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how to stop help windows always being on top
Ever called up a HelpViewer window in an app only to find that you have to close the window in order to get back to the app and start following the instructions? That can be highly annoying if the instructions aren't easy to remember.
That's because the HelpViewer.app is by default set to always be on top. If you want to change that, here's a nice little Terminal trick that will let you manage HelpViewer windows just like a normal window, courtesy of new tipster site defaults-write.com. Here's what you do:
1. If you have any HelpViewer windows open, close them first.
2. Open Terminal.app (/Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app) and paste this command into the window:
defaults write com.apple.helpviewer DevMode -bool true
and press 'return' on your keyboard.
That's it! From now on, you'll be able to switch focus between the app and the HelpViewer window so that you can work with whichever one you need on top.
Tip: If you want to reverse the behaviour, use the same command as above but replace 'true' at the end with 'false'.
If you like exploring the various things you can do with defaults preferences, have a rummage around the defaults-write.com site, a nice little addition to our bookmarks list! 🙂
5 things you never knew about Spotlight
Whenever I'm helping customers with a misbehaving Mac, one of the most common things I hear is 'Wow, I didn't know you could do that with Spotlight!' Whereas the average user will navigate around their computer by trawling through Finder, the savvy user knows how to get to places, launch apps, search the internet and calculate their tax with a few simple Spotlight tricks. In this post we'll look at how to increase your productivity by using Spotlight for fast access to a variety of common functions. But first, we need to get Spotlight set up for maximum efficiency.
Set up the hotkey
To get the most out of Spotlight, the first thing to do is set up the keyboard hotkey. By default, this is usually 'command-spacebar', but if you are using multiple languages you might want to reserve that for the Input Switcher. Instead, I use 'option-command-spacebar', not least because this nice 3-finger combination can be executed with the left-hand while the right hand is reaching for the coffee mug… 😉
Whatever your choice of hotkey, keep it close to the bottom of the keyboard, as the other keys that you will want to be able to rapidly access are the cursor arrows and the 'return' key. If you haven't set up your Spotlight hotkey yet, the fastest way to do so is to click on Spotlight on the top right of your screen with the mouse or trackpad and type
and then hit 'return' on the keyboard (if Spotlight isn't the top hit, just use the arrow down key to move down till you hit it)
After hitting 'return', you'll be presented with the Spotlight preferences panel. At the bottom, you'll see fields to define both the Spotlight menu keyboard shortcut and the Spotlight window keyboard shortcut. For the purposes of this post, we're only interested in the menu shortcut (but feel free to set up the window one too, if you wish!). Once your hotkey is set up you can forget about the annoying inconvenience of dragging your cursor up to the top right corner. Just hit your hotkey combination to open the Spotlight search field.
But don't close the Spotlight prefs just yet. The main pane in the window is the Search Results panel which lists the order in which results appear. You can alter the order of results that Spotlight shows by dragging items up and down the list. Altering this to your likes is a big part of getting the most out of Spotlight. If Spotlight is always showing you lots of results from Mail that you don't want to see, for example, drag "Messages & Chats" to the bottom of the list.
For the purposes of this tip, make sure Applications is no.1 in the list and System Prefs no. 2, and Folders at no. 3. Follow that with Documents, Images, PDFs and so on according to the kind of files you access most often on a daily basis. A set up like this will make Spotlight much more efficient at navigating around your mac, and once you get the hang of it you'll find yourself trawling through Finder much less often.
Incidentally, I don't recommend unchecking any of those boxes. We want more power in our searches, not less; you never know when you might be looking for something that just won't show up in a search because you've forgotten that you excluded those results in Spotlight's preferences. Besides, there are better ways to restrict your searches in Spotlight like this and this.
When you're done with setting up Spotlight's preferences, hit 'command' and 'Q' to close System Preferences and read on.
1. Use Spotlight as an App Launcher
Long before the Apple engineers dreamed up Launchpad, many of us were already launching apps in half the time it takes in the Dock, Finder, or (now) even Launchpad itself. You can open any app with Spotlight just by typing three or four characters. Sometimes, just one is enough! All you need to do is hit your hotkey (see above) and type the first three or four letters of the App's name and hit 'return'.
Try typing
tex and hitting 'return' to instantly open TextEdit, or
act for 'Activity Monitor'. iPhoto should be the top hit with
ip. If you use Terminal a lot, there's no need to go rooting around in the Applications/Utilities menu to open it. Simply hit the Spotlight hotkey and type
and hit 'return'.
If you have Carbon Copy Cloner, type
CCC, and if you use 1Password, just the number
1 and return should do the trick.
saf will open Safari and
mai will launch Mail in an instant. Experiment with your favourite or most commonly used apps and you'll find that using Spotlight is twice as fast as any other method.
As a bonus, if you moved Folders up to no.3 in the Preferences list, experiment with the first few letters of your favourite folders. Try some of these and see what comes up as the top hit:
2. Use Spotlight to access System Prefs
We already saw one of Spotlight's hidden uses – fast access to System Preferences. In fact you can do this with any of them. Want to check your login items in Users & Accounts | Login Items? No need to go clicking all round the desktop, hit your Spotlight hotkey and type
if you want to change your Security preferences quickly.
Don't hit 'return' just yet – check to see what is the 'top hit', as you might find that you have to "arrow down" an item or two. Even so, this is a whole lot faster than wading through either Finder or the menu.
and hitting 'return' is also a fast way to open the main System Preferences panel.
3. Dictionary
Hit the Spotlight hotkey and try typing the word
Just press 'command-L' to go straight to the dictionary entry and see its definition in a pop-up panel. Alternatively, hit 'command-D' to open the word in the Dictionary app.
Also note that in Spotlight, you can jump around by holding down the 'command' key and pressing the down arrow key (each press of the arrow key conveniently takes you to the top of each section; release the 'command' key and use the down arrow alone to move one item at a time within the section). Using the 'control' key and the down or up arrow takes you to the very bottom or the very top of the list, respectively.
When you're done with Spotlight, just hit your hotkey combination again to dismiss it. You can also use the 'esc' key here: one tap of 'esc' will clear the Spotlight search bar, two will dismiss it.
4. Website search
But suppose you type in a word that Dictionary.app doesn't know? Try
Again, use your command and arrow key to jump down to the bottom of the results and this time choose 'search the web'. That will automatically open Safari and put the term in the search bar and return the results. But you're not limited to dictionary searches, you can use Spotlight's search bar just like the Google search bar in Safari. Try typing in
mini ipad versus samsung galaxy review
best small car of 2012
or anything else you might want to search the web for. Yep, Spotlight isn't just a file finder on your mac – it's a google search engine, too!
5. Use Spotlight as a Calculator
Want to quickly know what 17.5% of $45,000 is? Hit your Spotlight hotkey and type:
Don't press 'return' – difficult to break that habit, I know! – the result is already listed next to the 'Calculator' icon, just look down to see the search results and the answer is already there!
You can of course do all the standard calculator functions like / for divide, * for multiplication and + and – for addition and subtraction. You can even do powers (3 to the power of 5 = 3^5) as well as bracket expansion. Try
(3x5)^2 and compare the result with
So whether its App launching, web searching, opening system prefs or using the dictionary or calculator, hitting your Spotlight hotkey is a habit you want to develop for faster computing. At least for me, it's probably the most frequent keystroke I use on a daily basis.
Camtasia 2 reviewed
I've been a long time user of TechSmith's Camtasia screen capture software, primarily for two reasons: ease of use combined with a rich set of editing features. Camtasia for Mac 2 strengthens this product in a number of significant ways although there are still some usability issues that need addressing, as well as room for further improvements in the feature set. In this review, I'll walk you through what Camtasia has to offer as well as indicate the kind of uses where it excels as an aid to the technical communicator. Read the review…
mac keeps starting in Safe mode
If you see a screen with a progress bar (something like the shot above), your Mac is starting up in Safe Mode. This shouldn't happen unless the user intentionally wants to do so for troubleshooting purposes. However, if you find that your Mac is defaulting to Safe Mode when you try to start up normally, try the following tips.
1. Stuck Shift key
Check that the Shift key is not accidentally being pressed down or stuck. If you suspect the keyboard may be faulty, plug in a different keyboard.
2. Use Terminal to reset boot-args
Allow the machine to finish booting into Safe Mode, then open Terminal (Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app) and copy this command into the Terminal window:
sudo nvram boot-args=""
press 'return' on your keyboard. Enter an Admin password (type carefully as it will not be echoed to the screen) and restart the Mac.
3. Do a PRAM reset.
In this case, a PRAM reset effectively does the same as No.2 above. However, if No.2 didn't work, it's worth trying this way of doing it in case for some reason the boot memory failed to hold the preference setting. You can also do this step instead of Step 2 if you are not comfortable with using the Terminal.
The PRAM reset is done like this:
1. Power down the machine.
2. Locate the following keys on your keyboard in preparation for Step 4:
3. Press the 'power on' button.
4. Immediately – and before the grey screen appears – hold down 'command-option-P-R' all together.
5. Keep them held down until you've heard the start-up chime twice. After you release them you should hear it again, and hopefully your Mac will boot up as it should normally.
flush DNS Cache in Lion
If you need to flush the DNS cache in Mac OS X, be aware that the commands for this have changed through successive OSs, including Lion.
Flushing the cache is sometimes a good idea if you are unable to reach a site that you know is live but keeps returning an error (you can check whether a site is live for others by typing its address here: Down for everyone or just me?).
You can download my free app FastTasks that will do this (and a whole lot more! 🙂 ) for you without you needing to mess around on the command line. However, if you want to do it manually, then open Terminal (Applications > Utilities > Terminal.app) and use the appropriate command for your operating system:
In Tiger
lookupd -flushcache
In Leopard / Snow Leopard
dscacheutil -flushcache
In Lion and Mountain Lion
sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder
With Lion, you'll have to follow the command with your Admin password, which will be invisible when you type it.
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learning the Terminal – Part Two
In the last post, we learned how to see all the contents of a folder – invisible and visible files – in the Terminal. However, most of us prefer working in the GUI, so this post is going to show you how to work a bit of Terminal magic to easily turn on and off your invisible files and folders in Finder and the desktop.
Open Terminal, and type or copy/paste the following to the command prompt:
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE; killall Finder
(note that all commands in these posts should always be assumed to be case-sensitive).
Press Return.
Now switch out of Terminal and have a look at Finder or your desktop. You should see some 'hidden' files now in a sort of greyed-out 50% opacity (files like .DS_Store). If you can't see such files, go back and check that you typed or copied the entire command correctly.
Assuming you can now see your invisible files in Finder, switch back to Terminal. Press the up arrow key on your keyboard. Notice that the last command you typed reappears.
That's a handy trick to remember. You can move between your previous commands with the up arrow and down arrow keys to save time re-typing or modifying commands.
In this case, we want to use the last command again, but we also want to modify it. Use the left arrow key to move the cursor back to "True" and then use delete to remove "True". Leave the cursor where the letter 'T" was and type FALSE. Make sure the semi-colon ; is still there.
Press Return — you don't need to move the cursor to the end of the line as you would with a word processor. You can hit Return no matter where the cursor is in the command line and it will execute (or try to) whatever is typed on the whole of the command line.
Now, if you switch back to Finder or the desktop, you should see that all your hidden files have disappeared again.
OK, now that we have tested these commands to check that they work, let's do something a bit more useful with them.
Switch back to Terminal. Type
and press Return.
Wow! Did you see what just happened? You substituted the word "FALSE" from the last command with the word "TRUE" and executed the entire command. In other words, you just made your hidden files visible again! Go and look at the desktop and you'll see that your invisible files just returned. Try it again. Switch back to Finder and type
to replace the word "TRUE" in the last command with the word "FALSE". Hit Return to execute it.
Using the pattern ^error^correction is a great way to both correct commands you type incorrectly and to run two commands one after the other that have only one term or option different.
Back in Terminal, hit the up arrow to bring the last command back onto the command line. This time, I want you to hit control-A on your keyboard. Notice that this brings the cursor to the start of the command line, which is what we want as we're going to type in a new command before the "defaults…" part.
With the cursor at the beginning of the line, type
and a space. Then type a double quotation mark right next to the 'd' of 'defaults, so the beginning part looks like this
echo "defaults…
(the ellipsis or '…' is used here just to show that the command continues and should not be in your actual command line)
On the keyboard, press control-E.
This takes the cursor to the end of the command line (remember: control-A to go to the start, control-E to go to the end).
Type another double-quotation mark right after the word 'Finder' so the ending looks like this
… ; killall Finder"
Now hit the spacebar once, and type a double right angle-bracket
Hit the spacebar again and type
The entire command should look like this:
echo "defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles FALSE; killall Finder" >> .bash_profile
Now press Return. Type
and press Return one more time.
What did we just do?
To see what you did, type
emacs .bash_profile
As you can see, after testing those two commands on the command line, we've now sent them to the .bash_profile file, saving us the job of typing them out again (and possibly making an error when we do so). However, we can't leave the commands like that – if we do, then they will run every time we log into the Terminal. Rather, we want to use these commands to define functions, just like we did last time with 'show' and 'up'.
To do that, press control-L on the keyboard, then use the down arrow key to bring the cursor to the beginning of the first line with a 'defaults' command on it.
Press Return. Press the up arrow once, then type
function hide_all
Press Return and in the new line created type
Use the down arrow key to move the cursor down to the line below the "Defaults…FALSE" line and press Return.
In the new line created type
Then press Return. Type
function show_all
Press Return and type
Use the down arrow key to move the cursor below the "Defaults…TRUE" command. (If you can't go below the last typed line, then on the keyboard press control-E to move the cursor to the end of the line, the press Return).
Then type
Check that the whole thing looks like this:
Once you're satisfied, hold down the control key while pressing first the x and then c keys. Press y when prompted to confirm the save. You should be returned to the command line. Type
to logout. Then press command-W and command-N to close and reopen Terminal.
What did we do this time?
We just made some new, easy-to-remember commands to show and hide our hidden files in Finder and the desktop. On the way, we learned how to append commands to files using the >> function, as well as how to move the cursor to the beginning and end of a line using 'control-A' and 'control-E' respectively. We also learned how to recall previous commands on the command line using the arrow keys and how to correct or modify previous commands using the ^error^correction pattern.
Wow, you've come a long way in two short tutorials!
To test out what you just did, type
then press Return.
Switch to Finder and there's all your hidden files! To make them invisible again, switch back to Terminal and type
then Return.
From now on, whenever you want to see your hidden files, just use the show_all command in Terminal. Hide them again with hide_all. 😀
control-A – places the cursor at the beginning of the command line (also works in emacs editor)
control-E – places the cursor at the end of the command line (also works in emacs editor)
control-L – on the command line, this clears the screen (equivalent to the 'clear' command); in emacs, this places the caret inside the editor allowing you to edit (=insert point)
up & down keyboard arrows – moves through history of commands
^error^correction – replaces the term after the first ^ with the term given after the second ^ in the previous command, then executes the entire command
echo – sends the following string or command to the specified file (if no file is specified, the string will output back to your terminal screen. In other words, if you type echo hello, the Terminal will print "Hello" on the next line; hence the term 'echo'! )
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learning the Terminal – Part One
This is the first in a series of planned tutorials for anyone who wants to find out what Terminal can do and how they can use it to increase the usability of their computer. Unlike other Terminal tutorials, I'm going to assume that you're not interested in giving up the desktop for the command line to do things like move and copy files that you can do more easily in Finder. Rather, I'm only going to focus on those things that it's generally more difficult (or impossible!) to do in the GUI than it is in Terminal.
Let's get started. Open Spotlight (try the hotkey command + spacebar or click the spy glass in the top right corner) , then type term and press Return.
When Terminal opens, the first thing you may want to do is make the text a bit easier to see in the Terminal window.
Hold down command-shift-+ to increase the size. Try it a couple of times till the text is a comfortable size. If you overshoot, just use command- – (minus key) to reduce text size.
Now you're sitting comfortably in your Terminal window, let's learn our first spell. Actually, we're not going to learn one so much as make our own!
In order to do that, we want to open a hidden file and edit it. In Terminal, type
emacs .bash_profile
(There's a space after 'emacs', and, don't forget that . dot right before the 'b')
What you see after this screen may vary depending on whether .bash_profile has any pre-existing content or not. If there is anything in the file already, ignore it and use the arrow key to move the cursor to a clean line at the bottom. If the file is empty, then just start typing. The first line we want to type is
function show
Now press Return and enter a single, left curly bracket
Press Return again and type (or copy and paste) this:
ls –alF
There's a space between the 's' and the dash, and all the letters are lowercase except the 'F', which must be uppercase.
Press Return and provide the closing curly bracket
It should look like the area inside the orange rectangle:
Now hold down the control key on your keyboard while you first press x and then c. Notice at the bottom of the screen you get a 'save' warning.
Press the y key on your keyboard, and you should find yourself returned back to the Terminal prompt.
Type exit at the prompt to logout of the Terminal, and then on the keyboard press Command-W to close the window, and Command-N to open a new Terminal session.
What did we just do?
We defined and saved a new Terminal command called show which we can now use whenever we enter Terminal to easily see all the files and folders – including all the hidden ones – in any given directory. To see what we just did, type show at the command line. You should get an output that is formatted something like this:
As you can see I've annotated the screenshot to show some of the features that the show command gives us. First of all, notice the file and folder names that begin with a . dot. These are your hidden files and folders (Remember: they are usually hidden for a reason, so don't go messing with them unless you know what you're doing!). The show command also helps us distinguish between files and folders by appending a / slash to the end of folder names. Although not shown here, you may also see some names with an * at the end. That means it's an executable file — in other words, its purpose is to run some programme or command.
The show command is very useful for seeing exactly what is in a folder, but of course we need to know how to move between folders in order to see anything other than our own home directory.
Suppose I want to have a look in that folder called 'Shared'. Then what I do is I type
cd Sh
then press the tab key on the keyboard. The rest of the name is filled in for me by Terminal:
cd Shared/
The tab key is a very useful trick for moving around in Terminal when you are faced with long names. Generally, you only have to type in enough to make the file or folder name unique and hitting tab will complete the rest of the name for you. However, if I only type
cd S
and then press tab, nothing happens. Terminal can't complete the name because there's more than one choice. However, if I press tab again, Terminal will give me a list of the all names that begin with S:
cd S
pressing tab twice gives:
cd S
Shared/ SnowLpd/
Now I can see all the options, and how much I have to type to make a unique choice. In this case, I only have to type either 'cd Sh' or 'cd Sn' to allow Terminal to know which one I want when I press the tab key. Pressing Return after the tab completion will take me to the folder.
Try it with a folder from your own list.
After changing to a new folder, perhaps your screen is getting a bit messy. Let's clean it up before doing show again. On the keyboard, press control-L to get a clear screen (notice that all your previous commands and outputs are still available if you scroll up!).
Now type show again to see your files and folders, pick a folder (if there is one), and type cd plus the first few letters of the name. Fill it out with the tab key and then press Return.
Again, type show to find out what's inside. You can keep going deeper into the directory tree by using cd and show on any folders you find.
The last thing we need to know for today is how to go back up the tree, or to move back to the parent folder. Again we're going to use the 'cd' command, but this time you don't need to type any names. Just a space and then two dots
cd ..
(don't forget there's a space between the 'd' and the two dots). This will always take you to the parent folder of the folder you're currently in, all the way up to your hard disk's parent directory. If you want, you can make a new up command (just like we made show) as a shortcut for 'cd ..'. Have a look at the smallest of the screenshots above and see if you can do it. 🙂
So now you know how to move around and see all the hidden and un-hidden contents of your drive, go and explore and get yourself used to these first basic commands.
When you've finished with your Terminal session, type exit and press Return. You can then close the window and go back to GUI land!
. at the beginning of a name means 'hidden'
/ at the end of a name means 'Folder'
* at the end of a name means 'executable file'
cd – move in to that folder
cd .. – move back to the parent folder
emacs – opens the Terminal textfile editor
show – shows a complete list of a directory, including hidden files
control-L – clears the Terminal screen
tab – will try to complete file or folder names
tab (twice) – will offer choices
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how to remove Lion Recovery disk
If you have reverted your mac to Snow Leopard from Lion, its important that you also remove the Recovery HD, as it can compromise the security of your Snow Leopard installation (for security issues with Lion, see here). Reverting to SL via Time Machine or restoring from a clone will leave the Recovery partition in place, meaning anyone can boot into it and reset your Snow Leopard passwords merely by restarting your mac while holding down the 'option' key.
To remove the Recovery disk follow this procedure:
1. Revert back to Snow Leopard using Time Machine or a clone.
2. Once you're up and running and have confirmed everything is good, go to Terminal (Applications > Utilities > Terminal) and paste/type this command to confirm the presence of the Recovery HD:
diskutil list
then press 'Return'. If you see a partition labelled something like this
Apple_Boot Recovery HD (see image above)
then you will need to continue with the rest of the procedure. If the Recovery HD is not listed here, you do not have the Recovery partition and need not worry further.
3. If you find the Recovery HD in the list, paste the following command into Terminal:
defaults write com.apple.DiskUtility DUDebugMenuEnabled 1
Press 'Return'.
Now open Disk Utility (Applications > Utilities > Disk Utility). In the menubar at the top, choose Debug > 'Show every partition'
On the left in the main Disk Utility window, you'll be able to see 'Recovery HD' (it'll be greyed out). You can click 'Mount' in the taskbar to make it active, and you can now delete it using control-click/right click – erase or by using the 'erase' tab in DU's window.
If you want to confirm that the Recovery disk is no longer present, go back to Terminal and type the command from step 2.
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Following a recent increase in phishing attacks, we discussed the most commonly used phishing techniques. This article assesses the legal position concerning phishing. Is the bank or the customer liable for the loss caused by a phishing attack?
Liability for phishing attacks
Legally speaking, when a bank processes a money transfer at the request of a customer, it does so out of its own assets. Under §§ 675c(1), 670 German Civil Code (Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch, BGB), the bank acquires a right to the reimbursement of expenditure, which it can exercise against its customer.
However, if an account holder does not actually transfer money, the bank lacks authority to conduct the transaction. This means that the account holder is entitled to refuse authorisation to the transaction and the bank loses its right to the reimbursement of expenditure (see § 684(2) BGB). Under rules introduced by the law Payment Services Directive 2007, payment service providers have no right to reimbursement of expenditure for transactions which have not been authorised by a payment service customer (§ 675u BGB).
If, despite lack of authorisation, the money has already been debited from the customer's account, the customer is entitled to a reimbursement (§ 812(1) first sentence, second alternative). The bank cannot rely on any primary rights contained in the contract between it and its customer.
Compensation for breach of duty of care
The bank could, however, rely on secondary rights arising out of a breach of duty of care.
Usually, Torjans, or malicious software, used to perpetrate phishing and pharming attacks are not directed at a bank's IT system but at the usually less well protected private computer of each customer. For this reason banks normally require their customers to exercise at least a minimum level of care to protect their computers and prevent attacks.
If a customer fails to fulfil this duty of care, the bank may be able to claim compensation in order to receive reimbursement of the expenditure.
Duty of care
Online banking customers are under a duty of care to protect their computers through a number of measures including updating anti-virus software and other security-relevant software, and keeping their operating system and web browser updated.
In their terms and conditions, many banks also require customers to keep authentication data (PIN and TAN numbers) secret and to not divulge them to third parties. Customers breach this duty if they pass on such data to fraudsters, even if they are under the mistaken impression that they are communicating with their bank.
In a judgment from 24 April 2004, Germany's Federal Court of Justice ruled that a banking customer who entered 10 TAN numbers on a fake website had acted negligently and breached his duty of care.
The BGH noted that customers only act negligently if they fail to observe the relevant level of care; that is to say if they can reasonably have been expected to avoid the mistake.
Fake websites are difficult to recognise
The case above shows that it may well have been reasonable to expect the banking customer to have avoided entering 10 TAN numbers on a fake website.
Nevertheless, it used to be easier to recognise fake websites and fraudulent e-mails as they often contained design errors and spelling and grammar mistakes. Nowadays fake websites are as near as perfect.
The traditional method of double checking the web address to see if it contains an extra "s" denoting that the website is secure (as in "https://"), is no longer considered sufficient to protect against Trojan attacks. Instead internet users should also check the website's security certificate.
It is therefore comforting to note that the current predominant legal view, held by experts and the BGH, is that it is unreasonable to expect banking customers to have the technical know-how to double check a website's security certificate.
Customers should recognise suspicious activity
The liability for loss resulting from phishing can also move to customers when they fail to fulfil their duty to recognise suspicious activity.
Where traditional phishing e-mails are concerned, the customers should recognise suspicious activity and they should be aware that their bank will never contact them by e-mail and require them to enter highly sensitive personal data. Banks will especially not contact customers to require them to enter their details 10 times.
Here, the industry is unanimous in its view that it is reasonable to expect banking customers to recognise and interpret such suspicious activity and not to click on links contained in phishing e-mails.
If customers do follow the instructions in such e-mails, they are liable for the breach of their duty of care.
If it can be clearly proven that a customer breached their duty of care, the bank is entitled to claim compensation.
What's more, if a court finds the customer grossly negligent, the bank is entitled to fully offset its claim for compensation against the customer's claim for the amount to be re-credited.
The result is often less than satisfactory for the banking customers, who often go away empty handed.
Social engineering Trojans
The law differentiates between those cases where Trojans are used to obtain TAN or PIN numbers through fake e-mails and so-called social engineering Trojans. Under the latter, it is questionable whether banks can be held liable for fraudulent transactions.
Social engineering Trojans aim to influence interpersonal communication and encourage the target person to undertake an activity.
In a previous article we discussed a case in which an online banking customer was informed on the bank's platform via a fake e-mail that an incorrect transaction had taken place and that his account had been frozen until he transferred the corresponding amount back to the "rightful" owner.
The man was convinced by the official-looking properly-written e-mail, which purportedly originated from the bank, and completed the reverse transfer.
No right to reimbursement
In this case, technically speaking, the customer did indeed knowingly and intentionally authorise the transaction. From a legal point of view, it can be disputed whether the customer really acted with intention.
If a court were to rule that the transfer was authorised, the customer would be unable to rely on the argument that the bank undertook an unauthorised transaction and would be unable to refuse consent (see § 675u BGB).
This means that the bank's right to reimbursement of expenditure would still apply. Any money debited from the customer's account could not be reclaimed, as the bank would have acted with authorisation and under a sound legal basis.
Can the customer challenge the transfer?
Whether a customer can challenge the fraudulent transfer of money is questionable.
1. Deception
One could consider that the customer bring an action for intentional deception under § 123 BGB. Here the customer's authorisation given to the bank would be declared void. However, as the fraud is committed by a third person, the only recourse open to a banking customer is to bring a claim against the bank. In this situation, the authorisation can only by declared void if the bank knew or should have known of the deception.
Given the large number of financial transactions conducted online, expecting the bank to know that a particular hacker is committing fraud would place an absurd burden upon financial institutions.
A claim for intentional deception would therefore fail.
2. Mistake
Claiming that the transaction should be considered void as a result of mistake under § 119 BGB would also fail. This is because, when giving a declaration of intent (i.e. making the transfer), the banking customer did not made a mistake in relation to the content of the transfer. The customer was aware that and intended for a certain amount of money to be transferred to the recipient. The only mistake here concerns motivation, which is legally irrelevant. The intended recipient of the payment is entitled to receive it.
3. Compensation
It may be possible for the banking customer to claim compensation from the bank. In order to do so, the customer must prove that the bank breached its duty of care.
However, most Trojans are aimed at personal computers of private individuals and many banks' terms and conditions require customers to protect their computers with updated anti-virus software.
The responsibility to take precautions therefore rests with those individuals and any claims for compensation following malicious software attacks will usually fail.
While in many phishing cases, banks are unable to prove a customer was grossly negligent, cases concerning social engineering could leave customers with no redress.
Many banks, however, are willing to return lost money on a goodwill basis and without admission of legal liability.
Before it comes to that, here are some tips on how to protect yourself against phishing attacks:
- Never give your PIN or TAN details to anybody via e-mail or telephone (except during telephone banking)
- Even where an e-mail appears authentic and contains strong demands, it is better to double check with your bank once too often, than once too little.
- If you have fallen victim to a phishing attack, take legal advice. In our experience, money can often be reimbursed.
For more information on phishing or for advice on how to react to a phishing attack, contact WILDE BEUGER SOLMECKE on 0221 / 951 563 0 (Beratung bundesweit).
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The basket was brown sugar cake with brown sugar buttercream. The bunny and chick were coconut cake with chocolate buttercream. Everything was covered in marshmallow fondant.
I used edible easter grass in the basket.
The eggs were coconut cake on a stick, with a surprise inside.
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I had a friend who used to be crazy about a certain guy that she liked so much. She'd go the moon and back and do everything for this guy. He never really cared to be honest and sometimes he'd only want to see her at night. She'd worry constantly about him and she couldn't stop talking about him. Then one day, she was telling me that she saw him with someone else and she was so upset. She said "Am I not good enough for him?" and then I asked her "Is he even..good enough..for you?"
I'm sure too often than not we find ourselves wondering – am I good enough? How come he hasn't texted me back? Why doesn't he like me? Perhaps a friend of yours is talking behind your back but you can't bear to lose the friendship. You constantly catch yourself saying – "Is it because I'm not good enough for them? Is it me?" If this is you, sometimes we gotta look at things a little differently and turn the tables to say – "hey, wait a minute, wait a frickin' minute, is this person even good enough for….. me?
We care too much about what people think that we forget what we deserve. Does that guy that you want so badly care enough about you to respect you and not take advantage of you. If the answer is no, then why would you wanna be with someone like that? Why do you think that you deserve a man who doesn't love you back, who doesn't treat you well?
You got to love yourself and know what's good for you. Stop worrying about how people perceive you. You deserve good people in your life who care and respect you, are happy for you and want the best for you and who'd go the extra mile for you when you would do the same. Surround yourself with positive people. Be strong and stand up for yourself. Sometimes it's really just about seeing things differently.
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Oh... and by XXX I don't necessarily mean "Rated XXX", but instead "X" refers to the Roman Numeral "10".
Since today is 10-10-10, this post would naturally be the X-X-X edition.
(Oh, I'm not proud of the deception... but I do so as a "public service". Those google porn surfers love this series. I'd hate for them to miss this one.)
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This entry - from
Doctor Strange; Master of the Mystic Arts # 45,
by Chris Claremont (story) and Gene Colan (art)
not only displays one of the multiple instances of Clea questioning her dual role as disciple and lover, but it does show that when, if made to choose between one or the other... well... CLEA LOVES SEX!
The issue ENDS with this steamy panel.
The issue ENDS with this steamy panel.
Clea holds down TWO jobs.
One of those jobs seemingly involves GIVING them.
This sensual ending notwithstanding, the issue shows Clea running more hot and cold than a sneaker-wearing penguin with a flamethrower.
The scene is set, innocently enough, with Doctor Strange meeting Clea for a romantic, fully-posh dress-up lunch at the Plaza Hotel in NYC.
The day starts off well enough, Strange being charming and Clea seemingly in a pleasant state of being.
However, as many can attest from personal experience, such a tenuous, delicate balance is not easily held.
Seemingly from out of nowhere, Clea pulls a dark, angry and accusational mood from her bag.
Much like many "normal" men, Stephen Strange is blithely ignorant of the deeply held concerns of his lady love, and worse still, is clueless to his own failings in the situation.
But, that's why his title isn't "Master of the Romantic Arts".
In all honesty, and to her defense, Clea is suffering with several very serious personal dilemma.
The first of which;
She feels as alien on Earth as one to whom calls home a Dark Dimension of magic could possibly expect.
But that isn't the worst of it...
With Clea essentially at the precipice of a total breakdown, Strange pulls off the best "magic trick" of all:
calming her and managing to open a civil discourse with his beloved disciple.
Ah... but "beloved / disciple" is indeed the very crux of the situation...
You'll note that Clea states that since she feels useless as Strange's disciple, she is willing to stay on as his lover.
Doc knows that her emotions and feelings are at a dangerous place right now, and he has to tred carefully, and with great sensitivity in order to steer this in the right direction.
Of course, for most men, saying "we need to talk more of this" while engaging in a passionate kiss really means; "Let's do anything else but talk more about this. Now give me some sugar, baby".
However, Stephen Strange is a gentleman and a scholar (and not just book-smart either) as he knows that he had best diffuse the situation with some Tender Loving Care.
A long, lazy afternoon with relaxing fun and a romantic carriage-ride home is just what the Doctor ordered.
Guys? Check it. Doc is TOTALLY scoring points here. THAT is how it's done.
So that, when a mystic battle with the demonic N'Garai erupts in Doc's sub-basement, Strange is able to alleviate Clea's fears with some well chosen words.
Words that do more than quell Clea's mixed concerns for the time being.
Words that spur her on to strive to be the BEST, most adept disciple and BEST, most ardent lover possible.
And of course, to make sure he leads the dialogue along with a carefully leading line.
One that Clea picks up the meaning and replies accordingly.
Doc: "You've done work enough this night as my disciple..."Clea: "...But as LOVER... my work has only just BEGUN!"
Damn. Strange is smooth.
He played that just right - because he knows...
"Tamam Shud!"


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And the next day we went down to the road into Bowman Lake and hiked around the Bear Valley Nature Trail and beyond. Wonderful hiking, and on this day (and at this lower elevation) even the virgin snow was crisp, so walking was really quite easy.
So it's pretty clear that we've become fans of snowshoeing. But we still have real reservations about snow camping. Hiking there and back is great. But we have some concerns about what we would do once we got to camp. Yeah, I know---we'd make a camp. And we'd cook dinner. But in the winter, it's dark 14 hours a day. So somewhere around 5:30 p.m. it's dark. It's cold. And fires are obviously a bit of a snag, since all the wood is wet from the snow. So...you sit in your tent for 14 hours? You sit out in the cold night for four hours, and then get in your tent?
We're thinking that right about 5:30 is a great time to arrive back at the car, where you can drive to a nice hotel and take a warm shower, then go out to dinner. And then sleep in a room in a bed.
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Arch Rival Roller Derby is excited to announce that we will be a part of the 31st Annual Working Women's Survival Show.
The three-day event takes place Friday-Sunday, February 23-25 at the St. Charles Convention Center (One Convention Plaza, St. Charles, MO.)
Historically, ARCH will be the first women's sports franchise that has appeared at the event.
Not only will we have our own booth at the event for the whole weekend but we will also be presenting our "Power Jam: Get to Know STL Roller Derby" exhibition at the Club Firm, Fit and Feminine Stage on Sunday, February 25 at 1:30 p.m.
Here's an extra incentive for you to attend. Visit our booth on the upper level during the weekend, tell us "I Love Roller Derby!" and receive a free ticket for our Saturday, March 17 event at Midwest Sport Hockey.
You can also register for a "Women's Night Out" package that nets four complimentary tickets to the 3/17 event that includes a V.I.P. seating section track side and unlimited wine/beer/soda for yourself and three of your friends. No better way to spend St. Patty's Day, right?
Come out and join us! Here's the schedule of the Working Women's Survival Show:
Friday 2/23: 11 am – 8 pm
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Launched in 1987, the Working Women's Survival Show has evolved into the Ultimate Girl's Day Out. Alongside us, over 400 exhibitors will be at the event during the weekend.
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The use of drones may divide opinion, but there's little doubt they can be used for some pretty cool stuff. Like helping to save whales in oceans off South Australia.
WWF-Australia has released amazing pics and video taken by drones that is being used to check on the health of endangered southern right whales.
The stunning aerial photos -- the first of their kind -- of mum Bella and her calf show the dramatic weight loss mother whales experience in bringing up their young, while also managing environmental threats.
"These include getting tangled in marine debris, disturbance from oil and gas development, and global ocean warming which could reduce their food supply in Antarctica," WWF-Australia whale researcher Chris Johnson said.
"That's why this project is so important. If the condition of the whales changes in the future it could be a sign that human activities are having an impact.
"Nurturing a calf is already tough enough for the mothers without humans adding to the pressure."
Southern right whales make an epic journey to give birth, travelling thousands of kilometres from their Antarctic feeding grounds to South Australia. They stay there for about three months to fatten their calves before returning to Antarctica.
The species is making a comeback after nearly being hunted to extinction, with the drone-based research being undertaken by WWF along with Murdoch University.
Pleasingly, marine scientists have spotted a record-high 172 southern right whales off the South Australian coast this year.


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Tesco has won a battle with rival Sainsbury's after the advertising watchdog rejected a complaint about its "Price Promise" comparison scheme.
In a humiliating blow to Sainsbury's chief executive, Justin King, the Advertising Standards Authority has thrown out itschallenge to a series of Tesco advertisements that claimed its own-label products were cheaper than those of Sainsbury's.
Sainsbury's had complained about Tesco's practice of comparing products such as its non-Fairtrade bananas with Sainsbury's Fairtrade bananas, or Tesco's"everyday value" ham, which is produced in the EU, with Sainsbury's "basics" ham, which is British.
But the ASA said in its ruling: "While we acknowledged there would be differences in animal welfare and country of origin for the ingredients, we were satisfied that Tesco had taken those elements into account when identifying and matching products and had compared on the basis of them meeting the same need."
David Wood, Tesco UK marketing director, said: "We are delighted because we know how good Price Promise is for customers. It is very simple, but it is very powerful."
Price comparison tools have become a key battleground in the fiercely competitive UK grocery retail sector. Sainsbury's own tool, known as "Brand Match", compares the prices of branded products between itself, Tesco and Asda.
Sainsbury's will retaliate on Wednesday by launching a national print advertising campaign highlighting its commitment to protecting customers' right to make fair comparisons based on the characteristics and provenance of a product and not just price.
Meanwhile, four other UK supermarkets have signed up to a consumer group's campaign for simpler, clearer and more consistent pricing on food and drink products to help consumers understand the true price.
Aldi, The Co-operative and Waitrose will improve food labels in their stores to help shoppers compare the price of products more easily, while Morrisons signed up to Which? magazine's "Price it Right" campaign when it launched in September last year and has already introduced new labels in many of its shops.


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One month after passing a motion supporting a boycott against Israel, the Spanish municipality of Aviles distanced itself from that position and denounced it as discriminatory.read more
The northern city's council on Saturday nullified its January motion favoring the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, or BDS, after a pro-Israel group initiated a discrimination lawsuit against the municipality in connection with that vote, the El Comercio daily reported Monday.
ACOM, which filed the lawsuit, and the municipality's legal department held settlement talks before the motion was scrapped, according to El Comercio. The pro-Israel group called the reversal a "historic political and legal victory."
In a statement to the media Sunday, ACOM noted the city agreed to advertise its unfavorable attitude toward BDS, including a statement that "the boycott threatens people's right not to be discriminated against" as well as academic freedom, and runs counter to Spain's law on public contracts and EU directives from 2006 on equal opportunities.


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With the news of Hangeng's dating rumors spreading, spotlight has refocused on the former Super Junior member. Hangeng debuted as a member of Super Junior in 2005 and promoted as the only Chinese member. With his unique characteristic shown off in variety shows and dance skills from his training in traditional dancing, Hangeng gained many fans in Korea. After promoting with the other Super Junior members for about four years, however, Hangeng applied for provisional disposition of his contract with SM Entertainment. About quitting SM, Hangeng said in an interview in China, "The main reason I left the company was because I wasn't enjoying what I was doing. I felt like I had autism. I was psychologically unstable for some time. I wondered what they would do if I committed suicide, like many other Korean celebrities." Being involved in dating rumors with Hangeng since 2012, actress Jiang Kai Tong attended a drama press conference on March 11 and when a reporter asked about Hangeng, she answered, "It's too early to talk about marriage," indirectly admitting that she is dating him. Source: http://mwave.interest.me/enewsworld Shared at sup3rjunior.com by uksujusid TAKE OUT WITH FULL AND PROPER CREDITS. ________________________________________ For every concern Hangeng fan (gengster i think) i have a few words I hope people realize that the actress Hangeng is rumored to be dating only stated she isn't ready for Marriage. People don't get younger they get older, so she's probably thinking that her next relationship will lead her into marriage and maybe she's not mentally prepared for commitment She apparently has a new drama coming up, the company is probably trying to stir-shit so that her drama gets attention Sheesh no body ever looks at things with positivity it's like the negative climate change is affecting peoples thoughts too.
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Chinese Actress Implicitly Admits She is Dating Hangeng
Too many artists get negative attention, leave them alone!! Too bad reporters couldn't care about private lives and just focus on the artist life, like he said with the suicide, too many negative aspects being reported about their daily lives. Good luck HanGeng!!


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It has been forever since I talked about books on here! I am going to try to do a monthly thing at the beginning of each month to share with you what I read the previous month. So without making you wait longer, here's what I read in September! (You can always check out everything I've read in the last eight years or so on my Goodreads page!)
As Sure as the Dawn by Francine Rivers
I started reading the Mark of the Lion trilogy like two years ago and just finally go around to finishing it this year. I really enjoyed As Sure as the Dawn, but I didn't love it the way I did the first two. The hardest part is that it took a while for it to get going. The first two books don't center on Arteses, so it was a transition to put myself in his story instead of the other characters' stories. It is definitely action-packed and has a lot of sweet and tender moments, but I felt like sometimes to Arteses was a super irritating caricature of someone against Christianity/German warrior. It felt a bit over the top in places. But ultimately, it was a truly satisfying conclusion to an excellent series. If you've read the first two, I would say to definitely read this one! 4/5 stars
Fairest by Marissa Meyer
I have enjoyed the first three books in the Lunar Chronicles series. Fairest is the backstory of Queen Levana and it's super creepy. It didn't make me like her any better, but it gave me insight into how she turned out the way she did. I was gasping out loud in so many places in this book. I could also slowly see so many of the pieces of the Lunar Chronicles books thus far come together. I also loved how this book gave you some of the backstory with the plague and set up how things happening in Cinder, Scarlet, and Cress. I have grown more and more curious about the backstory so it's fun to get to have that. I am so excited to read Winter when it comes out later this year! 4/5 stars
Fishing for Stars by Bryce Courtenay
I read the first book (The Persimmon Tree) in this two-book series almost three years ago. I actually listened to the audio book because I was driving at hour to work and an hour home each day. I loved the narrator so much that I finally got around to reading the second book — or in this case, listening to it via Audible. I have to say, while I LOVED The Persimmon Tree, I am looking forward to being done with Fishing for Stars because I am not enjoying its content as much. In The Persimmon Tree, we meet these rich, amazing characters and we see how war disrupts their lives and how they must survive. There is (historically accurate) a big importance placed on "comfort women" (aka women in brothels) and heroin addition, and while it's important we aren't beat over the head with it. But in Fishing for Stars, I feel like so much of what I'm reading/hearing is all about sex sex sex and it's like, when is enough enough? Also, Anna, who is such a compelling and wonderful character in The Persimmon Tree, is highly unlikeable in Fishing for Stars. In act, I don't really like any of the characters in this book. I have about an hour left to listen so my rating is based "only" on 21 hours of previous listening. 2.5/5 stars
The Thorn Birds by Collen McCullough
I had been craving a big, fat book to get lost in during the month of September and I got lucky because Modern Mrs. Darcy posted a bunch of big, fat books for your summer reading a few months before I got my craving (maybe she's to blame for the craving!). Anyhow. I pulled up the list at Barnes and Noble and this was the one they had in stock that looked most interesting. It's the story of a family set over many, many decades and three generations. It takes place main in Australia. I am about 2/3s of the way through and it's wonderful. I have found myself rooting for characters, getting angry with them, gasping and being shocked and heartbroken and overjoyed and frustrated. The plot of the book is simply watching the family unfold over the years and it's marvelous. 4/5 stars
Out of Sorts by Sarah Bessey
When Jen Hatmaker's book launched and the subsequent party happened, I came to the realization that I needed something to fill that void. Enter Sarah Bessey. I had heard of her previous book and have read many of her blog posts before, so I was excited to apply to be on her launch team for Out of Sorts, which comes out in November. I have loved every minute of Out of Sorts so far. It is rich book. It is a deep book. Sarah is a writer who digs deeply into things that can make us uncomfortable. Out of Sorts looks at our faith as it has and continues to evolve. I think it's broken down in a way that makes it a book to connect very deeply and personally with. I have felt out of sorts with my faith many times in my life, and so many times I finding myself nodding my head and saying "Amen!" to Sarah's words. They've surely helped me fell less alone in my wondering and my wandering. 5/5 stars


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The next Natalie installment is done, complete with nursing exams, ice skating in the city square, a dying revolutionary and an embrace suddenly interrupted.
A breakneck pace is required to bring this volume in by the end of January. I'm hoping to finish and post the third and final installment of this chapter by Monday night or Tuesday.
Kiev, Russian Ukraine. December 7th, 1914. The second week of December marked the end of the Red Cross certification program at the Prince Mikhailov Hospital. Written examinations were on Monday. They had three hours to write treatment plans for a set of hypothetical cases.
As the clock marked the hour, Sister Levchenko placed a poster-sized printed sheet on the easel at the front of the room, on which was written the case with a small diagram. They took up pencils, and began to write. After fifteen minutes, Sister Levchenko rang a handbell. Pencils down. She placed another case on the easel. Natalie turned over a fresh sheet of paper, took up her pencil in cramped fingers, and began again.
After the cases they were given a thirty minute break during which the fourteen women taking the test nervously sipped tea in the other room and discussed the questions. Was that fifth case typhoid fever? How could it be when it didn't mention swelling of the abdomen? Natalie soon took herself away to a corner of the room and tried to shut all sound from her mind. No discussion now could change the answers she had already written, and she wanted instead to recall everything she could of the many diagrams and names they had memorized over the last ten weeks.
Sister Levchenko stepped in and rang a bell, summoning them all to the second half of the written examinations. Now every fifteen minutes a large diagram was placed on the easel, labeled only with a set of numbers: the muscles of the body, the bones, the soft organs, surgical instruments, types of bandages. On their papers they wrote out the numbers and began to fill in the name of each. By the end, the last few terms were swirling and stooping in Natalie's mind like vultures over the carcass of her knowledge. The sphenoid bone. The name was clear to her, but was it that part of the head or the stubbornly unlabeled bone in the wrist?
Time was up. She turned her papers in and walked away.
"Do you want to get a cup of tea? Perhaps some pastries?" asked Elena.
Natalie looked at her, drained. She wanted to share the feeling of struggle and accomplishment with someone, but there was nothing left in her, a vessel poured out and dry.
"I'm sorry. Not today."
It was early to return, still not quite dinner time when she reached the Lutereks' house. As if in confirmation of her mood, the December sun had already gone down and the streets were in dim twilight. Perhaps she could take a nap before dinner. Or just go to bed.
Sara bounded into the hall from the sitting room when she heard Natalie enter.
"Oh, what do you think? Borys is coming home!" She waved a piece of army stationery. "He's finished artillery officer training and has two week's leave before he reports to his unit. He'll be here for Christmas!"
Natalie stood and stared at her. Borys was one of the kindest, most amusing men she knew, and yet she felt nothing at this news, nothing at her friend and former pupil's excitement.
Sara was still talking, rhapsodizing about the times they would have over Christmas.
"I'm sure I'm very excited to see Borys again, but after the Red Cross examinations I have a headache. I need to lay down."
As she went she heard Sara offering sympathy, but already Natalie was hurrying up the stairs. Still dressed, she collapsed onto the bed on which she had found it so difficult to sleep the night before and found that now sleep was mercifully easy.
Tuesday was a fallow day before the panel examinations, and there was nothing to be done. When she awoke, Natalie looked at the little stack of brown and green cloth-bound books on her table and knew that consulting them further during this one day would be no help in the type of examination she would face the next day. If the weather were warm, this would be the day to cast all things aside and ask Sara and Lena to go with her for a picnic in one of the parks, but snow had fallen during the night, and the mask of frost over her little window was lit brilliantly by a clear, cold day.
For a long time, longer than she could remember doing before except when sick, she lay under her pile of blankets watching the light shift subtly on that pattern of frost, as the sun rose higher in the sky. Then, of a sudden, everything became intolerable. She shivered into her clothes and was glad that she saw no one as she slipped down the stairs and out of the house.
The city was bustling. Soldiers were everywhere, yet these happy, smiling, talking, gawking men seemed of another order than those who lay in the rows of beds inside the hospital.
Instinct and the pressure of the moving crowds brought her towards the city center. A stand was selling hot potato pancakes, and she bought three, carrying them inside her muff for a while, where they gave off a delicious warmth. At intervals she would take one out, eat a few bites, and return the rest to her muff to continue warming her hands, until the last few bites were barely warm, but still savory of potato and onion.
The cold of the last two weeks, more appropriate to January than early December, had allowed the city to pour the skating rink in St. Michael's Square early. Booths and stands surrounded it selling food, drink, and all manner of things which a soldier visiting the big city for the first time might want to buy, for himself, for his relatives back at home, or for the girl he met here.
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