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For the sake of a more definitive question, I define chores as domestic tasks that are recurring, generally unenjoyable and have no hard datelines. The conditions are such that available manpower is inelastic. Are there any productivity studies/theory that advocate a reasonable amount of time to be allocated for such activities for achieving best results? As opposed to aiming to complete individual tasks.
The motivation is that since there is no end in sight, it might be better to simply set aside a fixed fraction of available time and call it a week (day)

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For the past several years, Lincoln Attendance Center has conducted a candy sale for the purpose of raising money for the school. Profits from the sale are used to buy things needed in the building or on the playground.
The school will be selling Worlds Finest Candy Bars for a $1 each. The candy sale will begin Friday, Feb. 1.
If one would like to purchase candy bars, or place a box of candy bars to sell at one's business, contact the school at 384-3421.
Lincoln Attendance Center thanks the community for helping with candy sales to help kids by buying candy bars and making the event a successful fundraiser.
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After months of anticipation, the Tennessee Lottery is finally here. At 12:01 Tuesday morning, Tennessee introduced the first phase of its new lottery, with a variety of scratch-off tickets. Already, they're hot sellers.
Tennessee residents poured into gas stations by the dozens Tuesday, ready to try out the new games and hopefully take home some cash.
Bo's Stop and Go in Portland has been so busy, its cashiers haven't had a chance to stop and catch their breath. Already, they're getting return customers, eager to cash in on their winnings... and buy more tickets.
Many Tennessee residents we spoke to say it's about time they had their own lottery... and they're expecting good things for Tennessee, especially as far as the economy and education is concerned. In fact, Bo's Stop and Go reported its highest indoor sales on Tuesday, due in part to the start of the lottery.
For now, scratch-offs are the only games available, but Tennessee will add other options as time passes. Until then, many people say they will continue to drive across the border to play Kentucky's Pick Three and Powerball.


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I'm interested to know all of my apps that I paid for in the Google Play Store. Is there an easy way to retrieve this list filtering only paid applications?
You could also use the My Paid Apps app. (More information)
(1) Check out Legacy Play Store. You can get the list on UNINSTALLED PAID apps. INSTALLED list includes both PAID and UNPAID.
If you decide to install it, you may need to:
NOTE: It works on my Samsung Galaxy S2, running CyanogenMod9.
EDIT: Hmm. Website is currently unavailable. Post a comment if you can't access it. I could probably upload the apk somewhere. [Or you could search for the app elsewhere]
(2) AndroidPolice just featured a GreaseMonkey script that allows you to separate your paid apps in Google Play. You might also want to check it out.
If you want this list on browser then you can go for the Greasemonkey Artem script which can show your paid and free apps in different lists.
Check out full detail and installation guide here Greasemonkey Artem script
Right now, you can do the following:
This worked as of November 2015 with Android 6.0. I'm sure Google will change it soon enough.
Another method (if you only use Google wallet for Google play purchases) is to simply look at your Google wallet purchase history. If you only use it for Google play app purchases, they will all be listed here.
To keep things organised in the future, if you wish, you could always create a folder on your home screen containing all your paid apps and drop in any additions as you go.


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An oil field worker was injured late Thursday evening when a piece of equipment struck him. The accident happened south east of the City of St. John.
The person was transported by ground to Stafford Hospital and then by air flight from there to a Wichita Hospital.
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I am having problems showing that the function $$ \operatorname{inv}:G\rightarrow G$$ $$A\rightarrow A^{-1}$$ where $G$ is the set of all invertible $n\times n$ matrices, is a diffeomorphism. I have already shown that such function is a homeomorphism, and its inverse is itself, but I don't know how I can show that this function is differentiable.
The exercise also tells us that the derivative of $\operatorname{inv}$ in $A$ is the linear mapping $M\rightarrow M$ such that $X\rightarrow -A^{-1}\cdot X\cdot A^{-1}$.
Can anybody give me a hint?


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For a time, the sense of certainty held fast. The reality of it would come slow, dripping on the American group consciousness like a faucet leak.
But with every empty warehouse thrown open in Baghdad, the stunning implausibility of it would give way to the undeniable truth of it:
Saddam Hussein, the most feared and despised man in the world in March 2003, did not possess the weapons of mass destruction that every intelligence service in the West believed he had.
Even with the American military removed entirely from Iraq, the reverberations of the invasion that commenced 10 years ago this week continue.
Americans lost 4,480 brave service members in Iraq, and an additional 32,000 were wounded — the vast majority of them in the course of the long, cruel occupation following the 2003 invasion. The still-rising financial cost, including medical benefits for those wounded GIs, almost certainly will top $1 trillion in time.
The failure to discover Saddam Hussein's cache of WMD made that appalling loss of lives and treasure seem even worse. It would divide the nation.
The arguments in 2003 for attacking and deposing Saddam seemed strong, at first. He was the most destabilizing force in the Middle East. He clearly harbored and encouraged terrorists.
But it was the lingering, smoking ember of Sept. 11, 2001 — the palpable dread of a terror attack that might far surpass the destruction of the Twin Towers — that prompted a nation to accept the fact that its survival depended on ousting Saddam.
On the eve of the Iraq War, Gallup found that seven of 10 U.S. citizens backed President George W. Bush in his call to invade Iraq, even lacking United Nations approval. The free world thought Saddam an evil that must be stopped.
On these pages 10 years ago, The Arizona Republic speculated that "history ultimately may judge harshly the commitments of Bush" and his allies, including British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
We thought that outcome "unlikely." But in that we were wrong. Bush departed after his second term as one of the least popular presidents in modern history, and the long, difficult legacy of the Iraq occupation would be the primary reason for it.
The consequences of the Iraqi invasion are still evolving. Iran, on the cusp of commencing its own nuclear age, is more dangerous and volatile than it was 10 years ago.
With the iron rule of one merciless strongman broken, a long parade of others now have followed. Would Egyptians, Libyans and Syrians have revolted against their own dictators if Saddam and his deadly brood still controlled Iraq? Perhaps not.
The consequences continue unfolding here at home, too.
John McCain can fairly be deemed the one political figure in Washington, D.C., whose faith in the 2007 troop surge made the tactic happen, thus saving the U.S. occupation of Iraq from operational failure. His 2008 presidential run, on the other hand, can fairly be described as a victim of Iraq War fatigue.
The same may be said of an exhausted U.S. military. With a weak economy and fast-shrinking defense budgets, the military will be a long time recovering from the fight in Iraq.
Still, the sacrifice of American service members in Iraq cannot be said to have been in vain. They took the fight to the home of the al-Qaida terrorists and their sympathizers. At a terrible cost, they beat them there, dramatically weakening the terrorist network worldwide as a result.
A divided country today may raise serious doubts about the righteousness of the Iraq invasion.
But the U.S. military did its job in Iraq, an accomplishment that in no small part has kept this country free of the attacks we so palpably feared in March 2003.


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We encounter a situation where we need to execute the stored procedure passing XML string as parameter. The SP executor is used to execute the stored procedure with dataset as input from the application. It converts the dataset into XML string and passes it to the Store procedure
This code snippet takes the dataset and stored procedure name as input. The same code can also be used for MS Access database by replacing the SqlConnection, SqlDataAdapter, and SqlCommand to OleDbConnection, OleDbDataAdapter, and OleDbCommand respectively.
- Import SqlClient namespace
- Connection string for the database needs to be changed accordingly
- Forms only standard XML string with dataset name as root element, datatable as child element and rows as inner child element.
- MappingType needs to be set for the dataset if XML string needs to be formed in element-attribute format (refer the sample project)
The code
The sample project demonstrates how to form the dataset, the way of calling the SP executor and how to handle these in the stored procedure.
Code: VB.NET
Public Function GetDataThruSP(ByVal dssampleDataset As DataSet, ByVal strSpName As String) As DataSet
Dim objCon As SqlConnection
Dim objAdapter As SqlDataAdapter
Dim cmdCommand As New SqlCommand
Dim objDataSet As DataSet
Dim strParam As String
'set the connection string of the database
Dim connString As String = "Data
Source=.\SQLEXPRESS;AttachDbFilename=""bin\EmployeeDatabase.mdf"";Integrated Security=True;User Instance=True"
objAdapter = New SqlDataAdapter
objDataSet = New DataSet
objCon = New SqlConnection(connString)
objAdapter.SelectCommand = cmdCommand
objAdapter.SelectCommand.Connection = objCon
objAdapter.SelectCommand.CommandType = System.Data.CommandType.StoredProcedure
objAdapter.SelectCommand.CommandText = strSpName
strParam = dssampleDataset.GetXml()
objAdapter.SelectCommand.Parameters.AddWithValue("@parameter1", strParam)
objDataSet = New DataSet()
Return objDataSet
Catch ex As Exception
Throw New Exception(ex.ToString)
End Try
End Function


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creek, is the Albion Taverna providing a wonderfully bliss and peaceful dining experience for you and your friends.
Our innovative dishes give you the chance to experience traditional Mexican and British food at it's best.
The Albion Taverna is a stunning old pub, re-invented; so you can enjoy our rustic interiour with a modern flair.
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Goddamn Argentines always cheatin'.
Goddamn Argentines always cheatin'.
Well to be fair it's not like he asked for something completely outlandish, like a hat badge.
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I heard about ya. Probably lost all dem matches you hosted too.
Phil does get about somewhat.
[Level 6: Robot]
Broken BBCode, you people are terrible.
Nice theres my FNF one, now how about those other ones.. eh? EH? I dern erned em!
Link for Teh Hotness with my Dont Starve TOTD
When they remember to do it, most of them choose most unwisely and in a most uninformed manner.


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6 Real Islands Way More Terrifying Than The One On 'Lost'
Summer's right around the corner, and it's time to pick your next vacation spot. Now, we know the problem you're facing: You want a nice island paradise, but you also want to experience horrors beyond comprehension, and maybe you even want to die on your trip. Well, we've got some great islands for you...
#6. Ilha de Queimada Grande; A.K.A. Snake Island
Over at Forests.org, there's an article that opens with a description of, "A deserted island where the forest floor writhes with the world's most venomous vipers. A fisherman found dead on his boat, its deck awash with his blood. A lighthouse keeper and his family massacred in a nocturnal snake invasion of their isolated cottage home.
And no, Forests.org is not a site for terrifying Indiana Jones / Anaconda slash-fiction. You see, Ilha de Queimada Grande is a delightfully exotic sounding island off the coast of Brazil that plays host to a certain breed of exotic sounding snake known as the Golden Lancehead. This snake has one of the worst venoms in the world, which literally causes your flesh to rot off your bones.
Now you may be asking, "But Cracked, there are poisonous snakes in loads of countries. What's so special about this one tiny island?" Well that's an interesting question, and we are only too pleased to haunt your dreams by filling you in.
Remember how we mentioned the snakes only live on this one island? Well it's quite a densely packed island. In fact, the Brazilian Navy has forbidden anyone to visit the place, and they aren't doing that to protect the snakes. Conservative estimates range from the spine tingling one snake per square meter to the "drop dead from pants shitting fear" five snakes per square meter. Can you picture it? Allow us to help you:
Not pictured: The dead people just out of shot.
Now imagine five of those. Now imagine those five in an area that's smaller than your bed. Now imagine that writhing nest repeated over every inch of this God-forsaken place.
Let's back up and talk about that fisherman:
"I heard the story of the fisherman who went ashore to pick bananas, got bitten and somehow managed to struggle back to his boat. There, he bled to death and was found sprawled on the blood-soaked deck of his boat."
And the lighthouse keeper's family?
"The family ran in panic one night after snakes crawled in through their windows, so the story goes, and were bitten as they fled through the forest by vipers dangling from tree branches. Their bodies were found spread across the island when a navy vessel stopped to make a routine supply drop."
A young snake, receiving its terror-enhancing steroids, as is the snake custom on this island.
Yeah. Imagine just sleeping peacefully when snakes start crawling through your bedroom window and you know the only option is to run outside into the jungle where there are even more snakes and they all govern themselves because this is an island of snake monsters and you are the intruder. And you struggle through the underbrush, alone, scared, knowing that you will never make it back to civilization to punch that fucking Realtor who sold you a house on goddamned Snake Island.
#5. Poveglia Island
Think of the scariest premise you can for a horror movie. OK, now think scarier than that, plus 1,000 times the brutality of Hostel, and you're close to Poveglia Island. Located in a lagoon in Venice, Italy, this island got its scary start when the Romans, being the kind, gentle souls they were, decided the best thing for society was to round up all the plague victims of the era, and stick them somewhere. That somewhere happened to be Poveglia Island.
Several thousand people were gathered and quarantined on the island, where they died together. You can write that off as a crazy decision symptomatic of a time when people presumably still pooped in holes in the ground and thought the sun was a chariot, but not a few centuries later, when everyone did the exact same thing again.
When the Bubonic plague tore through Europe, the island was reinstated to its former "glory;" a final vacation spot for anyone with the plague. When the plague got worse, they lowered Poveglia's requirements from "plague sufferers" to "anybody with any sign of sickness at all." They also changed their policy of "let the infected die peacefully" to "throw them in a large pit (atop already-dead bodies), and set them on fire," which, was quite a leap. Estimates put the death toll at 160,000 on the island, where charred bones still wash up on shore.
As if this wasn't scary enough, in 1922, a mental hospital with a scary fucking bell tower was built on the island (an island, you have to believe still smelled like centuries of charred, plague-infected corpses).
That hospital was where everyone sent the allegedly insane members of society. Remember, these were before the days of the first (and still horrible) DSM I. Anyone could be thrown into an asylum, wherein anything could be done to them.
According to legend, this particular hospital featured a doctor who routinely experimented on his patients with such things as lobotomies (performed with a hammer and chisel), for what was most likely described as "shits" with a potential for "giggles." As the legend goes, the doctor tortured his patients in the bell tower (we totally saw that shit coming), and ignored their cries that they heard and saw the ghosts of plague victims.
The doctor was then thrown off the tower by the ghosts of plague victims and, while in the dirt struggling to stay alive, was "strangled by a mist that arose from the ground." We would actually be tempted to disbelieve that part if this were any other island. Though we guess a much more plausible explanation than "the doctor was murdered by plague ghosts" is "the doctor was murdered by all those lunatics he tortured."
In later years, people voluntarily moved to the island and, the day after, moved back the fuck out. To this day, the island remains uninhabited. Unless you count the tortured souls of the hundreds of thousands of innocents who were wronged there. In which case, uh, yeah, it's pretty booked.
#4. Ramree Island
The year is 1945. World War II is all up in your shit. A 900 man cadre of Japanese forces on a small island off the Burmese Coast is being outflanked by Allied forces. With one side open to them, they make a bee-line toward reinforcements. It was approximately at this point that they found themselves badly wishing they were on Snake Island up there.
You see, the only thing standing in the way of salvation was a swamp. Figuring swamp vs. death was an easy decision, the 900 man force entered the swamp...
Five hundred were never heard from again.
You see, Ramree Island, not content with being just the home to malaria-carrying mosquitoes, blowflies and deadly scorpions, also harbored another deadly creature; the saltwater crocodile. Lots and lots and lots of them.
We like to imagine a Predator-esque stalking--random soldiers disappearing, followed by mass chaos and frantic gunfire. Or maybe, as soon as the soldiers were a third of the way through the swamp, they were attacked en masse by a testicle-shrinkingly large herd of thrashing, ravenous crocodiles. Of the men that survived the encounter, the majority were wounded badly, but still technically alive enough to wish they were dead.
In fact, the massacre of the Japanese troops by crocodiles was so horrific, it earned the title of being the Guinness Book of World Records' "Greatest disaster suffered from animals." The Japanese wounded would probably be honored to be a part of such an historic event. Someone should tell them, if they ever recover from the constant personal hell that is the recurring Crocodile and War flashback.


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I want to visit Denmark (specifically Copenhagen), but I would like some advice on things I should see while I am there. What are the "must see" attractions in the Copenhagen area? Would it be best just to go on a tour that visits these areas, or is Copenhagen reasonably easy for a foreigner to navigate?
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Not to worry, a lot of people there speak English, and it's very easy to navigate, with trains to most out-side-of-center featured attractions, and those in the center are all easily walkable.
http://wikitravel.org/en/Copenhagen has a list of the best things to see and do. From personal experience after two trips there, Tivoli themepark is well worth a visit. It's more old-school and not as tourist-trappy as Disney or Universal, and is right next to the Central station, so easy to get to.
A water boat tour is well worth a trip, you get to see a lot of the city from one of those, and it's very relaxing.
The mermaid is worth the photo op, if she's there - she was away on display last year.
The palace is the royal residence and looks amazing. As are many of the buildings in the center - the architecture is a boon for those keen on stuff like that. For me it was just great photo opportunities :)
For fun you can take a train across the ocean(!) to Malmo, Sweden. It doens't take long, and the ride is quite an experience.
If you like shopping, Strøget is the longest pedestrian street in all of Europe, at 1.1km, and is the top shopping area. There are also a variety of flea markets and stalls all over the place, especially in the docklands.
Also if you're a foodie, there are some fantastic restaurants, whether on a budget or willing to splurge on the top places.
Enjoy it!


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The scenario is single-use passphrase-based non-interactive message authentication.
The obvious try to do this is to chose a random salt of the appropriate length and send:
concat(workfactor, salt, message,
mac(scrypt(workfactor, salt, passphrase), message)).
That protocol is as secure as scrypt is a non-malleable key derivation function (with regards of changing of workfactor and salt).
- Is there any publicly known malleability of scrypt?
- Are there any better protocols for this scenario?


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The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Campaign for Relief of Palestinian People in Gaza began providing supplies for more than 270,000 people in Gaza today in cooperation with the World Food Program.
The relief campaign is set to continue over the next 30 days.
Dr. Saed Al-Harthi, the Chairman of the Custodian of the two Holy Mosques Relief Campaign for the Palestinian People in Gaza, revealed that the Kingdom is currently procuring SR 4,633,687 [$1.2 million] worth of medical and emergency supplies to be shipped to Gaza.
A new batch of foodstuffs, including SR 832,000 [$221,847] worth of baby milk, is also being delivered.
Dr. Al-Harthi noted that the Custodian of the two Holy Mosques Relief Campaign has already opened two centers in the Jabaliya and Shatie refugee camps in Gaza to distribute relief aid.


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November 15, 2010
Ferris Jabr, a graduate student in New York University's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, has received the Society for Neuroscience's Science Journalism Award, the organization announced at its annual meeting, which was held this weekend in San Diego.
Jabr is enrolled in the Carter Journalism Institute's Science, Health, and Environmental Reporting Program (SHERP). He has interned with Psychology Today and NOVA and is currently completing a writing and editing internship with Scientific American MIND.
The Society for Neuroscience's Science Journalism Award encourages the pursuit of a career in science or medical journalism by helping students attend the Society's annual meeting. The recipients receive an orientation on navigating and reporting the meeting as a journalist, an on-site mentor from a leading science or medical publication, complimentary meeting registration, and $750 to defray expenses.
Also selected for the award was Smitha Mundasad, who recently earned her master's degree in science journalism from City University London.
For more on the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, go to http://journalism.nyu.edu/. For more about SHERP, go to http://journalism.nyu.edu/sherp/.
This Press Release is in the following Topics:
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spoiler:The bottom blue crystal is on the Imperial controlled Raxus Prime. After you beet the AT-AT, go over to either side of the room where the other ones are just standing. There is an empty space where an AT-AT would have been, there is a hatch you can jump up into, and then jump up into another room. On one of the sides there will be a blue crystal in a corner.
It is a little hard to get up there, first you will have to jump onto the thing that is hanging down, you should be facing the back of the holding space. Once there jump and hold forward, this puts you on a little platform. Jump again while holding forward and you should be in the room.
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Democratic state senator Alan Lowenthal of Long Beach last week introduced a bill that would mandate a three-foot passing distance for drivers when overtaking cyclists on California streets. If passed, the law would give bicycle traffic legal protection for the first time against aggressive and negligent drivers who routinely assault cyclists on California highways.
S.B. 910 seeks to define what is a "safe distance" for drivers to pass cyclists, and the bill has received early support in the form of a poster campaign in southern California. The "Give Me 3" posters have been cropping up around bus stops in LA, and have drawn attention to a growing demand from non-profit and advocacy groups for greater focus on the issue of car-on-bike violence.
Los Angeles has hosted a number of recent high-profile events in which cyclists have peacefully demonstrated against what they consider a hostile environment for cyclists: the downtown Los Angeles area.
So-called "safe-streets" legislation has traditionally had a difficult time making passage in Sacramento, which is susceptible to lobbying from the California Highway Patrol, as well as the trucking industry. Institutional opposition to bicycle advocacy is a major problem in California, where the roads represent a final frontier bitterly fought over by conservative groups who seek to maintain a motor-only advantage, and progressive, eco-friendly proponents of zero-impact transportation solutions.
Arguments against a 3-feet passing law are weak, and include assertions that such a mandate would be difficult to enforce under current conditions. This law, however, would provide cyclists with some degree of legal standing when they felt they had been bullied off the road by inconsiderate drivers. No such law currently protects cyclists, despite the fact that 16 other states have functioning 3-feet laws.


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I'm sure we've all been there… Morning comes and we get out of bed ready to complete a long list of tasks for the day and feel productive. Much like my experience writing this blog, unexpected things come up that throw us off course. By the time evening rolls around, the long list of tasks still exists and we feel disappointed in our lack of progress. Then we go to sleep hoping the next day brings better luck.
How many of you have been in this predicament? Call it a time management issue or lack of ability to finish what we start, but either way it is definitely a problem! I often will sit down to start one project and as I am working on it I can feel my brain shifting to other thoughts, inevitably thinking of other things to do such as researching something online, making a phone call, or letting the dogs outside. As you can guess, the original project sits there unfinished until I get back to it much later in the day, and then I may have another distraction rear its ugly head in battle.
It's been said that as adults, our minds are filled with so much clutter and busy-ness that we have trouble focusing on one thing at a time. I find truth in that statement! Sit back and think about your productivity patterns. When you get distracted and unfocused is it because your mind isn't engaged in what you are doing or could it be because it is engaged in TOO many things at that moment? Life these days is all about immediate gratification and as a whole, we have fallen into the trap of having technology at our fingertips and the ability to multi task on a smart phone or computers.
I know some of you are relating to this predicament. How do you solve it? I have a white board in my kitchen where I write lists. I try to prioritize which ones to complete first. Admittedly, this method is not always successful and my list doesn't get wiped off the board quickly. The other issue I find in staying focused comes from trying to work at home. I need the TV to be off if I want to focus on something 100 percent. However my dogs distract me and being in the kitchen or family room space never seems to help my focus improve. I would sit in my office but the chair isn't the right size for the desk and isn't comfortable. What works the BEST for me is to go to Starbucks or to my gym and camp out at a table. Oddly enough I can focus amongst the buzz in these places and my brain seems to stay on task much easier. I also am going to schedule time for myself everyday to work on productive things and then stop when time is up. This way I can create more balance in life and have fun instead of always trying to chase my tail and finish a task.
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Can someone who lives in "Halachic" Eretz Israel visit a part of Israel that is not part of its Halachic borders? For example, IIRC, people in Eilat keep two days of Yom Tov. Does that mean that a person from Tel Aviv would be forbidden from visiting Eilat (unless it is for business, learning Torah :) etc.) ?
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Machlokes haPoskim. When my yeshivah visited there, we did have birkat kohanim during the chazan's repetition of shachris.
Rabbi Aviner has stated clearly that Eilat is part of Israel, and living there fulfills the mitzvah of Yeshuv Ha'aretz. (Question 2 in the link)
In order for any piece of land to have the status of "Eretz Yisrael" for the purposes of the doing the mitzvah of living in and conquering the land, two conditions must be fulfilled:
Eilat fulfills both criteria. Thus, a Jew who lives in Eilat fulfills the mitzvah of living in Eretz Yisrael; also, he/she keeps one day of yom tov, and follows all other Eretz Yisrael customs (bircas kohanim daily, no tefillin on chol ha moed, etc.)
When it comes to the agricultural mitzvos, it could be that we need a Sanhedrin to sanctify newly acquired land in order to be obligated in trumot, maasrot, shmitta, etc.


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the back end of that also has a bit of the new astra sport about it. something to do with the curve of the roof i think.
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yeah its got an astra look about it, and side on has a punto look to it.
ive read that the current 1.2 16V clio is still going to be sold in the UK untill it is replaced by the 2005 Renault Twingo (those who go on holiday to europe will have seen these)
Nice! I wonder if those underbody foils will make it into production? You'd expect not.
That sure makes my Clio 2005 look old
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Nice! I wonder if those underbody foils will make it into production? You'd expect not.
Yeah, those do look awesome. They might make it into the 182-style variants .
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That sure makes my Clio 2005 look old
yeah thats the same with mine!, you got the same style clio as mine? (pics in sig)
Nick, those images look to be the Renault Sport version, so they likely will make it to the final car hopefully the pricess of the current shape 172/182's and the MK1 172 will drop a fair bit when this comes out so you can think about your track day car idea
that looks pretty nice actually
I like the way it's got a more subtle version of the Megane's arse
I wonder if they'll up the performance ante too? They ought to bring out a 220bhp version, that would be fun
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ive heard stuff about a 192 version, but i dont know if this is true or not. also heard the possibility of a Turbo Charged model too
yeah a turbo would be good
isn't the megane sport turbo'd ?
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yeah thats the same with mine!, you got the same style clio as mine? (pics in sig)
Yeah, same style. However mine is the 4 door version and a 1.6l engine. Pics here (and I need to take more decent pics because those are crappy).
There is a renault clio team rs with 182hp and a 1.6l engine, that sure is A LOT of horsepower for a small engine. 0-100km/h in 6.9s.
I read that there's also a 6 cylinder clio RS, but that doesn't sell here, only in France AFAIK.
Yeah it is that 2.0 Turbo, 225BHP. On the subject of that someone over at cliosport.net forums is putting the engine from one into a Clio 182
I dont know if they will make a 2.0 Turbo model though as that takes the point away from the Megane, I may be wrong though.
Sad to see that their will be no new shape Clio V6 though. The demand just isn't there for them. Ive seen one in real life. well actually 2 (I seen one at knock hill, it was the pace car in the Clio cup) but actually driving past ive only seen one and it turned just as much, if not more heads going down the street as a Ferrari would. this changed my opinion on them, I actually would take one over an impreza/lancer now, even although its not as quick but the fact that ive seen more Ferrari 355s and 360s on the road than the V6 does it for me.
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Yeah, same style. However mine is the 4 door version and a 1.6l engine. Pics here (and I need to take more decent pics because those are crappy).
There is a renault clio team rs with 182hp and a 1.6l engine, that sure is A LOT of horsepower for a small engine. 0-100km/h in 6.9s.
I read that there's also a 6 cylinder clio RS, but that doesn't sell here, only in France AFAIK.
the 182BHP is a 2.0L engine, not a 1.6
ahh you dont get the V6 over there? you get it in the UK but as i said in my last post its very, VERY rare Clio V6
Well, speaking from an American's perspective, that looks to be about the size of a golf cart!! Don't get me wrong, the looks of the car are great, but there is no backseat, and I think I would need a shoehorn and some butter to slide me into the drivers seat... I guess it wasn't meant for people who are 6'5" huh?
Pretty stylin' car though. Strikes me a little like the Civic, only a little flashier...
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Phillies placed OF Peter Bourjos on the 15-day disabled list with a right shoulder sprain.
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White Sox reinstated LHP Chris Sale from suspension.
Craig Kimbrel (knee) is on track to rejoin the Red Sox on Monday.
Ryan Braun was scratched from the Brewers' lineup on Thursday due to right side tightness.
Brewers manager Craig Counsell said Jonathan Lucroy is getting a scheduled day of rest Thursday.
Marlins reinstated 2B Dee Gordon from suspension.
Jose Reyes (intercostal) is doubtful for Friday.
Yoenis Cespedes is out of the Mets' lineup Thursday because he had a flareup with his quad.
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"2016: Obama's America" is a political documentary based on a New York Times bestseller about President Barack Obama by Dinesh D'Souza, a former political staffer for Ronald Reagan and now a college president, and Gerald Molen, who won an Oscar for "Schindler's List."
Obama's beliefs are rooted in the anti-colonialism of his late father, a Kenyan academic who was largely absent from the president's life. Obama's presidency is an expression of third-world political beliefs that the United States of America is wealthy because it robbed the resources of third-world countries. As a masterful politician and manipulator of the facts, Obama's ultimate political goals relate to retribution of inequities of impoverished countries by reducing America's nuclear warheads, weakening the nation's armed forces and destroying the United States' economy with unsustainable debt. "2016: Obama's America" is a must-see film before the November election.
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I heard about the Ask Ubuntu Unity Lens over in the chat, and I was wondering how to install it. What are the step-by-step instructions to get it installed, activated and once that's done, how do I use it?
The Ask Ubuntu Lens is a way to search askubuntu.com via your desktop in Unity. You can search for anything on the site. Questions, tags, users, and badges all show up in the search results and then it will take you here.
Depending on your Ubuntu version:
For 12.10 and above
In 12.10 and above, the Ask Ubuntu Lens is now just a scope of the Help lens, to summon it with a keyboard shortcut use Super-H.
For 12.04 or 11.10:
You can install the Ask Ubuntu Unity Lens via the Software Centre by clicking below:
You will need to log out and log back in for the lens to show up and work correctly.
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You can install the Ask Ubuntu Unity Lens via a PPA
Just open up a terminal window and enter the above commands. Then, you need to log out and log back (or run
You can click on the Ask Ubuntu icon on your launcher (for 11.04), or inside your dash in 12.04 and 11.10. To get a fully expanded lens or you can hit the Super-U keyboard shortcut to summon the lens, then ask your question:
12.04 & 11.10 version:
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You can find more info here.
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There are a few special searches you can do. Search for
You can also use the Lens to search any other stackexchange site via @-modifiers. An example search would be:
Where @so is short for stack overflow. This is (at the time of writing) the complete list of available sites:
Note that the lens will auto-update this list every time you re-boot, so, after your favourite beta site has been launched, it should appear soon.
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VMware CTO and senior VP of R&D Steve Herrod is leaving after 11 years with the company to become managing director of General Catalyst, the VC operation based out of Cambridge, Massachusetts and Palo Alto, California, where he hopes to put his team-building skills to work to extend it into a "broader technology domain."
He says his "primary focus will be finding, supporting and developing great technical entrepreneurs as they build the products and companies that they've always dreamt of building. These companies will bring the same tremendous energy, creativity, and innovation to these and other challenges, just as VMware has for so many years."
He will apparently remain a technical advisor to VMware.
An ever-popular speaker, Steve Herrod gave a keynote at 1st Cloud Expo
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Big Data engines are powering a lot of service businesses right now. Data is collected from users from wearable technologies, web behaviors, purchase behavior as well as several arbitrary data points we'd never think of. The demand for faster and bigger engines to crunch and serve up the data to services is growing exponentially. You see a LOT of correlation between "Cloud" and "Big Data" but on Big Data and "Hybrid," where hybrid hosting is the sanest approach to the Big Data Infrastructure pro...
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"My role is working with customers, helping them go through this digital transformation. I spend a lot of time talking to banks, big industries, manufacturers working through how they are integrating and transforming their IT platforms and moving them forward," explained William Morrish, General Manager Product Sales at Interoute, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 18th Cloud Expo, held June 7-9, 2016, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.
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Unless your company can spend a lot of money on new technology, re-engineering your environment and hiring a comprehensive cybersecurity team, you will most likely move to the cloud or seek external service partnerships. In his session at 18th Cloud Expo, Darren Guccione, CEO of Keeper Security, revealed what you need to know when it comes to encryption in the cloud.
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We're entering the post-smartphone era, where wearable gadgets from watches and fitness bands to glasses and health aids will power the next technological revolution. With mass adoption of wearable devices comes a new data ecosystem that must be protected. Wearables open new pathways that facilitate the tracking, sharing and storing of consumers' personal health, location and daily activity data. Consumers have some idea of the data these devices capture, but most don't realize how revealing and...
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What are the successful IoT innovations from emerging markets? What are the unique challenges and opportunities from these markets? How did the constraints in connectivity among others lead to groundbreaking insights? In her session at @ThingsExpo, Carmen Feliciano, a Principal at AMDG, will answer all these questions and share how you can apply IoT best practices and frameworks from the emerging markets to your own business.
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BELLAIRE – A special meeting was held here Monday evening by the Bellaire Local School District Board of Education with Superintendent Tony Scott giving an update on levy option and technology......
Again, an article with poorly structured sentences, typos, capitalization inconsistencies and obvious missing words. Wouldn't you be embarrassed to publish something like that? These articles should go through proofreading twice before being laid out on a page; all of the pages should then go through a thorough and final proofread. There is no way this is happening with the Times Leader. I understand a typo every now and then, but this paper is littered with these problems EVERY SINGLE DAY. If they delivered MORE hard-hitting, investigative local articles that were well-written, informative and generally free of typos, I would actually subscribe to this paper and would encourage others to do the same. But this paper is an absolute joke, and EVERYONE talks about its constant problems and fluff articles. Local residents deserve better.
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Teacher pay and benefits are so far ahead of what the rest of us can get in the private sector that voters aren't going to be approving any more school levies. In the real world, people pay thousands per year for their family's health insurance if they even have it. Public employee unions think they can tax their way to a solution. it's time to try to find a real solution instead of doing what you know doesn't work repetetetivly.
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I've been working on one of those "motion control traps" searching for more ways to put them to use. I'm kind of confused now, however. Walking at the same level lets me collect it, but not above or below. I can't seem to understand how far and where I have to be to collect it. Any exact details? The Minecraft Wiki didn't seem to contain anything about it.
Although the picture doesn't show it, the character rotation has nothing do do with the bounding box for gathering. Additionally, moving laterally evenly picks up items, so it seems that there's a 3m×3m box surrounding the character within which items will be gathered.
Dropping that much wool dispersed took quite a while, I may add more screenshots for vertical tests later.
Of my experience with minecraft, I would be saying about 1 meter (1 block) would be the distance at which a mined block (not experience) will be "sucked up" by you.
And 1 meter is of any part of your body (your body technically holds 2 meter high by 1x1 meter.)


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My daughter is currently 3, she has a very keen interest in music. She sings a lot and "composes" her own little "songs" to her own tunes. She has apparently has a keen ear for music, she inserts her own beats in the off-beat in quite a few songs I play for her from time to time and that is as far as I'm concerned quite impressive. I would like to know what type instrument to get her started with and how to go about doing it. I have very basic knowledge of music and used to play piano years ago, a skill I have now lost. Any suggestions would be great
Typically if children are started on instruments that young in life, the instruments are either violin or piano The violins are 1/4, 1/8, or even 1/16 size if necessary.
Age 3 is an incredibly fertile time for a child - the brain is still taking shape and neurological connections are just beginning to be formed. For example, this age would also be the best time to introduce a second language if you wanted them to be fluent. That said, they may mix languages because they may not differentiate between the two.
At any rate, I just want to caution about "programming" children to be musicians. Yes, pretty much any child that begins at 3 can become a virtuoso - it's the nature of the way our brains function. That said, they may grow up feeling like they did not have a choice in the matter.
That said, developing kinesthetic motor coordination, aural skills, and a healthy appreciation for music is absolutely necessary for creating a well-rounded person. What is important is that it isn't forced onto her, that if she follows it, it's her own choice - which is exactly how it sounds so far!
My recommendation would be that if she is interested, you could rent a violin for a month or two or a keyboard from a music store, and try a couple months of violin / piano lessons. If she doesn't like them, then you can always wait a couple years before introducing a different instrument (though not stopping music!) In addition, renting by month is nice because you're not committing several hundred dollars to something that's not guaranteed.
I hope that was more helpful than advice-y.
There are a number of well-established, traditional education programs that are around a century old which are geared toward introducing preschoolers to music and musical concepts.
An element of this is found in the Montessori educational program.
The next area to investigate is finding a program that incorporates the Orff method (also known as the Orff Schulwerk or Orff Approach), using Orff instruments.
After this, I'm aware of several new educational franchises in the United States that facilitate parents working together with their preschool children to explore music and movement in a group setting with a teacher. One of the best known is MusikGarten. Another is The Music Groove.
What all of these programs have in common is that none of them involve the child learning to play a traditional musical instrument. Instead, in these programs, preschoolers learn about rhythm and counting and dancing and singing, and this prepares them for musical concepts they can learn when they are older. In the case of the Orff Approach, the children learn to play simple melodies and rhythms on special percussion instruments designed for children, in an explorational environment.
I should also mention the Suzuki method, primarily known for teaching violin playing to very young students. You can read a discussion about it at this Wikipedia link.
Learn about these programs, the well-established traditional academic ones and the new, less-academic franchises, and see if there are schools in your area that provide one or more of these programs.
You want the child to play music? Focus on the word "play". Make instruments available. Play yourself (even if it's just banging two spoons together.) Sing. Have fun. Don't worry about formal music for several more years.


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Scott Miller's 1930 Ford Model A - Home Run - Hot RodsWritten by on August 1, 2010 Scott Miller's Totally Homebuilt '30 Model A Is Low, Retro, And Just Different Enough To Be Perfect.
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It's rare to find a nearly 80-year-old car that has changed hands a mere two times, but Scott Miller is indeed the third owner of this '30 Model A, and he's transformed what was originally a Southern California Edison utility vehicle into a slick retro hot rod done just right.
Twenty-eight-year-old Scott has built a few cars in the past (including a '65 Buick daily driver that was on the cover of Rod & Custom in 2000), but none of them approached the level of this coupe. His dad is a member of the Classic Car Club of America and is therefore big into the 100-point classic restoration scene (think Pebble Beach or Amelia Island shows), and the 60-year-old family business, Miller Tree Service in Pasadena, California, has a mechanic's shop that doubles as a place for Scott to tinker on cars.
Because of the affiliation with the club, they often run across old cars and projects, and when a fellow member mentioned that this Model A had been sitting since the '70s and was up for grabs, Scott snatched it up. The car was completely disassembled, but the body panels were at least bolted together and in primer, so Scott dragged it home, immediately stripped it down, and started the bodywork and top chop-signaling the start of his first exercise in major custom bodywork.
"I did it all on my own," Scott says. "It was my first chop, my first paintjob. I didn't know any better, so I went to Harbor Freight and bought a $15 spray gun and shot the car with that."
The body was set atop a bare '29 chassis Scott already had, after he Z'd it 9 inches in the rear. That, along with a 6-inch top chop and 51/2 inches of channeling, put the car way in the weeds. The powertrain is a Cadillac 331 in front of a T5 five-speed from a Chevy S-10 truck and tucked between a Deuce grille shell and a reversed firewall. The rear is from a '46 Ford truck with 3.78:1 gears and was mounted on a Model A leaf spring.
Because he did most of the work himself, Scott's A is not a million-dollar project. "I scrimped and saved like everyone does and built it as I went along. My labor is cheaper than paying someone else to do it," he says. "I started building it when I was 24 and everyone said I was crazy, but I didn't have a fish, a dog, a girlfriend-nothing. Just the car."
It originally started out to be a nice driver, but as Scott started chroming more stuff, it got to the point of being too nice to abuse too often. The car has been finished for a few years now, so Scott is starting to drive it more and more. "It's more of a drive around town car. It's not super comfortable because my knees are up in the middle of the steering wheel, but I've taken it on a few longer trips. It's now on the forever-long shakedown run-it's never finished."
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The more the newness wears off, the more Scott Miller drives his five-window. The cowl vent is '34 Ford and the headlights are BLC (Buick, LaSalle, Cadillac). The color is a custom mix of Ford blue paint shot by Scott.Taking half a foot out of the roof and channeling the body down over a Z'd frame really puts this car low. The front axle is a Super Bell I-beam with '46 Ford spindles and brakes. They're hard to see in this photo, but the '37 Ford decklid handles used for door handles are a unique touch. The taillights are from a '37 Chrysler Airflow, and the pinstripe was laid down by Makoto. The wheels are '35 Ford wires with '32 Packard wheel covers, and the wide whites are from Firestone.The 331ci engine came out of a friend's '50 Cadillac convertible. Scott was just going to do a quick and easy rebuild but says, "It turned into an $8,000 short-block by the time we got done with it." The Edmunds intake is actually for a Studebaker but was adapted to the Cad with spacers and runs '53 Stude sidedraft carbs with Edmunds air cleaners.Scott designed the interior and even helped sculpt the seat foam but had Ken Sorenson Top Shop in Pasadena, California, stitch it up. He's not sure where the cutdown steering wheel originally came from ("I heard it was a '35 DeSoto, but others say it's from a Chrysler"), while the long shifter is from a '35 Ford and is topped with a brass-plated file handle from the '20s or '30s.Scott found the '47 Chrysler gauge cluster on eBay and thought it looked cool but then discovered he had to cut and slice the dash to match the cluster's bubble. The transmission has an electric speedometer drive, and Scott didn't feel like messing with it to make the gauge work, saying, "So I just keep up with traffic."


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We were about to say that this fetish is about people wanting to fuck cars, but if you put "car fucking" in a Google search this is what you get:
We'd make fun of those car-fucking dragons, but it actually looks like they're having an awesome time up there. Who are we to judge? Also, here's a question for discussion: If you were walking past that garage and saw that going on inside, would you tell anyone?
Or would it linger in your thoughts?
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Car Lovers Stories. Oh, how many an antique car collector has stumbled across this site in a search of a fellow enthusiast to converse with about leather upholstery restoration.
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The tailpipe isn't the only option! If it interests you get hold of a silicon sleeve from Clone Zone or some other tool to make life easier on your tool. Typically a rubber, silicon or similar sheath can also be used elsewhere, especially if you are a cut gentleman.
Such concern for our junk! Buddy, it's you who is the gentleman.
Just get that woman out of the way and you're good to go.
If you enjoy the body of a car, then licking, kissing, caressing and the normal actions of foreplay work well.
Ahhhh, foreplay?! There's a fetish that involves lengthy foreplay? We thought that was the whole advantage of fucking an inanimate object. How about we just get a rental and skip the foreplay?
Roleplay involving the car is another spice. Needless to say solo roleplay requires vivid imagination and the ability to suspend rational thought.
Roleplay? Like you're with a girl and she makes engine noises? Or you're with a Mustang and pretend it's a Camaro?
Despite my own enjoyment, a car isn't actually a person. Except during sex LOL.
Ah, so it's like a Princess and the Frog scenario. Only here somebody comes home and finds an empty driveway, and a hand-written note from you explaining their car turned into a woman after you fucked it.
But Why?
Ask Edward Smith, who already is the stuff of Cracked legend for claiming to have had his way with more than 1,000 cars. And the helicopter from Airwolf. Admit it, fetish or not, that's pretty badass.
And really... there are some cars that are a hell of a lot sexier than any of the robots they're currently making.
Seriously, if you had to pick one...
Typical Mechanophiliac's Come On Lines:
Pretty much the same as yours since every guy's pickup lines are car metaphors anyway.
"You get my motor running."
"I'd like to take a look under your hood."
"I think you need a lube and oil."
"I'd like to crush you into a cube."
#1. Macrophilia, a.k.a. Giant Fucking
These fetishists are attracted to giants. No, they are not aroused by My Giant, the much beloved Billy Crystal movie, but more like Jack and the Beanstalk giants or Paul Bunyan. More to love, right?
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(she) stood up with a incredible 120 feets tall, in that moment my dick was burning up for some action, then she walk up close to me and lift me up and just reap my jeans and start sucking my dick like a bitch with a amazing strength and delicacy and when I started to have a very nice pleasure sensation and aim to a orgasm.
Honestly, we may give this an "A" for imaginative grammar, but an "F" for math. A 120-foot woman applying her Buick sized lips to your lil' biffy? That would be like trying to give blow job to a grain of rice. Please check your work next time.
But Why?
Giving up control is a common theme in fetish land. Think powerful politicians who like to get ball-gagged and take a stiletto heel to the groin from a dominatrix. The giant fetish is just a further extension of that theme, because nothing says "loss of control" like suffocating inside a tool shed-sized vagina.
Typical Macrophiliac's Come On Line:
"How about we get out of here, go back to my place and I'll slip into something more comfortable... like your nostril."
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superjawes wrote:So I think I have officially developed a love for whiskey. It started with Jameson, but now I've added Maker's Mark to my cabinet.
However, I was dissapointed by Johnnie Walker. I would still like to find a Scotch, so does anyone have a suggestion?
I would also be open to other whiskey suggestions.
bthylafh wrote:I'm a huge fan of Laphroaig 10 (also cask strength) and Bowmore 12, but then I'm a peat-smoke freak. I find that Caol Ila 12 is really growing on me as well. Bruichladdich are creative... hell, /any/ Islay will get my vote!
You might look into Highland Park, which is an excellent non-smoky dram, more of a "summertime" Scotch.
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Europe Extends Syria Arms Embargo
BRUSSELS—European countries decided to roll over their broad arms embargo on Syria for another three months on Monday, backing away from any push to provide weapons and military equipment to groups fighting President Bashar al-Assad's regime.
Still, the European Union agreed to keep the embargo under review and gave the go-ahead to amendments to the arms ban that could allow a broader range of assistance to reach the Syrian opposition over time. The arms embargo was due to expire March 1.
Monday's decision follows several months of debate in Brussels about whether to put greater pressure on the Assad regime by more directly supporting the opposition.
British Foreign Secretary William Hague said Monday the U.K. had hoped for more sweeping changes to allow more equipment to flow to the Syrian rebels.
"There is a very wide range of views on this among the nations of the European Union," Mr. Hague said. "We would have gone further than this; many nations would have made no amendments at all. So this is a compromise."
Mr. Hague said the agreement establishes the principle that the embargo could be relaxed if the situation in Syria doesn't improve.
"It's important because it shows that we can change the arms embargo, and the worse the situation becomes, the more we can change it," Mr. Hague said. "It will be reviewed again in three months. It's established an extremely important precedent."
French Foreign Minsiter Laurent Fabius said the changes meant that "technical assistance and the protection of civilians can be made easier."
One EU diplomat said the changes could prove significant, allowing European countries to provide various forms of training and assistance to the opposition. That could involve helping the opposition to improve security in areas no longer held by the Assad regime or allowing member states to advise the opposition on how to organize ties between its military and civilian commands.
At present, such assistance would fall afoul of the rules, the person said.
In November, France called for defensive weapons to be provided to the opposition, but Paris's support for a broad change to the arms embargo has faded recently. The U.K. had also supported a redrafting of the embargo, although U.K. officials had always stressed they had no plan to start sending arms into Syria.
Last week, the EU's foreign service circulated a paper that gave several options for changing the embargo, including completely lifting it or allowing weapons and equipment to be sent to the opposition.
But in the end, a majority of member states felt any move to further militarize the Syrian conflict could undermine the fragile efforts aimed at a political solution, diplomats said. There were also concerns that arming the opposition could mean weapons falling into the hands of extremist groups in Syria.
"If we must make a change to the embargo…we must be sure that we can control the distribution of weapons and see who are the groups who are going to actually benefit," said Belgian foreign minister Didier Reynders.
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Another Supermodel Welcomes A Son; Karen Elson Falls Off A Stage
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The model assumption of the Black-Scholes formula has two parameters for the geometric Brownian motion, the volatility $\sigma$ and the expected growth $\mu$ (which disappears in the option formulae). How can this parameter $\mu$ be estimated?
As you said, $\mu$ is the expected return that is the expected value (mathematical expectation) of the random variable "stock return" under the objective probability measure. Assuming that returns are stationary*, the obvious way to estimate it is to compute a large number $N$ of returns $R_i$, then to average them. You also want to annualize this average (multyply by 252).
Now if you are using consecutive periods, and logarithmic returns, this simply amounts to computing the overall return $\log S_{T_N} / S_{T_0}$ and dividing it by the time lapse $T_N-T_0$ (in year fraction).
(*) : This is a dubious hypothesis, and the estimate will indeed be very unstable.
I take it that μ is the drift of the long-term equilibrium price.
let's take a lognormal model as an example,
dS = μ x dt + σ x S x dz
S= spot, t = time, T-t = length of time μ = drift rate, σ = volatility, dz= random variable,
In order to solve for μ, you might first want to look for the expected spot price:
given X = ln(S),
dX = ((μ - σ)dt)/2 + σdz
This allows us to solve for X,
ST = St e ^((μσ^2/2)(T-t) -σdz)
Taking the expected value of both Sides:
E[ST] = S e ^(μ(T-t))
This equation can be used to look for your expected growth, μ
The drift term, $\mu$ is assumed to follow from the 'no-arbitrage' assumption. That is, if $\mu$ were greater than the risk-free rate, one would borrow at the risk-free rate, invest in the stock, and collect the difference. If the stock may be freely borrowed, and $\mu$ is less than the risk free rate, one would short the stock and invest in the risk-free rate, and collect the difference.
In the risk-free measure, $\mu$ is equal to the risk-free rate. In the real-world measure, $\mu$ is uknown and must be estimated using statistical methods: either directly from historical data, or from a model calibrated to historical data. Note that, in general, there is nothing preventing you from using today's (or past) prices as inputs to this model. For example, no-arbitrage relationships ought to hold in both "worlds".


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TROY (November 20, 2012)--For a second day in a row a multiple-vehicle accident slowed traffic to a crawl Tuesday on Interstate 35 between Waco and Temple.
The Texas Department of Transportation said the accident involving nine vehicles reduced northbound traffic to one lane.
Police and emergency crews were sent at around 2:25 p.m. to mile marker 306, about a mile south of Troy, where several vehicles had collided.
Troy police Chief David Lowrey said there were reports of minor injuries, but no one was taken to a hospital.
Lowrey said the accident was a chain reaction crash, but it was not immediately clear what caused the initial wreck.
A TxDOT spokesperson said traffic was backed up along the Interstate as far south as North Loop 363 in Temple, but a police officer said the accident scene had been cleared by around 3:45 p.m.
The accident was about eight miles south of the 13-vehicle chain reaction crash Monday that killed a 24-year-old Dallas man and left 17 others with mostly minor injuries.
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I have been testing the accuracy of various aspects of CoreLocation and have been surprised to find the accuracy value supplied on new and old locations passed to the CLLocationMangerDelegate method: (void)locationManager:didUpdateToLocation:fromLocation is wildly inaccurate itself.
Walking certain stretches of pavement(along a stretch of road with buildings along one side) I have found that whilst CLLocationManager claims the CLLocations it is supplying have a horizontal accuracy of 5 meters, in actual fact the position shown by the MKUserAnnotation is anything up to 30 meters away from the position I know I'm in (often showing as being the opposite side of a row of buildings). This suggests that the accuracy reading itself is not accurate. CLLocationManager is telling me its coordinates are accurate to within 5 meters but are actually as many as 30 meters out.
To clarify, this is not a caching/timestamp issue It is repeatable in certain areas, and not something that improves over time.
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What movies have actors wearing woot shirts?
So I was just watching Farmageddon on netflix and one of the people in the documentary was wearing the woot bandolier of carrots t shirt!. Thought it was kinda interesting. Do you know any other movies/documentaries with people wearing woot gear!
http://shirt.woot.com/offers/bandolier-of-carrots this shirt if anyone is curious.
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Alvin and the Chipmunks 2 has Zachary Levi in a woot shirt. He wears other t-shirts in the movie, though I don't know which others if any are from woot.
Not sure about movies, but a few have been on TV.
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An $11.9 million budget for the year beginning Jan. 1 was adopted by the Lenawee County Road Commission board after a hearing on Dec. 19.
The spending plan is less than this year's nearly $12.7 million budget, which included a backlog of federal aid-funded projects. Major projects included in the 2014 budget are a $1.3 million resurfacing of Beecher Road from U.S. 127 to M-34, a $705,000 reconstruction of a bridge on Packard Road and $470,000 in sealcoating on county primary roads.
The budget is balanced without the use of any reserve funds, said Scott Merillat, road commission managing director.
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Let $G$ be $SL_2({\mathbb C})$ and for $a,b\in G$ let $[a,b]=aba^{-1}b^{-1}$ be the commutator bracket. Let $n$ be a natural number $\ge 2$ and let $X\subset G^{2n}$ be the set of all $g\in G^{2n}$ such that $$ [g_1,g_2]\cdots[g_{2n-1},g_{2n}]=1. $$ The first question is, whether $X$ is connected. If not, can one give a list of the connected components? Finally, does the subset $SU(2)^{2n}\cap X$ meet every connected component?
If the last question has an affirmative answer, every $G$-valued representation of the fundamental group $\Gamma$ of a compact Riemann surface of genus $n$ can be deformed to a unitary one, which explains the title of my question.


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