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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey An IMAX Experience
|PG-13 (for extended sequences of intense fantasy action violence and frightening images)
|SciFi/Fantasy, Action/Adventure
|Release Date:
|December 14, 2012
|Running time:
|170 minutes
|Ian McKellen, Martin Freeman, Richard Armitage, Ken Stott, Graham McTavish
|Peter Jackson
|Carolynne Cunningham, Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh
|Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Guillermo del Toro, Peter Jackson, J.R.R. Tolkien
|Warner Bros.
Web Site: http://www.thehobbit.com/index.html
Description: The adventure follows the journey of title character Bilbo Baggins, who is swept into an epic quest to reclaim the lost Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor from the fearsome dragon Smaug. Approached out of the blue by the wizard Gandalf the Grey, Bilbo finds himself joining a company of thirteen dwarves led by the legendary warrior, Thorin Oakenshield. Their journey will take them into the Wild; through treacherous lands. Bilbo Baggins not only discovers depths of guile and courage that surprise even him, he also gains possession of Gollum's "precious" ring that holds unexpected and useful qualities... A simple, gold ring that is tied to the fate of all Middle-earth in ways Bilbo cannot begin to know.
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Crushed, the thirteenth volume in Sara Shepard's #1 New York Times bestselling Pretty Little Liars series also a hit television series on ABC Family is bursting with more scandals, secrets, and drama than ever.
High school seniors Aria, Emily, Hanna, and Spencer have been tortured by A for too long. Now they're determined to take the fight to A . . . even if it's the last thing they do.
As the rest of Rosewood prepares for the prom, the girls drop everything in their hunt for A. But with each new piece of evidence, A only seems farther away. No matter how close the liars get, A is always one step ahead and ready to crush them completely.
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Call me crazy, but I love a good urn of moss. There's something so English Garden-esque about it, and I'm a fool for English Garden-esque. I realize this picture has already been posted by home bloggers across the world, but there are so many things I love in it, so I'm sharing it again.
And the same with this one...love it!
So, if you're like me, the question, of course, is how to replicate the look for ourselves. If money is no object, you could simply click here to order this little beauty from Ethan Allen (only $349).
But if that price tag makes you go "Eeeek!", then maybe you'll like this option...
I found a great little urn at Hobby Lobby for around $10 several weeks ago, and decided to make my own moss urn.
Since I wanted a gray one, I gave it a quick coat of gray acrylic paint and then brushed a little black over the details for a little more definition.
Then, I stuck it in the urn and started hot-gluing on the moss. I used Reindeer Moss for this one and just covered all the exposed newspaper.
And then I made a second little moss ball for this metal urn, also from Hobby Lobby, and also 50% off. For this one, I used the dried floral moss and covered the ball once again using the hot glue.
I'm loving these. Hope you like them, too!
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5 Real Historical Death Stars (Complete With Baffling Flaws)
Every child reaches a point in his life where he asks a grown up, "Why did the Empire spend all that time and money building the Death Star, only to leave that vulnerable exhaust port wide open?" That question marks the end of your naive childhood and the beginning of your life as a cynical adult.
But Star Wars was more true to life than you think. History is full of unstoppable super-weapons and fortresses that tended to have one, ridiculous flaw the enemy could take advantage of.
#5. The Helepolis
The Helepolis was the largest siege engine ever constructed in the ancient world. It was essentially a huge, rolling fortress--about 13 stories tall and weighing around 180 tons. It was used by Demetrius I of Macedon in his siege of Rhodes, about 300 years before the birth of Christ.
The name Helepolis literally means "destroyer of cities," which is badass enough, but it was also being driven by Demetrius, who had the nickname "Poliorcetes," which meant "The Besieger" in ancient Greek. Either Rhodes was in deep shit, or this was a case of gross false advertising.
Behind each of those windows up there was a catapult capable of launching an object heavy enough to turn a man into a puddle of spilled spaghetti. In total, it had two catapults on the first floor capable of launching 180-pound projectiles (basically picture them throwing refrigerators at you) and one catapult launching 60-pound ammo. On the next floor up were three more 60-pound catapults, then the next five floors featured 10 catapults that could rain down hundreds of 30-pound projectiles until nobody on the ground felt much like fighting any more. Finally there was a pair of dart throwers on the roof to kill any defender on the walls of a city.
Oh, and it was covered in iron plates, making the structure fireproof.
The Fatal Flaw:
Building-sized vehicles tend not to be all-terrain.
If you're ever facing something that 1) is on wheels; and 2) weighs 360,000 pounds, you can bet on one thing: It's not going to be worth a shit in the mud.
The Rhodians made an educated guess about where the attack would come from, and before the rolling tower of badassery could get there, they channeled water and sewage from the city and turned the whole area into a bog of mud and human poop. When the Helepolis moved in for the kill, it got bogged down in the mire and a tower full of soldiers realized there probably weren't enough horses in the world to drag the their rolling fortress to dry land. They abandoned their superweapon.
History does offer an alternate, equally sad, version of the story where defenders were able to simply run up to the thing and pry off the iron plates, aka Luke Skywalker bringing down a walker by knocking a hole in it with his lightsaber. Everyone agrees the outcome was ridiculous either way.
The Outcome:
Without the Helepolis, the siege of Rhodes failed. The so-called "Destroyer of Cities" was abandoned, having never destroyed a city. The Rhodians tore it down and used parts of it to build the Colossus at Rhodes, which was not in fact a big-ass superweapon, but just a huge statue of the Greek god Helios positioned so that every passing ship would be forced to look up at his junk.
#4. The Mary Rose
The Mary Rose, launched in 1511, was possibly the most badass warship the world had ever seen up to that point. It was in fact one of the first ships built solely for war--up until then, navies would just take merchant vessels and stick some guns on them. On the sides of the Mary Rose was a new invention: gun ports. Doors you could stick cannons out of. These allowed the Mary Rose to broadside other vessels and obliterate them. The ship had up to 91 heavy guns and several more anti-personnel guns, designed to take out an opposing ship's sailors.
The ship was ordered built by Henry VIII, motivated by one of the most powerful emotions known to man: hatred of the French. England was always threatened by the massive French Navy and the Mary Rose was intended to be the equalizer.
The Fatal Flaw:
It was a boat with big-ass holes in the side.
We're guessing you've never designed and built a boat before, let alone a warship, but you probably can guess the problem that comes from building a boat with lots and lots of holes in its hull. Those gun ports were placed really close to the water, and if they tried to turn (which causes the boat to tilt) without sealing up the ports, water can come rushing in.
And that is how the Mary Rose managed to sink without the enemy firing a single shot.
Recently named "The M. Night Shyamalan Effect."
It happened during the Battle of the Solent, fought between French and English fleets. If eyewitnesses at the time are to be believed, the Mary Rose fired all of her guns on one side, and went to turn around to aim the loaded cannons on the other side at the french. A sudden gust of wind caught the sails and tipped the boat over a little more, and much to the surprise of a whole bunch of British sailors, water came pouring in her starboard gun ports. Most of the ship was under water before anyone could figure out what the hell had just happened.
Now, there are accounts by the French claiming that their guns sank the ship, but why would the British invent a version of the story that makes them look stupider?
The Outcome:
Out of the 400 men on board the Mary Rose, only 35 escaped the ship. Along with the crew, the pride of the Royal Navy was gone.
#3. Babylon
The city of Babylon was essentially a giant fortress back in the fifth century B.C. The city had two layers of walls, so if the first layer was taken, a second wall would stop any attacker. In between these two walls was a moat that made taking the city even more impossible. Watchtowers filled with archers jutted from the walls, allowing them to rain down arrows on anyone who tried to approach them.
Herodotus, a Greek historian, estimated the walls to be 300-feet high, 80-feet wide and 55-miles long (though modern estimates peg them at 90-feet high and 10-miles long, so either Herodotus liked to embellish, or he was horrible at measurements). Also, the city of Babylon was bisected by the Euphrates River, which made sure the city had a constant supply of water in the event of a siege. This will be important later.
Babylon was the heart of the Neo-Babylonian Empire that stretched from the Mediterranean to the Persian Gulf, and in 539 B.C., Persia, under King Cyrus, came calling (this would be about 60 years after the events of 300).
Cyrus, rockin' a sweet beard of power.
The Fatal Flaw:
The river.
Cyrus marched toward the city with his army. The soldiers of Babylon were so unconcerned about the city being taken that they were busy partying during a harvest festival, paying little attention to the Persians.
We mentioned that the city straddled the Euphrates river. The massive walls of the city also went across the river, with underwater gates allowing the current to flow through. Babylon had no defenses at these gates because, what would the enemy do, send an army of dolphins after them? Nobody could hold their breath long enough to go down there and break through the gates.
Not even this could help.
Cyrus's plan? Get rid of the water. He diverted the Euphrates itself into canals and reservoirs, which lowered the river's water level in the city. The gates were suddenly exposed and, in the darkness of night a few Persian soldiers were able to swim/wade through the openings and open the city gates for the rest of the Persian army.
The Outcome:
By the time the Babylonians figured out what was going on, it was too late. They mounted a counterattack but they were drunk from partying and were quickly slaughtered.
King Cyrus continued his conquest of the region and eventually the Persian Empire became the largest empire in the ancient world.


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(AP) HOBART, Australia - Russia's Elena Vesnina captured her first WTA title by beating defending champion Mona Barthel 6-3 6-4 on Saturday in the final of the Hobart International.
The 68th-ranked and unseeded Vesnina ended the German's winning run of 12-straight matches in Hobart, and finally clinched her first title after five previous losses in finals.
The 26-year-old Vesnina took the first set in 37 minutes with service breaks in the seventh and ninth games. She clinched the match in 1 hour, 23 minutes with two breaks to one in the second set.
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Rodes For Him and Ermenegildo Zegna hosted a reception March 7 celebrating the grand opening of Kentuckiana's one and only Ermenegildo Zegna shop inside Rodes.
Cocktails and Italian fare accompanied the elegant fashion event. Rodes held trunk shows complete with vendor VIPs attending from Europe to celebrate the Zegna shop opening, along with Rodes' opening of the Eton of Sweden shop. Rodes donated 10 percent of all proceeds from March 7 through 9 to Gilda's Club of Louisville.
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I have seen several times on this site posts that decry Java's implementation of generics. Now, I can honestly say that I have not had any issues with using them. However, I have not attempted to make a generic class myself. So, what are your issues with Java's generic support?
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There are either too many possible answers, or good answers would be too long for this format. Please add details to narrow the answer set or to isolate an issue that can be answered in a few paragraphs.If this question can be reworded to fit the rules in the help center, please edit the question.
Java's generic implementation uses type erasure. This means that your strongly typed generic collections are actually of type
Observe that answers that have already been provided concentrate on the combination of Java-the-language, JVM and the Java Class Library.
There is nothing wrong with Java's generics as far as Java-the-language is concerned. As described in C# vs Java generics, Java's generics are pretty much fine on the language level1.
What's suboptimal is that the JVM doesn't support generics directly, which has several major consequences:
I suppose the distinction I am making is a pedantic one as Java-the-language is ubiquitously compiled with JVM as the target and Java Class Library as the core library.
1 With the possible exception of wildcards, which is believed to make the type inference undecidable in the general case. This is a major difference between C# and Java generics that isn't mentioned very often at all. Thanks, Antimony.
The usual criticism is the lack of reification. That is to say objects at runtime do not contain information about their generic arguments (although the information is still present on fields, method, constructors and extended class and interfaces). This means that you could cast, say,
Some people complain that you cannot overload on the basis of generic arguments (
Primitive types don't work with generics.
Wildcards and bounds are quite complicated. They are very useful. If Java preferred immutability and tell-don't-ask interfaces, then declaration-side rather than use-side generics would be more appropriate.
Java generics suck because you can't do the following:
You wouldn't need to butcher every class in the above code to get it to work as it should if generics were actually generic class parameters.
I think other answers have said this to some degree, but not very clearly. One of the problems with generics is losing the generic types during the reflection process. So for example:
Unfortunately, the returned types can't tell you that arr's generic types are String. It's a subtle difference, but it's important. Because arr is created at runtime the generic types are erased at runtime so you can't figure that out. As some stated
This might not matter to the user of Generics, but let's say we wanted to create some fancy framework that used reflection to figure out fancy things about how the user declared an instance's concrete generic types.
Let's say we wanted a generic factory to create an instance of
In .Net's generics you can do this because at runtime the object knows it's generic types because the compiler complied it into the binary. With erasures Java can't do this.
I could say a few good things about generics, but that wasn't the question. I could complain that they're not available at run time and don't work with arrays, but that's been mentioned.
A big psychological annoyance: I occasionally get into situations where generics cannot be made to work. (Arrays being the simplest example.) And I cannot figure out whether generics can't do the job or whether I'm just stupid. I hate that. Something like generics ought to work always. Every other time I can't do what I want using Java-the-language, I know the problem is me, and I know if I just keep pushing, I'll get there eventually. With generics, if I become too persistent, I can waste a lot of time.
But the real problem is that generics add too much complexity for too little gain. In the simplest cases it can stop me from adding an apple to a list containing cars. Fine. But without generics this error would throw a ClassCastException really quick at run time with little time wasted. If I add a car with a child seat with a child in it, do I need a compile-time warning that the list is only for cars with child seats that contain baby chimpanzees? A list of plain Object instances starts to look like a good idea.
Generic'ed code can have a lot of words and characters and take up a lot of extra space and take a lot longer to read. I can spend a lot of time getting all that extra code to work right. When it does, I feel insanely clever. I've also wasted several hours or more of my own time and I have to wonder if anyone else is ever going to be able to figure out the code. I'd like to be able to hand it off for maintenance to people who are either less smart than myself or who have less time to waste.
On the other hand (I got a bit wound up there and feel a need to provide some balance), it is nice when using simple collections and maps to have adds, puts, and gets checked when written, and it usually does not add much complexity to the code (if someone else writes the collection or map). And Java is better at this than C#. It seems none of the C# collections I want to use ever handle generics. (I admit I have strange tastes in collections.)


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Is there any free online calendar to use for a Team for 8-10 people?
To know who is on leave and when and to know his information like email, phone number etc.
and to who is working on which project.
Something like sharing a Google Calendar should do the job for keeping track of absence and events.
Might be an overkill, but perhaps Asana ( http://asana.com ) might be useful for your purposes, especially regarding the "and to who is working on which project." bit. Never had the chance to use it myself, but it looks like a very powerful (and free) app for project coordination and it can integrate the Google Calendar.


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A lot of work has been done on determining whether particular classes of groups are coHopfian, in particular the (sufficiently large) braid groups $B_n$ modulo center, and certain classes of 3-manifold groups.
Are there any equivalent conditions for a group to be coHopfian? I'm aware this is a big open problem, so I'm specifically looking for established results or necessary conditions.
Of course, sufficient conditions are helpful as well, but most of what I've read in terms of sufficient conditions is "$G$ can be realized as a member of a class X, which we prove is coHopfian," and this is not what I want.


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I just bought the new nn3 to replace my panosaurus.
I use only the smc 10-17 fisheye lens on a K10 body and i have been quite surprised to see that i need to unscrew my camera to be able put it in the zenith position. :
Should i bought the nn5 ?
And if yes as I bought it in france is it possible to change it easily ?
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I currently have them in ziploc bags, but I'd like to have a system that keeps them organized and quickly accessible in game. What have other people used?
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If they are not too thick you could try accordion folders. That way you can separate them by type (muddy, rocky, crypt... whatever).
Edit: For ease of seeing them without pulling them out. A Three Ring Binder and sheet protectors would work.
I currently use a number of boxes reclaimed from boardgame expansions that didn't need them; I have the tiles sorted somewhat into wildnerness, dungeon, city, and so on. Each box has a ziplock bag to contain the little tile bits (i.e. dressing, and small-size tiles). It's not optimal, but it keeps them tidy when put away.


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Cottage Grove Speedway Ready For Relay For Life Weekend On Friday And Saturday
By Ben Deatherage
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Cottage Grove, Oregon- Cottage Grove Speedway is going to be the place to be this weekend as it will host two nights, yes two night of American Sprint Car Series-Northwest Region action starting with Friday June 13th and Saturday the 14th. The fine folks at Relay For Life will be on hand for both nights of action and like in years past the track will be opened up for drivers and spectators to walk the track. Also Relay For Life will be conducting the 50/50 raffle each night.
The ASCS-Northwest Region were in action in late May for two nights with Seth Bergman sweeping both dates but with Bergman back out on the ASCS-National Tour it is anyone's race to win. In domestic competition Roger Crockett and Henry Van Dam have managed to pick up victories with Van Dam winning the Marvin Smith Memorial Grove Classic on May 31st. Support classes on Friday is the Northwest Extreme Modifieds and Hornets and on Saturday it will be IMCA Modifieds and Street Stocks.
The Northwest Extreme Modifieds have had two different winners in as many races including Brandon Potter and David Schmidt while in the Hornets Tauntom Swaim has won all three point events this season but K.C. Scott does have a non-point win to his credit. Out of four IMCA Modified races at CGS Braedon Hand has won three times and the only driver that has managed to finish ahead of him in main event competition is Mark Wauge with just one win. In the Street Stocks drivers that are credited with one win include T.J. Langan, Ethan Landers, and Steve Begley while Justin Evans has scored two CGS main event triumphs.
For each night the Pit Gates will open at 2:00 PM, Front Gates open at 4:00, and Racing starts at 6:45. Ticket prices per event are Adults $15.00, Seniors/Military/Juniors (13-17) $13.00, Youths (Ages 12-6) $8.00, and Children under the age of 5 are FREE. For more information log on to www.cottagegrovespeedway.com.
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22 Oct 2012 7:58 AM #1
Validation error notification using qtip is wrong and incomplete
There are many ways to show validation error, some of them is about using some kind of tooltip. When using qtip we get issues, it's likely not used and tested often -> http://docs.sencha.com/ext-js/4-1/#!/api/Ext.layout.component.field.Field-property-qtip
- When the tooltip disappear the focus on the field is lost, so if a user is typing some of his keystrokes may be truncated.
- If validation start to pass, the tooltip showing an error may still show for another 4 seconds! It should disappear right away.
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I have a hexagon in my logo, but it's empty. I'd like to insert some random bits of code or hexadecimal digits in the spirit of some internet pics.
Can anyone recommend simple ways to insert some code in hexagon shape? My intent is to represent our business is dealing with code–related tasks.
Something like:
This is merely a rough sketch, sorry! By the way, how do I make a hexagon in Photoshop? I managed to draw only a pentagon.
I want the image to be very simple.


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After long day's discussion, bool was made as built-in type. Before it lot of other proposals came for bool. There were following proposals.
Proposal 1: bool can be implemented by typedef
typedef int bool ;
void Fun( int ); void Fun( bool);
dropped. I don't think so it gives any problem in C. Only problem will be in C++. Let's waiting for you guys comments.
Proposal 2: bool can be implemented by enumeration (enum)
This proposal was based on enum like
enum bool { false, true };
int i = 4; if( i ) { //statement }
Proposal 3: Bool can be implemented as class
class bool { public: operator int () {;} private: int bVal; };
1. Since bool is class so whenever you will take a variable of bool two functions one is Constructor and other is destructor. So it's pain, costly.
2. One thing more whenever you want to use you have include this files to your working codes/projects/program etc. From my point of view it's not a problem because by any way you are including a lot of files or this bool can be declared already existing library only.
3. This is the last drawback of bool using as class is that the conversion operator might interfere with user-defined conversion operators that are defined in other classes. This is more important drawback not to use bool as class.
So seeing above drawbacks, standard committee decided to make bool as built-in type. So bool as built-in type gives us better readability, good performance, type distinctness, portability etc.


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Sal lizard is living his life as Santa Claus in every way. He makes appearances all over the country promoting his book about what else, being Santa Claus, but it's actually something he never saw coming.
"I never realized I wanted to be Santa in the beginning. What happened was a radio station asked me to don the red suit and pass out some toys to underprivileged children. I didn't realize that it was going to become a lifestyle for me. When I look down into the faces of those little children and realize that the real Christmas magic comes from the smiles of little children. It touched me in a way that I decided that it was something that i could do every year, and i have been since." said Lizard.
But when Lizard took on the persona, he soon realized that with the role, comes great responsibility.
"I always thought of Santa as a fun guy who dealt with questions about "This is what i want for Christmas..." and try and set the right expectation. I didn't realize that I was going to be dealing with sick children and parents who are struggling and some of the problems that come with that. That's when I really started seeing miracles happen."
So in order to really become Santa he had to make some big changes.
"I quit smoking. I quit drinking. I quit cursing because you never know when a little child is going to walk around the corner and I didn't want them to get confused. Year round, I have this look. It'll be summer time and I'll have on a pair of shorts and a Hawaiian shirt people will say "Santa? Where's your suit?" It's not the suit that makes the man. Children recognize me no matter what I'm wearing."
Sal is actually from the South Central Kentucky area and recently reconnected with some family members in Franklin, including his father who he didn't know until about a year ago.
"Turns out that I'm related to a large number of people in the area, and certainly everybody knows my dad, Frosty. Actually that's my dad's nickname, Frosty. It's kind of unusual."


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I'd like to know in depth detail, what is the meaning of this expression?
How come there is only a few people saying it? Old and not died is a good thing in my mind.
I'd like to know in depth detail, what is the meaning of this expression?
How come there is only a few people saying it? Old and not died is a good thing in my mind.
老不死 == 老而不死 being old, but not die; It implies some old guy should die as soon as possible, rather than stay alive, wasting food and hurting others... etc. It's used to curse some old people whom you hate and consider to be useless to others.
It doesn't mean Chinese think old is bad, instead Chinese people have a tradition to support old people.. Whereas, if there's someone who did nothing good when he was young, accomplished nothing when he was an adult, stays alive when old, and keeps hurting people around, his life then is considered useless and even harmful to others. You then can call him 老不死, to curse him to die early.
Also, there are some people who hate old people and think they are useless all over the word. For this kind of people, they might just use the word 老不死 to refer to any old people, in a derogatory way.
The original of the word was from Confucius. 子曰: 幼而不孙弟, 長而無述焉, 老而不死, 是為賊.
I just want to supplement Fivesheep's answer with some examples.
The closest equivalent I can find for
Although the term
The angry wife is swearing (not cursing) at her husband for coming home late, perhaps suspecting him of doing something up to no good.
This is quite similar in usage to
In China, if you call anyone as 老不死, you are not praising him as "old and not died". In fact, you are asking him "why don't you go die?". So we think it's so impolite to call anyone 老不死, especially call elderly. Besides, there is a saying "老而不死是为贼", it means that if someone is so old but never go die, then there must be something weird with him. Thus, nobody in China would apperciate you if being called 老不死.


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I named my daughter Miyah. I wanted to take her name back to times when names meant something. I joined the poetic form of the Creator's Name (Yahweh/YHWH). I've been doing name research lately to dig at things. I see many definitions for the name pronounced mee-ah but nothing for how I pronounce my daughter's name: mI-yah.
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If I understand the question correctly, you're seeking a meaning of the name Miyah, pronounced
I can't think of any in Hebrew, but מיא is pronounced roughly like that and means "water" in Aramaic.
If I understand correctly, your intention was for your daughter's name to mean "from G-d"?
Traditional Jewish practice is in fact not to pronounce the four-letter name above. It's considered too holy for us to say. When it appears in Torah reading or prayer books, it is instead pronounced "Adonoi", meaning "master of me and all."
So I'm afraid you'll find little help here on how your daughter's name should be pronounced.
If you'd like to ask which traditional Hebrew names mean something similar (for instance, "Samuel" means "asked from God", or the girl's name Netanya means "God gave"), we'd be happy to try and help you.
Good luck!
JLUV, there is no rule on how precise names need to be in their expressions. Take the name cited by Shalom- "Shmuel". The word is partially acronymized-the Sh comes from the word she'iltihu- I requested him; the M comes from the contracted prefix meaning from; E-l means G-d. The vowel U following the M has no place in the meaning.
In your case, if you meant to express a relationship between your Daughter and G-d, Miyah is a fine name.
I know the OP is no longer around the site (at least by the name JLUV), but I thought I'd add this.
The name Mee-yah could well be used to signify that the child is from G-d. The "Mee" at the beginning means "from", and the "yah" ending is one of G-d's names (or more like an abbreviation of G-d's name). The ending is prominent in many Jewish names (anyone should feel free to add to this short list):
Eliyah (a shortened form of Eliyahu, both of which are Anglicized to Elijah)
I know the OP was looking for meaning in the other pronunciation, but this is to encourage the more natural pronunciation because of its significant meaning, which seems to resonate so well with the OP.


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I want to log in to a database by running a SQL file from a UNIX script without supplying username and password (as root). Any command to do so?
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You can store the username and password do use in ~/.my.cnf
But this file is unencrypted so beware of that.
Many client softwares - including mysql - can get passwords from command line. Try
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As there is some confusion, at least recent versions of mysql are masking your password from process listing. You can check this by running above mentioned command and then in another terminal
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As a student at the Tuscany Campus, you can count on a number of resources to help you stay safe while abroad.
During Orientation, you will be provided with a list of phone numbers to be used in case of emergency: the numbers for local police, national police, emergency medical service and fire department, as well as the UNH Tuscany campus emergency phone number.
As part of Orientation, a local police officer will give you a comprehensive information session on staying safe while abroad and will answer any questions you may have.
Although Prato is a very safe town in Italy, it is important that students are aware of how to protect themselves against petty crime. Being aware is the first step toward preventing incidents of robbery or theft from occurring. When traveling throughout Italy and Europe, try to follow the safety advice below:
Adapted from the website of the Polizia di Stato (Italian State Police)
Italy and Prato are, by the standards of many other nations and cities, a safe place to live. However, it is your responsibility to be on the alert and take preventative measures to avoid being the victim of crime.
|Bag snatching and pickpocketing
Unfortunately these are common problems for tourists and students in some areas. Sometimes bag snatchers ride mopeds or motorbikes, so when you're walking, keep hand and shoulder bags on the wall side, not the street side, ideally across your body, protecting them with your forearm. Avoid carrying valuables and documents.
Do not carry your wallet in your back pocket or in bags which can be opened easily. Do not flaunt earrings, chains and other precious or very eye-catching gold jewelry: having something like that snatched can also cause serious injuries.
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Some tricks that pickpockets frequently use: Banging into the victim; using cardboard, newspapers, and clothes to distract or hide their hands when pick-pocketing; causing a "traffic jam" in the crowds when passengers are trying to get on or off trains; staining the victim's clothes and then offering help to clean up; asking for information to divert the victim's attention.
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Friendships and new acquaintances abroad are great, but be careful! Select your new friends well. If you have to go back home late, get someone you know and trust to take you home or pick you up. Always help each other out by escorting each other on nights out. Use the "buddy system": NEVER leave someone on their own at a bar or a party.
|If you think someone is following you
|Go to the nearest police station. Stop a police officer. Go into a bar or another crowded place. Ask a passer-by for help.
|At the Post Office, ATM and bank
When withdrawing money, try not to go alone. Put your cash into an inside pocket and keep a purse with a few odd coins handy so that you can use it for shopping or, in case of robbery, give it to the criminals.
If you feel like you're being watched, stop inside the bank or the Post Office and express your fears to the person you are with or to the security guard. If you are in the street, go inside a shop, look for a police officer or a trustworthy person.
Be careful when using your cash card: do not withdraw any money if you feel like you're being watched.
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Beware of pickpockets. Don't carry your wallet in your back pocket. Be vigilant not only on buses and trains, but also on platforms while waiting to get on: at the bus stop or underground stations a bit of apparently normal pushing and shoving may be a deliberate trick.
Don't fall asleep leaving your bags, shoulder bags and jackets unattended. Don't leave any valuables in your compartment if you go to the toilet or for longer absences. If you travel in a sleeping car, don't forget to lock your compartment door.
Don't agree to bring bags or items belonging to unknown travel companions, especially when passing through Customs or Immigration. Avoid isolated compartments on trains. Don't accept any food or drinks from strangers: they may contain sleeping drugs or narcotics. Beware of requests or offers for help from strangers: it could be a trick to divert your attention so that an accomplice can steal your luggage!
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If you haven't done so already, make photocopies of all of your important documents now, and keep copies separately from the original documents in your housing.
Monitor local and international news sources. Be informed. Be alert and sensitive to your surroundings. Report any irregularities to the authorities. Avoid demonstrations. Heed local authorities. Keep a low profile as a U.S. American. If you break local law, you are subject to local penalty.
Do not operate a motor vehicle while abroad. Road rules and etiquette and liability laws and customs are different.
Do not take risks abroad that you would not take at home.
Some Helpful Links Before Leaving for Italy
Visit www.travel.state.gov to:
Enroll in the "Smart Traveler Program"
Read the "Worldwide Caution" issued July 26, 2011
Read the Worldwide "Travel Alert" issued October 11, 2011
Obtain "Country Information" for the country in which you'll study and those that you might visit
Read "Tips for Traveling Abroad" and to learn the role of the U.S. embassy or consulate in a crisis
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You will be provided with these and other important safety contacts during Orientation.
Telephone Directory Assistance – 12
Carabinieri police force - 112
Police (Polizia) - 113
Medical emergencies (Emergenze sanitarie) - 118
Fire service (Vigili del fuoco) – 115
Prato Municipal City Police (Polizia municipale) – non-emergency 0574 42391
Financial Police (Guardia di finanza) - 117
UNH Campus Police (Emergency) - 203-932-7070
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I have come across WinURL, which launches any URL stored in the clipboard.
Does anyone know of such a tool that will Google any text in the clipboard?
Edit: I'm looking for a solution that does not involve waiting for a browser to load. I have, for some time now, been using the AutoHotKey solution given below. However, since I am using a slow machine and am often multi-tasking, by the time the browser has loaded and Google has popped up, I have either forgotten what it was I was intending on Googling in the first place, or have something else in the clipboard. The ideal solution would involve a small text edit box popping up when the keyboard shortcut is pressed, in which the Google search query can be typed (or pasted). Hitting Enter will cause the google request to begin, allowing it to load in its own time.


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Indiana Jones - The Complete Adventures on Blu-ray for $39.99 + free shipping
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@dednkicking: Still not as bad as Temple!
@fredwallace18 You're right, Crystal Skull is not AS bad as Temple of doom. It's worse!
Shia LeBeouf: Killing my childhood, one franchise at a time.
Would pay extra if it did not have Crystal Skull.... Too bad, could have been a great deal.
Managed to price-match it at my local Best Buy. I do agree slightly with the reviewers that cardboard sleeves suck for discs, but the entire book set-up is too nifty to discard.
amazon also has a facebook coupon available, $5 off $25+ - so this could be even cheaper :) just check out amazon's facebook page for the coupon link
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Following a public hearing of the 2013-14 budget for Sturgis Public Schools, the board of education on Monday approved the $26.7 million general fund budget with $28 million in proposed expenses.
Fund equity is expected to be spent down by $1.4 million, leaving it at $3.9 million at the end of the next school year.
The board approved a food service budget, expected to be $1.6 million in revenue and $1.7 million in expenses.
The public improvement budget for 2013-14 is expected to see $300 in revenue and $195,555 in expenses, spending down the $1 million fund balance to $834,696.
In response to tighter resources, the board also approved "staff reductions," which was actually a staff shuffle or internal transfers due to retirements.
Beyond outsourcing the custodial services, there were no layoffs.
Positions shifting include:
- Sheryl Burlingame, Title I teacher, moved from Wall to Congress.
- Stacey Keim moved from first grade to kindergarten at Wall Elementary.
- Gina Crespo, from second grade to kindergarten at Wall Elementary.
- Connie Sutton, Eastwood math coach, moved to math Title I teacher.
- Debby Balk, Eastwood computer teacher, moved to a counselor position.
- A half-time special education position was eliminated due to enrollment
- Jessica Bucklin, middle school counselor, moved to counselor at Congress/Wenzel elementary schools.
- Andrea Littlefield, middle school at risk math teacher, moved to Title 1; Sue Langdon moved to Title I math.
- Bryan Boughton moved from dividing his time between ACES and the high school, and will be full-time at the high school.
- The school resource officer will have a new title of safety officer, with some responsibility changes.
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a person that is a mix of african and chinese, a filipino
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With a name like Da'Shawn Chang, he must be Chinegro.
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A chinese Dude trying to act black
That dude right there is a chinegro!!
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A brownskin south american illegal immigrant indian who lives in a nail-scratch-in-the-map called chile. They're also known as "cholo mapuche" and speak some pale imitation of castillian language.
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The Murray Company was awarded the Green Project of the Year by a General Contractor from the Knasas chapter of the Associated General Contractors of America (AGC) for their work on the Kiowa County Memorial Hospital.
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The secret to academic success is that there is no secret. Just as your parents told you and their parents in turn told them, hard work is the only way to achieve a report card that glows like that briefcase from Pulp Fiction when you open it. But as it so often does, science calls bullshit on everything your parents ever said, because recent research reveals that you can improve your grades the study-less way by simply ...
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Picture this: Sunday, 11:00 p.m. Your college dorm room. You've just spent the last 24 hours pulling extra shifts at work (where "pulling extra shifts at work" is code-speak for "heroically grappling with a keg monster until it wheezed its final hoppy stinkbreath"). You have an 8:00 a.m. final tomorrow morning, you haven't even opened the textbook for this class all semester, and panic is starting to set in. OK, time to hunker down. First step, get rid of any potential distractions -- find a quiet space, turn off your phone and your TV, close the 23 open tabs of porn on your computer ...
"Your secret is safe with me, perv."
Actually, wait. Maybe you shouldn't close those tabs quite yet. At least not all of them. Maybe just the ones with butt stuff. In fact, now might be a good time to look up even more porn -- but only the "classy" kind, because that's the kind that science has proven can improve your test scores.
In a study at Carnegie Mellon University, researchers gathered a group of heterosexual male college students and submitted them to a speech and math test in an experience that was purposely designed to be stressful. While they were waiting to take the test -- probably while planted actors whispered about how the test was "such a bitch, bro" while shivering and sweating a lot -- the students were asked to participate in a survey, which they were told was unrelated to the test because, again, scientists are sneaky little bastards. In the survey, half of the students were shown images of partially nude couples doing some fuckin' (but, you know, classily), while the other half were shown images of couples engaging in non-sexual behaviors such as unfuckily drinking wine together. After the survey, the students' stress levels were measured and they were given the aforementioned anxiety-inducing test.
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"Empty again? I thought I just refilled this damn thing."
The students who were shown the semi-pornographic images exhibited lower levels of stress and scored an average of one-and-a-half times better on the math portion of the test. The scientists concluded that viewing "mildly erotic" images helped to calm the students' nerves and thus improved their subsequent scores on a stressful test. It's not as ridiculous as it sounds -- it's actually fairly basic brain chemistry. Stress releases chemicals that wreak havoc on your ability to do, well, anything. Stimulating the pleasure centers in the brain blunts their effect.
Obviously this will not help you if, hours later, you glance up from Redtube and realize you've missed the class entirely.
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"Ms. Martin, the test began at 1 p.m. I don't care if the actors were dressed up like pterodactyls."
#4. Padding Your Essays With Bullshit
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Unless you're some kind of academic Eagle Scout, you've probably had to scramble to finish an essay at some point in your life. And God forbid you pad that puppy with, say, quotes from Battlestar Galactica just to make the word count -- college professors pride themselves on having top-of-the-line, built-in bullshit detectors.
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Sort of like how you hire a criminal to catch another criminal.
Or, not. Statistically, you can usually get a better score just by adding words. Any words. Les Perelman, a director of undergraduate writing at MIT, was astonished at how easy it is to predict grades for the essay portion of the SAT based on length alone. After finding that longer essays scored better than shorter ones 9 times out of 10, he said, "I have never found a quantifiable predictor in 25 years of grading that was anywhere near as strong as this one," presumably while adjusting his monocle in disgust.
And yes, whether the essays were factually correct was irrelevant: One essay on the Civil War claimed that it began with "the firing of two shots at Fort Sumter in late 1862." A correct version would be something closer to "the firing of 4,000 shots during a 34-hour battle at Fort Sumter in early 1861," but who's counting?
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"It was only after Gandalf arrived with riders from Eomer that the tide of battle turned in favor of the Confederacy."
Technically, the SAT graders are counting, just not in the way you'd expect. In order to get through the shit-tons of SAT tests, essay graders are under the gun to grade 20 essays per hour. That means they're spending a whopping three minutes on each one, less if they want a bonus for pulling off a 30-essay ultra combo. When dealing in that quantity, graders aren't looking for quality -- they're just making sure you can string a bunch of sentences together and sign your name in the general vicinity of the line. They're already on to the next essay well before they have time to realize that yours is a thinly veiled Game of Thrones fanfic.
And, in almost every case, your professors are in the same boat -- they're under the same time pressure when grading this shit that you're under when writing it, and it's easy to just give a pass to the students who seem to have put in a lot of work (as indicated, of course, by their impressive word count). So, when the time inevitably comes that you're staring at Page 1 of your 18-page paper that's due right the hell now, your best bet is to head to Costco and staple a cover page onto an 18-pound bag of fertilizer.
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#3. Taking a Year Off After High School
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Lots of people skip out on college for a year after high school, and who can blame them? After spending years steeped in pencils, books, and teacher's dirty looks, everyone needs a little time to prepare themselves before repeating it all over again (only with even less sex and booze). Some people might tell you that taking time off kills your academic momentum and ensures you a lifetime of regret -- after all, don't you get worse at anything if you stop doing it for a year?
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"I am so sorry ... is your bellybutton still bleeding?"
Nope. A study of Australian students found that "gap year" students don't choke when they go back to college -- they excel. Even better, the positive effect of the gap year snowballs, with their performance continually improving year after year. Taking 12 months off was shown to be even better for your GPA than being an overachiever in high school. Researchers suggested that this may be due to the fact that those months spent away from school enabled students to hone their decision-making skills and gain confidence -- it's almost as if you're a more complete and less terrible person after you've spent a significant chunk of time away from a high school setting or something.
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"If one year is good, eight years must be better! Thanks, Cracked!"
Now, here comes the big "unless" that you shouldn't let your eyes just skip over -- all of the above is true unless you don't actually go back after one year. If your gap year turns into a gap decade, yeah, you're going to struggle.
The sad thing is that so few students do this in the USA, where it's normal elsewhere. In the U.K., the college freshman gap year rate is about six times higher than it is in the U.S., and that's still pathetic compared to Norway, Denmark, and Turkey, where half of all students take time off after high school. The U.S. is starting to get into the game, though: Massachusetts' Tufts University offers wandering students up to 30 large for visas and airfare to places like Ecuador, and you can also find gap year programs in places like Princeton and the University of North Carolina.
So there you go, kids: Even if you weren't born with the mutant ability to crap out gold bullion, you've still got a chance at improving your college performance and having a kickass story about how you single-handedly saved that village in Peru, like a superhero who gets straight A's.
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Neeme Järvi is back conducting the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, with the violinist Marianne Thorsen, in this second volume of Chandos' series devoted to the orchestral works of Johan Halvorsen. This Norwegian composer, conductor, and violinist was a highly prominent figure in his country's musical life during the first decades of the twentieth century. The works on this CD are all performed by the orchestra that Halvorsen himself conducted in the 1890s. As in the first volume of the series, they represent Nordic folk-based music at its very best: light and airy compositions with the strings firmly at centre stage. Air norvégien was described by Halvorsen's contemporary, Edvard Grieg, as 'a folk-tune medley, but so well
done that the result is a piece of art'.
Because Halvorsen spent more than thirty-six years working at the theatres in Bergen and Oslo, a large proportion of his compositional output is music for the stage. The movements of Suite ancienne were originally composed for the play The Lying-in Room by Ludvig Holberg in 1911. The first two movements, Intrata and Air con variazioni, are in the style of late-eighteenth-century serenades, whereas the Gigue, Sarabande, and Bourrée were modelled after baroque dances. Halvorsen himself counted Suite ancienne as one of his finest compositions.
Halvorsen also composed in more prestigious genres and his Second Symphony is commonly regarded as the best of his three symphonies. Nicknamed Fatum, the Second Symphony is inspired by the work's opening motif which, in the manner of the 'fate' symphonies of Beethoven and Tchaikovsky, is heard in all four movements. In the second movement, Romance, a beautiful oboe cantilena is followed by a dramatic development that draws on the 'fate' motif, and the brisk main motif of the cheerful third movement, Intermezzo – the fate motif cleverly altered in rhythm – belongs among the most successful, and at the same time most personal, that Halvorsen ever wrote.
'The performances throughout are top-notch and Chandos's sound is of demonstration quality' - Gramophone on Orchestral Works, Vol 1
"...I have only praise for both the conductor and his soloist, Marianne Thorsen, who possesses a velvety tone and an immaculate technique. The Bergen Philharmonic never has sounded better on disc. Good sound, and decent notes are also provided. Definitely recommended, and I am looking forward to the third volume,too."
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"The Bergen players and Neeme Jarvi give this music their fullest attention, and it is hard to imagine it being played any better. Marianne Thorsen has the requisite technique to play the virtuosic parts, and the sweetness of tone to sing in the Chant."
"It will certainly find its way into my Recordings of the Year"
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"Jarvi brings all his charm to these scores and gets performances of subtlety and finesse from Marianne Thorsen and the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. The wonderfully natural sound is in the best Chandos manner."
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BARNESVILLE-Cutting class at Barnesville Middle School Friday will be encouraged -- as long as the students are participating in the second annual "Cutting Class for a Cure" cancer walk.
For a minimum donation of $1 per period, students will be able to "cut" class and walk laps in the gymnasium in honor or memory of friends or family members affected by cancer.
Event coordinators Lori Witchey and Bev McConnell say that all walkers can register to win door prizes, and there will also be a Chinese auction with the winners announced at the end of the day. Some of this year's 30 prizes include Ohio State football tickets, Washington "Wild Things" tickets, an autographed photo of Pittsburgh Steeler Troy Polamalu, pool passes, student athletic passes, gift cards and gift baskets donated by the middle school staff.
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Last year Barnesville Middle School students cut classes for donations and raised more than $4,000 for cancer support services. Friends, families and survivors are welcome to participate in this year's "Cutting Class for a Cure" walk this Friday.
Honor and memory declarations will be available again this year for $1 each and will be showcased in the school hallway. There will also be a special lap around the gym for those who have won the fight against the disease, and all survivors are invited to participate.
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@morriea: Thanks for the heads-up. I don't usually have any problem with slow delivery, as long as I know before I order that it will be slow.
But really, most of what I order even from B&M stores with websites takes 7-10 days to arrive.
Holy crap! This site has awful reviews!
I bought a Roku 3 to give it a go with online streaming. I was pretty disappointed. Damn near all smart TV's come with a built in Roku today and there are better streaming devices out there for the price.
@decyde: What's better than a Roku for $40? And smart TV's come with alot of apps sure - but a $300 TV doesn't. Or an older TV.....which people aren't going to upgrade if they can buy a $40 Roku. Just sayin'.
On another note.....Roku just upgraded it's whole product line. There will be lots of selloffs of the old models as a result. So if you're worried about this particular site, I'm sure something else will come along soon.
I bought a bad router from 1sale previously. When i complained that it was junk they refunded me my money without having to return it. So they won points in my book. I have purchased from them a few times and they have been good to me. Roku just redid their entire line the other day though, so i am assuming this is the old model versions.
@beenyweeny: It has awful reviews because people don't realize when they purchase the ship times from this site. Sometimes items can take up to 3 weeks to ship, I've known a few people as well as myself who've used this site positively, you just have to realize going into it not to expect it in the same week.
@mgherter: Hopefully devs start working on chromecast apps then I would fully heartedly say that was better then roku, for now though roku is a solid pick for anyone that already has a large tv and doesn't feel like spending 800$+ to replace it with a "smart tv"
Just hooked up my Sansa Clip mp3 to the Roku and listening to my playlist on the 55" flat screen I got a killer deal from Newegg. Love the Roku! WOOT
@decyde: My TV has some of the same streaming apps, but I like the Roku UI and remote a lot better.
The price is a pretty good deal, but I have to say that 1sale/1saleaday is absolutely awful with regard to customer service & shipping times. Yes, I already know that they post 1-2week/2-3week shipping times (these are BUSINESS WEEKS & these are times before the item is even in the mail) but they, often, provide unreliable tracking information. This can & will become quite frustrating to someone who expects that something is on its way when it actually isn't. On my last 3 shipments, the tracking numbers I received from them TOOK AT LEAST 7-10 DAYS TO SHOW MOVEMENT & I am now waiting on my final order from this company to start moving & arrive & will cease any further business with them. It is a shame to have a vendor with decent bargains but you have to roll dice each time you order. To add insult to injury, there is almost non-existent phone support & their email support consists of canned replies that take 48+ hours.
I just wanted to put out a word of caution to consider. YMMV
@decyde: I don't believe any of the Smart TVs come with (or support) the Plex media client which is, hands down, the single best reason to own a Roku (and well worth more than the $40 you'd pay for this deal). I bought a Roku HD for $40 a year ago from Amazon and certainly we do use the Amazon, Netflix, and Vudu apps plenty, but none of them combined as much as we use Plex for streaming content stored on the Mac Mini upstairs (there are also Plex servers for Linux, and even for Windows too).
Bear in mind that the XD model has no ethernet jack. Wifi-only devices are worse than cancer of the baby.
@gbeenie: They are? I have an AppleTV (1st-gen), a WD Live, and a Roku (and an XBOX 360, but I avoid using that as a media device as it's the saddest excuse ever for a media client). While all of them have ethernet jacks, I've never wired them in; always have run them over 802.11n, and rarely have had an issue. I suppose if I were pushing some seriously high bit-rate 1080p content, I might have troubles.
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Egypt Court Orders YouTube Ban
CAIRO—An Egyptian court on Saturday ordered the video-sharing website YouTube to be blocked in the country for a month after the site declined to remove an American-made video clip that was deemed insulting to Islam.
The decision to temporarily block the site comes five months after anger over the short video, titled "Innocence of Muslims," fueled protests in a number of countries. In Cairo, where protests first broke out on Sept. 11, thousands of mostly Islamist activists rallied in front of the heavily guarded U.S. Embassy, and a handful managed to breach the mission's walls and pull down the American flag.
It wasn't immediately clear on Saturday whether, how or when the ruling would actually take effect. The website, which is owned by Google Inc., was working in Egypt on Saturday. A YouTube spokeswoman said Saturday that the company had "received nothing from the judge or government related to this matter."
Young Egyptian activists who rely heavily on YouTube to spread videos of police brutality, political satire and calls for protest mostly jeered at the Egyptian court ruling, calling it yet another example of what they say is scattered, faulty decision-making that has complicated Egypt's two-year transition to democracy.
"It's silly from a technical point of view," said Wael Eskandar, a pro-democracy activist and trained computer programmer. He said it was unclear how the government would carry out the ruling. "It's like someone saying I sentence you to go to the moon but you have to find a space shuttle."
The ruling, by the seventh district administrative court, can be appealed. The Egyptian government has also simply failed to enforce some similar rulings in the past.
In November, an Egyptian court convicted in absentia seven Egyptian Coptic Christians and a Florida-based American pastor and sentenced them to death on charges linked to the video.
Bahey Al Din Hassan, the director of the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies, said Saturday's ruling reflects the growing Islamization of Egyptian society.
The decision is troubling, he said, even if it is never implemented.
"I am afraid that Egypt will witness more and more such rulings and growing of such conservative attitudes," he said. "This is of course at the expense of human rights in general and in particular on the freedom of expression and religious freedom."
The Islamist politicians who have inherited the expansive political power left by former President Hosni Mubarak's abdication two years ago have been considering legislation aimed at censoring pornographic websites or other pages deemed offensive to Islam and Egypt's conservative moral sensibilities.
But unlike other regimes in oil-rich Persian Gulf nations such as Saudi Arabia, which have sophisticated web censorship, Egypt doesn't have the technical infrastructure to thoroughly or effectively block Internet websites, said Mr. Eskandar.
Egypt's former prosecutor general banned web pornography in a ruling in November, but high costs and technical difficulties have kept the ruling from being enforced.
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Where can I get a tie dyeable necktie?
Does anyone know where I can get a necktie that could be tie dyed? Ideally I'd like to find one that is white, 100% cotton, as that would take the dye best. But 50/50 cotton/polyester would probably work as well.
I've done a few Google searched but haven't come up with anything yet.
Any ideas where to go from here?
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I have absolutely no idea, but I'm going to be stuck on the mobius strip of "tie-dyed tie" all day in my head.
I found these paintable ones: http://www.wallacks.com/catalogue/catalog.php?cat=ta3&table=craft
But I think you will have trouble using a traditional tie-dye technique, because the structure of a finished tie precludes actually tying it. You could emulate the look on this with paint, however. Or, you could tie dye a piece of fabric, and fabric fuse it onto a plain tie.
This isn't really of any help, but I found a whole bunch of white 50/50 ties at a thrift store once. Looked like left overs from wedding outfits. So they do exist! Maybe worse comes to worse you can find a template for sewing a tie and just do it yourself, probably not too difficult.
@publicart: Ties are remarkably annoying to sew. I swear the point at the bottom never looks right. I guess it could also have to do with the fact that the fabric I was working with was shiny/synthetic.
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The have one for $20.00 at http://www.cjenkinscompany.com/White_cotton_Necktie_p/white%20necktie.html
They sell supplies for DIY inkjet printing on fabric, so chances are good it would be suitable for tie dye.
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Why religious people are more likely to forgive
From the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion comes a new study highlighting why people who are religious tend to be more forgiving than those who are not. Interestingly, the study traces the propensity toward forgiveness to adolecsence:
... the source of these orientations and beliefs appears to be a specific socialization, one that can be traced to the formative period of adolescence ... those raised as religious adherents (measured via proxy at age 16) have a greater propensity to forgive themselves and others later in life. Socialization into trait forgiveness, especially the development of forgiveness schemas, is apparently sticky enough to last through religious and denominational switching later in life. However, those who leave a religious tradition entirely (i.e., those who were religiously affiliated and no longer were at the time of the survey) are less likely to forgive themselves and others compared to those who stay in a religious tradition. What seems to matter in promoting forgiveness, then, is that a person adheres to a religion or denomination; on the whole, the religiously unaffiliated have less of a propensity to forgive.
University of Notre Dame researcher Daniel Escher's study is summarized by David Briggs in a column he did for the Association of Religion Data Archives. His question: "Who is most likely to forgive?" As it turns out, there is a great deal of data available to help answer that question.
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Paul Moses, a professor of journalism at Brooklyn College/CUNY, is the author of The Saint and the Sultan: The Crusades, Islam and Francis of Assisi's Mission of Peace (Doubleday, 2009) and An Unlikely Union: The Love-Hate Story of New York's Irish and Italians (NYU Press, 2015).
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Forgiveness is a curious concept. It has different meanings in different contexts. In a traditional religious sense, if the offended one is God, it's like a reprieve. If you offend God and He doesn't forgive you, you are likely to be punished. Human forgiveness, though, is mostly an internal thing, a decision to accept past wrongs and move ahead - a readjustment to reality. Usually, human refusal to forgive implies no power to punish the offender. Often, the offender doesn't care a fig if he's forgiven or not. The offended one is the only player in the game.
I am curious about the age-16 angle. Escher does not say that the socialization "takes" in the 16-year-old, only that if it takes place about then, the person will be more likely to forgive himself and others later in life. In my own experience, I was a judgmental twit at the age of16. It wasn't until I was a little older and had demonstrated what a jerk I could be and how much I was in need of forgiveness that I caught on, but I guess what I caught on to was probably things I was told about around the age of 16.I was 16 well pre-Vatican Council (II, of course) when the whole church was more judgmental. I wonder if the post-Vat generation, raised on God is love, needed to go through the same process?
Forgiving others is easily accommodated among religious adherents. Forgiving self, however, can be more difficult. At least that has been my experience.
"Forgiving self, however, can be more difficult."Michael, that's interesting. Do you think that's a function of religion? Or something else?
The study seems overwhelmingly Christian in orientation, and so I think it is worth observing that using it to talk about "religious" people should be qualified.
I think, although I don't profess to know, that it is a result of both religion and something else.
Sorry to have been bothersome. But self forgiveness has been top of mind for me of late. I'll let you be.
I don't think you are bothersome, Michael. Doesn't Lent encourage soul-searching and remind us how in need of forgiveness we are, as Tom notes? It forces us to confront the mystery that the Risen Christ promises us mercy and eternal life even as Christ Crucified (the one we see behind the altar every Sunday) hangs there by the nails driven in by our sins, dying eternally.It's an emotional roller coaster of a season. I hope you find some peace.


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TEMPLE (January 18, 2013)—Temple Heat, a basketball team created to keep children off the street, is holding a lay-up-a-thon Sunday to raise money for much-needed uniforms.
The lay-up-a-thon will consist of the team making as many proper technique lay-ups as they can in two minutes.
Local businesses are needed to make a one-time pledge amount or a per lay-up pledge to help give the boys new uniforms and raise money for an upcoming tournament.
It is the team's hope to qualify for the national tournament in Dallas later this year.
"All tournament fees and associated costs are paid for by money donated from the community," Coach Rebecca Thompson said in an earlier interview.
The 6th grade boys' select basketball team was designed to not only create a love of the game, but teach discipline, respect and the importance of good grades.
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In New York City, she is not a huge star. Put her on the subway, and I doubt more than one or two people would recognize her. Ballet dancers who are more well known, whose images are on bus stop shelters and phone booths (illuminated, no less), walk around on their own all the time.
Not only on the subway. Several weeks ago, while picking up my tickets for La bayadere I saw Osipova walk through the Met lobby with Hallberg and Simkin. It was about half an hour before the performance and there was a lot of people around. No one but me seemed to recognize or pay any attention to them, and we're talking not regular New Yorkers, but ballet fans getting ready to attend an ABT performance.
As for the mugging story, I can only thank God it didn't result in a true tragedy and hope it will not stop N.O. from coming back to NYC.


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Availability: Ships within 6-8 weeks from the purchase date for destinations within the contiguous United States.
Standard curbside delivery is free in the contiguous United States and includes delivery of large or fragile items to your curb or front door Monday through Friday during normal business hours. This service does not include delivery inside your home or office, so be prepared. If you want to save money on shipping and are ok with a little moving and unpacking, this is your best option. For a modest fee, additional delivery options are available.
Inside delivery is a cost effective way to have large, heavy items delivered inside your home or office when you just do not want to be bothered by moving and lifting. This service can be added to your order for $59 per item. We recommend inside delivery because this item is either extremely large, extremely heavy or ships in multiple boxes.
Premium inside delivery is our most comprehensive delivery service option. For $99, this service includes a four-hour delivery appointment, placement inside your room of choice (two flights of stairs max), unpacking, set up (up to 30 minutes without tools), and debris removal. If you want a no hassle delivery experience, this is your best option. Please call 888-467-6278 for more information and a customized quote.