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THE THONBURI CANALS | Darrin Henry
The Bangkok long tail boat tour on our first day in the city was memorable to say the least; a dead cat floating in the canal, arguing with my wife and a non-English speaking boat driver who thought shouting louder made us understand him better.
Personally I blame the jet lag that put us on the long tail boat for the Thonburi canal tour, as our decision making was quite skewed for two days after arriving in Thailand. But that's another story.
Canals, or klongs, were once the lifeblood of Bangkok, branching off like tiny veins from the main artery, the sizeable Chao Phraya River, which winds its way through the centre of the city. Today the waterway network is considerably reduced, existing mainly on the western side of the Chao Phraya.
Our tuk tuk taxi dropped us off at the pier to catch our reserved long tail boat. It was meant to be a special personalised tour, Sharon and I the only passengers; unfortunately too late we realised the driver didn't speak English.
A quick chug across the Chao Phraya to our first stop, the Buddhist temple, Wat Arun, or 'Temple of Dawn.' This was a big disappointment as the place felt over commercialised and lacking the religious reverence I had expected. Souvenir sellers were everywhere attempting to offload wares to frazzled looking tour parties. On top of this the temple's central spire, or prang, was almost completely shrouded in scaffolding, as were two of the four outer spires. A few of the smaller buildings in the grounds, as well as some large statues, were also encased in scaffolding, giving the feeling of a building site visit.
We re-joined our animated boat driver and headed off to begin the canal tour.
This was the situation as it stood at that time: We were struggling with the heat and humidity; our body clocks were seven hours out of sync; we had no idea what our driver was muttering; and we were very disappointed with the Wat Arun 'building site' visit. This found us sitting in the boat waiting for the canal locks to open, in a sour mood.
Two more long tail boats joined us in the narrow lock. The sight of other tourists with the same sour expressions sitting in their boats lightened our mood as we took comfort in the probability it wasn't just us who had expected better.
Entering the Thonburi canal system our mood lifted as the fascinating lifestyles began to be revealed all along the banks. River constructions that appeared to defy physics. Houses balanced on spindly stilts – how do they do that! I've known houses on land crack from foundations that shift ever so slightly, so building in the water?
Our driver, give him his due, slowed the boat every time I lifted the camera to my eye. There was so much to photograph.
The water did not look hygienic to put it mildly, yet we saw three kids happily swimming at one spot.
Floating markets in this part of the world are quite famous, originating from waterway lifestyles. Basically vendors who pedal their wares from canoes or kayaks directly to other river users. Our 'floating market' experience was just three vendors. But hopeful smiles turned to scowls when we decided not to make a purchase. Sharon was interested in one of the cute hats, but refused point blank when the boatman punched 450 (baht) onto his calculator to show the price. (We later found the same hat in Bangkok for less than 100 baht). The vendor's final suggestion was we buy a beer for our driver, which I refused having already paid over the odds for the tour (again, another story). I never actually saw the subsequent transaction but a beer was handed over to our driver anyway and I realised it must be 'payment' for bringing business.
At one point our driver slowed down and started pointing excitedly at an abandoned wooden shack. Try as I might I couldn't see what the fuss was about. Becoming more and more exasperated our driver left the engine idling and came walking down the boat to us, making me look along the line of his pointing, all the while 'talking' loudly in Thai. "God, please let me see what it is I'm supposed to be looking at," was all I could think! Then suddenly there was movement and both Sharon and I spotted the large monitor lizard. These are quite common on the Bangkok canals, however, they are also difficult to spot if motionless. Our driver shook his head as he returned to the engine controls. We moved on. After this though I was able to spot the monitor lizards easily on my own.
The canal tour is promoted as an historical cultural experience, a window into a bygone way of life that has been overtaken by a web of asphalt and a jungle of concrete towers. Many canals were also drained or filled to combat the risk of cholera. The contrast of upmarket, posh looking apartment blocks standing shoulder to shoulder with wooden shack-like dwellings was startling. Residents on the verandas or porches ignored us as they went about their routine, obviously used to gawking tourists.
The Thonburi network is manmade and often referred to as, 'the Venice of the East.' In its heyday they were crucial to keeping the city functioning. The boat was the main form of transport and the khlongs connected homes, temples, and public spaces.
Getting Lost In Translation On A Bangkok Long Tail Boat Tour
Our tour came to an end with one more drama. Quite suddenly our driver stopped the boat, tied up to a bridge pillar and started rambling and gesticulating toward us and the river. The only words we could make out were "forty." We had already paid a sizeable sum in advance so this seemed out of order. We were both worried he was going to make us swim if we didn't cough up the cash.
"Forty Baht," I asked in an attempt to clarify, to which he seemed pleased and started making signs and noises of approval.
Having had enough I decided to put my foot down and refused to pay. Our back and forth 'discussion' continued for about two minutes, the driver speaking Thai and me in English. By now Sharon and I were also arguing over whether we should pay up; proving that barriers to agreement that day was more than just language.
Eventually our driver gave up and indicated we were waiting for the lock ahead to open. We all sat in tense silence for the rest of the wait, perhaps another five minutes. To match the gloom in the boat, we then spotted a hairless dead cat floating in the canal.
I can't be 100% sure the driver wanted us to pay him extra cash, perhaps it was just the language misunderstanding, however, when I mentioned "Baht" it did prompt a big positive reaction from him. I guess we'll never know for sure.
Quite clearly my advice to anyone else visiting Bangkok and taking a canal boat tour is, make sure you have guide who speaks your language. Oh, and acclimatise first; the canals in March/April have a humid 'swampy' feel that is energy sapping and relationship 'testing.'
Other than that, the canal tour was quite fascinating. For photography it might be an idea to do the tour earlier in the day or later in the afternoon otherwise the harsh midday shadows can hide a lot of the riverside detail in the pictures.
I'm glad to say by that evening we had a good laugh about the whole experience.


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The rumours first started on Cnet in the US, that the social network would launch a new system in the coming months. Cnet's Caroline McCarthy hints that:
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In the study, the company surveyed 1,000 customers who had eaten at a quick-serve-restaurant in the last three months, according to Hope Neiman, CMO of Tillster. "Wait time has really become a very impactful part of how they choose their experience. They are unwilling to wait a certain amount of time," Neiman said. In fact, the study found that only 36 percent of customers would wait in line if there were more than five people ahead of them.
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However, to answer this demand for customization, the restaurant may need to stock additional ingredients such as Jalapenos.
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GenGAME writes: "Now that the Wii U launch has come and gone, and the extent of the system's loss of momentum in 2013 is finally visible, I think it's safe to say that Nintendo Land was no Wii Sports successor. The game failed to drive sales in any way that even remotely resembled the Wii Sports phenomenon."
Nintendo Land is a great game, but from a business perspective, yeah, it's not doing it's job.
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Nintendo Land does the same thing, showing off lots of fun ways to use the fancy new GamePad, but it's not drawing as much attention. It's arguably a better game, but it's not making the purpose of the system sink in with most people.
Nintendoland will never be as viral as Wii Sports--it's not included with EVERY system sold. That said, it's not a killer app by any stretch of the imagination, and many of the "attractions" have little appeal.
Wii Sports was a far simpler endeavor. Smaller in scope, smaller in ambition and because people don't talk about the gamepad in the same context as the Wiimote, there wasn't much of a chance of people being as largely wowed by the console.
That all said I think Nintendo Land is a vastly superior game, and it's a shame that many of the people who played and enjoyed Wii Sports may not even experience it.
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No matter what genre of music that most people prefer, Johnny Cash is still a well-loved musical artist to the masses. Something about his deep, crooning, country voice soothes the mind and lifts one's spirits. Though I generally tend to prefer rock or alternative rock music to anything else, I still enjoy classic country music now and again, and one of the only country albums that I own and that I listen to regularly (besides the works of Garth Brooks, of course), is Johnny Cash's "16 Biggest Hits," a sixteen-track (duh), fifty-four minutes and fifty-eight second long (54:58) album that leaves me feeling contented and peaceful after every listen.
Almost every song on this incredible album ought to be easily recognizable by most, and there are at least three or four songs on this album that even the youngest of generations ought to know one or two of. Of course, "I Walk the Line" is an astounding Johnny Cash classic that was even recently featured in a commercial for jeans. Additionally, I don't know anyone who doesn't enjoy singing and giggling along to the last verse or two of "A Boy Named Sue" "My name is Sue/ how do you do/ now you gonna die!" (A Boy Named Sue). As with any great compilation of music, the listeners of Johnny Cash's "16 Biggest Hits" are left feeling both the emotions that the songs project, as well as a strong ability to relate to each song in a personal way. The guitar on these songs especially is true to country music; it's deliciously twangy.
"Man In Black," though I had not heard it before purchasing this album, quickly became one of my favorite songs of all time. This song remains classic in that the issues that it addresses are not only ones of Johnny Cash's younger years, but ones that will probably, and unfortunately, span all generations now as well as those yet to come. "I wear the black for the poor and beaten down/ living on the hopeless hungry side of town/…but just so we're reminded of the ones who are held back/ up front there ought to be a man in black/…well there's things that never will be right I know/ and things need changing everywhere you go…" (Man In Black) These lyrics are timeless and inspire and remind me after every listen to be grateful for the good things in my life and to not forget those who are less fortunate than I am. The song itself does feel somewhat depressing and moderately oppressive. It doesn't end on a happy note or with any sort of finality. I definitely recommend giving this song a good, thorough listening to.
While many of the songs on this album are fairly short, averaging at about two-and-a-half minutes long (especially "I Walk the Line," "Daddy Sang Bass," and "Ring of Fire"), it is easy to overlook the length of these songs, or, more appropriately, their lack of any sort of substantial length, because they are all such memorable classics. Other songs on the album, perhaps ones that are lesser known to most casual listeners of the genre, are considerably longer, especially 'The Legend of John Henry's Hammer," which runs at eight minutes and twenty-six seconds long (8:26).
I have found this album to be a must-have for road trips, especially those with mixed generations traveling together. So many of the songs on this wonderful album are known by younger generations, and I would be surprised if any of the older generations were unfamiliar with a single track on Johnny Cash's "16 Biggest Hits."
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Pairs of favourite crime authors "face off" against each other to write their own favoured characters into a single short story.
Each of the eleven stories – some written as separate sections, some via distance collaboration – allows the distinctive traits of the characters to remain true to their origins. This reader ripped through the book avidly, then re-read it more closely.
For fans of either a writer or a crime series character, this compilation will delight as the character has to work with another author's character.
Crime story readers who've not yet met a particular crime author will find this an ideal avenue into new reading.
The proceeds of this book are to go towards the International Thriller Writers group, and is not their first compilation (Look for Thriller, 2006; Thriller 2, 2009; Love Is Murder, 2012).
As Editor, David Baldacci gives an overall introduction to the work involved in the ITW and its publications, and brief author biographies.
1. Red Eye has Dennis LEHANE's Patrick Kenzie and Michael CONNELLY's Harry Bosch working together.
2. In the Nick of Time has Ian RANKIN's Rohn Reburs and Peter JAMES' Roy Grace working together.
3. Gaslighted has R.L. STINE's Slappy The Ventriloquist Dummy appearing with Douglas PRESTON and Lincoln CHILD's character Aloysius Pendergast.
4. The Laughing Buddha has M. J. ROSS's Malachi Samuels alongside Lisa GARDNER's D. D. WARREN.
5. Surfing the Panther has Steve MARTINI's Paul Madriani with Linda FAIRSTEIN's Alexandra Cooper.
6. Rhymes With Prey has Jeffrey DEAVER's Lincoln Rhyme with John SANDFORD's Lucas Davenport.
7. Infernal Night has Heather GRAHAM's Michael Quinn with F. Paul WILSON's Repairman Jack.
8. Pit Stop has Raymond KHOURY's Sean Reilly with Linwood BARCLAY's Glen Barclay.
9. Silent Hunt has John LESCROART's Wyatt Hunt with T Jefferson PARKER's Joe Trona.
10. The Devil's Bones has Steve BARRY's James Rollins with James ROLLINS's Gray Pierce.
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MILWAUKEE (WITI) -- A kid's imagination knows no boundaries. So what happens when you pair them up with real life scientists? They become inventive!
4th graders at St. Matthias Parish School in Milwaukee spent nearly two months coming up with creative ideas and turned them into inventions.
They came up with things like an infrared helmet light to a portable baseball feeder.
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He created a removable baseboard that could help make painting walls easier and mess-free.
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When I was researching and writing my novel, Elijah's Mermaid, I planned a scene with an automaton, and vaguely recalled having seen one in an article about a clockwork swan on display at the Bowes Museum.
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It truly is a wonder, and although I eventually wrote about a sinister clockwork mermaid, the silver swan has continued to hold a fascination for me. So, when I recently came to read Peter Carey's novel, The Chemistry of Tears, in which the swan plays a central part, I decided to look more closely at the reality behind the fiction - and in doing so discovered the intriguing human story at its heart.
The swan was originally created by John Joseph Merlin, and is first recorded as being displayed back in 1774, in the Mechanical Museum of James Cox, a London showman and dealer.
Almost a century later, in 1872, the wealthy collectors, John and Josephine Bowes, paid £200 (around £80,000 in today's money) to purchase the swan from a Parisian jeweller, having both been enchanted after seeing the object on display at the Paris International Exhibition in 1867.
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Today, you can go and see the swan at the Bowes Museum - where John and Josephine amassed their marvellous collection of furniture, art, and automata.
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Josephine Benoite Coffin-Chevalie was the daughter of a French clockmaker who grew up to be an actress. In 1847, she met John Bowes, the illegitimate son of the 10th Earl of Strathmore.
John was a racy aristocrat, active in the Parisian Demi-monde, where he first came to meet his future wife when she performed at the Theatre des Varietes; the theatre that he'd purchased as a gift for another mistress.
Chateau du Barry - painted by Josephine Bowes.
Josephine had a wonderful eye for art. She and John bought several works for the collection at Bowes, including work by El Greco, Goya, Canaletto, and Fantin-Latour
He was clearly a very generous man when it came to the women who he loved. For Josephine, who he nicknamed Puss, he bought the Chateau du Barry near Paris which had once been home to a mistress of Louis XV. However the pair also visited John's English home in County Durham, hoping to improve the lives of the farmers and miners who worked around by creating a permanent display of art and culture for their use.
Sadly, Josephine died at 48, before she'd really had the time to enjoy their home and its treasures. She was childless, and it was said that she had suffered from lung disease. But it is also likely that she and John had syphilis, both having enjoyed an adventurous youth.
Tragically, John's second wife, who was very jealous of the first, set about expunging her memory, and that included destroying almost all of the letters she'd written to John - of which there was many hundreds, as they wrote to each other every day. It is thought that if she could have done the second wife would have prevented the museum from ever opening. But open it did in 1885, seven years after John had also died.
An exhibition about Josephine's life, A Woman of Taste and Influence, is currently on show at the Bowes Museum, and continues until July 16, 2017.


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Cameron Diaz steps out of a building with Michael Hoffman, the director of her new film, Gambit, on Thursday (April 21) in London, England.
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I have some savings in bank which is subject to zakat . My mother's brother is having debt and he is unable to clear them . Can I give my zakat money to my uncle to clear his debt . Can I give the zaket to him . Secondly can I give zakat to him without informing that the money is for zakat .
Praise be to Allaah.
If your uncle is poor and is thereby entitled to zakaah, then it is OK to give him the zakaah of your wealth, or some of it. This is not subject to any condition of your telling him of that. But if you do not know much about his situation, then you should tell him that it is zakaah so that he can refuse it if he is not entitled to it.


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"And I will visit upon the world their evil, and upon the wicked their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the tyrants." Isaiah 13:11 (The Israel Bible™)
Prime Minister Netanyahu, in his capacity as foreign minister, said Wednesday that he would redirect $2 million from Israel's funding to United Nations institutions in favor of "deepen[ing] and expand[ing] Israeli projects in the field of international assistance," a reference to the foreign ministry's MASHAV program.
"This decision is part of Israel's campaign, together with its friends, and especially the United States, to correct the obsessive discrimination against Israel at the UN and its agencies," said Emmanuel Nahshon, spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The slash in funding comes on the heels of last Friday's UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) session in Geneva, where the Council adopted four resolutions condemning Israel, including motions condemning construction in Judea, Samaria, eastern Jerusalem and the Golan Heights, and one urging countries and corporations to avoid all ties with the settlements.
Israeli Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon wrote on Twitter that "The halls of the UN are being infiltrated by BDS."
The halls of the @UN are now being infiltrated by BDS. The Human Rights Council is creating a blacklist of companies operating in Israel pic.twitter.com/7Beqxx3jTd
— Ambassador Danon (@dannydanon) March 29, 2017
The UNHRC resolutions are only the latest in a wave of UN condemnations of Israel. Earlier this month a United Nations Economic and Social Commission (ESCWA) report said that "available evidence establishes beyond a reasonable doubt that Israel is guilty of policies and practices that constitute the crime of apartheid as legally defined in instruments of international law."
In December, Security Council Resolution 2334 asserted that settlements in "Palestinian territory occupied by Israel since 1967" are illegal under international law and and constitute "a major obstacle to the achievement of the two-state solution and a just, lasting and comprehensive peace."
Since the inauguration of Donald Trump as president of the United States, however, it has appeared that Israel has an ally at the world body. In a sharp contrast to the tone set by former President Barack Obama, Trump's ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley has declared war on what she considered an obvious anti-Israel bias. Earlier this week Haley told the annual AIPAC conference in Washington that the days of Israel bashing at the UN are "over" and that there is a "new sheriff in town."
Israel's funding to the United Nations currently stands at $3.7 million, after an earlier cut back of $9 million in the aftermath of Security Council Resolution 2334


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TTT: UNround those Shoulders!
Trainer Tip Tuesday: Tips for Un-Rounding Those Shoulders
For me, in both my personal and professional experience, posture is a combination of elements: genetics/anatomy, areas of relative muscle tightness, areas of relative muscle weakness, and a whole 'lotta habitual sitting/standing/moving patterns.
When these things get added up over the years, the result is often some kind of uncomfortable or unhelpful posture.
The way I go about addressing posture issues, both personally and professionally, is therefore focused in these three areas:
- stretching chronically tight areas that contribute to postural discomfort issues, strengthening weaker areas that contribute to postural improvements,
- and putting a TON of emphasis on paying attention to and actively improving on existing postural habits.
Mindful Posture and Movement Work.
First, Let's Talk Stretching/Mobilizing
Areas that tend to be tight, especially in the women I work with, are: the front of the shoulder/chest area and the upper traps (area just under the neck).
We tend to hold much of our tension in our upper backs and this often causes a 'turtle-like' neck shrinking posture where the shoulders creep up towards the ears.
Add in chronic forward-facing, forward-reaching activities (e.g.: desk jobs, driving, time on computers and other devices, holding kids, nursing babies) and you get a tighter, forward head, shoulder-rounded posture over time. And if you were a girl who developed breasts early or have had large breasts much of your life, then it's pretty likely you've developed a forward-shoulder posture as a means of downplaying their size/avoiding unwanted attention. That's tough!
So to first deal with these common tightnesses and postural tendencies, we can do the following stretches and mobility drills to get relief—over time, and with consistent practice, of course!
Wall Slides, Floor Slides
Extended Arm Doorway 'hang' stretches
Downward Facing Dog (plus plank dynamic movement)
Next, let's work on getting stronger in the places that will help the most!
Areas that tend to be weaker and not get the time and TLC they deserve are: the muscles in the backs of our necks, the muscles that control and guide the shoulder blades, the muscles we sit on much of the time, all of the trunk muscles (not just those 6-pack muscles, lol), and the paraspinal muscles.
When we spend so much time in forward-facing work postures, we need to spend extra time working on all of those 'back half of the body' muscles (aka: your posterior chain).
To do this effectively, we need to work on strengthening our middle and low traps, scapular stabilizers, all of our trunk (aka: core) muscles, our glutes and our spinal erectors and stabilizers.
Exercises we can do regularly—both at home AND in the gym—to help ourselves out are:
Rowing: seated band, one arm, TRX, ring rows
Half Kneeling presses, band chops
And then comes the element that will make the MOST difference for us: Mindful Posture Practice.
The good news? You can do this ALL the time, no matter where you are, how old or young you are, or how fit or out-of-shape you might be.
The bad news? It'll take lots of mental and physical effort for a while until these postures normalize (aka: become a new habit and feel like your 'new normal').
The other good news? You'll immediately look taller, more confident, and potentially slimmer. You'll feel better AND you'll get better (and more pain-free) results in the gym, too.
So the time and effort you put into changing you sitting, standing, and moveing posture will be well worth it because the payoffs are both huge and lasting.
Mindful Posture Practice Tips: Think about…
- Stacking ribs over pelvis "Make the Canister"
- Bracing abs
- Squeezing the glutes
- Keeping the chin back and the next long
- Pulling the shoulders out of the ears
- 'Packing' the shoulder blades—pulling them down and in
Even if you've had some posture issues most of your adult life, it doesn't mean you can't make improvements that make a big and lasting difference in how you look, move and feel each day.
All that you need to do is make sure that you stretch what needs to be stretched, double-down on strengthening the muscles that will help you most, and stay mindful/pay attention to your head, shoulder and spinal positions until better posture becomes your 'new normal.'
If I can do it, so can you! Take heart, believe in what's possible, and get busy doing the work on the regular—the results will come.


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The Straight from a Scientist podcast.
Science podcasts from the source.
Science podcasts often go into too much detail without providing background knowledge, or just provide science news without the relevant details. What's more, they don't capture scientists as the dynamic, interesting people we know them to be. Our science podcasts will fix these issues in different ways.
There are two types of podcasts: informal interviews with real scientists about their research, life, and path into science, and roundtable talks that breakdown broader science terms. We're also working on infographics that will serve as companion pieces to some of the more complex science terms mentioned in the podcasts.
Check out individual episodes below. Show notes are being built up to contain study links and graphic breakdowns!
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DS_Store Format
Some notes on the format of the Macintosh Finder's .DS_Store files.
The Mac OS X Finder stores information about how it displays directories and files in files named .DS_Store in each directory which it has touched. (This seems to be a departure from the pre-OSX method of storing all the information in one file at the root of each filesystem). The format is not documented by Apple. The information in this file is based on the reverse-engineering notes by Mark Mentovai published on the Mozilla wiki, and further investigation by me (Wim Lewis).
The .DS_Store file holds a series of records giving attributes of the files in the directory or of the directory itself (referred to as .). These records are stored in a B-tree, and the pages of the B-tree are stored in the file by a "buddy allocator" along with a small amount of metadata. The allocator also provides a level of indirection, from small integers to file offsets, presumably allowing blocks to be relocated as they grow and shrink.
The file is generally big-endian. Unless otherwise noted, an "integer" is a four-byte (32-bit) big-endian number, probably unsigned (but I'm not always sure about that).
A record has the following format:
Filename length, in characters, as an integer. (4 bytes)
Filename, in big-endian UTF-16. Presumably with the same Unicode composition rules as the HFS+ filesystem. (2 * length bytes)
Structure id or type, a FourCharCode indicating what property of the file this entry describes. (4 bytes)
Data type (4 bytes), indicating what kind of data field follows:
An integer (4 bytes)
A short integer? Still stored as four bytes, but the first two are always zero.
A boolean value, stored as one byte.
An arbitrary block of bytes, stored as an integer followed by that many bytes of data.
Four bytes, containing a FourCharCode.
A Unicode text string, stored as an integer character count followed by 2*count bytes of data in UTF-16.
A given structure id/type always seems to have the same type of data associated with it, and any structure id appears at most once per filename. Some only appear on files, and some only appear on directories (including the filename .).
Information about a directory (its Finder window view settings, for example) is usually held in its parent directory's store file, unless the directory is at the root of its volume, in which case it's held in the directory itself with the filename ..
I've encountered the following record types:
blob, directories only. Indicates the background of the Finder window viewing this directory (in icon mode). The format depends on the kind of background:
- Default background
DefB, followed by eight unknown bytes, probably garbage.
- Solid color
ClrB, followed by an RGB value in six bytes, followed by two unknown bytes.
- Picture
PctB, followed by the the length of the blob stored in the
'pict'record, followed by four unknown bytes. The
'pict'record points to the actual background image.
bool, directories only. Unknown meaning. Always seems to be 1, so presumably 0 is the default value.
blob, attached to files and directories. The file's icon location. Two 4-byte values representing the horizontal and vertical positions of the icon's center (not top-left). (Then, 6 bytes 0xff and 2 bytes 0?) For the purposes of the center, the icon only is taken into account, not any label. The icon's size comes from the icvo blob.
bool, attached to directories. Purpose unknown.
blobcontaining a binary plist. This contains the size and layout of the window (including whether optional parts like the sidebar or path bar are visible). This appeared in Snow Leopard (10.6).
ustr, containing a file's "Spotlight Comments".
blob, attached to files and directories. Unknown, may indicate the icon location when files are displayed on the desktop.
bool, attached to subdirectories. Indicates that the subdirectory is open (disclosed) in list view.
blob, directories only. Finder window information. The data is first four two-byte values representing the top, left, bottom, and right edges of the rect defining the content area of the window. The next four bytes represent the view of the window:
icnvis icon view, other values are
Nlsv. The next four bytes are unknown, and are either zeroes or
00 01 00 00.
On Leopard (10.5), the view-type information seems to be ignored, but see
vstl. On Snow Leopard (10.6), some more of this record's function seems to have been taken over by the plist records
long, directories only. Finder window sidebar width, in pixels/points. Zero if collapsed.
shor, directories only. Finder window vertical height. If present, it overrides the height defined by the rect in fwi0. The Finder seems to create these (at least on 10.4) even though it will do the right thing for window height with only an fwi0 around, perhaps this is because the stored height is weird when accounting for toolbars and status bars.
blob, directories (and files?). Unknown. Probably two integers, and often the value
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 04.
blob, directories only. Unknown, usually all but the last two bytes are zeroes.
18- or 26-byte
blob, directories only. Icon view options. There seem to be two formats for this blob.
If the first 4 bytes are "icvo", then 8 unknown bytes (flags?), then 2 bytes corresponding to the selected icon view size, then 4 unknown bytes
6e 6f 6e 65(the text "none", guess that this is the "keep arranged by" setting?).
If the first 4 bytes are "icv4", then: two bytes indicating the icon size in pixels, typically 48; a 4CC indicating the "keep arranged by" setting (or
nonefor none or
gridfor align to grid); another 4CC, either
rght, indicating the label position w.r.t. the icon; and then 12 unknown bytes (flags?).
Of the flag bytes, the low-order bit of the second byte is 1 if "Show item info" is checked, and the low-order bit of the 12th (last) byte is 1 if the "Show icon preview" checkbox is checked. The tenth byte usually has the value 4, and the remainder are zero.
shor, directories only. Icon view text label (filename) size, in points.
40- or 48-byte
blob, attached to directories and files. Unknown.
blob, directories only. Unknown. Possibly the scroll position in list view mode?
blob, directories only. List view options. Seems to contain the columns displayed in list view, their widths, and their sort ordering if any.
shor, directories only. List view text (filename) size, in points.
blobcontaining a binary plist. List view settings, perhaps supplanting the
'lsvo'record. Appeared in Snow Leopard (10.6). These list view settings are shared between list view and the list portion of coverflow view.
blob, directories only. Despite the name, this contains not a PICT image but an Alias record (see Inside Macintosh: Files) which resolves to the file containing the actual background image. See also
type, directories only. Indicates the style of the view (one of
Nlsv, or
Flwv, indicating respectively: icon view, column/browser view, list view, and coverflow view) selected by the Finder's "Always open in icon [or other style] view" checkbox. This appears to be a new addition to the Leopard (10.5) Finder.
The records are stored in a B-tree structure. The B-tree consists of a small master block containing a few statistics and a pointer to the root node; one or more leaf (external) nodes; and zero or more non-leaf (internal) nodes.
The header block is pointed to by the
DSDB entry in the buddy allocator's directory. It is 20 bytes long and contains five integers:
- 0
The block number of the root node of the B-tree
- 1
The number of levels of internal nodes (tree height minus one --- that is, for a tree containing only a single, leaf, node this will be zero)
- 2
The number of records in the tree
- 3
The number of nodes in the tree (tree nodes, not including this header block)
- 4
Always 0x1000, probably the tree node page size
Individual nodes are either leaf nodes containing a bunch of records, or non-leaf (internal) nodes containing N records and N+1 pointers to child nodes.
Each node starts with two integers,
P and
count. If
P is 0, then this is a leaf node and
count is immediately followed by that many records. If
P is nonzero, then this is an internal node, and
count is followed by the block number of the leftmost child, then a record, then another block number, etc., for a total of
count child pointers and
count records.
P is itself the rightmost child pointer, that is, it is logically at the end of the node.
This relies on 0 not being a valid value for a block number. As far as I can tell, 0 is a valid value for a block number but it always holds the block containing the buddy allocator's internal information, presumably because that block is allocated first.
The ordering of records within the B-tree is by case-insensitive comparison of their filenames, secondarily sorted on the structure ID (record type) field. My guess is that the string comparison follows the same rules as HFS+ described in Apple's TN1150.
Buddy Allocator
B-tree pages and other info are stored in blocks managed by a buddy allocator. The allocator maintains a list of the offsets and sizes of blocks (indexed by small integers) and a freelist. The allocator also stores a small amount of metadata, including a directory or table of contents which maps short strings to block numbers. The only entry in that table of contents maps the string
DSDB ("desktop services database"?) to the B-tree's master block.
The buddy allocator is in charge of all but the first 36 bytes of the file, and manages a notional 2GB address space, although the file is of course truncated to the last allocated block. All its offsets are relative to the fourth byte of the file. Another way to describe this is that the file consists of a four-byte header (always
00 00 00 01) followed by a 2GB buddy-allocated area, the first 32-byte block of which is allocated but does not appear on the buddy allocator's allocation list.
The 32-byte header has the following fields:
Magic number
42 75 64 31)
Offset to the allocator's bookkeeping information block
Size of the allocator's bookkeeping information block
A second copy of the offset; the Finder will refuse to read the file if this does not match the first copy. Perhaps this is a safeguard against corruption from an interrupted write transaction.
Sixteen bytes of unknown purpose. These might simply be the unused space at the end of the block, since the minimum allocation size is 32 bytes, as will be seen later.
The offset and size indicate where to find the block containing the rest of the buddy allocator's state. That block has the following fields:
- Block count
Integer. The number of blocks in the allocated-blocks list.
- Unknown
Four unknown bytes. Appear to always be 0.
- Block addresses
Array of integers. There are block count block addresses here, with unassigned block numbers represented by zeroes. This is followed by enough zeroes to round the section up to the next multiple of 256 entries (1024 bytes).
- Directory count
Integer, indicates the number of directory entries.
- Directory entries
Each consists of a 1-byte count, followed by that many bytes of name (in ASCII or perhaps some 1-byte superset such as MacRoman), followed by a 4-byte integer containing the entry's block number.
- Free lists
There are 32 freelists, one for each power of two from 2^0 to 2^31. Each freelist has a count followed by that many offsets.
There are three different ways to refer to a given block. Most of the file uses what I call block numbers or block IDs, which are indexes into the
block address table. Block ID 0 always seems to refer to the buddy allocator's metadata block itself.
The entries in the block address table are what I call block addresses. Each address is a packed offset+size. The least-significant 5 bits of the number indicate the block's size, as a power of 2 (from 2^5 to 2^31). If those bits are masked off, the result is the starting offset of the block (keeping in mind the 4-byte fudge factor). Since the lower 5 bits are unusable to store an offset, blocks must be allocated on 32-byte boundaries, and as a side effect the minimum block size is 32 bytes (in which case the least significant 5 bits are equal to
The free lists contain actual block offsets, not "addresses". The size of the referenced blocks is implied by which freelist the block is in; a free block in freelist N is 2^N bytes long.
Although the header block is not explicitly allocated, the allocator behaves as if it is; other blocks are split in order to accommodate it in the buddy scheme, and its buddy block (at 0x20) is either on the freelist or allocated. (Usually it holds the B-tree's master block.)
Other than the 4-byte prefix and the 32-byte header block, every byte in the file is either in a block on the allocated blocks list, or is in a block on one of the free lists.
Original reverse-engineering effort by Mark Mentovai, https://wiki.mozilla.org/DS_Store_File_Format. Some of the text describing record types has been copied from that wiki page.
Further investigation and documentation by Wim Lewis <email@example.com>.
Also thanks to Yvan BARTHÉLEMY for investigation and bugfixes.
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It's hard to satisfy kid's sweet tooth with wholesome ingredients. Like all kids, mine tend to gravitate towards the the large chocolate chip cookies displayed openly in the supermarkets. Their lovely smell is enough to entice even someone who hates cookies.
When you hear "Just one cookie,mama" repeatedly, you give in. "Ok, Just one cookie each". And the father joins in with two extra.
I like to have biscuits around in the house for tea time, or for that little hunger pangs which could come at any moment unannounced.
This recipe was from a book about wholesome snack for kids which I borrowed from my local library.
I love that it has oats,wholewheat and honey. All wholesome ingredients. And my boys helped topping up the biscuits with chocolate chips.
I have a sweet tooth and I have no problem with most of the sweet stuff. And I really liked these,the texture and the crunch. Truth be told, It was I who finished most of the biscuits while taking photos and with tea.
The kids had a few but they were not raving mad about the biscuits. It was "ok" for them. But they'll get used to it.
1 cup rolled oats
3/4 cup dessicated coconut
1 cup wholewheat flour
1 1/2tsp baking soda
2 tbsp boiling water
1/2 cup honey
1/2 cup oil or melted butter
pinch of salt
chocolate chips
Preheat the oven to 150 degree Celsius. In a bowl add the oats,coconut and wholewheat flour .Sprinkle a pinch of salt. Mix all the these together. In a separate bowl, add the boiling water and baking soda and mix well. Spoon the honey and oil to the mix and stir so all the liquids combine.
Add the liquid to the dry ingredients and mix with a spoon.
Line two trays with baking paper. Using a spoon, scoop the mixture into the tray and slightly flatten it.
Bake for 20 minutes or until it's golden brown in color.
Keep an eye on the biscuits in the last five minutes. Remove from the oven and place on a wire rack to cool.
You can keep the biscuits in an air-tight container up to 5 days.


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WATCH: Ex-Wonder Girls member Sunmi returns with new MV "24 Hours"
Former Wonder Girls member Sunmi recently released news of her comeback to the music scene. To many fans' surprise, she announced that rather than reuniting with her former group, she'd be taking on a solo debut. After teasing fans for weeks with photos of her new, mature look, the pink-haired soloist has finally dropped the video for her track "24 Hours."
For her debut, Sunmi seems to have chosen the sexy route, dancing provocatively with a mix of ballet and tango. The song has a classic JYP sound that is sure to make it a end of summer hit. Be sure to catch her live comeback on Inkigayo this weekend.
Check out the video below and let us know what you think?


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Biblical Choices - 4th Grade CD-ROM
In Fourth Grade, students learn about The God of History and the following values: honoring and respecting God, showing compassion, responsibility, encouragement, and fruit of the Spirit.
Great for Christian School and Homeschool. View the Scope & Sequence here.
Series Description
Resource-filled CD, including:
- master files for worksheets, skits, project directions, quizzes, and more
- clip art to easily create backdrops, posters, signs, and more
- music and sound effects appropriate for each lesson
- weekly, customizable parent letters with details of each lesson (available editable in English and non-editable in Spanish)
- test masters and assessment suggestions and directions
Administrators, teachers, and homeschoolers can be confident in Biblical Choices to integrate intentional, comprehensive Bible learning with an educational focus including systematic Bible study, tests, and assessments that complement the other subjects taught in the classroom.