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Mattify! Cosmetics Review and Giveaway
Happy Friday, Beautiful Betches! It's about to get a li'l happier (and more beautiful)! 😉 How's that you ask? We're giving away free vegan makeup. Not just any vegan makeup either… some of the bestestest!
If you haven't yet tried Mattify! Cosmetics, lemme quickly summarize why this mineral makeup is top notch awesomeness x12!
- First of all, it's long-wearing which is key unless you're used to carrying a mini makeup pouch around with you 24/7.
- Secondly, this makeup is specifically designed for chicks with oily skin. It literally sops up any excess oil and gives you that perfect "matte" finish look. Even though it kicks extra major ass for oily skin, it works great for all skin types (just be sure to avoid it if your skin is mega dry and flaky).
- Thirdly, you can use the face powder as a primer under your liquid foundation, if liquid is how you like to roll. You can also use it over your foundation, too, for that photoshopped, flawless cover girl look.
- Fourthly, (←is that even a word?) the eye shadows can be used to make eyeliner, lip gloss, and nail polish! Click here to find out how.
- Fifthy, everything is vegan and cruelty-free (which is obvi 'cause it's on VBR and we're giving it away)! Woot to the WuTangiest degree!
The goodies up for grabs (all of which I have personally tried and can vouch you'll fall head over heels in ♥ with):
- Body Shimmer
- Bronzer
- Mysterious Aurora eye shadow
- Purple Haze eye shadow (click here for close ups of these über pretty shades!)
- Fair Tinted Powder
- Transparent Powder for Combo Skin
- Mini application brush
- Pink makeup pouch to keep all your goodies in
To enter to win this deluxe goodie bag of makeup from Mattify! Cosmetics, simply go to Mattify! Cosmetics' website and tell me which product(s) you're dying to try. All entrants must be residents of the US to enter to win. The winner will be chosen at random and notified on April 13th, 2012! Good luck! xx
About Sunny (Sunny's Profile)Longtime vegan, hardcore compassionate beauty junkie, serious cake aficionado, and lover of all things floofy and sparkly! If there's something in particular you'd like me to review, drop me a line at firstname.lastname@example.com. You can also find me on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, and Google +.
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I would love to try everything!!!! I have super oily
skin and to actually use something that soaks it up would be GREAT:)
I would love to try all there products out, but if I had to choose I would try the bronzer, transparent powder, blush in terra cotta, and the eye shadows.
I'd love to try the body shimmer and bronzer! Ever since I swore off too much sun tanning/tanning beds, I've been feeling a bit pasty. 😉
I would love to try Purple Haze eye shadow!!!:)
I'd like to try the purple haze eye shadow.
Wow. I love reading your blog and finding new things out, like the fact that this cosmetic line exists.
I'd love to try the Mattify! Tinted Powder for Fair/Med Skin & Mattify! Transparent Powder for Combination Skin.
I've never even heard of these before…I am dying to try the powder, the purple eyeshadow, and some of the bronzer for summer!
I would like to try the eyeshadow, bronzer and blush. I am already sold on the Mattify but have not tried any if the other products. I have been using the Mattify ULTRA for about 5 months, it is AWESOME!!! If you have oily skin you have got to try it!!!
i would like the Mattify! Powder for Sensitive Skin
katherinedibello (at) gmail (dot) com
Wanna try the face powder for combo skin!
I am really interested in the eye shadows since they never seem to "stay" all day. Earth Angel looks super easy to wear and very versatile. Disco Sunset and Woodland Fairy look fun to wear. I can see woodland fairy being a great eyeliner. But honestly I would be happy to try any of their products. Thanks for the opportunity!!
OOOPs! My autofill left my husbands email in the last entry… same name for me CHEVELLE SOPKIN… but THIS entry is my correct email. If I win, I would never get the notification if sent to hubby's email 😉
I love the Mattify! Long Lasting Blush
FULL SIZE 20 Gram Sifter Jar in the color "Harmony".
Thank so much!
Would love to try the Mattify! Long Lasting Blush
FULL SIZE 20 Gram Sifter Jar in "Harmony" color. Thank you!
I really want to try the Mattify! Long Lasting Blush
FULL SIZE 20 Gram Sifter Jar in "Harmony" !! LOve it!
The Ultra Mattify Powder and the eyeshadows sound amazing!!
I would love to try the mineral powder for oily skin, the long lasting blush, the long lasting eyeshadow, and it would be awesome to create eyeliner, lip gloss, and nail polish using the eyeshadows!! So exciting!! I could actually come up with my own creations as well!!
I would like to try: Iced Apricot eyeshadow, Mystic Mermaid eyeshadow, and Pixie Dust eyeshadow. So pretty!
jslbrown_03 at yahoo dot com
I am dying to try Mysterious Aurora Long Lasting Eyeshadow. It looks like so much fun!!!!
I'm dying to try the long lasting blush in harmony!
I want to try the Mattify! ULTRA translucent powder for very oily skin. I have tried EVERYTHING! and nothing seems to work.
Would love to try mystic mermaid.
I would love to try the Mattify! ULTRA Powder for Oily Skin.
I would love to try the iced apricot shadow. Thanks for the chance to win!
gina.m.maddox (AT) gmail (DOT) com
I want to try it all! LOL. I would love to try the ultra powder for my oily skin, and the shadows look amazing!
taznjade at gmail dot com
I gave up wearing eye shadow years ago 'cause I just couldn't find anything that would stay put on my oily skin. If Mattify!'s shadow does the trick I'd be beyond ecstatic!
I would love to try the Fair tinted Powder! And the Mattify! Ultra.
I would love to try the shimmer and bronzer. I have super pale skin that gets crispy way fast so this is a great subs for a tan!
I looked through their website and the two products I would LOVE to try are lucky penny and iced apricot eye shadows 😀
The purple haze eyeshadow.
Ooooh i didnt even these existed!!! I have oily skin so this is perfect for me! I really want to try the mattify transparent powder for combo skin as a base for my makeup.
I'd love to try the long lasting eye shadow! Looks so cool!
I'd like to try the Mattify! Original Powder for Combination Skin.
My e-mail: blackasphodel(at)yahoo(dot)com
The Mattify! Ultra Powder for oily skin/very oily skin is something that I would love to try. I have tried a multitude of products before to soak up the shine that I get throughout the day, but I haven't had great results with them. I appreciate that these powders from Mattify! are explicitly labeled vegan.
either the harmony blush or the sensitive powder. thanks.
I would love to try the Summer Storm eye shadow. Looks amazing!!
Wow! The long lasting eye shadows look absolutely incredible! So many pretty colours on the site… would be fabulous to get a jump start on building up an entire collection for my kit with a couple of freebies. =)
I would love to try the long lasting eye shadows! I love playing with makeup! So i want something that's vegan and organic to play with!
Their eyeshadows look amazinggg!! The combination of the Disco Sunset, Woodland Fairy, and snow Bunny look awesome and I want want …need! 🙂 Can't wait to start showing some skin and glam vegan makeup for the summertime! Yay!
Am frm India.. Plz have an international giveaway 😀
Am from India 🙁 Plz have an international giveaway 😀
I want to try it all!! But especially the face powder and long lasting eyeshadow in "mystic mermaid".
The eye shadow, especially Mystic Mermaid. And the long wearing blush, and…
The mysterious aurora eye shadow looks fabulous! I also like the sound of the transparent powder for combination skin. They all look wonderful.
Love to try the eyeshadow in summer storm
The eyeshadows work as lip gloss and nail polish!? Holy crapola!! Id love to try those baby outs. I love all the shades, but Id my favs are Mystic Mermaid, Pixie Dust, and Iced Apricot.
Wow, the Mattify! Transparant Powder for Oily Skin looks perfect for me! Something that soaks up excess oil and evens out skin color…sign me up!! I also love the vibrant colors of the eyeshadows, especially Summer Storm and Amethyst Moon.
Their face powder for combination skin. It seems perfect for my skin. Not only is mine combination but it's very sensitive as well.
I want to try the eyeshadow Irish Eyes! I have oily skin
I would love to try the Matify! Powder for Oily Skin! I still haven't found a great powder for my oily/combination skin and this one sounds great!
I really wish the contest was open to residents of Canada. Do you ship to Canada at least? I have the oiliest skin of anyone I know and I really need Super-Sized XL Mattify! ULTRA Powder for Oily Skin.
I cannot wait to try the long lasting eye shadows. I'm super broke so I can't afford make up at the moment, but these glitter colours will certainly brighten up my spring and summer! I especially love Mysterious Aurora, Woodland Fairy, and Ocean Mist!


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The taco is having a moment. The hipster ideal of finding food that is cheap, tasty and requires an "in the know" has spread from Austin, through Brooklyn and beyond.
The trend comes from both the popularity of street food and a growing population of foodies interested in a more cosmopolitan palate. And that means a departure from restaurants with a Cinco de Mayo theme and overpriced margaritas, moving instead toward modern places like ABC Cocina, Jean-Georges Vongerichten's spot near Union Square, and Salvation Taco, April Bloomfield's taqueria in Murray Hill.
"People come to a Mexican restaurant now looking for more ethnic street food," says Fernando Paterra of Guapo Cocina in Yonkers, which features a daily "Taco Guapo" special, filled with market-inspired ingredients like goat, cow tongue, short ribs or braised pork belly.
The Taco Guapo sells for $3 each, or three for $8.
"It's a trendier crowd, and they're more open to different ethnicities, different styles of cuisines," says Paterra.
Welcome, gourmet taco, both delicious and reasonably priced. But the best news about the growing taco trend is that you don't have to be in New York City to partake (we're looking at you, Cronut).
Consider yourself in the know. Here are a few of our favorite places in the Lower Hudson Valley to get a great taco.
bartaco, Port Chester
An outdoor deck with a posh take on a nautical theme, jazzy lighting and rhythmic indie beats immediately transport you to vacation mode, somewhere chic and free-spirited like Santorini, the coast of Brazil or Ibiza. An open air kitchen serves up margaritas and Mexican dishes made for sharing.
What to order: The baja fish taco is crunchy with a light mayo on the accompanying slaw. The portobello taco with queso fresco and smoky poblanos is a nice vegetarian option.
Go: 1 Willett Ave., Port Chester, 914-937-TACO (8226), www.bartaco. com. Hours: 11:30 a.m. to close daily.
Guapo Cocina Mexicana, Yonkers
A stylish Mexican restaurant with terra cotta floors, exposed brick walls and an authentic and extensive menu. They boast a two-for-one drink happy hour where you can order crowd-friendly small plates and sip summer sangria, margaritas, Mexican beers or wines from Mexico, South America and Spain.
What to order: Choose from 10 different taco fillings such as al pastor: spiced slow roasted pork and sweet pineapple on a fresh soft taco.
Go: 10 Warburton Ave., Yonkers, 914-920-5900, www.guaporestaurant.com. Hours: noon-11 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday; noon-midnight Friday and Saturday; closed Sunday and Monday. Happy hour 4-7 p.m. Tuesday-Friday.
Harry's Burritos, Nyack
Mid-century modern kitsch (great lamps and artwork, especially!) make for a welcoming and casual atmosphere, and the diverse menu (tacos, burritos, brunch) is made without preservatives, lard or MSG. It's family-friendly, too: there are kids movie nights with $3 tacos.
What to order: Fish tacos served in a choice of soft corn, soft flour or hard corn shell. Tilapia is sautéed with sun dried tomatoes and roasted garlic, then topped with housemade creamy guacamole.
Go: 90 Main St., Nyack, 845-353-5520, www.harrysburritos.com. Hours: Sunday-Thursday 11-10 p.m., Friday-Saturday 11 a.m.-11 p.m. Additional locations: 94 Chatsworth Ave., Larchmont; 93 Avenue A, Manhattan; 241 Columbus Ave., Manhattan.
Pink Panther Hot Dog Wagon and Mexican Food, Hastings-on-Hudson
Magdalena Toledo has owned and cooked in this pink food truck for 25 years, serving all-beef hot dogs, chili, rice and beans and homemade soup. But the real star of the show is the tacos, specifically pork. People from all walks of life line up for them daily.
What to order: The pork tacos have a cult following for a reason, and usually sell out quickly. Available in mild, medium or spicy.
Go: Parked south of Jackson Avenue on Saw Mill River Road Monday to Saturday, 11 a.m.-6 p.m.
Roasted Peppers, Mamaroneck
A Mexican-American fusion cafe from the former cooking team behind Sam's of Gedney Way. Their dishes carefully blend south-of-the-border comfort food with American bistro classics.
What to order: Red snapper tacos. Fish is marinated in a lime-chili mixture and grilled, then drizzled with a creamy jalapeno sauce.
Go: 320 Mamaroneck Ave., Mamaroneck, 914-341-1140, www.roasted peppersmamaroneck. com. Hours: 11:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday, 11:30 a.m.-11 p.m. Friday, Saturday; 3-9 p.m. Sunday. Sunday brunch 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Closed Monday.
Truck, Bedford
Southwestern food cooked fresh with ingredients from local farms, like Cabbage Hill in Mount Kisco and Fort Hill in New Milford, Conn. The atmosphere is farm-chic, with reclaimed barnwood, grass-fed beef and wine on tap.
What to order: Chicken Tinga Tacos: Chicken is slow cooked in a tomato and chipotle sauce, then topped with organic romaine and pico de gallo.
Go: 391 Old Post Road, Bedford, 914-234-8900, www.truckrestaurant. com. Lunch: 11:30 a.m.- 3:30 p.m. Tuesday-Friday. Dinner: 5:30-9:30 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday; 5:30-10:30 p.m. Friday, Saturday. Open 11:30 a.m.-9 p.m. Sunday. Closed Monday.


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I think Jay would make for good TV and would be a great as a judge on the upcoming X Factor in the UK. I mean he is well qualified - he sings live, succeeded bc of his talent not looks like most celebs today, is charismatic and a great performer.
Also, he speaks his mind and is quite funny and witty - seems to have a good sense of humor. That's why American Idol was such a hit when Simon Cowell was on - people want honesty, the truth; not bs.
I am not sure why Simon has not approached him of all UK talents - I think I would even watch the show with Jay as a judge and I hate TV in general. It could produce a ratings boost.
Disclaimer: I have never watched the X Factor - and have only read about it. I did watch AI for a few seasons but once Simon left it was quite dull.
Would love to hear what others think about topic?
Haha! I have to run so @Giba7 this is my brief post. (Sorry folks for long posts, but my mind is always "on" and I type really fast without looking at the keyboard because I had to do the majority of education via computer due to traveling, touring etc etc. But it worked out - in the end I received two degrees while working. I am proud of that.)


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My 2012 Ride Report on the Hatfield and McCoy Trails of WV.
How this came about... It all started about 10 yrs. ago, when a production company filmed the NEW Hatfield & McCoy Trail system to promote tourism in WV. They showed ATV/ motorcycles riding these extreme trails, and talked about this new system being the largest and most extreme on the East Coast. That was all it took, since I grew up riding hills & abandoned coal mines. I knew this was an adventure, I couldn't pass up. As with so many things in life, when would I find the time to take a 2 wk. vacation for off road riding? I added it to my bucket list and went on with my life/hobbies. I had traveled the U.S. and Europe extensively in my 20's & 30's being X military, Owner Operator, etc. but not much off road travel. Unless you count Hiking / skiing, places like the Austrian / Swiss Alps, etc. Street bikes, cars, trucks and trains were my mode of transportation back then. I later had a Honda XR650 mounted on the truck for those long weekends. Remember all I did was travel, so when I had a few days off it was sightseeing time in that area. Not planning some iron butt / off road rally on DS motorcycle. So many things to see, so little time.
I started out on dirt bikes at age 10, so it's in my blood. A little racing here and there... I've had a bike most of my life but there is something about the unrestricted nature of off road bikes that always brings me back. The Adventure and ability to ride any where is a strong attraction but I think deep down the thrill / risk involved has just as much to do with it. Normally we experience something new and move on to the next NEW thing because life is short, ya know! Been there done that...BUT something about motorcycles keeps us coming back. If you haven't experienced it for yourself, then I can't explain it. I've crashed off road bikes with many injuries only to come back over and over. Crazy! some would say. Never a single street bike accident in hundreds of thousands of miles. Only on dirt bikes.
Well, let's get on with the HMT report. I wanted to tell you a little about myself so you would understand the man behind the scenes. This isn't my first adventure.
My goal was to ride as much of the HMT system as possible and supermoto the twisties but most of all relax and enjoy my vacation.
Why I traveled alone... Last minute schedule changes at work forced me into a time line of Aug. 2012. Not enough notice for others to take 2 wks. off and although not perfect because of the warmer summer days, it wasn't going to be freezing / snowing either. Compared to FL heat, the upper 80's in the mountains were very nice. I only remember 2 days that I considered warm and the rest was perfect. Make a note if planning to ride HMT, Sept. is a perfect time of year. Oct. starts to cool off and may see freezing temps. You just never know.
I did post info. on several motorcycle forums looking for experienced B riders or better on motocross type bikes but was only able to offer a couple months notice. My past experience has proven not everyone is as motivated or prepared, so we need to set some ground rules. If things don't work out, I'll be riding alone. Turns out my B rider or better requirement was the right decision based on other riders I met who didn't have the ability to ride the tech. trails I could, so we ALL had to turn around. I didn't want MY entire vacation to turn out this way. Some may feel I'm too rigid but it was my vacation too.
When I came across a nice relaxing place and wanted to take a break, it was up to me. It would have been nice to share the experience with others but sometimes that can be more of a burden then it's worth.
My trip would last about 2 wks. leaving FL on Aug. 24 and returning Sept. 6, 2012. I wouldn't have the entire time to ride HMT because of other plans but would spend much of my time covering the trails and twisties on KTM's. The Supermoto was a hoot in the hill country. The 525 exc with supermoto set up and brembo oversized brakes makes for the ultimate toy. Smaller bikes don't have enough HP for the mountains and larger bikes are too much work in the switch backs. Then jump off on a dirt road or dirty paved back road and the light weight 525 really shines when sliding around the corners. Not like a 500+ lb. street bike with little suspension that you fear might get away from you when sliding. Your just willing to push the limits that much more on a lighter dirt bike.
I drove camper van pulling trailer with 2 KTM's so I had a place to sleep when not in hotel rooms. Plus this gave me a back up bike if something went wrong. Prefer mixing it up...couple days in camper and a day here and there in hotel.
Sometimes I would camp at the Trail Head. Arrive that night and ride the next day, then on to the next when ready. Proof I was really ALONE, not a single vehicle at these TH during the week. I had the place to myself. But remember WV has thousands of places to ride besides the HMT if you know the area. Many people use ATV for transportation. You see them driving down the roads and around town.
I started out camping at Ashland resort because you can ride 3 of the trail heads from that area. Ashland resort is very nice if you like camping. There are some other places in the area but I would recommend staying there your first trip.
Make sure you pack a cooler and are prepared to eat there. Not much around Ashland area unless you drive 15 miles ( 45 min.) in the WV mountains. That will get you to a Wal-Mart
I could write a small book telling of all the trails and what I liked about them. They were ALL covered in rocks for the most part and steep. Because of the rocks, they are not for the beginner dirt biker. Yes, you can prob. ride the green trails but some of the trail heads are so steep and rocky a beginner won't make it out of the parking lot. If your a beginner, rent ATV and have fun. Then return next year on dirt bike if you still want to try your luck.
Indian Ridge and Pinnacle Creek were fun. Pocahontas was wet, I didn't set out to have a mud fest ride although that is what happened by the end of day when I had no choice but to cross a pond vs turning around and crossing 10 other mud holes again to get back out of there. I made a run for it and buried the bike in the last 10 ft. where it looked like others had too. Took me 30 min. to get the bike out of there and it was covered with this sludge mud. I loved playing in the mud 30+ yr. ago but now I try to avoid it at all cost. Makes the bike heavy and harder to ride. Oh well! It was late afternoon so I decided to work my way back since this was the last HMT in that system I hadn't rode. When I arrived back at camp and ask where I could wash my bike, they said you can't. What! We don't allow people to wash anything but the radiator. Well, do you know of a pressure wash place around. He said, around here? No, we don't have anything like that here but they might have one in the city. As in 1 hr. drive or more away. O.K. so I went back to my campsite and proceeded to fill gallon jugs to dump over my bike/gear since I couldn't find a hose. About 1 hr. later I had washed everything off and started packing up to head for Matewan just before dark. I know they said you can't but what were they going to do, kick me out? I was leaving any way and for a ATV resort not to have a wash area was unacceptable. They had the best resort in area but find another place to wash your bike. They have very nice Laundry room and shower / bathroom too. The whole place was very nice, Wi-Fi, they sell gas, propane, food, some gear and parts, etc. Just no wash area blew me away. When I arrived in Matewan that was the first thing I asked. They said sure...
The feeling I had while riding in the WV mountains on black diamond extreme trails alone was a feeling of freedom, just me and the mountains. A challenge I've waited years to experience but also a feeling of accomplishment. I was riding the most extreme trails on the East Coast ALONE. Knowing one mistake could be the end, with no one to help or go get help. Mechanical failures and minor injury when nobody was around during the week could be very serious. There wasn't anyone there during the week. The trail heads were empty and if somebody did decide to ride, they may not be on the extreme trails with the highest risk for injury. It takes a certain type of person at age 50 to risk it all to fulfill your dreams and that in itself is a feeling of great accomplishment you have to experience to understand. Our perception of everything is constantly changing... The more adventures & experiences you have, the higher you must raise that bar to achieve the same feeling of accomplishment. We have become so spoiled with our safety nets in every aspect of our lives. Try planning a real adventure with nobody else to rely on but yourself. Just the thought of it scares most people. So dig deep inside and ask yourself if you have what it takes to go it alone because when you're in the back country that looks like the end of the earth where nobody would ever find you if something went wrong, you will need to be ready. There was one place in Pocahontas that looked like something out of a horror movie, which I have heard others refer to as the "swamp of sadness" because it's kind of a wet/damp/cool/dark forest. Now picture yourself riding this area alone about 4PM as the dense forest is getting dark. You start to wonder if the bike broke down...
It's easy to say Ahhhhh! I've been there or rode alone before and didn't have any problems. I talked to a rider that was alone on weekend when the parking area and trails were busy but not a single one during the week. He rides the area and knows it, plus has people close by to call for help. That's all great! But if you would have had a mechanical failure and had to walk out 10 mi. in your motocross boots, could you? Don't fool yourself, you couldn't walk 5 mile in the WV mtn. in those boots with all the rocks and you can't take them off. There is no cell service in many areas and very few houses if in the real back country. Would you spend the night and how would you feel about that with no gear ? What about the Bears, Mountain Lions, Coyotes, etc. Would you still think it was no big deal the next morning? I doubt the average person can say yes. I took all this into consideration, then made the decision to take this journey I've waited 10 yrs. for alone. I'm not getting any younger and nobody knows what the future holds so man up and get prepared. Many things people can't comprehend because they have never been in this type of situation, let alone this environment.
I spent Sat. Sun. Mon. riding southern HMT area and then because of possible rain towards the end of week moved on to Buffalo Mountain instead of Rock House because I was told BM was the best and the longer I put it off the higher my chances of injury or something ending my ride would be. If something happened, I wanted to experience BM.
Karma is a funny thing. I wonder if Karma is Gods way of teaching us right from wrong by making us pay when we don't make the right choices. What? Well, let me tell you... I was riding on the Indian Ridge trail out in the middle of nowhere and came upon a Ford pickup truck sitting along the trail. As I rounded the corner and see this truck I thought what is this guy doing out here ? I don't see any roads and the trail is barely wide enough for a vehicle. I then see a hillbilly looking guy with long stringy hair around 50 yr. old doing something in the bed of truck, he looks up to see me riding towards him. He then quickly walks to the driver's door opening it and reaches his arm in to grab something but never removes it. He keeps the door closed against his arm while watching me approach and I'm thinking this guy is going to pull a gun? I stay on trail riding towards him and I slow and ask if he is O.K. and he says hey good with a wave of the free hand. He was strangely nervous. I then see a pretty young girl around early 20's with blonde hair and white / blue striped shirt squatting down on passenger side floorboard as I'm riding by. I make eye contact with her as I'm passing him. She looks worried and I'm thinking if I stop this nut is going to shoot me because something is very wrong here. I keep riding away slowly speeding up (waiting for the gun to go off) and turn on the next trail wondering if he is alone and what is going on. I mark the spot on my GPS once out of gun range and continue riding. I work my way back to the Ashland resort and tell the office about what I had seen and believe this young girl was not there by choice. They contacted the police and told me later they were prob. going to send somebody out for a statement. I started picturing the cop being this guys cousin and telling me he needed me to show him where I seen the truck, etc. And nobody would ever hear from me again. Great! I've stumbled upon some slave trading deal or something and might not make it out of here alive. All those movies and stories of the WV back country starts running through my mind. (insert hillbilly theme) So I told you that to tell you this...
My new Garmin Montana http://sites.garmin.com/montana/ I invested almost $1k into setting up for these types of rides and have used without any problems for the past 8 mo. decided to crash the next day at Matewan, WV. I contacted Garmin and they overnight a replacement. I spent the next day touring twisties with Don McCoy on KTM supermoto, then setting up new Garmin with maps, etc. so I could ride HMT the next day without getting lost. That big waterproof 4" screen was a life saver in those hills. I had used it enough to know I didn't want any part of navigating with the HMT trail maps.Using the maps and GPS with trail layer was perfect. Without the HMT layer over map the GPS wouldn't have been as helpful but with the layer I would have considered buying another new one and working out the details when I returned if that tells you anything about the peace of mind that comes with knowing exactly where you are at all times when your riding alone. Although... What a nightmare that turned out to be in an area with sloooow DSL and Garmin website telling me the connection speed was not high enough, etc. I had to shut down all of Don's computers and set up his router just to get 1.4 Mbps. Then Garmin didn't set up the replacement info like they promised so I had to buy maps again because it was after 5 on Fri. Well, the slow DSL dropped the connection after 2 hrs. Great! I would have to start over and never get this set up but it allowed me to reconnect and chugged along. All was done the next morning when I woke. Threw the HMT layer maps on there and was gone. Was this Karma telling me I should have risk my life for this girl and now it was time for me to suffer? I'll always wonder if she is being held in some back country cabin some place. If one of you would have stepped up and rode with me, we might have saved her. I know, what a story!
Don and I were talking and he said I should move there and start a biz so I could ride the trails. I quickly replied, wouldn't last a week in this electronically challenged area without my gadgets and high speed internet he laughed and said, don't even own a cell phone. I pulled mine out and looked at the no service signal (in town) and laughed. We are so spoiled with our high speed smart phones now days.
I put 100 miles on the dirt bike riding the Buffalo Mtn. trails that day, almost every trail. I didn't ride all the single track since I was alone and worried nobody would ever get to me if I went off a cliff. Not really, some were blocked by down trees and some grown in. But I did ride Trail 97 and must say that was one of the high lights of my trip. I met some other riders that night who have ridden the HMT over the years and just did BM last year. After several stories of all the places they have ridden in the U.S. and diff. technique schools they have attended, etc. I was so happy to have found somebody that knew the area and wanted to ride the single track / black diamond trails. We were staying at the Matewan B & B so planned to meet up at breakfast. Ended up getting started around 9:30am and the best rider of the group crashes on trail head. I'm thinking well it is pretty rocky and maybe he is just rusty. I wait, then go past and wait at the next intersection for everybody. This is when we knew one of the guys wasn't going to make it after taking 15 min. to get up the first TH hill. Him and another split off so the 2 better riders and I can run single track. One starts off and few min. later I start because the other guy wants me to go first. I come up around the corner and here comes the first guy towards me down the hill. I pull over and ask if the trail is blocked ? He says, no I can't make it up the hill. I said, is something blocking the trail? No, I just can't make it. It's too steep. Maybe if I try again now that I know what is there and get a running start I can make it. Just go ahead and wait at next intersection like we planned. I take off and shoot up over hill which was the easiest part of this single track and sit at the top of mountain waiting for 20 min. I don't hear anybody so ride back down. They are still sitting at this hill climb out of breath. I ask what was going on, they said it has taken them that long just to get one bike up the hill. I replied, We need to turn around then because it gets much worse. That was the last single track we rode that day. I thought back to how these guys said they have ridden all the trails last year, etc. I also thought back to my B rider or better requirement and this confirmed it. At end of day I wanted to ride some more extreme stuff and the one guy thought he was up for it. After I rode 97 the best rider tried it and flipped his bike right from the start and then wouldn't ride it down. I had rope and pulley so we used my tackle to lower it down. Once was enough for me on that big tanker and doing it on someone elses bike wasn't going to happen.
I had rode alone with no problems every day prior to this and every day after this covering twice as many miles on more extreme trails. We were riding very easy and they kept wanting to stop, I guess every ones perception of ALL the trails varies based on selective memory. The KTM 500 is heavy in the tight stuff but it will climb like a tractor up anything if you have the traction and back bone. HP is not a concern for the most part unless you're worried about being launched off the trail. You can't tell by the below picture but going off to the right would not be fun and prob. take hours to get your bike out when riding alone. If you were able too. Sometimes these trails get so steep the rocks just get the best of ya and once you lose momentum, it's over. Very hard if at all possible to start over on the hills is why I don't have many pictures. It seemed like I rode 5 miles of this rock to get here and was exhausted after days of riding these kinds of rocky trails. If I stopped to take a picture, I had to use rocks to block the bikes tires so it would stay there plus turn the bike around and ride back down to start over. Pictures don't show how steep these trails are so why bother is what I told myself in most cases. If they look steep, they are very freakin steep.
I liked the BM area for many reasons although they all have their own character. The town of Williamson,WV is nearby if you're looking for Wal-Mart or KTM/Honda Dealer, etc. About all the fast food and many other stores. There are several ways to reach the trails from here and the area is easy to access because of Hwy 119. If you're going for the weekend and only plan to ride the trails it really doesn't matter if you stay here and ride to Matewan for Lunch or other way around but that's what I think most do is start at one TH and ride to the other end of system for lunch and then return on different trails back to motel. The Hatfield & McCoy Inn would be one of my picks in Matewan, they have restaurant, place to wash your bike, shop if you need to work on equipment or want to lock it up. They are very nice people and know the area well. Don gives Hatfield & McCoy tours of the historic sites and DS guided tours. The Matewan house is a very nice B & B but the trains were crazy loud and shook the building. I used ear plugs the 2nd night and managed to get some sleep but wanted to warn ya. Their breakfast was nice buffet style and they always have snacks and drinks out as part of the package. Pro's and Con's to every place I stayed but for the money I liked Don's H&M inn 304-426-4700. http://www.hatfieldmccoyinn.com/
Logan area has a few motels and private inns plus Wal-Mart City with all the fast food, etc. and motorcycle dealers including KTM. I stayed at trail head because Bear Wallow was only 67 miles of trails. I planned to ride it then drive to Rock House and stay at the TH, ride the 89 miles there. Not much of anything around Rock House but a Wendy's and Hardee's, hardware store unless I missed something. If you're driving from Gilbert they claim to have a few eats around there but not like Logan or Williamson. Remember there are an endless supply of places to ride so start off with some place like Buffalo Mountain and explore the area around the trails too. The place is DS heaven...
But throw in some rain and you're in trouble on slippery rocks. The biggest problem was spinning and sliding / bouncing over rocks while floating the front wheel. Then catch traction and front would come up more as I'm controlling with clutch just how much HP I can apply. If I back off just a hair to keep bike from flipping over, then I lose momentum and your done. I slid from where the 2nd tree on left is cut to where picture was taken with both brakes locked when I spun out. And that was only because I laid the bike down and caught a rock. Very slippery! How do you think the ride back down was? Like riding on ICE and picking which rock to deflect off of or berm or whatever keeps you from going off the side of mountain. What a rush!
Some trails were blocked by down trees with no way around and others you could ride under or drag bike under. One black diamond trail I had to go under while going up, then starting on hill but you do what you must if you want to ride ALL the trails. Try dragging a 300+ lb. bike up a hill under a tree with all the protective gear I was wearing and 30 lb. back pack. Not some of my fondest memories but it's part of the challenge and reward.
I found a few trails that still had trees like these on the trail with no way to pass and others you could but lost those pictures.
The HMT trail maker. This was the only trail I had seen without rocks. They must have trucked that dirt in...
Below is a picture of the green trails in some areas. Nice and easy... Big difference from the extreme Black is why some people will tell you they rode a DS and didn't have any problems.
They prob. rode ALL the trails on a DS... :-0
One of many WV towns around the area
After riding about 600 miles off road and slamming some pretty nasty rocks, I only got one flat. ( Very surprised because I NEVER get flasts ) I spent hours truing and balancing my wheels with super heavy duty tubes and new DOT tires before leaving only to bend the rear wheel in the first couple hours. I was flying down this fairly rock free ( for WV) rolling hill trail and topped a hill to find this huge rock where I'm going to land so I clutch it to get a little more launch and manage to clear with the front wheel and throw all my weight forward upon landing trying to unload the rear quickly but it still catches the sharp edge pretty hard. There goes my perfectly straight wheels first day. I have a spare set ready to go but let's wait and see if I can make these worse before changing them over. Turns out I could but never did change the wheels. they weren't noticeable on the trails with so many rocks but was really fun on paved roads. Was nice knowing I had spares. I eventually ended up with psi 18 front / 15 rear and that helped balance things out. You don't want any more air then needed when slamming these rocks all day but you don't want to bend a rim either. Once my brain started picking better rock lines the problem wasn't as bad but rocks are rocks.
A fan wire came loose under rad. and this flat was the only mechanical issues I had the whole trip. I changed the oil twice on 520 because all the clutch use and heat from hill climbs, etc. But other than that they both performed fantastic.
I took many more pictures but something happened to camera SD card. I lost about 50 pic. in the middle of my trip. Prob. from the paint shaker action. Guess you'll have to go there yourself...
Overall I really enjoyed the adventure and have a feeling of accomplishment having done it alone. No accidents or injuries. The HMT consist of 7 different trail heads and I have ridden all but Little Coal River which is the easiest. Figured after covering all the black and double black on the others, why ride the easy trails. I did ride every black and double black and almost every trail on all the systems I visited. Only some of the single track because if something went wrong I was worried nobody would find me hanging off the side of some cliff on the side of a mountain in the middle of the back country. 99% of everybody I talked to said I was CRAZY riding any of the HMT alone. Some on safer ATV's said they have bikes and would never ride this place alone on a bike and very little of it on ATV. Very encouraging to be told this over and over In my defense though I've had lots of experience, ResQlink, 2 cell phones, first aid, flares, survival gear, ropes/ tackle, food, water, etc. My entire body was well covered with armor suit, knee braces, 2 kidney belts, helmet, etc. I looked like something from Mad Max... I walked into a restaurant and heard a couple people gasped in fear. I guess armor was something new to them
All my gear was black except helmet.
Everyone was very nice and polite. The state needs our tourism $$$ which prob. helps. I expected many would feel just the opposite about outsiders but I didn't encounter any. Excluding the girl in pickup truck that I don't know the story behind.
As I write this report and remember the good times, I would consider doing it again but will be riding a lighter bike like the KTM 300 XC-W. It took a lot of extra energy wearing all that gear and 30 lb. back pack to hold up a 300+ lb. bike with over sized tank and 10-15 lb. tank bag.
I thought the KTM 200 XC-W might be the best off road solution for tight trails but after renting one at KTM world for the day ($150) on the way home.I found the little 2 stroke too buzzy and they said not much you can do to eliminate that but the 300 you have a lot more adjustment and it would prob. be a better bike for you. I struggled getting the 200 spun up on the 5 diamond hill climbs at Highland Park which was another problem. Prob. because I haven't been on 2 stroke in 10 yrs. but that buzz was there to stay according to them. Maybe I've been on thumpers too long or getting too old but couldn't picture myself riding forest roads holding on to those bars all day.
All in all it was a great relaxing vacation and a feeling of accomplishment. Till my next ride report... Imagine how long this would have been if I didn't lose half my pictures and would have talked about trails in detail. I'm going to plan a long ride for 2013 so stay tuned or contact me if your putting something together.
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* The Penn State Dairyman yearbook edited by Sara Dorward, Lehighton, earned second place.
* LeeAnn Kapanick, Meadville, placed second in the Dairy Foods Undergraduate Presentation Contest with her talk, "Innovations in milk packaging."
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Posted: Tue 06 Dec 2016, 10:18
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I would do it like this, assuming you have enough diskspace.
1. Temporarily boot without savefile (use savefile=none)
2. Rename savefile to something that won't be automatically loaded (see below for notes).
3. Create the directory which would become the savedir, using the **original name of the savefile**.
4. Mount the original savefile, and from there copy the entire contents to the savedir; then unmount.
5. Reboot.
If after reboot you can see the stuff that were originally in the savefile, you have achieved your goal and the original savefile can be deleted (or backed up elsewhere). If you fail, you can always re-trace from step 3.
Note step 2 is important. Fatdog basically loads savefile based on its original filename without extension. So re-maning fd64save.ext4 to "fd64save.ext4-orig" won't work; because fatdog will look for "fd64save*". Instead, rename it to "orig-fd64save.ext4".
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Posted: Tue 06 Dec 2016, 11:42
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That seems to have done the trick. I was leery of naming a directory fd64save.ext4, since this would be misleading if the file system on the partition was something else. It does work as you said.
As an experiment based on your clues, I renamed the save directory fd64save with no extension, and this worked as well. I even deleted the copied save file to make certain the system was not picking that up instead.
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Posted: Tue 06 Dec 2016, 11:51
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kirk wrote:
This did not happen in 710b2 (was the hp_wmi module included?).
Yep it's still in there. But the kernel is updated to 4.4.35. Old bugs fixed, new bugs inserted might apply in your case with this kernel update. You can go back to the 4.4.21 kernel used in Beta2 if you want. It's
Download vmlinuz-4.4.21 and replace the kernel for final. Also download kernel-modules.sfs-4.4.21, rename it kernel-modules.sfs and replace the one in the initrd or just click on it to mount and copy the lib folder to /.
Was in beta1 ( kernel 4.4.18 ) where this computer had no problems.
Using that kernel with 710 final as indicated does not produce the problem.
Comparing sources of module hp-wmi.c there are differences between these versions.
Therefore I will use kernel 4.4.18.
Thank you.
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Posted: Tue 06 Dec 2016, 11:56
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Jamesbond_kirk did a USB install for three different laptops. all working well. I do find setting up wifi very difficult in Fatdog, however got it sorted in the end. BTW thanks for including the wl driver. It looks like Fatdog will be my main OS for the foreseeable future. Thanks for a great OS.
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Posted: Tue 06 Dec 2016, 12:22
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Is it useable? vlc/master-daily has not produced any builds on launchpad for quite a while.
Is it necessary to delete any of the existing VLC installation, e.g. plugins, before doing the installation?
It seems to work, but haven't did much testing. With Intel graphics it will chose the wrong video acceleration and cause problems when you full screen. For that problem go to Tools - Preferences - Video and use the "Output" pull-down to select X11 video output. You can just install it over top of VLC-2.2.4 or use the package manager and remove VLC-2.2.4 first.
Comparing sources of module hp-wmi.c there are differences between these versions.
Therefore I will use kernel 4.4.18.
Glad that works for you. Sometimes you just have to find the right kernel. The latest is not always greatest for every piece of hardware.
BTW thanks for including the wl driver. It looks like Fatdog will be my main OS for the foreseeable future. Thanks for a great OS.
Thanks irishrm, Glad to see that someone is using the wl module. I keep thinking the open source module will catch up and we can dump wl since it's like 7MB, but not so far.
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Posted: Wed 07 Dec 2016, 12:42
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My machine has some extra RAM so I ran Fatdog with expand boot option.
I boot from an really old 1gb usb drive, which has few other pups too.
I used split initrd, which is in usb.
The base sfs is in HDD sda7, with savefolder.
Here's my syslinux.cfg entry
label fatdog
linux /fd64/vmlinuz
initrd /fd64/split/initrd
append rootfstype=ramfs waitdev=0 basesfs=expand:device:sda7:/FD64-710/fd64.sfs savefile=ram:device:sda7:/fd64save
menu label Fatdog64
text help
Start Fatdog in RAM with split initrd and base sfs on HDD.
I clocked it with stopwatch in my mobile.
Fatdog takes
to usable desktop since selecting entry in bootloader.
And man it runs fast.
Libreoffice starts in 1 sec.
Gimp took 2 sec first time, then on starts in 1sec.
I haven't yet made sfs of chrome to test it's speed.
I have a question though.
While booting it says Expanding base sfs to RAM (1280mb).
But when I run Htop it only shows 152mb of RAM in use, what gives?
Htop doesn't show ramdisk or what?
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Posted: Wed 07 Dec 2016, 19:48
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Installed the VLC 3.0-git and it works flawlessly. ty Kirk.
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Posted: Wed 07 Dec 2016, 21:27
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irishrm wrote:
...I do find setting up wifi very difficult in Fatdog, however got it sorted in the end...
Any time I have trouble with networking, I find Fatdog a problem. When it works without intervention, everything is great, but when anything unusual is going on I reach for a copy of an old Puppy like Precise Puppy.
This isn't to say that I can't make things work with Fatdog, once I know exactly what to do. I've done that more than once. The problem is that I would do about as well to operate from the command line in a situation like the one I had last week, where my cable company updated firmware in my cable gateway, and broke my LAN.
I have since bought my own cable modem from their approved list, (
though not this one
,) and will be returning the gateway they rent to me. Discovering they had a backdoor not just to the modem, but also to the router portion, upset me. Insisting they need remote administration of my entire LAN to provide secure set-up for my LAN and WLAN is an argument I liken to a policeman telling me he needs a key to my front door to patrol my neighborhood. I routinely change passwords, and disable remote administration and UPnP. They can control the modem, but the rest of the LAN is my territory.
BTW: cable support personnel are not entirely dependable from a security standpoint. I ran into people who had slipped one a few bucks for "free Internet", when they had only paid for TV. They got a modem which quit working at the next billing cycle. Obviously, someone should report this. Uh, what was this guy's name, the one who was working somewhere in the neighborhood a little over a month ago? A day when I don't see a cable truck nearby is unusual.
(Maybe kirk's ISP or neighborhood is better. I think he lives in this region.)
I already have a hacked router in my collection which was redirecting searches to a site that was picking up clicks from Google. Fortunately, there was no redirect on pages for on-line banking.
Attacks on routers
are still on the rise.
Secure networking is almost an oxymoron at present, and it will take years to overcome institutional problems. I'm hanging onto my old Puppy disks.
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Posted: Thu 08 Dec 2016, 06:13
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How does it work with chromecast?
Would you mind sharing your compiled version, save me doing it.
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Posted: Thu 08 Dec 2016, 06:25
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Many thanks and congratulations to the Fatdog Team for for the final of 710 edition
I'm buiding a new PC for me with an Asus Z170I Pro Gaming mini ITX Intel motherboard and I'm very pleased
to see that audio works both on analog lineout and HDMI from the iGPU of the CPU (a Pentium G4400 , for now) .
On FD700 I had no audio , maybe due to the older kernel . Video is acceptable with Intel , but I shall add a discrete GPU
next year . I hope there will be working solutions for AMD , NVIDIA graphics cards .
I tested a remastered FD710 on a different PC ( Acer Veriton S480G) and to my surprise the ethernet interface became
instead of
. Inside Qemu it took a different label too (
) . Previously , the one and only wired interface
of any PC I would run on any Remaster of Fatdog64 was always called
. It seems the wired interfaces are recognised and remembered . It is supposed to be this way or this behavior is unwanted
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Posted: Thu 08 Dec 2016, 08:17
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prehistoric wrote:
cable support personnel are not entirely dependable from a security standpoint.
I discovered that too.
We 4 families in my apartment have taken one wired connection. Which is then distributed each home form 4 eth ports on the router/modem, it's wifi function is disabled.
I was surprised to see the guy who setup the system didn't change password of that router. It was still the default 'admin'.
Now I am no expert when it comes to security but that's basic.
Anyone could have connected his eth cable and switched on wifi, then off he goes. We could have only seen it if we had looked at it in router settings.
My building has 8 other families, although they won't do that but it's easy if someone wants to.
Although I can't blame him alone, when I told this to other 3, they were clue less too.
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Posted: Thu 08 Dec 2016, 08:59
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You don't have to plug in a cable if the router has WiFi that has been disabled, you simply enable wifi with your own SSID and passphrase.
This is still small potatoes in the hacking business. All decent routers have the ability to selectively redirect.
Sending people to fake web pages where you steal passwords is simple
, and can get you into real money, or, as happened to Colin Powell, to information that makes news.
(Best guess about that instance is that the attackers used a form of
to redirect, not his router. He has the habit of leaving several tabs open at once to quickly switch to email. Because he was on the board of AOL it could be assumed he was using them for email, and fake the login page. His best protection came from habits that say email is not secure. A redirect in a router would bypass the problem of breaking into his computer entirely.)
That installer didn't change the password because: 1) he views that as the customer's responsibility; 2) he doesn't need that password to get in because the gateway has a backdoor.
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Posted: Thu 08 Dec 2016, 09:32
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@gobbi - check /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules
You've got this random eth numbers probably because eth0 has already been assigned to the MAC address of the machine on which you did your remaster.
There are possible solutions:
a) remove this file before you complete the remaster.
b) The random "eth126" should actually be entered into this file; if yes, then just edit "eth126" to "eth1" or even "eth0" (but delete the original eth0 entry first).
If it is not there, just find the MAC address of your currently "eth126" and use that to replace the entry for "eth0" in that file.
c) use "ifrename -i oldname -n newname".
d) **Untested** remove /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules; and create a blank file /etc/udev/rules.d/75-persistent-net-generator.rules.
@prehistoric: That backdoor even has a name, one of them is called
. I forgot the other one. Most provider-supplied modems and gateways come with this. You can enable/disable this service if you can log in into the device as admin, but in many devices the given "admin" account isn't actually an admin account, it's just an account with the userid of "admin" with limited rights to change SSID, etc. The real admin account is named something else.
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Posted: Thu 08 Dec 2016, 10:00
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drunkjedi wrote:
I have a question though.
While booting it says Expanding base sfs to RAM (1280mb).
But when I run Htop it only shows 152mb of RAM in use, what gives?
Htop doesn't show ramdisk or what?
Hey James, any comment on this?
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Posted: Thu 08 Dec 2016, 10:18
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Ahh I missed the question.
The expanded basesfs is stored in "filesystem cache". Htop doesn't consider that figures as part of "used" memory, it only counts the memory in use by active programs.
You can see the memory used when you run "free" - it's the last column (it will always be bigger than your basesfs (in this case, it will be larger than 1.2G) because in addition to the basesfs, it will contain actual cached files).
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DOVER — Placing carefully what officials refer to as a "symbol of public trust" on her father's uniform, Carmela Williams, 8, took part Friday morning in the promotion ceremony for Sgt. Robert Williams, new captain of the Strafford County Sheriff's Office.
"There's a lot of meaning in the star that's going to be pinned to his chest," Strafford County Sheriff David DuBois said at the beginning of the ceremony.
"It's an honor to serve Strafford County," he said, thanking his parents for keeping him on the "straight and narrow" in his formative years.
With his wife and daughter present, Williams cautioned that with his promotion comes the same, if not more, responsibility.
"Unfortunately, the calls in the middle of the night are going to continue," he joked.
But his personality and character are exactly why DuBois thought he'd be the best man for the job, filling the shoes of former SCSO captain, Joe DiGregorio.
"He just a great man for the job," County Commissioner chairman, George Maglaras, said during the Friday morning ceremony.
Williams said he's looking forward to looking forward to working closely with DuBois to "move the Strafford County Sheriff's Office forward."
This is his 14th year with the county, having gained experience from a Florida police department and then a little closer to home in Dover.
DuBois said he's been watching the whole agency since he's taken his position as sheriff a couple months ago and selected Williams based on his "character and compassion for people."
He also said Williams understands the need for the SCSO office to be connected to the communities it serves daily.
"He's got the confidence that I'm confident can build the relationships needed," DuBois said. "You need people of that caliber in these positions."
Williams said he's looking forward to "more public outreach" in his new position and "positioning the office to get up to contemporary standards."
"I'm going to focus on what we already do well and we're going to continue what we do," he said.


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The BART Board of Directors is comprised of nine elected officials from the nine BART districts. Board members serve a four-year term. For biographical information, click on a name below.
Regular meetings of the Board of Directors and Standing Committees are held on the second and fourth Thursdays of each month - January through October, the third Thursday in November and the first and third Thursdays in December. Meetings generally start at 9:00 a.m. Visit the Board Agenda and Minutes section.
Location of the BART Board Room
The BART Board Room is located in the Kaiser Center 20th Street Mall, Third Floor, 2040 Webster St., Oakland, CA.
Directions to the BART Board Room
Public Participation at Meetings of the Board of Directors
BART has promulgated rules to facilitate the conduct of public meetings in an open and orderly manner and in an environment safe for all persons in attendance.
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Join the Remix Revolution!
I recently had one of my videos muted by YouTube in response to a "Content ID Match." This two minute movie about a trip my friends and I took to Coney Island used "Cumbia En Do Menor" by Lito Barrientos for a soundtrack. This home movie was created for personal entertainment (Look Ma! I went to the beach!) and not for profit. However, because it "may have content that is owned or licensed by Warner Music Group," it was determined to be in violation of copyright laws and muted.
I suppose I should count myself lucky that Warner Music Group didn't sue me for all I was worth (which is not much). As it is, I am guilty until proven innocent. WMG was not required to provide any evidence that they either own or license that song, nor were they expected to prove that I was impacting their commercial business or had gone beyond fair use. If I wanted to dispute the claim, I would have to do all the work, and open myself up to the full wrath of the WMG legal department.
How did we let this happen? How did we let corporations take such control of our collective creative output that the public domain has become a joke, with copyrights extended ad infinitum, and robot crawlers searching the internet for unlicensed songs in home videos (Look Ma! I went to the beach… in silence!)? Why are we letting these corporations stifle our creativity by making art illegal or prohibitively expensive?
In answer to these questions, I offer Open Source Cinema, an open source documentary film about copyright.
Brett Gaylor, the director of this "Remix Manifesto" says:
Imagine a world where ideas and culture, from "Happy Birthday" to Mickey Mouse, are horded under lock and key by copyright laws. Even ideas that could lead to a cure for cancer would be off-limits. Stop imagining now, because this is the world you live in. Although pop culture giants such as Walt Disney and the Rolling Stones built on the past to produce their art, the door is closing behind them.
The movie, made up of content generated and donated by people all over the world, features interviews with Boing Boing's Cory Doctorow, Lawrence Lessig, the founder of Creative Commons, and Gregg Gillis, otherwise known as Girl Talk, the musician who makes music by remixing and mashing together thousands of unlicensed song samples.
Being open source, this project is open to contributions from any and all comers. Submit your music or your footage, or help remix sound samples and video footage. Help show the big corporations that art doesn't belong to them, and that there are things in this world that don't exist to be bought and sold. Help show big business and big government that intellectual "property" belongs to all of us.


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A collection of scholarly works about individual liberty and free markets. A project of Liberty Fund, Inc.
The Intellectual Portrait Series: A Conversation with Lord Peter Thomas Bauer (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2000). https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/963,
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One of the twentieth century's leading thinkers on the relationship between free trade and the economics of developing countries, Lord Peter Thomas Bauer discusses his clear ideas on the effectiveness of government aid and intervention in the Third World.
The copyright to both the video tape and the audio track of this recording is held by Liberty Fund, Inc.
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text: In an attempt to make brewing his small batch beer even more fun than it already is, Android hacker and home brewer Paul Carff created KegDroid, an NFC/RFID enabled smart tap for his home bar. Presenting the device with a MiFare-based RFID/NFC compatible tag will cause it to authenticate the user and pull up their preferences on an Android tablet. Users then have the choice and size of beer that's delivered by an Arduino, a couple of solenoids, and some flow sensors. Sure sounds like my kind of Internet of things. [via /.]


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Karachi, 19 September 2011: An integration process that began five years ago to create a world leading gases and engineering company has reached a new milestone: BOC Pakistan Limited officially rebrands as Linde Pakistan Limited.
Linde AG acquired The BOC Group in September 2006, forming The Linde Group. The brand change from BOC to Linde in Pakistan is part of a global programme to unite the companies within The Linde Group umbrella under a single Linde brand.
Today, Linde is Pakistan's leading industrial gases player, with the most comprehensive gases product portfolio and turnkey services in the country. Its facilities include air separation plants in Lahore, Port Qasim and Taxila as well as carbon dioxide plants at Port Qasim and Multan. The company is also presently building a new state-of-the-art air separation (ASU) plant in Lahore at an investment cost of about Rs 2 billion. The new plant, which is capable of producing 150 tons per day (tpd) of gases products, will be the largest merchant air separation plant in the country once it is ready in the first quarter of 2012.
Mr Yousuf Mirza, Chief Executive of Linde Pakistan said, "We mark a momentous milestone in the history of our company today. We are proud to become Linde in Pakistan, and aspire to double the size of our business here within the next five years. With the strong backing of our parent company The Linde Group, we expect to further increase our footprint across the country and reinforce our market leadership".
Mr Lee Bon Hian, Linde's Head of Cluster Countries for Linde's gases business in South & East Asia said, "Pakistan has been an important contributor to our business in this region and we continue to be extremely positive about the many market opportunities we see here. Linde is actively seeking opportunities to achieve strong and sustainable growth of our business, and to ensure we are well-positioned to support our existing and potential new customers in their growth plans," Mr Lee added.
From 19 September 2011 onwards, the company's new logo will make its appearance on all corporate signages, communications materials and assets. The conversion period is expected to last several months.
About Linde Pakistan Limited
Linde Pakistan Limited, a member of The Linde Group, is the leading industrial gas supplier in Pakistan since 1949. The company manufactures and distributes industrial, specialty and medical gases, welding products, and provides a range of related services including the installation of gas equipment, pipelines and associated engineering services. Linde Pakistan operates in all the major industrial areas across the country and is committed to delivering quality and reliable services and solutions that create value for our customers.
For more information, please see Linde Pakistan's website at www.linde.pk
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The Linde Group is a world-leading gases and engineering company with around 49,100 employees working in more than 100 countries worldwide. In the 2010 financial year, it achieved sales of 12.868 billion euro. The strategy of The Linde Group is geared towards sustainable earnings-based growth and focuses on the expansion of its international business with forward-looking products and services. Linde acts responsibly towards its shareholders, business partners, employees, society and the environment – in every one of its business areas, regions and locations across the globe. Linde is committed to technologies and products that unite the goals of customer value and sustainable development.
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The Rasmussen Chillbuster C8 Ventless Log System - Birch is a complete log set with burner that will accent your firebox! The logs are very detailed with a birch finish, natural split and a charred window to the burning embers.
Log System Includes:
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Channing Tatum
Years ago, when Ralph Lauren opened their first store on South Beach, they hired Erich Conrad (THE Erich Conrad..what's up bitch?) to throw a party. I got a call from Erich to come by and help polaroid boys (back before I was even shooting) to work the event. So, I did.
They came, we snapped, they left. And then in walked Channing Tatum. This hot new face with a background as a dancer. He plopped in the chair, spread his legs, and gave it to the lens. "He's gonna be a star," Erich said, as he walked out. I guess he was right.


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Local elections are held so people may vote for the candidate of their choice.
Candidates who get the most votes at the polls become elected officials and represent the voice of the people - all of the people.
Not everyone is cut out for public office. But everyone who signs up to run should be given a fair opportunity to seek public office.
What is happening in the race for two Hardeeville City Council seats should be a lesson to us all.
In case you missed what's going, here's a quick synopsis: Candidate filing for the two seats opened Feb. 8 and closed at noon March 8. As part of the filing, candidates were required to complete and file a statement of economic interests with the State Ethics Commission.
One of the candidates, Scott Ready, marked "elected" instead of "candidate" on the filing form. It was corrected a couple of hours after the deadline once he was notified and the candidate list was sent on March 9 to the State Ethics Commission.
The roster was returned to the Hardeeville Election Commission from the state with the three candidates eligible to be placed on the May ballot.
Here's where things get a little fuzzy and hard to understand.
The local election commission - appointed by City Council - called a special meeting on March 15. Its sole purpose was to determine Ready's eligibility. They ruled him ineligible.
We wonder why his eligibility was being questioned after the State Ethics Commission sent the candidate list back "good to go".
Did the local election commission have the authority to supersede the state's decision? Did it overstep its bounds by weighing in after the candidate list was certified and the May ballot was OK'd by the state?
These are all valid questions in our mind and we need answers.
Taxpayers and voters deserve answers.
No answers are likely to come any time soon as Ready did what any smart candidate would do. He filed an appeal and asked the State Ethics Commission to look into the situation.
In the meantime, he filed as a write-in candidate for the May 8 Hardeeville city elections.
It was the only way for him to get on the ballot while the appeal and ethical questions play out in Columbia.
The local elections commission could call another special meeting and rescind its March 15 decision. Or at least explain its thought process and how it had the authority to make its decision.
It's not too late to change course and restore some credibility.
The bottom line is that the voters should decide who represents them on City Council and not a local elections commission.


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