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Is there a way to detect at compile-time if a class has a vtable or not? I am trying to ensure a class is aligned to 64-byte boundaries and is 64 bytes in length. Adding a vtable increases the class size to 128 bytes.
class __attribute__((aligned(64))) C
int64_t iValue;
char iPadding[64 - sizeof(int64_t)];
This is fine. However
class __attribute__((aligned(64))) C
virtual ~C() {}
int64_t iValue;
char iPadding[64 - sizeof(int64_t)];
screws things up.
aligned also pads, not just controls location.
__declspec(align()) seems to do the same!
Edit: Still bamboozled. After putting a check in the constructor of
C that checks that
this is divisible by 64 and
throw an exception if it's not, I'm getting exceptions. Initially I though it might have to do with having instances of
C on the stack, but after changing them to being heap-based the alignment check is still failing. I'll just fall back to a factory function that calls
posix_memalign and do in-place
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Vic Biorseth, Friday, March 20, 2009
I submit that doing or directing the public education of citizens exceeds the authorized scope and delimited authority and reach of the United States government. Doing or directing any formal education within our borders is not in accordance with the limitations and duties of our government, as explicitly spelled out in our Constitution, which defines the organization of and limitation upon the government of our Republic. formal education is not what we instituted and Constituted our government to do. Taking command of any part of formal education in the name of "Public Education" or "National Education" or any other name is far beyond the Constitutionally authorized scope of our government, and attempts to do so represent gross political over-reaching, government intrusions into the private sector and direct government interference within the strictly private sphere of the free market.
When "we the people" ordained and established the Constitution for the United States of America, we specifically defined and delimited the organization, operation, authority, responsibility and scope or our own government, as well as our own citizen rights. The first of those citizen rights, secured to ourselves and to our posterity, is the blessings of Liberty, spelled out right there in the Preamble of our Constitution. Our government is established to serve us, not the other way round, and our government has never been authorized to suddenly, incrementally or gradually increase limitations on our liberty or on the liberty of our posterity. Liberty means freedom, not subservience.
Citizen freedom means, in the most realistic and practical sense, freedom of the family. Citizen freedom is granted to "responsible units" of the society, meaning competent adults. Competent adults who enjoy the blessings of liberty assume first responsibility for less competent members of the family, meaning children and less competent adults. First responsibility necessarily means first and primary authority, not secondary, whether to the government, the "village" or to any other entity. No one is authorized by us to interfere with parental rights to first authority and responsibility over their own children and less competent members of their own families.
Liberty in America requires two major elements that government, at any level, should not obstruct, hinder or interfere with.
First, the proper functioning of our free country as Constituted requires a predominantly moral population of citizens. America since her birth has been a Christian nation, founded by Christians and overwhelmingly populated by Christians, who guide their lives by the enduring Judeo-Christian Ethos of Western Civilization. That Ethos is the historical basis for Western Civilization Common Law, and it forms the very foundation upon which our own American Civil Law stands.
The written words of our own founding fathers confirm that the proper functioning of the American Republic requires a highly moral people. Those who say that we cannot Legislate Morality are wrong; morality is precisely what has historically been legislated, and what needs to be legislated. The sole alternative to legislating morality is legislating immorality.
Second, the proper functioning of our free country as Constituted relies primarily on the free and voluntary exchange among free individuals and free non-government entities or organizations for all economic activity. This means a free and open free market exchange economy. The only role of government in this free market exchange is to preserve the fair competition by enforcing the rules of the game. Meaning, government needs to enforce valid contracts, prevent coercion and otherwise keep markets free. Government intervention is otherwise only valid when correcting market factors that restrict free competition, such as monopoly, or any other such free market hindrance that renders free and voluntary exchange to be restricted, unfair or impossible.
I submit that the term "Public Education" is grossly misleading, because what it refers to is in fact "Government Education." All levels of government, including the Federal government, are deeply involved in tightly and completely controlling and running so-called "public" education. The school buildings and facilities are government owned. The land the schools stand on is government property. Every person who works on the property or in the buildings or facilities is a government employee. All public school teachers and administrative staff are government employees.
In direct violation of the Rule of Subsidiarity, higher levels of government direct and control specifically what is to be taught to children by lower and more local levels of government. This is dictatorial government from above; parents and families, and even teachers are remote from the process and are unable to face the dictators in the open public square. The rules are given by faceless and nameless regulators and bureaucrats who have assumed authority over, but are not subject to, the jurisdiction in which their dictatorial rules are daily applied.
When the federal government distributes money from its tax revenues to the various states, and when state government distributes money from the federal disbursements and/or form its own tax revenues to local school districts, that money comes, as it always does, with strings attached. These funds often become addictive, in that the local school district could never raise that kind of money by taxing the local voters whom they have to face in the town hall. When the lower level government gets big money it tends to spend it, not save it. This spending is habit forming. Local government educational bureaucracy grows fat, dependent and lazy, since it does not have to compete or even show excellence in performance to keep getting the seemingly guaranteed money.
Government school teachers display gross incompetence in their product, which is supposed to be educated children. Teachers have not only morphed into typical petty bureaucrats with pointless (but important!) positions, but they are all – as in, every single one of them – Unionized petty bureaucrats. The National Education Association (NEA) teacher's union is a thoroughly Marxist organization that exists for the purpose of staying in existence, increasing pay and benefits and doing less. Which sort of describes what all unions do. It also very successfully makes it nearly impossible for any member to be fired or even reprimanded for incompetence or even not showing up for work, or for anything at all, including even complete illiteracy.
(Believe it or not, there actually has been a case of a long time teacher admitting the inability to read, and who's teaching job was successfully protected by the NEA.)
Our government, at any level, but most particularly at the federal level, has no business whatsoever trying to educate children. That's not what we instituted our government to do; formal education is far beyond the proper scope of our government. American citizens were better educated before government invaded the private sector and largely took over formative education. Note well that Lincoln was a lawyer, that he never went to law school, that he was largely self-educated, and that that was a fairly typical situation in that era.
Examination, over time, of letters home from soldiers in the field, including those written by soldiers from backwoods, farm and small town backgrounds, show a quite stunning decline in penmanship, vocabulary, command of language and the simple ability to fully communicate a thought. The same may be said for meticulously maintained hand-written store ledgers and counter clerk's records. Comparing such records between, say, the Revolutionary War and World War II Makes the World War II era look to be populated largely by semi-literate dunces. No offense intended to the World War II generation; today's generation is far worse educated than they were. It clearly gets worse over time. We are being systematically dumbed-down.
The need for the government to indoctrinate the masses – note that American Leftists (meaning Marxists) no longer use the word indoctrinate but replace it with the word educate – did not originate with our founders and may not be found in any founding documents. It originated in Marx and Engle's Communist Manifesto. Again, see the Marxism page for more details.
Over time, American public school students are taught what to think, rather than how to think. The quasi-religion of Darwinist Evolutionary Theory is a perfect example subject. With no empirical evidence whatsoever to support it, it is taught as dogma, and students are very nearly prohibited from thinking about it.
It is in the government schools and the government schools alone that the religion of the majority of the population is banned and restricted from any exercise or even expression of itself. The government school system seeks to accomplish the secularization, i.e., religious cleansing of America's school children, acting against the will (and the liberty) of the vast majority of American parents and families.
It is in the government schools and the government schools alone that the ever increasingly disgusting subject of sex education is force-fed to children from grades K to 12. This "education" amounts to how-to classes on the mechanics of safe fornication, protected sodomy, responsible promiscuity and discreet adultery. It includes inculcating in young minds the normalization and "mainstreaming" of homosexuality. This, too, acts against the will (and the liberty) of the vast majority of American parents and families.
Compared to home-schooled children, and compared to private-schooled and parochial-schooled children, the so-called "public"-schooled children are shown to be so poorly educated as to rank their education as abysmal. Compared to other nations, including third-world nations, they come out horribly behind. More tax money is spent on them per child than in any other nation, and, I would bet, than in private schools. They still come out something like 28th among nations. Twenty seven other countries educate their children better than does the American government school system, which consumes more wealth on education than probably any ten of them combined.
What our government schools are cranking out, for the most part, is irreligious, immoral little semi-literates, reading four or five or even more grades lower than the one they are in or graduated from, unable to formulate a coherent and grammatically correct English sentence, unable to work simple long divisions, ignorant in geography and history, and so forth.
Privatize 'em! Or shut 'em down. The U.S. Department of Education has no valid reason to exist. Probably few State departments of education need to be anywhere near as large as they are, if indeed they need to continue to exist at all. These "education" tax supported governmental behemoths are classic examples of the illegitimate, corrupt and corrupting Legislative Earmarks that fill the giant Political Pork Barrel, round which gather the politicos, lobbyists, skimmers and other more sinister characters, like the true Marxists.
How to do it?
First, pass the Fair Tax. Doing this one thing would eliminate at least the educational portion of the currently existing pork barrel, and remove the political club that higher levels of government currently hold over the lower levels.
Second, adopt a Voucher system in which vouchers, or coupons redeemable by educators or educating institutions in cash, to parents of school-aged children, one voucher per child, sufficient to pay for one month's education tuition, a flat fee to be determined. If tuition at the school of choice costs more, the parents would be required to make up the difference. The parents who receive vouchers would be identified by the same government filing used to get the Fair Tax Pre-bate. Under Fair Tax, people annually file for their monthly Pre-bate government check, with information regarding families and household make-up.
Government vouchers go to parents, parents give them to the educator or educational institution of their choice, be it a private school, a parochial school, the successful home-school-er across the street, or a formerly government, and now really Public school. The educator goes to the government and exchanges the voucher for cash. People who home-school their children would be able to cash their own school vouchers in, just as if they were a school.
Formerly government but now public schools would open for business the next day, same as always. All the NEA teachers would show up for work, ready to teach, or occupy space, or take a bad-hair day, or whatever else their union allows them to do. If any parents show up with vouchers, they stay in business, so long as parents keep showing up monthly with vouchers. Parents are free to take their monthly vouchers to any other educational facility at any time. This means that the public schools would either find a way to get competitive or go out of business, just like every other potential voucher recipient.
Parents would be driving the bus. Teachers would be working for parents, not the government.
The whole process would be simplified, which is something that should absolutely exacerbate the resulting frothy, foaming flummox of the Marxists. (I mean Democrats.)
Addendum 07/13/2014:
Uppon further reflection, the Voucher solution might be another opportunity for unprincipled politicians to collude with crony-capitalists, as well as criminally-inclined citizens, to "game the system" and defraud the taxpayers again. Vouchers in parent's hands should be replaced by tax dollars in parent's hands. Once the permanent Fair Tax is passed, or the temporary "sun-setted" Fast-Track Fair tax is passed, and the Dept of Education is cut off completely, that whole budgetary item is open for either return to citizens through the Fair Tax "Prebate" or through a simple tax cut.
While not impossible, currency is far more difficult to counterfeit than Vouchers.
A good tool for home-schoolers: http://www.printnpractice.com/
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People with power have always maintained the dominion with an attitude they ignore jurisdiction-ethics and supported the most profitable end when to serve the union of their limited republican democracy pledge as constituted.
We all experience the personality of our governing regimes and we know about justice in our system; that it has not served human nature to allow any business to become a monopoly. It has cost me my life savings to learn about the nature of our creation ...
After 7 years I have invested enough in this nations master to realize the God of our nature controls our future. As a station without identification any of us can clearly report without export of our allegiance. Education being paramount but the patriarchs of our biological heritage I fear have been defeated and infected, forced to follow the yellow brick road, built by the incorporation of legal fiction...a judicial affliction of church being the state, they collide in the word cong. What we worship we also congregate about in formal discretion. Money and politics don't mix add the power to control the justice system, financial institutions and our parent station "the lion" will be our equal.
There are two parallels in our history Rome- eagle and Egypt- the lion sphinx; human intelligence and the ends of time where Jesus disrespected taxation and the authority of another human representing the dominion of human nature ~ A young perspective… My perspective; the death of our liberty should cause our heart to be reborn withstanding what lies have become of us.
Our savior in twilight of "the greater understanding" ~ a greater glory (I fear late charges) placing more faith in mottos could require a much greater cost than any battle we ever lost.
I don't find beginnings or endings in Big Bangs relevant to my evolution of understanding the nature of Gods creation and heaven on earth ~ just understanding!
Date: Tue Oct 05 18:15:18 2010
From: Vic Biorseth
OK. (I think.)
Date: Sat Mar 17 12:05:49 2012
From: Dr. J. Scott Lewis
Email: email@example.com
Location: Harrisburg, PA
I agree with almost everything you say. However, you lost my interest with your comment on Darwinism. There is, in point of fact, considerable evidence of its truth. There are volumes of documentation not only of past evolution; but it has also been documented in action. Comments against Darwinism without a real working knowledge of the premises and evidence of the theory detract from the stronger message that you send about public schools. When you demonstrate ignorance in one area where ignorance should not be present, many people (correctly or incorrectly) will presume ignorance of the main points you seek to defend.
Date: Sat Mar 17 12:56:17 2012
From: Vic Biorseth
Dr. Lewis:
There is no such evidence for Darwinism. If you have found some, you will have to show it to me, and submit it for peer review. Please don't talk to me about micro-evolution; the title of Darwin's theory is the Evolution of Species, not the evolution of color varieties in moths, or temporary changes in finch beaks, or more and less wooly breeds of sheep. Or any cases in which the species have not changed. Darwin's theory addresses macro-evolution, or, speciation. A new species is defined as one that can naturally reproduce itself, but can no longer interbreed with the parent species from which it "evolved," and thus it is a new species. No such natural speciation event has ever been observed by man or discovered in the fossil record.
I refer you to the Refuting Darwin page and all the linked articles you will find in the right-column of that page. Pay particular attention to the first one, which is the Origin of Species page. There you will see that the scientific method has never even been properly applied to Darwin's theory. Now, that's kind of a bold statement, would you not agree?
I stand ready to examine any solid empirical evidences of any natural speciation event, just as soon as anyone presents it.
Date: Wed Apr 04 18:03:19 2012
From: Anna Asher
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I'm hoping your solution also includes dumping the government imposed "standards" ?
Date: Wed Apr 04 18:56:52 2012
From: Vic Biorseth
Right; if there's no more Department of Education, there are no more Dept. of Ed. unlegislated and unrepresentative regulations, and there are no more unelected and unaccountable bureaucrats still employed to make new ones. Of course, that's at the federal level. Any "standards" established by your state or local government may still need to be dealt with.
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Argument against Public Education, which is, in fact, Government Indoctrination. Public Education equals State Indoctrination, pure and simple. Education is beyond the scope of government and not what our government is constituted to do.
Are our federal bureaucracies all malignant outgrowths of Marxism? Any extra-Constitutional government agency is likely to be a malignant outgrowth of Marxism.
My Proposed Constitutional Amendment to neutralize the enemy within. A proposed Constitutional Amendment to get anti-Constitutionalists out of power and authority.
The process of becoming a Godless Nation is the sure path to National Insanity. The Godless Nation: Can a totally secularized people even know right from wrong?
Regarding The President We Need, The President We Deserve, and God's Judgment. I can describe the President we need; what we have now is the President we deserve.
Compromise with Evil begins the ultimate death spiral. Compromise on any Vital Principle leads to death, for individual souls and for cultures.
Tolerating intolerance of America is what Americans are being trained to do. In tolerating intolerance of themselves some Americans think they are proving something or other.
Why is this American Christian nation not called a Christian nation? This American Christian nation is oddly referred to as something other than a Christian nation. Why?
Chastity Vs. The Modern World: Signs of a Culture in Decline. Looking more closely at what is REALLY at the heart of American political debate today.
The Chastity Vs Sophistication division: Wisdom Vs Elitist Celebritwittery. 'Naïve' Chastity Vs Sophistication of the Elite. Lechery, promiscuity, perversion are Sophisticated; chastity equates to naiveté. See?
Of Lies and Liars: All the devil's lies, and all the devil's liars cannot make a new truth. He can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but he can't fool all of the people all of the time.
Constitutionalism: Sovereign Citizenship and Limited Representative Government. The philosophy that government derives authority from citizens and is permanently limited is called Constitutionalism.
A minority tail furiously wags a majority dog unto death. In bending over backwards to mollify and molly-codle minorities, the majority forgets it is the majority.
The Christ-centered life, the godless life, and the inevitable ungodly life. When any Godly nation moves into godlessness, the inevitable end is an ungodly nation.
American survival requires bold, take it to the enemy leadership. What we need is radical, revolutionary take it to the enemy leadership just for national survival itself.
Undoing the damage and righting the wrongs, wherever possible. Undoing the damage must follow national survival (assuming national survival.)
American Foreign Policy: what it was, what it is, what it should be. Obamunists and Marxocrats turned American foreign policy into an absolute travesty.
General Commentary Pages
Various unrelated topics that stirred thought and provoked writing (or quoting) at one time or another. The Everything Else Bucket.
Undoing Evil: Unraveling the sly "Good Intentions" destroying the West. Undoing Evil means reversing Political Correctness and Amorality, and returning to Pure Meritocricy.
Letter to an American Warrior, from an old American Citizen, with Love. An old man's advice to a young man, sent in a letter to an American Warrior.
The Judas Complex: How a traitor may not recognized his own treason. The Judas Complex explains how Judas Iscariot - like many a modern day Bishop - compromised with the world.
Christmas 2014: Hope is Reborn; Salvation has come into the world. The Christmas 2014 Turning Point: The Kingdom is upon us; our King is among us.
A Personal Relationship with Jesus Christ deepens faith and faith commitment. A Personal Relationship with America deepens love of country and patriotic commitment.
Work at home jobs that have had me. A long, costly and unsuccessful run at work from home jobs that didn't work for us.
Truth versus Agenda addresses the simplest of problems greatly complexified. Truth versus Agenda examines the contest between reality and its opposition.
Vic has Iron Weights for sale; Mama says they have to go. Lots of iron weights for sale; all have to go at once, in one sale.
My poor old truck is again starting to look like a poor old truck. After half-a-million miles, we're now approaching another decision time; another paint job, or a new truck.
A Palin Parker Ticket? My Dream Candidates for 2012. Why a Palin Parker ticket is better than any professional politician Republican ticket you can come up with for 2012.
Elitism Vs Palinism: Why the Left and the Elites Loath and Fear Sarah Palin. It isn't just Marxism Vs Palinism; it's also established intellectual elitism vs Palinism. The elite need someone to look down upon.
Here we see Bush family class captured in a simple private citizen's photo. George W. (and Mrs.) Bush quietly demonstrate Bush family class without hoopla or fanfare.
Marxists love crisis, and they love an oil spill crisis most of all. Marxists even create and drive crisis. Their favorite crisis of all must be the Oil Spill Crisis, which is even better than a Banking Crisis.
The Godless Left leads the young and naive to their utopian Hell. For an honest comparison of the effects on youth, we need to look to the history of the Godless Left versus the Religious Right.
On Threats to America's National Existence. A look at the nature of our national existence, what makes us America, physical threats to that, and the possibility of just going out of existence.
On the ethics of language: English dictionary Vs. Political-Correctness taboos. Language evolves, yet morals are (or should be) fixed. This poses questions re the ethics of language.
Thinking Catholic direction: threats to America, Church, Ethos, even History. The Thinking Catholic Direction is multi-faceted, facing threats to American National Existence, Catholic Liturgy, our common Guiding Ethos - emphasis changes to meet the threat of the moment.
The website is going on hold for at least the next five weeks. Business calls, and I must respond. Will be traveling, and not taking the laptop this time.
Current Website Status. Still too busy for individual responses to questions, comments & criticisms.
Our 2006 Ohio Voter Guide. The choices are quite clear, and the 2006 Ohio Voter Guide was easy to produce.
On carrying my Lord, Jesus Christ, in my pocket. As a Eucharistic Minister, I am on occasion carrying the Lord Jesus in my pocket. It's a wondrous thing.
A 2006 Christmas and Hanukkah wish. May the Holy Days we celebrate remind us all of who we are, and how we are different from other peoples.
Current Democratic Party platform reveals anti-Semitic streak among Liberals. In their voting, their speechifying, and in the slant of their controlled mainstream media reporting, the current Democratic Party Platform is made clear to all observers.
The "Left", and The DaVinci Code, The Passion, and Cartoons of Mohammed. You can tell a lot about a movement by its public words. The Passion? "Unreservedly Bad." The DaVinci Code? "Unreservedly Good." Anything to do with Islam? "No Comment."
Home For Christmas 2008. Website Getting Active Again
Hydrogen power could be, and should be, the wave of our automotive future. Any move toward hydrogen power is a move toward a cleaner and more efficient fuel, and away from our dangerous dependency on oil.
Kerry lies again, and then lies about his lies, in concert with the SLIMC. There he goes again! Kerry lies again and again about American servicemen and veterans; he just can't help himself.
What's going on with Mel Gibson? Is he really an anti-Semite? I am surprised that Mel Gibson is an alcolholic. But I am never surprised at any words that come out of the mouth of any drunk.
Still Worrying Over NuVo Consequences. The Holidays have gone by, several days have passed, and the SANE NuVo Initiative still stands pat.
The Dem's October Surprise involves another flip-flop of their public "standard". The clearly pro-sodomy Party that openly seeks the "Gay" vote goes Victorian for another pre-election October Surprise ploy.
Some Problems with NuVo: the so-called Null-Vote Initiative. A "philosophical" movement aimed at keeping religious conservatives from voting? Seriously? Let me state my problems with NuVo.
Come, let us sit and reason together. Jews and Christians of various stripe and spot can say to each other, 'Come, let us sit and reason together.' But we can't do that with the Moslems.
Regarding SANE works dropping NuVo: Nul Vote Initiative dies with a whimper. If you can't really present a good argument, sit down. On SANE Works dropping the NuVo Initiative: a program that works hard to SOUND pro-American while ACTING to oppose American National Existence.
Even experts grossly underestimate the Marxist zeal of the American Left. The sharp Left turn happened in the Hoover-FDR era, and the Marxism of the American Left has been deepening ever since.
Thinking American, in a nutshell: When one has lots to say, but time is limited. The older I get, the busier I get. Answering multiple questions as a thinking American, but in a hurry.
"We are an Easter People, and Hallelujah is our Song." (John Paul the Great) Our absolutely unique and singular Easter story, and the incredible force with which it struck human history.
Witnessing, grieving and weeping for our dieing culture. What might it take to call a whole people back from the brink of cultural death?
So how come we have all these homeless people if our system is so great? The strong "Utopian Idealist" firmly believes that absolute worldly perfection is actually possible. Therefore, there should never be any such thing as a hungry or homeless person.
Taking a look at Illegal Imigration and Tax Problem solutions. In our view, the minimum wage and income tax have outlived their usefulness, and only contribute to the illegal alien problem.
First journal / blog entries when the thinking catholic blog first opened up. Notes to readers about what I was doing.
On-going WebSite work and planned WebPages as of 09/07/2006. Adding items to book store.
Vic's busted finger status - life goes on. Another busted finger status report, since the original one rolled off of the 50-entry BLOG update records.
Website Status as of 02/05/2009. No more Bookstore; no more Contact Me; no more complexity.
Website Status 03-09-2009. Just a note to bring you up to date on website status 03-09-2009.
Website Status 04/06/2009. Busy driving daily now; most website work will be weekend and as available.
The Plastic Bags and Eco Doom theory: will plastic bags end life as we know it? Plastic Bag and Eco Doom predictions tell us that plastic grocery and garbage bags will still be buried in the land fills and dumps a thousand years from now. Well … so what?
Farewell Smokey Biorseth; Rest In Peace. Hello Coal Biorseth; Welcome Home. As we were laying our beloved Smokey Biorseth to rest in his grave beside the lilies, a carbon-copy of Smokey, in younger form, emerged from the lilies.
Honky Biorseth really runs this house. If you want to know what's in any cabinet in the house, just ask Honky Biorseth.
More Marxist infiltration of higher education. Public school and the media are not the only places dominated by Marxist thought; even Catholic institutions are infected.
Of Families and Fortunes, and Inheritance Vs. Redistribution. Families and Fortunes are despised by Marxists, because Marxism demonizes the family, demonizes fortunes, and even demonizes profit.
Website Status Update 11/09/10. Just a Website status update; where we are and where we're going.
Regarding the 2010 Tax Deal Pledge Breaker: Pledge? What Pledge? How can Republican deal makers even face us? We need to hang a Tea Party target on all professional politicians for 2012.
Pray for peace in Jerusalem, and for deliverance of Israel from harm. To pray for peace in Jerusalem is to pray for deliverance from Obama.
A tale of Promised Financial Melt-Down Debt Ceiling Nonsense and Happy Marxists. Everyone, on both sides, believes the Debt Ceiling Nonsense. Why?
Our Ohio voter Guide for the 2012 Election. The 2l012 Ohio Voter Guide – The Choices Have Never Been Clearer, or more critical.
Evangelization enters the animal kingdom with the first bear prayer. It is fitting that the first bear prayer would be a prayer of thanksgiving.
Is the Internet down in Lithuania? Sudden loss of Lithanian traffic suggests the internet is down in Lithuania.
The rise of the Femi Nazi Green Beret, and the decline of military victory. The first Femi Nazi Green Beret will be awarded out of fairness, not excellence.
Food Insurance: Is this stuff really any good? All of us conspiracy-theorizing, global-calamity doomsday-preppers need their Food Insurance.
We just had to try to do Robert Irvine's Plastic Wrapped Baby Back Ribs. Put plastic wrapped baby back ribs in the oven? What? Are you nuts?
Thoughts on the first Eucharist, established by the Last Supper. The first Eucharist was recognized by the Apostles for what it was on that holiest Holy Thursday.
Tea-Party-Candidates-04-18-2014. The Constitution is not going to be restored to legal preeminence unless we replace leadership incumbents of BOTH PARTIES.
Ecce homo; Behold the man. Ecce Homo. Behold the Innocent Lamb, who takes away the sins of the world.
When your system slows down or hangs, it's time for a Total System Reboot. America, the World, and even the Catholic Church may need a Total System Reboot.
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Any strategy games out there like ROTK or Nobunaga's Ambition?
ROTK = Romance of the Three Kingdoms
I really like those two game series, especially the ones most recent to the series released in NA.
I like the gigantic variety of officers that you're able to use and how they have skills (sometimes unique to them that can turn the tide in battle) and the city management aspect of these games is quite fun too.
Anyway, I've encountered similar series, but nothing in the same particular strategy vein as these two series.. Any ideas?
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I would be interested in finding some more like it to, ive been playing through ROTK 4 again and its reminding me how fun these games are.
Missed the good old heroes across time scenario. Get Crusader Kings 2 and Europa Universalis IV. I reckon CK2 is closer to ROTK as you have vassals that you ask to do stuff and sometines stab you in the back.
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ROTK is the bomb. I keep my play ROTKVIII and IX several times a year on my PS2.
Too bad they never had an english release on the PC.
Say what you want about Koei, they made excellent strategy games.
PSN: [cR]Hammerhead3229
Hammerhead6468 posted...
ROTK is the bomb. I keep my play ROTKVIII and IX several times a year on my PS2.
Bandit Kings of Ancient China, baby! One of my favorites.
And so he prophesied that the sheeple will follow the stupid, and the stupid will rule the Earth.
Boge posted...
Hammerhead6468 posted...ROTK is the bomb. I keep my play ROTKVIII and IX several times a year on my PS2.
What was the scenario about? I played Heroes Across Time on X(or I think it was XI?) scenario to death. Its the only one where you get to see Sima Yi fight against the three kingdoms and other factions such as Meng huo, Dong Zhuo and Lu Bu. The only annoying part is when you get your last cities to conquer then some of your vassals betray you.
AC new leaf FC: 1547-5212-4948. Name: Miiguel Town name: Tower
I would kill for an official localized PC version of ROTK X.
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Same, big fan of ROTK games too. Would love to play other games that share similar system to that series.
Man is not the creature of circumstances. Circumstances are the creatures of man.
It's so weird that they released Uncharted Waters Online in the US on the PC, but none of their recent strategy games.
"You may not believe this, but I was once a remarkable man,"
-Denny Crane
i loved ghengis kahn ....being able to get some of the smaller countries into empires.... although my cousin had some dislikes about the game since you sold your daughters off like cattle......
theres no point in telling me the wisdom of fool wont set me free"neworder
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Using python-requests and python-magic, I would like to test the mime-type of a web resource without fetching all its content (especially if this resource happens to be eg. an ogg file or a PDF file). Based on the result, I might decide to fetch it all. However calling the text method after having tested the mime-type only returns what hasn't been consumed yet. How could I test the mime-type without consuming the response content?
Below is my current code.
import requests
import magic
r = requests.get("http://www.december.com/html/demo/hello.html", prefetch=False)
mime = magic.from_buffer(r.iter_content(256).next(), mime=True)
if mime == "text/html":
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Nemesis Clash of the Immortals
Experience a fast paced puzzle game with RPG elements, tailored to the needs of every gamer.
Swap fast, act wisely and crush your opponents!
✦ Explore the first chapter of Odysseus, the King of Ithaca!
✦ Defeat fearsome creatures!
✦ Alternative art style that will blow your mind!
✦ Mythology meets Cyberpunk!
✦ Character upgrades, multiplayer elements and more legendary heroes like Hercules and Perseus are coming!
Stay Tuned!
Spirited Heart
Hack the system and destroy the core.
Hex with greater value, takes a hex with lesser value. If the values are equal, hexes remain in their own cells. For the core hex, user hex value is subtracted from the value of the core hex. Extra system hexes in one cell, are used to restore the neighboring empty cells. If the string has at least one empty cell, the values of all available hexes in this string become visible.
- over 8 quindecillion levels
- сlear and simple UI
- cyberpunk style
- achievements
- smart AI
Ball Eat Ball - Puzzle
Experience and overcome the challenges
A long time ago in another universe, a mysterious power created the cyan energy planets.
But they expanded too fast and destroyed the balance of the universe.
Your mission is controlling the orange energy ball to absorb all the cyan energy to recover the balance of the universe.
Be careful with the direction. This is your life, your destiny, your fate... this is your only chance, your one chance to make a difference in the universe, when you are gone, the universe is over!
New version
72 crazy levels
Control your ball to eat other balls.
The free version contains advertisements. If you don't like it, please buy the full version to support us.
Warning: Be careful if you play this game while you're so high, that is really CRAZY and FUNNY.
More from developer
The best dorm (that you can afford) at the greatest college (that would accept you) in the entire country (Not counting the parts that aren't here).
Okay, maybe we're overselling it. Either way, you're invited along with either Max or Anne as they make their way through the first year of their college experience.
They'll share their dorm life with four other tenants as they pick their class load, pick their jobs, and maybe even pick someone to have a little extra curricular fun with.
Neither of them can get through college without you, so who will you help? Rock god Max or Book-smart Anne?
Between bitter tenured professors and a ridiculously distracting student body, it's going to take everything they've got just to make it to year two.
Nicole is a dating sim that revolves around your day-to-day life as a college student. You can take up part-time jobs to earn money, explore various locations, do recreational and extra-curricular activities, and meet intriguing characters like Darren, Kurt, Jeff and Ted. You might even get to date the culprit!
Choose which actions to perform each day with a simple and intuitive interface. Improve Nicole's skills and keep her morale and energy well balanced, otherwise she won't be able to perform well in her daily activities.
The game features four male romance options and an additional four female romance options which will be released in a separate game version within a few months. You may focus solely on dating, or gather enough clues and solve the mystery to unlock an extra ending for each of the datable characters!
You can use items that can be bought from the in-game online shop or visit various locations within the game to perform certain actions, which can improve your stats and your relationship with the characters. At the end of the day, you'll get a summary of your progress.
What are you waiting for? Nicole needs your help!
Always Remember Me Free
Will you be able to make him remember again?
Or perhaps it's time to move on. Maybe Amy will fall in love with someone else?
It's up to you to decide. Play this life simulation game with dating sim elements and shape Amy's destiny.
Heileen 3: New Horizons Free
But that's only the beginning, because the story continues! You'll have a fixed amount of in-game time to unlock a romance or a profession ending! Do you have what it takes to make it?
The game plays like a raising/dating sim, in which you can learn several different skills and unlock advanced activities. The Virtues/Sins system of the second game is present as well, making every decision you take in the game shape Heileen's personality.
Winter In Fairbrook Free
Natalie has barely survived her first semester in college, and all she wants is a break. However, her parents insist that she start acting like a responsible adult and get a job during her school's winter break. In no time at all, Natalie's roommate sets her up with a job, and she's shipped off to the town of Fairbrook for a mundane job in a flower shop. What's a poor, tired student to do?
Play as Natalie and meet some of the characters of the first game like Clara, Susana, Steve, Trent, Jacob plus a "new entry": Ryan, who runs the general store of the town.
You can plan your weeks and who you spend time with using the weekly scheduler. Customize each week, spend time with who you like, or ignore everyone and work all day. Don't forget to take a break once in a while, or your health will suffer.
Take control of Natalie as she spends winter in Fairbrook raising flowers, making friends, and maybe even finding love!
ToA: Seasons Of The Wolf
In this role-playing game, set in the same fantasy world as the award-winning Loren the Amazon princess, you'll play as Shea or Althea, twins from the far-away village Ninim. In just the course of one year, you will experience many storylines and sidequests; situations and events where your own choices influence the very end of the game.
The twins' tale starts on a day like many others, when one of the siblings finds a young wolf and decides to take it with him/her. Thus begins the long journey which will take the siblings from the ice-shrouded Ninim to the desert-wrapped city of Dingirra to the storm-shrouded port of Shacklesplit. Explore the corruption-riddled halls of Dingirra, and contest with the crimelords who claim it as their own domain. Sail the high seas, battle mighty pirates, and discover their hidden treasures!
Travel alongside your old friend the ex-mercenary Vaelis, the illusionist Riley, the barbarian Krimm, the assassin Chalassa, the bard Jariel, and last, but not least, the crazy--ahem, the warlock Rowinda! As your relationships deepen, you may discover love with one of your companions. As you spend time together, you will find yourself influencing their very own storylines!
The game features 9 different classes, each with its own set of skills. With every level up, choose your attributes, each one having an impact on future battles. Fight a large variety of enemies in turn-based tactical battles and loot randomized items for a different game every time!
Those familiar with the Loren battle system will notice many changes, big and small, that make the battles more challenging. The view is now left to right, featuring bigger sprites both of your party and your enemies!
The largest improvement is the new isometric map! Divided into several zones, this gives the player a greater sense of immersion, and freedom of exploration. Discover all the locations and quests in each Season to earn additional experience.
As always, there are romances available for all tastes, both straight or homosexual.
The story, divided into four acts, or Seasons, will leave you wondering what happens next. But remember, no matter what happens, the theme of the story is 'Deceit'.
Spirited Heart Free To Play
Create your fantasy alter ego choosing between an apparently normal human, a cute elf and a wicked demoness. Every character has different starting attributes that will greatly influence the gameplay. They also behave differently in the various dialogue choices you'll encounter during the game.
Loren Amazon Princess Free
Because of store policies I can't publish the integral version which is available for desktop computers only on my site.
Loren The Amazon Princess is a fantasy epic combining intricate turn-based battles with a heroic tale of overcoming evil, with a twist!
In this tale, you play as a loyal servant of the hero rather than the hero herself.
Travel by Princess Loren's side as she searches for her lost mother, the Queen of the Amazons. Guide her choices and act as her valiant defender, meeting many colorful characters along the way.
As the journey progresses, everyone will grow and change: character development in games isn't dead! It's also impossible to see all the content in just one playthrough, with so many ways to customize the characters.
Heileen 2
- how exactly her parents died? was an accident, or not...?
- who is Marcus?
- what role had Jack in her life?
- and ultimately, what she wants to be? A saint, or a sinner?
The game features 15 unique endings and an enhanced version of the original quest system in Heileen with 20 quests. Try to solve them all to get the maximum score!
Planet Stronghold
You take the role of a young, new recruit that somehow gets assigned to the most well-known, and well-defended, human outpost in the whole galaxy: Planet Stronghold.
As the story goes on, you'll have to choose a side in a a war that will change the destiny of the planet, and of humankind, forever.
Love And Order Free To Play
This is the story of Dana Larose, a young woman starting her career as a secretary in the Crown Attorney's office. The office is both overworked and understaffed, so you'll have to work out whose projects you help with accordingly.
Will you be able to unravel the mystery being covered up, balance the stress of juggling overtime for everyone, and still manage to find love...?
Planet Stronghold Free To Play
You take the role of a young, new recruit that somehow gets assigned to the most well-known, and well-defended, human outpost in the whole galaxy: Planet Stronghold.
As the story goes on, you'll have to choose a side in a a war that will change the destiny of the planet, and of humankind, forever.
Summer In Fairbrook Free
Take control of Steve as he spends a summer in Fairbook, working on the farm, making new friends, and maintaining old relationships.
Heileen Free To Play
She has a quiet life, without any real problems. But one day, her uncle Otto, a famous english merchant, decides that it is time for a change, and forces her to follow him on a journey to the New World.
During the voyage, she'll meet old and new friends and discover lots of secrets, and ultimately find what really wants for herself.
Bionic Heart 2 Free To Play
The game is told from four different point of views:
- Luke, who is on Mars with his friends but he can't stop thinking about Tanya and what she told him
- Tom, who is on Mars too, but he has strong unconfessed feelings for Helen, Luke's girlfriend
- Tanya, who decided to stay on Earth to fight against Richard, but will she be able to do it alone?
- Tina, a honest police officers who has strong suspicion about Nanotech and wants to investigate.
Each character choices will change the outcome of the story.
Vera Blanc Ghost Free
Take on the role of Vera Blanc, a young and beautiful woman with an extraordinary power: the ability to read other people's minds!
Daughter of Emmanuel Blanc, one of the richest people on Earth, she left her life of luxury to use her powers to work alongside paranormal detective Brandon Mackey.
In the second episode, our heroine travels to a small village in central Italy. The town's legendary ghost seems like nothing more than a quaint story, but a string of murders and suicides all point to the castle's ghost, and locals are getting scared.
The game plays like a visual novel / adventure game with several different paths to solve the mystery, and a collection of challenging minigames.
Featuring innovative comic-style art, with over 200 unique panels, Vera Blanc immerses you in the world of the supernatural as you play the detective!
Will you be able to solve the mystery?


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Florida's wildlife officials decided to remove the manatee, which has a mild taste that readily adapts to recipes for beef, from the state's endangered-species list.
A 64-year-old mother and her 44-year-old son were arrested for running a gang that stole more than $100,000 worth of toothbrushes from Publix, Walmart, Walgreens, and CVS stores in Florida.
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Android App Lets You Steal Contactless Credit Card Data 221
from the get-mugged-without-breaking-a-sweat dept.
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I mean really, how idiotic do these companies need to be to make a system where the full Credit Card information is TRANSMITTED over the air with no authentication. Even a token would be more acceptable.
The Credit Card system is quite happy to take a loss on all the money they have to pay back with protection guarantees when consumers get scammed, instead of actually tackling the problem by inventing a SECURE SYSTEM that is impervious to skimming methods.
This app does not add any additional functionality that scammers don't already have, but a good highlight of how damn simple it is to do, while Mastercard/Visa and the financial institutions who use them do nothing.
Because I have had to implement credit card payments where the field was marked as required but never checked or stored anywhere. So, if you didn't fill it in or put in a random value, it worked perfectly fine and this was on sites doing millions in transactions per year.
There is also nothing in the contracts with processors that this is required, it is recommended but not required.
A lot of web companies are terribly afraid to turn away any customer because they might have to think for a second while making a purchase.
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Hands Down, the best belizean food my family and I on the entire island! This place make you imagine how the island once was but even better! We stayed on the north end and tried the different restaurants and this place was absolutely the best! Palapa Bar was nice over the water experience with average food. Coco locos is a nice swim up bar. Jolly Rogers, on the beach but not for kids. Lots of expensive food and owners kept smoking pot infront of us, bunch of loud drunks.
Pirates Villas- "Roadside Dump": Worlds Worst Bar
Absolutely the worst roadside bar ever- Can't believe my husband made me stop at this dump-Mosquitos and sand flies everywhere. There are lots of better choices if you want a bar- Palapa Bar is just up the road and is over the water. This place is just some seats beside a dusty road. Jolly Rogers Bar is almost across the street and is on the ocean. Go there.
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Jaguar's Temple Bar: Drink and Dance the night away
Located right in the middle of San Pedro, it's pretty much impossible to miss this 600 person capacity club. A huge jaguar head signals the entrance and once inside, the pulsating bass from the Friday night trance, hip hop and dance hall music hits the senses like a tsunami. The crowd is younger, which is to be expected, but the drinks are cheap. Students on spring break will likely call this place home. Other nights include laser light shows, karaoke, 70's music, dry ice and confetti blasts.
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Latino Club: Nice little Latin Club
Ann Marie mentioned to us this little Latin club with great Spanish music (Salsa, Merengue, Bachata and Regaton) so we decided to come by for a bit before heading to Jaguar's. There is no cover charge and we decided to check it out.
The club is small with very dark (purple, red) walls with a dance floor that must be about 10x14 (probably only about 10 people can dance at one time). The bar is small and is located in towards the back of the club and there are a few sofas along the wall with a small sitting area with a flat screen tv.
We walked in and decided to sit on one of the sofas and order a drink when the bar tender came over and chatted us up a bit. He then sent us some sort of blue drink in a shot glass which we were hesitant to try. Miriam and I took a quick sip and left the rest, Ann Marie decided to skip it.
We stayed here for about 1 hour, dancing with each other (the place was empty, except for 4 other ladies) and watching a kick-boxing-kick ass competition. The place was quite dead and we were quite disappointed, but figured it was still early.
We then made our way to Jaguar's at about 12:00 am.
Dress Code: Casual, dress as you wish.
Jaguar's Temple Club: Everyone comes here
This club was the last of our stop for the night and was actually recommended by every local we met. Apparently, this is really the only "true-club" in San Pedro and you will definitely mix it up here with locals and visitors alike. I did notice a lot of young (16-19) year old locals so I am not sure if they do any type of checking for ID, but they were well behaved, just out having some fun.
The music is a mix of everything you will find in clubs these days, espeically main stream music. They played a lot of latin, raggae and other sounds for the crowd.
The drinks were reasonable and the dance floor was pretty large. We had a good time and before we knew it it was time to make our way to the dock for the last Ferry out of San Pedro Town.
Dress Code: Casual, dress as you wish
Fido's Restaurant & Bar: Place to kick-off your night
We decided to go into San Pedro Town for a bit of nightlife and we didn't realize that everything really starts well after 12am, except at Fido's where everything starts early and ends early too!
Fido's is a bar/restaurant with live entertainment and a rowdy crowd as well. We decided to make our way to the bar for a few drinks before deciding where else to go when we bumped into someone we had seen on the Ferry ride into San Pedro. We chatted with Ann Marie for about an hour while killing some time before moving on with Ann Marie to our 2nd destination of the night.
Dress Code: Very casual, come as you want
Fidos: Biggest Palapa in town
This is THE place for live music on the island. Some nights its Reggea and some nights it's island style classic rock .
This is also a place to get out of the sun for a few hours in the afternoon.Have a few adult beverages under the shade of the huge palapa roof overhead.Eat some fritters and have a few Belikans while you people watch the comings and goings on the waterfront out back.
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Rest in Peace Bob Chapman. He
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Rest in Peace Bob Chapman. He was one of the good guys. This is one of my favorite clips from him which showed his moxy and guts to speak the absolute truth:
Bob Chapman: Kissinger & the Bushes Are Famous Pedophiles
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Citrus lights
I am new to all of this, so I apologize in advance.
I have 4 trees (Minneola Tangelo, Meyer Lemon, Owari Satsuma, Clementine De Nules).
Next winter I am thinking of trying the following set-up, as I do not have a bright south-facing window:
Moving my Trees into my unfinished (but dry and only 10 years old) basement. I am thinking of putting tinfoil on cardboard and setting them up behind the trees, to reflect light. Then I will set up a light(s) of some sort.
So first of all, do you all think these would be good conditions for my trees to grow in the winter?
Secondly, specifically what kind of light should I buy? I have searched the internet and I see references to regular fluorescent bulbs, 40W bulbs, specialized grow lights, "red" and "blue" lights etc. What would be the specific light bulbs I should buy?
Thank you all in advance, I'm a bit overwhelmed by all of the information I'm seeing and now really sure which is correct for dwarf citrus trees.
You can grow other varieties of fruits indoors as well as citrus. These trees like to be fed and using the proper formula will yield delicious fruits. The key ingredient in fertilizer for indoor citrus trees zinc, iron and magnesium. You can add these to your compost or buy a prepared fertilizer with these in the mix.


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Environmental Studies Awards
The environmental studies department at UCSC is proud to offer undergraduates and graduates the opportunity to earn awards and scholarships for their achievements. Each year several awards become available, from fall through spring quarter, and are open to all undergraduate students or environmental studies majors. Specific announcements regarding award opportunities will be made throughout the year via email announcements, postings in the department, and on the Quarterly Award Opportunities page.
The Kenneth S. Norris Center for Natural History is proud to offer the following award this Winter quarter:
Norris Center Natural History Project Award
This award of up to $1000* is being offered due to a generous gift of the David and Lucile Packard Foundation given to the Kenneth S. Norris Center for Natural History. The award is for registered UCSC undergraduate students (individual or group) involved in thesis or internship projects that enhance natural history** teaching and/or research; examples include, but are not limited to: natural history displays, field guides, research projects, or curricula. Criteria for selection will be based on the quality of the project statement; evidence a concrete product that will further natural history teaching and/or research, a record of natural history training through Natural History Field quarter, other natural history courses, or internships; scholastic record; and demonstrated initiative and potential for successful completion.
Deadline for Norris Center Natural History Project Award submission is 4pm Thursday, February 19th electronic submission to firstname.lastname@example.com
The Environmental Studies Department is proud to offer the following awards to registered students Winter quarter:
James Stuart Chanley Scholarship in Environmental Studies: In memory of James Stuart Chanley, an award of up to $1,000 will be given to a UCSC Environmental Studies major. This scholarship will be awarded to a student with financial need whose record demonstrates initiative and commitment to the environment and most closely resembles that of James Chanley (biography on back of application). Deadline: February 19, 2015 4pm, electronic submission to firstname.lastname@example.com
David Gaines Award in Environmental Studies: Up to $1000 will be given to a registered UCSC undergraduate or graduate student(s) in honor of David Gaines, founder of the Mono Lake Committee. The award is intended to cover expenses incurred for field projects that will make a significant contribution to the field of environmental studies by adding to our knowledge of a specific problem or by strengthening protection of the environment. Award(s) will be based on demonstrated initiative, feasibility of project, problem description and application of research to solution of the problem. Preference is given to Environmental Studies majors. Deadline: February 19, 2015 by 4pm, electronic submission to email@example.com
Special Opportunity Awards in Environmental Studies
The Environmental Studies department has (2) one-time scholarships of $2,000 each for registered ENVS majors who can demonstrate both academic merit and financial need. The department defines academic merit as indicated by performance in classes. Financial need: two outstanding, deserving students to help reduce their financial burden and enable them to achieve more in their studies. Funds can be used to support any of the costs associated with being a student, whether that is tuition, fees, or cost of living. Funds also may be used to support a research project, field study, the cost of equipment or supplies, or other academic endeavors.
Deadline: February 19, 2015 by 4pm to firstname.lastname@example.com
For Graduate Students:
The Environmental Studies Department at UCSC is pleased to offer two 1-quarter graduate fellowships for spring, summer, or fall 2014 to students who conduct interdisciplinary research on climate change or climate change and water issues. These funds are made possible by a generous donation from Benjamin and Ruth Hammett. Awards are available to graduate students in any department at UCSC. Priority will be given to students who: (1) are working with UCSC faculty in two different disciplines (ideally labs that have not collaborated extensively in the past), (2) whose projects show promise to provide pilot data to help secure additional outside funding, and (3) whose results have clear applications to environmental problem solving.
Deadline for ENVS award submissions is 4 p.m. February 19th, Thursday. Email submissions to firstname.lastname@example.com (include your last name and the award name when naming your file attachments, for example, jimenez_earthbound_application.pdf etc.).For more information about the scholarships and awards offered through the Environmental Studies Department email Lisa Birney at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Hey babes! The Beauty Blogazon's are back with another giveaway just in time to celebrate spring. The giveaway is for $350 on a VISA GC - imagine all the makeup you could buy! International entries are welcome :) Good luck, loves! xx
Wednesday, March 25, 2015
The Beauty Blogazon's Spring $350 Visa Giftcard Giveaway!
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Monday, March 23, 2015
Physician's Formula Eye Booster Instant Lash Extension Kit | Review
XO, Noelle Monday, March 23, 20152 Comments
This is a sponsored post for Physicians Formula through Condé Nast but all opinions are my own.
Eyelash extensions freak me out. I'm just going to come out and say it. Not how you thought I'd start a review post, huh? There's just something about tiny fibers going onto your lashes that makes my eyeballs shudder.
So when I was offered the chance to check out the new Physician's Formula Eye Booster™ Instant Lash Extension Kit, I was a bit hesitant but still curious. I mean, I've done this dance before and those fibers HURT if you get them in your eye. Why would anyone put themselves through that?
For beauty blogging reasons, of course to show that not every eyelash extensions kit is alike (oooh, spoiler alert)!
For starters, the fiber extensions are all-natural, made mostly from cellulose with panthenol, botanical extracts and Vitamin E. The mascara formula contains a lash-boosting peptide to also enhance your natural lashes while you're faking it.
|First, you apply the mascara like you would any other mascara.
|The next part is the tricky part: applying the extension fibers.
The process is pretty simple.
1.First, you apply the mascara like you would any other mascara. To me, the mascara by itself wasn't that impressive and the formula was a bit too thin for my liking. I felt like application was like walking a very thin line between nicely coated lashes and spider legs. Tread lightly, my beauty babes. It slightly lifted and curled my lashes.
2. The next part is the tricky part: applying the extension fibers. Alas, I have figured out a pretty foolproof plan without getting any fibers in your eyes. My first tip is to tap the wand over the tube so they'll fall back in or over the garbage can if you don't mind losing some fibers to get off the excess. The next tip is to apply the fibers to lashes looking down so your eye is not really open to have fibers fall into. You'll want to apply the fibers to wet lashes so they'll stick.
3. Lastly, apply another coat of mascara to seal the fibers in and you're good to go!
Before / After
No fibers falling out here! Honestly, guys, I was surprised how much I really like this kit. Needless to say, all fiber extension kits are not created equal. As a contact wearer, sometimes my eyes like to get all sensitive on me (and I don't mean sending me love notes) and can water easily. This mascara did not budge or smudge nor did it irritate my eyes at any part of the day. My favorite part is how they made my lashes look like falsies. Nothing makes a girl happier than the look of false lashes without all the glue hassle.
What about removal, you ask? I used my normal eye makeup remover with a cotton ball, closed my eye and massaged the ball down my lashes instead of rubbing it all around. I found that was the easiest and again, kind of promised a foolproof way to not get any fibers into my eyes.
Would you try a fiber extension kit? Which one is your favorite?
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Spring It On | Silky Smooth Legs with Gillette Venus Swirl + $20 Walmart GC Giveaway!
XO, Noelle Monday, March 23, 20151 Comment
Girls (and possibly guys who also enjoy smooth legs) - it's time to break our razors out of hibernation because Spring is officially here! (Can someone let New England know that because apparently we missed the memo for warmer weather.) Ahem.
I procrastinate shaving. It's time-consuming. I miss hard-to-reach areas. Sometimes I get those lovely, red bumps. I even nick myself if I rush - especially if my six month old lets me know my times up in his own special way (ie: screaming at the top of his lungs).
Behold, the Gillette Venus Swirl - a fab new contouring razor to shave every hair and leave your skin feel nice and smooth.
What makes the Venus Swirl incomparable to others is the new Flexiball technology. The Flexiball allows the razors to move and navigate in different directions to shave all those tricky spots with ease. Combine the Flexiball with the Venus Swirl's new Microfine Comb and five (!!!) contour blades for silky, smooth legs. Speaking of five blades, did you know that this razor has the thinnest edges EVER from Gillette? Talk about a super-close shave!
One of my most favorite features on this razor is the water-activated MoistureGlide Serum surrounding the blades. It promises a smooth shave every time and smells so, so good!
I recommend using this with Venus with a touch of Olay VioletSwirl shaving gel for the best shaving results. This shaving gel helps with a closer shave and leaves my skin feeling smooth and moisturized after I get out of the shower.
You can find all of the new Venus Swirl products at your local Walmart in the "shave" aisle.
I procrastinate shaving. It's time-consuming. I miss hard-to-reach areas. Sometimes I get those lovely, red bumps. I even nick myself if I rush - especially if my six month old lets me know my times up in his own special way (ie: screaming at the top of his lungs).
Well, procrastinate no longer!
Behold, the Gillette Venus Swirl - a fab new contouring razor to shave every hair and leave your skin feel nice and smooth.
I recommend using this with Venus with a touch of Olay VioletSwirl shaving gel for the best shaving results. This shaving gel helps with a closer shave and leaves my skin feeling smooth and moisturized after I get out of the shower.
You can find all of the new Venus Swirl products at your local Walmart in the "shave" aisle.
Enter to win a $20 gift card to Walmart and try the collection out for yourself!
This is a sponsored post for SheSpeaks/Gillette Venus. Opinions are always 100% my own.
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Tuesday, March 17, 2015
Nioxin | 30 Day Challenge for Thicker Hair
XO, Noelle Tuesday, March 17, 20153 Comments
I participated in the NIOXIN Challenge blog program as a member of One2One Network. I received compensation but all opinions are my own.
I decided to take the Nioxin 30 Day Challenge and put some oomph back into my sad, limp hair!
Nioxin is a hair range made specifically for thin hair and guarantees thicker hair in 30 days or your money back. There's six different systems made specifically for your hair type. Mine is System 3 which is for normal to thin-looking, chemically treated hair. It "amplifies hair texture while refreshing the scalp and providing moisture balance to the hair". All systems consist of three steps to get your hair thicker in all of 30 days!
The three-step process is SO easy to use and doesn't really differ from anything I don't do already in the shower so there's no inconvenience or extra time added by using this system.
1. Stage 3 Cleanser
So first I start with the cleanser which is just a really nice, light shampoo. It smells like a peppermint (which I love) but for those who aren't mint lovers, it's not too strong or overpowering where it would be a huge turn-off. I really liked that I could feel it working the first time I used it too. It feels tingly on the scalp the first couple of times but I've since gotten used to it and don't really feel it anymore. This cleanser helps remove follicle-clogging sebum, fatty acids and residues from the environment from the scalp skin and hair.
2. Stage 3 Scalp Therapy Conditioner
Next, I move onto the conditioner. This one is a super light-weight conditioner that helps control moisture balance as well as hair resilience. I actually like to use this starting at the roots and working my way up to my scalp. I leave it on for about five minutes and rinse. I absolutely love how light this is. My hair and conditioners usually aren't seen together because most conditioners are way too heavy for my hair and instantly make it very greasy. With this conditioner, my hair felt nice and soft. This also has the peppermint smell but, again, it isn't super overpowering.
3. Leave-In Scalp Treatment
Lastly, I end with the scalp treatment. After I'm all done shampooing and conditioning, I apply a small amount of this treatment onto my damp hair and then dry and style like normal. It contains antioxidants and botanicals to refresh your scalp. It's incredibly lightweight which plays nice with my hair and doesn't weigh it down and greasify it.
30 days (and a haircut later!), I'm done with the 30 day challenge and very, VERY impressed. The results of Nioxin actually gave me the confidence to cut my hair. Before, I would've never cut it because my long hair kind of gave me a false sense of thickness. I think it's safe to say the pictures speak for themselves. In the before picture, my hair was limp, thin and oily by the end of the day. The Nioxin has really cleansed my scalp of build up and, as you can see in the after, has way more oomph in it.
I would love to see you take the 30 Day Challenge and share your results on Nioxin's Facebook and/or Twitter with #NioxinChallenge!
Now's your chance to try the Nioxin 30 Day Challenge - Nioxin is giving my readers a chance to win their own 3-Step Hair System Kit ($44)! You can choose your own for your own hair type from the six systems available. 18+. US only. Good luck, babes! xx
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Friday, March 13, 2015
Saving Money | With T-Mobile's Simply Prepaid Samsung Avant
XO, Noelle Friday, March 13, 20151 Comment
This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #ChangingPrepaid #CollectiveBias
With a baby, a new house and a makeup addiction, sometimes it's really tough to cut corners and save money. I mean, do babies really need diapers? (Yes, yes they do.) It always seems like once we have a little extra jingle in our pocket, life happens and either the car needs a new part, baby needs new clothes (how can he be in nine month clothes one week and 12 month old clothes the next!?), a bill is unexpectedly high or a limited edition makeup collection launched (well, I am a beauty blogger after all).
While you can't control life's little surprises, I do have a way to make sure your cell phone bill isn't one of them!
Recently, I headed to Walmart to check out their prepaid phones and came across T-Mobile's Simply Prepaid plan. Introducing the T-Mobile Simply Prepaid plan at Walmart! For just $40 a month you can get 4G LTE data with unlimited talk and text. No hidden fees. No surprises. That means mama can buy that new lipstick, pay the rest of the bills AND buy a few new outfits for the baby!
Unfortunately, there are so many pre-paid plans out there that have hidden agendas with iffy networks, slow data and a pretty stinky selection of phones.
With T-Mobile's Simply Prepaid plan, you can get your choice of a high-speed data amount, unlimited talk/text and data and a great selection of phones. I picked up the Samsung Avant from the Simply Prepaid plan and have been lovin' it!
The Samsung Avant has an enhanced camera, 1.2GHz processor and this really cool, textured backing to the phone that reminds me of leather. The Samsung Avant is just one of the many smartphone options you have to chose from with the T-Mobile Simply Prepaid plan.
Owning a prepaid phone from T-Mobile's Simply Prepaid plan has really helped with saving money. We don't need to worry about any extra fees or hidden charges we'd normally face with a normal phone bill and can put that saved money towards something else - like that new mascara I had my eye on. Or bills. We'll go with bills.
How do you save money in your household? Do you think a prepaid phone would help save you money? What would you do with money saved?
1 comment : Labels: Collective Bias , Lifestyle , T-Mobile , Walmart
Thursday, March 12, 2015
Estée Lauder Double Wear Stay-In-Place Foundation | Review
XO, Noelle Thursday, March 12, 20151 Comment
Some foundations can be tricky. You have to be cool, calm and collected around it (kind of like winged eyeliner) or it can just crease, cake up or slide off your face with the slightest touch.
Where, oh where, can a girl find a foundation that just...won't? On top of that, I'm looking for the same foundation to be long-lasting, natural-looking, great in photos and great coverage.
Well, ladies and gents. I've found it!
I'm talking about the Estée Lauder Double Wear Stay-In-Place foundation!
This foundation promises 15 hours of wear time through heat, humidity and non-stop activity. It's oil-free, fragrance-free, non-acnegenic (won't clog pores) and has a nice natural, matte finish. YES, makeup gods, FINALLY a foundation that promises to do everything I want - all in one. Now, I've heard a lot about this foundation in the beauty world. It's the holy grail foundation for a lot of beauty gurus so I finally decided to give it a try.
I went down to my local Macy's and got a complimentary foundation match consultation using their iMatch System. She ended up matching me with 1N1 Ivory Nude which is the lightest neutral shade in the collection and matched perfectly with my skintone. I actually loved the way it looked so much I bought two!
From eight in the morning to nine at night, between running around after a newly-mobile six month old, doing laundry, running errands, dancing to Lion King's "Hakuna Matata" for the tenth time and doing Mickey Mouse's Hot Dog Dance, this foundation kept me looking super fresh-faced. This foundation DID NOT BUDGE which also kept the makeup on top of it in place.
I also really enjoyed knowing that there would be no transfer onto my little babe even with his new favorite game of "Grab Mommy's Nose"...and cheeks...and chin...and lips... I didn't have to worry about it getting all over him or transferring onto his clothes or skin.
Lastly, I love that you can control the coverage by the beauty tool that you use. With a foundation brush (like the one shown in the picture), you can get medium-full coverage. With a damp beauty sponge, you can get a nice, sheer finish. It's really nice to have a good foundation that you can do that with.
Overall: This foundation does every it says it does which is a huge deal for me. It's so hard to find a foundation that does it all and Estée Lauder's Double Wear Stay-In-Place Foundation does!
Lastly, I love that you can control the coverage by the beauty tool that you use. With a foundation brush (like the one shown in the picture), you can get medium-full coverage. With a damp beauty sponge, you can get a nice, sheer finish. It's really nice to have a good foundation that you can do that with.
Bare face || Face with Estée Lauder
Overall: This foundation does every it says it does which is a huge deal for me. It's so hard to find a foundation that does it all and Estée Lauder's Double Wear Stay-In-Place Foundation does!
Complimentary product and compensation was provided from Estée Lauder via Conde Nast Sway.
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Latest Hypovitaminosis D Stories
Canadians can't obtain vitamin D from natural sun exposure in the months of October through April.
Research from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) shows that improving vitamin D status by increasing its level in the blood could have a number of non-skeletal health benefits.
While it is well known that a majority of hip fracture patients of all ages and both sexes have insufficient or deficient levels of vitamin D.
Vitamin D supplements significantly reduced blood pressure in the first large controlled study of African-Americans.
A new nutrition/beauty combo has Vitamin D covered and works to tackle this major health issue.
African-American women who survive breast cancer are more likely to develop heart failure than other women who have beaten the disease.
As the days grow longer, Canadians suffering from Seasonal Affective Disorder (S.A.D.) are starting to feel a bit better. New research into the use of vitamin D in the treatment of S.A.D.
Adding a little vitamin D supplement to your diet while pregnant may put the child at risk of developing a food allergy after birth, according to a new study published in the journal Allergy.
A federal panel of experts are now saying vitamin D and calcium supplements may not prevent fractures or broken bones.
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