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David Foster Wallace is fast approaching the status of a "sage writer" (albeit a tragically posthumous one). As everyone knows, Wallace was the Guy Who Moved Things On From Postmodernism, so in a way it makes sense that he should be treated as a sort of modern-day Ruskin, a doler-out of soundbite ethical wisdom in an age trying to recapture sincerity and cohesiveness after the pomo-relativist flood. Middling rockist indie bands are wont to quote the bit in 1993 essay "E Unibus Pluram" where Wallace talks about the likelihood of the next generation of radicals being a "weird bunch of anti-rebels ... who dare somehow to back away from ironic watching, who have the childish gall actually to endorse and instantiate single-entendre principles". Zadie Smith and Foals are notable celebrity admirers. Meanwhile, Guardian hacks post links on their vanity websites* to Wallace's now very widely quoted 2005 Kenyon commencement speech, a dazzling 20 minute morality lesson (now better known in its transcribed form as "This is Water"), which has become a sort of "Everybody's Free To Wear Sunscreen" for the 2010s. Fuck's sake, when I was scratching around for something pithy to say as a goodbye bow to my middling indie band a couple of years ago (long story), I posted the whole of the Kenyon speech to our Myspace blog. It wasn't really all that relevant to that particular moment of personal crisis, I now realise, but hell, it was the most sagacious thing I was reading at the time, and it seemed to fit in some vague way with the bloody-minded, stand-taking gesture I was making.
Right now, as Wallace's final work - the unfinished novel The Pale King - is about to be published, the Saint DFW tendency is reaching a spectacular climax, accompanied by the sort of inordinate PR hysteria we're all familiar with. The media idolatry is unfortunate, but then again, it's bound to be short-lived. More importantly, you get the impression that, when the culture and publishing industries have moved onto their next five-minute hero/victim, Wallace's voice and legacy will still be just about audible underneath the debris of post-mortem exploitation and expropriation (or that's the hope, anyway).
So what is the legacy? If Wallace was - and still has the potential to be - a modern sage, then what kind of wisdom did he impart? Taking the Kenyon speech/"This is Water"** as a sort of condensed moral manifesto (and despite Wallace's protestations that he shouldn't be regarded as a didactic "wise old fish", he clearly was just this - a willingness to be so was perhaps his greatest contribution to contemporary letters), the most striking thing for me is how damnably conflicted his argument is. The rhetoric, for once, is lucid, cogent, and pomo-free. But the message remains infernally difficult to hammer out. Broadly speaking, Wallace seems to be caught between a visionary perspicuity about "what is to be done" on the one hand, and a self-lacerating, high-sceptical tendency that to a large extent nullifies the affirmative potential of his astonishingly powerful insights. This is not the place to speculate about parallels between this sort of mindset and Wallace's tragic biography. What is certain, though, is that this expression of the struggle between hope and fear, unselfishness and self-directed masochism, positive utterance and negative qualification of it, is the key testament of one of the most harrowingly representative figures of our times. Wallace's struggle was, and remains, an epochal one.
I'm with Wallace on about 90% of the statements he makes. "In the day to day trenches of adult life, there's no such thing as atheism": so simple, so dead on the mark. "And the world will not discourage you from operating on your default settings, because the world of men and money and power hums along quite nicely on the fuel of fear and contempt and frustration and craving and the worship of self": again, it would be churlish to try to gloss eloquence of this calibre. The speech concludes with the following brilliant penultimate paragraph, which seems to hit so many nails on the head it's not even funny:
Our own present culture has harnessed these forces [of self/money/appearance/intellect worship] in ways that have yielded extraordinary wealth and comfort and personal freedom. The freedom to be lords of our own tiny skull-sized kingdoms, alone at the centre of all creation. This kind of freedom has much to recommend it. But there are all different kinds of freedom, and the kind that is most precious you will not hear much talked about in the great outside world of winning and achieving and displaying. The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day. That is real freedom. The alternative is unconsciousness, the default setting, the "rat race" - the constant gnawing sense of having had and lost some infinite thing.We're all used to the neoliberal malaise being explained in all kinds of complex theoretical ways, but where else will you find such an economical, profound, even mystical (in the best sense) critique of the radical selfishness and spiritual paucity of neoliberal culture?
Yet extraordinarily (and this is evident even in the above passage), the whole weight of Wallace's argument is ultimately predicated on a pronounced self-centredness that ends up merely replaying the victory of a worldview which imprisons us in "our own tiny skull-sized kingdoms". We do not have to look hard for the culprit, the snag that means Wallace cannot finally rise above the atomism that is his ostensible target. Where are we to look to try to get back in touch with real freedom? Ourselves. What is the only virtue, the antidote to self-worship, the "capital-T Truth" that remains after a "whole lot of rhetorical bullshit" has been "pared away", the secret to "making it to 30, or maybe 50, without wanting to shoot yourself in the head"? Choice, the word that is littered throughout the Kenyon speech like some blindingly obvious Freudian crux.
In the day to day trenches of adult life, Wallace argues, one must become a sort of heroic superman, dedicated to caring for others, but only achieving this civic awareness through preternatural self-discipline and the continual invocation of one's formidable moral-intellectual might. By simply straining hard enough, we will be able to transcend reality and inoculate pain:
But if you've really learned how to think, how to pay attention, then you will know you have other options. It will be within your power to experience a crowded, loud, slow, consumer-hell-type situation as not only meaningful but sacred, on fire with the same force that lit the stars - compassion, love, the sub-surface unity of all things. Not that that mystical stuff's necessarily true: the only thing that's capital-T True is that you get to decide how you're going to try to see it. You get to consciously decide what has meaning and what doesn't. You get to decide what to worship.No amount of undeniably beautiful phraseology can cover over the fact that Wallace's solution to surmounting a consumer-hell-type situation (and tellingly, he sets his parable in a supermarket) is a bizarre restatement of the terms of the market place: "you have other options", "you get to decide", "most days, if you're aware enough to give yourself a choice, you can choose to look differently at this fat, dead-eyed, over-made-up lady who just screamed at her little child in the checkout line". Isn't this sort of alchemical make-nice strategy exactly what the advertising executive is trying to promulgate on a daily basis? Contra Wallace, might not there be some value in acknowledging the awfulness of a consumer-hell-type situation for what it really is? Wouldn't this be the really true exercise of civic-minded consciousness: recognising that the solution does not lie with one's individual powers of imagination alone, that there might be a more social, less heroically isolated way of responding to the causes of depression and misery? Wallace appears to briefly identify the root cause of such suffering in "the world of men and money and power", but the focus of his solution is not on this matrix. It is turned bravely but violently back on a quite different target; that is, himself.
Crucially, in the actual Kenyon speech (as opposed to the transcribed version), Wallace is speaking to a class of graduating students, and the emphasis is on the value of a liberal arts education as a means of fostering the sort of consciousness that makes responsible choice possible. This makes the whole premise a lot saner and less like a proclamation of radical stoical individualism, and this establishing context should probably be reinstated in future published versions of "This is Water" to make it clear that Wallace was not in fact addressing the world with a parti pris, but merely trying to say something intelligent and constructive to a group of young people for whom a light reminder of the importance of responsibility to others cannot have been such a bad thing. Nevertheless, it seems that the "moral superman" motif was one that Wallace obsessed over and grappled with in his last years. I haven't read The Pale King yet, but the reviews suggest that it does in fact essentially reiterate the argument of the Kenyon speech. As one reviewer puts it (quoting Wallace), the "crucial conceit" of the novel is "that the soul-crushing boredom of tax work can lead to transcendent bliss, 'a second-by-second joy and gratitude at the gift of being alive'." To me, this seems to amount to something like philosophy-as-prozac.
|Woah, didn't know the late-nineties had been Penguin Classicked, already!
*Is there anything more pernicious than the aspiring journalist's personal dot.com website? Why not just get a blog? They're free, and more interesting.
** This is only an abbreviated version of the text, published in the Guardian after Wallace's death. See penultimate paragraph for a link to the full audio of the speech.


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short version: please let's drop daml:imports altogether. Elaboration: I don't have any software that notices whether daml:imports is there or not. (well, it's treated like any other property, but I have never built nor used any applications that make use of that propoerty). Hence, I almmost never put it in my data files. Does anybody else have software that pays any attention to daml:imports whatsoever? Is daml:imports observable from a testing perspective? Are there any conceivable daml:imports tests that a piece of software could fail? Regarding the issue Jeff discusses... On Mon, 2002-09-09 at 16:23, Jeff Heflin wrote: > > Problem: > -------- > If daml:imports is just another RDF or OWL property, then users can > place restrictions, etc. on it. For example, consider a situation where > there was a max cardinality of 1 on imports. If an ontology imported two > or more ontologies, then this would effectively say that the ontologies > are equivalent. Yes, exactly. > It is probably best to avoid such situations. Well, if folks don't mean that, then they shouldn't say it. But if they say it, why should we (i.e. implementors of OWL softwre) not deduce that they meant it? > Possible Solution: > ------------------ > This seems to indicate that imports should be a "dark" property. That seems like an awfully expensive solution. It seems easier to put a "don't do anything silly" paragraph in the guide. > Note > that this isn't an issue in the Abstract Syntax, since in it, everything > is essentially "dark." In Pat Hayes' recent OWL model theory, it should > be sufficient to say that owl:imports is not an instance of owl:Object, > owl:DatatypeValue, owl:Class, owl:ObjectProperty, or > owl:DataTypeProperty. That much I can live with, but... > However, it would still be an rdfs:Property, but > any RDF graph that uses it as a subject or object would not be > well-formed OWL/RDF. Why go that far? If they say owl:imports is an owl:ObjectProperty, they've contradicted themselves. Too bad. Why stop them from contradicting themselves in this way, though? > Note, owl:imports doesn't fit into any of the > classifications in the table in section 2 of the Hayes model theory, so > perhaps a new classification called metaproperty or such is needed. Poor choice of names. 'metaproperty' would make sense for something like cardinality; i.e. a property about a property. But imports isn't a property about a property. > Semantics: > ---------- > It is important that the semantics of owl:imports be added to any > semantics documents. Why? Could you please give the argument that this conclusion comes from? > To do this, we need to be able to refer to sets of > OWL statements (such as a web page, a database with an OWL interface, > etc.) This could probably be called a resource, but that term is also > used to describe RDF instances, so for lack of a better term, I will > choose the term graph for the time being. Let graph be a function from a > URI (URL?) to an RDF/OWL graph. Each OWL graph has a set of entailments > that are determined by the model theory. The semantics of a statement: > > A owl:imports B. > > are: > > if graph(B) |= X then graph(A) |= X > > (Note: Here, "|=" is the OWL entailment relation) > > One question is whether we need something more specific in the model > theory that, for example, uses ICEXT and IEXT. > > Any comments or suggestions? > > Jeff -- Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/Received on Tuesday, 10 September 2002 12:22:22 UTC
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Mogherini said the major crises in the world were happening in Europe's neighbourhood. This heightened the need for cooperation as no one nation can "survive alone in this complexity".
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Fighting between the Ukrainian military and pro-Russian rebels has continued despite a week-old truce, intended to end fighting that has killed more than 5,600 people, putting the deal under pressure of collapsing.
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The Point separates the Three Sisters beach from the Four Brothers beach. There is one rock stack associated with it that I call the HOLE IN THE ROCK. It is located on the Three Sisters beach side of the Point and is close to the main cliff promontory. The actual 'hole' which is more of an arch, is located at the seaward end of the rock stack.
This was my first visit to Tongaporutu. The project hadn't yet started so there are no written diary entries, just the date the photos were taken. I took a couple of images. PHO2007-167 is a location shot. It shows the Hole in the Rock with White Cliffs and Mt Egmont in the background. PHO2007-158 shows the Hole in the Rock (not visible in either of these two angles) and Mt Egmont.
Although this image primarily focusses on Elephant Rock, it does also show the Hole in the Rock in the background.
This photo mirrors the one above, except that the weather is better. It also shows as do the other images, an elephant like trunk forming at the landward end of the Hole in the Rock rock stack.
The photo shows the narrow channel (from the landward side,) that separates the Point proper from the Hole in the Rock.
There had been a recent full cliff face collapse on the Three Sisters beach side of the Point. The photo shows this, plus the Hole in the Rock.
The weather was quite volatile and access past the Point had to be timed between wave surges. The photo here shows the seaward end of the Hole in the Rock. The hole or arch is partially visible.
This shows the Three Sisters beach side of the Point with the Hole in the Rock. The cliff collapse debris has virtually gone.
It was very windy and a substantial sea was running. At the Point, the waves were surging around the Hole in the Rock. I took two images, one showing the rock at ebb flow and the other with a wave surge. This was to show the distance covered.
Several photos show the Point and the Hole in the Rock. Importantly, the 'hole' is clearly shown.
A superb day with a 0.2 m low tide due at 4.15 pm. Good beach cover coupled with calm seas meant that I could get a good image showing The Point from the Three Sisters beach side with the Hole in the Rock. The actual hole is at the extreme southern end of the rock stack and as such is not visible in many of the photos. This viewpoint from the Three Sisters beach shows the Four Brothers beach and White Cliffs in the background.
An ALPHA STORM began on Sunday and continued through to Monday 19th. The barometer dropped to the lowest I have ever seen – 964 hPa. It was the full moon and with it came a king tide of 3.9 metres due at 10.31 am. A huge sea was running. Down on the beach at low tide – low tide of 0.1m occurred at 4.37 pm. Due to storm conditions though the froth laden wave tongues surged right up to the cliff making for dangerous photography. I stood on a rock platform close to Elephant Rock and took an image of the Point and the Hole in the Rock. From this angle it looked like a smaller version of Elephant Rock, especially how the shadow falls. Froth was climbing part way up the Hole in the Rock. White Cliffs is visible in the background.
Due to the very low 0.0m tide, I was able to get to seaward for quite some distance from the Point. The Hole in the Rock is to the right of the photo.
The Hole in the Rock is shown here, along with White Cliffs and Mt Egmont in the background.
A wet day, not ideal for photography, but I managed to get some images. This one shows the gap between the Point on the right, and part of the Hole in the Rock rock stack on the left. (The Three Sisters Beach side of the Point).
CLIFF SEQUENCING. There was high overhead cloud and the beach was nicely built up. Some sun would have been good, but at least diffused light enhanced rock and cliff detail. The photo I have taken here clearly shows the 'hole' in the Hole in the Rock rock stack. The angle of view has obscured the hole in most of the other images.
This photo of the Hole in the Rock looks north towards Elephant Rock on the Three Sisters Beach. Dull conditions weren't very inspiring for photography.
Since separating the information out into sections, some observational omissions have become apparent. One is that I don't appear to have much in the way of showing the gap between the Hole in the Rock and the Point, particularly from the seaward side. Also, I haven't really paid much attention to how the actual hole in the Hole in the Rock is evolving over time. Part of the problem is because I am wanting to quickly access the Four Brothers Beach, while another problem is because it is often a dangerous place to pass, so my attention is diverted elsewhere.
Today, there was a very low 0.1m tide and the beach was well built up with sand, so I was able to get out on the seaward side for some distance. I took several images showing the Hole in the Rock and the gap, plus a closer view of the actual hole. THhe hole does appear to have enlarged when compared to earlier images. Unfortunately, I can't date when chunks have come off.
Sand was well built up between the Hole in the Rock and the Point. The hole definitely appears to be enlarged. The arch on the seaward side of the hole is looking quite fragile and thinner. It could be destroyed this coming winter.
(Digital camera). The outer arm of the arch on the Hole in the Rock is being undermined by the shattering of rock immediately above it. Due to this and thinning, it is looking increasingly fragile. I observed a similar thing at the arch located at Twin Creeks prior to it being destroyed.
The Hole in the Rock appears to have little changed since I last observed it.


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Since Namibia is blessed with an abundance of natural resources, it fares well as a world-class producer of rough diamonds, uranium oxide, high-grade zinc and acid-grade fluorspar; as well as, as a producer of gold bullion, blister copper, lead concentrate, salt and dimension stone.
To this end, a high number of international mining companies with state-of-the-art mining and processing technologies are at work in the country including Rio Tinto Plc and Vedanta Plc, to produce uranium oxide at Rössing Mine and special high-grade zinc at the Skorpion Mine and Refinery.
Paladin Energy's Langer Heinrich Uranium Mine is in full production and the expansion of Phase III continues while construction of AREVA's Trekoppje Mine and other upcoming uranium development projects, such as Extract's Husab project, will turn Namibia into a major world producer of uranium oxide.
AngloGold Ashanti produces gold bullion at Navachab Mine near Karibib. Rosh Pinah Zinc Corporation, with Exxaro Base Metals Namibia and Namibian investors as major shareholders own the Rosh Pinah Mine to produce zinc and lead concentrates. Weatherly Mining Namibia is reviving the Otjihase and Matchless copper mines while Namibia Custom Smelters, which is wholly owned by Dundee Precious Metals, produces blister copper at the Tsumeb smelter, from imported copper concentrates.
Okorusu Fluorspar, owned by European chemicals, pharmaceuticals and plastics giant, Solvay, is one of the world's largest producers of acid-grade fluorspar.
In 2009 alone, export earnings from the local mining sector reached N$10.9b (US$1.3b) while mineral-related exports accounted for 44% of Namibia's total merchandise exports.
The change of ownership of the Otjikoto gold deposit to Auryx Gold Corporation emboldened the prospects and fortunes by dual listing on the Namibian Stock Exchange (NSX) in February 2011. The Otjikoto Mine has the potential to be an open pit gold mine capable of annually producing approximately 100 000 ounces of gold and boasts a ten-year potential mine life. Currently, work is in progress to exploit the world's most priced commodity.
The construction of Africa's most sophisticated cement plant by Schwenk-owned Ohorongo Cement was successfully completed at a cost of N$2.5b. The plant produces 700 000 tonnes of high quality cement for domestic consumption and exports them to neighbouring countries including [southern] Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Botswana.
Namibia's uranium industry is also making a significant progress after a weakness in the global outlook. According to the Bank of Namibia (BoN)'s quarterly bulletin, uranium export earnings increased by 13.1% to N$1.3b, quarter-on-quarter during the second quarter of the year. While this news could bring relief, the fact is, demand for uranium is low, causing a decline in the overall price by 5.1%, quarter-on-quarter to US$40.7 a pound.
Nonetheless, Husab is likely to be the world's third largest uranium mine when it commences production in 2014. Its projected investment is currently estimated at US$1.67b (N$12b). PF


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SIMON Davies is praying he will stay fit so negotiations over a new contract to keep him at Fulham for the rest of his career can resume.
The 30-year-old midfielder has been plagued by an on-off season with worries over a troublesome instep bone that has seen him twice make a comeback.
The Wales international believes he's now over the worst – and is looking forward to a new deal to end his playing days at Craven Cottage .
He said: "I would like to stay on 100 per cent.
"But I needed to get back fit – and I'm over the worse and enjoying myself as at any stage in my football life.
"I was scheduled for (contract) talks but then I had a reoccurrence of my injury. So I'm sure the club are making sure I can stay fit before they start again. But I want to extend my stay here, and look to finish my career here."
The player signed from Everton in January 2007 was player-of-the-season in 2007-08, but admits he's been playing catch-up since August.
He added: "Missing some of the season's games was a worry – but I hope to get a run from now until the end of the season.
"It's been a struggle to get my fitness back over the last few games."
And since his second return, Davies has been called on twice to fill an unaccustomed role at right-back including the home tie against Wolfsburg in the Europa League , although those with good memories will recall the last time he did so, it was for Wales against England at Old Trafford the best part of six years ago.
He said: "The only trouble was England scored after about five minutes. But I guess you could say playing there is another string to my bow.
"Here at Fulham I had Aaron Hughes talking me to make sure I wasn't losing focus or drifting behind, which was a great help."
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Friday, April 29, 2011
Random Musings
*Arrived in NYC last night. One of the advantages of my fairly regular transatlantic flights is that it gave me Silver Medallion status on Delta. This came in handy yesterday when my Amsterdam-JFK flight was completely packed and as an "elite" I was able to board with the first class passengers. This gave me time to board the plane, stow my carryon Lilly tote, get myself situated, and go to the bathroom all before the mad rush that is general boarding. I always need to travel with a stuffed animal. Always. I will be 90 years old (G-d willing I live that long) and still have a stuffed bear in my suitcase. (My Nana snuggles with the stuffed puppy that I gave her after my grandpa passed every night. It's genetic.) This time around, I had my trusty stuffed Snoopy in my purse. I took him out of my purse and left him and said purse on my seat. (Beagle's gotta breathe.) I came back to my seat from the bathroom to find the crazy lady sitting next to me holding him. She kept on cradling him and playing with him and showing him to all of her friends saying "this is my new best friend." Umm excuse me? He's my best friend. Get your own. It was seriously disturbing and scary. I had to tell her "excuse me, that's mine" and then sit next to her for the next 8 hours. Not cool.
As a side note, she probably would have had better luck attempting to steal my Louis Vuitton than Snoopy.
*First thing my mom said to me when she saw me in the airport- "you look tired. Your undereye circles are huge." Awesome. Living here for a month is going to be a blast.
*I pretty much run on iced green tea and iced passion tea from Starbucks. Seriously. The "we proudly brew Starbucks" coffee shop on base has a punch card- for every 10 drinks you buy, you get one free. I have enough cards for about 6 or 7 free drinks in my wallet now. That's after using at least 4 of them. The people there know me by drink. When I get stressed or nauseous, I need an iced tea to make me feel better. I anticipated a lot of tea drinking during wedding month, so when Starbucks announced that the Trenta was coming for iced teas in May, it seemed like fate. Today, after my awesome workout, I went to Starbucks for the first of what I anticipated would be many trentas, only to have the girl behind the register look at me like I'm crazy and tell me "that's not coming out until July 12th." Oh. My. G-d. I swear all of the color drained from my face and I hadto keep it together and not start bawling in the middle of the Starbucks. (Nope. Not melodramatic at all folks.) I settled for a measly venti. It was half gone by the time I got home. (Starbucks is a whopping two blocks from my parents' house.)
*Am loving the new summer collection on Lilly Pulitzer. Loving. It was like a designer for the company went into my mind and knew exactly what I wanted from a print/dress and delivered. Kudos Lilly. Also, bonus points for having what in my opinion seems to be much better pricing points this collection.
Am obsessed with this dress.
*The next time someone asks me if I'm excited for my wedding, I'm going to reply with "no. Actually, I'm dreading it like the plague." Why do people always ask this?
*When I got in to JFK yesterday, I asked the immigration officer to stamp a different page than the one she was going to so I could fill it up. I told her it was my goal to fill up all of my pages. Thankfully she thought it was funny and did that rather than say, taking me into a side room for a special "chat."
this brings me to my last point of this very wordy post
*Was originally going to change my last name after the wedding. Then TLS pointed out that when I do that, I will need to get a new passport. Pages 8-15 of my passport are completely filled up. That has taken a lot of mileage to accomplish. I don't want to have to start over from scratch. Am considering waiting until 2013 to change my last name legally (will go by Mrs. S. socially) because that's when my passport expires.
Y'all, I never said I don't have issues. (I like to call them quirks.)
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haha people asking me about the wedding was annoying. I don't know why anyone would ask if you are excited!? I use to tell people no it is just another day and I don't care. they quit asking me if I was excited haha They would ask how the planning is going =)ReplyDelete
I LOVE that dress -- it is so fun and summer-y =)
I love your Starbucks story, I can completely relate!ReplyDelete
I also NEED that dress!
i can't wait to change my name when i get married... but if i were you i would wait for the 2013, too. i would love to fill up my passport!ReplyDelete
i tried on the dress and it feels like it runs a bit small (or maybe my butt is growing. either/or). the colors are gorgeous, thought. i love the frogs!!
Good news! When you change your name on your passport, you don't get a new one. They just print a line with your name change on one of the pages after you send in your passport with a copy of your marriage license....then you can keep filling it up!ReplyDelete
(or at least this was my experience 9 years ago!)
Ummm soooo, the whole dreading your wedding thing? Been there, done that. It does pass, and it ends up being a great day! It's still annoying though...ReplyDelete
The name change/passport business - don't know the state laws for you, but if you don't do it within so much time of your wedding date, they might require you to appear in front of a judge, etc, blablabla to have the name change approved. Again, that could be a state difference, don't really remember the rules about it, though.
TECHNICALLY, you don't have to have another ID besides the passport - as long as the name on your ticket & passport match. I did fly here like that with zero problems, but I also just sucked it up and paid to have it replaced with the married name for my traveling this summer because I'm paranoid... If it makes you feel any better, you WILL get to keep the old passport (they punch holes in it and put a stamp saying it's been replaced). So you don't lose all the pages in your book, but it also brings you no closer to actually filling up your passport. Just keep that rules stuff in mind, because it might be more of a hassle to wait than anything. Unfortunately.


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Lake Murray Animal Hospital is a full-service small animal center whose goal is to high quality standard of veterinary care for dogs and cats. We offer friendly, informative, and supportive services for you and your animal. Lake Murray Animal Hospital provides the Gilbert animal community medical, surgical, and dental veterinary care as well as access to our other center situated in Lexington, SC.
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I booked this trip home with the intention of seeing my Mum, and maybe my Dad (separated), but ended up seeing the whole family (my 3 brothers, sister-in-law and accompanying future niece/nephew and my brother's girlfriend who's also my friend from uni... They met at my wedding!). It was lovely to see everyone - I got very attached to the baby bump - only 1 month to go! I can't wait to meet you little kiddo - but my family is a huge melting pot of personalities and emotional sorts, so it was pretty tiring. Glad to be home with our cats now.
Over the course of the weekend Hubby and I ate a lot of food, watched the new Harry Potter film (that might have to be a separate post I think - so good!), spent far too long travelling on coaches and went bowling!
(Me about to score a strike, obviously)
I wore vintage dresses the whole weekend and I realised most of my wardrobe could technically be classes as 'vintage' these days. Is it fashion snobbery to say that I love it? Don't get me wrong, the rest of my wardrobe mostly comes from supermarkets or cheap chains like Primark or H&M, it's not like I'm spending hundreds of pounds on clothes here, but there's something wonderful about one-of-a-kind clothing. I absolutely hate that feeling when you see someone else in the same clothes as you (especially if they're styling it better!).
My camera started to die so the outfit pictures were a bit hurried - not sure any do this dress justice. It's the mostly gorgeous pink coral colour with a fitted bodice with boning, a ruched chest and peplum waist - I was worried this overly excentuated my hips when I tried it on (I usually favour a flare from the empire line or waist), and it does, but I've grown to love that about it. I'm all curves in it :)
Dress: vintage - Mighty Baby, Leeds
Shoes : Megabowl!
As I said, my camera died so I didn't get a picture of my full outfit for HP but I wore the same dress with these Irregular Choice Scottie Dog shoes.
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The most gorgeous shoes ever? I think so.
Phew! Still super tired from all the travelling so an early night for me and Hubby I think.


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Please don't forget to enter NYX Face Set #3 Giveaway. It ends June 27, 2017 at 11:59 p.m. PST (Pacific time).
I am fortunate to work with Models Own.
I received two liquid lipsticks. I already reviewed Models Own Lix Matte Liquid Lipstick in Coral Fresh (right). For this post, I will review the liquid lipstick on the left.
Models Own Lix Matte Liquid Lipstick in #08 Candy Cane. Since I already did a thorough review of Models Own Lix Matte Liquid Lipstick in Coral Fresh, I will base this on that.
it Cosmetics Bye Bye Pores Blush in Je Ne Sais Quoi on the cheeks.
Now for my overall opinion... First of all, there's a slight scent while applying. I just sniffed the product and it smells like mint. I'm not the biggest fan of mint but I actually don't mind this particular scent in this product. Plus, it only lasts for several seconds. Secondly, I love the packaging! It's simple but adorable at the same time. I love that it comes in a see through packaging. Since I own more than one, I can distinguish them apart easily. Not only that, it's well-made and sturdy. The top is also sturdy. It has a slight push when I open and close the top. I cannot see it open unless you open it manually. Also, it will not break unless you are rough with the packaging. For that reason, it's travel-friendly. It comes with a typical doe foot applicator found in most liquid lipsticks; slanted one side of the tip. It's easy to outline the lips and color the remaining. Since this is a bold color, it's crucial to find a good applicator. If you make a mistake outlining the lips, everything will show. I usually have that problem with bold lipsticks but this one is good. Third, the consistency is creamy and in-between medium to thick. It glides on and does not tug on the lips. Compared to Models Own Lix Matte Liquid Lipstick in Coral Fresh, it goes on smoothly. Coral Fresh had slight streak but moving the applicator back and forth, it smoothed it out. I didn't have to worry about that with this particular color Candy Cane. I also felt slight tingling sensation not to the point of pain. I just felt it for couple of seconds. Honestly, it's not even that noticeable and this is coming from someone with real sensitive lips. Once it dries and it dries quickly within seconds, there's no grease and stickiness. It just leaves a nice, smooth, creamy texture. It doesn't even feel like I'm wearing lipstick. It doesn't mention on the packaging, as well as, ULTA website if it's transfer-proof but I did notice slight lipstick mark on my cup. It's mostly from my inner lips. After the first lipstick mark, there were none after that. I just kissed my hand to make sure and I didn't see anything. There's one thing I don't like about liquid lipsticks. It shows all the fine lines and some show thick lines. I don't mind my fine lines showing but I'm not keen on thick lines. It just doesn't look pretty or at least on me. This doesn't even show the fine lines like most liquid lipsticks. It leaves a nice, creamy, pretty texture. It looks pretty on my lips. This will be great for aging lips as well. Fourth, I'm not a red person. I just don't think it looks good on me. This is more a coral red and it's gorgeous. I actually like the color. This color is in all year round and great for the night out as well. When it comes to pigmentation, this brand blows me away. It's extremely opaque. I have to say it's better than a lot of higher end brands. Lastly, it lasted all day on me. When I muted the color, it didn't last as long. It lasted as long as most liquid lipsticks right after a meal. I have a tendency to wipe my mouth after each meal. With full pigmentation, it lasted through the meal until the end of the day. The grease from the food didn't loosen the particles in the center of the lips. Also, it's extremely comfortable and did not dry out my lips. I did not see any white residue in the center of the lips.
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Monday, January 2, 2017
Wedding Skincare Routine
It's no secret: I'm Kiehls obsessed. Anytime a friend a friend or family member asks about my skincare routine or gives me even the slightest complement on my skin I start ranting and raving about how Kiehls saved me. But seriously it did, I had cystic acne even my senior year in college. It wasn't until I found Kiehls that I realized my skin would be better served by using simple, pure, gentle but thorough cleansing and moisturizing products rather than harsh, stripping products designed for acne.
At the time, this was a totally novel approach for me, I'd been trying to combat my teenage and adult acne with the harshest, most intense acne products I could find (that made sense at the time; bad acne? Hit it with the biggest, baddest acne zappers you can find!). If you struggle with some breakouts here and there, especially as an adult, I totally recommend this routine to you! It's good, honest, simple but thorough products. And when you need acne treatments, leave that for targeted products (like the amazing Mario Badescu drying lotion pictured below, or a lotion from your dermatologist).
So here, gathered into one place, is my skincare routine I've been doing to prep for the wedding! The wedding has been an amazing motivator to really stick with my routine, and I've been getting complements on my skin. ACTUAL COMPLEMENTS. Never before in my life have I actually received COMPLEMENTS about my complexion! Woohoo!
First up is my beloved Kiehls basics, which include the Ultra Facial Cleanser (my daily cleanser), Ultra Facial Cream (my daily moisturizer), and the Midnight Recovery Eye (my nightly eye cream. This has just a bit of anti aging in it. Now that I'm 25, I feel like it's a good time to start!). The cleanser is AMAZING at removing makeup, and the moisturizer work incredibly well without clogging pores or ever causing a breakout, and it has a great consistency without ever feeling greasy.
For facial treatments and masks I look to Kiehls as well, I use the Ultra Facial Overnight Hydrating Masque at night in place of the Ultra Facial Cream whenever my skin is feeling extra parched (it's a lifesaver in the winter!). Whenever I want to treat myself or control extra oil (more common for me in the summer) I use the Rare Earth Deep Pore Cleansing Masque. At $28 for a jar that will last you at least 6 months, I think this product is actually an incredible value as far as luxury mud masks go! Using this is a serious pampering treat. I also use my Clarisonic Mia with the delicate skin brush head (good for acne prone and sensitive skin) about once a week to gently exfoliate.
I've always been prone to body acne in addition to facial acne, and my dermatologist recently recommended I switch from a salicylic acid body wash to one with benzoyl peroxide instead. I've been using PanOxyl 10% wash on the end of a long handled brush to reach my chest and back and it's been working like a charm!
Not pictured, however, is possible the most important step to my skincare routine; I found an attentive, helpful dermatologist who I love. If you have any skincare concerns and a big event coming up, don't skip this step! Not pictured is a prescription topical antibiotic that has helped minimize a small patch of rosacea that's been lingering on my left cheek (oh the woes of fair skin!).
I hope you enjoyed this post! Are any of you stepping up your skincare recently to prepare for a big event? Let me know in the comments below!
With love, Katie.
With love, Katie.


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I´m a bit pessimistic when I see the shortbread´s recipe using fresh mint leaves. In fact, the taste is quite good. The fresh mint leaves improve the flavour of these buttery cookies. My kids like it....I´m glad don´t have to finish all of shortbreads by my own :). The recipe reminds me to the gifts that Arfi of Homemade send me last year : Vanilla beans! Imagine, the Vanilla beans had been flown from New Zealand and landed safely in Hamburg, now in my tummy...he..he. Thanks again Arfi. My caramel pot is too dark, the result is slighly bitter... never mind, next time better :).
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Limit of one (1) entry per person will be accepted. Subsequent attempts made by the same individual to submit multiple entries by using multiple or false contact information or otherwise may be disqualified. Entries generated by a script, computer programs, macro, programmed, robotic or other automated means are void and may be disqualified. Entries that are in excess of the stated limits, incomplete, illegible, corrupted, damaged, destroyed, forged, false, lost, late or misdirected, deceptive or otherwise not in compliance with the Official Rules may be disqualified from the Sweepstakes at Sponsor's sole and absolute discretion. All entrants submitting materials as part of the Sweepstakes will be non-exclusively licensing (with the unlimited right to sublicense) to Sponsor throughout the world and in perpetuity the right to use such materials, and the images related thereto, for any purpose (including any and all commercial purposes) and in any media with the right to modify the materials and make derivative works thereof. Entrants represent and warrant that the materials submitted will not infringe or violate any right whatsoever, including, without limitation, any personal rights (e.g., defamation, privacy, false light, moral right, etc.) or any property rights (e.g., copyright, trademark, right to ideas, etc.) of any person or entity and the use thereof will result in no third party liability or obligations. Illegible and/or incomplete entries and entries submitted by entrants who do not meet the eligibility requirements (including all requirements with respect to age and residence) are void. Those who do not follow all of the instructions or abide by these Official Rules or other instructions of Sponsor may be disqualified. Sponsor may run multiple campaigns, contests, sweepstakes or other promotions simultaneously. Entry into one (1) campaign, contest or sweepstakes does not constitute entry into any other.
NOTE ABOUT INSTAGRAM: Sweepstakes Entities are not responsible for any changes or unavailability of the Instagram service that may interfere with the Sweepstakes (including any limitations, any restrictions, or any conditions on Sponsor's ability to use Instagram for the Sweepstakes as set forth herein that are not acceptable to Sponsor) or ability of entrant to timely enter, receive notices or communicate with Sponsor via Instagram, in which case Sponsor, in its sole discretion, may terminate or modify the Sweepstakes. In the event of a dispute concerning who submitted an entry, the entry will be declared to have been made by the registered Account holder of the email address associated with the Instagram Account for the potentially winning entrant, but only if that person meets all other eligibility criteria. A registered Account holder is defined as the natural person who is assigned to an email address by an Internet access provider, online service provider, or other organization (e.g., business, educational institution, etc.) that is responsible for assigning email addresses for the domain associated with the submitted email address. Potential winner may be required to provide Sponsor with proof that he/she is the registered Account holder for the email address associated with the Instagram Account for the potentially winning entry. If a dispute cannot be resolved to Sponsor's satisfaction, the entry will be deemed ineligible. Any damage made to the Instagram service will be the responsibility of the registered Account holder of the email address for the Instagram Account submitted at the time of entry.
4. Selection of Winner and Prize Claiming. There will be one (1) winner selected in this Sweepstakes. The potential winner will be selected through a random drawing on or about January 26, 2015. The entries that will be included in the drawing will be determined by searching the Instagram platform for individuals who posted an image of Sponsor's meme and included the required hashtag in their entry. All entries will be pooled together and the potential winner will be selected from all valid entries to the Sweepstakes received during the Entry Period in accordance with these Official Rules. The potential winner will be notified as described below within a commercially reasonable time after the drawing. The potential winner will be contacted by Sponsor through a comment on the potentially winning post and Sponsor will provide an email address (or other contact information) where the potential winner can send or otherwise deliver their prize claim. Notification is deemed to have occurred immediately upon the posting of a comment on the potentially winning post via Instagram. The Sweepstakes Entities are not responsible for failure of a potential winner to contact Sponsor after being notified that they are a potential winner. Sponsor will have complete discretion over interpretation of the Official Rules, of administration of the Sweepstakes, and of selection of the winner. Decisions of the Sponsor as to the selection of the winner will be final. The potential winner may be required to submit an affidavit of eligibility / release of liability / prize acceptance agreement (collectively, the "Affidavit") and return the Affidavit within the time period specified at notification before being eligible to receive his or her prize. If a potential prize winner fails or refuses to sign and return such Affidavit within the time period required by Sponsor or if the prize or prize notification is returned as rejected, faulty, unclaimed or returned as undeliverable to such potential prize winner, such potential prize winner may be disqualified and an alternate may be selected. Non-compliance shall result in disqualification and award of the prize to an alternate winner. Parents or legal guardians of any prize winner under the age of majority in his or her state of residence (which is eighteen (18) in most states but is nineteen (19) in Alabama and Nebraska and twenty-one (21) in Mississippi) may be required to also sign the Affidavit in order for the prize winner to be qualified to receive his or her prizes. If a potential prize winner is found to be ineligible, or if he or she has not complied with these Official Rules, or if a potential prize winner cannot attend or participate in any portion of the prize, or declines a prize for any reason prior to award, such potential winner may be disqualified and an alternate potential winner may be selected. If, for any reason, more bona fide winners come forward seeking to claim prizes in excess of the number of each type of prize set forth in these Official Rules, the winners, or remaining winners, as the case may be, of the advertised number of prizes available may be selected in a random drawing from among all persons making purportedly valid claims for such prizes. Inclusion in such drawing shall be each entrant's sole and exclusive remedy under such circumstances. The Sweepstakes Entities are not responsible for and shall not be liable for late, lost, damaged, intercepted, misdirected, or unsuccessful efforts to notify the potential winners, or if potential winner is a minor, for late, lost, misdirected, or unsuccessful efforts of potential winner to provide signed parental or guardian consent.
5. Odds. Odds of winning will depend upon the total number of eligible entries received.
6. Prizes and Values. The winner in this Sweepstakes will receive the following prize package: (i) three (3) Cheeky products selected by Sponsor; (ii) a $50 Target gift card; and (iii) Sponsor will donate a meal to Feeding America for every Cheeky product included in the prize package on behalf of the winner. The total approximate retail value ("ARV") of the prize package is $75.00.
Winner is not entitled to any tax deduction due to any donation made by Sponsor on winner's behalf. Prizes are non-transferable, with no cash redemptions, equivalents or substitutions except at Sponsor's sole and absolute discretion. All prize details not specified in these Official Rules will be determined in Sponsor's sole and absolute discretion. Prize details and availability are subject to change and prize provider's rules and restrictions, and in the event that Sponsor is unable to provide a winner with his/her prize, the Sponsor may elect to provide the winner with the approximate value of such item in cash or award an alternate prize of comparable or greater value. In the event a prize winner engages in behavior that (as determined by Sponsor or any prize provider in its or their sole and absolute discretion) is obnoxious, inappropriate, or threatening, illegal or that is intended to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass any other person, Sponsor reserves the right to disqualify the winner and not award a prize to that winner in such instance. All prizes are awarded "AS IS" and without warranty of any kind, express or implied (including, without limitation, any implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose). Prize winner will be solely responsible for all federal, state and/or local taxes, and for any other fees or costs associated with the prizes they receive, regardless of whether they, in whole or in part, are used. The ARV of the prizes is based on available information provided to Sponsor and the value of any prize awarded to a winner may be reported for tax purposes as required by law. The winner may be required to provide Sponsor with a valid social security number or tax identification number before the prizes will be awarded for tax reporting purposes. An IRS Form 1099 may be issued in the name of winners, or if a minor in the jurisdiction in which s/he resides, in the name of his/her parent or legal guardian, for the actual value of the prizes received. Unclaimed prizes will be forfeited. Prizes, if legitimately claimed, will be awarded. Sponsor is not responsible for and will not replace any lost, mutilated or stolen prizes or any prize that is undeliverable or does not reach the winner because of an incorrect or changed address. If a winner does not accept or use the entire prize, the unaccepted or unused part of the prize will be forfeited and Sponsor will have no further obligation with respect to that prize or portion of the prize. No more than the stated prizes will be awarded. The total ARV of all of the prizes awarded in this Sweepstakes is: Seventy-Five Dollars ($75.00) (USD). Sponsor is not responsible for and winners will not receive the difference, in any, between the actual value of the prizes at the time of award and the stated ARV in these Official Rules or in any Sweepstakes-related correspondence or material. Prizes will only be mailed to verified winner's physical mailing address (no P.O. Boxes) in one (1) of the fifty (50) United States or the District of Columbia, except in Sponsor's sole and absolute discretion.
7. Publicity Release. Subject to applicable law, winner irrevocably grants the Sweepstakes Entities and each of their licensees, and its and their successors, assigns and sub-licensees the right and permission to use their name, Instagram handle or username, voice, likeness and/or biographical material for advertising, promotional and/or publicity purposes in connection with the Sweepstakes, in all forms of media and by all manners (now and hereafter known), and on and in connection with related products, services, advertising and promotional materials (now known or hereafter developed), worldwide, in perpetuity, without any obligation, notice or consideration except for the awarding of the prizes to the winner. Entrants agree not to issue any publicity concerning the Sweepstakes Entities.
8. Tampering with Sweepstakes. The Sweepstakes Entities are not responsible for the actions of entrants in connection with the Sweepstakes, including entrants' attempts to circumvent the Official Rules or otherwise interfere with the administration, security, fairness, integrity or proper conduct of the Sweepstakes. Persons found tampering with or abusing any aspect of this Sweepstakes, or whom Sponsor believes to be causing malfunction, error, disruption or damage may be disqualified. Additionally, any attempt to cheat the Sweepstakes, as determined at the sole and absolute discretion of Sponsor, may result in immediate disqualification of the entrant, as well as other possible consequences, including disqualification from any and all existing and future sweepstakes. ANY ATTEMPT BY A PERSON TO DAMAGE ANY WEBSITE (INCLUDING THE INSTAGRAM SERVICE) OR UNDERMINE THE LEGITIMATE OPERATION OF THIS SWEEPSTAKES MAY BE A VIOLATION OF CRIMINAL AND CIVIL LAWS AND SHOULD SUCH AN ATTEMPT BE MADE, SPONSOR RESERVES THE RIGHT TO SEEK ALL LEGAL AND EQUITABLE REMEDIES FROM AND AGAINST ANY SUCH PERSON TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW. Sponsor reserves the right, at its sole and absolute discretion, to disqualify (or terminate the prize of) any individual who is found to be, or suspected of, acting in violation of these Official Rules, or to be acting in an unsportsmanlike, obscene, immoral or disruptive manner, or with the intent to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass any other person. If the Sweepstakes is terminated due to tampering or technical difficulties prior to its expiration date, notice will be posted on Instagram via a Sponsor update and/or on the site(s) where these Official Rules have been posted.
9. Suspension / Modification / Termination. In the event Sponsor is prevented from continuing with the Sweepstakes by any event beyond its control, including, but not limited to, fire, flood, epidemic, earthquake, explosion, labor dispute or strike, act of God or public enemy, communications or equipment failure, utility or service interruptions, riot or civil disturbance, terrorist threat or activity, war (declared or undeclared), interference with the Sweepstakes by any party, or any federal state or local government law, order, or regulation, order of any court or jurisdiction, or other cause not reasonably within Sponsor's control (each a "Force Majeure" event or occurrence) Sponsor shall have the right to modify, suspend or terminate the Sweepstakes or prize. Sponsor additionally reserves the right, in its sole and absolute discretion: (1) to modify, suspend or terminate the Sweepstakes should causes beyond Sponsor's control corrupt or interfere with the administration, integrity, operation, security or proper play of the Sweepstakes; or (2) to disqualify any entrant found to be, or suspected of: (a) tampering with the entry process or the operation of the Sweepstakes; (b) acting in violation of these Official Rules; or (c) acting in an un-sportsmanlike manner.
10. Waivers, Disclaimers and Releases. By participating in the Sweepstakes, entrants agree to release, discharge and hold harmless the Sweepstakes Entities, and each of their respective directors, officers, employees, agents, successors and assigns ("Released Parties") from and against any and all claims, liability, costs, losses, damages or injuries of any kind arising out of or related to entrants' participation in the Sweepstakes and/or related to any prize (including, without limitation, losses, damages or injuries to entrant's or any other person's equipment or other property, or to their persons, related to participation in the Sweepstakes; or arising out of any violation of rights of publicity or privacy, or claims of defamation or portrayal in a false light; or based on any claim of infringement of intellectual property; or from any typographical, human or other error in the printing, offering, selection, operation or announcement of any Sweepstakes activity and/or prize). Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, entrants agree that the Released Parties: (A) have neither made nor will be in any manner responsible or liable for any warranty, representation or guarantee, express or implied, in fact or in law, in connection with the Sweepstakes and/or with respect to prizes, including, without limitation, to any prize's quality or fitness for a particular purpose; (B) maintain no control over the personnel, equipment or operation of any air, water or surface carrier, ship line, bus or limousine company, transportation company, hotel, manufacturer or other person or entity furnishing services, products or accommodations ("Suppliers") as a part of the prizes provided in connection with the Sweepstakes; and (C) will not be responsible or liable for any injury, damage, loss, expense, accident, delay, inconvenience or other irregularity that may be caused or contributed to: (1) by the wrongful, negligent or unauthorized act or omission on the part of the Suppliers or any of their agents, servants, employees or independent contractors, (2) by any defect in or failure of any vehicle, equipment, instrumentality, service or product that is owned, operated, furnished or otherwise used by any of those Suppliers, (3) by the wrongful, negligent or unauthorized act or omission on the part of any other person or entity not an employee of the Released Parties, and (4) by any cause, condition or event whatsoever beyond the control of the Released Parties. Entrants agree and that the Released Parties shall have no responsibility or liability for discontinued prizes; human error; incorrect or inaccurate transcription of registration and/or account information; any technical malfunctions of the telephone network, computer online system, computer dating mechanism, computer equipment, software, or Internet service provider utilized by Sponsor; interruption or inability to access the Instagram service or Sponsor or affiliated entities' respective websites, or any online service via the Internet due to hardware or software compatibility problems; any damage to participant's (or any third person's) computer and/or its contents related to or resulting from any part of the Sweepstakes; any lost/delayed data transmissions, omissions, interruptions, viruses, bugs, defects; and/or any other errors or malfunctions, even if caused by the negligence of the Released Parties. Each entrant further agrees to indemnify and hold harmless Released Parties from and against any and all liability resulting or arising from the Sweepstakes and to release all rights to bring any claim, action or proceeding against the Released Parties and hereby acknowledge that the Released Parties have neither made nor are in any manner responsible or liable for any warranty, representation or guarantee, express or implied, in fact or in law, relative to a prize, including express warranties provided exclusively by a Supplier that may be sent along with a prize. Sponsor is not responsible for the actions of entrants in connection with the Sweepstakes, including entrants' attempts to circumvent the Official Rules or otherwise interfere with the administration, security, fairness, integrity or proper conduct of the Sweepstakes. Entrants further understand and agree that all rights under Section 1542 of the Civil Code of California ("Section 1542") and any similar law of any state or territory of the United States that may be applicable with respect to the foregoing release are hereby expressly and forever waived. Entrants acknowledge that Section 1542 provides that: "A GENERAL RELEASE DOES NOT EXTEND TO CLAIMS WHICH THE CREDITOR DOES NOT KNOW OR SUSPECT TO EXIST IN HIS OR HER FAVOR AT THE TIME OF EXECUTING THE RELEASE, WHICH, IF KNOWN BY HIM OR HER MUST HAVE MATERIALLY AFFECTED HIS OR HER SETTLEMENT WITH THE DEBTOR." The releases hereunder are intended to apply to all claims not known or suspected to exist with the intent of waiving the effect of laws requiring the intent to release future unknown claims.
11. Entry Information and Sweepstakes Communications. As a condition of entering the Sweepstakes, each entrant gives consent for Sponsor to obtain and deliver his or her name, address and other information to third parties for the purpose of administering this Sweepstakes and to comply with applicable laws, regulations and rules. Any information entrants provide to Sponsor may be used to communicate with entrant in relation to this Sweepstakes or on a Sweepstakes winner's list.
12. Governing Law / Limitation of Liability. All issues and questions concerning the construction, validity, interpretation and enforceability of these Official Rules or the rights and obligations of entrants, Sponsor or the Released Parties in connection with the Sweepstakes will be governed by and construed in accordance with the internal laws of the State of California, without giving effect to any choice of law or conflict of law rules or provisions that would cause the application of any other state's laws. BY ENTERING THE SWEEPSTAKES, ENTRANT AGREES THAT TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW: (1) ANY AND ALL DISPUTES, CLAIMS AND CAUSES OF ACTION ARISING OUT OF OR CONNECTED WITH THE SWEEPSTAKES, OR ANY PRIZE AWARDED, WILL BE RESOLVED INDIVIDUALLY, WITHOUT RESORT TO ANY FORM OF CLASS ACTION; (2) ANY AND ALL CLAIMS, JUDGMENTS AND AWARDS WILL BE LIMITED TO ACTUAL THIRD-PARTY, OUT-OF-POCKET COSTS INCURRED (IF ANY) NOT TO EXCEED TEN DOLLARS ($10.00), BUT IN NO EVENT WILL ATTORNEYS' FEES BE AWARDED OR RECOVERABLE; (3) UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES WILL ANY ENTRANT BE PERMITTED TO OBTAIN ANY AWARD FOR, AND ENTRANT HEREBY KNOWINGLY AND EXPRESSLY WAIVES ALL RIGHTS TO SEEK, PUNITIVE, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR SPECIAL DAMAGES, LOST PROFITS AND/OR ANY OTHER DAMAGES, OTHER THAN ACTUAL OUT OF POCKET EXPENSES NOT TO EXCEED TEN DOLLARS ($10.00), AND/OR ANY RIGHTS TO HAVE DAMAGES MULTIPLIED OR OTHERWISE INCREASED; AND (4) ENTRANTS' REMEDIES ARE LIMITED TO A CLAIM FOR MONEY DAMAGES (IF ANY) AND ENTRANT IRREVOCABLY WAIVES ANY RIGHT TO SEEK INJUNCTIVE OR EQUITABLE RELIEF. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE LIMITATIONS OR EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY, SO THE ABOVE MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.
13. Dispute Resolution. The parties each agree to finally settle all disputes only through arbitration; provided, however, the Sponsor shall be entitled to seek injunctive or equitable relief in the state and federal courts in Los Angeles County, California and any other court with jurisdiction over the parties. In arbitration, there is no judge or jury and review is limited. The arbitrator's decision and award is final and binding, with limited exceptions, and judgment on the award may be entered in any court with jurisdiction. The parties agree that, except as set forth above, any claim, suit, action or proceeding arising out of or relating to this Sweepstakes shall be resolved solely by binding arbitration before a sole arbitrator under the streamlined Arbitration Rules Procedures of JAMS Inc. ("JAMS") or any successor to JAMS. In the event JAMS is unwilling or unable to set a hearing date within fourteen (14) days of the filing of a "Demand for Arbitration", then either party can elect to have the arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association ("AAA") or any other mutually agreeable arbitration administration service. If an in-person hearing is required, then it will take place in Chicago, IL, New York City, NY, Los Angeles, CA, Atlanta, GA or Dallas, TX (whichever is closest to entrant's residence); provided, however, if none of these locations are convenient for the hearing, the parties may mutually agree on an alternative location. The federal or state law that applies to these Official Rules will also apply during the arbitration. Disputes will be arbitrated only on an individual basis and will not be consolidated with any other proceedings that involve any claims or controversy of another party, including any class actions; provided, however, if for any reason any court or arbitrator holds that this restriction is unconscionable or unenforceable, then the agreement to arbitrate doesn't apply and the dispute must be brought in a court of competent jurisdiction in Los Angeles County, California. Sponsor agrees to pay the administrative and arbitrator's fees in order to conduct the arbitration (but specifically excluding any travel or other costs of entrant to attend the arbitration hearing). Either party may, notwithstanding this provision, bring qualifying claims in small claims court.
14. Name of Sweepstakes Winner/Official Rules Requests. To receive a list of winners, send a stamped self-addressed envelope (prior to March 1, 2015) to: "CheekyBowlContest Winners List", Cheeky Home, LLC, 602 E. Franklin, El Segundo, CA 90245. Please indicate which Sweepstakes winners list you are requesting by referencing the name of the Sweepstakes in your request. For a copy of these Official Rules, send a legal-size, self-addressed, stamped envelope to: "CheekyBowlContest Official Rules", Cheeky Home, LLC, 602 E. Franklin, El Segundo, CA 90245 prior to the end of the Entry Period. Please indicate which Sweepstakes Official Rules you are requesting by referencing the name of the Sweepstakes in your request.
15. Miscellaneous. The invalidity or unenforceability of any provision of these Official Rules or the Affidavit will not affect the validity or enforceability of any other provision. In the event that any provision of the Official Rules or the Affidavit is determined to be invalid or otherwise unenforceable or illegal, the other provisions will remain in effect and will be construed in accordance with their terms as if the invalid or illegal provision were not contained herein. Sponsor's failure to enforce any term of these Official Rules will not constitute a waiver of that provision. Entrants agree to waive any rights to claim ambiguity of these Official Rules. Headings are solely for convenience of reference and will not be deemed to affect in any manner the meaning or intent of the documents or any provision hereof. In the event there is a discrepancy or inconsistency between disclosures or other statements contained in any Sweepstakes-related materials, privacy policy or terms of use on the Instagram service and/or the terms and conditions of the Official Rules, the Official Rules shall prevail, govern and control and the discrepancy will be resolved in Sponsor's sole and absolute discretion.
16. Sponsor. This Sweepstakes is sponsored by Cheeky Home, LLC, 602 E. Franklin, El Segundo, CA 90245. Instagram, LLC is not a sponsor of this Sweepstakes and does not endorse or otherwise have anything to do with this Sweepstakes. Reference to third parties in connection with prizes and/or third party websites or services are for reference and identification purposes only and not intended to suggest endorsement, sponsorship or affiliation with Sponsor or the Sweepstakes.
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The zsh setup, provided by the grml team, enjoys a fair amount of popularity. One of the things we suck at (there are not a lot of those, but this definitely was one of them) was the way we were setting our prompt.
It used to be a conglomerate of string settings to "$PROMPT" with all the goodies you want to see in code you maintain: Inconceivable dependency upon random shell variables you never heard of, code and string duplication. It wasn't a pretty sight.
Needless to say, we didn't adhere to zsh's prompt system (or any other system for that matter) at all. There was a "$PROMPT" string, that was assembled at initialisation time, static precmd() and preexec() functions that did related stuff and no modularisation or customisability to speak of. If people wanted to do even little changes, our response was: "Look, wade through the zshrc file, and extract the precmd() function and all relevant lines that set $PROMPT and copy those to your `~/.zshrc.local' file and do your customisations there." It was truely rediculous.
But no more!
I spent the last two days to rewrite the whole way we went about dealing with prompts: It now conforms to zsh's prompt theme system; it is very much modularised; there is virtually no code duplication (except for maybe were a fallback prompt is defined, in case the prompt theme system isn't available); and about everything in the prompt can be customised via zsh's context-sensitive zstyle mechanism. It actually took a while until I had a mental model ready, of which I was convinced enough that it could handle all the aspects, that were important for maintaining a solid sense of backwards compatibility, while fixing all the things that were wrong with the old approach and adding all those features that we knew were nice to have. In the end, I came up with something that's largely based on the prompt I use in my own setup. Luckily however, we didn't need all of the complexity, so I was able to largely simplify the code. Simplified enough, that now grml's theming code is more readable than my own.
Anyway. Without further ado, here is the old prompt:
And here's the new one:
What!? Those are the same! ...Welcome to backward compatibility! :-)
The fun part about the new system is that the prompt is assembled from a set of items, that the user can decorate however he/she sees fit. So, say you don't like/need/want the version control part of the prompt, you can configure it away (the default list of items is available via the prompt's documentation "prompt -h grml"):
zstyle ':prompt:grml:left:setup' items rc change-root user at \
host path percent
It won't even run vcs_info anymore, because it doesn't need it.
Have the user-name green instead of blue? Sure, why not:
zstyle ':prompt:grml:left:items:user' pre '%F{green}'
Want to assemble it in a completely different way? Say with date and time instead of user@host and pathname and all that non-sense? Have it your way:
zstyle ':prompt:grml:left:setup' items date time percent
`date' and `time'? Those aren't in the default item list. Why would you implement superfluous stuff? Well, I didn't. The new setup ships three themes. They all share the same code, so they behave the same. But they use different default item lists by default. The grml-large theme uses `time' and `date'; so that's where those are from.
What do the other themes look like? Well, let the prompt system tell you:
prompt -p grml-large grml-chroot
(I'm setting $GRML_CHROOT before, because the `grml-chroot' theme is only used (by default) if that variable is non-empty.)
This should cure any urge for customisation with our esteemed user base. If you need more than this, write your own prompt theme. It's not hard.
Note: This code is in its own feature branch at the time of writing (you can still see those "ft/prompt-rewrite" strings in vcs_info's data), but a merge into master of grml-etc-core is imminent.