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Wordful Wednesday-Holiday Edition
That certainly looks like FUN!!
We are crazy here as well, and I'm leaving the gingerbread house until Christmas Day, when all the hubbub has died down.
Breathe and relax! Happy Holidays!
Thanks for the linky. We made a gingerbread house last night!
Gingerbread houses are so fun to decorate…and eat!! My twins made them in school today!
Merry Christmas!!
I love how everyone is looking at the camera except for your hubs! HA!
P.S. My kitchen looks like that too!
Merry Christmas friend! 😀
i wondered when u were going to post angie! your counters are barely cluttered – really!!! happy merry holiday christmas!
What a fun tradition! I hope we can do the same this year as well.
Merry Christmas to you and your family!
Definitely, looks like all of you had lots of fun.
Merry Christmas!!!!
I think life is crazy for all of us this time of year! Hope you have a great holiday:)
Merry Christmas, Angie!
Beautiful tree. Happy Holidays! 🙂
How fun! We make gingerbread houses every year, too… Wait, did I forget to do this with the kids this year???
I love gingerbread houses! I'm no good at them though, lol. I think I may pick one up and start making it a tradition sooo much fun!
Happy Wordful Wednesday 🙂 -
Finding it harder and harder to sit down and read, let alone write! I do love this time of the holidays though, when the tree is up and the shopping is pretty much done and family starts showing up. I'm really looking forward to this Christmas now that I have kids and not babies/toddlers anymore. So excited for their reaction to Santa's delivery…
I'm quite sure my house is not as crazy as yours, but I do miss those days, no small children in my house anymore 🙁
your tree looks great!!!
Yay for gingerbread houses!! Eh, what mess? That's what I posted about too! Merry Christmas!
such a beautiful tree. we also have a tradition of making gingerbread houses with my mother. she has learned over the years that buying pre-made kits is top priority. everyone contributes different candies. my son looks forward to it each year. a great tradition. happy holidays to you and your circus. take care.
Absolutely beautiful.
Looks like fun! Merry Christmas to you!
Merry Christmas to you! Looking forward to some big news! you are awesome I just love how savvy you are with all your addons I have been too busy for blogging so I haven't checked up enough but now as it calms down I will! Have fun with all 5 back in the nest for the holidays. We are just going to chill and recover from all our breadmaking since Christmas is our busiest time. The Breadman just fell asleep after being up for two days straight. He did that a few days ago too, glad its almost Christmas! HAve fun with the kiddies!
There is nothing like the holidays to make you truly appreciate having lots of kids 🙂
I love the excitement filling the house (it's near tipping point right now. LOL)
What i don't love… the clutter. LOLHope you have a very blessed Christmas!
We love doing the Gingerbread house too – I am a huge fan of the kits! Have a very Merry Christmas!
What great fun and such a nice family tradition. Beautiful tree.
Have a Merry Christmas!I have reindeer at my house:
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Merry Christmas! The tree looks great!
Your family looks like they are having a good time. It's 1:42 am here and I just finished up the last of Christmas craft presents. It was so much fun and I must be overly tired and crazy because I'm thinking that we could maybe make a few more.
HEctic an fun all at the same time here too
How fun! I can't remember the last time I made a gingerbread house. Probably elementary school.lol
Merry Christmas!!
It does get messy decorating gingerbread houses, but the kids' enjoyment of the activity kinda makes it all worthwhile. 🙂
Y'know…in all my 60 years I've never made a gingerbread house. It always looks like a fun family project…just look at the smiles!!!
My Wordful Wednesday show the Dunes on the reef. [and a Christmas Card just for you!] HERE You'll need to scroll down a bit in my day's entry…to find the Wednesday photos.
Happy Christmas.
Wishing you and your family and very Merry Christmas. 🙂
Your tree is beautiful, and gingerbread houses sound like a lot of fun. (Do you eat them later or is it just for decoration? I've always wondered…)
With Hannukah over and the kids back at school things are settling down again at our house. Now all I have to worry about is Maya's three different birthday invitations for this weekend (three days in a row, the universe is plotting against me) and the fact that I still have to take the kids to Festigal – the huge annual Hannukah musical extravaganza. We were late ordering tickets and couldn't get during the actual holiday. After that stick a fork in me cause I am DONE.
That's a lovely shot of the family having dinner together.
golf holidays in Costa Del Sol
The new course was opened in 2003. two designers have come together to create this beautiful course- Perry Dye and Seve Ballesteros. It is a 18 hole and 72 par course which has been host to two prestigious events already: European School Qualifying School, 1-7 Nov 2005 and Spanish Open 2006 (European PGA), 1-7 May 2006 -
Crazy here too! But I LOVE it!
Looks like everyone is having a fun time with the gingerbread house.
Merry Christmas!
We do a gingerbread house on Christmas Eve!! Love it…and this time of year is just messy!! No getting around that! Breathe and have fun!! Clean Later!!
I guess this time of the year it is crazy all over.Maya did our Gingerbread house.It came out good.She is doing Chocolate covered pretzels to bring over Great Grandma and Granpa's house for Christmas.
Things are beginning to calm down and I love it!!
Merry Christmas!
Gosh- I think everyone BUT me does them. I am gonna have to go buy one today so we can do one. Looks like so much fun.
Wishing you and your family a very Merry Christmas! 🙂
It is crazy here to but fun! A magical day to you!
Merry Christmas! I love this write up, so can tell everyone is in holiday mode for sure!
Awwww—Christmas chaos! Gotta love it! You have a lovely family, and that tree is quite beautiful. Have a happy holiday!!!
Merry Christmas!
Oh good – I'm not alone in the craziness! 🙂 LOVE the picture of the gingerbread house decorating! We didn't do that this year…ran out of time! Maybe next year. Here's hoping 2010 will be a bit less hectic! 🙂
Now I'm off to throw together gift basket for Princess Nagger's teacher I totally forgot to do, which means a trip to drop it off at school. So much for a day of cleaning and organizing! 😉
think we might have to start that tradition when my son gets older.
Oh yeah! I'm not done wrapping yet.
Beautiful Tree!
Sounds like a fun family holiday activity, and you can eat any left over icing.
It looks like fun, my kids asked about doing a gingerbread house. They've been all about making things this year.
Happy Holidays!
It's been crazy here too, but what you've shown looks so festive.
I wish you a very Merry Christmas Angie!
Your house is sooooo ready for Christmas! I am soooo excited I can hardly wait.. I feel like a little kid!
P.S. I accidentally double linked.. and #85 is the incorrect site 🙂 Thanks!
Looks like so much fun!
Happy Holidays to you and your family! =D
I feel the same way! Just breathe and enjoy the memories…the "stuff" will be forgotten.
Beautiful photos of your family and home. You are truly blessed.
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Everything looks amazing..
Wishing you and your family a very Merry Christmas..
Merry Christmas….Jesus is the reason for the season!
Crazy is everywhere! Your tree is huge! My boys would be jealous. 🙂 And beautiful, too.
I still need to find our missing stockings! Yikes, how many more days do we have?! Lol!
Yep, looks just like the chaos in my home. Let's just make a pact to breathe, and then breathe some more.
Merry Christmas!
Thanks for the Wordful Wednesday, gonna go post mine 🙂
Merry Christmas, Angie!
I hope that you have a blessed holiday season!
Oh and I can't wait to here the news.
It looks crazy but such wonderful fun!
Happy holidays to you! It is definitely crazy at my house, too. We just got back from New Orleans, and are preparing for Christmas at Disney!
I have cameras and video camera scattered all over my house making sure I can capture all of the most precious Christmas moments. These memories for our children will last a lifetime.
I think Christmas seem to come so fast this year that everyone is running crazy!
Merry Christmas to you and yours! If you really want to try the mince pie recipe it's dead easy, here's the link to my sisters recipe http://crunchiemummy.wordpress.com/2009/12/10/mince-pies-you-say/
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We save all the crazy for Grandpa and Grandma's house in Tucson. We have gone every year since we got married… but this year will likely be our last.
Enjoy the fun with family!
MErry Christmas! The girls are getting so big!!! They are looking like pre-teens now!


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Family directory
The new online directory is for local families.
Fun 4 SRQ Kids is part of the growing network of Fun 4 US Kids websites.
It is a resource for finding fun things to do with children in Sarasota and Manatee counties.
The family directory boasts more than 3,000 listings for kids activities and programs and maintains a calendar of family-friendly events and activities.
Categories include Fun Around Town, Education, Health, Programs, Sports, Party Resources, Stores and Services, What's Happening, along with Camps when school is out.
Fun 4 SRQ Kids uses social media to keep local families up to date on local activities and opportunities to win giveaways from family-friendly businesses.
The ultimate goal of the site is to connect local families with all of the local experiences that are offered in Sarasota and Manatee counties.
The site also provides high-visibility advertising opportunities to businesses who want to reach local families.
Published in the Sarasota Herald-Tribune Business Weekly on July 4, 2016.

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To Prepare Duck Magret
- Start with our famous Moulard Duck Magret, Half Breast.
- Trim away excess fat that extends beyond the edge of the meat if necessary. Then score the fat side in a cross-hatch pattern, without cutting all the way through to the meat, and season heavily with salt and pepper.
- Heat a cast iron pan on high, and place the duck breast skin side down in the pan. No fat or oil is needed. Cook for about 8 minutes. Then lower the heat to medium and flip the breast over, cooking for about 4 minutes. Make sure the duck is not cooked beyond medium rare.
- Lots of duck fat will collect in the pan, so remove some of it and set aside or discard.
- Let the magret rest for five minutes, then slice into 1/8" slices and serve. Seared magret works well with all kinds of sauces and chutneys, and pairs with dark red wines like Malbec or Madiran.
- That duck fat you saved can be used to roast the best potatoes you will ever have.
What Is Duck Magret - The Long Answer
The magret refers to the breast of a Moulard duck that has been reared for foie gras. A Moulard duck is a cross between a Muscovy drake and a Pekin hen, and is a sizable bird with a well-developed breast. It also is the preferred duck used to produce foie gras, because of its large size and hearty constitution. Since Gascony, France is the heart of foie gras country, the Moulard duck is common in the cooking of the region.
Throughout history, the magret was made into confit, like the wing and leg of the duck, slowly cooked in duck fat and preserved. But in 1959, at the Hotel de France in Auch, two-star Michelin Chef André Daguin prepared a magret like a steak for the first time. Like many legendary moments in culinary history, this one came about by necessity one afternoon when a salesman arrived at the hotel restaurant for a late lunch. Chef Daguin found his kitchen bare of ingredients, but for a tray of raw magrets waiting to be cooked in fat. He grabbed one and seared it like a steak, then served it rare to the surprised patron, who shared the curious dish with two other customers just finishing their lunches. And thus was born a staple duck dish - found today on menus worldwide. Get the famous recipe for seared duck breast here.
A certain Ariane Daguin, who would grow up to establish D'Artagnan in America, learned many lessons from her chef father over the years, and still enjoys sharing how easy it is to prepare the "duck steak."


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In Memoriam: Turkish painter Burhan Dogancay, 88
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) – Turkish painter Burhan Dogancay, whose work has been exhibited in some 70 museums worldwide, including New York's Metropolitan Art Museum and the Museum of Modern Art, has died. He was 83.
Bergin Azer, director of the Dogancay Museum, said the artist died Tuesday of an undisclosed illness in Istanbul.
Much of Dogancay's art was inspired by graffiti, torn posters and banners found on city walls. His museum in Istanbul, which opened in 2004, was the first contemporary art museum in Turkey.
Dogancay's paintings are part of the permanent collections at the Metropolitan Art Museum and the Guggenheim. One of his paintings sold for $1.7 million at an Istanbul auction in 2009 – the highest price paid for a contemporary art painting in Turkey.
Dogancay is survived by his wife.
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Check critical overhead crane components for signs of fatigue
A crane's bottom block assembly is made of many critical components that are subjected to loads and stresses during each hoisting cycle. While hook failure can occur due to overloading or mechanical abuse of the hook, hooks most often fail due to cumulative fatigue. These failures usually originate as a fatigue crack in the hook shank. The hook shank, which transfers the load to the hook block, is supported within the body of the block by a rotate bearing and other mechanical components not visible without disassembly.
You may not get any prior warning in the case of a fatigue failure. Fatigue failure is dependent on the load, stress level and number of lifting cycles. Heavy process-duty applications, changes in application, overloads, old equipment and the use of below-the-hook lifting devices are all factors that may contribute to cumulative fatigue.
Non-destructive testing for crane hook inspections
Konecranes utilizes various proven non-destructive testing techniques such as dye penetrant, magnetic particle and magnetic rubber, in addition to the visual inspection and measurements normally performed during a hook inspection. Most importantly, the bottom block is completely disassembled. Then, critical components are examined along with the hook shank, where most fatigue failures originate.


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MS 'Software Choice' scheme a clever fraud
Monopoly by another name
Microsoft's new "Software Choice" campaign is all for your right to choose... as long as you choose Microsoft. It's too bad that Intel and the U.S. Government couldn't see through the rhetoric.
Microsoft is worried about Peruvian Congressman Edgar Villanueva's proposal for his nation's government agencies to standardize on Free Software for their own internal use. But Villanueva makes an important point: everybody has to deal with the government. If a government uses proprietary software, its citizens will probably have to use the same software to communicate with it. A government web site that only supports Internet Explorer would lock citizens into that Microsoft product. In contrast, a government site using open standards and avoiding patented software would allow citizens to choose between many different kinds of software to access the site. Free Software, also called Open Source, is itself a kind of open standard - its source code is its own reference. Developers of proprietary software can use that reference to create interoperating programs, without infringing on the actual Open Source code. Thus, when a government uses Open Source, it assures its citizens a choice to purchase both proprietary and Open Source software for communicating with their government. The people's choice will be based on factors like functionality, quality, and convenience, rather than on customer lock-in.
Villanueva also wants the government and people of Peru to have a software infrastructure that they can afford - to pull themselves out of poverty and bootstrap an e-commerce economy. Free Software's low total-cost-of-ownership is attractive to them, and the ability for Peruvians to support Free Software themselves, because they have source code and the right to redistribute it, means economic independence. This could provide them with the foundation for many e-commerce-enabled businesses based on the labor of the Peruvian people and the natural resources of their nation. But there's one sort of business that Free Software won't facilitate in Peru - lock-in of customers to a proprietary software product.
Microsoft has responded with a clever Software Choice campaign that, read quickly, appears to fight discrimination and call for choice, while actually promoting policies that would lock out Free Software. For example, it promotes the embedding of royalty-bearing software patents into "open" standards. Of course Free Software producers don't charge copyright royalty fees, and thus can't afford to pay for patent royalties, so they would not be able to implement any standard that contains royalty-bearing patents. Housed at industry organization CompTIA, the cynical campaign is clearly driven by Microsoft, repeating rhetoric we've heard from them before. It also counts Linux-supporter Intel as a member. The U.S. government has also bought into the Software Choice rhetoric, sending their ambassador to urge that Peru reject Villanueva's proposal.
How was Intel taken in? They didn't have any choice. Intel can't afford to lose Micrsoft's support for its new bet-the-company Itanium 64-bit processor family. Without Microsoft, the Itanium will become another DEC ALPHA - a 64-bit architecture that lost much of its market after Microsoft announced that Windows wouldn't support it. Intel needs more than a just a Windows port - it needs an excellent windows port, with Microsoft's enthusiastic support egging customers on to make the transition to the new architecture. Microsoft's price for this is for Intel to downplay its Linux involvement and support Microsoft's monopolistic initiatives.
Unlike Intel, the U.S. Government clearly did have a choice. That government appears to have lost much of its will to prosecute its anti-trust case against Microsoft since the presidential election. Its actions in Peru actually help to support Microsoft's monopoly.
The language of Software Choice is in the tradition of "soft money" political campaigns - it's written to oppose something without ever really mentioning what it opposes. I'll analyze the principles of Software Choice, to illustrate how they actually mean no choice at all:
Procure software on its merits, not through categorical preferences. Public entities should procure the software that best meets their needs and should avoid any categorical preferences for open source software, commercial software, free software, or other software development models.
They feel that a government should not decide, 'we will only use Free Software for government functions,' as in the Peruvian proposal. But shouldn't a government, as a software customer, have that choice? If making that choice will assure the people of that nation the ability to choose between more different software products for interfacing with their government, both Free Software and proprietary, isn't it the right choice? And isn't the fact that Free Software can be freely used, redistributed, and modified a "merit"?
Promote broad availability of government funded research. When public funds are used to support software research and development, the innovations that result from this work should be licensed in ways that take into account both the desirability of broadly sharing those advances as well as the desirability of applying those advances to commercialized products.
This is a swipe at government-funded participation in software development that is placed under the GPL , the license that is used on the Linux kernel and many other Free Software projects. The research agencies of various governments join the community in developing Linux. In the U.S., it's been the subject of projects within NASA, the Department of Energy, and even the National Security Agency. The GPL mandates that anyone has the right to give you a free copy of the Linux kernel, which makes sense to the taxpayers who have already paid for part of its development. But Microsoft would like you to pay for that software twice: once with your taxes, and a second time when you buy it from Microsoft.
However, Microsoft is also a taxpayer - although in some years they've managed to avoid U.S. corporate income taxes entirely. As a taxpayer, perhaps they should be able to embed the result of government-funded work in their products and charge other taxpayers for it a second time. But in that case, that work should be licensed so that all of Microsoft's competitors can make use of it as well - and that means without restrictive licensing terms and royalty-bearing software patents that would shut out Open Source. After all, the people who write and use Open Source are taxpayers as well.
Governments oppose monopolies because they are bad for the customer. Thus, the licensing of taxpayer-funded software should fight embrace-and-extend, the tactic that Microsoft uses to gain a monopoly lock on a market through the use of deliberate incompatibility. That's only fair to Microsoft's competitors, and to all of the users who don't wish to be locked into a single software product - those people are taxpayers too. But the licenses that are best at fighting embrace-and-extend are the very ones that Microsoft eschews: the GPL, the LGPL, and the Sun Industry Standards Source License. Microsoft calls those licenses "intellectual-property impairing" because they all mandate some degree of disclosure that would allow programs from other vendors, including Open Source programs, to interoperate with their products.
Promote interoperability through platform-neutral standards. When these standards are open and available to all through reasonable and non-discriminatory licensing they help developers to create products that can interoperate with each other. It is important that government policy recognize that open standards - which are available to any software developers - are not synonymous with, and do not require, open source software either for their adoption or utility.
The so-called reasonable and non-discriminatory licensing refers to the embedding of royalty-bearing software patents in industry standards. Proponents say that such royalties are OK, as long as they are the same for everyone, and not too high. But Free Software producers don't collect copyright royalties, and thus can't afford to pay royalties to patent holders. They would be locked out of implementing these standards. The Software Choice folks also attempt to assert that it's not important for a standard to accomodate Open Source at all.
Maintain a choice of strong intellectual property protections.
I don't disagree with this principle, as long as the proponents of strong intellctual property protections don't attempt to block those who prefer weaker protections on their own software from interoperating with the rest of the world's software. But this is just what they are doing - through the use of restrictive software patents, proprietary file and intercommunications formats, and through digital rights management systems that block Free Software from playing video disks that its users have legitimately purchased. Their use of intellectual property protections should be only to prevent their own products from being unlawfully duplicated and resold, not to prevent others from creating or using their own software and interoperating with other software in a free market.
The Free Software community has been criticized for being good at opposing programs like Software Choice, but not as good at producing its own platforms to promote. Thus, I've tried to put together a Sincere Choice platform - it replaces the cynical Software Choice with a more positive set of principles that really would assure the software user of a broad choice between interoperable products, both Open Source and proprietary. The principles of Sincere Choice are:
Open Standards
Intercommunication and file formats should follow standards that are sincerely open for all to implement, without royalty fees or discrimination.
Choice Through Interoperability
No user should be required to use a particular product simply because other users do. Competing products should interoperate with each other through open standards.
Competition by Merit
Software vendors should compete fairly on the merit of their products, rather than by attempting to lock each other's products out of the market. Besides functionality, merits include the copyright and patent policies attached to a product, and the disclosure of file formats and communication protocols so that other software may interoperate.
Research Availability
The people pay for government-funded research, its fruits should be available to all of them equally. We promote Open Source / Free Software licensing of taxpayer-funded software and data as a means of distributing research results fairly.
Range of Copyright Policies
We include the supporters of a broad range of different copyright policies, from Public Domain through Open Source and Free Software to Proprietary. We support use of the GPL and LGPL licenses when appropriate. We assert that Open Source and Proprietary models can be used together effectively.
Freedom to Set Policy
Individual users, businesses, and government should all be free to set their own policies regarding what sorts of software they will acquire and use. They should not force a particular software paradigm or product choice upon others.
I've put together a web site for this fledgeling platform: SincereChoice.org.
Imagine a truly open market for computer software: one in which there were many interoperating products, truly competing on their merits rather than upon their vendor's ability to lock other products out of the market. Prices would be lower, quality higher, and we'd have a transition to a customer-centric view of the software business, away from the vendor-centric view that many of us, perhaps unconsciously, hold today. Or we could continue today's anti-competitive policies. Which one is your choice?
Bruce Perens is a Free Software evangelist best known for creating the Open Source Definition, the manifesto of Open Source.


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Highlander's bold new design is hard to ignore. Its chiseled shape and contoured lines display the perfect balance between power and refinement. Get ready to turn heads wherever you go.
Highlander's all-new design introduces its first-ever 20-in. alloy wheels. Available on Limited and Platinum, these stylish wheels add more sophistication without compromising performance.
Easy to use and even more convenient. When your hands are full, Highlander's available hands-free power liftgate1 senses your Smart Key fob2 and opens automatically when you wave your foot under the rear bumper3.
The dynamic front end of Highlander shows off its modern look. The stylish standard LED headlights provide a crisp, clean light, while available auto-leveling LED projector-beam headlights help keep light aimed down at the road for better visibility.
Amp up your entertainment with the available best-in-class 12.3-in. touch-screen display4.
Convenience built right in. The open design of Highlander's storage compartments lets you easily keep track of all your things, while available blue LED ambient lighting gives off a warm glow when it gets dark.
Make every seat more comfortable. Available heated and ventilated front seats cool down or warm up on demand, while available heated second-row seats can help keep passengers warm.
Brighten each day with the available panoramic moonroof with front power tilt/slide moonroof. Open it up to catch a breeze and enjoy the wide-open view, or easily find cover with a power-retractable sunshade.
Highlander's roomy interior gives you enough space to seat up to eight and provides impressive leg room, even for those in back.
No wires? No worries. Highlander features available Qi-compatible wireless smartphone charging5
Bring along a familiar face. With Highlander's Apple CarPlay®6 compatibility, you can use your compatible iPhone®7.
When you enable available Wi-Fi Connect8, you can turn your Highlander into a hotspot with 4G connectivity.
SiriusXM®9,10 is playing what you want to hear. You get to try the widest variety of entertainment anywhere when you purchase a vehicle equipped with SiriusXM®.
Experience the clear sound of Highlander's available JBL® w/Clari-Fi®11 audio system. With its 1200 watts, 11 speakers, surround sound, and high-quality engineering, phenomenal sound is delivered to amp up every drive.
Get a clear view with the flip of a switch with Highlander's available digital rearview mirror. This innovative feature uses a camera mounted up high inside the rear window for a wider field of vision.
Get there with confidence. Highlander features available Dynamic Navigation12 that can provide you with the most up-to-date map data, routes and points of interest. Just set your destination, and it will help you find the best way there.


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Motorcyclist airlifted to hospital after serious accident
A motorcyclist has been taken to hospital with serious injuries following a crash in Cleckheaton this afternoon.
The incident involving a white Nissan van and the motorcyclist happened on Whitehall Road at 1.09pm.
Police have put a road closure in place in Whitehall Road between the junction of Whitehall Lane and the Chainbar roundabout.
The male motorcyclist has been airlifted to Leeds General Infirmary with "serious injuries".
A police spokesperson said they hoped to have the roads fully re-opened by 5pm.


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Zoo School
Date(s) - 07/12/2012 at 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Dig a little deeper into animal and environmental topics through hands-on investigations, animal observations and encounters, zoo tours, and fun activities designed for kids wanting to explore more of the zoo. All classes are one hour in length. We ask that parents do not accompany children.
"Wonderful Wetlands" is today's theme!
Ages: 6-8
Fees: $9 + tax for each class or $63 + tax for all seven classes which includes a camp T-shirt!


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Steamed Whole Artichokes
by Brennans Market Admin
Serving Size: Serves 2
4 sprigs parsley
4 garlic cloves
2 bay leaves
2 lemons, cut in half
1/4 cup white wine
2 Tablespoons Extra Virgin Olive Oil
1-quart chicken broth or water
to taste salt and pepper
2 whole artichokes
Adapted From: FoodNetwork.com
Enjoy great artichoke flavor with this classic recipe.
Put the parsley, garlic, bay leaves, lemons, wine, oil, and broth in a large pot and bring to a simmer. Season the liquid with salt and pepper.
In the meantime prepare the artichokes. Wash artichokes under cold water. Using a heavy stainless steel knife cut off the stems close to the base. Pull off the lower petals that are small and tough. Cut off the top inch of the artichoke and rub with half a lemon to preserve the green color. Alternatively, you may put the artichokes in acidulated water. If you wish, trim the thorny tips of the petal with kitchen shears.
Place the artichokes in the steaming liquid, bottom up. Cover and simmer for about 30 minutes. The artichokes are done when a knife is inserted into the base and there is no resistance.
To eat, pull off a leaf and scrape the meat off the tender end with your front teeth. Dip the ends of the leaves in lemon juice and melted butter if desired. When you reach the center cone of purple prickly leaves, remove it. This is the choke that protects the heart. Now, scrape away the thistle fuzz covering the artichoke heart. The heart is the meatiest part of the artichoke. Steamed artichokes may be severed hot or cold.


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In this book, Charles Cousar offers a fascinating commentary on the book of Galatians.
Interpretation: A Bible Commentary for Teaching and Preaching is a distinctive resource for those who interpret the Bible in the church. Planned and written specifically for teaching and preaching needs, this critically acclaimed biblical commentary is a major contribution to scholarship and ministry.


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In hot demand – can be booked every week from Monday.
For many, taking a trip in the BMW Ring-Taxi through the "Green Hell" is one of the most exciting experiences money can buy.
This will certainly be true again in 2012: from Easter the brand new BMW M5 will be used as the Ring-Taxi. There is space for up to three people to take a seat in the 560 bhp sedan and be driven by a well-versed BMW Driving Experience Instructor around the Nürburgring Nordschleife. An extra dash of adrenaline is guaranteed.
Reservations can be made online at a rate of EUR 216.- incl. VAT at http://www3.bmw-motorsport.com/ms_en/fascination/bmw_ring_taxi/tickets_and_dates .
One important piece of advice: the trips are very much in demand. A ticket allocation is released for booking every Monday at 10 am CET. You have to be quick – experience shows that it only takes a few minutes for all the tickets to be gone until the following Monday.
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EVERS et al. v. WATSON et al.
15 S.Ct. 430
39 L.Ed. 520
EVERS et al.
WATSON et al.
No. 180.
March 4, 1895.
This was a bill in equity to set aside a decree rendered in a former case of Watson v. Evers et al. for want of jurisdiction, or that the sale of certain land by a special commissioner, under such decree, be set aside as to all the lands still in the possession of the defendants.
Plaintiffs, who were aliens,—British subjects, and residents of London,—set forth: That in 1881 or 1882 they, together with Watson and one Baldwin, citizens of Illinois, were associated together in the purchase of a large quantity of land in Mississippi, known as the 'Delta,' amounting to 500,000 or 600,000 acres, together with certain pine lands, amounting to about 150,000 acres. That, certain differences having arisen as to their respective interests, Watson filed a bill in the chancery court of Le Flore county (a mistake for De Soto county) against Evers, William Marshall, George F. Philips, M. S. Baldwin, et al., which was removed into the circuit court of the United States, wherein a decree was rendered on October 3, 1885, in favor of Watson for the sum of $145,000, which was charged as a lien upon said lands, and, in the event of the failure of the defendants to pay such sum within six months from the date of the decree, the lands were to be sold by one McKee, as special commissioner, for the satisfaction of the decree. The land was accordingly sold, and most of it bought in by Watson, such sale being afterwards confirmed by the court. 'That said decree was a consent decree, agreed to in a spirit of compromise, and accompanied with and based upon certain agreements, to be hereinafter explained.'
The bill further alleged that the circuit court of the United States was without jurisdiction to entertain such suit or render such decree by reason of the fact that Watson, the plaintiff in such bill, was a citizen of Illinois, and Baldwin, one of the defendants, and a material defendant, was likewise a citizen of Illinois.
It is further charged: That, before the sale of the land was had, Watson and his agents and representatives conspired with one Burroughs to prevent them (the plaintiffs) from being present at said sale, and to deter them from bidding for the lands, the result of which fraudulent collusion was that Watson bought the lands at a mere trifle per acre, except about 162,000 acres, which it was fraudulently agreed that Burroughs and his friends should buy at their own figures. That but for such fraudulent collusion the Delta lands would have sold for more than enough to satisfy the decree, and would have left at least the pine lands to plaintiffs in this bill and the other defendants in said suit, after fully paying their debt. Instead of this, they succeeded in securing all the land, and still claim a large balance against the defendants in that suit as due by the decree; more, in fact, than Watson originally advanced for the purchase of the land. The plaintiffs were not aware of, and had no knowledge of, the fraud practiced upon them by Watson until recently, and long after the sale had been ratified and confirmed; and that this is the first opportunity to bring the matter before the court, and ask a restitution of their rights, and an equitable redress for the fraud.
That the decree was a compromise decree, accompanied by stipulations, one of which was that the defendants were to have six months in which to pay the decree; and that, when they acquiesced and consented to such decree, it was their intention and expectation, and it was so understood by all parties, to organize a land company in London, and to sell the lands referred to in the decree for money enough to pay off said indebtedness, and the balance in stock and debentures and working capital within the six months allowed to them by the decree. To accomplish this, and in carrying out the understanding, a company was organized, at great expense to plaintiffs, and a satisfactory sale of the lands arranged to be made to such company, which would have been perfected, and Watson's debt paid, but for the interference of Watson and his agents, who, by circulating false reports affecting the title to the land, prevented such company from being floated, and defeated the efforts of the defendants in such suit in raising money to comply with their agreement to pay off such decree. That afterwards, a son of Watson, representing his father and the Delta & Pine Land Company, visited London, and, recognizing the fact that plaintiffs still had an interest in the lands, agreed to organize another English company, certain shares of stock in which company they agreed to receive. That plaintiffs, being ignorant of the fraud that had been practiced upon them at the time of the sale, and relying upon the statements of Watson's son, at his request executed quitclaim deeds of their interests in such lands, Watson stating that he wanted such deeds in trust solely for the purpose of facilitating the sale of the lands to such company, and promising that such deeds, when executed, should be deposited by him with Walter Webb & Co., of Queen Victoria street, London, the solicitors of such company. That Watson, instead of depositing the deeds with the solicitors, fraudulently, and in violation of his promise and agreement, sent the deeds to Mississippi, and caused them to be registered in the several counties in which the lands were located. That this was done without the knowledge or consent of plaintiffs. That the organization of the company was never perfected, and negotiations for the sale of the lands had been abandoned. No stock was ever issued; plaintiffs never received any consideration for the deeds, or their interest in the lands. Such deeds were obtained by fraud and false pretenses and promises made by Watson, were without consideration, and are void. That plaintiffs are informed that Watson and the persons associated with him in the Delta & Pine Land Company have sold a large quantity of the lands at a good price, as well as a large amount of timber from the lands remaining in their possession, and have realized from such sales more than enough to pay the decree and the interest thereon.
The prayer of the bill was that the court set aside the decree rendered in the case of Watson v. Evers for lack of jurisdiction, or, if mistaken as to this, that the sale by the commissioner be set aside as to all the lands still in possession of defendants; that the quitclaim deeds be held to be inoperative and void, and defendants be required to render an account of the lands and timber sold by them, and the amount of taxes paid on the land since such sale; that the sums received, after paying the taxes, be credited upon the decree, and, in case Watson proves to have been overpaid, that a decree be awarded in favor of plaintiffs for the excess, and that the land now in possession of defendants be decreed to be the property of the plaintiffs, as their interest may appear.
A demurrer was filed to this bill by Watson and the Delta & Pine Land Company, which was sustained by the court, and the bill dismissed.
From this decree, plaintiffs appealed to this court.
Jas. L. McCaskill, for appellants.
Frank Johnston and J. Hubley Ashton, for appellees.
Mr. Justice BROWN, after stating the facts in the foregoing language, delivered the opinion of the court.
To maintain this bill, plaintiffs take the position either that the circuit court for the Northern district of Mississippi, to which the case was removed, was wholly wanting in jurisdiction to render the decree complained of in the case of Watson v. Evers et al., or that the sale made in pursuance of such decree was not only voidable for fraud, but absolutely void, and subject to collateral attack in this proceeding.
1. The allegations of the bill with regard to the want of jurisdiction of the federal court are very meager, and are simply that Watson filed a bill in the state court against Evers, Marshall, Philips, and Baldwin, which suit was removed to the federal court, and a decree rendered therein; that such court was wholly without jurisdiction, since Watson, as shown in the bill, was a citizen of Illinois, and Baldwin, one of the defendants, was also a citizen of the same state. It is not shown when, or at whose instance, or upon what grounds, the removal was effected; nor is there a copy of the petition, or the substance of it, either incorporated in the bill or annexed thereto as an exhibit. We are left wholly in the dark as to these important particulars, and, under these circumstances, everything must be presumed against the pleader. We are bound only to inquire whether a suit to which two citizens of the same state were originally plaintiff and defendant could possibly have been removed to the federal court. The presumption is that the court did have jurisdiction, and that its decree is valid, and, assuming for the present that the court may attack it collaterally, the burden is clearly upon the plaintiffs in this case to show that the decree was void.
We are not even informed by the amended bill of the year in which the bill was filed in the state court or the removal had; but, as it is averred that the parties to such suit were associated together in 1881 or 1882, and the decree was rendered in 1885, we are left to infer that the removal must have taken place under the act of 1875, which at that time determined the jurisdiction of the federal courts. By section 2 of that act, 'any suit of a civil nature, at law or in equity, now pending, or hereafter brought, in any state court where the matter in dispute exceeds, exclusive of costs, the sum or value of five hundred dollars, * * * in which there shall be * * * a controversy between citizens of a state and foreign states, citizens or subjects, either party may remove said suit into the circuit court of the United States for the proper district, and when in any suit mentioned in this section there shall be a controversy which is wholly between citizens of different states, and which can be fully determined as between them, then either one or more of the plaintiffs or defendants actually interested in such controversy may remove said suit into the circuit court of the United States for the proper district.'
The position of Baldwin as defendant in the case was not conclusive as to his actual interest in the litigation. For aught that appears, his interests may have been identical with those of Watson, and adverse only to his alien codefendants. In such case it would have been perfectly competent for the court to ascertain the real matter in controversy, and to have rearranged the parties to the suit upon the opposite sides of such controversy, and thus sustain the jurisdiction of the court. The power of the court under the act of 1875 thus to rearrange the parties, and to place them on different sides of the matter in dispute according to the actual facts, has been recognized by this court in several cases. The Removal Cases, 100 U. S. 457; Pacific Railway v. Ketchum, 101 U. S. 289; Harter v. Kernochan, 103 U. S. 562. If such were the case here, the suit would then stand as one wherein two citizens of the same state were plaintiffs, and aliens were defendants, which would be removable, irrespective of the question whether, under the second clause of the section, a separate controversy between citizens and aliens could be removed. It would appear from the opinion of the district judge that this was the view taken by him. Even if he had been mistaken as to the actual community of interest between Watson and Baldwin, as matter of fact his decision in respect thereto would not be reviewable collaterally. Grignon's Lessee v. Astor, 2 How. 319; Michaels v. Post, 21 Wall. 398; Chapman v. Brewer, 114 U. S. 169, 5 Sup. Ct. 799; Noble v. Railroad Co., 147 U. S. 165, 13 Sup. Ct. 271. Even upon the theory of the plaintiffs, to authorize the court to hold the decree in that case void in a collateral proceeding it was necessary to show beyond any controversy that, upon the record, the court could not have had jurisdiction. This the pleader has failed to do.
But we do not wish to be understood as holding that, even if jurisdiction had not been apparent upon the record, advantage could be taken of it after a final decree, and in a collateral proceeding. Thus, in Skillern v. May, 6 Cranch, 267, a case which had been reversed by this court and sent back to the circuit court was discovered to be one not within the jurisdiction of that court. But, as it appeared that the merits had been finally decided in this court, and its mandate required only the execution of the decree, it was held that the circuit court was bound to carry the decree into execution, although the jurisdiction of that court was not alleged in the pleadings. So in McCormick v. Sullivant, 10 Wheat. 192, a prior judgment between privies in estate was pleaded in bar of the remedy sought to be enforced in the suit then under consideration, and objection was made that the proceedings did not show that the parties to it were citizens of different states, and, consequently, that the court was without jurisdiction, and the decree void. It was held, however, that the courts of the United States, though of limited, were not of inferior, jurisdiction, and that, if jurisdiction were not alleged in the pleadings, their judgments and decrees were erroneous, and might be reversed for that cause; but that they were not absolute nullities, and that the decree in the former case, while it remained unreversed, was a valid bar to the suit under consideration. To the same effect are Ex parte Watkins, 3 Pet. 193; Kennedy v. Bank, 8 How. 586; Des Moines Nav. Co. v. Iowa Homestead Co., 123 U. S. 552, 8 Sup. Ct. 217; and the recent case of Dowell v. Applegate, 152 U. S. 327, 14 Sup. Ct. 611.
These authorities are especially pertinent to this case, in view of the fact that, after the removal of the case to the federal court, the parties thereto, including the plaintiffs herein, acquiesced in its jurisdiction, and entered into a consent decree, which was designed to settle the entire controversy.
2. It is also evident that the charges of fraud are altogether too vague to be made the basis of a bill to set aside the sale. The Delta & Pine Land Company is made a defendant to the bill, but for what reason does not clearly appear. It is only averred that Watson's son, representing his father and the Delta & Pine Land Company, visited London, and agreed to organize another English company, and that plaintiffs should have certain shares of stock in that company; and that said Watson and the other persons associated with him in the Delta & Pine Land Company have sold a large quantity of such lands at a good price, and that they have also sold a good deal of timber off the lands remaining in their possession, and have realized more than enough to pay the sum due upon the decree. But there is no averment to whom the quitclaim deeds in London were executed, or what the interest of the Delta & Pine Land Company was in the lands, or how it became possessed of such interest, though, from the fact that plaintiffs call upon the company to account for the money received from the sale of such lands, it would appear that in some way it became the purchaser of a portion of such lands. There is no averment, however, of such purchase, or, if it were made, that the company purchased with the knowledge of the fraud alleged.
There is a general allegation that Watson and his agents conspired fraudulently with one Burroughs and others to prevent plaintiffs from being present at the sale, and to deter them from bidding, but it is not averred by what representations or other fraudulent means contemplated bidders were prevented from attending an official sale, which the law required to be advertised for a certain number of weeks; and it is highly improbable that, if plaintiffs had designed to buy in this land, they would have omitted to attend the sale, and permit Watson to buy it at a mere trifle per acre. A fraudulent agreement is also averred that Burroughs and his friends should buy about 162,000 acres, but the particulars of the alleged arrangement are entirely wanting. There is also an averment of fraudulent collusion of Watson and his representatives preventing all competition, and that, had it not been for such collusion, the Delta lands alone would have sold for more than enough to pay off the decree, and would have left the pine lands to the plaintiffs and the other defendants in such suit, after fully paying their debt. There is no averment, however, of the means used to prevent competition, and the whole allegation is vague and unsatisfactory. There is also an averment that the complainants were not aware of, and had no knowledge of, the fraud practiced upon them by Watson, until recently, and long after such sale had been ratified and confirmed. But it appears that such sale occurred in 1886, was a matter of public record, and yet was allowed to rest until 1890 without action or challenge, when this bill was filed.
It further appears that one of the stipulations under which the consent decree was entered was that defendants were to have six months in which to pay and satisfy the decree, and that it was their intention to organize a land company in the city of London, and to sell the lands referred to, and pay off the indebtedness; but that this scheme was also thwarted by the interference of Watson and his agents, who, by circulating false reports affecting the title of the lands, prevented the company from being floated. But the bill does not allege what these false reports were, or to whom they were made, or any facts from which the court can determine whether they were likely to affect the organization of the company or not. It does not appear when Watson's son visited London, or what means were used to induce plaintiffs to execute quitclaim deeds of their interests, or when such deeds were executed, or to whom they were executed. There is no reason given why plaintiffs did not, in view of all these alleged frauds, apply to the court which ordered the sale for an order vacating the same. If the transactions took place as stated by them, they could hardly have been ignorant of the fraud practiced upon them. As the sale and the prices paid were matters of record, plaintiffs were bound to inform themselves of the facts, and to take steps to protect their interests. Foster v. Railroad Co., 146 U. S. 88, 13 Sup. Ct. 28. It does not even appear whether the transaction in London occurred before or after the sale, though the inference is that it was some time after, when the plaintiffs must have been aware of the suspicious circumstances attending the sale, or at least should have made inquiries. In short, the bill is much more remarkable for what it omits than for what it alleges.
It does appear, however, that Watson had a claim against these parties, which was settled by the consent decree at $145,000; that 162,000 acres of these lands were purchased by Burroughs, who is not made a party to this suit, although he is alleged to have fraudulently conspired with Watson; and a large portion of these lands have been sold, presumptively to bona fide purchasers, and that in the lapse of time that has intervened it would be impossible to restore the parties to their original positions.
It is apparent that the whole case depends upon the validity of the sale made by the special commissioner. If this sale were valid, plaintiffs lost all their interests in the lands. They had nothing left to convey by their subsequent quitclaim deeds, and the cancellation of such deeds would not revest them with any interest. If the sale were voidable, either by reason of a fraudulent combination to deter the plaintiffs from being present, or to prevent competition, or by reason of the false reports, circulated in London, to prevent the plaintiffs from carrying out their agreement to satisfy the decree within six months, it was the duty of the plaintiffs, instead of executing quitclaim deeds, and thus putting themselves again into the hands of parties whom they allege to have twice played them false, to promptly disaffirm their acts, and seek to repossess themselves of the property. Their delay of four years, during which much of the property has been sold, presumptively to parties who have purchased without notice, is fatal to their claim.
The decree of the court below sustaining the demurrer and dismissing the bill was correct, and it is therefore affirmed.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatists Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett adapted for the screen their Broadway hit The Diary of Anne Frank, itself based on the book Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl. As reverently filmed by George Stevens, The Diary of Anne Frank is highly theatrical in tone and style, but what do you expect from a film about characters claustrophobically trapped in an attic for two years?
The story opens in 1945, then flashes back to 1942, where Anne Frank is one of eight Jews forced into hiding in WWII Amsterdam. German emigres in Holland, the Franks rely on the kindness of one Mr. Kraler (Anne's pseudonym for Victor Kugler) and young Miep Gies, among others. Anne, sister Margot (Diane Baker), mother Edith (Gusti Huber) and father Otto (Joseph Schildkraut)— installed in a hidden annex above a business office—share the space with another family, called the van Daans in Anne's diary and the subsequent adaptations: Petronella (Shelley Winters, in an Oscar-winning turn), Hans (Lou Jacobi) and sixteen-year-old son Peter (Richard Beymer of West Side Story). Later, the two families are joined by Mr. Dussel (Ed Wynn).
With actors Schildkraut, Huber and Jacobi reprising their stage roles, the film version offers a pleasing continuity from the hit play. When the stage Anne, Susan Strasberg, and second choice Audrey Hepburn turned down the role, actress/model Millie Perkins became the screen Anne. Perkins gives a sturdy, old-school performance as the blossoming thirteen-year-old who correctly predicts, "I'm going to be remarkable." A more resonant performance, and subtler writing and direction, would have made the film more artful, but as it is, Stevens pushes the sensibility of 1950s drama about as far as it can go. A dream montage features imagery of the concentration camps, and Stevens shot a finale depicting the same that was discarded after test audiences blanched.
The Diary of Anne Frank works best as a sort of Hitchcockian thriller (Lifeboat in hiding?) defined by torturous uncertainty and high tension. Everyone freezes when a siren pierces the air, and the close quarters foster arguments, jealousies and suspicion ("We don't need the Nazis to destroy us," says Mr. Frank. "We're destroying ourselves"). Matters are further complicated by how even when "interrupted," life goes on by dint of human nature. For example, Otto organizes makeshift schooling, and Hans climbs the walls with nicotine withdrawal. Most importantly, Anne's pubescent stirrings are unstoppable, and the presence of handsome and sensitive Peter cannot be denied for long. Accurately summing up the situation, Anne tells Peter, "We have problems here that no other people our age have ever had." The clinches between Anne and Peter are the film's most florid passages, though they cannot help but contribute to the film's emotional impact.
Stevens was surely the right man for the job of bringing The Diary of Anne Frank to film. Whatever its faults, the film has a depth of feeling and intention that makes its way from its director, who was forever changed by his experience shooting the liberation of the Nazi extermination camp Dachau as a member of the Army Signal Corps. Stevens gets good support from composer Alfred Newman and photographers William C. Mellor (who won the Oscar that year) and Michael Powell's go-to guy Jack Cardiff (who lensed the Amsterdam location footage). The well-received film remains a potent statement about the horrors of war and a valid testament to the girl who could answer them by writing, "I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are really good at heart."
The Diary of Anne Frank comes to Blu-ray in an updated 50th Anniversary Edition mirrored on DVD. It seems unlikely that the film could or will look any better than it does on Blu-ray, in a film-like but somewhat soft transfer. Contrast is generally good (sometimes a hair blown out in the rare brightly lit moment), grain is present but never bothersome, and the source elements are a bit variable in that this longest possible cut includes about fourteen minutes of footage that was trimmed from the film for years (this version also includes the overture and exit music). A lossless DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 soundtrack does full justice to the original soundtrack, clearly prioritizing and presenting the film's dialogue, music and sound effects.
The Blu-ray includes a staggering number of bonus features, many of them brand new. For starters, there's an audio commentary with George Stevens Jr. & Millie Perkins that takes on the history of the real events and the film that sought accurately to recreate them.
"George Stevens in WWII" (7:40, SD) finds Stevens Jr. recounting his father's experiences during the war. The featurette includes generous samplings of Stevens' war footage and some comments from Diane Baker.
"The Making of The Diary of Anne Frank: A Son's Memories" (25:05, SD) allows Stevens, Jr. to reminisce about working with his father on the film, while "The Diary of Anne Frank: Memories from Millie Perkins and Diane Baker" (25:53, SD) Perkins and Baker (and Stevens, Jr. again) the same oppotunity.
"Shelley Winters and The Diary of Anne Frank" (7:00, SD) presents Stevens, Jr.'s 1983 interview with Winters, conducted for his doc George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey.
"The Sound and Music of The Diary of Anne Frank" (7:54, SD) looks at the film's aural impact, with Stevens, Jr. and composers and Alfred Newman's sons David Newman and Thomas Newman.
"The Diary of Anne Frank: Correspondence" (13:12, SD) features letters related to the production, read by Stevens, Jr.
Last among new features is the succinct making-of "Fox Movie Channel presents Fox Legacy with Tom Rothman" (14:08, SD).
The original DVD bonus features are also on hand, an impressive package on their own. The feature-length A&E doc "The Diary of Anne Frank: Echoes from the Past" (1:30:07, SD), narrated by Burt Reynolds, looks mostly at the real history behind Anne Frank's book, but also at the various adaptations. Interviewees include Stevens, Jr., Shelley Winters, Anne Frank's cousin Buddy Elias, Otto Frank's stepdaughter Eva Schloss, documentary filmmaker Jon Blair, WWII historian David Barnouw, Anne Frank's childhood friend Laureen Nussbaum, Perkins, Otto Frank (vintage), Anne and Margot Frank's pen pal Betty Ann Wagner, and Fritz Pfeffer's daughter-in-law Sigi Pepper.
"Diary of Anne Frank excerpt from George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey" (7:59, SD) includes an interview snippet with Perkins.
"George Stevens Press Conference" (5:01, SD) is a neat bit of promotional history, and we're also treated to the original "Millie Perkins Screen Test" (2:20, SD).
Also on hand: six "Fox Movietonews Clips" (6:44, SD) related to the film, the "Theatrical Trailer" (3:11, SD), the "International Trailer" (4:32, SD), an Interactive Pressbook Gallery, and a Behind-the-Scenes Gallery.
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Electronics and Play Dough: Fun, Tactile Family Science
With a new group of electronics Project Ideas and a cool kit from the Science Buddies Store, you can turn ordinary play dough modeling into a great hands-on electronics activity with your kids.
Since the trio of "electric play dough" projects launched at Science Buddies, I have wanted to give these hands-on science projects a try as a weekend science activity with my kids. The idea of rigging up an electronics-friendly batch of dough to some LEDs has undeniable allure. It just sounds cool, and the sample photos in the projects are very compelling.
Whether you love the tactile angle of working with a squishy dough, just like when the kids were little, or like the idea of an easy light-up electronics project, the "squishy circuits" approach invites users of all ages and backgrounds. The premise is simple—by making and using conductive and insulating dough, you can create your own light-up 2D and 3D sculptures. To get there, you follow the step-by-step, progressive, directions, and make some simple dough samples that will help you learn about open and closed circuits, series and parallel circuits, and short circuits.
Halloween Circuits
All of the samples for this project seem to be green, but with Halloween coming, we thought we would experiment with some ghost- and pumpkin-themed squishy circuitry. Our orange conductive dough came out nice. Basic color mixing theory with our red and yellow food dye worked as expected. My kids wanted to make our insulating dough black. I did caution that with the food coloring we had on hand, we might get brown, but even I didn't quite expect what we got. As you can see from the photos, our insulating dough came out a really gnarly, nasty, icky brown. Yuck! (Tip: the directions do not talk about adding coloring to the insulating dough. We decided this may be because the insulating dough is much drier in the bowl since you add the distilled water last. The coloring worked and did mix in, but you may find it best to add it after you've added most of the water needed to reach the desired consistency.)
We were not thrilled with our brown dough, but that's what we had, brown and orange. So, with ghosts, goblins, and jack-o'-lanterns in mind, we got started.
Read the Procedure
Especially because we were doing this as an informal activity, I knew the kids would not be following the experimental procedures verbatim. We didn't need to record data. We didn't need to turn anything in. We simply wanted to play around with the dough and LEDs. Before I let them loose with the dough, though, we pulled up the directions and each read through the background information for Electric Play Dough 1 and Electric Play Dough 2.
And then they were off!
They worked through the examples first and had great luck with series and parallel circuits. Then they started making their own sculptures. Both did more elaborate parallel circuit examples and then attempted 3D models.
Not everything worked. We had some misfires, some miswires, and even some dough structures that looked like they should work and never did. But we had a great time, and there was lots of hands-on learning going on—and lots of troubleshooting. Watching them process how to step back (or backtrack) and test at each stage of a circuit to find out where the trouble began when a more complicated design was not conducting electricity the way they expected was wonderful—and important.
It was a hot day, and our dough seemed to get a bit weepy in the warmth, starting to feel (and look) tacky and damp as we continued debugging our final projects. The two kinds of dough also tend to want to stick together, which led to some interesting discussions about what happens if, in fact, you mix them. Having done the "Sliding Light: How to Make a Dimmer Switch" project in the past, one of my kids immediately had a theory about how a mixed dough might perform. (It's an idea to put to the test sometime, especially with some of your used dough!)
I have no doubt that the kids now understand the concept of series and parallel circuits in a way that they didn't before starting. Me, too! I wish we had ended up with a great pumpkin to share, but when you do projects as a family, things often take an unexpected path. That's okay!
When a 3D project went awry, one of my kids decided to go for a play dough burger instead. It is 3D, though arguably it's really just a larger example of a parallel circuit. (I think it looks like a space thing.) With the disco burger in the works on one side of the table, my other son co-opted most of the remaining dough for his own pumpkin-eque project. While they worked, I played around with some of the scrap dough that was left. (There wasn't much!)
My 3D pumpkin proved to be a great electronics puzzle and gave me lots of time to experiment through trial and error as I tried to combine what we'd been doing into one conceptual example. In the warmth, and with the small amount of dough I had, my pumpkin kept collapsing. The more times I stuck the probes in it trying to troubleshoot and test the circuit, the more it collapsed. Finally, I left it flat. In the end, it's a pretty scary looking something. (The photo of it here shows it after I'd removed a number of LEDs during my testing.) Admittedly, I was the last one sitting at the table—and the one left to clean up.
We plan to experiment with the squishy dough again in the future, working through some of the challenges we ran into and conquering some of the design issues we had—and emerging victorious with something 3D. Maybe this time we'll aim for a slightly less tacky dough, too. I think drier dough would have helped us a lot.
This is definitely an electronics and engineering experiment worth repeating. Once you have a squishy circuits kit, you can reuse the components over and over with new batches of dough.
What will you create?
You and Your Kids Can Do Electronics!
Afraid to tackle an electronics project with your kids? Don't be!
The first two electric play dough projects are written as introductory electronics projects, projects suitable for even the youngest of elementary students. This makes them great for independent science projects, but it also makes them excellent for family science or even classroom science. No matter what your expertise, familiarity, or comfort level with electronics, chances are good that you can read through the background information for each project and come away with a solid understanding of the core concepts.
After that, you and your kids can start experimenting. What should you make? We recommend working through the first examples (e.g., lighting up a single light bulb), so that you see how the circuits work. As you continue to experiment and add more bulbs, you will build upon your knowledge of circuits and see the information about series and parallel circuits play out in the dough in front of you.
To get started, you really just need to be able to roll up three wads of dough—two conductive and one insulating. If you keep the two conductive ones separate, you don't even need the insulating dough to start, just stick the legs of an LED in the two balls and hook up the battery pack. The LED should light up. If it doesn't, check to make sure your long LED leg is on the same side as the red wire and try again. (You will have learned something important by doing that!) Once you've successfully lit up a single LED, try the same process with a couple of LEDs and watch the brightness of the LEDs start to fade in a series. Then roll out two dough snakes and experiment with parallel circuits. You will be learning more and more about circuits with each sample you make!
What next? Your imagination is the limit to what you can do with dough, but you will need to apply what you learned about circuits to make sure your LEDs light up. It can be a trial and error process, but it is lots of fun!
Directions for STEM Projects, Activities, and NGSS-aligned Lesson
- Electric Play Dough Project 1: Make Your Play Dough Light Up, Buzz, & Move!
- Electric Play Dough Project 2: Rig Your Creations With Lots of Lights!
- Electric Play Dough Project 3: Light Up Your Sculptures!
Lesson Plan:
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Breaking News: Shots Fired at Wadley Medical Center
Shots were fired on the second floor ICU of Wadley Medical Center in Texarkana, Texas. No injuries have been reported yet, but the Texarkana Police Department are at the scene.
Police reported to KSLA News 12 that the incident had something to do with the US Marshal's Office involving a prisoner.
Please stay tune for more information.
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Lyrics: J Fagan
Music: J Fagan
Played by the New Riders of the Purple Sage in the late 1970s.
I just pulled out on the highway in my little foreign car
It was raining and the road was mighty bad
I didn't see that big old diesel but I heard him hit the air
I've a feeling that I might have made him mad
He closed tha gap between us, pushed his pedal to the floor
Making ninety in that big old diesel truck
I can hear the names he's calling me above the engine's roar
And the words won't be found in Webster's book
There's a diesel on my tail making ninety miles an hour
My reflection in my mirror's mighty pale
I can hear Saint Peter calling, I can almost smell the flowers
Can this compact take the impact? There's a diesel on my tail
I'm huffing and a-puffing and I'm trying to make the grade
And I wish I had some pedals on this car
And I'm slipping and a-sliding and afraid to touch the brakes
For this doodle bug could never stand the jar
I'm a-slipping and a-sliding, trying to hold it on the road
And I can tell you I just got to win this race
While I'm trembling and a-shaking, he's blowing on his horn
So close that I could steal his licence plate
Can this compact take the impact? There's a diesel on my tail
Can this compact take the impact? There's a diesel on my tail
New Riders Recordings | ||||
Date | Album | |||
1985 | Marin County Line |


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NYPD Pizza, a locally owned and operated family pizza kitchen with locations throughout metro-Phoenix, Arizona, has crafted a proprietary beer called Uptown Amber Ale, in partnership with The Phoenix Ale Brewery.
NYPD Pizza is the only pizza restaurant in the Greater Phoenix Area that offers a private-label beer. The new brew is now exclusively available at all 11 store locations.
"We are excited to partner with a leading micro-brewery distinguished by crafting some of the highest-quality and flavorful beer in the market," says Rich Stark, CEO of NYPD Pizza. "We developed a recipe with The Phoenix Ale Brewery for our Uptown Amber Ale that appeals to all tastes and complements our menu."
The first month's production of NYPD Pizza's Uptown Amber Ale for the 11 restaurants is 20 barrels (i.e. 620 gallons). Projected volume is expected to double in the coming months, says Gregory Fretz, cofounder/co-owner and sales director of The Phoenix Ale Brewery.
"Beer and pizza go hand-in-hand, and it was such a great experience crafting a blend with NYPD Pizza because of their sincere focus to pair an ale perfectly with their pies," Fretz says.
Uptown Amber Ale's recipe was developed from focus-group evaluations. In three separate sessions, approximately 15 people sampled and assessed the beer's compatibility with NYPD Pizza's menu.
NYPD Pizza's Uptown Amber Ale is a crisp, full-bodied malty beer that finishes smooth.
Why the name Uptown Amber Ale? "'Uptown' is rooted in our New York identity, and the amber ale variety was determined to best complement our pies, particularly our most popular pies, the Brooklyn and the traditional pepperoni," Stark says.


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From Jesus Lives, by Sarah Young
I will never leave you or forsake you. Many of My followers think they have to jump through all the right hoops to "stay in fellowship" with Me. If that were true, they would never be able to enjoy My Presence. They would have to be perfect to gain an audience with Me. Instead of striving to be good enough, I invite you to come confidently into My bright Presence.
If you walk in the Light as I am in the Light, My blood continually cleanses you from all sin. When you become aware of sins, I want you to confess them and seek My help in making needed changes. Nonetheless, your status with Me is not based on confessing your sins quickly enough or thoroughly enough. The only thing that keeps you right with Me is My perfect righteousness, which I gave you freely and permanently when you joined My royal family.
Walking in the Light of My Presence blesses you in many ways. Good things are better and bad things more bearable when you share them with Me. As you bask in My Love-Light, you are better able to love others and enjoy fellowship with them. You are less likely to stumble or fall, because sins are garishly obvious in My holy Light. As you walk in this Light with Me, I encourage you to exult in My righteousness. Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said,
"Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you." – Hebrews 13:5
But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin. – 1 John 1:7 NKJV
Blessed are those who have learned to acclaim you, who walk in the light of your presence, O Lord. They rejoice in your name all day long; they exult in your righteousness. – Psalm 89:15–16
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If you often need to connect to database tables of any kind, then you may want to centralize the connection information details in the Metadata folder in the Repository tree view.
This setup procedure is made of two separate but closely related major tasks:
- Set up a database connection,
- Retrieve the table schemas.
Talend Studio requires specific third-party Java libraries or database drivers (.jar files) to be installed in order to connect to sources or targets.
Due to license restrictions, Talend may not be able to ship certain required libraries or drivers; in that situation, the connection wizard to be presented in the following sections displays related information to help you identify and install the libraries or drivers in question.


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Driscoll's CEO is hospital's 'Hero'
- March 7, 2014
March 7, 2014
By Mike Hornick
SALINAS, Calif. — Natividad Medical Foundation honored Driscoll's chairman and chief executive officer Miles Reiter with its Hero Award for his company's support of language interpretation and related services at the Salinas hospital.
Driscoll's donated $107,700, the bulk of it going to launch Indigenous Interpreting+, which provides interpreters for patients who speak Mixteco, Zapotec, Triqui and other languages. They're spoken by Salinas Valley farmworkers from the Mexican states of Oaxaca, Guerrero and Puebla.
The Driscoll's money was part of $350,000 given by the Agricultural Leadership Council. John D'Arrigo, president of D'Arrigo Bros. Co. of California — who founded the council in 2010 — presented the check at a March 6 ceremony. Since 2010, $1,17 million has been donated by a variety of Salinas Valley grower-shippers and agricultural businesses.
Indigenous Interpreting+ will be a revenue source for Natividad Medical Center as Stanford Hospital, the Mayo Clinic and others access interpreters via Internet, said Linda Ford, president and chief executive officer of Natividad Medical Foundation.
The Agricultural Leadership Council has a history of funding medical equipment. That expanded language services could become part of the offering — and potentially a profit maker for the hospital — was not part of the original plan, D'Arrigo said.
"That was never even thought of in the very beginning," he said, "until we really discovered this need out there. Doctors could not even talk to the patients. So we are giving the doctors and the nurses, we feel, the best medical equipment, and we're also helping them to communicate as they have never before been able to."
"Indigenous interpreting really resonates with us in our business, which is berries," Reiter said. "Everybody's involved in getting clamshell berries into a person's home. It's a team effort in the field, but it needs to be a team effort in the community. Indigenous interpretation really created a vehicle for us to be a more unified people.
"It's really pretty special when you have a big idea and the reality exceeds it," he said. "That's happened here."
In the 2010 U.S. census, 685,000 identified themselves as Latinos of indigenous origin — up 68% since 2000. More than 27,000 live on California's Central Coast, Ford said. Besides California, there are indigenous Mexican populations in Texas, New York, Arizona, Colorado and Illinois.


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Achille-Claude Debussy (1862-1918) was born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, about 20 miles outside of Paris, the son of shopkeepers. (He eventually would drop the Achille.) The family soon moved to Clichy, closer to Paris. Young Claude thought of being a painter, while his father initially hoped his son would enter the navy. It was the pianist Antoinette Maute, a student of Chopin, who discovered his musical talent and prepared him for entrance to the Paris Conservatory at age 11. The boy began as a pianist, but switched to composition. His abilities were obvious, as were yearnings to break free from the composition restraints taught at the Conservatory. Traveling intensified those yearnings. A trip to Russia exposed him to the exotic harmony of composers like Rimsky-Korsakov and Borodin. Later he would discover the nativism of Mussorgsky. Winning the Prix de Rome sent him to Rome for study in 1884, though he did not enjoy his stay there and returned to Paris before the end of his term. A trip to Bayreuth in 1888 helped make him a devotee of Wagner; a visit a year later began his retreat. That same year he was captivated by the free melodies and rhythms of the Javanese music he heard at the Universal Expedition in Paris (as was the younger Ravel). In the 1890s he encountered the French Symbolist movement and joined the circle of its leader, Stephane Mallarmé, who neatly summed up its attractions this way: "To name an object is to sacrifice ¾ of that enjoyment…that comes from the guessing bit by bit." Symbolism led him to the Impressionism of painters like Claude Monet, and that helped lead him to applying Impressionist techniques to music.
Debussy's first significant works appeared in the 1890s. Two were based on Symbolist writings: Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun (Mallarmé) and Fêtes Galantes, a song cycle with texts by Verlaine. The String Quartet appeared in 1893, and his opera Pelléas et Mélisande in 1895. Other significant works followed. Nocturnes (1890s), La Mer (1905), the piano Images (1905 & 1907), and in 1912, the three-movement orchestral Images (the two Images are different works). In 1909 the cancer that would eventually kill him made its first appearance, but Debussy continued to work. Several major piano works appeared in the following years (Préludes, Études, En Blanc et Noir, and others), a major orchestral work (Jeux), and three instrumental sonatas, including his last work, the Violin Sonata in 1917.
Debussy was often described as catlike in his physical manner. He was in fact a lover of cats, a hedonist who was quite the Bohemian and café-goer. He was not terribly active except when composing. His means were limited, and he was often in debt. He had a few scandalous affairs (his first wife and one paramour attempted suicide), two wives and one daughter. His later years were marred by the pain of the cancer that would keep him housebound and eventually kill him.
Debussy was a dreamer whose music dreamed with him. His work tended toward the amorphous and liquid, with delicate changes in color, and soft, indefinite cadences. His rhythm wasn't terribly free at first, but by La Mer he was defying the bar-line and combining several complex rhythms at once. He adopted the Impressionist technique of using color and light to suggest rather than define scenes and objects, but he was too concerned with form to be definitively classified as an "Impressionist." He was often more interested in instrument timbres than the melody they produced, and his orchestration was precisely and subtly drawn. He also understood the dramatic value of silence. Perhaps most important was his extension of Western harmony and tonality beyond where Wagner had taken it. Rather than limiting himself to major and minor keys, standard rules of chord building, and Wagner's chromaticism, he extended his harmony with the Eastern-sounding whole tone scale, medieval modes, chords built from the harmonics and overtones of instruments, and pure imagination. Debussy did not spawn disciples, as Wagner, Mahler, Schoenberg, et al., did. He was more of a quiet revolutionary, but as a pivotal, transitional figure between the late Romantics and the 20th century, his influence on 20th century music was just as strong.
Copyright © 2008 by Roger Hecht.


text: Ticks of the genus Margaropus resemble Rhipicephalus ticks but do not have festoons or ornamentations. They are characterized by greatly enlarged posterior legs and a prolonged median plate. The three highly specialized beady-legged, one-host Margaropus spp are restricted to limited areas of Africa. M reidi and M wileyi are recorded from giraffes in the Sudan and in Kenya and Tanzania, respectively. M wileyi is also known to parasitize zebras and gnu. M winthemi, a winter-feeding parasite of zebras, horses, and less often other livestock and antelope, is confined to mountains of South Africa and may contribute to loss of condition during winter.


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I have just created a Git presentation. The presentation is named Git, Practical Tips, and it contains good practices that I have picked up during my four years as a Git user.
The presentation consists of six parts, A quick introduction; History manipulation with merge, rebase and reset; Finding with Git; Configuration; Under the hood; and Interacting with Github.
If you find this interesting and would like to hear a very practical presentation about Git tips and tricks, feel free to contact me :)
In this post I will describe how to configure Git to work well from the command line. It consists of two main parts, Git configuration and Bash configuration.
I will only describe some select samples of my configuration here. If you want to see more, my configuration files are on Github.
Git Configuration
The Git configuration part is just a bunch of aliases I use. Some are simple
and some are more advanced. The aliases are declared in my global git config
file, ~/.gitconfig
under the [alias]
tag. Here are some of most important
git add --patch
[alias] ap = "add --patch"
git ap
(git add --patch
) is awesome. It lets me add selected parts of the
changes in my working directory, allowing me to create a consistent commit with a
simple clear commit message.
git add --update
au = "add --update"
git au
adds all the changed files to the index. I use it mainly when I forget
to remove a file with git rm
and instead remove it with rm
. In this case
Git will see that the file is missing but not staged for removal. When I run
git au
it will be added to the index as if I had used git rm
in the first
git stash save -u
ss = "stash save -u"
git ss
stashes everything in my working directory, including untracked files
). The reason I use git stash save
instead of just git stash
is that
it allows me to write a message for the stash, similar to a commit message.
git amend
amend = "commit --amend -c HEAD" amendc = "commit --amend -C HEAD"
git amend
lets me add more changes to the previous commit. It is very useful
when I forget to add a change to the index before I commit it. It amends the
new changes in the index and lets me edit the old commit message. git amendc
does the same thing but reuses the old commit message.
git alias
alias = "!git config -l | grep alias | cut -c 7-"
git alias
shows me all my aliases. Starting with a bang (!) is necessary to
execute arbitrary bash commands. Note that the git
command must be included.
The code in the alias means, list configuration, find aliases, show characters
7 and on.
git log --diff-filter
fa = "log --diff-filter=A --summary" fd = "log --diff-filter=D --summary"
git fa
(find added) and git fd
(find deleted) shows me a log of commits
where files were added and deleted respectively. It is great for finding out
how and when my files get deleted. I use it with a filename git fd
or with with grep
, git fd | grep -C 3 missing
grep -C 3
means shows me 3 lines of context around the matching line.
git log-pretty
l = "!git log-hist" log-hist = "!git log-pretty --graph" log-pretty = "log --pretty='format:%C(blue)%h%C(red)%d%C(yellow) %s %C(green)%an%Creset, %ar'"
git l
is my main logging command it and prints a beautiful compact log. When
I reuse an alias I must use the shell command alias, the bang (!), since Git does
not allow me to reference an alias from another directly.
log = The log command --graph = Text-based graphical representation --pretty='format' = Format according to spec %C(color) = Change color %h = Abbreviated commit hash (6b266c2) %d = Ref names (HEAD, origin/master) %s = Subject (first line of comment) %an = Author name %ar = Author date, relative
git log --simplify-by-decoration
lt = "!git log-hist --simplify-by-decoration"
git lt
(log tagged) uses --simplify-by-decoration
to show a list of
"important" commits. Important in this case means commits that are pointed to
by a branch or tagged. It reuses the log-hist
alias above.
Bash Configuration
I used to have a bunch of aliases, such as ga
, gd
, etc. but, now I use
my Git aliases instead. But I still have configuration for command completion
and a nice informative prompt.
function g()
I use the git
command more than any other command during a days work. git status
is the subcommand I use mostly. I have optimized for this by creating a
function g()
that has status
as its default argument.
# `g` is a shortcut for git, it defaults to `git s` (status) if no argument is given. function g() { local cmd=${1-s} shift git $cmd $@ }
The g()
function gives me a lot of power out of a single character.
$ g ## master M README.md ?? doc.md $ g l * 4f71f8d (HEAD, heroku/master, master) Send 404 for missing ... * ec00879 Added support for options Anders Janmyr, 5 weeks ago * 09c178f (origin/master) id cannot be a number Anders Janmyr, 6 weeks ago * e561d03 Send status and send in one call Anders Janmyr, 6 weeks ago * 9615be5 Added some more logging Anders Janmyr, 6 weeks ago * de4730e Improved the code somewhat Anders Janmyr, 6 weeks ago * 1f3f763 Added allow methods header Anders Janmyr, 6 weeks ago * ca3065c Added filter to documentation Anders Janmyr, 6 we
function gg()
My second (and last) function is gg()
# Commit pending changes and quote all arguments as message function gg() { git ci -m "$*" }
allows me to type a commit message without any quotes.
$ gg Added todo list to the Readme [master 98556af] Added todo list to the Readme 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
Installing bash-completion gives me command completion for commands, subcommands and more.
# An example $ git rem<TAB> sh<TAB> o<TAB> # will complete to $ git remote show origin
I use Homebrew to install Git, brew install git
. It gives me a new version of
Git. It also installs git-completion.bash
in /usr/local/etc/bash_completion.d/
I use the same configuration on Ubuntu and I check for the file in
# Prefer /usr/local/etc but fallback to /etc if [ -f /usr/local/etc/bash_completion.d/git-completion.bash ] then source /usr/local/etc/bash_completion.d/git-completion.bash elif [ -f /etc/bash_completion.d/git ]; then source /etc/bash_completion.d/git fi
This is great but, what about my beautiful little g()
function? How do I make
it work with command completion? It turns out to be quite easy. Include the
following little snippet in a configuration file, such as .bashrc
# Set up git command completion for g __git_complete g __git_main
The snippet reuses the functions, __git_complete
and __git_main
included with
to make completion work with g
too. Lovely!
In later versions of Git, the prompt functionality has been extracted out into
its own script, git-prompt.sh
. I include it like this.
if [ -f /usr/local/etc/bash_completion.d/git-prompt.sh ] then source /usr/local/etc/bash_completion.d/git-prompt.sh fi
I configure my prompt like this, it contains a little more magic than the plain
Git configuration. I put it in one of my bash configuration files, such as
function prompt { # Check exit status of last command if [[ "$?" -eq "0" ]]; then # If it is OK (0) color the prompt ($) green local status="" local sign=$(echo -ne "\[${GREEN}\]\$\[${NO_COLOR}\]") else # If not OK (not 0) color the prompt ($) red and set status to exit code local status=" \[${RED}\]$?\[${NO_COLOR}\] " local sign=$(echo -ne "\[${RED}\]\$\[${NO_COLOR}\]") fi # Get the current SHA of the repository local sha=$(git rev-parse --short HEAD 2>/dev/null) # Set the prompt # \! - history number # : - literal : # \W - Basename of current working directory # $sha - The SHA calculated above # $(__git_ps1 '@%s') - literal @ followed by Git branch, etc. # $status - The exit status calculated above # $sign - The red or green prompt, calculated above export PS1="[\!:${LIGHT_GRAY}\W${NO_COLOR} $sha${GREEN}$(__git_ps1 '@%s')${NO_COLOR}$status]\n$sign " } # Tell bash to invoke the above function when printing the prompt PROMPT_COMMAND='prompt'
The function __git_ps1()
can further be configured with some environment
variables. This is what use.
# Git prompt config export GIT_PS1_SHOWDIRTYSTATE=true export GIT_PS1_SHOWUNTRACKEDFILES=true export GIT_PS1_SHOWUPSTREAM="auto" # export GIT_PS1_SHOWSTASHSTATE=true
The resulting prompt looks like this:
The different signs to the right indicate:
# * - Changed files in working dir # + - Changed files in index # % - Untracked files in working dir # < - The branch is behind upstream # > - The branch is ahead of upstream (Yes, it can be both)
More info can be found in git-prompt.sh
Obviously I have not figured this out all by myself. Here are some of my sources: