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After 5 years and 8 months of hard work and joy alongside the wonderful team at Code Enigma, last March I decided it was time for me to move on to something new, stretch myself a little bit, and discover some new grounds in the Drupal world.
Category Archives: Drupal
Overwriting global permissions within Organic Groups for single page requests
In a recent project built in Drupal 7, I came across a bit of an uncommon scenario, by which some users needed to have access to certain features that were normally restricted to them, when viewing, editing or creating groups content (ie: whenever they are visiting a part of the site that is considered part of a group).
For example, while normal users didn't have access to use certain text formats in the wysiwyg editor, those that were considered group leaders needed to make use of that particular text format. In this scenario, a group leader was an existing role within Organic Groups.
Upgrading Drupal's Viewport module to Drupal 8 (Part 3 – Final)
With parts one and two of the series covered, this 3rd (and final!) part will cover some other important aspects of Drupal development that I wanted to pay attention to while working on the Drupal 8 version of the viewport module.
Essentially, the kind of aspects that are easy to forget (or ignore on purpose) when a developer comes up with a working version or something "good enough" to be released, and thinks there's no need to write tests for the existing codebase (we've all done it at some point).
This post will be a mix of links to documentation and resources that were either useful or new to me, and tips about some of the utilities and classes available when writing unit or functoinal tests.
Upgrading Drupal's Viewport module to Drupal 8 (Part 2)
In the last blog post, I started to talk about the process of upgrading the Viewport module from Drupal 7 to Drupal 8. While the module is now fully ported and has a stable version for Drupal 8, I didn't cover all the steps and new things that I came across while working on it.
This time I'll go through the notes I took while working on the settings page, the creation of a proper schema for configuration management, and the conversion of procedural code into PHP classes. Let's get into it:
Upgrading Drupal's Viewport module to Drupal 8 (Part 1)
Viewport is one of the modules I maintain for Drupal 7. It's a very small and simple module that does a very specific thing: it allows site admins to specify the values they want for the HTML meta tag that specifies the viewport settings for browsers. It also allows admins to choose the pages in which they want this custom viewport applied.
Back in the day a client required this functionality to embed some browser games from proskins that required very specific settings. Nowadays it's not really common for a site admin to set those values, and developers don't really require any UI to set them. I remember how he wanted to customized experience in the ELO game but didn't know how, now a days you could just go to p4rgaming.com and get help with that.
Yeoman Basics by example: A Ctools Content Type generator for Drupal
A few weeks ago I wrote a blog post about Yeoman and the existing Yeoman generators for Drupal. As someone who loves and rants a lot about code generation, it was a tool that I had been wanting to try out for quite some time, and the experience after having spent a couple of hours with the tool, figuring out which generators could be useful for me, was rather satisfactory.
Now, beyond having some generators that I can benefit from, my interest in Yeoman was mostly in the APIish side of it. In other words, I wanted to see how easy it is to create my own generators for whatever tasks I find myself repeating a lot. The best way to find that out is, of course, to try and write a generator plugin for it, facing the usual challenges of being a total newcomer to a language or a framework. One of the most common pieces of code I have to write in my projects, are ctools plugins, in particular, Content Type plugins, so I decided to write a generator for just those type of plugins. This post will explain the basics of the tool and how to create a basic generator. If you want to get the most out of it, I'd recommend you to open your IDE or text editor of choice, and follow along, so that you can experiment with Yeoman at the same time.
DrupalCamp Spain 2015: Welcome to Jerez
One more year, DrupalCamp Spain is getting closer and closer. This year, it'll take place in Jerez de la Frontera, and it'll be during the second half of May (22nd, 23rd and 24th of May, to be precise). Last year's camp in Valencia was a bit of a miss for me, as I had some troubles with the schedule, and could only attend to a couple of sessions, so I'm more excited this time, given that it's been a while (2 years, I could say!) since my last DrupalCamp. That place is very relaxing, I can not wait to go and have a good time, eat a snack and read a baby stroller review while I wait for the DrupalCamp to start. And it's always a great pleasure to meet and talk to friend made on previous camps, as well as new people of the Spanish community. Continue reading
Yeoman Generators for Drupal: What's out there?
I've been hearing about Yeoman for quite some time now. Pretty much since the project took off, or soon after. As a tool born in the Javascript community, I came across this little gem when I was learning about Node.js and the different tools and frameworks available for it, either in my free time, or as part of my labs time at my company. Sadly, I didn't really pay much attention to it. At the end of the day, Node.js was just something I was learning about, but not something I was going to be able to put in place or introduce in projects in the short term. Or, even if it was something I *could* do, it wasn't in my plans, anyway.
The other reason why I didn't look into it closer, was that I mistakenly thought it to be a tool only useful for Javascript developers. Some time ago I noticed that Yeoman was getting plenty of attention from other communities too, and in a closer look, I understood that it wasn't a tool for Node.js, but instead, a tool built on top of Node.js, so I decided to give it a try and see if I could make something useful out of it for Drupal development. Continue reading
Dirty "Probaturas": An emmet-like parser for php and Drupal
If you're a web developer, chances are that you've come across Emmet before. If you haven't, chances are that you're wasting time whenever you get to write some html in your favorite code editor or IDE. You should really check it out and see the options on the project page, but let me show you a quick example of how Emmet can help you. Let's say you're prototyping a simple page and know the markup you need. It would look like this:

Easy, right? Because you're a cool front-ender with great and fancy text editors like Sublime or Atom, and fancy features like tag autocompletion, attribute suggestions, etc… surely just a few seconds to write. For you too, phpstorm guy, because nobody beats your all-terrain IDE, capable of even preparing pop-corn for you while you're churning out the most beautiful PHP lines ever written with, you know… a real programming tool. Not to mention the vim players out there. You really are on another level of the game. HTML ain't nothing for you, is it? Well, whatever built-in support you have for writing html, Emmet's going to be better. Continue reading
Adding panels support to the Reply module
One of the major disadvantages of entities in Drupal 7, is the lack of support for built-in comments. This is due to the model of the core comments module, which is heavily tied to nodes -node comments are essentially settings of each content type-, and not available for other entity types. In Drupal 8 this has changed already, and comments are considered fields that can be attached to any entity type.
For Drupal 7, in the meantime, there's been a similar solution for a while, which is the reply module. The reply module leverages the Entity API to define a "reply" entity type, and offers a UI to create "reply" bundles. Then, via the Field API, you can add a "Reply" field to any entity type, choosing the reply bundle that should be used by that particular field. The flexibility that gives is huge, since it means that you're not restricted to just a comment type for your application. Continue reading


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Last month Robert and his family spent three weeks in Africa using MotionX-GPS every step of the way to track, navigate and share their adventure.
The following is Robert's account and description of how he used MotionX-GPS.
"I recently spent three weeks in Africa with family (mostly in Botswana and Namibia) and your MotionX-GPS app was indispensable in both helping us navigate real-time and in reviewing out tracks in Google Earth once the trip was over. We always knew where we were thanks to MotionX. It kept track of our every move for the whole three weeks. The great thing is that it can do this even when you have just a GPS signal but no data (which is just about all the time). It tracked our movements on an empty grey grid, but when I had WiFi, it filled in the map! I exported the KML files and loaded them into Google Earth for a complete record of everywhere we went. Thanks for making such a useful app affordable."
Robert made a video of their adventure showing their tracks and photos.

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The Sex Trade Ep 5 "Awkward Moments: Party For Two"
- Posted on April 4, 2013
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The Sex Trade Ep 5 "Awkward Moments: Party For Two" (body swap comedy web series)
**Disclaimer: This episode contains sexual humor that may not be appropriate for younger audiences. (No nudity)
Sometimes you have to breakup to makeup, but for married couple (Karen & Seth) romantic moments prove to be awkward moments to say the least as the two try to navigate their intimate moments from a whole new vantage point.
The Sex Trade is a hilarious comedy web series about a husband and wife whose souls get swapped and are forced to live life as each other.
Starring Holly Payberg and Tim Rerucha
Created and Written by Holly Payberg and John Connon
Directed by Lauren O'Quinn
Produced by Holly Payberg, John Connon, Lauren O'Quinn, Chris Burns & Paul Petrus
Director of Photography Randy Baker
Cast (Episode 5)
Tim Rerucha as Seth
Holly Payberg as Karen
Christy Wurzbach as Jess
Cindy Karr as Eloise Morgan
Chris Burns as Danny
Larry Burns as George
Caroline Ross as Marianne
Ruth Vogt as Grandma
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More celebrities have died this year than ever before and experts think they know why.
Prince and Victoria Wood this week joined singer David Bowie, actor Alan Rickman , presenter Terry Wogan, comedian Ronnie Corbett and magician Paul Daniels as they passed away.
Others who have passed away include This Morning's Denise Robertson, Coronation Street creator Tony Warren, music producer David Gest , Father Ted actor Frank Kelly, American singer Merle Haggard and former drug smuggler Howard Marks ... and we are only in April.
The BBC has already lengthened its 'obitiuaries' show for the end of the year from half-an-hour to one hour after the number of deaths it covered jumped from five in the first four months of 2012 to 24 this year.
Read more:The famous faces gone too soon - from Prince and Victoria Wood to Alan Rickman
BBC obituaries editor Nick Serpell said the number of significant deaths this year has been "phenomenal" but he blames television and the baby boom generation after the Second World War .
He said: "People who started becoming famous in the 1960s are now entering their 70s and are starting to die.
"There are also more famous people than there used to be. In my father or grandfather's generation, the only famous people really were from cinema - there was no television."
He also points out many of those now dying belonged to the so-called baby-boom generation, born between 1946 and 1964, that saw a huge growth in population.
In the UK, people aged 65 or older make up almost 18% of the population - a 47% increase on forty years ago. Put simply, the baby boomers, now aged between 70 and 52, are dying.


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- Each set includes 3 magic tattoos & 9 magic stickers.
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[Back] Salsa20 and ChaCha20 were designed by Daniel J. Bernstein and are stream ciphers [here]. They have been benchmarked to be more than three times faster the AES. Google have defined ChaCha20 as a standard for stream encryption [RFC 7539] and is included in TLS standards [RFC 7505]. It uses a 256-bit key, a 32-bit counter, and a 96-bit nonce, with 10 rounds of permutations.
Salsa20 and Chacha20 stream ciphers
ChaCha20 and Salsa take a 256-bit key (or a 128-bit version) and a 32-bit nonce This creates a key stream, which is then XORed with the plaintext stream. In software, it is more than three times faster than AES, and is well suited to lower-powered devices and in real-time communications.
ChaCha operates on 32-bit bits with a key of 256 bits (\(K = (k_0,k_1,k_2,k_3,k_4,k_5,k_6,k_7)\). This output blocks of 512-bits for the key stream (\(Z\), and which is EX-ORed with the plaintext stream.
The state of the encryption is stored with 16 32-bit word values within a 4x4 matrix:
\(\begin{bmatrix} x_{0} & x_{1} & x_{2} & x_{3} \\ x_{4} & x_{5} & x_{6} & x_{7} \\ x_{8} & x_{9} & x_{10} & x_{11} \\ x_{12} & x_{13} & x_{14} & x_{15} \\ \end{bmatrix}\)
The initial state contains 16 32-bit values with constant values (0x61707865, 0x3320646e, 0x79622d32, 0x6b206574) the key (\(k_0,k_1,k_2,k_3,k_4,k_5,k_6,k_7\)), the counter (\(c_0\)) and the nonce (\(n_0, n_1, n_2, n_3\)):
\(\begin{bmatrix} 0x61707865 & 0x3320646e & 0x79622d32 & 0x6b206574 \\ k_{0} & k_{1} & k_{2} & k_{3} \\ k_{4} & k_{5} & k_{6} & k_{7} \\ c_{0} & n_{0} & n_{1} & n_{2} \\ \end{bmatrix}\)
The counter thus has 32-bits (1 x 32 bits), and the nonce has 96-bits (3 x 32 bits). ChaCha then defines a quarter round as:
and where this is defined as:
a = a + b
There are then 20 rounds (10 for column rounds and 10 for diagonal rounds):
X is created with K, c and n y ← X for i ← 0 to 9 do /* Column Round */ (x0, x4, x8, x12) ← QR(x0, x4, x8, x12) (x5, x9, x13, x1) ← QR(x5, x9, x13, x1) (x10, x14, x2, x6) ← QR(x10, x14, x2, x6) (x15, x3, x7, x11) ← QR(x15, x3, x7, x11) /* Diagonal Round */ (x0, x5, x10, x15) ← QR(x0, x5, x10, x15) (x1, x6, x11, x12) ← QR(x1, x6, x11, x12) (x2, x7, x8, x13) ← QR(x2, x7, x8, x13) (x3, x4, x9, x14) ← QR(x3, x4, x9, x14) end for Z ← X + y
Z is the resultant key stream.
In the following we take a SHA-256 hash of the key string and generate the 256-bit key:
# https://asecuritysite.com/encryption/salsa20 from Crypto.Cipher import Salsa20 import hashlib from base64 import b64encode from Crypto.Cipher import ChaCha20 plaintext = b'Attack at dawn' key= b'Test' print("Plain key:\t",plaintext) print("Secret key:\t",key) secret = hashlib.sha256() secret.update(key) print("Key used:\t",b64encode(secret.digest())) cipher = Salsa20.new(key=secret.digest()) enc=cipher.encrypt(plaintext) ct = b64encode(enc).decode('utf-8') nonce = b64encode(cipher.nonce).decode('utf-8') print("\n---Salsa20 Encrypt") print(" Nonce:",nonce) print(" Cipher:",ct) print("\n---Salsa20 Decrypt") cipher = Salsa20.new(key=secret.digest(), nonce=cipher.nonce) plaintext = cipher.decrypt(enc) print(" Decrypted:\t",plaintext) cipher = ChaCha20.new(key=secret.digest()) ciphertext = cipher.encrypt(plaintext) nonce = b64encode(cipher.nonce).decode('utf-8') ct = b64encode(ciphertext).decode('utf-8') print("\n---ChaCha20 Encrypt") print(" Nonce:",nonce) print(" Cipher:",ct) print("\n---ChaCha20 Decrypt") cipher = ChaCha20.new(key=secret.digest(), nonce=cipher.nonce) plaintext = cipher.decrypt(ciphertext) print(" Decrypted:\t",plaintext)
Google have defined ChaCha20 as a standard for stream encryption [RFC 7539], for IPSec/IKE [RFC 7634] and for TLS standards [RFC 7905]:
TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256 = {0xCC, 0xA8} TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256 = {0xCC, 0xA9} TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256 = {0xCC, 0xAA} TLS_PSK_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256 = {0xCC, 0xAB} TLS_ECDHE_PSK_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256 = {0xCC, 0xAC} TLS_DHE_PSK_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256 = {0xCC, 0xAD} TLS_RSA_PSK_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256 = {0xCC, 0xAE}


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Structural damage of the anterior part of the anal sphincter is a major cause of faecal incontinence. Sphincter repair is the standard surgical treatment. This study was designed to analyse the results of anal sphincter repair, to identify possible predictors of outcome and to investigate the presence of bowel symptoms other than leakage at follow up.
Patients and methods
Fifty-five women (median age 39 years, range 24–73 years) who underwent anal sphincter repair between 1986 and 1997 at the University Hospital of Linköping answered a postal questionnaire. Current bowel function, degree of continence and the patients' functional result as worse, unchanged, some improvement, good or excellent were assessed. Good or excellent function was regarded as a successful result, the rest as failure. Age, duration of symptoms, type of surgery, morbidity and length of follow up were analysed in relation to outcome. Results of pre- and post-operative anal manometry, endoanal ultrasound, anal sphincter electromyography and pudendal nerve function were also analysed.
After a median (range) follow-up period of 40 months (5–137) months, 31 (56%) patients rated the result as either excellent (n=10) or good (n=21). Twenty-one (38%) patients rated the result as some improvement (n=14), unchanged (n=6) or worse (n=1). In three (5%) patients a colostomy was fashioned because of failure. Patients >50 years at surgery (n=18) had a worse outcome (P=0.001). Successful outcome was correlated to increased squeeze pressures post-operatively. The presence of post-operative urgency (P=0.01) and loose stools (P=0.02) was more common in patients with poor outcome. Eight patients became continent to formed and liquid stool.
Objective: To analyse the results of anal-sphincter repair; to examine the feasibility of motor latency measurements of the anal sphincter after magnetic sacral stimulation in healthy subjects, patients with a spinal cord injury and patients with faecal incontinence, using a new recording technique; to study, in the same 3 groups, the effects ofphasic magnetic sacral root stimulation on the anal sphincter and rectum; to describe normal, undisturbed anatomy of the anal canal and perianal structures in both men and nulliparous women using high-resolution phased array magnetic resonance imaging; to study pelvic floor movements in healthy volunteers of both sexes using a new instrument.
Methods: Latencies were recorded with an intraanal, bipolar sponge electrode and an intrarectal ground electrode. Rectal volume changes were measured with a barostat. Highresolution magnetic resonance images were obtained without an endoanal coil. Pelvic floor movements where measured with the subject seated, using a magnet attached to a rectal balloon.
Results: After a median period of 40 months, 31/55 female patients rated the result of analsphincter repair as excellent or good. Age>50 years, and post-operative urgency and loose stools were associated with poor outcome. Eight patients became fully continent for stool. 17% of the latency measurements failed. There were no significant differences between leftand right-sided stimulation. Faecal incontinence patients had prolonged pudendal nerve terminal motor latencies and prolonged latencies after left-sided magnetic stimulation. Phasic magnetic stimulation increased anal pressure in 100% of the 14 healthy subjects, 86% of the 14 spinal cord injury patients and 73% of the 18 faecal incontinence patients. A decrease in rectal volume was provoked in respectively 72 %, 79 % and 50 %. In all 33 volunteers, anal and perianal structures could be well defined by magnetic resonance imaging. The mid-anal canal was significantly longer than its anterior and posterior part. The female anterior sphincter was shorter than the male and occupied 30 % of the anal canal length. The female perineal body was thicker and easier to define than the male. The median pelvic floor lift and descent measured in 28 healthy volunteers, were 2 cm and 1.8 cm respectively. Day-to-day and inter-observer reproducibility were good. 20/28 subjects were able to expel the rectal balloon.
Conclusions: Anal-sphincter repair does not restore complete continence but leads to a satisfactory result in more than half of the patients. Additional bowel symptoms are common at follow-up. Latency measurements after magnetic stimulation are minimally invasive and have a low failure rate. They may be used to test the integrity of the distal motor pathway in patients who may benefit from continuous sacral root stimulation. Magnetic sacral root stimulation produces an increase in anal and rectal pressure and a decrease in rectal volume. Phased array magnetic resonance imaging is non-invasive and allows an accurate description of the normal anatomy of the anal canal and perianal structures. The new developed instrument measures cranial and caudal movement of the pelvic floor with minimal discomfort and good reproducibility.


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Research on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Last year, I realized that my second-year students did not completely master the present perfect. That same week, I dyed my hair red — which was completely unrelated at the time. When I saw myself in the mirror, I thought, "Gosh, it's the first time in my life that my hair is red and I love it. I should have done that ages ago." That's when the idea popped into my mind: my hair had never been red before. Past perfect. There. I had to make them live something for the first time instead of teaching them grammar.
So I told my students that their assignment, instead of writing an extended essay on a given topic, was to do something they had never done before. I added that there were two rules. The first rule was that whatever they did had to be accounted for in front of the whole group. The second was that it could not be illegal. The exercise went pretty well.
This year, I've done it again, with the same rules and instructions. Two students donated blood. One ate Chinese food for the first time. One skydived. One sponsored a child in India. One went to London. Cut her own hair. About four came to school in their pyjamas. One remained silent for twenty-four hours. One avoided social networks for a week, and so on.
But what really struck me was the story that one of them told me. He said, "I had planned to give blood because I had never done it before, but then something happened to me and I think even though it's not what I had decided to do in the first place, I should tell you about it because it really was the first time something like that happened to me." I have to say the guy knows how to introduce a narration. He went on, "So I was home alone, watching a movie, when someone knocked at the door. It was a kid who needed help because he had run over his grandmother with her car. Apparently she had told him not to play with it, but he didn't listen and when she saw him, she ran behind the car to stop him. That's when she fell and because the garage alley was a slope, the car ran over the old lady before the kid could do anything. And she was stuck under the car. The kid had tried to find help in other houses, but I was the only one to be at home. So I went."
"I was scared. The woman's leg was stuck under a wheel and there was no other way to free her than lifting the car and pushing it forward. I don't know how I managed to do it, but I grabbed the back bumper, lifted the car and helped the woman out. Then we were lucky because her husband had had a heart attack a few weeks before so the nurse came every day and so I had someone to help me with the old lady."
But here's the funny bit. He added, "When I came back home, I sat on the couch and I thought, 'Oh man! Now the movie is over.'"
No one knew what to say.
At the end of the class, the student came up to me and said, "Look, I don't want you to get me wrong. It was a small car and because the engine was at the front, all I really had to do was to lift it a bit and its weight did the rest. It wasn't much, really."
In my opinion, the kid is a goddam superhero — as real as they come.
This post was first published on my previous blog, Confessions of a Random Reader (now offline).
I was roaming on the internet, instead of working, as usual. And a brilliant idea came to my mind: what if I looked for teachers on Google? Well, I started doing it, curious about what my beloved teacher had actually worked on. And I found this blog. And this blog is super cool, it's just like you.
Moreover, it made me write an entry in my portfolio, it's not that long, but it's full of love. So thank you for that! 😀 Have a good day Ms. Houyaux!


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Exercise of all types is a good mood booster and anxiety reliever. Ask people how they feel after a workout, and most will say they feel calmer and less stressed. The mood-elevating effects of exercise come partially from the endorphins released during a workout. These natural hormone-like chemicals the brain produces are thought to be responsible for the "runner's high", the feeling of peace and calm, that runners feel after running a long distance. But what's the best exercise for relieving anxiety and for boosting mood? According to one study, it may be yoga.
Is Yoga the Best Exercise for Anxiety and Depression?
Doctors often recommend that patients who feel anxious or depressed slip on their walking shoes and take a brisk walk. Walking, especially outdoors in nature, is a proven mood lifter. Who doesn't feel better after they get up off the couch and start moving around? But yoga may be better than even walking for lifting the mood.
Researchers at the Boston University School of Medicine compared the benefits of walking vs. yoga for reducing anxiety and depression. They divided participants into two groups. One group practiced yoga for an hour three days a week, while the other group walked for the same period of time.
To measure the benefits they used a special type of brain scan that measured levels of a brain chemical called GABA. GABA is a neurotransmitter that's reduced in people who suffer from mood disorders or feel depressed or anxious.
The results? The participants who did yoga felt less stressed and anxious and more optimistic than the group who walked. They also had higher levels of the brain neurotransmitter GABA after the study. Medications used to treat anxiety and depression boost GABA levels, and yoga seems to do that naturally.
Yoga for Anxiety Has Benefits over Walking
It's not surprising that yoga offers mood-boosting benefits. Many people who are anxious and stressed breathe more shallowly. Yoga encourages deep breathing and emphasizes control of breath. Yoga is also meditative and directs a participant's thoughts towards the present rather than on the past or future. This helps to reduce obsessive worrying that contributes to anxiety and depression. With yoga, a person gains greater control over their body and their thoughts.
Yoga also reduces cortisol levels, a hormone that's been dubbed the "stress hormone," because it rises during periods of stress. High cortisol levels suppress immunity, increase insulin resistance and promote fat storage in the deeper layers of the abdomen around organs where it can do the most harm. Obviously, lowering cortisol levels has multiple benefits for mood – and for overall health.
Exercise for Anxiety: All Types Are Good
All types of exercise boost mood and help to relieve stress, whether it's taking a walk in nature, running a few miles or doing yoga moves. But with its emphasis on deep breathing and mind and body control, yoga may be one of the best forms of exercise around for relieving stress and anxiety. I have two Yoga videos you may want to try for some stress relief: Yoga Max and Yoga Relax.
The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine. Volume 16. Number 11. 2010; pages 1145-1152.
Related Articles By Cathe:
5 Reasons Exercise is the Closest Thing to a Happy Pill
The Negative Effects Stopping Exercise Has on Your Mood
5 Calming Foods That May Ease Anxiety
Does Exercise Make You More Resistant to the Negative Effects of Stress?
Compelling Health Benefits of Exercise You Don't Have to Wait For
Can Eating More Fruits and Vegetables Improve Your Mood?


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With this rule in place, you just need to open the video with VLC, and hit the Snapshot button (Cmd-Opt-S by default). Wait a moment, and the width and height will be copied to your clipboard with a space separating the two numbers.
The formatting of the dimensions (with a space between the width and height) allows me to "arrow into" either the width or the height from the LaunchBar clipboard manager. Feel free to change this of course. The output of the script doesn't have to be the clipboard, you could just as easily display a dialog or whatever you prefer.
Set VLC to save snapshots into your preferred folder, then add a Hazel rule to that folder.
Name starts with "vlcsnap-" (or whatever you've set the prefix to be)
1. Run Applescript (mostly taken from here):
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tell application "Image Events"
set this_image to open theFile
copy the dimensions of this_image to {width, height}
close this_image
end tell
tell application "System Events"
set the clipboard to (width as string) & " " & (height as string)
end tell
on error error_message
display dialog error_message
end try
2. Optional Growl notification to let you know the dimensions are on the clipboard.
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The Hurricane Sisters
by Dorothea Benton Frank
Published by William Morrow
336 pages
Genre: women's literature
3.5 / 5
Hurricane season begins early and rumbles all summer long, well into September. Often people's lives reflect the weather and The Hurricane Sisters is just such a story.
Once again Dorothea Benton Frank takes us deep into the heart of her magical South Carolina Lowcountry on a tumultuous journey filled with longings, disappointments, and, finally, a road toward happiness that is hard earned. There we meet three generations of women buried in secrets. The determined matriarch, Maisie Pringle, at eighty, is a force to be reckoned with because she will have the final word on everything, especially when she's dead wrong. Her daughter, Liz, is caught up in the classic maelstrom of being middle-age and in an emotionally demanding career that will eventually open all their eyes to a terrible truth. And Liz's beautiful twenty-something daughter, Ashley, whose dreamy ambitions of her unlikely future keeps them all at odds.
Luckily for Ashley, her wonderful older brother, Ivy, is her fierce champion but he can only do so much from San Francisco where he resides with his partner. And Mary Beth, her dearest friend, tries to have her back but even she can't talk headstrong Ashley out of a relationship with an ambitious politician who seems slightly too old for her.
Actually, Ashley and Mary Beth have yet to launch themselves into solvency. Their prospects seem bleak. So while they wait for the world to discover them and deliver them from a ramen-based existence, they placate themselves with a hare-brained scheme to make money but one that threatens to land them in huge trouble with the authorities.
So where is Clayton, Liz's husband? He seems more distracted than usual. Ashley desperately needs her father's love and attention but what kind of a parent can he be to Ashley with one foot in Manhattan and the other one planted in indiscretion? And Liz, who's an expert in the field of troubled domestic life, refuses to acknowledge Ashley's precarious situation. Who's in charge of this family? The wake-up call is about to arrive.
The Lowcountry has endured its share of war and bloodshed like the rest of the South, but this storm season we watch Maisie, Liz, Ashley, and Mary Beth deal with challenges that demand they face the truth about themselves. After a terrible confrontation they are forced to rise to forgiveness, but can they establish a new order for the future of them all?
Frank, with her hallmark scintillating wit and crisp insight, captures how a complex family of disparate characters and their close friends can overcome anything through the power of love and reconciliation. This is the often hilarious, sometimes sobering, but always entertaining story of how these unforgettable women became The Hurricane Sisters.
My Review:
The eponymous "hurricane" barely makes an appearance in this book, which means we need to look deeper and figure out what the storm really is.
In the case of the Waters women, only one actually battles physical elements. The rest fight off storms of the emotional, psychological, and internal variety.
The matriarch, Maisie, is one of those crotchety old gals who says what she means because, really, the clock is ticking. She's just turned eighty, so why put off till tomorrow what you can say today? Her typical target is her younger daughter Liz, a former model (she appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated's swimsuit edition!). Maisie isn't all that thrilled with Liz, although Liz has never done anything wrong. It's just that she isn't what Maisie wanted. Liz is a critical mother, not encouraging daughter Ashley's artistic sensibilities, and even – in a moment Liz herself admits was misguided – sending her gay son to a "conversion" camp. Maisie is very much one of those steel magnolias who rules with an iron fist and a blunt mouth.
For her part, Liz approaches her fifties knowing that her current life isn't quite what she thought it would be. Husband Clayton spends the weekdays in New York, a situation that suits Liz until she begins to wonder if it's all that healthy for her marriage. Her children are grown, but she and Clayton subsidize Ashley, something Liz thinks could – and should – stop. But so long as Ashley earns a meager $10 an hour working for an art gallery, Liz and Clayton help her financially. Then there is the matter of Liz's life's calling. It isn't modeling, certainly not now. She's been working for an organization that helps battered women, and it gives her purpose, even if it draws heavily on her emotional resources. Clayton doesn't understand why she bothers, but Liz tells him, pointedly and somewhat plaintively, that she wants her life to have a purpose.
However much Ashley deplores needing her parents' financial handouts, she refuses to give up her dreams of being an artist. She and her best friend Mary Beth live in a family beach house, and each woman also faces romantic obstacles. Ashley finds herself drawn to a charismatic, good looking state senator who exudes a predatory dominance.
As the book summary asks, where is Clayton? Well, he's in New York, entangled in an affair. He is not just physically absent from the home, but – more critically – emotionally.
The telling of these women's (and Clayton's) stories is told with Frank's typical wit and breezy Southern charm. But it doesn't feel fulfilling like some of her previous books. Clayton's story arc resolves particularly quickly and without the messiness you expect. Other than providing a stock character presence, Maisie is also incidental. She passes judgment – both good and bad – but even the advice she dispenses is mediocre.
Where Frank's book finds its heart is with Liz and Ashley. Their mother-daughter dynamic is thinned to the breaking point, with Ashley's financial dependency just one point of contention. Liz bears several grudges against her daughter, but Frank draws Liz in such a way that we don't blame her for those. We empathize. Liz is a woman who has provided for everyone in her family, both in good ways and bad, and now she seeks something for herself, not the least of which is a faithful husband.
Ashley, too, is a character we understand. She's out of college, with a degree in something she loves but unable to make a living doing it. Mary Beth finds herself in the same position, and Frank is frank when it comes to forcing us to confront what happens to college graduates in today's economy. These are intelligent young women who want to work and earn a living, but circumstances have forced them to work for hourly pay. That Ashley is attracted to the senator is almost expected. He's almost an exotic figment in her artistic mind. But here is where Frank's story becomes not so much weak as disappointing. The unfolding of Ashley's relationship is not well done by Frank at all. After learning what we do through Liz, we deserve better than how Frank handles Ashley's romance.
That titular storm, meanwhile, hovers over the story, offering a potential threat. The thing about hurricanes is that they can be forecast. You can see when one is forming. Its track may be unpredictable – maybe it will veer off at the last minute – but you still prepare for it. You still have to fortify yourself and be ready to survive. And such it is with these Hurricane sisters. They see the storms forming; it's just a matter of preparing and surviving them.
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I have been practicing law for 38 years in Kane, Kendall, and DuPage counties. My practice is primarily family law. I and I alone will handle your case. You will not be passed over to someone else in the firm. I am your advisor, and I will keep you informed and advise you as to what the law is, what your options are, and what I believe we should do in your best interests. Together we will make decisions regarding your case and future.
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I received my Bachelor of Science degree from Western Illinois University and my J.D. degree from Southern Illinois University. I began my career as a prosecutor in the Kane County State's Attorney's Office, where I prosecuted major felonies.
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- Illinois, 1979
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- Family Law
- Court-Appointed Guardian ad Litem
- Court-Appointed Mediator
- Mediator appointed per Parties' Parenting Plans or chosen by Parties
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- Kane County Bar Association
- Former Chairman of Family Law Committee (2003-2005)
- Kendall County Bar Association
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- 10 Best Lawyers, American Institute of Family Law Attorneys, 2017-2018
- Lead Counsel Rated, Family Law, 2018
- AV Preeminent Rating, Martindale-Hubbell, 2017
- 2005 Pro Bono Lawyer of the Year, Kane County
- 10.0 Rating, Avvo
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- Frequent Speaker at Kane County Bar Association Seminars:
- Spring 2017 – Changes in the Child Support Statute (effective 7/1/17)
- Fall 2015 – Changes in the Maintenance (Alimony) Statute (effective 1/1/16)
- 2014 – Case Law Updates – Mental Health Act; Fees; Custody/Guardianship; Visitation in Paternity Cases
- 2014 – Bankruptcy Seminar – 503(g) Trusts and Mendiola
- 2013 – 750 ILCS 5/607, Best Interests of Child in Establishing Parent/Child Relationship and Paying Support
- 2012 – GAL Seminar, Presenting Evidence and Preparing Exhibits for Trial
- 2008 – Privilege/5th Amendment Rights
- Southern Illinois University School of Law (1979)
- Western Illinois University (1976)
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- Former Kane County Assistant State's Attorney, 1979-1981


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5:00 p.m. Update:Sheriff's Office investigators have identified a suspect in this incident.26-year-old Alarius Montreal Liles is believed to have shot Brian Swaringen* in his home on Monday night.Liles is wanted on charges of shooting into an occupied dwelling and attempted murder. Liles has connections to the Mebane, NC area and may have left Durham County. Please contact Det. R.P. Lounsberry ofthe Durham County Sheriff's Office if you have information onAlarius Liles by calling 919-560-0900.
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Lillian Anna (Hoffman) Siclari, 87, of Brookmont Health Care Center in Effort, died on Saturday morning, Dec. 29, at Brookmont.
Born in Patterson, N.J., she was the daughter of the late Otto and Mary (Reiner) Hoffman.
She moved to Staten Island, N.Y., in the early 1940s, where she married her husband, the late Charles Siclari.
She was an accomplished country music singer and guitar player, singing on the radio, in a band with her husband and in nightclubs. She also sang with her two sisters.
She is survived by her two sons, Charles Siclari and his wife, Joanie, of New Jersey and Robert C. Siclari and his wife, Dawn, of Long Pond; a daughter, Lillian D. Siclari of Lansford; and a grandson, Charles Siclari.
There will be a viewing from 6 to 8 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 3, at the Bolock Funeral Home, corner of routes 940 and 390, Paradise Valley. There will be a blessing service at 8 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 3, at the funeral home. Interment will take place on Friday, Jan. 4, at the Moravian Cemetery in Staten Island, N.Y.


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In this work a novel theoretical and computational method for computing electroweak beta decay spectra of medium and heavy-mass nuclei, as well as the electronic structure of atomic and molecular systems is developed. In particular, starting from the phenomenological electroweak interaction of the Standard Model (SM) of particles, a general expression of the beta decay rate was derived. Relativistic effects are taken into account by solving the many-electron Dirac equation from first-principles. Furthermore, an extension of this approach to include the nucleon-nucleon interaction at the same level of theory of the electronic correlations has been devised. It is shown that post-collisional effects, and to a lesser extent the electronic exchange and correlation, can modify significantly the cross-section only at low energies (<10 keV), while nuclear correlations considerably affect the lineshape of both the absorption and emission spectra particularly in odd-odd nuclear transitions, where the independent particle approximation, on which the nuclear shell model is framed, is more likely to fail. These findings demonstrate the importance of moving beyond the independent particle picture to obtain an accurate description of the experimental data by adding the many-body correlations between the spectator and participator hadrons and leptons involved in the decay. The application of our approach to a number of test cases, such as the modeling of beta decay of 36Cl, 63Ni, 129I, 210Bi, 241Pu and of the electron capture of 138La3+, leads to an extremely good agreement with the relevant experimental data. Finally, the extension of this method to atomic and molecular systems by calculating the electronic structures of 138La3+ and several isomers (MgCN, MgNC) and molecules (HMgCN, MgCNO, and BrCF3) relevant to astrophysical scenarios is presented. This method, which is capable to deal with both nucleonic and electronic degrees of freedom, has far-reaching implications also in neutrino physics and nuclear astrophysics.
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If all goes well, there will be a brand new B school housed in the city of Kolkata. The Jadavpur University is most likely to start a post graduate degree awarding b-school and also a law school, that will start functioning from the 2015 academic session. The law school will be on the line of the national law schools of the country.
The groundwork regarding both the b-school and the law school are underway. For the broad framework of the b-school, institutions like IIM Calcutta, XLRI, Jamshedpur and XIM Bhubaneshwar, have already been contacted. Similarly, for the law school, JU is in touch with the National University for Juridical Sciences (NUJS).
Interim vice chancellor of JU, Abhijit Chakraborty, who is about to take up his position as the full time VC of the university confirmed this. "We did have a few management programmes but they were not full scale MBA programmes like the IIMs have. The JU b-school, will have full fledged two year mamanagement programmes that will award MBA degrees to students. This university has arts, science and technology faculties but we always felt that management and law studies were two areas which were wanting here and which would make us complete," Chakraborty said.
"We are presently studying the syllabus of both the IIMs and the Xavier's run b-schools like XLRI and XIMB. We hope to distil the best from what they are teaching in our two year course curriculum," he added. The university will make use of the National Instruments Laboratory campus opposite the original Jadavpur campus to house both the b-school and the law school. The huge NIL campus had been lying in a dysfunctional state and JU had taken possession of it a few years back. "We have tied up with the DRDO for research at the NIL campus already. The understanding is that the DRDO will spruce up the campus and maintain it for us in return for using half of it. The remaining half will be used by us for the b-school and law school," Chakraborty explained.
While JU will go ahead with its plans for setting up the b-school immediately, the law school will have to wait till the 2016 academic session.


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CHICO >> Maxine LeClerc concentrates on the video feed from the underwater camera pointed at her legs, which run on a treadmill 41/2 feet below the surface of the water.
One of LeClerc's knees is bandaged, a result of lymphedema from the radiation therapy that treated her cancer but continued to cause her pain.
"This has taken my swelling away and my pain away," she said before her session in the pool Wednesday at Chico Hydrotherapy Center. "And I just feel good."
LeClerc and the other customers who use the aquatic therapy pool are extremely happy with the results, said Skip Phairas, owner of Chico Hydrotherapy Center.
The storefront looks like just a small waiting room at 555 Flying V Street, off Forest Avenue. When customers go in the back, it opens into a large area decorated with a mural, plants and candles, which Phairas calls a "premier Mediterranean spa." Men's and women's locker rooms allow private changing before climbing the steps or riding the disabled lift to the HydroWorx brand pool.
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The pool itself is 14 feet by 7 feet and 41/2 feet deep. It has a treadmill and resistance jets controlled by remote. An underwater camera shows the trainers and the people in the pool how they are moving in real time, allowing for adjustments and improvements.
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Yes, the new health care law was made with good intentiions by the people in washington, but it is looked at as a real bad thing by all of the people in the US. This shows that you can be just trying to help but it may end up bad.
I think that when it comes to politics, bad outcomes can be justified with good intentions. I think that people will be willing to forgive if policies don't work if the politician had intended to make it work with good intentions. It's important to realize that ideas and plans don't always work.
The outcome is ultimately what matters, and even entering a situation with the best of intentions doesn't mean anything if the outcome is ultimately a failure This is especially true of politics, where a bad outcome can cause devastating consequences to the overall stability of a functioning society that the government is meant to uphold.
No, good intentions do not justify bad outcomes. Politicians are responsible for a huge number of citizens, and they are elected to get results, not to make excuses. If a bad outcome results because a well-intentioned politician was not skilled enough, it doesn't justify that politician's lack of success, and the politician will usually suffer for it in the polls.
No, I do not believe that bad outcomes can be justified with good intentions, in terms of politics, because it is the politicians job to have the good judgment to pass laws that lead to good outcomes. A person doesn't get to keep any other kind of job by having good intentions.