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HP P6-2378 AMD A8 8GB 1TB Desktop (Refurbished) for $329.99 + $5.00 shipping
Get reliable performance from the AMD A8-5600K quad-core processor
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Just got done building my own system around the AMD A8. This refurb is a great deal imo. Picked one up for the kids and won't look back (let the munchkins learn Windows 8 first - a win/win!).
I wonder if ST warranty is available for this and how much. Looks like a good system for the money
I am really tempted to jump all over this computer because it seems like a huge upgrade for super cheap. However I was trying to find more pics of the tower but all the pictures that come up form googling HP P6-2378 looks completely different then the one pictured on woot.
It's a good system, but be warned that adding any new components will require upgrading the power supply. HP is notorious for using the smallest supply that will allow the computer to turn on.
Anybody else notice the listing shows two different model numbers? In the title and main description, it says it's a "p6-2378," but in the "in the box" area it says "p7-1447c." The picture seems to be that of the latter, from what I've been able to google. I don't think there would be much of a difference anyway, but I'd just like to know exactly what I'm dropping $350 on before I do.
Any ideas?
Also, anyone know if these would come with recovery discs? Can't seem to find that info. I'd want to re-install Win8 to a SSD.
@thegooseisblue, I recently bought a refurb laptop that required me to burn my own recovery discs. Its the second Windows PC in two years that required me to burn my own...
No Wireless built in...
any idea what kind of software comes with it? MS Word...?
@mraquatics: Windows PCs have not included recovery media for a few years now, but you can make your own very easily and Windows will prompt you when you get everything set up. Win8 allows you to make a repair/recovery USB drive that works very well. The "auto healing" capabilities if Win8 is one of its strongest selling points.
As mentioned before, the HPs are not extremely upgrade accommodating due to the small power supply and cramped cases. As long as you aren't looking to overhaul the system or change operating systems, I have had good luck with HP.
When I'm considering a budget PC, I always check out the CPU rankings at this site:
This AMD CPU ranks pretty good, considering. (4433- on a par with I-7 3520M)
With the Radeon graphics, and the 8 GB ram, it's not a bad system for the money. I have 3 HP sysytems, since I gave up on Dell, and haven't had any problems.
No need for a recovery disc to do an O/S HD to SSD swap.
Here is a GREAT tutorial on how to swap your OS from a HD to an SSD.
In the tutorial they explain how to do it on the cheap (free & geeky) or how to do it using a software which is $19.99:
The Paragon software is available for free, but you need to understand Torrents ;)
I used the Paragon Software to transfer my last HP O/S from a HD to an SSD and it works AMAZINGLY. Super easy, and quite fast.
I will say this, as mentioned in the tutorial you should turn off your hibernation prior to swapping from HD to SSD. This saves roughly 8GB of space on your SSD when doing the swap.
@thegooseisblue: I don't believe it comes with them. I bought a hp computer off of woot and it didn't at least. BUT you can burn a recover disc during set up.
@indetrucks: Will that tutorial work for this system, which comes with Windows 8?
Good question... back when I did it, it was going from XP to W7.
Let me do some research.
I cannot speak for the tutorial but the Paragon migrate tool v3.0 does support W8.
From their site
"What's new in Paragon Migrate OS to SSD 3.0:
Support of Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012"
Paragon offers a free trial version which will migrate W8 from an HDD to an SSD.
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I'm a newbie to all this in depth tech talk. I know this is plenty fast for what I do, no gaming, just movie and music and software torrents. I just don't see a hdmi port to connect my monitor. Will the vga give me 1080p pic for movies? Is there any way to install wifi on this? Thanks
Sold out! Nooooo!!!
@thegooseisblue: This is a good question that woot! needs to answer.
The P6-2378 & P7-1447c differ in the following ways (that I can tell):
The P6 processor is the A8-5600k (100w); P7 is the A8-5500 (65w).
The P6 memory comes with 8GB; P7 comes with 10GB.
The P6 does not come with wireless support; the P7 comes with Integrated Bluetooth 4.0 and Wireless LAN 802.11b/g/n featuring Single-band (2.4Ghz) 1X1 technology.
The P6 comes with a 6 in 1 memory card reader; the P7's is a 15 in 1.
The P6 case: Mini tower H 14.4" x W 6.4" x D 15.3", 17.6lbs.; P7: ATX H 15.55" x W 6.89" x D 16.14", 24lbs.
As you said, the picture appears to be the P7-1447c. The description seems to indicate it's the P6-2378. The "In the box" info says it's the P7-1447c.
What's up, woot!?
@mikeymadness: I just lost out on the deal because I was waiting (over 3 hours) to hear back from them about which model it was. :(
@hobartlane: It has DVI, so you can buy a DVI to HDMI converter for a couple of bucks and just use a regular HDMI cable after that.
Sorry to hear that. Looks like I missed out too.
I am waiting to see if they put this back up with clarification on the model since it hasn't been RIPd yet? Or do they just not RIP moofi deals anymore?
@mikeymadness: Wouldn't one need a separate audio channel unless you have a DVI+spdif to hdmi converter?
@onomea: You can download OpenOffice. It does pretty much everything MS Office does but for free.
@spavlis: Yes - I was just thinking video, automatically thinking audio using the soundcard. My oversight, should have been clearer.
Sorry guys, I'm just now seeing this. The model number in the title is correct. It's the HP P6-2378.


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We are again here after 200,300,400km accomplished successfully.
The Last Target before France 600km!!!The most adventurous and tricky as you will see!
This Brevet is Simulation of France with enough altitude and night riding.
Personally I was going to give it all to make it though after 3 previous good performances psychology was elevated and maybe this was my mistake because I overestimated myself.
So we started at night as the sun was rising and slowly slowly the moon was taking over. No more than 50 brave cyclists. The night will find us almost altogether riding along.
A large group of 10-15 people in front and others smaller behind. One check after another went passing until the town where there was a great stop for coffee, tea and even more. I will never forget the image where someone had flat tire and we stopped to assist him. At 3 or 4 o'clock, I do not remember well the time and with some difficulty we could kept our eyes open. The experts were sleeping for sometime sideways of the road. Most experienced were sleeping like they had on off switch, really unbelievable. Sincerely I was jealous...
At this time if I remember well some people were trying to fix the tire, others lost in the forests for their need and others sideways of sleeping. Some cars were passing every now and then and were watching us like aliens ... So funny ...
The sun began to rise and the blood was warming. The first 200 km were traveled, and the hills in Lemon Grove were approaching.
Some like me we had dressed too heavy for the cold night and as the thermometer was rising in the morning we started getting really hot .Of limited space on us to unload spare clothes. As usually I raise my pace along the ride with the usual suspects Stephen until we arrived in Thermissia fast enough.
The truth at that time we were not in very good condition and by far gap with the others although it did not matter. So we rest a little and we were offered and some traditional sweets.
The custard truly unique and I honored her appropriately. Mild and refreshing drinks and I was ready for the return trip.
Almost after 30km I started to feel strange. Stomach pain, terrible heat and losing constantly my strengths. I was a strange fatigue, maybe custard bother me, maybe I overestimated my powers or altogether. No one knows.
After all that my Golgotha begun. My forces slowly starting to drop and the heat to become more and more stifling. Poor Stephen was trying to help me but still we had a long way and I did not like to hold him back and in my state I did not know until where I could ride.
So set hit loose and I tried to pull myself back to make it alone. I had 30km left until the next check but any second seemed to me centuries and I don't discuss about climbs that there I was gasping to make it. After a certain point I could not stand and I was sick to the point that every 500 meters puzzling on the roadside and sitting in the shade trying to recover a bit. But nothing... With the stomach pain I could not drink water, so after a time I was dehydrated also. And time after time as you understand the situation was becoming unbearable. At one stage I remember two girls throwing me water and asking me if I'm okay. After this labors and sufferings I manage to get to the check of Nafplio dehydrated and exhausted with terrible stomach pains.
At this point I decided that I cannot continue anymore and I had to go to the hospital because something was not working well for me. The big dream at that time was blurring and the only thing that mattered at this point was to go home and calm down because the pain was really unbearable. Last thing I will say to you until next Part... But what really happened and how things changed for me, you will know in my next Blog... The Story Continues ...
What keeps me somewhat upright was the voice of my girlfriend on the phone who encouraged me and told me to put it down and maybe something transient. The truth was that I had time to calm down and rest as I had saved many hours of my fast pace and I had to cover only 150km more.
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What is the most natural translation of the English phrase, "What's wrong?" (i.e. what you would ask a person who appears sad or hurt or withdrawn)? ¿Qué te pasó? would be one option, but that seems like a blunt "What wrong with you?" or "What happened to you?" instead of a compassionate "What's wrong?"
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This can be used for the situation you described, as a compassionate "What's wrong?" But there are heaps of other ways that could be used just as well. The feeling for each is really found in the tone in your voice when you ask the question.
This one feels a little less compassionate imo
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#3. Nuclear Distrust
Seen in: The Simpsons
Impact on real life: Prolonging the energy crisis.
From the first episode of The Simpsons, it was obvious that Homer--the bumbling nuclear power plant employee--was given that job as a gag character created in response to the rampaging atomic scare still very much alive after the Chernobyl and Three Mile Island disasters. A fair joke to make... 20 years ago.
The problem with this joke, though, was that they didn't know when to stop. Homer didn't switch to more relevant fuck-up careers, like dot-com CEO or investment banker--he was stuck in the gag job of incompetent nuclear technician even as nuclear power became safer and more efficient. Like it or not, The Simpsons has influenced every part of our culture, and thus, as one professor believes, helped to drag out the national mistrust of nuclear energy years past its due.
The lighting isn't helping any, either...
The Simpsons did not create this energism (like racism, only with energy) but they sure as hell allowed it to stick around longer than it should, which might explain why the last time a reactor came on-line in the U.S. was 1996. Social opinion is a very powerful factor in such cases, and there can't be progress if this fear-mongering keeps up. By which we mean the show; it should be cancelled. For the good of the Earth!
Yep. You're ready to die.
#2. The Sideways Grip
Seen in: Menace II Society, rap videos, video games.
Impact on real life: Thousands of misfired gunshots from gangstas.
The thug lifestyle propagated by the entertainment industry has unwillingly made the streets a tad safer place by popularizing the sideways gun grip which, as it turns out, drastically lowers the accuracy of a firearm.
Well, all right: A bunch of dudes shooting at you and missing more often than if they were doing it the right way is hardly the definition of "safe" (at least not this side of RoboCop's Detroit), but as the old saying goes "Guns don't kill people. Bullets do." Less bullets in bodies = less bodies.
RoboCop considers only one headshot "a warning."
The side-grip was first made famous by the 1993 movie Menace II Society, and since its widespread adoption it's probably saved more police officers than Bruce Willis. The sideways grip most often leads to a spread of bullets in every possible direction when firing, which is an acceptable (nay, brilliant) tactical strategy while playing Contra...
Spreadshot! Yeah! Now to just do flips while firing until all the cops die and I'm home free!
... but in real-life shoot-outs it usually just ends with an empty clip, a bullet-ridden brick wall, dumpster and Ford Fiesta, several unamused and entirely bullet-free police officers, and a you-shaped bag of pain full of Taser rounds and mercilessly un-lubricated nightsticks.
#1. Invented from Fiction
Seen in: Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle, Spider-Man and Donald Duck comics.
Impact on real life: The invention of electronic surveillance, and the Taser--the cornerstones of the modern police state.
How wonderful would life be if the awe-inspiring technology of comic books existed in real life? Web-shooters, repulsor beams and badger-firing railgun (hey, the comics we draw at work still count); truly it would be a technological utopia. Unfortunately, inventor Jack Love (a dude who shares his name with a special you order at the bunny ranch) read a Spider-Man comic in 1977 and seized on the absolute worst tech available.
No, worse than Hypno-Hustler.
Rather than inventing wrist-mounted web-slingers and being known as Judge Love: Emperor of the Nerds Forever, he seized on the fact that the story featured a character being tracked via a wrist transmitter. Love thus set about inventing the first personal electronic monitors. Love contacted a computer salesman who built his prototype, and in 1983, electronic surveillance was born. And the police state threw a tasteful party in celebration; attendance was mandatory and jubilation was absolutely not tolerated.
In fact, they wouldn't party that solemnly and severely until the early 90s when the first useable Taser came out. Inspired by the book Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle which came out in 1911, John H. Cover developed an early prototype of the scrotum's worst enemy since the invention of the foot. Even its name comes from the book--Taser being an acronym of Tom A. Swift's Electric Rifle.
A man named Rick Smith eventually tracked Cover down and introduced the idea of using compressed air to launch the darts, rather than the original gunpowder and the modern Taser was born. And we never thought we'd say this--being almost weekly victims of Tasing by virtue of our exceedingly poor strip club etiquette and alcohol tolerance--but thank God for it.
OK, we owe it a couple of "thank you's."
While the world is undoubtedly a scarier place with the Taser in it, at least it's not fired with the speed of an actual bullet. Because the only thing worse than taking 50,000 volts to the Ol' Mean Bean Machine is getting shot there first, and then getting twin lightning bolts as a follow-up.
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I'll give it a shot. It's gotten some pretty stellar reviews.
This is a fantastic book, and a really great price. Just do it!
One of the very few "I really can't go to sleep because I want to see what happens..." books I've read in recent years. Absolute must-buy for any sci-fi fan IMNSHO.
Highly recommended! Gripping, frightening possible future.
Great story, well worth 1.99! Ridley Scott has the movie rights, and there might be a movie soon.
$2 for 5 book? I have no idea what the books are, but in for the set.
Most of the books are small stories but they are still awesome. The author is great in general, working on his latest book at the moment and finished the rest of us.
Yes, it was written as separate stories, but it does form a single novel. A great read. There's a prequel too "First Shift" (but read Wool first). Don't risk any spoilers reading about it, just give it a try.
purchased, this series was recommended to me by a friend a couple of weeks ago
Is this deal over? The price that I'm offered is $5.99 the regular price. Anyone else have better luck?
@traffic_doc: Yes, the price went back up. Sorry you missed the lower price. Will say, it's worth the full $5.99, though.


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"This is the best of times and the worst of times for the board and school district," said Switzerland of Ohio Local School District Superintendent Larry Elliott. "The schools that desperately needed replaced were replaced, that's the good thing that has happened. The worst of times is our current levy defeat. I'm disappointed, my entire staff is disappointed."
Elliott went on to state that the board and levy committee worked tirelessly to inform voters of the importance of this levy.
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With the levy defeat, the school district is not only forced to live within its means, but now has to make some hard choices and cuts. This is part of its contingency plan which will now move into Phase II and III. Phase II and III consist of cutting teaching positions as well as programs, and athletic programs now have to be self-sufficient. The district will also have another hiring freeze, which means it cannot hire anyone to fill positions.
The athletic programs will have to cover all costs; other schools have a pay-to-play program, but not to the extreme that Switzerland will have to go. The athletic programs will have to be self- sufficient but the board is not sure how far that the self- sufficiency will go and whether each program will have to pay for transportation, equipment and officials, not to mention utilities for the event. How far should this self- sufficiency policy go is a question the board is currently asking itself.
"We spent the better part of three hours going around and around about how we do self-sustaining sports," said Lance Erlwein, district treasurer. "What would be included in the cost, how would we bill it - and after three hours we went around in a circle, there was not one good method or way to do it. There was a loser no matter how we looked at it That's the hardest problem I have faced here."
One of the biggest questions that was asked at the Thursday night's meeting is what is the deadline for these cuts and when will the public and all those involved find out. Along the same lines, parents were asking about the pay-to-play that will affect the sporting teams in Switzerland of Ohio Local School District.
Parents, especially those who have multiple children playing, are worried about the price for their son or daughter to continue to participate in sports. At this point, the board members do not have an idea what the cost will be or what programs will be cut.
"You will get an answer; I am not saying tonight because there are a lot of things we have to go over, we don't know what we are going to cut and we have no figures in front of us," said Board President Ron Winkler. "The levy just failed, we don't know what we are going to do."
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5 Fan Theories About Cartoons That Will Ruin Your Childhood
A hundred years ago, "ruining your childhood" meant forcing you to work in a mine at age 5 or selling you to the gypsies. Now it's finding out that Shaggy is a stoner, or that Mario is hooked up on psychedelics, or that ALF was depressed and possibly suicidal. Oh, you didn't know that one? Whoops. Sorry.
We've already told you about some of the crazy (but convincing) cartoon theories on the Web, but crazy is like currency on the Internet, and among all the garbage, some strangely compelling ideas can emerge, making you rethink shows you thought you knew well. For example ...
#5. WALL-E Killed the Other Robots and Doomed the Earth
The WALL-E we know tells the heartwarming story of the destruction of Earth. When mankind goes off to travel the universe and get fat, they leave a bunch of robots behind to clean up the mountains of garbage that now cover the planet. Seven hundred years later, only one of those trash-compacting robots is left: the adorable WALL-E. He (it?) falls in love with a space-traveling robot called EVE, and together they bring the humans back home.
And then presumably have robo-children that look like dongs with wheels.
The Theory:
But wait, back up: What happened to all the other WALL-E-type robots that were left on Earth? We see their broken bodies scattered here and there -- why is WALL-E still functional when all of his brethren are broken down robo-corpses?
Easy: According to this theory from Reddit, WALL-E freaking destroyed them over a 700-year-long murder spree. That's why there's still so much garbage covering the planet after so long -- there was just one robot to clean it, and he's a psychopath.
Why It's Totally Possible:
First of all, just look at how casually WALL-E cannibalizes the parts of the deactivated units at the beginning of the movie -- he remorselessly rips the treads off of another robot to replace his own and hoards other spare parts in his trailer.
He totally poached that head from Johnny 5.
WALL-E is clearly a sentient being, capable of pain and emotion. He recognizes fellow robots as living beings (and of course falls in love with one). And yet, he doesn't appear to give the slightest fuck about desecrating the scattered corpses of his robotic kin. He's playing music from Hello, Dolly! as he tears their parts off. Apply the same thinking to human beings and picture a man who collects human body parts to wear and dance around in. Congratulations, you just imagined Buffalo Bill from The Silence of the Lambs.
"This'll really take my 'Goodbye Horses' routine to the next level."
So WALL-E is a disturbed individual. But why would he kill the other robots? Maybe, as the fan theory points out, it's because his objective and their objective weren't compatible. The entire purpose of these robots was to gather the trash and compact it -- and yet WALL-E, no doubt as a result of some fatal flaw in his programming, actually takes some of those worthless artifacts he's supposed to be destroying and keeps them to himself, just to stare at them.
They're basically his robot serial killing trophies.
Or, hell, maybe he just wanted to be able to use their parts to live forever. Either way, at the end of the movie, the humans don't even suspect that they're now stuck on a planet with a remorseless mass-murdering machine, surrounded by the grim evidence of his madness.
This is all robo-corpses.
#4. Donald Duck Suffers from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Donald Duck started out as a generic cartoon duck, but became more and more prone to fits of pantsless rage as Disney animators realized that cartoons are lame if everyone has the same personality (it's also the reason Goofy became dumber and Mickey developed his crippling fear of intimacy). Today Donald is the fifth most published comic book character in the world, right after Wolverine, with whom he shares certain psychopathic tendencies.
And, occasionally, a hairdo.
The Theory:
The Journal of Cartoon Overanalyzations provides an alternate, yet perfectly reasonable explanation for Donald's escalating anger issues: He's suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. Specifically, he came down with it after the series of shorts in which he fought the Japanese in World War II. A reasonable Donald got drafted and shipped to the Big War -- an angry shell of a duck returned.
Why It's Totally Possible:
Well, there's the fact that Donald totally has war flashbacks from time to time (seriously -- we'll get to that in a second), but let's look at his change in personality. Donald was a temperamental character from as early as his second cartoon, but at first he was only reacting to provocations and rarely tried to hurt anyone. After the war, however, he became a lot more violent and unstable. He went from just comically moving his fists when he got angry to trying to cut Chip and Dale in half with a saw.
Check out how Donald reacts to the exact same situation before and after the war: In this strip from 1938, he wakes up to find his icebox empty. His response is to set up a camera to catch the thief.
"My God, it's ... literally any duck in the city, since we're all drawn the same."
The same premise is recycled in a 1945 comic called The Icebox Robber, but this time Donald immediately flips out on his nephews.
We have no idea what that means, but it can't be good.
In order to prove that Donald is sleepwalking and stealing his own food, his terrified nephews decide to wake him up with some firecrackers. Big, big mistake. This is what happens:
Basically the same thing that happens to your grandfather after his third drink.
Holy shit, Donald is having a freaking World War II flashback, which, as the fan theory points out, is one of the symptoms of PSTD, along with anger, sleeping troubles, and pretty much every other part of his personality. We can hardly blame Donald for then trying to stab the kids, thinking they're Japanese soldiers, because he's just blinded by the rage.
Also because they are fucking annoying. Stop that "unca" shit.
Man, the war really did a number on the poor guy. But, by all means, continue pointing and laughing at this brave duck who gave his sanity for our freedom.
#3. Courage the Cowardly Dog: The Monsters Are Just People from a Dog's Point of View
Courage the Cowardly Dog stars a paradoxically named canine and his elderly owners, Eustace and Muriel. Despite literally living in "The Middle of Nowhere," Eustace's farm somehow tends to attract the attention of monsters like mummies, pirates, and giant mutant flies dressed like humans. Courage always ends up defending his masters from these creatures, without them even noticing it.
Wait, there's a mime in this show? What monster would let a child watch this?!
The Theory:
This theory from Redditor DiggaDoug492 proposes that these "monsters" are nothing more than humans as seen through Courage's warped dog senses. Courage actually lives on a normal farm; he only thinks it's in the middle of nowhere because his owners are too old and apathetic to walk him, so he simply doesn't know what's outside.
By the looks of that truck, we're guessing it's tetanus.
Why It's Totally Possible:
This theory explains why Courage's owners never seem to realize the terrible danger they're in: In reality, they're actually just watching their dumb dog running around, being terrified of the postman, or a vacuum cleaner, or whatever. Have you ever owned a dog? Those guys will lose their shit over anything.
For instance, take a look at the episode where the "monster" is a giant talking vulture who kidnaps Muriel. It's then revealed that the vulture only did that so that Muriel could watch over the vulture's children so she could go to Florida to meet her potential husband, which, judging by her stereotypical accent, she probably met on JDate. The conclusion is obvious: Muriel was simply babysitting for her neighbor, and Courage, being a big idiot, imagined she was grabbed by a giant bird.
That's kinda racist, Courage.
Further evidence that Courage is imagining everything is in the fact that, in the very first episode, old man Eustace actually transforms into a chicken, tries to eat Muriel, and then gets vaporized by a ray gun, only to come back the next episode with no memory of the incident. Who knows what happened in reality -- maybe he just sneezed and Courage's doggy imagination took it from there.
It's his way of rationalizing the turd he left on the floor.
Also, every time Eustace wants to teach Courage a lesson, he whips out a giant green mask to scare him. Who does that? It's pretty obvious that the "giant mask" is actually a rolled up newspaper or a stick. Can't say we blame the guy.


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Suppose $G$ is a pro-$p$-group, $p$ odd, and $\mathbb{F}_p$ is given the trivial $G$-action. By skew-symmetry of the cup-product in degree 1, given $\chi\in H^1(G,\mathbb{F}_p)$, we have $\chi\cup\chi=0\in H^2(G,\mathbb{F}_p)$. In fact, in this case, it's even possible to explicitly write $\chi\cup\chi$ as a coboundary -- $\chi\cup\chi=d\left(\binom{\chi}{2}\right)$, the coboundary of "$\chi$ choose 2".
In any case, my question is whether or not there anyone has seen any other tricks of this sort, i.e., for the explicit realization of a trivial cup product as a coboundary. In my specific case, I know a particular cup product is zero since I can force it, via the $G$-equivariance of the cup-product, to land in a known-to-be-trivial eigenspace of $H^2$. I was hoping there was some "eigenspace-averaging" trick similar to the construction of orthogonal idempotents to get my hands on an explicit pre-image, but really, I'd just like to be aware of any tricks for doing this.


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Deputy Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud today chaired the weekly Cabinet meeting at Al-Yamamah Palace in Riyadh, which approved the state budget for Fiscal Year 1432/1433 H (FY 2011). In a statement delivered on behalf of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz, Crown Prince Sultan said that the SR580 billion ($155 billion) budget reflects an increase of SR40 billion ($10.7 billion) over FY 1431/1432 H (FY 2010).
The new budget, Crown Prince Sultan said, reflects King Abdullah's eagerness to boost economic growth and development and create more jobs for Saudi citizens. "I am pleased to avail myself of this opportunity," Crown Prince Sultan said, "to convey the greetings of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques to his people and his wishes that this budget bestow more blessings and good on the nation and nationals." The Crown then instructed all government officials to abide by King Abdullah's instructions to strictly implement the budget for the benefit of the nation.
In a statement to the Council of Ministers, Minister of Finance Dr. Ibrahim Al-Assaf reported that the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for FY 1431/1432H (FY 2010) is expected to reach SR 1.36 trillion, reflecting an increase of 16.6% over FY 1431/1432 H (FY 2010) as a result of 25% growth in the petroleum sector. Public and private non-oil sectors GDP is expected to increase by 9.2%. The public sector is projected to grow by 15.7% and the private sector by 5.3 %, at current prices.
In terms of fixed prices, the GDP is projected to grow by 3.8%, the oil sector by 2.1% and the non-oil sector by 4.4%. The public sector is projected to grow by 5.9% and the private sector by 3.7%, where the contribution of the private sector to the GDP reached 47.8%. All economic activities constituting the GDP of the non-oil sector have achieved a positive growth, where the real growth in non-oil manufacturing is estimated to be 5%, the communications, transport and storage 5.6%; the electricity, gas and water 6%; construction 3.7%; the wholesale and retail trade, restaurants and hotels 4.4%; and the finance, insurance and real estate 1.4%.
Minister Al-Assaf said that inflation, as measured by the cost of living index, is estimated at 3.7% in 2010, while the non-oil GDP deflator showed is projected to increase by 1.5%, according to estimates by the Central Department of Statistics and Information.
Dr. Al-Assaf added that the volume of public debt will decline by the end of the current FY 1431/1432H (FY 2010) to approximately SR167 billion, representing 10.2% of the projected GDP for FY 2010, compared to SR225 billion or 16% of the GDP for 2009.
The Minister of Finance pointed out that in accordance with the directives of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, the budget for FY 1432/1433H will continue to focus on development projects that enhance the sustainability of growth and long-term development, and increase employment opportunities for citizens. The appropriation of funds was distributed in a way that focuses on education, health, security, social and municipal services, water, sanitation, roads, electronic transactions, and scientific research support.
The budget includes new programs and projects as well as funding for additional phases of some projects previously approved with a total value of SR256 billion ($68.3 billion).
Ministry of Finance Report on FY2010 and FY2011 budgets


text: It's been a while since I did an asian inspired dragon, so today I will be showing you "how to draw an Oriental dragon", step by step. I have made so many of these dragons in the past, so forgive me if I have little to say. It's weird seeing how different you draw when your skills improve. If I look back at some of the other oriental dragons I have drawn in the past, I see how I improved. Anyways, this should be a fun lesson to tackle. I mean how can it not be? It's always fun drawing dragons no matter what kind they are right? The body is from the side but you will draw the dragon's face on a 3/4 angled view. So go ahead and dive in. I will be back with some more drawing fun.


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What makes Grinnell a global place? It's first and foremost the students. Grinnell students don't just come from every state in the U.S., they also come from over fifty different countries. A full 12% of Grinnell students were born or raised abroad—that's a greater percentage than at many other liberal arts colleges. As a result, the daily interactions of campus life are filled with international perspectives. Your roommate may be from Guatemala, or your lab partner may come from Sweden. Your economics class might have students from India, China, and Iran. Wherever you are from, Grinnell wants you to bring your unique voice to this international conversation.
Of course, Grinnell students don't just learn about the world by what happens on campus. Most of them also spend a semester off-campus on one of over seventy study abroad programs. Students are also traveling abroad for internships or to complete research for a Mentored Advanced Project.
Students are also engaged in the world through the many student organizations that they participate in, such as the Asian American Coalition, the Student Organization of Latin@s, or Free the Planet. They offer a variety of activities that impact student life – from ISO Food Bazaar and Culture Show to the Student Organization of Latin@s' recent mural project in downtown Grinnell. Many of these groups have office space in the Multicultural Suites in the J.R.C. and all student groups can find support though offices like International Student Affairs, Student Activities, CRSSJ or Intercultural Engagement and Leadership. The Student Government Association provides funds for students to publish magazines, travel to conferences, or create other organizations that help them pursue their own passions.
- In addition to the financial aid awarded U.S. students, Grinnell annually awards roughly one million dollars in financial aid to each incoming class of international students. The average aid award for international students in the class of 2013 was $33,342.
- Read the latest issue of Mosaic, the publication created by international students at Grinnell.
- Over 70 flags hang in the Grinnell Flag Gallery, located in Spencer Grill. The flags represent the different nationalities of the current Grinnell student body.
- Nearly 100 local families participate in the OISA's Host Family Program, matching international students will a local source of friendship and support.
- Martin Dluhos '12, from the Czech Republic, says that "The variety of ways to organize one's student life and the possibilities to explore one's interests are the major assets of Grinnell College."


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I was riding Shadowmere near Alftand and I accidentally fell into that canyon near the abandoned tower. The fall was enough to kill Shadowmere.
I have done a lot of quests and other things such as fast travel, waiting, and sleeping so I am wondering if that interrupted his respawn. Also if I come back to that point before he respawns, is that bad?
Can Shadowmere just go away and never come back after his death?
I tried waiting in-game for 11 days in Solitude and then returning to Shadowmere's death point, but it did not work.
I do not want to use script commands because I consider that 'cheating' and I don't want to cheat.


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Why now? UPDATE
The Obama Administration's decision to send weapons (don't know what kind) to the Syrian Opposition (don't know which ones) makes you wonder what the president is thinking. This is unlikely to turn the tide against President Assad and his forces; it is unlikely to bring the government and the opposition to any negotiating table (no matter how hard Secretary Kerry begs them); and it is unlikely to gather many allies outside of England, France, and the Arab nations already supporting the opposition. If the administration really wants to stop the killing, it would not be adding to the supply of weapons in Syria. If Assad is going to win anyway, let it be soon and move on. Support the Iranian call for Syrian elections (which Assad would likely lose) and heed the Russian observation that claims of chemical weapons use can be legitimated only by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and not by U.S. intelligence services.
UPDATE: June 16. A thoughtful assessment, "The Commitment Ploy," by Paul Pilar: How Obama has been boxed in by advocates of war with Iran and secondarily, but necessarily with Syria. National Interest HT, LobLog
UPDATE: June 15. A sobering assessment: "For nearly two years, the Obama administration has described the Syrian regime as having "lost all legitimacy" and "clinging to power." And yet, it has surprisingly endured. That's because neither assertion is really accurate. Mr. Assad still has strong support from many Syrians, including members of the Sunni urban class. While the assistance Syria receives from its external allies, like Iran and Russia, is important, it would be inconsequential if the Assad regime were not backed by a significant portion of the population." And goes on with several points on the many errors of the Obama Administration in Syria. From NYTime Opinion page.
Iranian Troops to Syria!? Robert Fisk: "The Independent on Sunday has learned that a military decision has been taken in Iran – even before last week's presidential election – to send a first contingent of 4,000 Iranian Revolutionary Guards to Syria to support President Bashar al-Assad's forces against the largely Sunni rebellion that has cost almost 100,000 lives in just over two years. Iran is now fully committed to preserving Assad's regime, according to pro-Iranian sources which have been deeply involved in the Islamic Republic's security, even to the extent of proposing to open up a new 'Syrian' front on the Golan Heights against Israel.
"In years to come, historians will ask how America – after its defeat in Iraq and its humiliating withdrawal from Afghanistan scheduled for 2014 – could have so blithely aligned itself with one side in a titanic Islamic struggle stretching back to the seventh century death of the Prophet Mohamed."
About the Author
Margaret O'Brien Steinfels, a former editor of Commonweal, writes frequently in these pages and blogs at dotCommonweal.
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Excellent! And why do the words "weapons of mass destruction" come to mind as I
read your comments about the claimed use of chemical weapons?
To allow the war to become a small arms stalemate might be the better solution because all obsevers claim a victory by either side will result in a genocide. Two years of war is not enough killing for people who would execute a teenage coffee vender for blasphamy who was overheard when asked for free coffee saying he would even make Mohammad pay for his own coffee.
As long as Assad is winning the ground war, which he is, he has no reason to hold free elections or negotitate with the opposition. The rebels do not have the kind of weapons to defend themselves against air strikes, tanks and heavy artillery. Making matters worse is fighting Hezbollah.
The U.S. is between a rock and a hard place. The strongest element within the rebels is the Al Quida element, and there are no guarantees that U.S. weapons will not get into their hands. Equally perplexing and uncertain is whether the rebels will be friendly with the U.S. even if they win the war with Assad. Consider what is going on in Egypt.
It is clear that something has to be done in Syria for humnitarian reasons. The homes, farms and small businesses of thousands of innocent Syrians have been destroyed, many have lost their husbands to this war, leaving these families with nothing but fear. As a result, millions of Syrians have migrated to Lebanon and Jordan creating instability for both the migrants and the countries in question. More importantly, there are serious food, shelter and health-medical issues, not to mention the longer term status of these migrants.
Nothing is going to be done unless Assad is pressured into international negotiations, and this means that the life of Assad and his government leaders must sense a severe threat to their own survivibility. Does anyone doubt that Assad would not use chemical weapons again if he senses losing the ground war? Nevertheless, arming the rebels and providing consulting and other assistance, not boots on the ground, has serious risks but few alternative options. I seriously doubt that any U.N. coalition will be assembled since Russia and many other European countries have no appetite for another Afganistan. We run the risk of Assad crushing the rebels and killing thousands more innocent lives, or running the risk of arming the rebels only to end up with a govenment that would result in more instability in the region, and another problem for the U.S. and Israel.
A political solution is the only solution, but this does not seem to be a viable option in the foreseeable future. In the meantime, the U.S. must act now.
I say help with the expenses for refugees in Lebanon, Turkey, Jordan. And if some say US must act in the war, I ask why no one asks about Sweden, Brazil and Japan etc.
Sweden is being asked to augment the UN Peacekeeping Forces that separate Syria and Israel; the Austrians have pulled out. Does Brazil have an army? And the Japanese army can't serve outside of its own territory. But Egyptian imams have ordered trained able-bodied men to join the jihadis in Syria!
Will this end in exhaustion for all sides and 300,000 dead? Looking that way. Russia is the key and they are not likely to withdraw their support for Assad.
Egyptian President Morsi jumps in with four feet:
He said "he had cut all diplomatic ties with Damascus on Saturday and demanded Hezbolllah leave Syria....
"Morsi also urged world powers not to hesitate to enforce a no-fly zone over Syria on Saturday, in a move that threw the backing of the most populous Arab state firmly behind behind the revolt against Syrian President Bashar Assad.
"Morsi also warned Assad's allies in the Iranian-backed Lebanese Shi'ite militia to pull back from fighting in Syria: "We stand against Hezbollah in its aggression against the Syrian people," Morsi said. "Hezbollah must leave Syria - these are serious words. There is no space or place for Hezbollah in Syria."
More Sunni sectarianism? Or?
I fear that slowly and almost inexorably the US will increasingly become involved in this dispute although there is no strategic or national interest supporting it.
i recall that you drew an analogy to the seeming inconsequential assassination of the archduke in Serbia. That started WW I.
There seems to be no logic, or if there is I fail to see it, associated with all this sabre rattling and worse!
i would be surprised if the US wasn't already supplying arms. I am sure they are. So the translation for that must mean tactical air support, intelligence, sophisticated detection devices, etc.
If we do not want to see a total bloodbath, then "boots on the ground" is the logical trajectory of this entirely illogical situation.
Little honored or even remembered now are the glory days of the United Arab Republic, when Egypt and Syria were one country.
Or better the peaceful days of the Ottoman Empire!!
When there is no clear objective for taking part in military action, then is it not contrary to the spirit of traditional just war doctrine to become a party to this conflict? If there is a CLEAR objective, nobody seems to know what it is.
Here from the op-ed piece I posted above (June 15): "The Syrian revolution isn't democratic or secular; the more than 90,000 fatalities are the result of a civil war, not a genocide — and human rights violations have been committed on both sides."
The idea that this is a civil war is almost never considered in news stories or in the speeches of Washington politicians. That could mean, as the author, Ramzi Mardini, points out that an opposition "victory" would mean further fighting. His emphasis on the support Assad retains may have nothing to do with affection for his regime as fear about what is likely to follow. Again, the link: "Bad Idea, Mr. President"
George D, 6/16, 2:14 AM: Have just finished the book I was alluding to with the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand (actually in Bosnia by Serbian terrorists). It's an incredibly fascinating and thorough history of how WWI broke out. I hope to write about it soon.
In the meantime, the lesson is that the event on June 28, 1914, set off a chain of decisions based at least in part on the idea that something, anything, had to be done about it, with little forethought of the consequences. According to Wiki, the war started one month later on July 28, when Austria-Hungary fired on Serbia (however, this book The Sleepwalkers suggests a more complex series of mobilizations that actually began with Russia). I gather that one of the enduring historiographical questions is who really started the war?
Margaret - in fact, Barbara Tuchman's masterful, The Guns of August, lays out exactly what you are referencing - and did som decades ago. This latest book make chronicle in minute detail the complicated national mobilizations and other petty incidents (besides the Archduke's assassination) but, this approach and theory was laid out perfectly by Ms. Tuchman.
Since Tuchman's book was published over 50 years ago!! (1962), I am going to guess that this new effort to explain things will have taken advantage of the 100 years (since 1914) of historical study. Maybe it is just filling in the blanks, but I suspect there is more here.
Here's the NYTimes review of the book (and another): The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914
The peaceful days of the Ottoman Empire? Empires steal the unfolding histories of weaker people. When the empires disappear, people without a history have to catch up, often with great conflic. In this tragedy, we have four empires: the Ottoman, the British, the French, and the American. The victorious British and French divided up the carcass of the Ottoman Empire, seeking their own purposes. Winston Churchill was a real villain in this story. Recognizing that the future was in oil, and seeking an easier way to India, he set up future tragedies. For instance, instead of giving the Kurds their own nation, he divided them up among the Turks, the Iraqis, and the Iranians. Now, the world's only standing Empire is trying to control the future of the Middle East.
I agree with ed gleason. President Obama should look before he leaps into the Syrian civil war.
I was absolutely sickened and shocked while watching Bill Maher's Real Time last Friday on HBO. He showed video clips of a so-called Syrian "rebel leader" who was craving-up a dead corpse's chest, removed the heart, and lustfully took a bite of the dead man's heart.
These are the people, the "rebels" who oppose the Assad regime, that John McCain wants to send massive US military aid??? NO WAY! McCain must be off his medication, again. These madmen "rebels" in Syria are affiliated with Al Qaeda, for God's sake!
The only thing that choosing sides with the "rebels" in the Syrian civil war would do, like what happened in Iraq, is that Iran would be strengthen, Russia's ally in the region would be confirmed and enhanced, and Hezbollah would be emboldened. [If I remember correctly when the Israelis attempted to knock-out Hezbollah in Lebannon - that what a military intervention would be like - with all their American-supplied weaponry and technology, they got their butts kicked and scurried home to Tel Aviv with their tails between their legs.]
What are the American strategic interests for any military intervention in Syria at this time???
I would take anything Bill Maher says or presents with several large grains of salt. He and Ann Coulter should both be stranded on an island together.....each is like fingernails scratching on boards...Eeeck.
But, on to the point, I would be careful of propaganda from either side. I am of Croatian descent on my dad's side and remember my grandfather saying that the whole area is crazy and I believe it! Deep animosity and hatred from both sides, in any conflict, causes people to dehumanize each other. Human nature is human nature.
The best thing the international community can do is to arrange for a cease fire and request a fair and free election. Picking sides is a fool's errand.
But, I fear, the situation has so deteriorated that there is nothing that can be done. Leave the rebels to their fate. Work with Assad. As heartless as it sounds, Syria is of no strategic or national interest and the human rights justification always leaves me uneasy (it did with Kosovo too).
The devil you know is better than the devil you don't.
"Deep animosity and hatred from both sides, in any conflict, causes people to dehumanize each other."
George D. --
It is just so hard to believe that such dehumanization can really happen. But it does. Compare the shocking testimony on the stand yesterday in Boston by the hit man who blithely admitted to 20 murders. It is hard for most of us to imagine it.


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CNN cited the American Immigration Council's recent report ...
Missing the Target: Anti-Immigrant Ordinances Backfire
If you believe Bill Chase, a member of the Culpeper County Board of Supervisors from Stevensburg, Virginia, the Latino immigrants who have moved to the county in recent years aren't as willing to learn English as his own immigrant forefathers. "I think we all came from foreign countries and turned into English-speaking Americans," Chase told The Washington Post on August 9. Then, apparently without appreciating the irony, he added, "But I don't feel a willingness of this particular group to do that. I don't see the willingness to blend into society."
And so Chase and his fellow board members passed a resolution declaring that English is the official language of the county—even though only about 7 percent of the county's population was Latino as of 2006, amounting to just over 3,000 people. Culpeper now joins two other Virginia counties, Prince William and Loudon, and more than a hundred other cities and counties across the country, where local governments have considered ordinances and resolutions that target (or claim to target) undocumented immigrants. These ordinances range from declaring English to be the official language of government, as in Culpeper, to imposing penalties on landlords who rent to undocumented tenants and employers who hire undocumented workers.
For the most part, this movement to attack immigrants through local ordinances is being fueled by two factors. The first is the repeated failure of the federal government to revamp U.S. immigration laws, which are decades out of step with the realities of a global economy and encourage much of the undocumented immigration that is provoking so much anxiety among many local policymakers. While Congress and the White House remain politically gridlocked over immigration reform, pursuing border-enforcement policies that have consistently failed to stop undocumented immigration for a decade and a half, local communities are left on their own in dealing with the impact of new immigrants on schools, hospitals, transportation, and other public services.
Second, more immigrants are moving to parts of the country that previously experienced little immigration, which is fostering a sense of insecurity among some native-born residents. For instance, a study by San Diego State University sociologist Jill Esbenshade, released by the Immigration Policy Center, finds that most localities where anti-immigrant ordinances have been introduced have fewer immigrant or Latino residents than the nation as a whole. However, the immigrant and Latino populations of these locales have grown at faster rates than the national average.
Regardless of why anti-immigrant ordinances are metastasizing across the country, the ordinances themselves, and the arguments of their supporters, are based on false assumptions. Take Culpeper County, where champions of the resolution complain that new immigrants aren't "assimilating." Missing from this complaint is an understanding of the fact that "assimilation" (or integration) occurs over the course of generations, not within a few years of a person's life. While most of our immigrant forefathers probably achieved at least a basic mastery of English after several years in the United States, like Latino immigrants now, they certainly did not become linguistically or culturally "American" in any meaningful sense within their lifetimes. And neither will today's immigrants. But their children and grandchildren will, just as we did.
There is no shortage of evidence to demonstrate this. A 2002 survey of Latinos in the United States by the Pew Hispanic Center and the Kaiser Family Foundation found that while Spanish is the primary language among 72 percent of first-generation Latinos (immigrants), this figure falls to 7 percent among second-generation Latinos (children of immigrants) and zero among Latinos who are third generation (grandchildren of immigrants) or higher. The share of Latinos who are bilingual grows from 24 percent in the first generation to 47 percent in the second generation, then falls to 22 percent in the third generation and higher. In other words, for better or for worse, English largely replaces Spanish among more than three-quarters of the grandchildren of Latino immigrants.
Today's immigrants are also no different than the immigrants of the late 19th and early 20th centuries in terms of improving their educational attainment and income levels from generation to generation. A study by RAND Corporation economist James P. Smith found that the sons and grandsons of immigrant Latino men not only achieved higher levels of education and higher incomes than their forefathers, but came closer and closer to achieving the same level of education and income as the white men of their generation. Smith concludes from this that "fears are unwarranted" that Latinos are "not sharing in the successful European experience, perhaps due to a reluctance to assimilate into American culture."
Unfortunately, it seems that in each new generation of "Americans" there are many observers who fear that each new generation of immigrants will fail to integrate into U.S. society in the same way as their own families. Benjamin Franklin famously warned, for instance, that German immigrants to the United States "are usually the most stupid of their nation" and that, unless they were turned away, "they will soon outnumber us so that we will not be able to save our language or our government." Obviously, the fear that immigrants won't fit in or succeed has more to do with the difference in perspective that comes from experiencing a wave of immigration while it is occurring as opposed to studying it a century or more after the fact.
An especially poignant example of the hypocrisy which so often permeates the arguments of anti-immigrant activists who themselves come from immigrant families is found in the statements of self-styled congressional anti-immigrant crusader Representative Tom Tancredo (R-6th/CO). Tancredo has declared that, by allowing "mass immigration" to this country, "we are creating linguistic ghettos where millions of immigrants speak no English while replicating living standards such as those found in Haiti, Calcutta and poor nations." He claims that the children of Mexican immigrants "are dropping out of high school, never getting to college, and Hispanic Americans…are not moving ahead and achieving the same sorts of goals as immigrants of the past." He even warns that "massive immigration in this country will determine not just what kind of Nation we will be, but whether we will be a Nation at all."
Coincidentally, at the same time as the wave of immigration that brought Tancredo's grandparents to the United States from Italy, another congressman was voicing similar fears about immigration. In 1891, Representative Henry Cabot Lodge (R-MA) warned "that immigration to this country is increasing and…is making its greatest relative increase from races most alien to the body of the American people and from the lowest and most illiterate classes among those races." He was speaking principally of the Italians, but also the Russians, Poles and Hungarians. He observed that these immigrants, "half of whom have no occupation and most of whom represent the rudest form of labor," are "people whom it is very difficult to assimilate and do not promise well for the standard of civilization in the United States." He warned that "they have no interest or stake in the country, and they never become American citizens."
The passage of time has obviously proven Representative Lodge wrong concerning the ability of Italian Americans to achieve upward mobility, as Representative Tancredo can attest. But Tancredo is also a testament to the fact that even the grandchildren of immigrants sometimes react with fear rather than reason when faced with large numbers of new immigrants who have only just begun to master English and move up the socioeconomic ladder. If policymakers like Tom Tancredo and Bill Chase are actually concerned that immigrants aren't integrating quickly enough into U.S. society, perhaps they should support state-sponsored English as a Second Language (ESL) classes and other programs that make the process of integration easier for immigrants, their employers, and the communities in which they live. Instead, Tancredo, Chase, and other anti-immigrant activists pretend that integration isn't already taking place, then blame immigrants for allegedly not integrating, and then use that as an excuse to advocate harsh immigration policies that make integration more difficult. It is a perspective that is as cynical as it is nonsensical.
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May one recite a bracha while in the presence of ervah? According to Shulchan Aruch, Orach Chaim 75, one may not pray or recite Torah while in the presence of body parts that should be covered. Does this also apply to blessings (on food, etc.)?
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Yes, see Aruch Hashulchan OC 75:7 who puts brachas part of the prohibition , but gives a reason why it is mutar (only uncovered hair ) nowadays. See also Mishna Berura 74:16 on making a bracha in mikvah. However,many disagree and hold that ervah still applies in our times concerning hair being uncovered .
I found a range of discussion on evrah and tefila - which gives insight.
Many citations references Biur Halakha 74:
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I am doing web development on a Ubuntu machine (Lubuntu 10.10 more specifically), and wondered if there is a browser that I can install (in the repositories or otherwise) that has decent support for CSS3 3d transforms (by using the word 'decent' here, I exclude Chromium which is incredibly glitchy).
Thing is, I hate switching to a different machine that runs Windows, just to test my code. Thanks in advance.


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One fourth length of a Uniform Rod of mass $m$ and length $x$ is placed on rough horizontal surface and it is held stationary by means of a light thread as shown in the figure. The thread is brunt and the rod starts rotating about the edge, the co-efficient of friction of the surface is $μ$. Determine the angle between the rod and the horizontal surface at which the rod is about to slip on the edge.
I am confused on 'How the friction force would act?'or basically the FBD (Free Body Diagram).


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The holiday season will officially get under way this weekend, and Weirton will be welcoming it in style.
For many years, the city of Weirton has enjoyed a wonderful Christmas parade to kick off the holiday festivities, and this year will be no different.
Once again, the parade will take place at night this year following a successful evening debut last year.
The parade - sponsored by First Choice America Community Credit Union, Tri-State Audiology, West Virginia Northern Community College and Weirton Medical Center - will follow Main Street beginning at 6 p.m., with a live television broadcast at 6:30 p.m.
But the parade won't be the only thing going on Saturday and I hope everyone takes some time to check everything out because it is certain to be a hit.
Probably the biggest addition to the parade is a fireworks display to be set off behind Municipal Plaza within a few minutes of the parade's conclusion. Sponsored by Hancock County Savings Bank, Cattrell Companies, MedExpress and Marsh Pipe and Supply, organizers are sure the display will be a big draw.
Believe it or not, though, there apparently are some who have yet to hear about this great addition.
There's been a lot of planning going into the parade this year, and I am sure it will draw in a big crowd.
That's not all going on that day, either.
The Weirton Area Museum and Cultural Center will see the return of the Christmas Snow Village model train exhibit, which will be winding in and out of the building's front display window.
There also is the Christmas tree contest, which will be in the Weirton Room of the Millsop Community Center. This has become an annual event, during which residents can pay $1 to vote on their favorite tree. Trees have been decorated by area non-profits and civic organizations.
The Weirton United Way will provide a chance for children of all ages to get their picture taken with Santa Claus. Also in the community center's Weirton Room, anyone can get their photo taken with the guy in red, with a donation of $5 per picture.
The Top of West Virginia Convention and Visitors Bureau has organized a craft fair at the community center, with approximately a dozen vendors set to show off some of their crafts and other products.
It also has been announced there will be a charity collection taking place on Saturday to benefit three local organizations. The collection will take place at the Greco-Hertnick Funeral Home and has been organized by the funeral home and Wine and Beverage Merchants to help out the Weirton Christian Center, the Salvation Army and the Community Bread Basket.
Christmas is a time of giving and thinking about others, after all, so what better time to reach out and help those who need it.
I've also been told there will be various food and beverage vendors lined up along Main Street throughout the day, and some businesses may even offer a few extra treats for those wishing to spend their afternoon downtown.
There are going to be some traffic restrictions this year, with no parking on Main Street after noon and no traffic allowed along Main Street between 5 p.m. and 10 p.m. I've been told, however, there will be plenty of parking available, including at the Weirton Event Center, and residents are being encouraged to come downtown early to take in as much of the festivities as possible before the parade even begins.
I was able to see first-hand how big of a crowd there was last year when the parade was first held at night.
I also saw some of the parking and traffic difficulties before and after the parade.
There were some complaints as a result, and organizers are hoping to have all of those problems under control as much as possible this year, but they are encouraging people to arrive early.
There will be plenty to do, and this could even be the start of something really great for the community.
I often hear people say there isn't much to do in the area. Well, here is something to do on Saturday, and it looks to be bigger and better than ever before.
I hope to see all of Weirton and even some of our neighboring communities take some time Saturday to come down and check out what all of these groups and organizations have put together for the benefit of our local residents.
This is a wonderful time of the year, full of giving, spending time with family and friends, and enjoying what we have in our homes and communities.
So come on our and celebrate.
(Howell, a resident of Colliers, is managing editor of The Weirton Daily Times, and can be contacted at email@example.com or followed on Twitter @CHowellWDT)


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Gasoline prices are ridiculous
February 24, 2013
To the editor: How in the name of humanity and fairness can we accept $3.86 per gallon for regular gasoline? What is the reason for this gouging....
You forgot to mention how they formulate gas during the winter months so your vehicle gets 10%-15% LESS GAS MILEAGE. I have been documenting this for the last 6 years or so. My vehicle during the warmer months consistently gets about 25-26mpg. During the winter, it consistently gets about 22mpg.
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Obama's Energy Secretary Steven Chu, said , " In order to ween ourselves from fossil fuels, we need to be paying the same amount as the Europeans." That equates to $9.00 per U.S. gallon.
Remember when Obama blamed the gas prices on George W. and said the president can change fuel prices immmediately ? Google Steven Chu gas prices. Then Google Obama attcks Bush gas prices.
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Its not the investors bidding up the price, ity must be Obama.
If you don't understand that gasoline is a comodity and the greedy oiul barons are sucking us dry, then you might as well pick on our President or Ka$sick, or maybe your township trustee.
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It's amazing the price of gas dropped right before the election just like the unemployment numbers.
Can't wait to see what your healthcare looks like in a couple more years.
Did you know the pre-exiting policy is already maxed out?
Now all those families that did have insurance and soon will not because their employer will drop them. and now can't get insurance for a child if he or she has a pre-existing condition.
Stan if you and your buddies work real hard you may be able get obama elected a third term.
Can you speak Chinese?
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For all of you out there that now say "I didn't vote for that." Remember, YES YOU DID!
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I don't think $3.86 will look bad within a year or two. I do not think our president has done anything to help with possibly becoming energy independent (Key stone pipeline) and I can see it ticking upward. I hope all those union members who voted this guy (Barry) in because he bailed them out, are happy. Trust me, things get bad enough, none of you will be safe. I don't care if you think you are sitting securely and your needs are taken care of. If the general population really starts to hurt, it will be a scarey time for all. Us currently in the workforce do not have the luxury of a pension; we rely on 401Ks (unstable, at best). This country is on a rapid decline, with a anchor tied to us. And while it isn't all Obama's fault, his liberal views and absolute ignorance in the matter of economics is pitifully obvious.
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Who did you vote for Stan? Huff said.
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The family of Ruth Newberry Stauth cordially invites all friends and family members to a reception in honor of her 80th birthday from 2 to 5 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 9, at the Church of Christ, 2300 Central Ave., Dodge City, Kan. The joy of your company is the only gift requested.
If you are unable to attend, please keep Ruth in your thoughts and prayers as we celebrate her special day. If you would like to send a card, send to Ruth Stauth, 11561 103 Rd., Dodge City, KS 67801.
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The 6 Best Towns To Live in (If You Have a Death Wish)
Maybe the greatest thing about human beings is if you show us the most desolate, horrible place on Earth, at least one of us will scratch his chin and say, "I bet land is really cheap there." Boom, a month later, there are apartments and a Waffle House.
We're not kidding, there are people living and working right now in places where you wouldn't think a man could survive for even a day. Places like...
#6. Dallol, Ethiopia
Where is it?
Drive about five hours out of Ethiopia's population center until the ground gets too rugged to proceed, then get out and travel by camel-back into one of the cradles of human civilization in the Danakil Desert. If you survive somehow, you'll find a nightmare of salt flats, active volcanoes, regular ground-shattering earthquakes and a little town called Dallol--affectionately known by the local Afar people as "the Gateway to Hell."
This is the region of the world where human life began, and life has been comparatively smooth sailing for those of us who escaped this hellhole. It's officially the hottest inhabited place on Earth, with an average annual temperature of 94 degrees (Fahrenheit). If that doesn't sound as bad as you imagined, consider that it's just an average, offset by lower temperatures in winter. The summer gets up to 148 degrees (Fahrenheit), which makes 94 sound like a winter wonderland. Bring your mittens!
In the 1960s, an American company set up a mining community in the Dallol region in order to mine the mineral, potash. It is in the nature of Americans that they hear a place described as an "uninhabitable, volcanic, wasteland" and feel they can just come in and show the locals how it's done. After a couple of years of trying to mine what is basically the lava planet from Revenge of the Sith, the contractors came to the conclusion that potash, an ingredient for goddamn fertilizer, was probably easier to come by in the world.
"Hey Hank, this is fun and all but I was thinking maybe, you know, fuck it. How do you feel about that?"
The local Afar people, on the other hand, have lived and worked here for thousands of years, and through the blistering heat and ridiculously harsh conditions they've adapted to become some of the most badass people on the planet. They make a living hacking at the ground with giant axes all day long in order to backbreakingly liberate tons of one particularly valuable resource... table salt.
Yes, that's where it comes from.
When they're not risking their lives so that you can have a side of fries with your Double Cholestrol Burger, the people of Dallol have to contend with one of the Earth's most volcanic regions, producing lakes of potent acid that run underneath the ground, just waiting for you to step on a weak point and get yourself dissolved. As if that's not bad enough, the region is subject to continuous earthquakes. We're not exaggerating when we say "continuous"--Dallol lies on a fault line, where the ground is constantly moving apart, exposing surface dwellers to the molten core of the planet. Last but not least, the Afar people deal with something they call the "fire wind," a scorching sandstorm that has been likened to being inside a fan-forced oven.
But, hey. Salt, right?
#5. Oymyakon, Siberia
Where is it?
Ah, Siberia. When land was first being handed out to, we guess, the cavemen or somebody, the Russians thought they were getting a pretty sweet deal with their colossal tract of real estate. Unfortunately, they neglected to look at the fine print and realize that almost 80 percent of their nation was goddamn Siberia, the most fucked-up retarded piece of shit landmass in the world. No wonder the Russians drink so much. Siberia is evidence that God should have worked on the seventh day, because this job ain't finished.
"Feels like I'm forgetting something... Eh, I'm sure it's not a big deal."
You might think that nobody really lives in Siberia, or goes there, or even tries to think about it very much. For the most part, you're right. And then, there's Oymyakon.
Back in the 13th Century, Genghis Khan conquered Siberia and one of the towns the Mongols founded was Oymyakon. Nobody can figure out why--maybe they just did it on a dare. The problem with Oymyakon is that it's close to what is known as the "northern pole of cold," which is a fancy way of saying it's "ball-shrinkingly freezing." Yes, Oymyakon has the record for coldest day in history with a day in 1926 that was -71.2 degrees (Celsius), or -96.2 degrees (Fahrenheit), or -HolyFuckingShit degrees.
You have to understand that when you're living somewhere like Oymyakon, words like "cold" or "warm" have no sane meaning. This is a place where people are afraid that if the temperature rises -30, they'll all explode into fireballs. Every day, the residents of Oymyakon live with basically the same normal concerns as the rest of us--the state of the economy, the nation's political welfare and the fact that if they unzip their jacket they have about 20 seconds to live. Oh, and apparently it's fairly routine for birds to freeze to death in mid-flight.
Pictured: Business as usual.
#4. Cherrapunjee, India
Where is it?
Cherrapunjee is the anglicized name for what the Indians call Sohra, a remote town in the mountains and jungles some 1500 meters above the tiny nation of Bangladesh. It's a bit of a tourist trap nowadays, because its unique qualities have earned it a spot in the Guinness Book of Records as the wettest town on Earth.
We don't mean it has leaky pipes. We mean it rains. A lot. Cherrapunjee is in the Indian state of Meghalaya, which translates directly into "Land of the Clouds." It's right there in the corridor where Asian monsoons blow in and ruin your picnic, which puts Cherrapunjee smack-bang in the rainiest corner of the rainiest place in the rainiest region of the world. The town earned its record for its mindblowing 22,987 millimeters of rain in a single year. By way of comparison, Southern California, where Albert Hammond famously declared "it never rains, but it pours," gets an average of 375.
You might not find this particularly impressive. It's just rain. It's not like the ground is made of lasers. We can handle a little rain, right? Well, that's what the British thought, too. Back in the 1800s when India was the British Empire's bitch, the Brits set up a military outpost in Cherrapunjee as a handy base from which military and officials could go about their work oppressing a giant country. After a short time, the government decided to abandon the outpost, one of the stated reasons being, no kidding, too many people there were committing suicide.
The British colonials were likely suffering from a hardcore case of what's known as Seasonal Affective Disorder - quite literally, decades of non-stop rain made them sadder than hell. Thus the native population, unaffected due to probably never having seen the sun, quietly high-fived the weather. But Cherrapunjee's residents live day to day with another very serious and surprising problem.
Well, it is definitely not water shortages!
It's water shortages. It turns out that Cherrapunjee is built on a foundation of porous limestone, which means that the ridiculous quantity of water that falls from the sky every day falls right through the ground like a sieve. But it doesn't just disappear. It goes on to flood Bangladesh.
That's right. The horrific floods that demolish poor little Bangladesh each year come direct mail-order from that little Indian town overlooking it, while the residents of the world's wettest town keel over from dehydration. God has an interesting sense of humor.


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2011 LA Roadsters Show - The Same But DifferentWritten by on January 1, 2012
The L.A. Roadsters club show has long been a staple for many SoCal hot rodders over the Father's Day weekend, this year seeing the 47th such event. While it changed venues a couple of times as it grew in the early days, the show has been held at the Fairplex on the L.A. County Fairgrounds since 1980, with few changes over the past 21 years. This year, however, saw some major changes to the event.
While the venue remained the same, the layout was substantially different, caused in part by some structural changes to the facility. The old covered area where the 200-plus vendors had previously set up had been torn down since last year's show, and the vendors relocated inside Building 4, which is also used as the main building at the Grand National Roadster Show every January. With the main part of the show, that for finished pre-'36 roadsters, also relocated to the inner fairgrounds, the whole vibe of the show was altered, along with the layout.
No longer did visitors have to enter through the preferred parking and swap meet areas, making these sections quieter than in years past, but the event seemed to be divided distinctly into two halves. Speaking of the swap meet, and this scribe will readily admit to spending more time there than elsewhere over the weekend; it was one of the best ever, or was that just because I managed to get everything I wanted, and more? Whether the economy can be blamed or not I'm not sure, but prices, for the most part, ranged from reasonable to cheap!
It's hard to write about this year's show without coming back to the new layout, but it remains a must-attend event, not just for the sheer quality and numbers of cars in attendance, but for the chance to check out the vendor booths, the cacklefest (performed twice on the Saturday), the superb swap meet, and the open house events held at local rod shops on the preceding days. An action-packed weekend at the core of hot rodding's Mecca for sure …
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Neat little full-fendered and rumble seat–equipped early A-V8 was way cool, with a neat stance and laidback windshield posts.We caught this roadster headin' home on Sunday afternoon, a neat '33 based on an American Speed body, which features a retractable roof and roll-up side windows, yet retains a roadster appearance with them stashed away.That's a V8-60 behind the T grille shell on this '26-27 roadster. Note the unique rear bodywork, with more of a bustle than a stock T roadster, providing a useful trunk compartment.Out in the swap meet area, the Happy Hooker T-Bird was for sale. A genuine '60s race car that is now street legal in Texas, it runs 'glass doors and front end, and a 351 Ford and five-speed. Those front wheels are by Kelsey Hayes, in a cast 20-spoke design.We snapped this mucho-louvered T Modified as it was leaving the show on Sunday afternoon. Do those framrail covers extend under into a full belly pan, we wonder? This heavily channeled A roadster pickup had a baby Dodge Red Ram Hemi up front, with the radiator out back.We snapped this mucho-louvered T Modified as it was leaving the show on Sunday afternoon. Do those framrail covers extend under into a full belly pan, we wonder? This heavily channeled A roadster pickup had a baby Dodge Red Ram Hemi up front, with the radiator out back.The 496ci 8-71 blown big-block in this '56 210 is enough to push it to 10.50s at 130 mph, even with a full interior. The 9-inch rearend uses a Strange spool and nodular centersection, with 31-spline axles, hung on leaf springs mounted farther inboard than stock.Rick Ramirez's '36 roadster proves that simplicity works. No outward body mods, no roof chop, just a solid color and dropped over wide whites on steelie 'n' caps.
New shop owner (Reed's Rides) Ryan Reed brought his finished '37 coupe out to the SO-CAL's Open House on the Friday afternoon. Not only does the coupe have a killer stance, but there are three pedals in the driver footwell.Who'd have thought a '60 Oldsmobile station wagon could look this cool? More proof that lowering anything will make it cooler! Add wide whites, cool paint, and a little trim removal, and vo�la!Plain baby moon caps on chromed wheels are the perfect choice of rolling stock for Tom Leonardo's '32, the whitewall piecrust slicks capturing the intended era too.Reminiscent of Rodney Harris' green three-window from the same shop, this new '32 five-window from Johnson's Hot Rod Shop had the same killer stance and identical rolling stock. These guys just get it right every time …Terry Riker's '23 Modified is a cool little roadster, rolling on bent spoke wires and suitable chunky dirt-style tires.Dunno if this was an old T bucket rolling chassis (note the chromed framerails, old suicide perch, and no front brakes) with a new coupe body, or just an updated old project. Either way it was cool; we dug the trimmed back cowl with the cowl vent now used as access for the distributor.Bob's Customs and Rods is based just a few miles from SO-CAL's Pomona base, the shop truck pressed into service to attend the Open House. Man that paint just glows!We couldn't help but notice just how many T-buckets were in attendance at the show, most being old builds, with everything from full-on show cars to drivers represented. Could this be a new trend or just coincidence?


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Howdy all,
Just need a bit of advice on if I should purchase a used NN5 or a new (irregular) NN4 (they are close enough in price that price is not an issue). Both are starter packages with the basic rotator. I plan on using this head for spherical panos, and plan on getting Pano2VR or something similar.
I have a 5DIII and for the time being plan on using a 16-35 2.8. But I also have longer lenses I could use.
What advantages/disadvantages are there in buying one over the other?
Thanks for the help.


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Meet Archie! Archie is a Jack Russel/Rat terrier mix. He is about two years old and weighs about 12 pounds. He is crate trained and doing on house training. Archie is good with other dogs, but the humane society is unsure how he is around cats. Archie is full of character and can jump straight up to get attention and show off. He loves to go for walks, car rides and just be around people in general. Archie is a very happy dog, good with children, and would make a wonderful family dog. He has been hoping for is forever home for almost a year. Think Archie could be the newest member of your family? Call the Ford County Humane Society at (620) 225-1481 and leave a message telling them you would like to adopt Archie.
The Dodge City Daily Globe is starting a new feature called "pet of the week". Each Saturday, we will feature an animal that is available for adoption, information about the animal, how you can adopt the animal and of course photos of the animal.
There are many animals here in Dodge City that need a loving home, find your next pet through the pet of the week!
Currently we are working with the Northside Veterinary Clinic, Ford County Humane Society and Pets Miracle Rescue but would welcome submissions from others as well.
If you would like to submit a pet to be adopted please e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com.
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