Perfect Bite, courtesy of Martha Stewart
1/2 cup mayonnaise
2 tablespoons ketchup
Optional: 1 teaspoon sambal oelek (hot chile paste)
2 tablespoons coarsely chopped sweet pickles, or sweet pickle relish
1 tablespoon coarsely chopped green olives with pimientos
Whisk together mayonnaise, ketchup, chile paste (if using), pickles, and olives in a medium bowl. Dressing can be refrigerated in an airtight container up to 1 week. Yield: 3/4 cup.
You might also enjoy these recipes:
Asian-Style Carrot Salad - One Perfect Bite
Corn Salad with Edamame and Tomatoes - One Perfect Bite
Bulgur Salad with Pomegranate Dressing - One Perfect Bite
Iceberg Wedge Salad with Buttermilk Dressing - Sippity Sup
Iceberg Wedge with Blue Cheese Dressing - Saveur
Blue Smoke's Iceberg Wedges with Roquefort Dressing - Serious Eats
This post is being linked to:
Pink Saturday, sponsored by Beverly at How Sweet the Sound.
66 comments :
- GLENDA CHILDERS said...
Thanks, Mary. I was just wanting a homemade thousand island recipe, for reuben sandwiches.
Why don't we still serve the lettuce wedge? It saves a lot of chopping and it looks really pretty. - June 12, 2010 at 12:07 AM
- Adventures in Domestic Cooking said...
Thousand Island is the best dressing out there!!
=) - June 12, 2010 at 12:20 AM
- Angie's Recipes said...
One of my favourite salad dressings...
Wish a great weekend
Angie - June 12, 2010 at 12:32 AM
- Jane said...
This is my favorite salad dressing. However, I do not recall the presence of olives in it. I'll just have to give it a try.
To Glenda,
My husband has noticed many restaurants serving a lettuce wedge again...especially in NYC and Las Vegas. It's back in style...yea!
Jane (artfully graced) - June 12, 2010 at 12:38 AM
- Sarah B. said...
thank you so much for posting on my blog. I love thousand island dressing, especially in the summer!
- June 12, 2010 at 12:40 AM
- Pondside said...
I've noticed the return of the wedge up here, too. A good Thousand Islands dressing is a treat!
- June 12, 2010 at 12:44 AM
- Unknown said...
I will make this one!
Happy Pink Saturday!
Charo - June 12, 2010 at 1:10 AM
- Nisha said...
New for me. I'm going to try this one:)
- June 12, 2010 at 2:18 AM
- Dream It Up Cookies said...
Yummy! I love to have thousand island dressing on my burgers.
- June 12, 2010 at 3:07 AM
- Ana Powell said...
Delicious sauce.
Wishing you a great weekend ♥ - June 12, 2010 at 3:42 AM
- Regina said...
Love the salad.
Happy weekend. - June 12, 2010 at 4:30 AM
- Alexandra said...
Ahhh... I could just bite into that. I have always loved salads served in a wedge that way.
Thank you for reminding me to do tht for my family tomorrow. - June 12, 2010 at 4:47 AM
- Salsa Verde said...
Hi Mary,
Fantastic dressing!
Answering to your question, the blue colour of my tart just comes from the photo, because the real colour is a brighten honey colour. I'm nor very good taking pictures...
Hope you have a lovely weekend.
Lia. - June 12, 2010 at 5:05 AM
- Jamie said...
Too funny! I remember slicing up crunchy iceberg lettuce to make my own shrimp cocktails (with the ketchup and horseradish sauce) and loved it! And my older son LOVES Thousand Island dressing so I am going to show him this recipe and I am sure he'll make it!
- June 12, 2010 at 5:46 AM
- Diane said...
I love Thousand Island Dressing.
Mary, My camera is a Samsung L201, 10.2 mega pixels. It is very small and slim, and was very cheap. In fact it was cheap enough that we bought 2 so my husband had one as well. Most of the time I simply use it on Auto as I do not understand most of the features!! It takes very good videos with sound, I have mastered that feature:) The cost was well under £100. Have a good weekend.Diane - June 12, 2010 at 6:45 AM
- The Words Crafter said...
I thought I didn't like thousand island dressing, until a friend hounded me to try it...this looks really good! I love that you post information like the history or tradition-I didn't know about wedges or the history of salads...thanks!
- June 12, 2010 at 7:06 AM
- FOODESSA said...
I've ordered this dressing a number of times at restos...and yet, never made one of my own...hmmm.
Still not a big fan of iceberg...sorry.
I think I'll be having me some thousand island salad dressing real soon...tasty ingredients all around.
Flavourful wishes for your Pink Saturday;o)
Claudia - June 12, 2010 at 7:13 AM
- Martha said...
Nothing beats homemade dressing! And yes, growing up, it was thousand island! It was company fare growing up -- not everyday fare!
- June 12, 2010 at 7:13 AM
- Deana Sidney said...
Great minds think alike Mary! I am doing a version of this next week... it was so good with homemade mayo... a forgotten treasure to be sure!! I loved the picture with the iceberg lettuce... it really looked like a green iceberg looming up... wonderful shot!
- June 12, 2010 at 7:24 AM
- Big Dude said...
I love this salad and for me the homemade dressing is so much better, and easy to make, I refuse to eat the bottled version. I did a post on Feb 28 that gives a little of the history of the dressing - such as why the name.
- June 12, 2010 at 7:29 AM
- Allie and Pattie said...
Mary, if you ask my Dad, this is the best salad there is- no "rabbit food" for him! :) Memories..... And why DID it go away??
xoxo Pattie - June 12, 2010 at 7:56 AM
- Katy ~ said...
This is the salad of choice for my Ole Sweetie-Pi. I haven't made thousand island dressing since my home ec days. Time to make this wonderful dressing again. Thanks, Mary. It's a delight to see this spotlighted.
- June 12, 2010 at 8:08 AM
- Becky said...
Mary, Mike has always liked Thousand Island Dressing and I have a Creole version of it that I make for him. Thanks for this new take. I will give it a try. It's interesting how iceberg wedges for salad seem to have gotten a new lease on life the last couple of years in restaurants. Happy Pink Saturday!
- June 12, 2010 at 8:19 AM
- Joe Ambrosino said...
Ah Mary! Sometimes we disagree. That's what makes the world go around, no? I can't (won't) eat iceberg lettuce, and Thousand Island dressing just reminds me too much of diner food- even though I like how you jazzed it up.I would eat it on a sandwich, but for a salad? We eat our salad last and it just seems too strange to put a sweet dressing on it.I'm a stubborn Italian man, what's to say?
- June 12, 2010 at 9:06 AM
- Pam said...
We haven't had this dressing in a long time and your version sounds delicious! Nothing like a wedge of dressed lettuce! Thanks and you have a good weekend, Mary!
- June 12, 2010 at 9:53 AM
- Dru said...
My husband loves Thousand Island Dressing and Iceburg lettuce! I haven't made it in awhile, but you have inspired me to make it for him and he will thank you forever!! There use to be drive-in near my childhood home and they served french fries smothered in this dressing - Yummy! Thanks again, and Happy Pink Saturday!
- June 12, 2010 at 9:54 AM
- Sushma Mallya said...
looks too good..and very nice recipe too
- June 12, 2010 at 10:03 AM
- Jen_from_NJ said...
It has been a while since I have had a wedge salad with thousand island dressing - but now I am just craving one. I do love a good reuben sandwich with this dressing also. Perfect recipe!
- June 12, 2010 at 10:27 AM
- Tara said...
Hi Mary! I just dropped by to check out your place after reading your comment on my blog. I don't have a lot of time today to browse, but I will for sure be back! So many tasty things to check out and I love your photos!I'll have to forward your site to my mom, too; I think she'd really like your recipes. Have a great weekend! -Tara
- June 12, 2010 at 10:34 AM
- Mari said...
HAVE A GREAT PINKY SATURDAY!!! - June 12, 2010 at 10:56 AM
- Mary Bergfeld said...
Katy, seems you turned your comments section off. I just wanted to let you know I love your drop cookies. They look and sound delicious. Blessings...Mary
- June 12, 2010 at 11:04 AM
- Cooking with kait said...
Hi Marry. Happy Pink Saturday. This looks super creamy and delicious. Have a wonderful weekend.
- June 12, 2010 at 11:12 AM
- Tricia said...
That looks so yummy! My mother used to make our homemade salad dressing very similar to that. I don't eat it that often any more, but maybe for old time sake we'll try some this weekend.
Blessings and Happy Pink Sat.
Tricia - June 12, 2010 at 11:16 AM
- Monet said...
Thank you for this recipe...and what pretty pink pictures! I love making my own dressing. So much better than what you can buy at the stores. And I love lettuce wedges...such an attractive way to display such beautiful dressing. - June 12, 2010 at 11:33 AM
- Unknown said...
This salad brings back childhood memories! My mom would make wedge salads at least once a week. I love the dressing recipe!
- June 12, 2010 at 11:51 AM
- Rick said...
That looks so easy Mary! Thank you for all your well wishes!
- June 12, 2010 at 11:55 AM
- Char said...
This looks great. Happy Pink Saturday, Char
- June 12, 2010 at 11:59 AM
- La Bella Cooks said...
I was always such a huge fan of this dressing growing up and it has been so long since I had it last. I need to change that!
Enjoy your weekend! - June 12, 2010 at 12:17 PM
- Carla and Michael said...
I do still love thousand island dressing. Besides you can't have a reuben without it. This one sounds very interesting. Definately not your typical version.
- June 12, 2010 at 12:59 PM
- The Cilantropist said...
Wow, I never thought of making my own thousand island dressing before! And with a crisp iceberg lettuce, sounds fresh and delicious. :)
- June 12, 2010 at 1:15 PM
- Joanne said...
haha I was never even aware that this "left" as my parents still eat it as their sole vegetable source. I'm loving the homemade dressing though...everything is better homemade!
- June 12, 2010 at 1:52 PM
- Priya Suresh said...
Dressing sound fabulous and yumm!
- June 12, 2010 at 2:10 PM
- ♥ Kathy said...
1000 Island is my hubby's dressing of choice :)
- June 12, 2010 at 2:28 PM
- Marie Arden said...
Just found your blog and see lots of yummy things some are even PINK like today's post. I love eating PINK food and you will see why if you visit my blog Marie Arden Pink Living- my passion about happiness thru pink living.
I will be back for more yummy inspiration. Happy PINK Saturday!! - June 12, 2010 at 2:43 PM
- From the Kitchen said...
Mary, I hold my head high and say I like thousand island dressing. I use it to dress our rolls when we have salmon burgers. I use a variation of it for shrimp salad and, sometimes, I use it on my luncheon salad. And I'm going to proudly use your recipe and make my own!!
Bonnie - June 12, 2010 at 3:00 PM
- We Are Not Martha said...
Yum! It's funny how delicious some Thousand Island Dressing can make a big wedge of lettuce taste!
Sues - June 12, 2010 at 3:18 PM
- Amisha said...
Hi Mary,
I have got to try this out. Can I say that I love the way you write? - June 12, 2010 at 4:04 PM
- Barbara said...
Oh Mary...this was my father's favorite. He asked for it every time. Iceberg lettuce and thousand island dressing. I can just hear him. What's funny is we used to raz him about it and now it's making a big comeback. He's having the last laugh!
- June 12, 2010 at 4:34 PM
- Tina said...
Well now, I never thought about how to make the dressing...I've always purchased it premade. Cool!
- June 12, 2010 at 5:10 PM
- Dana Fallentine said...
You are amazing!
- June 12, 2010 at 6:02 PM
- April said...
Can't wait to try this!!!!!! Thanks for visiting my blog, I will have to visit yours now too..:)
- June 12, 2010 at 6:46 PM
- CC said...
Hi Mary...
Ohhhhhh yummmmmmmmm!!!! This is still my husband's favorite salad and always with Thousand Island..but I fear its straight from the bottle..*sighs and hangs head.. Your's as always, looks so super delicious..
I wasn't sure if you accepted awards or not, but I have an award for you over at my blog. I will so totally understand if you are award and tag free...
Happy Pinks and have a beutiful week.. - June 12, 2010 at 7:36 PM
- Foley said...
Yummy!! MY Dad would always mix 1000 Island and French dressing together on his salad! You brought back a sweet memory for me.
- June 12, 2010 at 7:38 PM
- T.W. Barritt at Culinary Types said...
Wow - you've shaken this recipe up! I'd Thousand Island PLUS!
- June 12, 2010 at 7:43 PM
- Sarah said...
Mary, this is definitely a trip back in time for me. This was one of my favorite salads in the 60s. LOL
If you have time, stop by my Pink Saturday post to see some upcoming blog parties.
Happy Pink Saturday! ~ Sarah - June 12, 2010 at 9:12 PM
- tasteofbeirut said...
You are taking me back thirty years with this salad! I used to eat it all the time when I first moved to the US and now I am in the mood for it out of sheer nostalgia!
- June 12, 2010 at 9:36 PM
- Pamela said...
Thank you for stopping by my blog to pay me a visit and for the very kind comment! I truly appreciate it. Your photos are gorgeous and this wedge of Iceberg looks simply delectable.
- June 12, 2010 at 9:38 PM
- Eileen said...
Sounds great! I had a wedge salad in a restaurant not too long ago, but it was indeed served with blue cheese. I will have to try this recipe; I do like Thousand Island dressing.
- June 12, 2010 at 10:22 PM
- Julie said...
You know, I never had a wedge shaped salad...I'd love to try it!
- June 12, 2010 at 11:41 PM
- Devaki @ weavethousandflavors said...
Dear Mary - This will always be my fave salad dressing especially with some jumbo prawns! Yum!
Ciao, Devaki @ weavethousandflavors - June 13, 2010 at 1:11 AM
- Julie said...
I've never made thousand island dressing. What a beautiful topping for the green lettuce. Great Pink Saturday post, too!
- June 13, 2010 at 5:21 PM
- Eliana said...
Lettuce is just a vehicle for having thousand island dressing. This one looks superb.
- June 13, 2010 at 5:42 PM
- JKS said...
This looks great! There is nothing like homemade dressing. Iceberg lettuce has great crunch. I mix it in with salads just for the crunch factor. ~Jane~
- June 13, 2010 at 6:44 PM
- Beverly said...
Happy Pink Saturday, Mary.
My husband loves Thousand Island Dressing, and this sounds almost exactly like I make mine - with the exception of the oelek.
I will try this for certain. Do you find the oelek at your regular grocery store, and in what section?
I have a friend that makes Thousand Island Dressing with chopped boiled eggs in it. I had never had it that way before, but it is pretty good. - June 13, 2010 at 8:13 PM
- Deb in Hawaii said...
A fun classic revisited--I love some Thousand Island dressing with shrimp. ;-)
- June 14, 2010 at 3:28 AM
- Single Guy Ben said...
I'm a big fan of Thousand Island dressing, probably because I love ketchup. I'm not sure why it gets such a bad rap among foodies.
- June 16, 2010 at 1:40 PM


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The Princeton Laptop Orchestra is one of 17 winners of the Digital Media and Learning Competition, which awards funds to projects that use digital media in an innovative way for formal and informal learning.
The contest, funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, awarded $238,000 to the Princeton Laptop Orchestra (PLOrk for short) to support a mobile musical laboratory that students will use to explore new ways of making music with laptops and local area networks.
This is the first year for the competition, part of the MacArthur Foundation's five-year, $50 million digital media and learning initiative designed to help determine how digital technologies are changing the way young people learn, play, socialize and participate in civic life. The winning projects were selected from 1,010 applications.
PLOrk, an ensemble of computer-based musical meta-instruments, grew out of a freshman seminar taught in 2005 by Perry Cook, a professor with joint appointments in computer science and music, and Dan Trueman, an assistant professor of music. The students who make up the ensemble act as performers, researchers, composers and software developers, exploring ways in which the computer can be integrated into conventional music-making contexts — such as chamber ensembles or jam sessions — while radically transforming those contexts.
To create a mobile musical laboratory, students will collaborate to design new technologies and learn about a variety of subjects, including musical acoustics, networking, instrument design, human-computer interfacing, procedural programming, signal processing and musical aesthetics. One of the project's aims is to enable students to make electronic music not just in rehearsal rooms, but from anywhere on campus.
"The MacArthur grant will allow us to completely reinvent the PLOrk technology to make it much more portable and easy to use, highly significant changes that will directly impact the way we teach our courses and the way students use the technologies," Trueman said. "Indeed, the history of musical instruments shows us that the music we imagine is inextricably linked to the instruments we make it with, so it is hard to overstate how important this redesign might be for us."
Currently, each "instrument" consists of a laptop, a multi-channel hemispherical speaker and a variety of control devices, such as keyboards, graphics tablets and sensors. The set is heavy and awkward to carry.
"This practical limitation has many deep ramifications for PLOrk as an environment for learning and research," Trueman and Cook wrote in their proposal. "It is a serious disincentive for developing projects and pieces that might be performed or shared in public spaces, let alone environments that might involve non-PLOrk members in some kind of interactive way. And, more importantly, it discourages the kind of informal learning that happens when someone simply walks into a dorm common room with something to share (or something to 'jam' with!)."
Also central to PLOrk is the exploration of how to work with local area wireless networks in musical ways. The group is large enough that the speed of sound from one end of the ensemble to the other is actually greater than the speed of the wireless local area network.
"As part of the MacArthur-supported research, we will be attempting to develop a highly reliable and strongly timed protocol for local networking," Trueman said.
Finally, inspired by recent developments in gaming interfaces with computers, the group will be continuing to explore new methods and instrument designs for connecting with the computer in musically and physically inspiring ways.
"As part of this proposal, we plan to put in place the necessary infrastructure (sensor technologies, new and traditional HCI components) so that PLOrk can be a highly physical playground for studying new technologies and music," Trueman and Cook wrote.
Undergraduates from many disciplines, along with graduate students and faculty members in the computer science and music departments, will participate in the project. A number of guest artists, including the electronica duo Matmos and the percussion quartet So Percussion, also will be involved.


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NEW YORK (AP) — Strong earnings from tech giants nudged the stock market to a five-year high Wednesday. Investors drew encouragement from a vote by the House of Representatives to let the government keep paying all of its bills for another four months.
The Dow Jones industrial average rose 67.12 points to close at 13,779.33. That's the highest level since Oct. 31, 2007, a month before the Great Recession started.
Google and IBM reported surprisingly solid fourth-quarter earnings late Tuesday, a hopeful sign for investors who expected tech companies to struggle at the end of last year.
IBM's results beat expectations, thanks to its lucrative Internet-based "cloud computing" business and sales of software services to Brazil, Russia and other developing countries. The company also raised its earnings outlook for the current year. IBM led the Dow's 30 stocks, rising $8.64 to $204.72.
Without IBM's 4 percent gain, the Dow would have been nearly flat.
Other indexes made slight gains. The Standard & Poor's 500 index inched up 2.25 points to 1,494.81, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq composite rose 10.49 points to 3,153.67.
The stock market has climbed so quickly this month that it will likely take more than good earnings to keep it heading higher. "This market is really stretched," said Clark Yingst, chief market analyst at the securities firm Joseph Gunnar. "We've essentially gone straight up since January 2. There's certainly room for people to take profits."
The S&P 500 index is already up 4.8 percent in 2013. That's more than half of what most stock-fund investors hope to make in a single year.
The House passed a bill Wednesday afternoon to suspend the government's borrowing limit until May 19. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said his chamber would immediately move the legislation to the White House.
House Republicans had previously said they would use the debt ceiling as a bargaining chip to push for deeper government spending cuts.
Google gained 6 percent after its earnings climbed at the end of last year as online advertisers spent more money in pursuit of holiday shoppers. Google rose $38.63 to $741.50.
Another tech giant, Apple, fell in after-hours trading after reporting sales that fell short of forecasts.
Slumping coal shipments have been a drag on railroad operators, but CSX and Norfolk Southern posted better revenue and profits than expected. The railroads managed to offset some of the hit from falling coal demand by getting more money from carrying car parts, building materials and other products.
Norfolk Southern rose $1.47 to $68.41 while CSX gained 87 cents to $21.68.
The quarterly earnings season is off to strong start. Of the 83 companies in the S&P 500 that reported through Tuesday, 54 have beaten Wall Street's estimates, according to S&P Capital IQ.
In the bond market, the yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note dipped to 1.83 percent from 1.84 percent late Tuesday.
Among other companies posting quarterly earnings:
— Advanced Micro Devices jumped 11 percent, making it the top stock in the S&P 500. The world's second-largest maker of microchips, behind Intel, posted a smaller loss and higher revenue than analysts had forecast. AMD rose 28 cents to $2.73.
— Coach plunged 16 percent, or $9.93, to $50.75. The luxury handbag maker said a challenging economy and heavy price-cutting by competitors weighed on its results. Rivals like Michael Kors have attracted more followers.
— McDonald's Corp. eked out a higher quarterly profit with the help of its Dollar Menu and the McRib sandwich. The world's biggest hamburger chain plans to roll out new menu items this year to support sales, including the Fish McBites. McDonald's inched up 53 cents to $93.48.
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DELPHI--Stunning Lines from High Design
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When enabling the halos in development mode, every component gets surrounded by a thin grey line and a header giving the class name of the component and a set of buttons to run tools and to change the viewing mode. The tools available trough the halo are extensible with plug-in architecture.
Below you see an interactive demonstration of the halo for the counter component:
The tools a halo provides from left to right are:
- Class Name (WACounter) displays the name of the current component. In Seaside all rendering is done by composable, reusable components.
- Class Browser opens an editor on the current component and lets the developer modify its class and all the methods from within the web, while the application is still running in the background. When closing the browser-view the application immediately runs with the new code without having to restart the session or the server.
- Object Inspector opens a view on the component, so that the developer can browse the internal structure of this object. It presents the names of the instance variables and the current values, whereas the user is able to dive into the referenced objects by clicking on the links.
- CSS Style Editor opens an editor that lets a UI designer tweak the associated CSS stylesheets. This makes it very convenient to try out different layouts directly in the web-browser without leaving the running application.
- Render View [R] renders the component normally.
- Source View [S] provides a pretty-printed and syntax-highlighted XHTML view onto the source code of the current component. Like this the developer is able to observe the generation of XHTML while still being able to interact with the application by clicking on its links.


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Bob always made his animation very specific - like this odd upshot of Daffy's beak as he walks into the scene. Why an upshot? Because it's more interesting than just having him walk in for the mere sake of story continuity.
Here's all the principles of animation in action, only exaggerated more than the other directors. Bob's actions have a lot more punch to them because of this. Stronger accents, which help make the actions clear. - especially important when there is so much happening so fast in his cartoons.
This has the makings of a really gruesome scene. Mr. Meek has to bring home a duck for dinner or "Thweetie Pie will cook my goose!" Here's this mild mannered guy only too ready to enact the most brutal death upon a cute character with a giant axe.
Watch the animation in the clip of Meek slicing his axe through the hay trying to cut up Daffy. It's amazing.
This next scene is by Scribner. HUGE accents. Look at that beak!
One of the things I love about Clampett's cartoons is that I'm always discovering new gags and details I missed before. I've seen this cartoon 100 times and I never noticed that Daffy is ripping his feathers off and tossing them into the air along with the bloody ketchup.
This gag just kills me. I can't believe this was in a cartoon made almost 70 years ago.
Back to super cute Daffy.
Then more screaming and squirting blood everywhere.
I just noticed that Mr. Meek shoves his finger into his nostril. Never saw that before either.
Clampett cuts away from super exaggerated Scribner to another milder animator.
But this is a very funny expression and action coming up.
This may be Art Babbit's animation; I'm not sure. It's very round.
Look how Goddamned weird this is.
You can't have enough blood and feathers in a Clampett cartoon.
I think he gets away with this stuff because it's just so exaggerated you can't possibly take it seriously.
You see if you tried to do a scene like this today, some exec would read a script: "Daffy squirts ketchup all over the place and tears his feathers off and shoves his head deep down into his neck sheath, making it look like he is a chicken with his head cut off." Even if it made it past the exec and into production, if you didn't have a really strong funny director following the scene through production, chances are an artist would draw it too straight - and then it really would look gruesome. The key to successful violence in cartoons is to make it obviously ridiculous.
OK, you gotta watch this animation in the clip too. It's Scribner again and he animates some of the funniest and best acting ever in a cartoon here.
First Daffy flops around like a chicken with its head cut off.
Then he gives us a cute goofy look to tell us "It's just a gag, folks, I'm not really dead!"
Then into another frenzy...
and then it switchs to Daffy begging Mr. Meek to save him. All in pantomime. And without a head!
The idea that a director and the best animators in the world would go to such trouble and skill for such a simple gross idea, makes the whole scene 10 times funnier. - that they thought the gag was so important, it needed virtuoso execution.
Watch how he twirls around while walking around the corner. Such humor, deftness and control!
Wow. This scene is a complete animation opus and should be in all the history books. They should have piled Academy awards on Clampett and Scribner.
Wow. This scene is a complete animation opus and should be in all the history books. They should have piled Academy awards on Clampett and Scribner.
The funny part is, the story itself is a pretty routine WB plot. It's a stock heckler story like a Woody Woodpecker cartoon and Bob could have just thrown it away and not paid any attention to it, but he didn't. His meticulous direction turns the stock story into a complete caricature of what a "Looney Tune" is - it's almost a satire of the formula - and it becomes art.
Disc One: Bugs and Daffy
1. 14-Carrot Rabbit
2. Ali Baba Bunny (with Commentary Track by Filmmaker Greg Ford & Music Only Track)
3. Buccaneer Bunny
4. Bugs' Bonnets
5. A Star is Bored
6. A Pest in the House (with Commentary Track by Writer Paul Dini)
7. Transylvania 6-5000 (with Commentary Track by Historian Jerry Beck)
8. Oily Hare
9. Stupor Duck (with Music Only Track)
10. The Stupor Salesman
11. The Abominable Snow Rabbit (with Music and Effects Track)
12. The Super Snooper (with Music and Effects Track)
13. The Upstanding Sitter
14. Hollywood Daffy
15. You Were Never Duckier (with Commentary Track by Director Eric Goldberg)
Special Features Include:
1. Chuck Jones: Extremes and In-Betweens, a Life in Animation Part 1 (Estamated time: 45 minutes)
2. Featurettes: The Bugs Bunny Show
a. Bad Time Story Bridging Sequences (Estimated time: 8:26)
b. What's Up Dog? Audio Recording Sessions (Estimated time: 3:00)
Disc Two: Fairy Tales
1. Bewitched Bunny (with Commentary Track by Director Eric Goldberg & Music and Effects Track)
2. Paying the Piper
3. The Bear's Tale
4. Foney Fables
5. Goldimouse and the Three Cats (with Music Only Track)
6. Holiday for Shoestrings (with Commentary Track by Historian Daniel Goldmark)
7. Little Red Rodent Hood
8. Little Red Walking Hood (with Commentary Track by Animator Mark Kausler)
9. Red Riding Hoodwinked (with Commentary Track by Filmmaker Greg Ford & Music Only Track)
10. The Trial of Mr. Wolf
11. The Turn-Table Wolf (with Music and Effects Track)
12. Tom Thumb in Trouble (with Commentary Track by Historian Jerry Beck)
13. Tweety and the Beanstalk (with Music Only Track)
14. A Gander and a Mother Goose
15. Senorella and the Glass Huarache
Special Features Include:
1. Chuck Jones: Extremes and In-Betweens, A Life in Animation, Part Two (Estimated Time: 45:00)
2. Behind the Tunes
a. Once Upon a Tune (Estimated Time: 8:27)
b. Drawn to Life: The Art of Robert McKimson (Estimated Time: 15:00)
3. A Chuck Jones Tutorial: Tricks of the Cartoon (Estimated Time: 13:21)
4. Bonus Cartoons
a. Coming!! [1943] (Estimated Time: 3:00)
b. Gripes [1943] (Estimated Time: 3:00)
c. Gas [1944] (Estimated Time: 4:00)
a. Take Heed Mr. Tojo [1943] (Estimated Time: 3:00)
b. The Good Egg [1945] (Estimated Time: 3:00)
c. The Return of Mr. Hook [1945] (Estimated Time: 2:00)
d. Tokyo Woes [1945] (Estimated Time: 4:00) -CLAMPETThttp://johnkstuff.blogspot.com/search/label/Hook
Disc Three: The Best of Bob Clampett
1. Bacall to Arms (with Commentary Track by Historian Jerry Beck)
2. Buckaroo Bugs (with Commentary Track by Historian Michael Barrier and Commentary Track by Director John Kricfalusi, Director Eddie Fitzgerald and Cartoonist Kali Fontecchio) http://johnkstuff.blogspot.com/search/label/buckaroo
3. Crazy Cruise
4. Farm Frolics (with Commentary Track by Actor Keith Scott)
5. Hare Ribbin'
6. Patient Porky 7. Prehistoric Porky 8. The Bashful Buzzard (with Commentary Track by Writer Paul Dini)
9. The Old Grey Hare (with Commentary Track by Filmmaker Greg Ford)
10. The Wacky Wabbit (with Commentary Track by Director Eric Goldberg)
11. The Wise Quacking Duck
12. Wagon Heels
13. The Daffy Doc (with Commentary Track by Animator Mark Kausler)
14. A Tale of Two Kitties (with Commentary Track by Historian Michael Barrier)
15. Porky's Pooch
Special Features Include:
1. Behind the Tunes
a. Wacky Warner One-Shots (Estimated Time: 8:40)
b. Real American Zero: The Adventures of Private SNAFU (Estimated Time: 8:45)
2. From the Vaults
a. Hare Ribbin' Director's Cut (Estimated Time: 8:00)
b. The Bashful Buzzard Storyboard Reel (with Bashful Buzzard Orignial Opening Music Cue) (Estimated Time: 8:00)
3. Alternate Milt Franklin Opening Themes (with Introduction by Greg Ford)(Estimated Time: 5:00)
Disc Four: "The Early Daze"
1. Alpine Antics
2. Eatin' on the Cuff or the Moth Who Came to Dinner (with Commentary Trac by Historian Jerry Beck)
3. Milk and Money
4. I've Got to Sing a Torch Song
5. Porky at the Crocadero (with Commentary Track by Historian Daniel Goldmark)
6. Polar Pals 1939
7. Scrap Happy Daffy
8. Porky's Double Trouble
9. Golddigers of '49
10. Pilgrim Porky 1940
11. Wise Quacks 1939
12. Porky's Review (with Commentary Track by Fimmaker Greg Ford)
13. Porky's Poppa 1938
14. Wholly Smoke (with Commentary Track by Historian Daniel Goldmark)
15. What Price Porky 1938
Special Features Include:
1. Unsung Maestros: A Directors Tribute (Estimated Time: 15:00)
2. The Looney Tunes Television Specials
a. Bugs and Daff's Carnival of the Animals [1976 TV Special] (Estimated Time: 24:23)
b. Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales (1979 TV Special] (Estimated Time: 24:13)
c. Bugs Bunny's Bustin' Out All Over [1980 TV Special (Estimated Time: 23:46)


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OS2::PrfDB - Perl extension for access to OS/2 setting database.
use OS2::PrfDB; tie %settings, OS2::PrfDB, 'my.ini'; tie %subsettings, OS2::PrfDB::Sub, 'my.ini', 'mykey'; print "$settings{firstkey}{subkey}\n"; print "$subsettings{subkey}\n"; tie %system, OS2::PrfDB, SystemIni; $system{myapp}{mykey} = "myvalue";
The extension provides both high-level and low-level access to .ini files.
High-level access is the tie-hash access via two packages: OS2::PrfDB and OS2::PrfDB::Sub. First one supports one argument, the name of the file to open, the second one the name of the file to open and so called Application name, or the primary key of the database.
tie %settings, OS2::PrfDB, 'my.ini'; tie %subsettings, OS2::PrfDB::Sub, 'my.ini', 'mykey';
One may substitute a handle for already opened ini-file instead of the file name (obtained via low-level access functions). In particular, 3 functions SystemIni(), UserIni(), and AnyIni() provide handles to the "systemish" databases. AniIni will read from both, and write into User database.
Low-level access functions reside in the package OS2::Prf. They are
Opens the database, returns an integer handle.
Closes the database given an integer handle.
Get(hndl, appname, key)
Retrieves data from the database given 2-part-key appname key. If key is undef, return the "\0" delimited list of keys, terminated by \0. If appname is undef, returns the list of possible appnames in the same form.
GetLength(hndl, appname, key)
Same as above, but returns the length of the value.
Set(hndl, appname, key, value [ , length ])
Sets the value. If the value is not defined, removes the key. If the key is not defined, removes the appname.
Return an integer handle associated with the system database. If val is 1, it is User database, if 2, System database, if 0, handle for "both" of them: the handle works for read from any one, and for write into User one.
returns a reference to a list of two strings, giving names of the User and System databases.
(Not tested.) Sets the profile name of the User database. The application should have a message queue to use this function!
To convert a name or an integer handle into an object acceptable as argument to tie() interface, one may use the following functions from the package OS2::Prf::Hini:
new(package, file)
new_from_int(package, int_hndl [ , filename ])
SystemIni(), UserIni(), and AnyIni().
Ilya Zakharevich, firstname.lastname@example.com
To install less, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm less
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install less
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.


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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, in partnership with CHANEL, hosted the 2022 Academy Women's Luncheon in Los Angeles , bring...
Tuesday, October 24, 2006
Kevin Federline Parties in Vegas; Britney Spears Angry - Enquirer
K-Fed in action...
Unlike the O.J. Simpson story, I do believe this one. They're a very young couple, and too inexperienced to be good parents in my view. But we will see. No turning back, eh?
By MICHAEL GLYNN - ENQUIRER
What happens in Vegas doesn't always stay in Vegas — just ask a furious Britney Spears. She's set to spear hubby Kevin Federline after he spent a wild weekend in Sin City — partying with his buddies and assorted beauties, insiders told The ENQUIRER.
"Britney feels outraged and betrayed," confided a close source. "Only three weeks after she gave birth to their new baby, Kevin vamoosed to Vegas with his buddies, who spent hours with young girls in his hotel suite.
"When Kevin returned to their Malibu home, Britney gave him the cold shoulder and then they had a terrible fight. It ended with Kevin staying over at a buddy's house."
Pick up this week's issue of The ENQUIRER to read all about it!
Published on: 10/13/2006
O. J. Simpson Denies Book Deal and Confession
I saw this in the National Enquirer:
O.J. Simpson confesses to the bloody slaughter of his ex-wife Nicole Simpson and her pal Ron Goldman – and reveals he had an accomplice at the scene--in a bombshell new book!
Eleven years after Simpson was acquitted of the Murder of the Century, The ENQUIRER has learned exclusively that O.J. is being paid $3.5 million to describe the brutal knife attack blow-by-blow.
"Only that kind of money could have tempted O.J. to finally tell the truth," a West Coast source familiar with the top-secret book project told The ENQUIRER.
In the book, "he describes how he grabbed a knife from a man who accompanied him to Nicole's home -- and moments later found himself covered in blood and looking down on the bodies of Nicole and Ron," said the source.
With its publication only weeks away, the tell-all blockbuster has remained the most explosive secret in publishing -- until now.
In its early chapters, O.J. paints a vivid picture of his life with Nicole and details their bitter divorce amid her affairs.
Finally, the disgraced Hall of Famer gets to June 12, 1994 – the night of the infamous double murder.
"O.J. prefaces these key pages by almost half-heartedly claiming this part of the book is hypothetical," said the source. "But I don't think anyone is going to be convinced of that."
Because of "double jeopardy" laws, legal experts say O.J.'s confession will not likely lead to any legal trouble for him.
The book's working title is "If I Did It." But Simpson's account of the slayings is so chillingly realistic that it leaves no doubt it is a confession of what really happened.
...and I could not believe it. So I searched for his name and found this in the SF Chronicle..
O.J. Simpson Denies Book Confession
Former sports star and actor O.J. Simpson has slammed reports he is to be paid around $3.5 million for "admitting" to the killing of Nicole Brown and Ronald Goldman in a sensational new book.
A U.S. publication reported the star plans to publish his autobiography in which he will describe how he would have killed his ex-wife and Goldman, in an allegedly fictional manner. They were stabbed to death in 1994 and Simpson stood trial for the murders. He was found not guilty.
But Simpson's lawyer Yale Galanter denies the rumor. He tells the New York Daily News, "(Simpson) is not writing a book. We haven't been paid 35 cents, much less $3.5 million.
"If anyone comes out with such a book, I'll go on every talk show and call it crap."
Whatever is going on, it's clear that someone out there can't just leave O.J. alone. That's sad. He was acquitted in the criminal trial and the civil trial left out so much evidence it was a joke.
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It's Competitors' Pick Night on American Idol, where the Top 7 finalists get to pick songs for their competitors, and each singer gets to choose one of six options. Did anyone go the sabotage route, or was everyone altruistic? The show finally finds something for Randy Jackson to do, as he introduces the theme of the night and interviews each singer about what they would select for their counterparts. (Everyone seems to be playing nice, for the record.) American Idol's Malaya Watson explains why she almost didn't audition So, what did the finalists ultimately decide on? Let's get to the performances:
It's Competitors' Pick Night on American Idol, where the Top 7 finalists get to pick songs for their competitors, and each singer gets to choose one of six options. Did anyone go the sabotage route, or was everyone altruistic?
The show finally finds something for Randy Jackson to do, as he introduces the theme of the night and interviews each singer about what they would select for their counterparts. (Everyone seems to be playing nice, for the record.)
American Idol's Malaya Watson explains why she almost didn't audition
So, what did the finalists ultimately decide on? Let's get to the performances:
Song: "Family Tree" by Kings of Leon
The performance: We would have loved to see Caleb opt for Jena's suggestion of Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Simple Man," but this is ... fine. Has Caleb ever performed first before? Maybe it's due to his position in the lineup, but he actually seems a bit restrained, physically, for this number. His voice is a 10, per usual, but it would have been nice to see him work the stage a little more.
What the judges say: Keith Urban praises Caleb's consistency. Jennifer Lopez says everyone else will have to up their game after this performance. And Harry Connick Jr. loves that Caleb put his own spin on the tune.
Song: "Gunpowder and Lead" by Miranda Lambert
The performance: Love the soft piano intro from Jessica before she kicks this kiss-off into full gear. The awkwardness that stilted Jessica's performance a couple of weeks ago when she didn't have her guitar to lean on has gotten better, along with her stage presence (thanks in large part to the intense stare she gives the camera at one point). Her vocals suffer a bit as a result, though, and she could have been a little looser.
What the judges say: J.Lo says Jessica was a bit "off" vocally, and that she seemed a little uncomfortable and that the performance didn't "seem natural." Harry says Jessica was a bit out of step with the song, and encourages her to dance to some hip-hop records so that she can get more in tune with the rhythm. Keith says that the performance suffered from a "dissipation of energy."
Quiz: Do you know these stars' real names?
At this point, Ryan Seacrest introduces the night's special guest, X Factor refugee Demi Lovato. The purpose for her presence is unclear.
First duet: Sam and Alex
Song: "Let Her Go" by Passenger
The performance: It's official: Sam and Alex are basically clones, as this bland performance illustrates. It's the musical equivalent of a glass of skim milk, and if the show is trying to differentiate the finalists from each other, this is not the way to do it.
What the judges say: Harry asks the guys what they felt about the performance, which he calls "saccharine." Keith says he refuses to critique duets and calls it "chintzy" and "cute." Demi says it had "good energy" (false) and says she wishes they would have done more with the song. (A-ha! She's auditioning to be a judge next season. Mystery solved.)
Song: "Gravity" by John Mayer
The performance: Pro: We like this version of "Gravity" better than John Mayer's original (which, to be fair, isn't saying much). C.J.'s pained inflections in the second verse are particularly pleasing. And because the song is mostly half-spoken and stays in the same key, C.J. doesn't have any of his typical pitch problems.
What the judges say: Keith says that if C.J. was going to make the song so emotional, he should have incorporated an arc or crescendo. Jennifer says C.J. seems to be getting more comfortable week after week, but needs to start having some big moments in his songs. Harry recites his party line about C.J.'s ability to connect with people and calls this his best performance to date.
Shows on the bubble: Which will survive?
Song: "Muckalee Creek Water" by Luke Bryan
The performance: Finally, we get something from Dexter that's not a dive bar singalong. Like Jessica, he does a great job of holding the camera's gaze and infuses the song with a dark intensity vocally, while still making some ad-libbed hand gestures that don't feel out of place. This is probably his strongest performance of the season.
What the judges say: Keith hints that Dexter's adrenaline might have pulled him out of the key at times. J.Lo enjoys seeing a different side of Dexter, but adds that at this stage in the competition, everyone needs to step up their game. Harry compliments subtle change-ups to the arrangement, and says he would've liked to have seen more.
Second duet: Caleb and Jena
Song: "Gimme Shelter" by the Rolling Stones
The performance: The season's two powerhouse vocalists have adorable chemistry offstage and it finally — praise be! — translates into a decent duet. It's both sweet and savvy of Caleb to step back and let Jena have the spotlight at the end of the song, and these two are the only contestants who would be able to do this song any type of justice.
What the judges say: "That was a moment," Jenn gushes. Keith rightfully notes that everyone "feels a little stiff tonight." Harry notes that the competitors need to channel their inner entertainer. Demi says she felt energized by their harmonies and wants to do a duet with Jena.
Song: "A Team" by Ed Sheeran
The performance: What a departure for Alex, to tackle a song by a white male singer/songwriter. Look, Alex's voice is great. He nails the high-pitched phrases and everything else you would expect from a whiny indie pop song. But at this late stage in the competition, we really need to start seeing some kind of range — and one barely held big note at the end of a song every week isn't going to cut it.
What the judges say: J.Lo and Harry agree that it was a "perfect song." Well, yes. Harry wonders if that's enough to win the competition, but adds that Alex's conviction may convince him. Keith loves Alex's signature style.
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Song: "Sail Away" by David Gray
The performance: We like Sam's look tonight! He still looks a bit nervous up there on the stage, but thank goodness he isn't surrounded by a gaggle of salivating tweens this week. He has a minor lyrical misstep at one point, but recovers nicely and gives a more vibrant vocal performance than we've seen thus far.
What the judges say: Harry says Sam is making progress every week, but he didn't like the song choice tonight, and says that at this point, the singers need to go with more familiar tunes. Keith agrees. Jennifer says she "felt" the performance.
Trio: Jessica, Dexter and C.J.
Song: "Compass" by Lady Antebellum
The performance: The staging of this performance is snooze-worthy, and each individual singer (Jess especially) gets drowned out at certain points in the song. But the three do come together for a nice harmony every now and then, which is more than we expected at the outset.
What the judges say: "It just wasn't good," Harry says flatly, noting that the song was mostly out of tune. Keith says the individual performances were greater than the sum of their parts. Demi agrees.
Song: "Creep" by Radiohead
The performance: It can't go unmentioned that we totally agree with J.Lo about Jena's styling tonight, which is to die for. We love the first part of this song, with Jena performing solo at the piano. But would the song have been better if she just kept it at that tempo, rather than having the full band come in? Or, if the band was definitely going to join, it may've been a better choice for Jena to leave the piano and really rock out on the stage.
What the judges say: The show is running out of airtime, but the judges are definitely Team Jena. Keith gushes over Jena's "fearlessness," and J.Lo loves the way Jena "Jena-fies" every song she does. Harry calls her a "phenomenal talent," and says it was "unquestionably the best performance of the night."
What did you think? Who were your favorite performances of the night? Who do you think will be going home tomorrow? Weigh in below!


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Keep Your Eyes Healthy with Vision-Friendly Foods This Holiday Season
Sharing meals with family and friends is one of the highlights of the holiday season. Whether you indulge in old favorites or try new recipes, consider adding these eye-healthy foods to your holiday table.
Leafy Green Vegetables
Starting your holiday meal with a salad is an excellent way to ensure that you and your guests get plenty of zeaxanthin and lutein, two nutrients that help protect your central vision. Adding kale, spinach, or romaine lettuce to salads helps your eyes absorb damaging blue light, combats the effects of cigarette smoke and pollution, and also decreases your risk of developing age-related macular degeneration (AMD), a condition that affects the macula, the part of your retina responsible for central vision. You will also find lutein in grapes, kiwis, broccoli, peas, corn, Swiss chard, and collard greens.
Turkey and Beef
Turkey and lean beef, two of the key ingredients in many holiday meals, keep your eyes strong and healthy. Both foods are high in zinc, a nutrient important to the retina and the choroid layer under the retina. Zinc is essential for good night vision. Eating foods that are high in the nutrient can also reduce your risk of cataracts and AMD. Other foods that contain zinc include pork, dairy products, chick peas, black-eyed peas, crab, oysters, beans, spinach, mushrooms, cashews, and almonds.
Your eyes will thank you if you make salmon, mackerel, flounder, tuna, halibut, herring, or sardines the centerpiece of one of your holiday meals. These fish contain omega-3 fatty acids, which can reduce your risk of developing AMD, dry eye, and glaucoma.
Your mom was right. Carrots do help your vision. They contain beta carotene, a substance that turns into vitamin A when you eat it. Eating carrots can benefit your night vision and reduce your risk of cataracts, AMD, and dry eyes. If you do not like carrots but still want to enjoy the benefits of beta carotene, make a pumpkin pie or a batch of pumpkin soup instead, or add roasted sweet potatoes to the holiday menu.
Bell Peppers
Bell peppers add color to any holiday meal and are high in both vitamins A and C. Eating peppers is an easy way to protect your central vision.
Whole Grains
Whole grains reduce your risk of heart disease, obesity, and type 2 diabetes and can also decrease your risk of AMD. Substituting whole grain flour for white flour in holiday breads and muffins is a simple way to boost your whole grain intake. Wild rice, brown rice, popcorn, oatmeal, bulgur, barley, buckwheat, and couscous are other good whole grain sources.
Fruits high in vitamin C, such as strawberries and oranges, also offer important vision benefits. Vitamin C is an antioxidant, a substance that can prevent cell damage caused by free radicals. Eating vitamin C-rich foods helps keep the collagen in your cornea healthy and reduces the risk of cataracts and AMD. In addition to strawberries and oranges, you will also find vitamin C in grapefruit, kiwi, blueberries, peas, broccoli, and tomatoes.
Wise food choices, in addition to regular eye examinations, can help you protect your vision. Is it time for your next eye exam? Call us today to schedule your appointment.
Uncontrolled diabetes can affect your eyes and even lead to blindness if you do not receive treatment. If you have diabetes, you may be at increased risk of developing these conditions and diseases.
Blurred Vision
Blurred vision occurs when high blood sugar levels cause fluid to leak into the lens of the eye. The lens, located behind your iris, helps focus light onto your retina. The excess fluid causes your lens to swell, blurring your vision. Blurred vision is often one of the first signs of diabetes.
Diabetic Retinopathy
Diabetes can cause tiny vessels in your retina to leak blood and may also cause the formation of new vessels in your eyes. Both of these conditions can block your vision and cause scar tissue to form, which may lead to retinal detachment. Keeping your diabetes under control will help you avoid the disorder.
Other Eye Diseases
When you have diabetes, your risk of developing glaucoma and cataracts increases. The risk decreases if your diabetes is properly controlled with a healthy diet and the appropriate medications.
Mercola: The Best Foods for the Eyes, 08/03/15
WebMD: Good Foods for Eye Health
All About Vision: 11 Foods to Boost Your Eye Health, 11/15
U.S. News: 13 Foods That Do Your Eyes Good, 03/12/13
American Diabetes Association: Eye Complications, 11/01/13


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