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'It's bewitched to look like the sky outside, I read about it in Hogwarts: A History.' - Hermoine, Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone.
Are you a Harry Potter fan?
Are you ready for a night at Hogwarts?
Forget about city lights this evening and trade them for a magical night as we indulge in the most delectable British food with a classic twist.
Treat your taste buds with scrumptious mains, iconic drinks like ButterBeer and the most peculiar yet indulgent desserts that will definitely leave you spellbound.
This night is not only about food. Fun filled activities will be lined up for you where you can win handcrafted Harry Potter bites. For those who just feel like relaxing, lounge at the comfy sofa where you can watch the Harry Potter movies that will be streamed all night!
With a dinner setting just like Hogwarts, what are you waiting for?
Join us for the most unforgettable night as we gather in the Great Hall of a fictional universe.
Psst.. Get into the Christmas spirit this December with festive decorations, mulled wine and Christmas themed food!
The event is held at the host's residence at Haig Road, Singapore.
Take the night off and experience the Harry Potter magic at Jay's doorstep with us :)
I come from a family with generations of food business experience. Cooking and baking are my passion
The whole idea of a Harry Potter themed dinner was already an interesting idea. What made this stand out more was that it was held at a residence! Our hosts were very lovely and you can see that they really put in a lot of effort to host us. The food was very well seasoned and every piece of meat tasted different! I am not a fan of leek but I happily enjoyed their vegetarian shepard's pie! The place was beautifully decorated and we really enjoyed the trivia too. If you are a Harry Potter fan, you should not miss this! Only down side was that we didnt know the unit number prior to going up. Luckily, a fellow diner waiting for his friends was there and shared with us how to get through the gates.
I went with my family a while back and though we were skeptical at first, it was an amazing experience. The hosts were so friendly and welcoming, and the food was amazing. Like restaurant quality food and the portions were so generous, even though my family and I are big eaters, we were stuffed by the end of dinner. What's more they even provide dessert and drinks. The games were also a whole lot of fun and the ambiance and company was just golden. We all thoroughly enjoyed ourselves, no regrets at all. Thanks for the stellar experience :)
Loved the effort put into decorating the place, the details are stunning! Wished we could have more of the main courses though (amazing flavours), some of the more popular dishes like the beef ran out too quickly. Thankfully, there were snacks around and delectable desserts throughout the night. My 3 friends and I enjoyed the entire experience from start to end, we had a great time during the HP trivia too! What a night, thanks hosts!
I love the whole environment and theme in the house! We could see that they make a lot of effort in the decorations and it was really comfortable and cosy! The food was good and I like the surprise in the cupcake! It was interactive with games that made us come together. J and her husband was really welcoming and friendly throughout! It was a really magical Friday the 13th for us thanks to them!
Food was excellent..especially the roast lamb! Great effort made with the theme decor in the home as well as creating an opportunity for the guests to mingle through the Harry Potter quiz. This was our very first social dining experience and will definitely not be the last.
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A Vlog From Sweets
Tuesday, July 31, 2012
I have been busy doing the million and one things on my summer to-do list!
One of those things was turning Sweetpea's old bedroom into a craft room for ME! As usually happens with my projects, I totally underestimate how much work is involved and how long it's going to take. It turns out great - but getting there is real PAIN.
Anyway, I was painting the room the other day and Sweets was "helping" me (code for running off with my supplies - but only because I would only let her do a little bit of painting...). She found our Flip video camera and asked if she could make movies.
If it means that I can paint in peace for at least a few minutes, I'm all for it!
So, she made videos. I could hear her but couldn't figure out exactly what she was talking about.
Then the camera ran out of juice.
Today, I charged it up.
And this is what I found....
This is all her... I had absolutely NOTHING to do with this!
She's pretty awesome, huh?
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- Lacy PiippoJuly 31, 2012 at 7:05 PM
Awww!!!! How incredibly kind and adorable! She is wise beyond her years. She must have one awesome mama.
ReplyDelete - AnonymousAugust 1, 2012 at 9:53 AM
She is so adorable! My daughter loved it! It's so important that they know they are NOT the only ones.
ReplyDelete My little girl wants to see her pump..I showed her this blog and she said "I want to see her pump".....ha, she is newly dx and having a hard time with all of the shots..
www.craigandmadi.blogspot.com- AnonymousAugust 5, 2012 at 9:39 PM
I LOVE this. I showed this to my 11 yo T1. We watched this over and over. So thanks to your girl for letting all our kiddos know they're not alone!
Libby, Mom to Ella age 11 dx at 2
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Spiral House
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Powerhouse Company is an international architectural practice established in Copenhagen (DK) and Rotterdam (NL). It was founded in 2005 by two partners: Charles Bessard in Denmark and Nanne de Ru in Holland. Before founding Powerhouse Company, both partners have forged their experience and skills in internationally renowned practices such as Atelier Jean Nouvel and OMA Rem Koolhaas. Through this collaboration, they acquired an in depth experience in complex buildings, ambitious realisations and high design standards. Powerhouse Company is a medium sized office developing an international profile with projects in Denmark, The Netherlands, France, Germany, Cyprus and China.
Powerhouse Company's approach is based on a cocktail of a creativity and engagement with the context. We aim to be both visionary and realist and we see reality as an adventure and not as a limitation. The architecture of Powerhouse Company is not limited to the quest of the optimal solution but extends into a humanist approach: the systematic injection of pleasure in the daily life. For us architecture is not a luxury but something as necessary as pleasure.
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Rotterdam, Holanda
- Beijing, China
- Munich, Alemanha
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Henry DeWitt Hotchkiss was born in Albany, New York on July 2, 1856. He received a private school education and graduated from law school in 1878. He began his law practice in New York City. Later he formed the law firm of Hotchkiss & Maddox.
In 1886 Hotchkiss was elected to a term in the Assembly. He was also a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1894. Hotchkiss was a Tammany Sachem and was said to have been the personal adviser to Richard Croker, the head of Tammany Hall.
Justice Hotchkiss's election to the Supreme Court bench took place in 1912. One year later Governor Sulzer appointed him to the Appellate Division First Department. He remained at the Appellate Division until 1915, when, at his own request, he returned to the Supreme Court bench and there remained until his death in 1922.
While on the Supreme Court bench, Justice Hotchkiss was a member of the Bar Association committee looking into conditions in practice in New York. He visited English courts to learn firsthand of any recommendations he could submit to the committee. He concluded that the courts in America cannot be compared with those in England because "The simplicity, directness and expeditiousness of legal procedure here [in London] are so superior to ours that the matter is beyond comparison. . . . Directness is the keynote of their procedure, whereas delay seems to be the keynote of ours. They are not influenced by technicalities excepting where they clearly affect the motives of the case. We use the slightest technicality for a quibble and later for an appeal." (Finds Directness Key to English Law, New York Times, July 21, 1912, p. C4.)
Justice Hotchkiss was married to Alice C. Hotchkiss, with whom he had two daughters. He died of pneumonia at age 66 on March 6, 1922.
Obituary, New York Times, March 7, 1922, p. 12.
Finds Directness Key to English Law, New York Times, July 21, 1912, p. C4.


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He came to the papacy burdened by the cartoon image of "God's Rottweiler" and the fact that he had been a very reluctant draftee into the Wehrmacht during World War II. What Joseph Ratzinger displayed over the seven-and-a-half years of his pontificate, however, was an acute sense of the crisis of western democracy at this moment in history. A German pope who publicly thanked the people of the United Kingdom for winning the Battle of Britain was, clearly, a man with an unusual perspective on, and insight into, contemporary history.
That insight was on full display in his instantly controversial Regensburg lecture of September 2006, where a robust quote from a medieval exchange between a Christian and a Muslim obscured the hard truths that the pope proposed: that Islam and "the rest" could only live together peacefully if Islam found within itself the intellectual resources to warrant religious toleration and a separation of religious and political authority in a 21st century Islamic state. The uproar that followed was unfortunate; the issues Benedict XVI put on the table of world discussion remain completely salient.
Then there was the pope's 2008 address to the General Assembly of the United Nations. There, like his great predecessor, John Paul II, he defended the universality of human rights while urging the world to a deeper understanding of the human dignity from which basic human rights flow. Rights as mere trump cards for claims of personal lifestyle preference, the pope suggested, could easily be bent to authoritarian, even tyrannical ends. A polite yawn followed; but the issue of how a world that can only affirm "your truth" and "my truth" can possibly defend basic human rights remains as urgent today as when the German professor-pope stood at the U.N.'s marble rostrum almost five years ago.
Benedict XVI also understood the democratic world's need for morally serious political leadership: for men and women who would see politics as a vocation, not simply a career. In his shy, even delicate, way, he underscored that point when he addressed the great and good of Britain in historic Westminster Hall in 2010—and gently pointed out that this was where politicians and judges of easy conscience had condemned Thomas More, a man of firm conscience, for fidelity to the truth. Joseph Ratzinger was too sensitive to the feelings of others to ham-handedly contrast the "man for all seasons" with today's politician-of-the-instant-sound-bite. But the contrast was there for all with eyes to see and ears to hear.
These acute insights into the cultural and political turmoil beneath the surface of Western public life came from a man of deep learning, whose knowledge was refined by faith—and here, too, was another lesson Benedict XVI taught the post-modern world. Postmodernity—or, perhaps better, the last-gasp hyper-modernity of the New Atheists like Richard Dawkins—imagines faith and reason to be utterly incompatible. Ratzinger knew better. His papal teaching stressed that, while faith without reason is superstition, reason without faith is self-cannibalizing and can easily deteriorate into various forms of irrationality. A self-enclosed secularist world, without windows, doors, or skylights, stifles the human spirit, including the human capacity to think clearly. The world imagines faith a danger to the democratic project; Ratzinger knew that the real, home-brewed danger to 21st-century democracy is an anorexic faux-rationalism that cannot speak coherently of the self-evident moral truths on which democracy rests.
He was thus a man of subtle surprises, this aging academic who reluctantly accepted the papacy as a duty laid upon him, and who had the humility to leave the stage by his own decision when he made the judgment, in conscience and prayer, that he could no longer give the Church the service it needed and deserved.
The world, too, needed Joseph Ratzinger, although it rarely acknowledged that. Perhaps now, as he retires to a reserved life of prayer and reflection and the controversies that swirled around his person recede, the world will start paying the thought of this lucid analyst of the democratic possibility the respectful attention it deserves.


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In the PECL sources, a certain vendor specific string is included for Microsoft systems.
However, if you just want to pass something entirely different, like Cisco specifics, that's possible.
The fact that this isn't included in the sources of the PECL doesn't mean you can't use them.
Better said, everything there is in the dictionary of your Radius server can be put in as string.
Like the following example to write a h323-gw-id:
$res = radius_acct_open ();
radius_add_server($res,'127.0.0.1', 1813, 'mysecret', 10, 2);
radius_create_request($res, RADIUS_ACCOUNTING_REQUEST);
radius_put_vendor_string($res,9,33 ,"h323-gw-id=123456");
$result = radius_send_request($res);


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download article as .pdf: Edifici pubblici e pasto rituale in Attica Continue Reading
This paper was presented at the International Conference Cibo per gli uomini, cibo per gli dei. Archeologia del pasto rituale, Piazza Armerina, 5-8 of May, 2005. This is now an updated version. The article concerns the issues related to ritual meal in Attica, especially by analyzing the function of several buildings showing an array of cases that has not been properly assessed yet. Each case's specific features lead to the hypothesis that banquet building rooms' plan and furniture, as well as the overall number of available seats, point to the existence of different usage methods reflecting coherent social and religious structures. Athens, Eleusis and Brauron are taken into account as examples of a functional system that autonomously organizes its own spaces on the basis of social and institutional needs.


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NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell just scored a major win.
He signed a contract extension, holding onto his job despite a number of controversies swirling around the league.
A source familiar with the matter, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said the deal extends Goodell's contract into 2024. It was set to expire after next season.
The move was announced in a letter sent to all NFL owners Wednesday by the league's compensation committee, which is comprised of six owners: Arthur Blank of the Falcons, Clark Hunt of the Chiefs, Robert K. Kraft of the Patriots, John Mara of the Giants, Bob McNair of the Texans and Art Rooney of the Steelers.
"Our Committee unanimously supports the contract and believes that it is fully consistent with "market" compensation and the financial and other parameters outlined to the owners at our May 2017 meeting, as well as in the best interests of ownership," the letter, which was obtained by CNNMoney, reads.
Goodell has faced criticism over how he has handled domestic violence issues as well as players protesting racial injustice on the field.
When some players kneeled during the National Anthem, many felt the gesture was disrespectful. While Goodell made it clear he believed players should stand, he didn't create a rule requiring them to stand, which sparked a backlash.
By far the biggest obstacle to his contract extension was posed by Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones. He was a vocal critic of the deal and eventhreatenedto sue his fellow owners in an attempt to block negotiations.
Members of the committee told Jones that his actions were "damaging the league," and that he should stop trying to sabotage their work.
Eventually Jones stepped back from his threat of a lawsuit.
The letter from the compensation committee sent Wednesday describes the decision to re-up Goodell's contract as a move to "avoid further controversy," though it did not explicitly state to which controversy it was referring.
One thing working in Goodell's favor was the timing of his contract's expiration.
The league's collective bargaining agreement with players expires after the 2020 season, and several lucrative TV deals end in 2021 and 2022.
If the NFL had decided to bring in a new commissioner, that person would only have had a year or so to get up to speed. And they might not be as skilled at negotiating as Goodell. The past two TV deals he did were favorable for owners, according to former NFL attorney Jodi Balsam.
The league is also dealing with declining TV ratings and growing concerns about brain injuries caused by high-impact hits to the head.
While it's unclear how much Goodell will be making with his new contract, a source familiar with the deal said 85% of his compensation will be performance based.
He was paid $31.7 million in 2015, the most recent figure publicly available.
His salary was cut continually between 2012, when he made $44.2 million, and 2015. That is when the NFL dropped its federal tax exemption. As a result, Goodell's salary is no longer public.
Goodell took the job in 2006. Between 2008 and 2015, he was paid more than $205 million.


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Charitable lead trusts are designed for people who would like to benefit a charity now rather than later. You may have heard about some charitable trust strategies before but decided against them because you wanted to make an immediate gift to charity.
With a charitable lead trust, your gift can have an immediate impact, and you'll be entitled to other benefits as well. These trusts enable you to take advantage of tax benefits and still make a significant gift.
If you are accustomed to making outright contributions to your favorite charity, or if you typically sell an investment and give all or a portion of the money to charity, you may be attracted to the special advantages of using a charitable trust.
Avoiding capital gains taxes on an appreciated asset is a very appealing benefit for investors. It is also a way for charitable organizations to receive a much larger donation because they are not required to pay tax on capital gains. Once the trust is established and the assets are transferred, the trustee can then sell the assets and reinvest the funds.
If you structure the trust as a grantor charitable lead trust, you will be taxed as the owner for federal income tax purposes even though you don't receive the income yourself. You will receive an immediate charitable income tax deduction based on the present value of your gift. Basically, the trust is giving payments to the charity for the duration of the trust but you don't relinquish ownership of the assets. Your income tax deduction will be based on the payments to charity, the duration of the trust, and the IRS interest rate and tables used in the calculation. Your write-off may be limited to a portion of adjusted gross income but can be carried forward to future years.
With a charitable lead trust, the income from the reinvested assets will then go to the charity. The charity will receive distributions for the duration of the trust. You may specify that the trust last for a set number of years or the life of you or someone else. At the end of this period, the remaining assets are paid to you or your beneficiaries, for example.
A charitable lead trust may also help reduce family squabbles over an inheritance. If you were to actually gift the asset to the charity upon your death, your heirs may feel somewhat cheated. By giving income to the charity during your lifetime and having the remaining assets paid to your beneficiaries upon your death, you may avoid much of this potential controversy.
If you are interested in increasing your gift to a charity and your tax benefits during your lifetime, a charitable lead trust may enable you to accomplish your goals.
By taking the time to plan your charitable gifts, you may be able to take advantage of some special tax benefits and make charitable giving a real win-win situation.
While trusts offer numerous advantages, they incur up-front costs and ongoing administrative fees.The use of trusts involves a complex web of tax rules and regulations. You might consider enlisting the counsel of an experienced estate planning professional and your legal and tax professionals before implementing such strategies.
The information in this newsletter is not intended as tax, legal, investment, or retirement advice or recommendations, and it may not be relied on for the purpose of avoiding any federal tax penalties. You are encouraged to seek guidance from an independent tax or legal professional. The content is derived from sources believed to be accurate. Neither the information presented nor any opinion expressed constitutes a solicitation for the purchase or sale of any security. This material was written and prepared by Broadridge Advisor Solutions. © 2024 Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc.


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A surly electorate that holds Congress in even lower regard than unpopular President Barack Obama is willing to "keep the bums in," with at least 365 incumbents in the 435-member House and 18 of 28 senators on a glide path to another term when ballots are counted Nov. 4.
With less than 10 weeks to the elections, Republicans and Democrats who assess this fall's midterm contests say the power of incumbency — the decennial process of reconfiguring congressional maps and hefty fundraising — trumps the sour public mood and antipathy toward gridlocked Washington.
"Despite the incredibly low polling, favorable ratings for Congress, it's still an incumbent's world," said Sheila Krumholz, executive director of the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics that tracks political money.
That leaves many voters angry, not only with the political reality but their inability to change it.
"I can't get over where they say people are going to be able to keep their seats when they're not doing their jobs. I just don't understand it," said retired teacher Pauline Legendre after voting in Minnesota's Democratic primary last month.
The voter disgust is palpable, evident in blistering comments at summertime town halls and middling percentages for incumbents in primaries. Yet no sitting senator has lost and only three congressmen got the primary boot. Come Election Day, only a fraction of the electorate will be motivated enough to vote — if history is any guide.
Congressional hopefuls are whipsawed by the two dynamics.
"It's going to be a challenge for any candidate running for Congress to suggest that they have all the answers or that somehow there's something about them that's so inspiring" that voters are going to forget "how disenchanted or disaffected they are with government at the federal level," said Ryan Costello, a Republican seeking an open House seat in southeast Pennsylvania where just 12 percent of GOP voters turned out in the May primary.
Still, the candidates press ahead, with Republicans laser-focused on gaining the six seats necessary to grab the Senate majority and control Congress for the remainder of Obama's presidency. Five Democratic retirements give the GOP a clear shot to capture control. So do races in conservative-leaning states such as Louisiana, North Carolina and Arkansas, where white Southern Democrats are nearly extinct.
The GOP figures it's half-way to its goal, with a solid advantage in open contests in South Dakota, West Virginia and Montana. Republicans are optimistic about the open seat in Iowa, less so about Michigan, and energized by their prospects in Colorado and Alaska. If a GOP wave materializes, it could be in the Senate.
In the House, Republicans are expected to pad their majority — currently 233-199 with three vacancies — with the goal of matching or surpassing the 246 seats the GOP held from 1947-49.
Fueling the battle is what's expected to be a record-breaking flow of campaign cash. The parties' campaign committees and their allied outside groups are spending at a rate certain to exceed the $3.6 billion price tag of the 2010 midterm elections.
House Republicans who saw a wave election in January 2010 — the year Democrats lost 63 seats — don't expect a comparable sweep in 2014 simply because redistricting reduced the number of opportunities. On that, Democrats agree, though an Obama decision on immigration could change the dynamic.
On the cusp of the fall election season, fewer than two dozen House Democrats and Republicans are in real jeopardy in November.
The GOP is counting on opposition to Obama to motivate its core voters. To counter that situation, Democrats have dispatched 444 organizers to 48 districts to get out the vote, with another 250-plus ready for the September-to-November sprint as the party typically faces a drop-off in midterm voting.
The Democratic Party is employing reminder pledge cards — "1 million votes for 2014" — the number they say decided 65 competitive House races in 2012. Democrats maintain that they had a shot two years ago, but Obama's miserable performance in his first presidential debate sank the party's chances.
It's an uphill fight as the president's party typically loses seats in non-presidential election years.
At a meeting last month with small business owners and workers at a wood fabricating plant in Quarryville, Pennsylvania, Republican Rep. Joe Pitts got an earful from local farmer, Michael Appel, 48, who pressed the nine-term congressman to do more to stop Obama.
"I'm wondering, especially when it comes to Obamacare, how the House is going to start holding the president accountable for making law out of whole cloth?" Appel asked.
"It's not that we wouldn't like to, it's a matter of what we can do," Pitts responded. "You need the House, the Senate and the president. The problem is we don't have those two."
As staff urged the attendees to vote, Appel erupted in frustration: "I voted for Joe Pitts and all he's told me so far up here is he's powerless."
Pitts said in an interview that it's up to lawmakers to educate voters about the limits of divided government.
"I share their frustration," Pitts said. "I understand they're not as involved so they don't understand a lot of it, but they have a responsibility to turn out next time if they're concerned, because there are real consequences to these elections in public policy."
Democratic incumbents have cast themselves as outsiders as they sympathize with hostile voters.
New York Rep. Dan Maffei says "we gotta hold 'em accountable" in his campaign ad. Iowa Rep. Dave Loebsack didn't mince words when he told constituents, "Congress is an incredibly dysfunctional mess and everyone knows that," and blamed the lack of compromise.
In York, Pennsylvania, first-term Republican Rep. Scott Perry insisted that the House had been doing its job by passing bills, but that cooperation was lacking from the Democratic-led Senate and Obama.
One voter asked him whether, if the Senate goes Republican in November, there might be more hope.
"If you're expecting cataclysmic change immediately, I think that's a bit beyond expectations," Perry said.
Associated Press writers Erica Werner in Washington, Tom Beaumont in Iowa and Brian Bakst in Minnesota contributed to this report.
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Lazy Girl's Guide to GroomingAre you too lethargic to have anything that even slightly resembles a beauty routine? We've got your back, lazy girls. Here's a slew of shortcuts to help even the most indolent among us get with the grooming program |
Skip ahead to see our lazy girl's guide to grooming.
Listen, don't feel bad, you're not alone. In fact, celebrity makeup and hair pro Jeffrey Paul says the 'no muss, no fuss' motto is more common than you might think. "Not all women want to be experts in the field of makeup and hair," says Paul. "Most just want to spend less than five minutes getting ready." But what's a lazy girl to do when she just can't be bothered to pluck and curl and polish and spritz herself into gorgeousness? Why, rely on shortcuts, of course. There are the old emergency standbys, like pulling on jeans if you didn't shave your legs or wearing your thick framed glasses instead of applying eye makeup, but what if you want a regular routine that requires minimum effort yet leaves you looking pretty and polished?
We chatted with skin, hair, and makeup experts for genius grooming tips, that will enable your primping process to become nearly effortless. Plus, we've included our top product picks that are guaranteed to un-complicate your morning routine. So� If you're ready to dupe everyone into thinking you clocked hours in front of your vanity when you really hit that snooze button a couple/three times, read on.
SEE NEXT PAGE: Stock up on wipes
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I'm not a morning person, so this article was fun to read. I'm definitely all about the multipurpose makeup -- BB cream, lip/cheek stain, chubby eye pencil for perfectly smudge eyeliner. The suncreen wipes are new to me though, sounds really promising (though my BB cream already has SPF).
by LindaDD Saturday, May 4, 2013 at 07:09PM Report as inappropriate
I just started to understand the appeal of wipes. The are pretty handy on the go. I like the Dickinson's Witch Hazel Towelettes
by Helmi Friday, May 3, 2013 at 09:50AM Report as inappropriate
I'm not really into cutting corners, but that didn't make this article any less fun to read!
by tallredamanda Tuesday, April 23, 2013 at 09:35AM Report as inappropriate
The BB cream spicialy the garnier one is just not that good and oily and seems to cover nothing I've try applying it with my hand and few diff brushes am just not a big fan
by Zsayyar Sunday, April 21, 2013 at 04:24AM Report as inappropriate
The Garnier BB Cream in "Light/Medium" (it's lightest shade) is very dark! If you have fair skin I would pass.
by Chris213 Saturday, April 20, 2013 at 06:52AM Report as inappropriate
I love multipurpose products, but scented deodorant will always be gross to me.
by unfamiliargirl Friday, April 12, 2013 at 12:05PM Report as inappropriate
I love multi-purpose products -- I thought I was the only person using mineral bronzing powder for a quick, natural-looking eye shadow! I'm still looking for a good BB cream though -- I loved the look of Garnier but had a reaction to it, probably the heavy scent.
by purple9a Monday, April 8, 2013 at 06:51PM Report as inappropriate
I want to try the eye pencils so badly!
by andyv1217 Saturday, April 6, 2013 at 09:43PM Report as inappropriate
I'm lazy, so this tips are perfect for me. Thanks!
by andremi Thursday, April 4, 2013 at 02:46PM Report as inappropriate
Some good tips... it's funny thought, I just read another article on Total Beauty that said to always use brushes for concealer under your eyes, otherwise you're just wiping off what you just put on!
by LipglossandSpandex Wednesday, April 3, 2013 at 10:27PM Report as inappropriate


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Outdoor Activities
Those who visit us will discover a lively people who enjoy the climate and the pleasure of being with each other, often in the open air, experiencing various activities surrounded by nature.
From kite surfing to bike rides over hill and dale, or rock climbing, abseiling and zip wiring for the more adventurous, the options are endless for those who like to keep active.
For those wanting to pump the adrenaline, Portugal has some great challenges in its perfect waves for surfing. Or windsurfing, sailing or paragliding with winds that are guaranteed to get the thrills soaring. Skiing and parasailing, too, provide some amazing experiences.
Canyoning in Azores © Rui Vieira and Turismo dos Açores
Try rafting, canyoning and canoeing on Portugal's rivers. And discover their sources deep within the earth, going potholing to delve into unexplored caves.
To enjoy nature in all its charm, we recommend some calmer activities, such as hiking or horse riding, taking in the fragrance of the wild flowers on a beautiful sunny day. Or mountaineering, where apart from the stunning views, you can reach the highest peaks to be rewarded with a view of the nests and flight of birds of prey. There are also boat trips to see dolphins and whales, images that you will never forget.
Paragliding_Fogo Lake © Clube Asas do Atlântico and Turismo dos Açores
There's no shortage of ideas and suggestions, the landscapes offer a wealth of diversity and the fine climate will surely be on your side... We might even say that in Portugal, the best companion for adventures is Nature!


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In many of the world's religions there is a strong vein of anti-materialism. Jesus counseled his followers that did have money to give it to the poor and hungry: Jesus said, "If you will be perfect, go and sell that you have, and give to the poor, and you shall have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me."
Buddha tried to find enlightenment through near total deprivation of worldly goods, the Prophet Muhammad lived an austere life, and more recently, individuals such as Gandhi have advised that people "live simply so that others may simply live."
Of course, everyone's idea of wealth and excess are different and one man's Hummer can be contrived as another's Geo Metro. How do we determine what is sufficient and what is excess?
Not unlike the message we read in Affluenza a while back, Father Timothy V. Vaverek has written the following:
The consumerist lust for a better life is inherently destabilizing of our personal and economic lives. Since we are not satisfied with the good we possess and since our self-worth is connected to never settling for less, we must always be earning and acquiring more.
Hence we work longer hours, fill our days with more self-actualizing activities, and increase spending so that we can have the better life now. In this way we become slaves to dissatisfaction, time, and money--harsh task masters who allow no rest.
So, how can someone who follows a belief system that promotes some level of asceticism also accept materialism? Is this contradiction justifiable? For example, is it possible to follow the teachings of Jesus and accept personal, monetary wealth at the same time?
I'm interested to get your input on how your religious beliefs affect your opinions on consumerism. Do your religious views (or lack of them) directly drive your desire to limit consumeristic desires in your life?


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"Life begins in Texas and everything before ... don't count." Being a loyal Texan, although not a native-born Texan, that's one of my favorite quotes and it pretty well describes me. Wichita Falls has been my home since the summer of '81 and I wouldn't have it any other way. When I'm not at the Radio Station you may spot me out on a bicycle, pickin' and grinnin' at a downtown art gallery or just hanging out at the coffee shop enjoying some pleasant conversation. I love living in Wichita Falls, playing your favorite music on the Radio, writing and voicing commercials, and of course, taking pictures with my trusty Nikon. By the way, if you see someone jumping for joy at the vintage LP he just discovered in one of the local resale shops, that's probably me.
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text: Structure-based amino acid substitution matrices have been developped. I know some articles that describe such matrices (there may be others): Overington J., Johnson M.S., Sali A. & Blundell T.L. (1990) Tertiary structural constraints on protein evolutionary diversity: templates, key residues and structure prediction. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 241:132-145 Overington J., Donnelly D., Johnson M.S., Sali A. & Blundell T.L. (1992) Environment-specific amino acid substitution tables: Tertiary templates and prediction of protein folds. Prot. Sci. 1:216-226 Risler J.L., Delorme M.O., Delacroix H. & Henaut A. (1988) Amino acid substitutions in structurally related proteins a pattern recognition approach. J. Mol. Biol. 204:1019-1029 Hope this helps, Laurent Duret ================================================================ Laurent Duret duret at biomserv.univ-lyon1.fr Tel: +33 220.127.116.11 Fax: +33 126.96.36.199 Laboratoire de Biometrie, Genetique et Biologie des Populations Bat 741 - URA CNRS 243 Universite Claude Bernard - Lyon I 43, Bd du 11 Novembre 1918 69622 Villeurbanne cedex FRANCE ================================================================ In article 38556 at ac.dal.ca, aroger at ac.dal.ca writes: >I'm interested in improving empirically-based amino acid >substitution model for use in phylogenetic analysis. > >One method which may improve upon existing models (like >the Dayhoff models which programs like PROTDIST and >PROTML use) is to determine whether the propensity >of an amino acid (say X) to change to another amino acid >(Y) depends upon the structural context in which it is >found. For instance, it may be the case that the >transition X<-->Y is very frequent in a secondary >structural element like an alpha helix, but is very >rare in a beta-sheet or a beta-turn. Similarly >a hydrophobic amino acid (lets call it Z) may >frequently change to another hydrophobic amino acid (say Q ( >keep in mind that I'm not using the one-letter amino acid code)) >in a core region of a protein while the change to a charged >or "hydrophilic" amino acid in this region may be very rare. >The dynamics of change are likely going to be very different >on a solvent accessible region of a protein. >Thus it is possible that "averaged" substitution models >like that of Dayhoff, may be very poor approximations of >the actual site by site frequencies simply because they >are averages of many dissimilar models. > >If what I say is possibly true, it should be of interest >to develop structure-based amino acid substitution matrices >for a whole variety of proteins for which one of the homologues >has been crystallized (making the assumption that the structures >have not changed too much). Doing this may allow us to develop >general substitution matrices for structural elements and to >test whether the different matrices are significantly >different from one another (this may in turn help those >interested in protein engineering) and in what way. >The application of these models to protein phylogeny would >only require the user, to provide structural information in addition >to an alignment. > >Is someone already doing this? Does anyone know of references >to any such investigation? > >I'd be interested to hear what those involved in development of >phylogenetic methods have to say about this idea > >Cheers >Andrew Roger >Dept. of Biochemistry >Halifax, N.S. >B3H 4H7 >aroger at ac.dal.ca


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•List the common data quality contaminants
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•Import metadata
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•Use Character Discrete, Concatenate, and Word Investigations to analyze data fields
•Describe the Standardize stage
•Identify Rule Sets
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•Investigate unhandled data and patterns
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•Build a QualityStage Survive job that will consolidate matched records into a single master record
•Build a single job to match data using a Two-Source match
• Data Analysts responsible for data quality using QualityStage • Data Quality Architects • Data Cleansing Developers
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1. Data Quality Issues• Listing the common data quality contaminants• Describing data quality processes2. QualityStage Overview• Describing QualityStage architecture• Describing QualityStage clients and their functions3. Developing with QualityStage• Importing metadata• Building DataStage/QualityStage Jobs• Running jobs• Reviewing results4. Investigate• Building Investigate jobs• Using Character Discrete, Concatenate, and Word Investigations to analyze data fields• Reviewing results5. Standardize• Describing the Standardize stage• Identifying Rule Sets• Building jobs using the Standardize stage• Interpreting standardize results• Investigating unhandled data and patterns6. Match• Building a QualityStage job to identify matching records• Applying multiple Match passes to increase efficiency• Interpreting and improving Match results7. Survive• Building a QualityStage survive job that will consolidate matched records into a single master record8. Two-Source Match• Building a QualityStage job to match data using a reference match


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the front of Anne Frank House
Day Two in Amsterdam started off with a visit to the Anne Frank House. We ordered tickets online two months in advance as we had read that it was the best way to ensure we had tickets. And we were glad we did. It was busy with people that were waiting in line for their start time. The experience was great, very detailed in how much history was documented and the photos that were saved. There were no photos allowed inside the venue, so it's all what I saw and what stayed in my head. If you visit Amsterdam, this is a must visit. If you don't have the advance time to purchase tickets, there is a line you can wait in after 3:30pm for same day entry. Warning: the line is long and entrance is not guaranteed.
The canals were everywhere
My wife and I have a friend that lives in Germany. She lived in the states for more than 20 years and I've known her for 21 years now. We shared our travel plans with Karen and she was able to join us in Amsterdam for the almost 3 days we were there. So all 3 of us found our way around the city, took the tram to and from our hotel [she was staying in the same hotel that I mentioned in my previous post] and bought canal boat passes to explore the water ways of this great city.
I was quite impressed with the layout of how all the canals connected with one another and how much business and residential places are lined up all along the canals.
Reba and Karen together while waiting for a canal boat
My wife and I were glad that Karen could join us. Look at the smiles on their faces above.
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Yvonne and myself, meeting in person for the first time
Back some 10 years ago when I started following blogs like Dave2 and Kapgar, I also found a blog called Dutch Bitch, which sadly is no longer a blog. But the fine woman who ran that blog was someone I never met. Until today.
The group photo of our meetup
She brought her awesome boyfriend Steven and we had Karen join us and it was a great meetup. We shared stories from the blogger days and got caught up on the ins and out of the city. So happy to have finally met Yvonne in person.
Board The Ship and Visit Delft Tomorrow
Tomorrow, we board the Viking River Cruise ship and start our Rhine, Main and Danube river voyage for 14 days.
Also, our plans to visit the city of Delft, which is an hour outside Amsterdam.


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Wednesday, March 21, 2012
CoverGirl VolumeExact 2012--Make it Famous
28 comments:
- whitney said...
i couldn't watch it with the sound on. but i can tell that there is a LOT of emotion behind this video. and i can't wait to see what you actually say when i get home.
a LOT of emotion. - March 21, 2012 at 8:44 AM
- Jenna | The Eighty Twenty said...
AHAHAHAH, the carrot part. The credits too. And everything in between.
I use CoverGirl 24 hour because it basically glues to your eyelashes and well, I cry a lot.
JK, I accidentally bought it, but now I'm oddly obsessed with how it stays on SO INTENSELY.
And you've see my lashes. They're my best friends. - March 21, 2012 at 9:31 AM
- Blue Dog Belle said...
I used to use covergirl VolumeExact too, but recently made the switch to L'Oreal Voluminous,CHANGED MY LIFE FOR REAL.
- March 21, 2012 at 10:01 AM
- heather said...
I've been using L'Oreal Voluminous and it's pretty great. It's definitely not under ten bucks in NYC, but neither is a stick of gum so you may have some luck in your city.
- March 21, 2012 at 10:36 AM
- Maria Larsen said...
Noooooo! I loved this mascara so much. Guess I'll just have to find a new one :(
- March 21, 2012 at 10:36 AM
- Unknown said...
This made me laugh so much!
And I know your pain--I refuse to spend loads on a mascara and I had one i loved it was by rimmel in a black tube with pink and it worked so well and when I got a new one something about it had changed and now its rubbish and I need to find a new one--gutted! - March 21, 2012 at 10:44 AM
- Erin @ Currently Coveting said...
I HATE when this happens, L'Oreal discontinued my favorite mascara last year (Volume Shocking) and I STILL have not found one that rivals it (even fancy pants $30 a tube brands.. I have tried everything).
Max Factor actually has some pretty decent formulas (2000 calorie) and I've been using L'Oreal Double Extend which is okay.
Good luck!
http://erinscurrentlycoveting.blogspot.com/ - March 21, 2012 at 10:55 AM
- P!nky said...
I used Maybelline GREAT LASH (the pink bottle) for a really long time and loved it. It's cheap.
I also used the L'oreal double wand extender?!!? Yeah, don't remember the real name but my lashes were HUGE! draw back, you have a highlight and then the mascara and it's right at $10. So you probably won't even look it up.
GOOD LUCK! MASCARA is so important! - March 21, 2012 at 11:33 AM
Best vlog ever!!! Hilarious! I am currently using Rimmel London. I switch between Extra WOW Lash and Sexy Curves Full Body. I get it at Target, I think Ulta carries Rimmel products as well.
- March 21, 2012 at 11:36 AM
- Unknown said...
phahahaha... the credits!!!
ok this just in... my sister has a make up artist friend who says that lancome and loreal is the exact same company?? and she said loreal voluminous is the nest thing that has happened to her face... cant comment on the price but she friend says its the exact same "recipe" as the lancome masacra so pretty much you are saving money already! - March 21, 2012 at 12:36 PM
- Megan | Freckled Italian said...
Oh my god, I can't stop laughing.
- March 21, 2012 at 1:09 PM
- Jillian said...
I'm so with you. I refuse to buy department store mascaras for the simple fact that the drugstore ones are just as good, if not better. I'm a firm believer in that.
I actually haven't used VolumeExact, but I will say that I LOVE Maybelline's Full n Soft mascara. I've been using it for years and it's amazing. It does everything I want it to (thickens, lengthens, doesn't smudge or flake at the end of the day, etc.). And YES, it's under $10!!! - March 21, 2012 at 1:43 PM
- Gayla said...
I love LashBlast Fusion in the purple tube! I buy it in brown. Of course, I've been using Latisse since last August and my lashes are Ah-Maz-Ing!!!!! I dye them black and they look fantastic all by their little naked selves. I just barely touch the mascara to them and I am good to go.
- March 21, 2012 at 2:33 PM
- VANESSA said...
this is awesome! i feel ya girl! i'd be pissed too! great video!!
xo's vanessa,
http://fashiongalfireman.blogspot.com/ - March 21, 2012 at 3:46 PM
- Sydney said...
Great video! Informative and fun.
- March 21, 2012 at 6:02 PM
- Unknown said...
Gayla, did you have any problems with you eye color getting darker?? They scare you when you want to try it that your actual eyes will darken? I want to try it!!
- March 21, 2012 at 9:15 PM
- Gayla said...
Taylor, no I have not had any iris pigmentation problems at all. I know several people using Latisse and non of them had that problem, either. My stepfather uses the drop in his eye for glaucoma and his eyes are still bright blue, but his lashes are crazy long! I say go for it! The little bottle will actually last you three months. You will run out of applicators if you throw them away after one use. My dr. told me to reuse the applicators, each one three times and you will get three months out of it that way. Just be smart about it, obviously. And you only need one drop to do both eyes, because it really takes about 1/5 a drop to do each eye, but you can't dispense such a small amount. I even run it over my eyebrows after I do my lashes, and they have filled in and look great, too!
- March 21, 2012 at 10:10 PM
- Jamie said...
I use Maybelline Great Lash BIG (because my eyelashes are the only things on me that aren't plus sized, go figure). I love it but my friend has been recommending Maybelline Falsies Volume Express... blah blah blah it's a long title. The bottle is purple and fat like the one you hated BUT the actual wand is thin and the brush has longer bristles and is curved like the one you didn't mind. It's also $5. Falsies has a bunch of 5 star reviews online so maybe they're on to something...?
- March 22, 2012 at 2:37 AM
- Erica said...
"plastic, instead of hairrrrrry-ish?" best.line.ever.
- March 22, 2012 at 10:03 AM
- primal me, primal you said...
I'm totally head over heels in love with L'Oreal Voluminous.
- March 22, 2012 at 1:40 PM
- Young and Fabulous said...
I just found you via megan across the pond and im pretty much obsessed. I DIED over your about me section!! hahaha and psshhh GURRRL im from the home state of jenna marbs. So you know I love that chicka! roast beef curtains on your face!!
I can relate to this video. I HATE when things become discontinued! I heard one of my favorite lip glosses was going away. I was that girl in target stocking up on it like the world was about to end and i needed soft baby lips
I use FALSIES! It makes my baby eye lashes look like my boyfriends eyelashes. He was blessed with girly lashes that he doesnt even need! I mean really
I am so in love with your blog and so glad I found ya! cant wait to read more!
xoxox - March 22, 2012 at 10:23 PM
Hahahahah I cannot stop laughing at this, I love a melodramatic rant :) - You should do a whats in my purse vlog! They're over done but so good, and yours would surely be hilarious xxx
- March 22, 2012 at 11:45 PM
- Meg O. said...
I love your vlogs. You need to keep doing them!!! LOL
Okay, so I recently picked up the L'Oreal Voluminous False Lashes in Waterproof (the gold one on those commercials with Gwen Stefani) and I REALLY REALLY like it. It might replace my beloved Maybelline Falsies!!! - March 23, 2012 at 10:40 AM
I was so sad when I found out Volume Exact was being discontinued. So sad that I googled it and ended up finding your vlog. I've only been using it for a year or so, but I love it!
But it turns out that CoverGirl Lash Perfection is incredibly similar. Here's a comparison of the 2 wands: http://canadianbeauty.com/covergirl-lash-perfection-mascara-review/. So that's what I'm using now instead.
If that doesn't work for you, you can always stock up on Volume Exact on eBay (it should definitely be less than $8 there) and that can last you for a few months :) - March 24, 2012 at 5:00 PM
- Morgan Brooks said...
Great stuff!
http://thesocialboutique.blogspot.com/ - March 25, 2012 at 3:35 AM
- Erin said...
right, i'm living on mascara samples from sephora -- but BEFORE that, I remember really loving Maybelline Falsies. The Blackest Black was REALLY dark, it was lengthening and thickening and when you washed it off, it came off in weird little roll-off fibre type things which I found oddly fascinating. I felt like it kept it from smudging on my face during the day.
- March 25, 2012 at 4:58 PM
- audreyrose said...
If you really love the brush I say save the brush/applicator thingie and clean it so you can use it with other mascaras and test drive formulas. You may actually like the formulas and it's just the brush (I'm talking about you lash fusion!) other then that I enjoy the stiletto as well as the revlon grow luscious voluminous my lashes have gotten so full ;)
Happy hunting - March 27, 2012 at 12:14 AM
Hello, I loved your video :) I think you may like to try L'oreal telescopic clean definition, you may like it. Oh, and it is also $8.5.
- March 29, 2012 at 2:35 PM


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Every morning around 6am my alarm clock goes off. It starts quietly and gets progressively louder and more annoying if I try to fall back to sleep. I'm usually in the middle of some random dream and I think about it for a few minutes as I try to will myself back to sleep.
If my alarm clock fails to rise me, it has no choice but to resort to other methods: walking up the length of my body, kneading my stomach and chest with sharp nails (ow!), purring – inflected as if it's a question, and shooting laser beams through my eyelids to will them open. No matter what, do not open your eyes. I repeat: Do not make eye contact with the alarm clock!!!
If you do, it's over.
Meet my alarm clock – highly reliable with a 0.000001% fail rate.
[This is Sketchie's "I'm HUNGRY and haven't had breakfast yet AND I happen to hate you right now" face. I snapped this while we were away over the long weekend. Sketchie was particularly unhappy that we slept til about 7:30 that morning!! gasp]
After 5 or 10 minutes of playing dead, I give in and stumble downstairs ever so slowly as Sketchie rubs his head along the staircase railing. He has now morphed back into Happy Cat and he's prancing along to his feeding spot.
After I feed him, he ditches me and goes back to sleep (how nice), leaving me alone until Eric gets up.
I notice the morning feels a bit chillier than usual and make my first batch of hot oatmeal in a long time. The weather is dreary and creamy peanut butter oats sound like the perfect solution!
To add a fun twist to this bowl, I partially caramelized a ripe banana in the pot before cooking the oats with a tiny bit of non-dairy butter. This was just to intensify the flavours a bit more. Then I swirled in half the peanut butter and cooked the oatmeal as normal for about 8-10 minutes.
The result is a creamy bowl of oats lightly sweetened with banana and highlighted with cinnamon, nutmeg, and a pinch of salt. It smells heavenly! On top, I added more peanut butter, a good dose of cinnamon, nuts, and a drizzle of pure maple syrup. It was just about perfect.
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Early Morning Peanut Butter Banana Oatmeal
1 serving
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- 1 large very ripe banana, peeled and roughly chopped
- 1 tsp non-dairy butter or coconut oil
- 1/2 tbsp natural peanut butter
- 1/2 cup rolled oats
- 1/2-1 tsp chia seed (or ground flax)
- 1 cup almond milk
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1/8-1/4 tsp ground nutmeg
- pinch of salt
- 1 tsp pure vanilla extract
For toppings
- heaping 1/2 tbsp peanut butter
- nuts
- cinnamon
- pure maple syrup
- In a medium-sized pot over medium heat, cook the banana and non-dairy butter or oil for about 5 minutes, stirring frequently.
- Stir in 1/2 tbsp peanut butter, and add the oats, chia, milk, spices, and a pinch of salt. Whisk well until combined.
- Bring to a low boil and then reduce heat to a simmer, stirring often for 8-10 minutes. Remove from heat and stir in vanilla.
- Scoop into a bowl and top with peanut butter, nuts, cinnamon, and maple syrup.
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A beautifier for Bash shell scripts written in Ruby
All content Copyright © 2009, P. Lutus — Message PageI wrote a Ruby beautifier script a few years ago and it has become very popular. I decided to rework it to beautify Bash scripts, even though I realized that Bash shell scripts are much more free-form than Ruby programs. This project is the result — a Bash script beautifier written in Ruby.
I have tested the script on a lot of typical Linux scripts, both my own and from the system. While testing I have reluctantly come to the conclusion that there are too many perverse ways people write Bash scripts for this program to ever correctly beautify 100% of submitted scripts. Maybe 99%, but never 100%.
One thing I noticed repeatedly is that people get in a hurry and leave off a terminating token within case ... esac statements, like this:case $x in a) # code for a ;; b) # code for b ;; c) # code for c esac
Notice the missing ';;' after "c)"? I found many cases like this, so I created a workaround, since even though it is syntactically incorrect it's obvious that Bash accepts it.
Another common problem, one that I ended up managing on a case-by-case basis, is the frequent use of Bash keywords as variable names, in particular the word "done". I found an example like this:
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Obviously this is the work of someone who hates his life and his job, but I managed to process most of these deviant cases, for the same reason — Bash accepts them.
Another perversity is a Bash script that contains within it a huge binary section, somehow grafted onto the script in such a way that a single download contains an installation shell script plus a binary installation block. But the border between the two is not clearly or consistently made, so it's just not possible to process one of these.
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To use the script, download the plain-text version below, rename it "beautify_bash.rb", make it executable and put it (or a copy, or a symlink) in /usr/local/bin. Then invoke it in one of these ways:
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Disney Introduces the Full Cast of 'The Mandalorian'
The rumors were true: Pedro Pascal will star as the title character in The Mandalorian, the first Star Wars television series for Disney's upcoming streaming service, Disney+. Disney and Lucasfilm just sent out a press release confirming Pascal's casting, as well as the full, awesome cast list:
Pedro Pascal (Narcos) has been cast in the title role as a lone Mandalorian gunfighter in the outer reaches of the galaxy. He is joined by Gina Carano (Deadpool), Giancarlo Esposito (Breaking Bad), Emily Swallow (Supernatural), Carl Weathers (Predator), Omid Abtahi (American Gods), Werner Herzog (Grizzly Man) and Nick Nolte (Affliction).
Guys, Werner Herzog is making a Star Wars. The world is not a complete hell yet.
The Mandalorian executive producer Jon Favreau said of the news: "We're having a great time working with this incredibly talented group and excited for everyone to see what we're up to."
Star Wars: The Clone Wars grand poobah Dave Filoni is directing the pilot of The Mandalorian, with additional episodes directed by Deborah Chow (Jessica Jones), Rick Famuyiwa (Dope), Bryce Dallas Howard (Solemates), and Taika Waititi (Thor: Ragnarok). Does that make Ron Howard and Bryce Dallas Howard the first family in history to have two generations of Star Wars directors? It has to be, right?
The Mandalorian will premiere on Disney+ in "late 2019." Less than a year until Werner Herzog Star Warses! I literally cannot wait.
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Super Bowl Buffet Supper
The Super Bowl has become a nationwide event - leading to gatherings of family, friends and neighbors. The essential ingredient in a successful Super Bowl party is the food, and this is one time where haute cuisine is unwelcome. Supermarket staples such as Velveeta and cocktail franks soar in sales, as the nation blows its New Year's resolutions for a of night nachos and onion dip. This month's menu is a step above the dishes mentioned above, but it will please your guests young and old. Succulent Saucy Shrimp takes marinated shrimp to a new level, with a creamy sauce that is always a party favorite. Creamy Bacon-Olive Spread is a snap to prepare and is better if you make it a day or two ahead. Sweet-Heat Cocktail Meatballs are an update of your Mom's party meatballs, with jalapeno pepper jelly standing in for her grape jelly. A Super Stromboli rounds out the menu and is a hit with those who favor "meat lover's" pizza. For dessert, my Touchdown Cookies are packed with a pantry full of tasty ingredients. Oats, coconut, two kinds of chips and nuts make these cookies crowd pleasers. Recipes:


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UVic librarian David Boudinot is not a marine scientist but it doesn't take one to connect the dots that the plastic nurdle pellets washing up on Willows Beach can be traced back to the Fraser River and a potential source at Annacis Island.
Boudinot is a volunteer with Surfrider Canada and has helped out on dozens of beach clean ups since he joined them a few years ago. During those clean ups Boudinot learned about the nurdles. When he contacted one manufacturer he was told they floated here from a 2012 Hong Kong spill, which he doesn't believe.
Curiosity about the pellets and how they got there led Boudinot to research the plastics industry alongside a colleague.
"I felt compelled to continue monitoring beaches in B.C. for spills because I want to see if the problem of plastic pellets in our environment gets better or worse over time," Boudinot said.
There are several types of nurdles, which is a term for pre-consumer plastic polymer pellets made from high density PolyEthylene, low density PolyEthylene and Polypropylene. They are melted into plastic products such as bags, bottles, containers, packaging, straws, and other plastic items.
READ MORE: UVic librarian perplexed by plastic nurdles
He became more concerned when he found pellets were entering storm drains by manufacturing plants near the Fraser River and showing up at outfalls, and as far as Vancouver Island.
"The plastic pellets definitely seemed fresher on the Fraser than some of the old weathered ones we have found on Vancouver Island," Boudinot said. "Then we started looking at the parking lots of plastic manufacturing facilities and it is obvious where these pellets are entering the Fraser River."
On Friday Boudinot challenged the Ministry of Environment on harsher regulation and penalties for companies who create and ship the nurdles.
In a statement provided by Ministry of Environment spokesperson Tyler Hooper said: "The ministry would like to thank Surfrider for bringing this to our attention. The province is working to reduce plastics in the marine environment."
Discharge of pollution to the environment is prohibited under the Environmental Management Act and the ministry said it will be looking into these concerns and determining appropriate next steps.
Witnesses to pollution such as the nurdles can call the 24-hour Report All Poachers and Polluters (RAPP) hotline at 1-877-952-7277 or online at https://forms.gov.bc.ca/environment/rapp/.
"Now that I understand how the spills are happening, I want to share what the problem is along with some easy solutions, like cleaning up spills when they happen, and requiring the use of storm drain covers like you would see at a construction site," Boudinot said. "There is no reason a plastic pellet should be in a storm drain. And we cannot recycle our way out of this particular type of pollution."


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Guide to Unix/Explanations/Filesystems and Swap
A common feature in Unix-like filesystems is that all files appear in one file hierarchy. The filesystem storing the base of the hierarchy is referred to as the root filesystem. /, the directory containing all other directories, is itself is called the root directory. Other filesystems are mounted on directories under / which make these filesystems look like directories in the root filesystem. For example, a CD-ROM containing files might be mounted at /mnt/cdrom. In this example /mnt/cdrom is called a mountpoint. Access to devices is supplied by another filesystem mounted at /dev. Here files representing physical, and virtual devices can be accessed. Filesystems themselves are represented as files in /dev such as /dev/cdrom and can be mounted to directories in the root filesystem such as /mnt/cdrom. Each disk or storage medium may contain one or more filesystems, each of which contains files which can contain data. Some disks are also used for swap, which supplies a temporary storage space for data in memory, when memory is full. Though "swap" resides on a disk, it is not actually a filesystem.
List of Filesystem Types
editThe choice of Unix-like system influences the choice of filesystem. There are two kinds of filesystems:
- Filesystems with full Unix support can hold all types of Unix files, including normal files, directories, named pipes, symbolic links, and device nodes. They also support the entire Unix user and group permission model. This makes these filesystems good for mounting on /, and also /home, /tmp, /usr, /var, and other such filesystems if those are separate partitions.
- Non-Unix filesystems were intended for non-Unix operating systems or to exchange files between different filesystems. Sometimes, the permission on every file on the filesystems must be the same, and only normal files and directories are allowed.
Filesystems with full Unix support
edit- Unix File System (ufs/ffs) is the filesystem of *BSD and several commercial Unix variants. UFS is the on-disk layout, while FFS is some kernel optimizations for UFS in *BSD. There are several incompatible extensions to UFS, including the UFS2 of FreeBSD, NetBSD, and Mac OS X. Therefore, UFS is good for the root filesystem, but not good for trading files between different Unix-like operating systems that implement UFS incompatibly.
- Linux Second Extended Filesystem (ext2, ext3 or ext4) was inspired by ufs/ffs, and is similar. ext2 is the main filesystem implementation for Linux, and can be used as the root filesystem. Unlike ufs/ffs, ext2 always has the same on-disk layout, and can be shared between different Linux systems, and other systems that understand ext2. Note that ext3 is really the same as ext2, but with journaling enabled and supports Hashed B trees which speed up lookups in larger directorys. Linux also provides other filesystems that you might use instead of ext2.
- reiserfs is an alternative to ext2 on Linux. Reiserfs is a fast journaled filesystem written by Hans Reiser.
- jfs is a high performance journaled filesystem written by IBM originally for IBM AIX, and then ported to Linux by the same.
- xfs is a high performance journaled filesystem written by SGI. Originally written for SGI's Irix operating system this fs has been ported to Linux using a shim layer converting Linux VFS and locking semantics to Irix semantics.
- HFS+ (hfsplus) is the main filesystem implementation for Mac OS X, and can be used as the root filesystem. Like ext2, HFS+ always has the same on-disk layout, and can be shared between different Mac systems. HFS+ supports both Unix and Mac file attributes. HFS+ has binary trees, which make it faster than ffs and ext2 sometimes.
Foreign Filesystems
edit- iso9660 is a common filesystem for CD-ROMs. Most Unix-like systems can read it.
- UDF is a common filesystem for DVDs. Some newer Unix-like systems can read and write it.
- msdos (FAT) is the filesystem from MS-DOS, FreeDOS, ReactOS, and Microsoft Windows. Normally you can have normal files and directories, but not special files, symbolic links, nor Unix file permissions. Because nearly every Unix-like system (including Linux, *BSD, and Mac OS X) and DOS/Windows understand it, the msdos filesystem is often used to trade files between computers or on computers which boot multiple operating systems.
- ntfs is a newer filesystem from Microsoft Windows NT. Some Linux kernels can read them.
Disk Partitioning
editIf the disk is not partitioned, it can be used for one filesystem, or entirely as swap space.
- On Linux, IDE/ATA disks are called /dev/hda, /dev/hdb, /dev/hdc...
- On Linux, SCSI disks are called /dev/sda, /dev/sdb, /dev/sdc...
- On *BSD, IDE/ATA disks are called /dev/wd0c, /dev/wd1c, /dev/wd2c...
- On FreeBSD, IDE/ATA disks are called /dev/ad0c, /dev/ad1c, /dev/ad2c...
- On *BSD, SCSI disks are called /dev/sd0c, /dev/sd1c, /dev/sd2c...
- On *BSD, compact disks (CDs) are called /dev/cd0c, /dev/cd1c...
- On Mac OS X, disks are called /dev/disk0, /dev/disk1, /dev/disk2...
- NetBSD/OpenBSD disk images are /dev/svnd0c, /dev/svnd1c, /dev/svnd2c...
Partioning the disk allows for multiple filesystems and swap spaces.
- On Linux, hda is partitioned into /dev/hda1, /dev/hda2, /dev/hda3, /dev/hda4...
- On *BSD, wd0 is partitioned into /dev/wd0a, /dev/wd0b, /dev/wd0c, /dev/wd0d...
- On Mac OS X, disk0 is partitioned into /dev/disk0s1, /dev/disk0s2, /dev/disk0s3...
In addition, *BSD has some extra rules:
- Partition 'c' (/dev/wd0c) must be the entire disk.
- If a *BSD operating system boots on the disk, then partition 'a' must be root (/) and 'b' must be swap. (If there is no OS on the disk, then 'a' can be used for any filesystem).
The chapter Partitioning Disks describes the formats in more detail and how to edit the partition maps.
Mounting Filesystems and Activating Swap
editThe commands one uses are:
- mount to mount filesystems
- umount to unmount filesystems
- swapctl, swapon, swapoff
Simple mounting
editSuppose /dev/hdb is a device (for example, a CD drive) and /mnt/cdrom is the place to mount. Then the mount command is:
mount /dev/hdb /mnt/cdrom
There are more mount options so look for mount somewhere in Guide to UNIX/Commands.
Mounting with fstab
editThe /etc/fstab file helps you mount by specifying a default mount point.
- Create an /etc/fstab entry for /dev/hdb.
- Run this command
mount /dev/hdb
editIt is called umount, not unmount...
umount /dev/hdb
Mounts by Users
editThe user mounts are mounting and unmounting of filesystems by users other than the superuser. Unfortunately, the different Unix variants have different approaches to this task. (An alternative is to configure "sudo" to allow users to become root when mounting and unmounting.) Here are some ways that root can permit user mounts:
- Linux allows the user to perform mounts permitted through the /etc/fstab file. Each line with the mount option "user" describes a permitted mount. For example, mount /dev/cdrom by a non-root user will mount /dev/cdrom using the mount point and options shows in /etc/fstab, but only if "user" is listed as a mount option.
- Many popular BSD-family operating systems allow the user to mount any device which the user can already read and write. The user can pick any mount point which the user owns. A sysctl value must be changed by the root user in order to do this on most of them.
- In OpenBSD, kern.usermount must be set to 1.
- In NetBSD, vfs.generic.usermount must be set to 1.
- In FreeBSD, PcBSD, and DragonflyBSD, vfs.usermount must be set to 1.
Union Mounts
editNormally, filesystems are mounted on empty directories. If the directory was not empty, its files are hidden until the filesystem is unmounted. The union mount allows these files to show through. Each existing file from the directory only shows if there is no file in the same place on the mounted filesystem. All new files are made on the mounted filesystem. Note that union mounts are strange and might not work well on your system.
Some operating systems provide a mount(8) option -o union for this. In this example, a non-partitioned SCSI disk sd0 will be mounted on /etc (which is not normally a mount point). Any existing /etc files that we have that are not also on sd0 will still be available.
# mount -o union /dev/sd0c /etc
Disk Images
editA filesystem can be stored on a file on another filesystem. Such files are called disk images and they have several applications:
- Use dd to copy data from a device node to a normal file to preserve the content of a small disk, for example a floppy disk.
- Some programs let you make iso9660 disk images before burning them to CD. One might want to mount your disk image read-only to examine it before the burn. One can also move such images to a computer with a CD burner, or offer the image for download so others may burn it.
- If you have no free space for new partitions on your disk, but some partition has free space, then you can create a disk image if you need a new filesystem. Sometimes this helps in the creation of encrypted filesystems.
This guide only describes raw disk images, which contain only the filesystem. There are other formats (such as the Mac OS X NDIF format) but these must be converted or handled specially.
Mounting Disk Images on NetBSD and OpenBSD
editNormally, NetBSD and OpenBSD only allow mounting of filesystems stored on devices. Thus five steps are involved:
- Associate the disk image with a svnd device.
- Mount the svnd device.
- Use the disk image.
- Unmount the svnd device.
- Disassociate the disk image from the device.
Association and dissociation are handled by the vnconfig(8) command. In this example, /the/disk/image will be associated with /dev/svnd0c. This particular disk image has a disklabel with a filesystem on partition 'a', which we mount on /mnt. If there was no disklabel, we would instead mount partition 'c'.
# vnconfig -c /dev/svnd0c /the/disk/image # mount /dev/svnd0a /mnt ... # umount /dev/svnd0a # vnconfig -u /dev/svnd0c
Mounting Disk Images on FreeBSD 5
editIn FreeBSD 5, one uses mdconfig(8) with a vnode backed storage.
Mounting Disk Images on Linux
editThe mount(8) option -o loop can be used to mount disk images instead of devices.
# mount -o loop /the/disk/image /mnt ... # umount /mnt
Some Linux kernels can mount a cloop (compressed loop), which is a compressed disk image. Such an image must be mounted read-only. One first prepares the image and then compresses it how? Then one mounts it how? The Knoppix livecd uses a cloop to fit more programs to the CD.
Creating Disk Images
editCreating a new, empty disk image involves two steps before you mount it and start using it:
- Use dd(1) to make a new file of zeros with the correct size.
- Format the disk image with partitions and filesystems.
Here is an example. We use dd and an unlimited supply of zeros, /dev/zero, to create a 1440 kilobyte disk image (1440 blocks of 1024 bytes). Then we use mkfs.ext3(8) to create an unpartitioned ext3 filesystem. Note that mkfs.ext3 does no mounting, so it cares not if it formats a device or a disk image. (FIXME is this correct?)
$ dd bs=1024 count=1440 if=/dev/zero of=example $ mkfs.ext3 example
The *BSD newfs(8) and newfs_msdos(8) utilities insist on formatting devices only. This is solved with vnconfig(8). If we wanted to partition the disk image, we would also have made a disklabel. One can ignore the imaginary disk geometry.
$ dd bs=1024 count=1440 if=/dev/zero of=example $ sudo vnconfig -c /dev/svnd0c example $ sudo newfs /dev/rsvnd0c ... $ sudo vnconfig -u /dev/svnd0c
In fact, on *BSD it is a good idea to always have a disklabel, especially if when creating an ffs filesystem, so that the filesystem will be correctly listed in the label, and the letter will be different from 'c'.
$ dd bs=1024 count=1440 if=/dev/zero of=example $ sudo vnconfig -c /dev/svnd0c example $ sudo disklabel -E svnd0 Initial label editor (enter '?' for help at any prompt) > a partition: [a] offset: [0] size: [2880] FS type: [4.2BSD] > p device: /dev/rsvnd0c type: SCSI disk: vnd device label: fictitious bytes/sector: 512 sectors/track: 100 tracks/cylinder: 1 sectors/cylinder: 100 cylinders: 28 total sectors: 2880 free sectors: 0 rpm: 3600 16 partitions: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg] a: 2880 0 4.2BSD 2048 16384 32 # Cyl 0 - 28* c: 2880 0 unused 0 0 # Cyl 0 - 28* > q Write new label?: [y] $ sudo newfs /dev/rsvnd0a ... $ sudo vnconfig -u /dev/svnd0c
Encrypted Filesystems
editEncrypted Filesystems on OpenBSD
editBecause OpenBSD has integrated crypto, one would expect that there is a way to have an encrypted filesystem. OpenBSD only provides Blowfish encryption for disk images. This is possible with the -k flag to vnconfig(8), used with -c.
In this example, we will mount the encrypted disk image called /secrets, which contains a single partion letter 'a':
# vnconfig -ck /dev/svnd0c /secrets Encryption key: # mount /dev/svnd0a ... # umount /dev/svnd0a # vnconfig -u /dev/svnd0c
Note that if you entered the wrong encryption key, vnconfig will still succeed. The mount will fail because the disklabel and filesystem header are not readable. In this case, you must vnconfig -u and then vnconfig -ck with the correct key. Make sure to use the correct key when initially formatting a new disk image.
To have an entire encrypted disk partition, create a normal unencrypted disk image, mount it, then fill the partition with one large file to serve as the disk image.
Encrypted Filesystems on Linux
editSome Linux kernel configurations let you use losetup to encrypt disk images. Think of lo(opback) setup, not of lose tup.
edit- Manual pages for FreeBSD and several Unix-like systems: http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi
- Little UFS2 FAQ http://sixshooter.v6.thrupoint.net/jeroen/faq.html


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