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MacSparky on Apple AirPods / October 3, 2016 by Simon Abrams
A reasoned first take on Apple's AirPods from David Sparks, aka MacSparky. His take confirms my expectation that they won't work for me, as the current EarPods that Apple ships with every iPhone fall out of my ear with the slightest movement of my head, so I never use 'em. Plus, I like something that has a little noise reduction, if not noise cancellation, so I can block out the annoying chatter on the subway.
I'm still bullish on the tech, though, specifically Apple's W1 chip, which improves pairing and wireless sound quality. I have personally tried the new BeatsX wireless headphones, which also feature the W1 chip, and will probably get a pair of those when they're available.
http://macsparky.com/blog/2016/9/initial-impressions-of-the-apple-airpods apple, gadgets, iphone, music, technology tech, apple, airpods, headphones, opinion October 03, 2016
Flash Photography techniques explained with slow-mo / February 3, 2015 by Simon Abrams
This video from The Slow Mo Guys is cool and informative on its own merit, but it's also one of the best illustrations of how and why some crucial flash photography principles work.
Sync Speed
Have you ever seen a dark strip across the lower portion of your photograph when shooting with an external flash? (There's a great example on this page.) Well, that dark strip is a result of shooting above your camera's sync speed - ie, the maximum shutter speed the camera is capable of syncing up an external flash at. The sync speed varies, and and for most SLRs, is usually somewhere between 1/160th and 1/250th of a second (check your manual, or Google your camera model). Some SLRs won't even let you shoot at a shutter speed that exceeds your max sync speed, but if you inadvertently manage to make it happen, you'll know it from the nasty black bar you'll see towards the bottom of the resulting photo. That black bar is actually that same rolling shutter that's clearly visible in the video, casting a shadow as it passes over the sensor.
So what do you do if you want to shoot some high-speed action, using a flash, at a higher shutter speed than your camera can technically work with? Or if you want to shoot with a wide open aperture to get really shallow depth-of-field in lots of bright daylight? Well, many external flashes have high-speed sync mode, which lets you do just that. This flash mode doesn't actually fire a single burst of light; rather, it fires many low-powered bursts of light as the shutter passes over the sensor, thus avoiding casting that shadow. Cool, right?
That third button puts your flash in high-speed sync mode, and also toggles and 2nd-curtain sync
The down side of high-speed sync is that it's not as powerful as your regular flash output, so you'll just have to move your flash closer to your subject, or use multiple flashes.
1st-Curtain and 2nd-Curtain Sync
Setting the shutter sync settings
If you've spent any time shooting with an external flash with your SLR, you might have seen these settings on your flash and not fully understood what they do. But if you take another look at that video, from the way the rolling shutter works, you can probably guess that the "1st curtain" refers to that first cluster of blades that passes in front of the sensor, and the second cluster is the 2nd curtain.
What does that mean, with respect to your flash? Well, imagine that you're shooting a moving subject: 1st-Curtain sync (the default mode of the flash) means the flash will fire freezing your subject at the beginning of the shutter's movement, leaving motion trails moving away from the subject as it keeps moving. Conversely, 2nd-curtain sync will freeze the subject at the end of the shutter's movement, with motion trails following behind your subject.
2nd-curtain sync leaves trails behind your subject, creating dynamic images
I often use 2nd-curtain sync at parties and events where people are dancing. I'll slow the shutter speed and actually move or turn the camera while the shutter is open to create light trails and blurs in the scene. No joke - it makes parties and wedding receptions look epic.
One thing I should note: all my photos, and some of my terminology might be Canon-specific, but the same principles apply no matter what camera brand you prefer.
There are plenty of articles on the internet that explain these topics in far greater detail, but this video is such a great illustration of what's actually happening in the camera, that I think it should really help to solidify your understanding of these highly useful concepts in flash photography.
photography photography, tech, flash photography, video, youtube February 03, 2015
Thoughts on 1Password and MacID / January 26, 2015 by Simon Abrams
MacID unlock's your Mac using your fingerprint via a connected iOS device
Now that I have two TouchID-enabled devices, entering passwords by typing them feels like what I imagine it would be like having to write prose with a chisel and tablet after getting used to using a pen - especially now that iOS 8 allows for 1Password integration throughout your i-device. Quick recap: 1Password is a password manager that securely stores all your passwords to everything, obviating the need for you to remember - or even come up with - any passwords except for the one that protects its database. It's cross-platform and works with all your favorite browsers. Amazing.
Anyway, before extensions allowed for 1Password's iOS integration, if you're like me, and don't know any of your passwords to anything, logging in to a website or app on an iPhone or iPad went something like this:
Open site/app that asks for a password
Grit teeth and sigh resignedly
Go back to Home screen and tap 1Password
Enter your long and secure 1Password Master Password
Find password to app in question (or create a new entry in 1Password for said app, and let it generate a suitably secure password for you)
Copy password
Hop back over to the app in question (yay, multitasking!)
Type in your username, paste the password, and try to remember that despite your current state of annoyance, we're still living in an age of technological miracles and wonders. Everything is amazing.
Now that iOS 8 Extensions are a thing, the process goes something like this:
Tap Share button and swipe right to 1Password extension
Tap the icon, then use your finger to unlock 1Password
Oh look - 1Password knows your credentials for the site/app you're trying to access. Tap to fill in your credentials, and be on your merry way.
Treehouse's app has 1Password support built-in. Amazing. More like this, please.
It is a downright joyous experience compared to the old way, and it's no exaggeration to say that simplifies my life a lot, especially since I am doing more and more with my iPhone and iPad. I tweeted the good folks at AgileBits a few months ago, wondering if something like this was possible on the Mac - ie. could I use my iPhone/iPad's TouchID to unlock an app on the desktop. It turns out, it is at least partially possible: MacID lets you designate an iOS device as a touch-enabled "key" for your desktop machine, and unlock a password-protected lock screen when you return to your computer. Sweet!
I've only just tried it a couple of times, but from my first impressions it seems really promising. I'm not quite paranoid enough to be able to thoroughly think through any negative security implications of this. MacID never connects to the internet, so the chances of your login password getting hijacked that way are zilch. I can't wait for this to grow into a fully-supported technology that becomes something baked into iOS 9/OS X Big Sur (or whatever the next OS X ends up being called).
The current state of computing and devices still forces us to choose between security and convenience, but apps like 1Password and MacID, and technologies like TouchID are at least getting us part of the way towards the convergence of those two ideals.
http://macid.co gadgets, apps, apple, tech, technology, iphone tech, opinion, ios, os x, gadget January 25, 2015
Handling Kim Kardashian's Butt / January 23, 2015 by Simon Abrams
Fascinating write-up on how Paper Magazine prepared for the deluge of humanity that was going to come to their site to look at Kim Kardashian's butt. (via daringfireball.net)
https://medium.com/message/how-paper-magazines-web-engineers-scaled-kim-kardashians-back-end-sfw-6367f8d37688 funny, tech, technology tech, internet, funny January 25, 2015
Why Website Speed is Important - SixRevisions / April 2, 2014 by Simon Abrams
Let's do some back-of-the-napkin calculations.
Last year alone, Amazon's estimated revenue totaled $74.5 billion.
Based on Linden's disclosure, increasing page loading times by just a fraction of a second would cost Amazon $745 million a year in lost revenue!
I'm no analytics guy, but it sounds like we in the business of building websites need to make them load faster.
Except for the AOL case study on the bottom of the page, the article doesn't really mention connection speed, though. I bring that up to say that this seems like a pretty strong argument for improving broadband speeds in America, like the telecoms are supposed to be doing anyway, but are dragging their feet on, because why should they; they already got their National Broadband Plan money.
http://sixrevisions.com/web-development/why-website-speed-is-important/ technology, news tech, opinion, news April 02, 2014
Your First Mac / January 28, 2014 by Simon Abrams
As part of their 30th Anniversary of the Mac celebration, Apple has a cool year-by-year visualization of peoples' first Macs and what they used them for. Scrubbing through the timeline, it's interesting watching Internet & Email surge into popularity in the mid-90s - followed by the decline of Desktop Publishing shortly thereafter.
I've used Macs since college - in my freshman year, one of my friends had a Mac SE II, which was an amazing machine for playing Tetris (and writing papers, of course). Later, when I transferred to SCAD, the labs also had a bunch of Quadras and various other assorted Macs in the Desktop Publishing and Computer Art departments.
I've worked on nothing but Macs at the various advertising gigs I've had since I graduated, but the first Mac that I bought for myself was a 15" G4 PowerBook in 2001. The thing had 8MB of VRAM and a 500Mhz processor, and it cost me close to $4000, but it lasted a good 6 years before it started to feel old and sluggish. It shipped with OS 9, but I remember running at least up through OS 10.4 (maybe even 10.5) on it, which is kind of impressive, looking back on it. It's still one of my favorite Macs, in terms of its design, although it had its issues (the stress cracks near the hinges, the heat, etc.).
My setup, circa 2007. MacBook Pro and G5 Tower.
Around 2003, I had a brief part-time gig at the Soho Apple Store. That was a fun gig, and the employee discount helped me get a G5 tower and one of those giant plastic-bezeled 23" Cinema Displays.
Eventually, I upgraded from my old PowerBook to one of the Intel-based (and now aluminum rather than titanium) 15" MacBook Pros.
2009 - iMac 27" and MacBook Pro
When the G5 got long in the tooth, I replaced that with a 27" iMac. This was about the time I was finally sold on the iMac as a high-end machine - by now there was no point in spending $2500 on a MacPro (tower only!) just because I considered myself a power user.
A couple of years later, I got my first (and only, so far) iPad (the 2nd-gen version), and ended up selling my MacBook Pro.
Current setup: unibody MacBook Pro with Thunderbolt Cinema Display
For a while there, I was rocking the iMac/iPad combination, and it was cool, but I missed the ability to go completely mobile and get work done. Don't misconstrue that as me validating the "iPads-are-for-content-consumption" trope - the fact is, my 9-to-5 requires me to work on desktop-only apps like Flash Professional and Photoshop. Plus, I use Aperture to manage my giant photo libraries (though I'm dabbling with Lightroom more and more lately, given the neglect Aperture has been suffering).
I've always held on to the philosophy that I should get the best computer I could afford, and that way I could extend its useful life for as long as possible, and then sell it for a pretty decent price. That's worked for me for the last 13 years and 5 Macs.
So that's my Mac history - what's yours?
http://www.apple.com/30-years/your-first-mac/ apple, inspiration, tech, technology apple, tech, gadget January 27, 2014
Pencil | FiftyThree / November 19, 2013 by Simon Abrams
I've been quite pleased with my iPad 2 over the last two-and-a-half years, not feeling the familiar twinge of gadget envy when newer devices like the iPad 3, 4, or Mini came out.
That's started changing lately, particularly as the Apple cogniscenti have been pushing out their reviews of the iPad Air (and Mini), but I've been coping - even though I'm noticing more and more lagging here and there during day-to-day use of my aging precioussssss.
But just today I was reading about Wacom's Intuos Creative Stylus, and I was shocked to see that it was incompatible with the iPad 2. It's expensive, but I won't lie - I was bummed.
And now this: the Pencil, by FiftyThree, makers of one of my very favorite apps, Paper. Again, it's incompatible with my iPad, and the culprit is low-energy Bluetooth, which only made its appearance on Apple's tablets post-iPad 2.
If I'm being realistic about it, I don't think I can exactly afford to upgrade my iPad at the moment. But it's official: I'm definitely lusting after a new one.
http://www.fiftythree.com/pencil gadgets, tech, technology, apple gadget, tech, iPad, apple November 19, 2013
Broken / October 5, 2012 by Simon Abrams
First time in four years of owning an iPhone that this has happened to me. I guess I was due? I still don't really plan on getting a case. I might, at most, get one of the anti-glare screen protectors that I had on my iPhone 4, but I think that's it. I'll just have to not drop the replacement phone they (eventually) give me.
8 days later...
gadgets, apple, tech apple, gadget, iphone, tech, photography October 05, 2012
RetinaBook Pro / June 13, 2012 by Simon Abrams
I stopped by the West 14th Street Apple Store, and having seen it in person, I can join in the chorus: Apple's new MacBook Pro with Retinal Display definitely looks amazing. Thin, light, fast as hell. I'm in the camp that thinks it's pricey, but will get cheaper in a generation or so (like the MacBook Air did). It's the direction the notebook industry as a whole will invariably go in.
gadgets apple, gadget, macbookpro, tech June 13, 2012
Leap and T(ether): Our Minority Report Future Draws Ever Nearer / June 6, 2012 by Simon Abrams
Interesting things are happening on the gestural/spatial computer interaction front. First up, Leap Motion garnered a lot of buzz a week or two ago. This little brick hangs out next to your computer and allows you to interact with it by tracking your gestures. It seems to be tracking movements at an incredibly high-resolution, too, as seen in this demo:
An SDK and app store are in the works, promising lots of fun stuff will be readily available when the Leap Motion ships at the end of the year.
T(ether), from the MIT Media Lab is an iPad-based 3D object manipulation and animation tool. Using motion capture and the built-in cameras on the iPad, it offers immersive interaction with the 3D data, and even allows multiple people to collaboratively edit the same virtual environment. The video explains it better than I ever could:
While you can pre-order the Leap Motion for the grand sum of $70, the T(ether) appears to be still in the concept phase. The future is here, man.
gadgets leap, tech, tether June 06, 2012
Photoshop Image Deblurring Sneak Peek / October 10, 2011 by Simon Abrams
Algorithm, my ass. This is f*cking voodoo magic.
photoshop photoshop, tech October 13, 2011
From the Archives: My Desk / October 8, 2011 by Simon Abrams
Skimming through my Aperture library, I came across what I now think is a really nice image. I like the lighting, I like the perspective… the processing makes me wonder what kind of mood I was in that night.
Finds like these make me wonder what other forgotten gems are languishing in my 40k+ image library, waiting to be rediscovered.
From the Archives, photography apple, from the archives, gadget, photography, tech October 08, 2011


The joining of forces between previously competitive security firms has fundamentally transformed the anti-malware process and facilitated a much stronger response to surging cybercrime, according to the head of Trend Micro's specialised cybercrime research facility.
Those partnerships rapidly grew from an experiment to a fundamental part of the security response as it became clear years ago that no one company was going to be able to maintain a comprehensive security response, Manila-based TrendLabs research director Myla Pilao told CSO Australia during the company's recent Cybercrime 2015 event in Melbourne.
Such collaboration has also facilitated Trend Micro's partnerships with the likes of INTERPOL, which has built progressively tighter relationships with the security industry and academia to support its mission in helping law-enforcement authorities around the world deal with new online threats.
Those partnerships often provide new insight for security researchers for whom many attacks have long been abstract concepts: "When we're working together with law enforcement, it's a much different perspective," Pilao explained.
The collaborations have already delivered real outcomes for anti-malware forces: in April, for example, a joint effort between Trend Micro, INTERPOL, Kaspersky Lab, and the Cyber Defence Institute saw the takedown of the SIMDA botnet, a botnet that had claimed victims in 190 countries.
Such actions become possible not only through the pooling of data – Trend Micro, for example, contributed information such as the IP addresses of detected botnet command-and-control servers – but are helped along as ever-broader brains trusts apply their lateral thinking to the changing threat landscape.
Trend Micro maintains more than 1000 threat researchers and support engineers in research centres in 13 countries around the world, allowing its researchers to respond to local threats such as Australia's particularly high susceptibility to ransomware.
Yet despite their value in facilitating better collaboration between security-industry players, the partnerships are also becoming increasingly important because competition for the limited pool of skills is becoming increasingly intense.
A recent survey by industry body ISACA highlighted the magnitude of the skills gap, with 35 percent of respondents confirming they had security-related job openings that they cannot fill. More than half of respondents to that survey said that less than 1 in 4 applications for security-related roles was qualified for their requirements.
In a firm like Trend Micro – where the success of Pilao's organisation depends on winning and keeping well-qualified security specialists – such figures pose a particular sort of problem.


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The Rhea–McEntire House, also known as the Rhea–Burleson–McEntire House, is a historic antebellum Greek Revival mansion located along the shoreline of the Tennessee River's Wheeler Lake in Decatur, Alabama.

The house was constructed prior to 1836, and was used as headquarters by both Union and Confederate forces, alternately, during the Civil War.

In 1862, before being occupied by Federal forces, the plans for the Battle of Shiloh were laid out within this building. Because of this, the house was spared when the city was burned, leaving only three other buildings standing in the city.

The official records, most of which are now housed at Tulane University, indicate that General Johnston's headquarters during the time he reorganized his Confederate forces in Decatur in March 1862 were at the McCarty (sic) Hotel. They also indicate that planning for attacking Grant's forces at Pittsburg Landing (the Battle of Shiloh) was done by Johnston's subordinate, General Beauregard, in Corinth, Mississippi.

The list of major buildings in Decatur, Alabama that survived the Civil War were the Dancy-Polk House, the Old State Bank, The McCartney Hotel (demolished in the 1920s), and the Burleson House that later became known as the McEntire House. The most likely reason they were spared is that they were all inside the perimeter of the breastworks built by the Union in 1864. Everything outside the breastworks for an  radius was leveled to provide a clear field of fire for the artillery defending the Union position on the banks of the Tennessee River. The Burlesons owned the house during the Civil War. Dr. Aaron Adair Burleson served as the president of the Tennessee and Central Alabama Railroad that later became part of the Nashville and Decatur Railroad. During the Civil War Dr. Burleson was a physician in the Confederate Army. The home was sold to Jerome Hinds, a former Union soldier from Illinois, in 1869. After the Hinds, the home was used as a boarding house and hotel before standing empty for a period. It was purchased on April 5, 1895 by R. P. McEntire.

The house was also used as the second temporary courthouse, during the construction of the first permanent courthouse in Decatur, in Morgan County.

The house was documented with large-format photographs by the Historic American Buildings Survey in 1937.

See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Morgan County, Alabama
Battle of Decatur

References

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Buildings and structures in Decatur, Alabama
National Register of Historic Places in Morgan County, Alabama
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Alabama
Historic American Buildings Survey in Alabama
Alabama in the American Civil War
Greek Revival houses in Alabama
Antebellum architecture
Houses in Morgan County, Alabama

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We have explored Simon Porte Jacqumues' adventures through the provinces of France to the beach of St Tropez, and this Fall we are following the brand to vibrant streets of Morrocco. A key piece from the "Le Souk" collection, the Sahil skirt is rendered in a muted green and draped languidly down the body into an assymetrical hemline. We're staying true to the campaign styling, and pairing ours with burgundy and orange pieces.


A fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, history enthusiast and adventurer, Tennessee has had a passion for exploration and the polar regions since his earliest days. He relishes the chance to share his knowledge of the great polar pioneers, the extraordinary history of the Arctic and Antarctic, and the stories of the explorers who dedicated their lives to discovery and science.
I have been fortunate enough to have travelled to some phenomenal places around the world and learn about the extraordinary communities that call those places home. I arrived in Nepal a year after the 2015 earthquake and was involved in some truly inspiring and life-changing projects. I began working on my book back in late 2017 and I have greatly enjoyed researching and sharing the story of one of the most underappreciated great polar explorers, James Clark Ross. When I am not thinking about all things polar, I am hill climbing in the Welsh mountains or rambling around the UK.
I spend my day engaging with people about the fantastic wildlife, geography and history of the Arctic and Antarctic. I answer a wide range of questions people have about our amazing voyages and the polar regions so they feel as well prepared as possible for their adventure. It is a great privilege to help send people on what is truly a trip of a lifetime, and share in their excitement.
To follow in the footsteps of the great polar pioneers and venture into the Northwest Passage, or retrace the last hours of Shackleton's extraordinary journey across South Georgia to salvation; both would be incredibly emotional and profound. To stand where those great explorers once stood and to look out to where they gazed would fulfil a childhood dream and likely be the beginning of an obsession!


When they hear 'tickets for a living', some would surely think bus or train conductors. These persons, indeed, make cash by proposing tickets to commuters. However, making money out of them passes isn't merely in order to transport. Many have made something out of themselves by selling concert tickets, festival tickets etc.
Another method that people could certainly be location to tell whenever they have an imitation ticket constantly the watermark is not there or is altered. Any alteration or no watermark at all is a good indicator that the ticket isn't a real ticket. You'll look in the backdrop on a ticket by holding upward to light and looking through it then. If the watermark isn't correct, you know that something is not right.
Stanley then goes to pick out up his car as the oil change only to identify a out he needs the brand new transmission and brakes. He gets the broken down loan car from the card dealer. He goes to some party by incorporating of his friends but gets separated. They travel in without him and Stanley isn't on the guest listing. Stanley leaves only to uncover his loaner break down on him a few miles away from the the get together. At the same it begins to storm. He looks during the bridge and sees one man in the. He rushes right down to him in order to find that it will be a lump of rubbish. He finds the mask in the lump and goes your own house. He goes home in order to get yelled at by his landlord for rent payment and also the carpet he just ruined. It has been a quite bad day.
So should you not want to overlook out for that latest theatre tickets for shows like One Man Two Guvnors, Cirque Du Soleil, or War Horse, make sure you buy tickets online from a qualified vendor. Usually vendors will sell choice tickets a number of categories, so there'll continue to be something to impress everyone. In case dad desires to buy Premiership League tickets at the same time as finding the kids Concert Tickets, it can all be accomplished in one store.
Concert Tickets- If your wife's favourite band or musician is playing in town, surprise her with tickets on the event. Package the evening with an expensive dinner for two people complete with a bottle of champagne and also the best views your city has to offer.
The Guideline Reciprocity might be used in your favor in different methods once you're involved by using a woman. Since you never want women to take you for granted, anyone always would like them to respect your and also effort, lot all types of ways various other your gestures seem like 'favors' that females will feel obligated to pay back.
This is not a good sign, is actually not a sure sign she's losing interest in you. Possibly should you have to do? Figure out what bugs her about you and stop doing the site. Sounds simple, perfectly? It is! Suprise her several imagine dragons concert with impractical Jokers tickets to her favorite band or maybe pick up a set of her favorite jeans or shoes. Tell yourself to do something nice for her everyday for just two weeks without asking for anything inturn. She may notice in you fast, but the whole process takes working hours. Be patient! Should you do these simple acts of kindness enough she often be looking inside your eyes in time telling you much she cares and loves a person will. Be different, be polite, do not judge her, validate her and plus it really can not regret it, I promise!


Patrick Ball with Yezidi boys at an informal camp in Sharya, Iraq.
Farhad (not his real name) got the call from ISIS on his personal cell phone just after lunch: we have your sister, and we will give her back if you pay us $6000, plus $1500 for the driver.
Carrying little more than his phone, a few clothes, some food, and helping his parents, Farhad and his family left his village in the Shingal municipality of Iraq three months ago when the multinational Islamist extremists of ISIS came. As they fled, his sister had gotten separated and was captured by ISIS.
I heard Farhad's story—and many similar stories—during my mid-November week visiting the Yezidi people in northwestern Iraq. With my colleague Miki Takacs, I met with about a dozen young Yezidi human rights activists who were eager to find ways to respond. I told them stories from other projects I worked on, including the prosecutions of Slobodan Milošević for war crimes in Kosovo, and of Gen. Efraín Ríos Montt for genocide in Guatemala. We talked about what genocide means in the international treaty that defines it, about how to organize data, and most of all, how to secure data using the Martus software. I left them with a stack of textbooks about the international standards for documenting human rights violations, particularly killings.
Yezidi children in an internally displaced person (IDP) camp in Sharya, Iraq.
In Yezidi tradition, the current violence by ISIS is the seventy-fourth attempt to destroy them as a people. People I spoke to are confident that they will survive this assault on their persons, property, culture, and values as they have survived all the previous attacks. But this time, for the first time, they will respond by appealing to international law. Will the Yezidi people get their day in court?
My sense reading popular media since returning is that Americans are both underconcerned and overconcerned about ISIS. In the last section of the post, I outline what I learned.
Formal camp with running water and electricity, where tents are built on concrete pads.
We visited people in the sprawling complex of internally displaced persons (IDP) camps southwest of Duhok, north of Mosul Dam Lake (the dam sits across the Tigris river). Some 80,000 Yezidi people are housed in this collection of formal and informal camps, and there are several hundreds of thousands more in other camps across northern Iraq.
The formal camps are organized by the Iraqi government and the Kurdish regional government; those governments provide running water, electricity, and sanitation, while the UN provides tents, food, and medical supplies. The informal camps, where families essentially squat, have no running water, electricity, or sanitation.
An informal camp, which has no running water or electricity.
The tents at the formal camps are erected on concrete pads that keep the tent floor elevated above rainwater and mud. In the informal camps, families use shipping palettes to elevate their floors. In these same camps, some families pirate electricity and use LED lights (shown in photos).
As one of these photos show, some families cook on traditional bread ovens that they have built at the camp. The camps we visited are built on land that was formerly used for farming.
Miki Takacs (far right, standing) teaching at the Lalish Center, Sharya Branch.
Lalish is the name of a Yezidi holy place, and Lalish Sharya is a cultural organization that is now mobilizing humanitarian assistance and human rights documentation among the community. Miki and I worked with eleven activists, many of whom are themselves displaced from the Shingal region. They brought all my favorite activist characteristics to the table: skepticism, a deep connection to their communities, and a powerful interest in figuring out what can be done.
We focused the technical part of the training on what information needs to be collected about each event, and how to store the information safely. The storage problem can be addressed squarely with Martus, the self-encrypting, self-replicating database from the Benetech human rights program. We also shared a wide range of electronic security tools with the students in the class, including gpg and tools for securely deleting files and erasing temporary files in Windows.
Graduation in the garden at Lalish Center, Sharya Branch.
Discussions with the training participants helped orient and organize their approach to data collection; topics included methods for human rights investigations; database approaches, electronic security, and the logic of moving narrative testimonies into structured data tables.
The less-technical part of the training involved me telling stories. I shared experiences from the long process of gathering evidence, framing arguments, creating analysis, and working with prosecutors in war crimes trials. We talked about advocacy campaigns in El Salvador, war crimes trials of officials from the former Yugoslavia, and the genocide trial of General Efraín Ríos Montt in Guatemala last year. I was honored to recount to these young, engaged Yezidi investigators the long, committed struggle of Mayan Ixil people to have their case heard, against very powerful opponents. Of course we explored the appropriate data structures for the information collected, and the information security principles they should consider. Beyond the knowledge we shared, the session's participants told me that they gained insight into what steps will be needed to bring a war crimes case to trial. I felt their enthusiasm rise through the course of the week, and mine rose with them.
A tent with pirated electricity, in an informal camp.
While I was in Iraq, I was reminded of the reasons we do human rights work. Of course there are the big goals, including vindicating the victims' experiences, establishing historical memory, preparing for criminal trials and other kinds of accountability. But there are individual, personal goals that are at least as important as the big goals, and this trip brought me back in touch with the personal goals.
The first of the personal goals is solidarity. I found it deeply moving to sit with people who have recently experienced some the most horrible events that can happen to people, that can be done by people to other people, and to listen to their stories. I believe that that act of listening helps people telling their stories to know that they're not alone in the world (this has limits, see below). In this work, we risk becoming abstract, focused on the political and military analysis of Syria, Iraq, Turkey, Iran, and ISIS; on the legal and advocacy meaning of human rights evidence and argument; or on the technical impact of data and the statistical patterns we might be able to understand from them. Solidarity helps me to remember the human meaning of the violence that we study.
The inside of one family's tent, where shipping palettes raise the floor above mud and rainwater.
The second of the personal goals I remembered last week concerns what social science geeks call agency. As we walked through the IDP camps, several people told me that taking photos isn't enough. We've told our stories before, two women who had escaped from ISIS told me: what are you going to do about it? When I asked if I could take their photos, some people responded by asking me if I could help them get kerosene for cooking, warmer clothes for their children, or an appointment with a doctor.
No, I said, I don't have any aid to offer, I'm just a teacher. As we talked about what I was teaching, they realized that maybe what I brought was more valuable than a few liters of kerosene. By learning the skills I was teaching, people in their community became more effective actors in the conflict, not in the sense of being military combatants, but as people who can act on behalf of their community. They are gathering evidence with which to build arguments that may someday bring justice for this, the seventy-fourth time the Yezidi have been attacked.
Children in a Yezidi market.
We were invited back to repeat our training at a half-dozen more of the Lalish Center offices, and I look forward to building a larger documentation training project with Lalish and our partners at Benetech and FreedObject. This trip has reinspired me. We are helping local activists to do it themselves, and for me, that's the most satisfying part of being a human rights worker.
There's a Yezidi group organizing support for displaced people, and this is their Facebook page. There's contact info and a donation process there, it involves transferring directly to the group's bank account. The Kurdistan Refugee Fund is organized in part by one of our translators, and I recommend it.
Tents in a formal camp, which was formerly farmland. In the background is Mosul Dam reservoir.
Starting in June 2014, the Islamist group calling itself the Islamic State (or ISIS) invaded Iraq from Syria and took control of substantial portions of western Iraq. Conditions for people who do not share ISIS's extreme form of Sunni Islam have been very difficult, in particular for the Yezidi, who were displaced from their villages on 3 August.
Below I've give some detail, but here's the tl;dr: ISIS is not an overwhelming military force rolling over big armies; they're a ragtag bunch of lightly-armed militia guys who take over areas where they are welcome; they only beat the Iraqi army when the army soldiers flee or surrender; they are incredibly brutal to civilians under their control.
Last month HRW reported that "The armed group Islamic State is holding hundreds of Yezidi men, women, and children from Iraq captive in formal and makeshift detention facilities in Iraq and Syria." Fred Abrahams, special advisor, Children's Rights Division at HRW, said, "We heard shocking stories of forced religious conversions, forced marriage, and even sexual assault and slavery—and some of the victims were children." According to the New York Times, several thousand Yezidi girls and young women have been kidnapped and enslaved by ISIS. The Middle East Center at the Woodrow Wilson Center recently hosted an event to bring attention to the problem of the enslavement of Yezidi women by ISIS.
Trading clothing at a Yezidi market.
The ISIS takeover is not strictly a question of military conquest. Many of the Yezidi told me that ISIS was welcomed by the conservative Sunni Arabs in Mosul and surrounding towns. The Arab Sunni, they said, are more worried about the Shia government in Baghdad than they are about ISIS (see this Human Rights Watch report about why Sunnis may have good reason to be worried about the Shia militias and the Shia-dominated Army). Furthermore, many Arab Sunni joined ISIS, which gives ISIS deep connections to the local community and geography, something ISIS fighters from as far abroad as Yemen, Afghanistan, and Egypt patently lacked. It is notable that the only areas ISIS conquered outside of the friendly Arab Sunni region were the villages of the powerless religious minorities, including the Yezidi, the Turkmen Shia, and the Assyrian Christians. In particular, ISIS made very little progress into Kurdish areas.
A traditional bread oven built by Yezidis in a camp near Sharya.
There have been developments in the military situation since the displacement of the Yezidi on 3 August that offer hope to these besieged people. Everyone—and I mean every single one of the several dozen conversations I had about this—thanked me (because I'm an American, I suppose) for the Coalition airstrikes against ISIS and the weapons sent to the Kurdish peshmerga. There are still about 15,000 Yezidi people stranded on Shingal Mountain. Coalition airstrikes help keep open their thin and dangerous escape route west through Syria. The trapped Yezidis are being supplied by Iraqi Army helicopter convoys with humanitarian assistance and weapons for the peshmerga defending them. The Coalition airstrikes prevent ISIS from using armored vehicles or other heavy weapons to attack the Yezidi or interfere with the helicopter convoys. Without this support, my Yezidi interlocutors assured me, they would be quickly overrun by ISIS.
ISIS's military situation may be more precarious than it seems. Nonetheless, the people in the displaced persons camps are preparing for a long wait through the winter, and potentially, for years while the conflict drags on. Like all refugee camps I've visited, these camps have poor sanitation, only the most marginal protection against the weather, and a palpable sense of fear and deep concern about the future.
[CC BY-NC-SA, including images] All images by HRDAG 2014.
Patrick Ball, PhD, is Executive Director of Human Rights Analysis Data Group and has spent more than twenty years conducting quantitative analysis for truth commissions, non-governmental organizations, international criminal tribunals, and United Nations missions in El Salvador, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Haiti, South Africa, Chad, Sri Lanka, East Timor, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Kosovo, Liberia, Perú, Colombia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Syria.


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Q: Using Parameters.AddWithValue to pass database name fails I've been trying to perform a login query. I think my main problem with this function is the Parameters.AddWithValue portion, but don't really understand what is wrong.
Following code returns an error when ran:

Must declare the table variable "@database"

Code:
 public static bool clsFuncLogin(string USER, string PASS,
         string conStr, string strDatabase)
{
    SqlConnection conn = new SqlConnection(
       ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings[conStr].ConnectionString);
    conn.Open();

    using (SqlCommand StrQuer =
         new SqlCommand("SELECT COUNT(*) FROM @database "+
            "WHERE Username = @userid AND Password = @password", conn))
    {
        StrQuer.Parameters.AddWithValue("@userid", USER);
        StrQuer.Parameters.AddWithValue("@password", PASS);
        StrQuer.Parameters.AddWithValue("@database", strDatabase);
        int DataQuery = Convert.ToInt32(StrQuer.ExecuteScalar().ToString());
        if (DataQuery == 1)
        {
            System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Session["User"] = USER;
            System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Session["Pass"] = PASS;
            System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Session["loggedIn"] = "True";

            return true;

        }
        else if (DataQuery > 1)
        {
           //to tell if a double is created in the db
           //probably to be removed

            System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Session["Double"] = USER;
            return false;
        }
        else
        {
            return false;

        }
    }
}

Ive also done the query as
"SELECT COUNT(*) FROM" + strDatabase + " WHERE Username = " + USER +
        " AND Password = " + PASS;

but I was told that that is bad practice. Any advice?

A: I've never seen table names passed as a parameter, and based on other posts (this and this for example), I don't think it can be easily done... at least, not via SqlCommand.Parameters.
It sounds like there's only two tables - admins and regular users. As an alternative, you could just pass a bool to the method, like isAdmin, then have two queries based on whether the user is an admin or a regular user.
public static bool clsFuncLogin(string user, string pass, string conStr, bool isAdmin)
{
    ...

    var query = isAdmin
        ? "SELECT COUNT(*) FROM ADMIN_TABLE WHERE Username = @userid AND Password = @password"
        : "SELECT COUNT(*) FROM REGULAR_TABLE WHERE Username = @userid AND Password = @password";

    using (var sqlCommand = new SqlCommand(query, conn))
    {
        sqlCommand.Parameters.AddWithValue("@userid", user);
        sqlCommand.Parameters.AddWithValue("@password", pass);

        ...
        ...

A: Main reason to use
SELECT * FROM TABLE WHERE column=@column

with parameters is to avoid all complications of providing correct formatting for the value. it is even more important if values are supplied as free text by user of your application since you will open all possibilities with SQL injection attacks if you fail to properly address all formatting issues (which is basically not worth the effort given solution with parameters).
I really hope that you don't allow users to supply table name and it's supplied by your own code, so you can quite safely use
var query = String.Format("SELECT * FROM {0} WHERE column=@column", tableName);

However I would just recommend to create two separate queries instead to properly separate concerns.

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• works well in all products I have made.
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"Strong! You only need a little"
COMMENTS: I like how it smells in the soap but straight from the bottle is a bit odd to me! Good thing it gets diluted.
COMMENTS: Smells great and it seemed to slow down trace so the fragrance worked great for swirls.
"A mild yet fresh scent"
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"Best fragrance by far. "
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COMMENTS: the perfect fragrance. Behaves well in all products. No ricing, no acceleration, no discoloring.
COMMENTS: This fragrance is always a winner no matter what product I pit it in. It is such a soft fragrance and carries for a long time after using. It is a great year round scent.
COMMENTS: I was so skeptical about ordering a "*Type" kind of fragrance oil. I have tried store bought dupes in the past and they never are even close, so I always thought that's what this might be like too. Well, Curiosity got the best of me and I had to try one and since I still have some VS Love spell I got this so I could compare. This is almost exactly, and I mean exactly! Like the original. The top note on this one lasts just a little longer is the only difference. They both smell the same! I am so glad I tried this I will be trying a lot more like this from WSP in the future. This is a great seller too!
"smells great in CP Soap"
COMMENTS: I had found it hard to find a good Love Spell Fragrance to really smell good in Cold Process soap until I found this one. I'm personally not a fan of this fragrance but it really does smell strong in cold process.
COMMENTS: I've had this scent for a while and finally made CP soap with it. The soap smells fantastic and behaved perfectly. This is a new favorite.
COMMENTS: Smells sweet and a little fruity, making it a good scent to add other oils to enhance either way. I can smell a faint undertone of musk or spice. On its own it's too "candy" sweet to me but I really want to experiment with it to see what I can come up with.
COMMENTS: Wasn't a fan at first, but after using it smells amazing.
"Believe all the positive reviews!"
COMMENTS: I use this to scent a hair oil blend I make, and quite honestly, I'm obsessed with the smell of my hair after I use it. If you're a citrusy person, like I am, you will absolutely fall in love. It's not what I was expecting, and having never smelled the VS one, I had nothing to compare it to, and ordered blindly. So glad I did, excellent fragrance.
COMMENTS: This fragrance is wonderful. I had no issues with acceleration, ricing, or discoloration and I soaped at 85 degrees. I wish the fragrance was a tad bit stronger, so next time I'll use a little more. I definitely recommend this one and I'll be purchasing again!
COMMENTS: lots of customers know about this fragrance and they love it. it's a lovely smell.
COMMENTS: Number 1 seller for me. It's a scent that every age knows and love.
COMMENTS: such a wonderful aroma! speedy delivery with excellent packing!
COMMENTS: I ordered this a while back, used it in my bath bombs and sold out right away! Came back and got the bigger bottle! This smells amazing!
COMMENTS: smelled great and very potent and long lasting!!!
COMMENTS: I originally purchased to use in CP soap and I can't get enough of this wonderful scent. I have now added to shampoo bars, body spray, and even added a bit to some witch hazel and am spraying on my sheets before going to bed. LOVE IT!!!! I will purchase a bigger bottle when this one is gone.
COMMENTS: This is always a best seller for me! Such a great scent!
"It's Love Spell... can't go wrong"
COMMENTS: Well, ya know... it's LOVE SPELL! Always a favorite!
COMMENTS: Victoria Secret Scents are always my best sellers and this one is just the BEST! It's super easy to use and I have used it several times in Cold Processes Soap. It never lets me down and I am able to use amazing colors. It doesn't accelerate the batch, nor does it discolor. It's perfect! It maintains it's scent throughout the curing process. I highly recommend getting this scent!
"my customers can't get enough"
COMMENTS: Amazing fragrance and my go to suggestion when a customer is uncertain. It smells very clean and the fragrance lasts long. It works great with no issues in my melt & pour, bath bombs and bath salts. Other reviews have given me confidence to try it in cold process next.
"All Time Best Seller "
COMMENTS: I have made this Fragrance since I first starting making soap. A repeat all time favorite with my customers, ranging over all ages., little girls to grandmothers & makes great gift bars.
COMMENTS: Customers keep asking for this fragrance, one of my Best sellers.
COMMENTS: I love this scent and so do my customers. I use it in my body butters, bath Bombs, moisture oils and wax melts. Smells exactly like the scent from vs.
COMMENTS: My husband gave me a lotion with this fragrance when we were dating. Ever since, I love this scent! When I found out that I could order it from WSP, I did. I always make sure I have some in stock! It hold the scent very well.
"Smells just like VS love spell "
COMMENTS: I have this scent in a lot of bath and body products from VS . This fragrance oil smells exactly like the original and it is awseome in cp, lotion, scrubs etc. Performs great in my GM soap stays a very nice cream color due to goats milk . Scent lasts and s lasts , dosnt fade during cure. Everyone seems to like it.
COMMENTS: I have purchased love spell fragrance oil in the past from a different supplier, before I knew about WSP. Well needless to say, this was by far the better product. It smells identical to the real thing. This is the only place I will be buying my fragrance from now.
COMMENTS: We use this in bath bombs, bubble bars, sugar scrubs, bubble bars and so much more!
COMMENTS: This smells EXACTLY like Victoria's Secret Love Spell and customers go crazy over it!!! I've only used it in bath bombs so far but am dying to try it in soap. People literally can't get enough of the scent and prefer it to more natural scents and essential oils even. I would highly recommend for any product.
COMMENTS: This fragrance is fantastic! It behaves beautifully in cold process, no acceleration, no ricing, no separation or discoloration and excellent scent retention! I am going to order a bigger bottle!
COMMENTS: My customers can't get enough of this scent! This is our top selling scent.
COMMENTS: I really like the scent. It is not too strong or too light. I plan on buying more!
"Works great in CP soap!"
COMMENTS: Love this smell and had no acceleration! Two pluses!!
COMMENTS: A great VS duplicate fragrance that holds well in CP soaping. Soaps well with no discolor, rices a wee bit but easily blended out, speeds up trace a bit, but if you are organized ahead of your pour, you'll be fine. I highly recommend this fragrance.
COMMENTS: I have tried a couple others but this version is the best, its is very strong and holds in CP soap. When I used this in Bath Bombs they sold out. I bought another companies version and tried it in the Bombs however they didn't move half as well. Will always come back to WSP!
"Very popular among 20- and 30-something year olds"
COMMENTS: I brought five 2-oz bottles of this to work one night (I am an RN), along with other scents. They were sold out within an hour! I was not even particularly liking this scent as it is too fruity for my taste, but my co-workers loved it! Some said it was very much like Victoria's Secret's Love Spell.
COMMENTS: Lives up to its name...a perfectly feminine fragrance. Ordering again!!
COMMENTS: Smells fantastic. Performed well in my cold process soap. This scent is very popular with my customers.
COMMENTS: This is by far the most popular scent in the items I carry. It's almost impossible to keep products on the shelves.
COMMENTS: Very lovely Smell!! Will work well with what I'm using it for!!
"Smells just like the real deal!"
COMMENTS: I just love this stuff! And I REALLY love that I can once again enjoy this fragrance but without exposing myself & others to phthalates!
COMMENTS: Smells just like Victoria's Secret fragrance!
"Smells just like VS "
COMMENTS: A little goes a long way. I rarely need to use greater than 1% and we still have excellent scent throw. Everyone loves it.
COMMENTS: This scent is easily one of my best sellers. It works great in CP soap, bath bombs, and scrubs.
COMMENTS: I love the smell of this fragrance. Was perfect for my heart shaped lotion bars.
COMMENTS: This FO is amazing to soap with. After 4 weeks curing the FO is still there. I do wish it was a bit stronger though, but I will definitely be buying a larger bottle in my next order.
"Used in CP and soy candles - amazing scent!"
COMMENTS: Worked well in CP soap, no acceleration, no ricing, no discoloration. Smells amazing - I love this smell.
COMMENTS: Performs great in cp soap and the scent is so soft and sensual. I could smell it all day!!
COMMENTS: Think this is my best fragrance. I have no problems in Cold Process Soap and the smell is without a doubt incomparable. Will definitely get a bigger bottle.
COMMENTS: I love this fragrance. It is a best seller for me. Smells similar to the actual fragrance and my customers ask for more. I use it in bath salts, bath bombs, lotion bars, and soap. No discoloration and no acceleration.
COMMENTS: I've been using Love Spell from a different company and then I came across this one. With so many 5 star reviews I had to try it and compare. This is SO much better than what I have been using and so much better than I expected. This is one of my best sellers and I will continue to use it. It behaved very well in CP soap with no discoloring and did not accelerate at all. Love this fragrance!!!
• I wouldn't change a thing!
COMMENTS: Didn't know what to expect, however, this smells wonderful. Looking forward to using it.
COMMENTS: This smells like the duplicate that it is meant to. Love it!
COMMENTS: This scent is subtle and elegant at the same time. Perfect for my hand made lotions. I will recommend this scent to my friends and will certainly purchase it again.
COMMENTS: Everyone likes this scent. Usually the first scent to sell out.
COMMENTS: This is a great VS type fragrance. If you like VS Love Spell, you will love this fragrance. I love the rich orange fruity scent it gives.
COMMENTS: Use this in butters & lotions, my customers love it!
"Perfect Love Spell Dupe "
COMMENTS: This smells just like VS dupe of Love Spell, which is amazing. It is very fruity with a slight floral undertone. This was intended to add in CP soap, lotion, and sugar scrub. Great price for the size. Will purchase again.
COMMENTS: A very popular scent in my bath bomb product line!
"Smells just like the real thing"
COMMENTS: This is my second time purchasing this scent. It sticked in my CP soap.
COMMENTS: This is a citrus peach scent with a subtle flower scent in the background. Extremely easy to use. Doesn't accelerate or rice. Doesn't change color. Smells wonderful. We just made an order of CP soap for a wedding shower. Very popular scent. Reminds me of summer.
COMMENTS: I LOVE THE SCENT, IT IS AWESOME TO WORK WITH N SOAPS AND BODY SCRUBS. IT HAS A VERY CATCHY AROMA. IT HAS A VERY DESIRABLE ATTRACTION.
"Just finished a soap using this fragrance"
COMMENTS: Amazing! What a beautiful fragrance!
COMMENTS: This smells JUST like VS's Love Spell! I can't get enough of this one. It's a heavenly blend of fruity and floral. I'll definitely be purchasing a bigger bottle.
COMMENTS: This scent is divine!! Buy it & I promise you will let be it!
"Customers love this one! "
COMMENTS: Works well in CP. Smells great! Clients love it. Behaves as far as discoloring & speeding up trace. Always works well.
COMMENTS: I love everything about this fragrance. Easy to soap, no acceleration or ricing. The scent is strong but not overpowering - sticks well in CP. Perfect scent for wedding favors.
"I'm Loving this Love Spell"
COMMENTS: I was really surprised when I smelled this OTB. So fruity, yet feminine. It is awesome. Soaped like a dream. Will be buying a larger bottle.
"smells just like Victoria Secret love spell!"
COMMENTS: I made my first bubble bars using this fragrance and all the girls loved it! Seems to be a beautiful fragrance most seem to like. Not overpowering but strong enough to fill the room! Will re order soon!
COMMENTS: Spot on to the VS scent! Customer favorite in all products. Soaps beautifully in CP. I will always keep this in stock. Thank you WSP for quality, price and fabulous customer service!
"MY favorite scent! LOVE SPELL"
COMMENTS: This has been an all time favorite scent. I made body sprays, incense, soap and candles..
"Wonderfully close to the VS original"
COMMENTS: The scent is very close to the VS original, and is a light scent perfect for bath products.
COMMENTS: Bought a sample size & wish I got a bigger bottle. Very nice sensual scent. Very feminine love it.
COMMENTS: Sold out of body butter very quickly with this one, lovely scent.
COMMENTS: This is a Victoria secret favorite and it's one of my customers favorite scents as well!
COMMENTS: We were pleasantly surprised when we introduced this scent in our foaming bath fizzles. It is loved by youngsters and adults. Great job!
COMMENTS: This is a perfect match to Lovespell fragrance.
COMMENTS: Love this fragrance. Behaves well in cold process soaps. Smells great in lotions.
COMMENTS: Smells just like my summer garden !
COMMENTS: My biggest selling fragrance, perfect "type". I get lots of compliments when wearing, and scent is recognized immediately! HIGHLY recommend!
COMMENTS: I use it in many products. I love the smell of it. It's also a favorite of my family and friends!
COMMENTS: This dupe fragrance is so on point! It smells just like the real VS Love Spell . The fragrance is strong and doesn't require a lot in my bath bombs. The fragrance last long and is a customer favorite!
COMMENTS: Smells exactly like the real thing. One of my best sellers!
COMMENTS: This is exactly what I was looking for!! Smells amazing and clients buy it up!!
COMMENTS: My first time trying to make soap and I used this scent! It smells amazing, almost identical to the real thing! My brother came in while I was making it and would not stop talking about the smell that took over the house... Will buy again!!
"One my all time favorites"
COMMENTS: Worked very well in cold process soap.
"Spells just like the VS scent!!"
COMMENTS: I am shocked at how much this smells like the lotion from Victoria's Secret. I was skeptical at first, but if I had these side-by-side, I wouldn't be able to tell the difference between this and the VS brand. I am thrilled to have found this stuff, and I will be restocking in larger quantities with my next order. Fantastic scent!!!
• smells just like the real stuff!
COMMENTS: Very nice, soft scent. Can't wait to make soap and body butter with it!!
COMMENTS: This is my best seller everyone ask for it.
"Beautiful scent, works great in CP Soap"
COMMENTS: I tried this FO with CP soap and it works great. Didn't accelerate or affect soap colour. The soap is now curing and the smell is still strong and very nice.
COMMENTS: This is one of my best selling bath bomb fragrances! They are usually the first to go!
COMMENTS: I love everything about Love Spell dupe. This is my number one seller no matter what season of the year it is. I never let myself run out.
COMMENTS: Identical to what you would expect. A little strong, but works like a charm. Love it!
COMMENTS: Love this fragrance. Does not accelerate trace. Scent lasts a long time. Friends and family love the scent.
COMMENTS: I love, love, love this is product it smells just like VS Love Spell.
COMMENTS: I constantly hear everyone talking about the FO on the soaping forums so I finally caved and tried. I was pleasantly surprised. I was expecting floral but more fruity notes. Smells amazing!
COMMENTS: This scent is great for the young teenage girls. I have paired it with a cute name that makes it a great soap seller. Sweet scent.
COMMENTS: Performs beautifully in CP and smells great!
COMMENTS: I'm not sure if it smells like VS version, but I do know that it smells amazing. I used it in melt and pour and the scent is nice and strong, even after a few weeks. It smells slightly different in my sugar scrubs, but still great. I will definitely keep buying this scent. This is my favorite scent ever.
"I don't smell anything but grapefruit and orange"
COMMENTS: No peach, a little jasmine. Very light, too, right out of the bottle. So I won't be cold processing this scent.
COMMENTS: The scent doesn't suit to the name at all. I was expecting more "love" in there.) It just not my fragrance i guess.
COMMENTS: This is my second order for this fragrant in the short time I stumbled upon your company. This is a delightful fragrant and one that is well liked by many young ladies. I thank you for providing this for us to use in our products!
"My customers love this fragrance "
COMMENTS: This is a very nice sweet fragrance. I use it in my cold process soaps . I make a light lotion to go along with it along with a Scutari scrub.
COMMENTS: very popular VS scent, popular in my bath bombs!
"Smells exactly how it should!"
COMMENTS: This is one I will buy over and over. It smells amazing and it's a crowd pleaser.
"Very close to the real thing "
COMMENTS: Very nice and a favorite.
COMMENTS: I can't make enough bath bombs with the scent. My customers love it!
COMMENTS: The best Love spell Type I have found yet, smells just like VS.


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We are ONE WEEK from releasing two major albums! Both are so exciting in their own right that it is hard to choose which to talk about first! Also exciting is that these albums have something for our eco-conscious fans. Both of these albums will be in eco-friendly Digipaks, so you'll have a little different look on your RR shelf!
Did we mention that in ONE WEEK (9/14) we will be releasing the first album on our new sublabel FRESH! From Reference Recordings!?! The Curios Pillow Book creates a quirky and beautifully complex musical universe. Others have described this music as freak-folk-funk-psychedelic-cabaret, a juicy blend of mystery-rich, textural grooves and cliché-free lyrics, alternately abstract and narrative!
Award winning singer/songwriters and multi-instrumentalists Nancy Hall (background singer with Neil Young & Crazy Horse) and Lee Parvin are the creative core of The Curios. Their song "Hope for the Modern Man" won in the folk category of the first-ever John Lennon Songwriting contest; Ani Difranco was a judge.
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Govt calls forth Kiwi developers & data scientists for Open Data Fellowships
The government is calling forth tech-savvy New Zealanders and encouraging them to apply for Open Data fellowships with Land Information New Zealand and the Wellington City Council.
"If you're a developer or data scientist who wants to make a difference in your community, then don't let this unique opportunity pass you by," says Land Information Minister Louise Upston.
"The application process allows you to identify a local problem you'd like to solve by using data that already exists but just needs to be collected and presented in a way that's useful to people in their everyday lives," she continues. This is a New Zealand-first project, but it has been highly successful overseas with positive community outcomes - such as in Boston, where a fellow developed an app for fire hydrant maintenance around the city, saving ratepayer money, increasing safety and community awareness of public assets, she says.
Upson believes that the fellowships will forge partnerships between central government, local government and private developers.
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Next week on the Exchange, we begin with a statehouse update, as lawmakers come down to the wire in their final month of work. Then we look at why some experts are souring on sugar. New research shows it could be even worse for you than we thought, including contributing to memory loss and addictive qualities. We return to a long debate in New Hampshire – over the state's role in funding our public schools. Finally, this economic downturn has been nicknamed the 'man-cession' due to the number of middle-aged men left unemployed from it, but now some are suggesting that we're entering a 'man-covery' we'll look at this hard-hit group and how they may be rebounding several years later. E-mail us at NHPR dot org, and Join us all next week for the Exchange, each morning live at 9 and again at 8 pm here on NHPR!
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Ishan Khosla (b. Kochi, 1976) is a visual artist and designer with an MFA in Design from the School of Visual Arts, New York. After studying and working in the US for more than a decade, Ishan moved to India in 2008, to start Ishan Khosla Design — a multi-disciplinary company that examines and experiments with various aspects of contemporary Indian culture through the language of design. Ishan's work straddles the worlds of art and design, of tradition and technology, of nostalgia and the future and his experience of having stayed both outside and within India. Exhibitions include, Bold — Graphic Design from India at London Design Festival at the Rich Mix Cultural Foundation, London; Crossing Visions V: The Ecology of Creation, at the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan; Fracture: New Directions on Contemporary Textiles at the Devi Art Foundation; Porosity Kabari at Nishi Gallery, Canberra Australia and Studio X, Mumbai; Make it New Again, National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad; Common Ground at Gallery OED, Kochi and Edge Condition, Spitalfields Gallery, London. Ishan's work is part of the permanent collection at the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney and has been published in various books including the V&A's India Contemporary Design: Fashion, Graphics, Interiors. He was invited by The Japan Foundation to visit Japan as part of the Asian Curator's Program; he visited the Netherlands on invitation from Dutch DFA and Government of Netherlands to create partnerships in design and culture between the two countries. Ishan helped organise, brand and facilitate, Sangam: the Australia India Design Platform. He also participated in talks and exhibitions at various venues in both India and Australia, including the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney and RMIT University in Melbourne. He was a part of two separate workshops, discussions and exhibitions at Studio X, Mumbai — Here, There, Everywhere (with Droog Lab) and — Porosity Kabari with two other Australian designers. Ishan was a speaker at Typo Berlin in May 2017. Previously, he has spoken at Semi-Permanent (New Zealand), the Gyeonggi Ceramics Biennale (South Korea), Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, France; Japan Foundation (Japan); Aalto University (Finland); Konstfack University (Sweden); RMIT University (Australia) the University of Edinburgh (Scotland) among other places. He is a finalist of the Young Creative Entrepreneur Award by the British Council and has won the D&AD Kyoorius Design Yatra blue elephant for Best Book Design in 2016. Ishan has taught design and photography at various colleges such as the National Institute of Design (NID), University of Edinburgh, Design Akademie Berlin, MIT Pune, Adianta, Design Village, Indian Institute of Art and Design (IIAD), Indian Institute of Craft and Design (IICD), United World Institute of Design (UID) and Adianta.	View all posts by Ishan Khosla
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Chernuchin's Book & Pilot Deal
October 4, 2004 by Lee Goldberg
Variety reports that former LAW & ORDER producer Michael Chernuchin has struck an unusual pilot deal at ABC. Not only has he landed a script order for "Expert Witness," but a publishing contract, too.
"Expert Witness" is a sort of legal "CSI" that revolves around Roger Cleary, a thirtysomething coroner-turned-professional freelance forensic witness who works for both prosecution and defense cases. Cleary's dad is in jail for killing his mom, and that crime inspires his career.
Interestingly, even before ABC decides whether to greenlightgreenlight the project to pilot, Chernuchin has already sealed a deal with book packager Alloy to write a series of novels based on the lead character in "Expert Witness." Indeed, the book deal predated the ABC pactpact.
"We sold the project to TV faster than we thought," he quipped.
This may be the first time where the "TV tie-in" novel was sold before the TV series. Chernuchin is also adapting the hit BBC series "Judge Deed" for NBC.
"Deed" focuses on a federal court justice in Washington, D.C., who is "totally moral in the courtroom by not so moral on the outside," Chernuchin said.
"We've seen legal stories through almost everyone's point of view but the judge's," he said. "When you see a judge on TV they're usually just saying 'sustained' and 'overruled.' This gives me a whole different way to think about cases."
I guess he doesn't watch JUDGING AMY, either. And he missed THE COURT, FIRST MONDAY, and QUEENS SUPREME… just like most of America.
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"When you see a judge on TV they're usually just saying 'sustained' and 'overruled.'"
Let's hope he has a good editor.
I won't criticize the guy for that…have you read my blog entries and DL posts? They are rife with dumb errors and typos. My typing was bad before… but since the accident, it's even worse. I have no excuse for my bad proofreading, however…
have you read my blog entries and DL posts? They are rife with dumb errors and typos.
Bring back Charlie (for more than a teensy little cameo) and all will be forgiven.
And as for DL….like I said before, you should try 4MA. We're allowed to have opinions there. Heck, we even list nominees for the Buzzhoff Award for bad writing when we come across them in our reading, something which I'm sure wouldn't fly on DL since anything the slightest bit negative seems not to be tolerated there.
What is "4MA?"
4MA (the MA being Mystery Addicts) is a mystery discussion group on yahoo. It's high volume, and all aspects of books – the good, the bad, and the ugly – are fair game. In addition to the general chat (what we're reading now, book events, etc), there are three focused book discussions each month. If you run into Mark Billingham at Bouchercon, you can ask him about it. He's not only a member of the list, he survived one of his books being a monthly read. In my admittedly biased opinion, it's the best list of its kind. The basic difference between 4MA and DL is that the people on 4MA are there to actually talk about books, not to suck up to authors by drooling about their books. (uh-oh, hope I didn't discourage you right there. :)) Although the authors on the list do let us know when they've got books on the way, there is not the kind of excessive BSP that has made DL something of a joke in many circles.
By the way, the reason I specifically mentioned Mark Billingham as a source of info about the list: his book got a decidedly mixed reaction when it was discussed, but he evidently found enough value in the discussion that when one of Laura Lippman's books was a monthly read, he recommended to her that she join the list to sit in on it.
Let me know the info on how to join. I could use another excuse to avoid writing.
Don't do it! He won't turn out the DM books as fast if he joins. Then I'll go through withdrawls!


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Q: Check for date in filename I don't know why but I cannot get this to work. I am am a VBA amateur so this maybe a simple fix. I am trying to check if a file exists with the current date (so with today's date on the end of the file).
I have a test .txt file called "test_doc". I can find this using If file.FileExists(Location & ".txt") which works and returns "File exists!.
However when I add in MyDate and try to search for the file with the date on the end (e.g. "test_doc05072020") it returns "File does NOT exist".
My VBA:
Dim file: Set file = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")

Dim Location
Location = "C:\Desktop\database\test_doc"

Dim MyDate
MyDate = Format(Date, "dd/mm/yyyy")

If file.FileExists(Location & MyDate & ".txt") Then
    MsgBox "File exists!"
Else
    MsgBox "File does NOT exist"
End If

I have looked all over but cannot find the right help to this. I don't know why it's not picking up the date?

A: Your problem is how you are formatting the date. As it stands, you are making the filename "test_doc05/07/2020.doc". Instead, try:
Dim MyDate As String
MyDate = Format(Date, "ddmmyyyy")

Note that I have declared MyDate as a string - in your code this is a variant by default.
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Having called off its sale process, Abercrombie & Fitch Co. is forging ahead and will start selling styles from its namesake brand on Tmall, Alibaba's giant e-commerce site.
The brand will sell its full line, along with Abercrombie Kids, on China's Tmall starting Wednesday, giving it access to Alibaba's 454 million active users. Abercrombie affiliate Hollister has been selling on Tmall since 2014.
Last week, Abercrombie said it had decided to end talks with parties interested in buying the company and would focus on the execution of a new business plan, which includes an updated target consumer who is in their twenties.
Linking up with Tmall is seen by Abercrombie as a step toward this new target, and the company noted that 75 percent of Alibaba's users are under 35. Alibaba will also be helping Abercrombie take an omnichannel approach in the region, making use of the 10 stores the brand already has in the region.
"Building on our Hollister brand's successful partnership with the leader in China's online retail space, we are excited to bring our A&F brand experience to the broader Chinese market, beyond the reach of our physical stores through Tmall," said Fran Horowitz, chief executive officer of Abercrombie.
Jessica Liu, president of Tmall's fashion segment, said Abercrombie is a brand that Chinese consumers "have sought out for some time" and noted the new partnership will further its international growth.
Earlier this year, Abercrombie and Hollister joined Zalora, an e-commerce web site launched 2012 that sells in 11 Asian countries, including Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei, the Philippines, Hong Kong and Taiwan, making the brands available to Zolara's 600 million customers.
In the U.S., Abercrombie is in the process of sharpening its retail footprint, closing about 60 stores this year.
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