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Crafting at the Spotted Canary "Things That Keep You Warm" When it is cold outside, we like to think about crafts that keep us warm. When it is warm out, we organize our closets and think about how we can re-use our sweaters. Today's show features ideas for you, to keep your hands warm, to keep your feet warm and to keep your electronics warm!. D
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Sara's Weeknight Meals "Cook Once, Eat Twice" Sara's easy strategy for quick meals is to cook once, eat twice. Spicy Roast Pork is a simple and delicious meal any night, but a visit with her brother to a Vietnamese food joint inspires Sara to turn that pork into delectable pork Banh Mi Sandwiches later in the week. Sauteed Duck Breasts one night become delicious Peking Duck Wraps the next. D
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Martha's Sewing Room "Quick Zip Bags" Constructing a small zippered clutch; Sew Quick, Sew Easy messenger bag; And Sew On segment on converting a shorts pattern to make skorts; Hand embroidered shell stitch. Guests: Linda McGehee, Kari Mecca, Wendy Schoen. D
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New Scandinavian Cooking "Rye Bread for a Queen" Andreas takes the trip to the "rye belt" in southern Finland to meet up with Finnish chef Sara La Fountain. They travel on the old Kings' Road, where they both make their favorite open-faced sandwiches using rye bread. Then, Sara introduces memma, an old rye-based Finnish dessert, followed by a roast served with a variety of vegetables. D
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It's Sew Easy "Bags and Totes" You can never have too many bags! They show off your skills and accent every outfit. And when you're making gifts there is no worry about size or fit! Colbey Decker starts out with "little M's" bag - a mini drawstring back pack featuring button holes instead of grommets, plus a hidden pocket inside. Then, sewing expert and TV personality Sue Hausmann joins us with techniques for giving purses their shape. D
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The Jazzy Vegetarian "Lighter Deli Delights" Host Laura Theodore prepares scrumptious lighter versions of traditional deli favorites such as; "Eggless Egg Salad" and grilled "Reuben Sandwiches," paired with "Zesty Zucchini Oven Fries." Quick and easy, "Jazzy Vegetarian Not Liver" tastes just like the real thing. "Upside Down Apple Cake" is a rich and authentic tasting classic dessert that makes a delicious finish to a delightful, homemade, deli-style meal!. D
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Christina Cooks "Life on the Run" In this fast-paced world, it can't be realistic to cook and serve healthy family meals every night. Is it true? In this wild life, can a home cook eat well and not go mad? In this practical show, Christina will go from main course to dessert quickly, easily and deliciously. D
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Martha's Sewing Room "Quick Zip Bags" Constructing a small zippered clutch; Sew Quick, Sew Easy messenger bag; And Sew On segment on converting a shorts pattern to make skorts; Hand embroidered shell stitch. Guests: Linda McGehee, Kari Mecca, Wendy Schoen. D
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Ciao Italia "Five Ingredient Favorites/Cinque Ingredienti Favoriti" Five - count them - five ingredients. That's all Mary Ann uses to prove that great food can be simply prepared, starting with savory Chicken with Lemon and Herbs, and then Steak with Caper Sauce, and finally a Stuffed Portabello Mushroom Quiche. Simple, inexpensive, fast, good and delicious -- five things that are true about these five-ingredient meals. D
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America's Test Kitchen from Cook's Illustrated "Asian Takeout Favorites" Test cook Julia Collin Davison shows host Christopher Kimball how to make the ultimate Sichuan Stir-Fried Pork in Garlic Sauce. Then, equipment expert Adam Ried reveals his pick among blenders in the Equipment Corner. And finally, test cook Bridget Lancaster uncovers the secrets to making perfect Thai-Style Stir-Fried Noodles with Chicken and Broccolini right at home. D
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Simply Ming "Shermay Lee & Peranakan Cooking" Ming explores Peranakan cooking in Singapore with chef and cookbook author Shermay Lee whose cooking is living proof that grandmothers know best. Sharing with Ming her grandmother's decades old recipe for a traditional dish, Shermay takes us, and Ming, on a culinary adventure. From finding ingredients in an outdoor market to using her family's timeworn mortar and pestle, this episode highlights the culinary history and the exotic flavors found only in Singapore. D
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Taste This! "Grand Central Markets" When in NYC, Chef Joe always visits the Grand Central Fish Market. Follow him through the market where he is educated on how to pick the best seafood products to take home for dinner! After shopping for his fresh fish, Chef Joe returns to his kitchen in order to whip up a Salmon Bean Dish and Chilean Sea bass. D
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Rick Steves' Europe "Paris: Regal and Intimate" Rick cruises the Seine River, visits Napoleon's tomb, and takes in the Louvre. He also shops in village-like neighborhoods, attends church in a grand pipe organ loft, and celebrates with a big, patriotic Bastille Day bang.G
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Essential Science for Teachers: Earth and Space Science "Session 7. Our Nearest Neighbor: The Moon" Why is the Moon, our nearest neighbor in the solar system, so different from the Earth? In this session, participants explore the complex connections between the Earth and Moon, the origin of the Moon, and the roles played by gravity and collisions in the Earth. D


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Carson Dunlop and Northwestern Michigan College have formed a strategic partnership to offer a career home inspection training program. The comprehensive 10-course certificate program is available through distance learning. Content is delivered in a highly visual and easy to understand format. The program is focused on practical applied technical knowledge, providing a solid foundation for success in the home inspection field.
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Carson, Dunlop & Associates Ltd. has been a leading Consulting Engineering Firm devoted to building inspection since 1978. They are one of the largest independent home inspection companies in North America that leverages their extensive technical knowledge across six integrated business lines - Home Inspection, Commercial Inspection, Report Writing, Energy Audits, Home Inspector Training and Continuing Education.
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Carson Dunlop launched the Home Inspection Training division in 1990 to provide high quality education to new professionals entering the home inspection industry. The Home Inspection program was developed with education design consultants, and distance education specialists from Memorial University to create a uniquely comprehensive home inspection program. The courses can be taken in a self-study format from Carson Dunlop and are also offered in classroom and distance education formats by more than 30 colleges and universities.
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Q. What is the difference between painting or staining your house? If you house has already been stained before do you always restain?
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Space Shuttle Enterprise Lands at Kennedy Airport
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Toyota recently revealed a cryptic 30-second commercial teasing some sort of off-road Toyota truck with TRD Pro badges. In the commercial, the Supercross rider pulls up to a remote gas station in his Tundra (Toyota makes its presence known in the Supercross world) and then expresses interest in the aggressive machine that roars by in a cloud of dust.
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TAPintoTravels - With the state back open for business, we no longer have to worry about being turned away from state-run parks and recreational sites. If your weekend plans were ruined due to the shutdown, make up for lost time by visiting one of the area's most anticipated upcoming weekend events.
The town of Califon in Hunterdon County is hosting their annual carnival—an event nearing its 100 year anniversary. The event will continue through Friday and Saturday opening daily at 6 pm. Highlights of the fair include amusement rides, food trucks, carnival games with prizes, and a super 50/50 raffle. Fireworks will be held at sundown on July 7.
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Driving down Taft Avenue, you suddenly have to slam on the brakes for an animal crossing the road -- not a dog, cat, fox or even a raccoon -- but a very large elk. Ten years ago, this would have been a big newsworthy event. Today, seeing elk in town is still something of a novelty, but not surprising to residents.
The Loveland herd, as it is often referred to, is the focus of study for Ben Kraft, wildlife biologist with Colorado Parks and Wildlife. In the multi-agency study, Kraft works with other researchers from Rocky Mountain National Park and the National Park Service to learn more about the distribution of elk along the Front Range -- especially as they have spread east of the park into Loveland -- and their survival within herds.
To learn more about elk, management of the species, living with elk, and hunting, visit the Colorado Parks and Wildlife website: wildlife.state.co.us.
Before 2001, there were about 80 elk that wandered into Loveland from Estes Park, Kraft notes, citing literature that was compiled before he began work at CPW. "In the winter of 2001-2002 after the big drought in 2001," says Kraft, "it went from 80 to 320 animals." With a lack of healthy vegetation during the drought, the elk apparently went in search of greener pastures.
"Last year, we noticed another big jump, to where we think there were as many as 700 animals here in the winter," which includes about 200 elk who summer here, plus migratory elk that join them in winter.
Kraft explains that the 200 elk considered year-round residents are actually two smaller herds. "There are about 50 to 80 animals in town that make a circuit through the west side of town." Kraft explains that the remaining balance wander through Sylvan Dale Ranch, Pinewood Reservoir, Bobcat Ridge Natural Area and in the foothills toward Lyons.
To study their movements, Kraft and other researchers have put close to 115 radio collars or ear tags on elk cows, because the females are used in studying population dynamics. To distinguish where they were collared or tagged, different colors are used. Elk captured inside Rocky Mountain National Park are given brown markers, while those caught in the town of Estes Park are purple, and elk captured in the Loveland, Masonville and Lyons area receive green.
Twice a month, researchers try to get a location on every elk in the study, either through radio tracking on the ground or by sight from planes. One thing they have learned is that elk definitely move around. Kraft is amazed at their adaptability and ease of movement. "When they go, they go," he says. "They have found out where the refuges are to be safe from hunting, and they dart from refuge to refuge."
They also travel fast. Kraft says elk will often go from Estes Park to Loveland in a day, traveling across traditional migratory paths over the ridgetops. "They don't stop, they just truck all the way down there."
Elk also seem to go back and forth during the winter as well. With the warm temperatures this year, Kraft says elk will sometimes go back up to Estes Park in a day.
Some elk go even farther. An elk captured by researchers at Flat Iron Reservoir west of Loveland went on a journey this past summer all the way to Berthoud Pass, over 100 miles.
One of the goals that Kraft strives for is to help improve the habitat along migration corridors and in their winter range, thus hoping to limit their forages into town. As the Front Range continues to develop, the space where elk can go shrinks. There is also no major predation on elk. Mountain lions are known to take them in Rocky Mountain National Park, and calves are sometimes taken by coyotes, but their major predators -- wolves and grizzly bears -- no longer reside in Colorado.
"Elk are definitely very hardy and adaptable," says Kraft. "They can out-compete other ungulates, can live on really poor resources, and lots of different habitats from the desert all the way to the alpine." Kraft has documented some herds that spend the entire year on the alpine, eating the short grasses that stay exposed when wind blows snow off the mountain tops.
Meanwhile, elk may continue to be a fairly common sight, either in or near Loveland. If an elk crosses the road, it's not just trying to get to the other side -- it's probably looking for a good meal.
Each month in Outpost, Deborah Huth Price will write about the studies telling us more about the natural world around us.


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Monday, September 18, 2006
Barnett Feels 'a Little Vindication'
Former Colorado coach Gary Barnett told the Colorado Springs Gazette said he has mixed feelings over the Buffaloes' stumbling start under new coach Dan Hawkins. "I hurt for the kids," he said. "Those are my guys. I know the talent that we have there, the maturity and the leadership, and I want those guys to get everything they deserve, and I want them to play in the [Big 12] Championship Game again. Then, on the other side, I got taken out of that situation. I got removed from it and someone else made that decision. Part of me felt a little vindication because of it." From Barnett's perspective, there is no shortage of talent at Boulder. "There's plenty of talent there," he said. Barnett, 60, is not sure if his coaching days are over, but when asked about the possibility of succeeding Fisher DeBerry at Air Force, he appeared interested. "Fisher and I are very close, so who knows. I don't know about that one. . . . I've always had great respect for that program and institution."
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As a fan of Navy and CSU, I couldn't wish for anything more than to see this self-righteous pencildick take over from Fisher.
But as a Northwestern alum, (Goalpost '81, BA '85), I want to see Barnett twist slowly in the wind, and then die of cancer, one that starts at the toes and works its way up to the brain. Even though Denny Green et al. couldn't win a game to save their lives, we didn't have gambling and point-shaving scandals, either. Gary B-as-in-Butthead knew what was going on, but he was too busy cashing in to care.
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well we can say that "Astrea" comes from a defence barrier system..... that we saw Ikaros useing durring that translated chapter [14-15 cant remember] when nymph had her wings torn out...
well there is a slight difference between Ikaros "Astrea def system" and the "Astrea's itself" which is Ikaros barrier constantly covers her at 360degree's (whole from all sides)... while the real Astrea has only 180degree's protection (but that is not all to her but wont spoil it)....... well Ikaros "queen of the sky" title is not for show after all :P
yeah this month I was kinda disapointed in other chapters from other mangas.... Rosario vampire got another filler chapter which was boring for me (month of waiting wasted)... sora no otoshimono was the same... big hope and disapointment at the end...
well personaly I hoped for some plot movement.... there is soo much things to tell about the story itself.... yet we get a not so interesting filler chapter (no plot, no nymph,no astrea... only few panels with ikaros, and it had not even any ero scenes...so it was kinda empty)...... I hope the author will return to plot development already (it was like 2-3 filler chapters already so its already enought)
anyway I was allways wondering..... the girl-angel allways tells that she is trapped by the sky.... but cant she just say streight to Tomoki what he has to do... how to save her..... it would be a lot more helpfull..... I wonder if Tomoki will go to the Synapse with all his angeloids and kill the evil-ruller :P is this the thing he has to do......... time will show but I hope the time will come very soon ^^
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He technically only still has 1 Angeloid.
Nymph isn't his, yet :P. Astrea is... I dunno she hasn't declared any intent as to what she would like to do. She broke her chain not because she liked Tomoki but because she didn't want to destroy Nymph when commanded to.
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Spoiler for hmm...:
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Spoiler for spoiler:
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I haven't seen chapter 17 anywhere yet either, but 29 is out now.
Anyway I read 2 chapters of this manga a long time ago. Just last night went back and read the rest that are out now and it is a much different series then I had expected from just the first two chapters. I missed out on a good series.
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Yeah the wiki is right, Astraea might have better battle capabilities and a better aegis but her processing power is low so she is an idiot. Ikaros has high battle power and processing power so she can fight well and intelligently.
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Well as stated in chap31 its more like Astraea is the strongest in close quarters. Her shield (Aegis=L) is stronger than Aegis with the limitation that it's coverage is small and can't be sustained, and her sword (Chrysaor) is also powerful enough to penetrate even Aegis. On top of that she has the fastest speed of all types. The one and only weakness is her having no ranged attack what so ever (no processing power to calculate firing solutions). So once you pull a sufficient distance away so that she can't reach you soon enough before you go macross on her she's screwed.
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-Capable of electronic warfare as she appears to have Beta fooled pretty good and has advanced opto chemo.
-her ranged energy attack can be blocked by Aegis=L until the shield energy runs out. So that means it's better than Apollon not in terms of raw power but can be delivered in a sustained stream.
-By extension this means she has a far more advanced power plant.
-Still slower than Delta.
-Appears to survive direct hit from Chrysaor, so either high defence or fast healing like Alpha.
So I would call her a combination of Alpha's weapons and Beta's electronic warfare.
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Sit Heel Speak
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Posted: Wed 10 Nov 2010, 04:30
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My Clipper packaging script for Puppy
Subject description: Does anything like this already exist in Linux?
Nov. 15 2010: to make a long story short: my Clipper script produces a bash script which fills the build-source-dir for an .sfs or .pet add-in package for Puppy Linux. An example of the bash script it produces, to build an .sfs for Opera 11 alpha, is below in
this post
; to download the Clipper script itself, go to
this post
Or read on, to be entertained and to become highly informed...)
Hi y'all,
At the outset, I intend the purpose of this thread to be two-fold:
One, to disclose a very powerful application (and building-block) packaging aid for Puppy Linux, a script I have developed in the Clipper Summer '87 database management system programming language. I am not yet fluent in bash, so I wrote it in the language I
fluent in. Using this script, I was able to produce an .sfs for Opera 11 alpha in under one hour.
And two, to ask for the aid of someone who is as competent with bash (and maybe xHarbour) as I am with Clipper.
If there already exists a pure Linux tool which accomplishes the same purpose, I would like to know what it is, and I will learn that I have been using a wood-chipper to shave with, and this thread will end quickly.
Or, if no such tool exists, let's work together to convert my Clipper script into a purely Linux form which unlike Clipper is not dependent on DOS and Windows.
The Clipper script takes as input two directory listings of the entire Puppy distro tree, taken before-and-after, and gives as output a bash script.
The resulting bash script copies from the tree, into a destination-subdirectory on a separate partition, all files which are present in the newer version of the tree but were not present in the older. Optionally, the bash script can also copy files which are present in both the new and the old tree but differ in size or timestamp.
The destination-subdirectory which all new files in the distro are copied into by the bash script can then serve as the build-source-directory for creation of a squashfile package using mksquashfs, or a PET package using dir2pet.
Thus, the procedure for using it is as follows:
(***slightly edited Nov 12 2010, dBase III+ is no longer required***)
1. Take a "before" directory tree listing.
2. Install the application and adjust or extend it; or, compile the utility together with its dependencies.
3. Take an "after" directory tree listing. Adjust the line-endings from LF to CRLF using Geany.
4. Transfer the "before" and "after" listings to a DOS+Windows 98SE machine.
5. Run the Clipper script to produce the bash script.
6. (no longer necessary)
7. Transfer the bash script to the Linux machine. Adjust its line-endings from CRLF to LF using Geany, and make it executeable.
8. Run the bash script to fill the build-source-directory.
9. Adjust any .ini files et cetera in the build-source-directory for the first-run scenario, and/or add the optional pinstall.sh and puninstall.sh scripts if building a PET package.
10. Run mksquashfs or dir2pet.
11. Test.
12. Upload.
13. Announce.
14. Bask in the imaginary adulation of millions.
I have used this procedure to package one low-level building-block whose complexity is too high to wield new2dir plus dir2pet on -namely, gcc, last year-- and one application package for which new2dir is not applicable, because the package is supplied by the vendor not as compileable source code, but rather as precompiled binaries plus an installation script -namely, the Opera web browser, a few days ago.
Even if I do say so myself, both of these are of exceedingly high quality. Mainly because the human error factor of omitting critical components is greatly reduced or eliminated by use of the Clipper script and its resulting bash script.
Now...before I go and make not only a boaster but moreover a colossal fool of myself...
Does there already exist, a Linux utility --or, can a bash script be readily devised, by someone fluent in bash-- which accomplishes the same purpose, of taking two ls listings and copying-in all the new files into a build-sourcedir?
Or, more simply, is it possible, with a single line of bash code, to do the same thing: to copy over, keeping the tree structure intact, just those files which were created after a specific time/date?
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Posted: Wed 10 Nov 2010, 05:48
Post subject: Re: My Clipper packaging script for Puppy
Subject description: Does anything like this already exist in Linux?
Sorry, i cannot clearly image your intention.
Your system is the same as the new2dir plus dir2pet intends but cover the case the new2dir plus dir2pet miss?
Your way is like to make a snapshot of the current status under / or under /usr and /root or somewhere,
and after the instalation completed, take again the snapshot so that we can pick up the new files?
Assume my guess is right, we can check the time stamps of the files.
Orthodox way:
touch milestone
(something compile and install...)
find /usr /root -newer milestone
EDIT: '-newer' is not right. Use '
But i do somewhat tricky:
Boot up the Puppy with 'pmedia=ata
' option.
Then the pupsave is mounted on /initrd/pup_ro1.
Puppy makes a ramdisk and mount it on /initrd/pup_rw.
The /initrd/pup_rw holds all files after the boot.
So we reboot with 'pmedia=ataflash', and do compile and install.
We can copy the new files from /initrd/pup_rw.
But it is rare case i need to take this tricky way.
Nor i do not use new2dir.
Normally, next does work: (of course depends on the package)
make DESTDIR=/mnt/home/tmp/some-root install
EDIT: /mnt/home shoud be ext2/3/4 file system. if not, use /var/tmp instead (require the pupsave large enough).
i am afraid i may be misunderstanding your intention...
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Posted: Wed 10 Nov 2010, 08:00
Post subject: Re: My Clipper packaging script for Puppy
Subject description: Does anything like this already exist in Linux?
Sit Heel Speak wrote:
new2dir is not applicable, because the package is supplied by the vendor not as compileable source code, but rather as precompiled binaries plus an installation script
I see. In such a case, some tool instead of new2dir will be helpful.
One of the possible script:
touch milestone
(... install process...)
find /usr /root /etc -cnewer milestone | xargs -I{} install -D {} /var/tmp/new-root{}
Just an idea.
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Posted: Wed 10 Nov 2010, 10:09
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new2dir is not applicable, because the package is supplied by the vendor not as compileable source code, but rather as precompiled binaries plus an installation script
as shinobar suggested and I have a script I use for this that takes advantage of built in linux commands using slackware's pkgtool
**forum member amigo (Gilbert Ashley ) src2pkg developer *has spent years on this hope he sees this post
now for odd packages that have their own make install
its easy to change the install directory as a new root DESTDIR
Prepending the variable DESTDIR to each target in this way provides for staged installs, where the installed files are not placed directly into their expected location but are instead copied into a temporary location (DESTDIR). However, installed files maintain their relative directory structure and any embedded file names will not be modified.
heres a good read of options
there is a new root option which can install one package or the entire distro !!
into a newroot and have it run thats how I built TXZ_pup
the same code is used to make a SFS its easy and I scripted all the code already to mesh with pkgtool seamlessly even a GUI that lets you select what packages you use
you could also try using
that will produce perfect packages
most of the time automatically *some special packages need to pass options which is expected
here is a simple line of code to install to a new root
you need pkgtool installed this is built into txz_pup
cd /root/packages2install
installpkg -root /squashfs-root *.t?z
1.)cd /root/packages2install ##this folder has one or many packages I want to install
2.) installpkg # thats the official command for package management installs
3. the -root option is a prefix flag that says the path that follows is where you want to install the packages it is the "new root"
in this case when you unsquash a SFS a folder is made called squashfs-root as the default you could rename that to your preference
4.) I used a *.t?Z because I dont want to manually type the whole package name so any package ending with tgz or txz or other compressions work
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Posted: Wed 10 Nov 2010, 14:22
Post subject: Re: My Clipper packaging script for Puppy
Subject description: Does anything like this already exist in Linux?
shinobar wrote:
...But i do somewhat tricky:
Boot up the Puppy with 'pmedia=ata
' option.
Then the pupsave is mounted on /initrd/pup_ro1.
Puppy makes a ramdisk and mount it on /initrd/pup_rw.
The /initrd/pup_rw holds all files after the boot.
So we reboot with 'pmedia=ataflash', and do compile and install.
We can copy the new files from /initrd/pup_rw.
Ah, I see...hehehe , that is
shinobar wrote:
Sorry, i cannot clearly image your intention.
Your system is the same as the new2dir plus dir2pet intends but cover the case the new2dir plus dir2pet miss?
Your way is like to make a snapshot of the current status under / or under /usr and /root or somewhere,
and after the instalation completed, take again the snapshot so that we can pick up the new files?
Yes, exactly right. The Clipper script looks at before-and-after snapshots taken under / and parses each line, then writes the needed mkdir, cd, and cp lines into the bash script. Symlinks are treated as a special case, the bash script explicitly re-creates them using cd then ln -s -T, or ln -s for symlinks to subdirectories.
The new2dir+dir2pet sequence is good for the case when what is being packaged is just a single compiled source. Ah, but...what do you do when you must actually compile a
of source-packages, for example gcc+mpfr+gmp, or that entire devilishly tricky chain from boost through poppler to pango?
(Of course, your pmedia=ataflash method overcomes all that. Pure genius...)
shinobar wrote:
...Normally, next does work: (of course depends on the package)
make DESTDIR=/mnt/home/tmp/some-root install
No kidding...I did not know DESTDIR exists
I tried compiling gcc with --prefix=/mnt/sdb1/sourcedir and found that the entries in /usr/lib/pkgconfig turned out wrong. I presume that using DESTDIR makes them turn out right?
Hoo hee...booting with pmedia=ataflash. And then simply copy the new files from /initrd/pup_rw. Man, that is
...whereas what I cobbled together is an elephant
big_bass wrote:
**forum member amigo (Gilbert Ashley ) src2pkg developer *has spent years on this hope he sees this post
Many, many thanks. I must study DESTDIR...
I have PM'ed him to request that he look in here. He may get a chuckle out of it...
Meanwhile, I will study your tools and src2pkg and see whether I have merely invented the horse-drawn zeppelin compared to these...
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Posted: Wed 10 Nov 2010, 21:20
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Sit Heel Speak wrote:
I tried compiling gcc with --prefix=/mnt/sdb1/sourcedir and found that the entries in /usr/lib/pkgconfig turned out wrong. I presume that using DESTDIR makes them turn out right?
Yes. Typically:
./configure --prefix=/usr
make DESTDIR=/mnt/home/tmp/some-root install
Note that it does not always work. Depends on the package.
Another note:
The file system of the DESTDIR should be of Linux.
I have Puppy frugal installed on ext3 partition so that the /mnt/home is ext3.
Or, use some other Linux partitions for working directory.
You can use /var/tmp for small packages. Be aware the size of /var/tmp, is the part of pupsave.
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SHS, I got your PM. I had already seen this thread but had decided not to post about the functionalities of src2pkg -tooting one's own horn doesn't always set well...
But since you asked, the concept you are working is not new. There packing systems which do about the same thing. The big disadvantage is the amount of space needed to store two copies of the material to be compared. In your case, doing it in a windows-based IDE/language makes things less workable as you can't create the content under Windows.
What you are doing can be done in a few short lines using bash and some CLI utils. The core command could be rsync and/or diff. There are also the 'cmp' and 'comm' commands which could compare the content of directory listings. rsync is probably the best tool for this as it already includes the options to choose files according to modifiation time or size. The 'find' utility does this also, but you'd still need to pipe the output through something which would copy the files.
As I said, there are some packaging systems which do something similar. One creates a complete list of the files on your system first, then lets you create content, then creates a new list of all the files on your system and compares the two lists. You can probably imagine that this takes a long time(it does), and even though it sounds fool-proof, it leaves lots of room for false listings.
Most of you who want to create SFS's for Puppy, want to include various things which are not all related -except that you want them separated. src2pkg is a tool for creating packages -one good package at a time. when used to make slackware-type packages(at least), you can then 'install' the packages to a temporary directories where you have installed other packages or copied 'loose' files. Using a package-based method to create content is very sensible
as it allows for easy repitition *especially* if your package creation is based on using scripts or recipes to build each package. This is the *only* way to accurately and easily repeat your content-creation work -unless you keep very explicit note about what you did to create the content. Even so, a script is much more concise than any prosaic description of what you did -by a factor of 10 or more.
Even though src2pkg cncentrates on building 'one good package' it has always been designed to work with other scripts which use src2pkg to accomplish smaller steps of a bigger whole. Joe has written tools which do just this. Creating a directory, installing some stuff there and then creating an SFS, a mega-package, an *.iso or a compressed 'module' (like for slax or tiny-core) is pretty simple once you have the content packaged.
src2pkg is unique among package-building software in that it can be used without any 'recipe'. Other systems require some sort of recipe for every build: rpm *.spec file, debian/rules, slackware *.SlackBuild script, etc. The actual packaging of content is pretty easy under any system. The hard part is creating and 'conditioning' the content so that it meets the requirement of the target system and installation method.
The first thing that src2pkg concentrates on is (usually) compiling the software. It includes 'knowledged of many, many, methods of configuring and compiling software. The most obvious thing to mention here is that a great deal of sources do *not* support the use of DESTDIR. A system which relies on that is doomed to fail pretty quickly. There are many 'flavors' of DESTDIR(same concept with a different variable name like install_root). src2pkg can detect and use any of about a dozen of these. More importantly, it can 'trace' the creation of content using nearly any command, and can usually even divert the destination of the content. It allows you to build and 'fake_install' content without 'polluting' your system with that content. This is mostly accomplished using a library called 'libsentry' which is a forked and extended installwatch. 'dir2pet' uses an older, limited version of installwatch which can't do these 'diversions'. It is also unable to track many commands which are used to create or *alter* file content which libsentry supports(like chown, chmod, sed).
I'm always interested in packaging discussions, so I could go on and on about all sorts of things you haven't thought of yet... But let's not just now...
My first advice is to dig into bash -Joe has come a long way in a couple of years. Since shell is the native scripting language of linux, there is no lack of material to study. All the events that you have during bootup are controlled with shell script. Since you know well the sequence of the events on your system, you can easily study the scripts which control them. A couple of caveats though, init scripts are pretty long and complex as a starting point -the Puppy init scripts are a nightmare to read... Still, most of the 'programs' posted here by users are shell-based, and are usualy pretty short -especially non-GUI ones. You already know how to program -learning bash will mostly be a matter of learning syntax.
Have a look here:
for examples of using src2pkg.
This script:
is an example of using a small script to use src2pkg to create several individual packages and install them as it goes. It is useful for creating groups of packages which depend on each other.
I recommend you to read and save a copy of the 'Automating DESTDIR' mentioned by someone else. As you learn more it will become even more useful. What it says about src2pkg is outdated and incomplete, though.
src2pkg can isolate created content in *nearly* every case by using DESTDIR or one of its' variants(-DEST option), re-directing destination paths(-JAIL option), or installing into a union-mounted chroot(-UNION option). There very, very few cases where content must really be installed to your real system in order to achieve the desired result. When this is the case, src2pkg still offers a way to back up any files which are about to be over-written and then restore them after separating the new content into the package-building area(-SAFE option).
src2pkg 'knows' how to configure and build many kinds of sources, including autoconf, cmake, imake, perl(several distinct methods) and python modules, cmake, qmake, jam, scons, waf, tcl and more.
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Posted: Fri 12 Nov 2010, 20:03
Post subject: posted: my Clipper Summer '87 packaging tool
amigo wrote:
...tooting one's own horn doesn't always set well...
--how well I know it--
I did not expect that my method was
new; this in-depth education from shinobar and Joe and you is the wonderful smorgasbord of knowledge I was hoping to see.
Do any of the above-described, already-existing methods, give you a source-directory-building bash script to look through, so as to provide easy control of the package's contents at the level of the individual files --so you don't include, for example, your own /root/.history in the package?
In case there are any of my fellow Clipper baiji still roaming this planet, who might find this useful...I will go ahead and post it, below, so that anyone who can draw it from the stone (of its being cast in Clipper) gets to use it.
It is my hope that some such Mighty One will convert it to a pure Linux form and share it in that form with us mere mortals. It would be nice if it could have a gtkdialog3 interface with which to choose the filters
PM me, O Worthy Aspirant, if any of my Clipper code is unclear. I have tried to comment it much more liberally than Clipper code usually is!
Sit Heel Speak's
EDITED Nov. 14 2010: the first two versions had a bug in mk_sfs5.prg, it was not identifying symlink targets correctly, when the symlink is to a directory.
Besides, if I'm going to upload free software, I guess I'd better include the gpl with it
***EDITED later Nov. 14: two more bugfixes. Download the revised version 4, 4 message-slots below.***
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Post subject: example bash scripts produced by my Clipper packaging script
Attached is the bash script, makesfs, for Opera 11 alpha as it comes from the Clipper script, with CRLF line endings. About half of it is unnecessary to include in the package, the half which is under the heading "Old has an older version". Editing out this half, plus /root/.history (line 35) and the few lines near the top having to do with medit (lines 22-26), takes just a few minutes in Geany.
Also attached is makesfs after editing, and after changeing the line endings to LF. This is the actual script by which I produced my Opera 11 alpha .SFS package. ***note: I did, however, cheat a bit, I added some icons before taking the after snapshot, in places that are arcanely specific to Puppy. So, you couldn't just install Opera and run this makesfs and have it turn out perfect. There is still craftsmanship involved in packaging...***
Screen capture showing the DOS window the Clipper script runs in. The total time of 1,074 seconds is on a P3-800. Total time to produce the Opera 11 alpha .sfs, was under one hour.
To download the Clipper script itself, go two message slots below this one,
makesfs for Opera 11 alpha, after changeing line endings to LF and editing
692 Time(s)
makesfs for Opera 11 alpha, as it comes from the Clipper script, CRLF endings, unedited
659 Time(s)
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Posted: Sun 14 Nov 2010, 04:45
Post subject: posted: version 3 of my Clipper packaging script for Puppy
Subject description: first 3 versions were not detecting symlinks correctly
Changes from Version 3 to Version 4:
Two bugfixes in mk_sfs5.prg:
Line 420: "public time1" is not needed (and so is commented-out)
Line 350, change from
I have left in, the diagnostic code in mk_sfs5.prg which shows on-screen what is going on with identification of the real target of the symlink.
Changes from Version 2 to Version 3:
1. Added copies of the gpl and lgpl.
2. Fixed a bug in mk_sfs5.prg. It was not detecting symlink targets correctly, when the target is a directory.
Changes from Version 1 to Version 2:
1. Fieldnames are now explicitly identified as to their containing database (and, an explanation of "m->"):
Although Clipper allows .dbf fields and memory variables to have identical names, I avoid the practice of giving memory variables the same names as .dbf fields, for the sake of clarity. However, in my code, among .dbf files there *are* duplicated field names, to make comparison-logic easier (i.e. "humanly possible") to write.
So, to make it easier for bash and C programmers to read my code, from version 2 on, I prefix all fieldnames with the name of the .dbf file to which the fieldname refers. For example,
"oldtree->identity99" means, "the field identity99 within the record you are now looking at, in file oldtree.dbf".
(***edited: in Clipper-speak, "the active file" means the .dbf file whose work area is now select'ed. "Work area" means, "pointer to a file handle" --Clipper allows 254 of them. It is not necessary for a .dbf to be currently the active one, in order to read from or write to it ("write to" means, to do a "replace __ with __" command on it), --to read from or write to a non-selected .dbf file, you simply prefix the fieldname with the .dbf's name-- but it *is* necessary that it be the active one in order to perform a seek, delete, or pack on it, or to print it out --for example, the way the bash script is written, by printing out the file script.dbf in mk_sfs5.prg***)
All variables which are not .dbf (database file) fields --in other words, all memory variables-- *can* be prefixed with "m->", which in Clipper distinguishes that the name refers to a memory variable and not to a field (within a record within a .dbf file). However, memory variables don't *need* to be prefixed with m-> ...with one exception: namely, when a memory variable is used as the parameter to the seek command.
I prefix memory variables with m-> only in seek commands, just because it is an idiosyncracy of seek that, in order to be reliable (i.e. not crash 30% of the time), seek needs m->.
Hence, beginning with version 2:
--all variables prefixed with something-> are fieldnames, except in seek commands where m-> denotes a memory variable.
--all variables without a something-> prefix are memory variables.
2. Minor edits to the comments for grammar, appearance, and clarity.
3. Minor changes to variable names to make them easier to read. Clipper only allows the names of both memory variables and fields, as well as function names, to be a maximum of 10 characters long. Names are not case-sensitive. (incidentally, Clipper Summer '87 also suffers from the eight-dot-three filename limitation of MS-DOS, though by using FAT32 shortnames files with long names can be manipulated, and it does not lose the longnames)
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Post subject: posted --my Clipper packaging script for Puppy, version 4
Clipper Summer '87 script (5 .prg's + .dbf's) to build a sourcebuilddir for Puppy --version 4
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if you get one of those odd programs that disobeys DESTDIR you can edit the makefile to add it.
find "install:"
insert $(DESTDIR) before the destinations - usually right before $(prefix) OR $(libdir) OR $(bindir) ...you normally see them listed at the top of the ./configure --help message
but it's pretty easy to write a wrapper to capture the files in the final destination (I think it is always the last argument)
echo $# >> /tmp/files
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Clipper nostalgia. I made good money for years with Clipper. It was one of the first really practical data base oriented languages--fast, direct, and simple. All you needed was good d/b experience to go in and rescue the messes created by amateurs. Data is king, always was and still is. Just this morning, two guys at the next cafe table were trying to untangle a mess of spreadsheets that had their company sales info in various evolutionary stages. Same as it ever was. Somehow I managed to keep my mouth shut.
Thanks for the memory. I don't program now, write books. The ebook world is as fun now as the Clipper world was 25 years ago. Have been downloaded to 68 countries! (wetterau, feedbooks.com, all free). Enjoy, john
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The New Year is bringing with it an increase in city transit fares, user fees and utility rates.
Budget approvals by the city mean transit tickets are increasing slightly.
Adult fares are going up 25 cents, a book of 10 tickets is going up $2.50, and day passes will be 75 cents more.
Youth passes remain the same.
Seniors annual passes are jumping 36.4 per cent to $95 from $55.
The low-income pass will be $44 a month.
Customer service hours for pass purchasers have been extended to Jan. 4 to accommodate the holidays.
"We haven't seen a huge increase, but it's Christmas time and people are on holiday, or with family," said Stephen Tauro, a city spokesperson.
The city may consider a longer run.
"We'll monitor the lines at that point. If we see things picking up, we'll probably continue extending the hours for another week. That's all dependent on the sales. There's no indication of a large increase."
Riders who find themselves with a stockpile of 2012 transit tickets can exchange them for use in the new year, but they will have to pay the extra quarter.
"The 2012 passes aren't valid in 2013," Tauro said.
"We do have options for people if they have excessive amounts of tickets. They can go downtown and exchange them at the new rate."
Recreation user fees are also on the rise.
Annual pool passes are rising between $16 and $19.
Hourly ice arena time is going up five per cent to $229.90 an hour.
Leisure centre general admission is increasing 3.8 per cent to $11.
Swimming pool general admission tier 1 is increasing by 3.7 per cent to $5.55.
Swimming pool general admission tier 2 is increasing four per cent to $6.55.
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Golf course weekend punchcard at other courses is increasing 2.7 per cent to $419.
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European markets rose Tuesday morning following the release of positive German consumer confidence data, while U.S. markets got bad news on the small business and trade deficit fronts, according to an analysis by Miller Tabak & Co. Chief Economic Strategist Andrew Wilkinson.
The ZEW Survey for December showed that investors are still doubtful about the current economic situation, but the Economic Sentiment Index rose to 6.9 from -15.7, indicating that they are increasingly optimistic about the country's economic growth prospects.
Elsewhere in Europe, Italian markets rallied on hopes that Prime Minister Mario Monti might run in upcoming elections, despite his announcement this weekend that he would resign his post after passing a 2013 budget, Wilkinson says. "As we suggested yesterday the euro is feeling little impact from the rise of renewed turmoil across the Eurozone—indeed the expression 'water off a duck's back' springs to mind as the unit once again flirts with $1.3000 against the dollar this morning," Wilkinson says.
On the domestic front, the U.S. trade deficit grew from $40.3 billion to $42.2 billion between September and October, according to numbers released Tuesday by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis and the U.S. Census Bureau through the Department of Commerce.
A 3.6% drop in exports of goods and services contributed to the overall widening of the gap. "It is becoming clearer that sluggishness in manufacturing is significantly due to a decline in global trade," according to an analysis from the Wall Street Journal Market Data Center. "Weakness in goods exports showed up in all major end-use categories, led by a $2.9 billion drop in industrial supplies, including a subcomponent fall of $0.9 billion in nonmonetary gold."
The Small Business Optimism Index, released by the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) Tuesday, fell 5.6 points to a reading of 87.5. Significantly, 49% of small business owners expect business conditions to be worse in six months, a 30 point increase from the last report.
Although it attributed some of the drop to Hurricane Sandy, the NFIB placed most of the blame on the results of the November presidential election. "Between the looming 'fiscal cliff,' the promise of higher health-care costs and the endless onslaught of new regulations, owners have found themselves in a state of pessimism," NFIB Chief Economist Bill Dunkelberg said in a statement. "We are forced to ask: Is this the new normal?"
Still, Wilkinson says, there was one bit of good news in the NFIB report: The percentage of firms that said they were likely to increase hiring increased by 1% last month. In the long term, he is optimistic about the country's economic prospects. "Until such time as political faces in Washington stand jointly at the press podium with happy-smiling faces, we can all sweat over the gloomier outlook for the economy," he says. "We remain upbeat that beyond the time of an agreement, the economy will enjoy an upswing."


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Review: Bliss 8800GT 512MB TV, the top of its class
Geforce 8800GT's are ready and you can order them as of today. You might even find the first cards in the stores near you.
We traditionally receive our first sample from Gainward, and they're here and quite ready for race day. The full name is Geforce Bliss 8800GT PCX 512MB TV DUAL DVI and it's based on D8P/G92.
Gainward Bliss 8800GT PCX 512MB TV Dual DVI
Gainward's card runs at reference speeds. That means that it's 600MHz for the core and 900MHz (1800 MHz) for the memory. Shader processors are clocked at a high 1500MHz. The card has 112 Shader Units and it's the card with most Shader Units in its class. Rumors of Geforce 8800GT being overclock friendly have been circulating for a long time; Forceware drivers should soon have Shader Overclocking options.
So far the drivers could only affect the GPU and memory clocks. The card is 9 inches long and it's cooled by a quiet single slot cooler. The card features one PCIe 3x2 power connector, and this is a real 65nm chip and a real PCIe 2.0 product from Nvidia.
To enjoy your Geforce 8800GT experience, you'll need the new driver
Gainward 8800GT card has 512MB of memory, which is a standard for these cards. Many vendors will offer 256MB versions. which will. of course, cost less. The memory is GDDR3, and we mentioned it runs at reference 900MHz (1800MHz DDR).
Bliss 8800GT uses Qimonda HYB18H512321BF-10 graphics memory. The name implies that the memory is intended to run at 1000MHz, but the reference design uses 900MHz. Due to good memory properties we easily overclocked it to over 1000MHz (2000MHz DDR).
In the picture you see Geforce 8800GT card without a cooler. G92 core is surrounded by 8 Qimonda memory modules, each packing 64MB of GDDR3 memory. The graphics chip is manufactured in 65nm process, and some documents suggest that the estimated board power should be 110W maximum.
The cooler covers the whole surface of the card, and its girth is about one motherboard slot. The card itself is 9 inches long which is a bit shorter than Geforce 8800GTX, and identical to Geforce 8800GTS cards.
You'll need additional power from one 2x3 pin connector hidden under the cooler lid, in the back of the graphics card.
Gainward Geforce 8800GT card looks quite stylish, especially with the new cooler. However, many doubt the efficiency of the cooler, especially when they see the small fan.
The fan is quiet under a normal workload, but that's not the case at full RPM. Gainward's CD contains a tool called ExpertTool, and with it you can handle the fan speed and overclocking. Quite a nice addition, we must say.
Gainward Geforce 8800GT is a PCI-Express 2.0 card, fully compatible with PCI-E slots on all motherboards. If you're aiming at DirectX 10.1 and planning a long term investment, then you should know that this card doesn't support it. For a normal user that might not be that big a deal, especially knowing that most people do their gaming on Win XP that supports just DirectX9. However, DirectX 10 is slowly gaining ground and the lack of DirectX 10.1 and Shader model 4.1 support is a big minus for Nvidia.
All the good properties of the Geforce 8800 series are there. Of course, there's new stuff:a 65nm chip that is much cooler, single slot design, new VP2 engine, 112 ultra fast Shaders and great performance in all the games. The only thing missing is TRI SLI support.
I/O side of the card reveals two dual-link DVI outs, as well as one S-Video with HDTV signal option. The card has HDCP and we heard that with a HDMI dongle you'll be able to get HDTV out through DVI.
If you opt for the Gainward 8800GT card, you'll have no trouble spotting it on the shelves. The box is quite large, too large for our taste, but still very well designed. It's instantly recognizable thanks to the mascot and the rendered female on the front.
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I go very red after any kind of hair removal or treatment………wait. What kind of an opening is that for a review? Let's start again.
The last time I got my moustache threaded I looked like I had been sucking on suspect objects for four hours. (Ok, that's an even worse opening). My stray hairs threaded.
I had my brows and mush threaded and boy did it hurt. The first time I got threaded it hurt but the second time, I had tears streaming down my face, and I could feel every single last hair being yanked out of the follicle. I was <–> close to crying out "Please! Please stop! I'll tell everyone you were great, just please make the pain go away!".
Pain aside I went red. Not a bit red, not a bit pink, like proper, deep, glowing, luminous red. The type of red that makes you go, "Woah…what's wrong with her?"
Could this after tweeze cream be the answer?
From the lovely , this is to be used after tweezing or on any red areas to soothe and de-redden (?). They say:
Soothe and refresh your skin after tweezing as never before with Anastasia's exclusive formula. This formulation is wrapped in restorative chamomile extracts as it moisturizes the skin and the subtle green tint naturally masks redness.
I tried this out – the cream is fairly thick, and a light greenish tint (to counteract red). Applied over my red areas, it didn't feel sore and didn't cause any itchies. To be honest I like something cold on my red bits to calm it down but this is a little more constructive since it moisturizes too. Ideally, ice cube followed by this would work fine. Or a breed of hairless women, would also be handy.
Now I do go very very red – and I would say that its not a bad cream but it is by no means a concealer. But you aren't supposed to put make up on after hair removal anyway, so this could be the next best choice.
Verdict: I didn't get a miracle result from this but its not a bad product to own. If you go a little red you may find it more concealing than I did as I am quite, erm, pigmented in that way. But like I said, you aren't supposed to put tons of make up on a recently plucked area so this is not a bad thing to have at hand since is is ok for sore/tweezed areas.


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Care, Care & Community in Sri Lanka by Jessica Murphy
During summer 2015, I travelled to Sri Lanka with a group of 10 other people from sixth form. Originally, we were meant to travel to Nepal, but because of the earthquake happening so close to our departure, our destination was quickly changed to Sri Lanka. We had spent months fundraising, exams had finished, and we finally set off with plenty of mosquito repellent in hand.
Arrival in Sri Lanka
We arrived in Sri Lanka without knowing too much about the country. My first impression was of the chaotic driving from the airport – I've never heard so many horns! We got to our accommodation in one piece. It was just on the outskirts of Colombo, and we were pleasantly surprised; although the rooms were basic as we expected, they were big, and surrounded by gorgeous gardens with a big table outside for us to eat every night.
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During the week, our group split into two so we could go to two different pre-schools and make the most of our time. On the Monday, we all went to both schools just to introduce ourselves and see what it was like. At both schools we had such warm welcomes! We were given gorgeous paper flower bouquets, and the children were all dressed up and singing songs for us.
Although the teachers didn't speak the best English, communication wasn't a problem and they were eager to learn more English, repeating words to make sure they'd heard correctly and then teaching them to the children. The kids were absolutely amazing, so well-behaved and cheeky and clever – we taught them 'Ten green turtles' to the tune of 'Ten green bottles', and by the end of our trip they knew it off by heart, just from singing it once a day.
The children were all from disadvantaged backgrounds – at the school I worked at, they had to pay daily to come to school, and it was sad on certain days when the children we'd gotten to know didn't come in, as it meant their parents hadn't earned enough to send them. Most of their parents had jobs like tuk tuk drivers or fishermen. At the other school, many of the children were orphans or had parents in prison, and so making them smile and bringing some fun into their day became even more important to us.
Teacher! Teacher!
The children only came to school in the morning, and so during this time we'd spend all morning interacting with them. We'd start with songs like 'Old McDonald', which they found hilarious doing all the animal sounds, and 'Heads, shoulders, knees, and toes' which they knew extremely well and loved. After that we read them a story such as 'We're going on a bear hunt'. Sama, the head teacher (who was also the only teacher), would translate the main parts to them so they could learn new English words and understand the meaning behind the pictures.
My favourite activity to do with the children was arts & crafts. Projects Abroad provided us with loads of different materials, and we did crafts such as masks and crowns and paper chains. The kids called all of us 'Teacher' and would be shouting it as they ran around to get help or find the right colour of glitter, which they all adored. They wanted glitter every day!
Although the children all had cheeky moments where they'd run off and hide, Sama was so good with them. Despite being warned that corporal punishment was still allowed in Sri Lanka, we never witnessed any of this, as the children had a lot of respect for Sama and did as they were told. On our last day we had a little party for them with balloons and party hats, and it was so hard saying goodbye to them.
In the afternoons when the children had gone home, we painted the outside areas. We whitewashed the walls and then painted a mural, which we based on the '10 green turtles' song and painted massive turtles with numbers on their shell to help the children learn their numbers. Although it was hard work, especially in the sun, it was so worth it to see the finished result and know that we'd left a lasting impression.
Weekend trips – and food!
On the weekends we had amazing trips. My personal favourite was to a turtle sanctuary right on the beach, where we learned about how important it was to look after the eggs and help them survive. We saw so much in our two-week project that there wouldn't be room to write it all, from the incredible Temple of the Tooth in Kandy to the Millennium Elephant Foundation. Visiting the elephant foundation was a real bucket list moment and we got to wade into the river and wash an incredible 80 year old Indian elephant.
While on our trips we ate out at some lovely places, and had Sri Lanka's finest curries! I've never had so much spicy food in my life, and I'm not going to lie, by the end of the two weeks I never wanted to see curry again! It was all delicious and well-cooked though, and it was an ongoing joke about what we could expect for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Impact on me
Leaving Sri Lanka was really sad, as I didn't want the experience to end. Every single person I met was kind, welcoming, and immensely grateful for us helping them. They gave us food and gifts whenever they could despite us insisting it wasn't necessary! The Projects Abroad staff went out of their way to make our stay so wonderful, even giving my friend some bracelets for her 18th birthday which she celebrated out in Sri Lanka, and organising music and speakers without us asking so we could have a little party.
I would go back without a doubt and wouldn't change a thing about the experience, as we managed to fit so much into such a short space of time, and it's made me realise just how lucky I am.
Jessica Murphy
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