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While the oft-cited adage that "the Devil can quote scripture for his own purposes" is not, as some think, an actual Biblical quotation, support for the idea is definitely found in the Bible. (See Matthew chapter 4, for example.) This doesn't really demonstrate anything either way about Satan's willingness to accept the scriptures as authoritative or authentic, but simply a cynical tendency to use any rhetorical tool that he thinks will be effective.
We do know that "the devils believe [in God] and tremble", and that they acknowledge the power of his authorized servants but not his name alone (Acts 19: 13-16,) but very little is said of Satan or his servants and their relationship with the scriptures.


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Lots of people don't know the difference between an assignment, TDY (Temporary Duty Assignment), and a "Deployment."
An "Assignment" is where one is permamently stationed. They remain at that base until they receive orders to move to a new base. A "TDY" is a temporary assignment, usually to attend a school, conference, temporarily help a unit which is undermanned, or participate in an exercise. When the mission of the TDY is complete, the airman returns to his/her permament duty assignment.
A "Deployment" is similar to a TDY, except the member deploys to be part of a specific operation, usually a combat operation overseas. Like a TDY, when the deployment is finished, the airman returns to his/her permament duty assignment. The Air Force deploys people to areas such as Afghanistan, Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Kosovo, and Bosnia for on-going contingency operations.
Under the Air Force's AEF (Air Expeditionary Force) concept, the Air Force's goal is not to deploy individuals and units for no more than 90 days in a year. However, the Air Force has a long way to go to meet that goal for personnel in many specific jobs. Most Air Force deployments last between 60 and 90 days.
Below is a chart that shows the average number of days deployed for airmen between the period of October 1, 2009 to September 30, 2010.


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5 Modern Technologies That Are Way Older Than You Think
With modern science churning out inventions so quickly that our phones are obsolete 48 hours after we buy them, we tend to assume that pretty much every awesome thing in our lives is a relatively recent innovation. And as we've reported before, that impression often lands ridiculously far from the truth. Many of the technologies we automatically peg as modern are actually way, way older than we think.
#5. The Fax Machine Was Invented Before the Civil War
Unless you're super old school or you live in Japan, you probably know the fax machine mainly as that mysterious thing gathering dust at the corner of your office. But some of us do remember a time when these machines seemed like magical saviors that prevented us from having to wait a week for documents to get delivered (or lost) by the postal service. It wasn't that many years ago -- that is, before email was a thing -- that the fax was the cutting-edge king of the information superhighway.
Rickrolling was a downright hassle back then.
Actually Invented In ...
1843. This means that faxes, which use phone lines to transmit data, actually predate telephones (the first phone was patented in 1876). Imagine how loud you'd have screamed "Bullshit!" if during the movie Lincoln one of the characters had gotten up to send a fax.
" ... it's a warning about some sort of play. Probably best to just ignore it."
But it's true -- the Civil War was still a full two decades away and the Oregon Trail was experiencing the height of its dysentery-ridden rush hour when the fax machine was built by Scottish inventor Alexander Bain. He had just patented the first electric clock, and apart from being a pioneer of electricity, Bain enjoyed dabbling in communication technology: He contributed to telegraph lines on the railway between Edinburgh and Glasgow and invented an electric timing system for railway engines while he was at it.
It was the 19th century. Inventing things and typhus were the only pastimes.
The electrical telegraph was an extremely new technology, but Bain was a natural. He figured that if telegraph transmission was good enough for transmitting the sound of Morse code, it should be good enough for pictures.
"Finally, the world will know what my junk looks like."
And before anyone could explain to him that sounds and pictures were two completely different things, he had already converted parts of his electrical clocks into an image scanner and rigged it to the telegraph system. Did it work? Did it ever! What's more, it looked like this:
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Damn, this guy was into steampunk way before it was cool.
Various inventors tinkered with the design, and by 1899, newspaper offices were actually using them. Sure, it'd take 20 to 30 minutes to send a single photograph, but that's a hell of a lot faster than having a dude deliver that shit by horse.
#4. The Digital Calculator Was Invented in 1640
At first, the world's favorite device for cheating at simple math seems like a bad fit for a list like this. After all, everyone knows that calculators have existed for quite some time now -- Kraftwerk wrote love songs for them way back in 1981, so calculators must've been around for at least a couple of decades before that. Hell, let's play it safe and say they were invented in ... 1960?
1860? No?
Well, shit.
Actually Invented In ...
Try 1640.
"Verily, it sayeth 'boobs'!"
Yep, back in the middle of the 17th century, just after the pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock and the rest of the world was dealing with various plagues and the baroque movement, one man ignored the struggles of everyday life in order to make math his bitch.
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Pockets were much, much bigger back then.
By the age of 16, French wunderkind Blaise Pascal had already figured out how air pressure and vacuums work and contributed to a formative treatise on projective geometry (which, of course, is second nature to our readership, so we won't delve into that any further). One day, he decided to give his father (a tax accountant who provided Pascal's education) a present, but didn't want to go the traditional route of half-assedly building a birdhouse at arts and crafts. Seeing Pops wrestle yet another hardcore accountin' match with scores and scores of figures, Pascal finally got his gift idea: He would break all known boundaries of technology and build his dad a mathematics machine.
After some initial hit-and-miss research, Pascal indeed managed to build the world's first mechanical calculator, which became known as Pascaline.
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Not to be confused with mescaline, which is what inspired this thing's creation.
Pascaline crunched numbers pretty ingeniously: The required figures were set on the lid's dials, which twisted and turned the machinery inside in precisely the right way so that the correct results popped up in the little windows on the lid. Technically, the machine could only do sums, but it was totally possible to subtract (by doing the process in reverse), multiply (with repeated addition), and divide (with repeated subtraction). It was calibrated specifically for calculations involving money, and its settings could even be adjusted between French and English currencies.
Pascal built about 50 Pascaline calculators, attempting to sell them commercially. They never really took off, what with him being around 200 years too early. A bunch of these "extremely damage-prone" devices still survive today, lounging around in museums and scoffing at your TV that is bound to break down within three years of purchase.
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Today, mechanical calculators are all but extinct, and even their digital successors are fighting a losing battle, considering that their power is dwarfed by the average phone. Still, it's a humbling thought that the basic functions of all of those machines could be performed with a clunky brass box put together by a kid from the 17th century.
#3. Contact Lenses Existed in the 19th Century
Eyes are fickle and vulnerable things, so of course science has spent a lot of time poking them. However, in this particular case, their efforts bore wonderful fruit: Ever since contact lenses gained FDA approval in 1971, their science-magic has been offering us an alternative to nerdy eyeglasses. Unlike the optically challenged poor sods just a few decades ago, we can freely and easily disguise our bad eyesight with contacts instead of douche-y hipster frames. If that's not progress, we don't know what is.
"There. My last flaw, covered up."
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1888, the year that Jack the Ripper roamed the crumbling heights of Victorian stuffiness and Germany went through three whole kaisers (presumably because they couldn't decide whose mustache was the manliest).
For the record, this guy won.
Apart from the troubled era he lived in, there are two things you need to know about German inventor Adolf Fick: He came from a family of geniuses, each with a heavy penchant for pioneering research, and his field of choice was ophthalmology, so he literally spent his days poking eyeballs with things. With that background, it was really just a matter of time before he wound up looking for new, non-spectacled ways to improve eyesight.
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"If it doesn't improve your vision, you can still use it to kill ants."
Fick's prototype lenses are to modern contacts what the Model-T Ford is to a Ferrari: bulky, clumsy, and insulting to the eye. They were essentially eyeglass lenses, made of heavy blown glass that covered the entire eye, and they could only be worn for a few hours before the screaming pain outweighed the benefits of being able to see.
But hey, at least you didn't look like a nerd.
Fick tested his invention on rabbits, then molds cast from the eyes of cadavers, and finally on himself. (We're assuming he washed them in between uses.) After a two-hour test run failed to explode his eyeballs, six volunteers became the first contact lens wearers.
While Fick's lenses absolutely did work, their cumbersome nature and the extreme discomfort this wrought made them impractical. He discontinued his research in 1902, and nobody picked it up until the 1930s. At that point, the technology was sufficiently advanced for further development. By 1937, there were already around 4,000 contact lens users in America alone. The only reason the rest of us had to wait so long to get a pair was that until recently, the lenses were expensive as hell.


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How does/should Stack Overflow handle synonymous tags?
I was doing some research on JavaEE. I came here. The first tag I used was 'j2ee'. I sifted through the questions, and learned a lot - including the fact that some of these questions are also tagged 'jee', 'javaee', and 'jee5'. Those tags lead to more questions. The web grows. I quickly find I could spend a lot of time on this. Some questions are almost redundant, but just had different tags.
I'm enough of an SO user to have expected this, but it can still be a pain. If I'm interested in Java Enterprise Edition questions, I might have to add four tags to see them all. If I ask a JavaEE-related question, I might have to add four tags to make sure I'm getting as many eyes as possible looking at it.
Some tags "include" others. Sort of. Obviously, some subjects subsume others: language-agnostic contains java contains j2ee contains ejb. But of course, not every question is best served by tagging it with everything up the subject hierarchy; most probably aren't.
Time passes quickly on the Internet. A programmer using one tag for his question one day may decide he preferred a different tag only a month later. A programmer seeking answers might search on one tag, but have preferred different tags earlier, had he only known. Questions probably don't get cleaned up and retagged.
This is no doubt an oft-considered issue for the SO devteam, not to mention anyone using tags this way. Clearly, the current system favors dynamic, laissez-faire creation, and the benefits of that should be obvious. The auto-completion and related tags features also help guide programmers to their desired pavilions in this gigantic convention center.
Well, given the above, what do we do about tags that are close enough in meaning that they're considered synonymous by enough of the SO userbase? Is it worthwhile to encourage users to use "One True Tag" if one seems evident? Is it worthwhile to auto-retag older questions to newer tags?


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Debian Squeeze: Mounting USB Drive on reboot fails
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Hi, already had look here
, but as this is too old I dare to open a new thread.
I recently switched from Ubuntu 9.04 to Debian Squeeze with my SheevaPlugs (booting from a 1GB SD).
Attached to the plug is also a 2TB Hitachi USB HDD, which contains my data, e.g. shared via cfis/samba.
Debian's working quite well, however when rebooting the plug, the attached USB drive usually doesn't get mounted. That's new to me as it worked fine using Ubuntu.
This is the entry in /etc/fstab:
#/dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 ext3 rw,usrquota 0 0
UUID=<USB's ID> /mnt/sda1 ext3 rw,usrquota 0 0
Mounting it on the CLI "mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 works.
Strangly if I power cycle the plug the drive gets mounted.
Any idea what this might be. Haven't tried it yet, but may an "usbstart" during the u-boot initialization improve the situation?
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Do you have a rootdelay setting in your bootargs?
This lets the USB devices start and and settle on the USB bus before the kernel (and udev) start looking for them
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Hi birdman,
On the weekend I amended the bootcmd_mmc u-boot environment variable given her
with an "usb start"
setenv bootcmd_mmc 'mmcinit; ext2load mmc 0:1 0x00800000 /uImage; ext2load mmc 0:1 0x01100000 /uInitrd
; usb start
but it does not mitigate the situation:
Last login: Sun Nov 21 16:51:42 2010
root@Share:~# df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mmcblk0p2 746848 607824 101088 86% /
tmpfs 257788 0 257788 0% /lib/init/rw
udev 254952 76 254876 1% /dev
tmpfs 257788 0 257788 0% /dev/shm
/dev/mmcblk0p1 124743 22009 96078 19% /boot
root@Share:~# mount -a
root@Share:~# df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mmcblk0p2 746848 607860 101052 86% /
tmpfs 257788 0 257788 0% /lib/init/rw
udev 254952 76 254876 1% /dev
tmpfs 257788 0 257788 0% /dev/shm
/dev/mmcblk0p1 124743 22009 96078 19% /boot
/dev/sda1 1922858352 1424940752 478382444 75% /mnt/sda1
But of course your hint was worthwhile a new try (in the meantime I also saw some of your post where you ran into a similar situation :-)
Thus I modified the u-boot variables as follows:
setenv bootargs_console 'console=ttyS0,115200
setenv bootargs_mmc 'mmcinit; ext2load mmc 0:1 0x01100000 /uInitrd; ext2load mmc 0:1 0x00800000 /uImage'
setenv bootcmd_mmc 'setenv bootargs $(bootargs_console); run bootargs_mmc; bootm 0x00800000 0x01100000'
setenv bootcmd 'run bootcmd_mmc; run bootcmd_nand; run bootcmd_sd'
And indeed, looks better, now :-)
BTW: as my plug's in the basement I always have to pick it up and bring it to my PC to have access to the u-boot environment.
So I though being lazy and considered the use of the sheeva-uboot-tools (
), dl them and compiled my own version.
However, though the sheeva-ubootenv-print worked OK, sheeva-ubootenv-save seem to have screwed the config, as another print claimed about CRC? errors and the plug didn't came after reboot. When I picked it up I could access u-boot, but it just had default settings. Luckily I had a backup at hand and could restore my previous settings, so got it working again (though there was another small intermezzo with the kernel complaining about an unknown Manufacturer ID, but I can't recall exactly how did overcome this ;-)
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Quote from: odoll on November 23, 2010, 05:09:31 AM
And indeed, looks better, now :-)
5 may be a little tight. I think 6 was suggested, but I used 10, as I'd rather wait a few more seconds but be sure.
"usb start" activates the USB bus in u-Boot. rootdelay tells the kernel to wait <n> seconds before scanning the bus after activating it (which it needs to do itself anyway)
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As a delay of 5 worked for me so far (former Ubuntu), I just kept it the same for the Debian boot for now, (though still configured as an option in u-boot, but more or less obsolete, now.)
setenv bootargs_sd 'console=ttyS0,115200 root=/dev/mmcblk0p2
mtdparts=orion_nand:0x400000@0x100000(uImage),0x1fb00000@0x500000(rootfs) rw ip=a.b.c.253:a.b.c.1:a.b.c.1:255.255.255.0:Sheeva:eth0:none'
setenv bootcmd_sd 'setenv bootargs $(bootargs_sd); mmcinit; ext2load mmc 0 0x8000000 /uImage; bootm 0x8000000'
setenv bootcmd 'run bootcmd_mmc; run bootcmd_nand;
run bootcmd_sd
However I had another issue lately, thou I don't know if it's related to the delay value (as far as I can recall I at least never had these kind of issues on the plug running with Ubuntu).
I found the throughput to be very bad lately (log-on/off with the Windows Roaming Profiles was really a pain). I first suspected my network causing these problems, but in the end I found the I/O to the USB-HDD too small and I guess it was just mounted via USB1.1 (when I ran "dmesg | grep usb" I think think I saw a message telling me something like the USB-HDD could do better and I should use an highspeed USB-Hub?).
So I rebooted this morning and the issue seems to be gone for now.
root@Share:/mnt/sda1/public# dmesg | grep usb
[ 23.203358] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
[ 23.231907] usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
[ 23.238583] usbcore: registered new device driver usb
[ 23.363372] usb usb1: New USB device found, idVendor=1d6b, idProduct=0002
[ 23.370204] usb usb1: New USB device strings: Mfr=3, Product=2, SerialNumber=1
[ 23.377478] usb usb1: Product: Marvell Orion EHCI
[ 23.382217] usb usb1: Manufacturer: Linux 2.6.32-5-kirkwood ehci_hcd
[ 23.388598] usb usb1: SerialNumber: orion-ehci.0
[ 23.401912] usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 24.141134] usb 1-1: new high speed USB device using orion-ehci and address 2
[ 24.292046] usb 1-1: New USB device found, idVendor=4971, idProduct=ce23
[ 24.298785] usb 1-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=10, Product=11, SerialNumber=3
[ 24.306139] usb 1-1: Product: SimpleDrive III by Hitachi
[ 24.311487] usb 1-1: Manufacturer: HitachiGST
[ 24.315866] usb 1-1: SerialNumber: <S/N removed>
[ 24.321739] usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 24.447088] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
[ 24.453723] usb-storage: device found at 2
[ 24.453732] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
[ 29.451371] usb-storage: device scan complete
root@Share:/mnt/sda1/public# sync; time sh -c "dd if=/dev/zero of=./test bs=1000k count=1000; sync"
1000+0 records in
1000+0 records out
1024000000 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 37.9303 s, [color=green]27.0 MB/s[/color]
real 0m53.800s
user 0m0.050s
sys 0m11.730s
root@Share:/mnt/sda1/public# sync; time sh -c "dd if=./test of=/dev/null; sync"
2000000+0 records in
2000000+0 records out
1024000000 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 37.3098 s, [color=green]27.4 MB/s[/color]
real 0m37.450s
user 0m2.070s
sys 0m8.410s
However it leave me with two questions:
i) which tool / command shall I use to monitor the "link state" of my USB connection?
ii) may I use the newer kernels compiled and hosted by ctxbiker on my Squeeze install or is this a bad idea?
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The April issue of School Reform News reports on a Parent Trigger measure introduced by state Rep. John DeBerry (D-Memphis). The bill, making its way through the Tennessee legislature, would allow a petition by the majority of parents at schools performing in the state's bottom 20 percent to trigger one of several reforms.
Also in this issue:
- Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has proposed several wide-ranging education reforms: expanding the Milwaukee and Racine voucher program statewide, developing an independent board to oversee public charter schools, allowing students to take state-funded classes outside their schools, creating a special-needs voucher program, and removing restrictions on homeschooled students taking a few classes at public schools.
- Parents pull the third U.S. Parent Trigger in cooperation with the Los Angeles Unified School District.
- Higher education must brace for change as fewer kids graduate from high school, consider college.
- California moves to shift what state standardized reporting (STAR) tests measure, a move some worry may dilute instruction.
- Legislation giving all teacher associations equal access to schools is revived in Kansas.
- The evidence shows Florida achievement gains resulted from school choice, not preschool.
- U.S. students do not learn enough math in school, writes Laurie Rogers.
Newspaper Articles in this Issue
Study: Teacher Quality Not Linked to Advanced Degrees or Experience– March 12, 2013
STAR Wars Begin Again over California Tests– March 8, 2013
School Choice Gains Momentum in States (short)– March 6, 2013
Parent-Driven Education Gains Ground in States (short)– March 3, 2013
Kansas Lawmakers: Taxpayers Shouldn't Pay for Tax-Increasing Lobbyists– March 1, 2013
Students Can Get College Credit for Free Online Courses– February 27, 2013
Kansas Teacher Association Clashes with Union Over Equal Access– February 25, 2013
U.S. Schools Don't Teach Kids Enough Math– February 23, 2013
Fewer Children Means Challenges for Education, Economy– February 22, 2013
New Hampshire School Choice Faces Repeal– February 21, 2013
School Choice, Not Pre-K, Boosted Florida– February 21, 2013
Florida District Cuts Competition Opportunities for Choice Schools– February 20, 2013
Voucher-like Measure Passes Montana Legislature– February 19, 2013
Wisconsin's Walker Proposes More School Choice– February 18, 2013
Idaho Reconsiders Common Core– February 17, 2013
Bipartisan Leaders Rethink Indiana's Common Core Participation (updated)– February 16, 2013
Bill Would Withdraw Georgia from Common Core– February 15, 2013
Alabama Exits National Common Core Tests– February 13, 2013
Tennessee Democrat Proposes Parent Trigger Bill– February 12, 2013
Texans Debate School Choice Possibilities (short)– February 10, 2013
Positive Reception for California's Third Parent Trigger– February 8, 2013
South Carolina Legislator Champions Education Tax Deductions– February 7, 2013
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this time, I am pretty good prepared and I am really curious about what the SI guys are going to tell me...
Its really absurd and really getting on my nerves to see, how I fail to win in matches, I was easily dominating and should have won.
The worst thing is, this didnt happen once, twice or for three times, this has happend more than 5,6,7 times and I am currently mid January of the first season, so god know, how many times I am going to face these kind of matches xD
so, here are the links for the screenshots:
Ive chosen 6 games for you guys
so, can we say, that we dont really need to play the away games, when the results and the outcome are preprogrammed before the matches havent even been played?
is it just bad luck, was it only by chance, that 5 of the 6 games were away games? do home teams, no matter which class, have really that much advantage in this game, that world class strikers like nilmar, rossi and so on fail constantly to score? in all these matches, my strikers ratings were lower than 6.20 if not 6 or 5.90.
its incredible and ridiciulous, that I now, that if I dont score a second one, the opposition is going to rape me...
the getafe match for example, I was leading in the first half, everything went well, but then suddenly, a long kick by the getafe gk, and the striker for the very first time he shots and its a goal. it wasnt even a real chance. of course, I am dominating the rest of the game, fail to score, just in order to let the opposition score from a corner in the very last minute...
this game is really the worst in my young fm carreer. it really takes the fun out of me and dont SI wonder, why for example the tactic section is so quiet and dead? theres no life in this forum anymore. just a few months ago, I can remember seing 2,3 new threads in the tactic section or getting comments after comments, feedbacks after feedbacks, but now, theres badly something happening. the only reason, because people got fed up with this game. most of them have given up and I know lots of guys, who have begun playing fm 11 again...
and for those, who will claim, I am a whiner and so on...
this is how I am doing currently, without any important signings, first season and finished the cl group stages as leaders.
so nothing to be unhappy about, but still, its just getting more and more frustrating
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No, it is not assur.
"As to your question with regard to a curriculum in a coeducational school, I expressed my opinion to you long ago that it would be a very regrettable oversight on our part if we were to arrange separate Hebrew courses for girls. Not only is the teaching of Torah she-be-al peh to girls permissible but it is nowadays an absolute imperative. This policy of discrimination between the sexes as to subject matter and method of instruction which is still advocated by certain groups within our Orthodox community has contributed greatly to the deterioration and downfall of traditional Judaism. Boys and girls alike should be introduced into the inner halls of Torah she-be-al peh."
R. Joseph B. Soloveitchik, Community, Covenant, and Commitment: Selected Letters and Communications, p. 83
The Igros Moshe YD 3:86 says that the Chachamim commanded that women should not be taught Mishna since it is oral Torah and it is like teaching them tiflos(promiscuity) and it should be avoided. However, they can be taught Pirkei Avos since it has Mussar (instruction) and has hanhagos tovas (good deeds).
In The Sefer VaYoel Moshe(Satmer Rebbe) Maimer Lashon Hakodesh 33(page 436) says teaching Rashi to girls falls into the category of teaching tiflos and is an issur chamer Meod(very great sin).
There are those who make a distinction between a classroom setting and learning by oneself. Like Hacham Gabriel pointed out from the Chida Tuv Ayin 4 (read inside how he learnt the Rambam).
For a more in depth anaylasis of this topic see the Tzitz Eliezer 9:2
According to the Hida (Shu"t Tov Ayin #4) we may not force women to learn Torah (as we do Yeshiva students-see Sefer HaHinuch Behar 343). He says women may learn on their own, but adds we can teach her (not against her will).
An interesting data point. In Lubavitcher Rabbi's Memoirs describes a woman named Devorah who grew up in Minsk where women were better educated, and she herself learned Gemarra with Rashi by the age of 15 (and had friends who were women who were apparently at a similar level that she studied with).
When she re-married (she was widowed at a young age) and moved to Vitebsk, she was dismayed at the relative ignorance of the women there and looked to educate them. Ultimately she worked to attract many Torah scholars to that city and made it a center of Torah learning, and founded a Yeshiva bearing her (and her daughter's) name.
I believe the time-frame discussed is 17th century.
While few Orthodox authorities openly say that teaching the oral tradition to women is forbidden many do say that the should not be taught Gemara and/or that there is no commandment to do so. Examples include the Maharil and R' Moshe Feinstein, not to mention Hasidic authorities. Modern Orthodoxy , and especially the more liberal streams of Judaism, do not see this as an issur in light of changing societal norms regarding women. For a deeper discussion of this issue and numerous primary sources see this article (Hebrew only)
The Riaz (13th cent.) writes that there is no prohibition in women learning Torah or in teaching them. He does not differentiate between different categories of Torah, and implies that it is all permissible:
no, women should learn Torah. It is important to understand that learning Talmud doesn't make one a rabbi and that women still cannot become rabbis. Learning Torah on the other hand should never be discouraged.


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According to those opinions that only one who flies over an ocean has to say hagomel, why does one not say hagomel when flying within the USA (where one often takes off over an ocean)?
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The Shulchan Aruch in 219:1 (based on Brachot 54b, which is based on Tehillim 107) lays out 4 categories of individuals who are required to make Birchat Ha'Gomel, one category is "יורדי ים" - literally: 'descender to the sea', colloquially: 'seafarers'.
The Kitzur Shulchan Aruch in 61:1 explains that this halacha includes
Opinions differ regarding whether one should say this blessing on all flights or just those crossing the ocean/desert (see here for a litany of opinions) and one should certainly consult with his/her local Rabbi to establish the local custom/halachic ruling.
It seems that the debate surrounds 2 issues, the first being halachic in nature and the second practical:
Accordingly, according to an opinion that states that one should say Birchat Ha'Gomel when crossing a sea on an airplane, the danger threshold of that situation may be limited to only crossing over entirely and not just passing over briefly (see US Airways 1549).
Those who say that you say hagomel when flying over the ocean, mean that you cross an ocean. (That is actually the language used in your reference question) If you leave JFK but head to Florida, you aren't 'crossing the ocean' in the way that it is meant. However, if you fly to Mexico,(over the gulf of mexico) you would be.
The question is, is the flight a substitute for traveling over land, or a substitute for taking a boat?
(One should also bench gomel when crossing a desert, not just an ocean)


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For starters, Ohio's tax code hasn't been fundamentally redesigned since the Great Depression. Can you believe that? Corporate lobbyists have shut that door for years, and now it seems they've enlisted the help of Democrats to help spread more lies and bury Kasich.
Ohio's taxes are too high and we still have a long way to go until we can compete with Texas or Florida. We need to start somewhere and cutting taxes by 50 percent for small business owners frees up capital for them to hire people. Further tax cuts for mechanics, construction workers and tow trucks will save middle class families more money, too.
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Why does my deal for free Starbucks keep getting removed?
Here is the link and I I don't believe it is a dup. It has been removed 2 times in the last hour.
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The deal is for Friday. You're not supposed to post advance deals here. Post it on Friday and, if you're the first to post, it should stay up and get you plenty of votes.
without even clicking the link i can answer because i'm the one tattling on you. (and others for posting the same thing)
future deals are not permitted. one must be able to get it now for it to be posted here.
these are the current rules as i know them
@moosezilla I see deals post ahead of time often and this is only 2 days away. It would actually give people a chance to pre-plan their day and stop by a Starbucks instead of being at work already and wishing they had known earlier. But I guess rules are rules.
@tmontgom: You used to see deals posted ahead of time. New day, new rules. Too many people were posting deals way ahead of time--got to be a real problem. Deals now have to be posted the day they begin.
@katblue: Honestly I think a bigger problem is flash drives and dvds being on the front page everyday but I understand that rules are rules. I just felt a little singled out.
@tmontgom: Perhaps you used to see future deals posted ahead of their availability, but they've been prohibited for quite some time now.
Genuine pre-order deals are still acceptable, however.
@tmontgom: All pre-deals have been deleted as soon as they come to the attention of the woot staff for the last 3 months.
As the @eviloverlord333 pointed out yesterday, when someone asked why their post of the Starbucks deal was deleted:
From THE MAN's hands to our eyes -
We would prefer to see deals that are available for purchase or action at the time of posting.
- posted by Jumbowoot 3 months ago (and in case you didn't know Jumbowoot is the man in charge)
@tmontgom: Sorry you felt that way (singled out). But you were just getting the same treatment that everyone else is getting. Hang in there! Just remember, once you get all of the rules figured out, they'll probably be changed again. :)
@tmontgom: You are not being singled out. The deal you posted breaks a rule and like all others that break this particular rule, your deal (not you) is being tattled. I routinely tattle future deals, also.
@theoneill555: While we are on this subject, has there ever been a time zone specified/preferred by @jumbowoot? I see things considered "pre-deal" to me posted at 11 PM woot time that stand as valid, yet the woot servers change an hour later. Thoughts?
@jsimsace: There have been staff posts that state the start of the day is Texas woot! time (CDT) even though the site date/time stamps here on deals are Universal Time
When timed deals are posted late at night, I believe it is the luck of the draw as to which woot staffers are manning the site at the time and it is at their discretion whether they leave it or delete it. I have seen the timed deals deleted if they are 15 mins early and I have seen them left alone when they were posted 1 hour early.
@theoneill555: Thank you for confirming my sightings. @lichme, sorry to bug you but can we draw another line in the sand and tell everyone about the rule?


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STEUBENVILLE - The city Salvation Army has fallen short of its annual fundraising goal by $10,000 and is asking the community for its assistance in overcoming that shortfall.
According to Maj. Earline May, the Salvation Army will have to cut services for local assistance if the goal isn't met by Monday.
"My greatest concern is we are $10,000 behind in our (fundraising goal)," she said, adding the funds are needed for Salvation Army operations. "(The funds needed) usually go toward needs at Christmas and also carries us through the first of the year for the food pantry and the other services we provide."
May thanked those business, organizations, individuals and churches that had sponsored the Salvation Army so far this year, including kettle drive hosts Wal-Mart, Kmart, Riesbeck's, the Steubenville Kroger and the Wintersville Big Lots. She also thanked angel tree sponsors, which included the Dollar General stores in Steubenville, Mingo Junction and Wintersville; the Zion United Church of Christ; Huntington Bank; Bob Evans; Applebees; the Eastern Gateway Community College student senate; Cash Advance; First National Bank; the Social Security department; and the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department. She also thanked all Salvation Army volunteers, including the its League of Mercy volunteers, who visit local nursing homes.
"Thank you to all the bell ringers, businesses and groups who partnered with the Salvation Army this year to meet the need," said May. "This is the first time in 11 years we've had a shortfall."
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"All donations will be accepted through Dec. 31," she said, adding as long as a check is dated Dec. 31, or earlier, donated funds would be used for operations through the end of the year.
May said she is puzzled by the shortfall, since in 2011 the Salvation Army exceeded its goal.
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conception: the way in which something is perceived or regarded
These two words are troubling me because it seems that there is a way that concept and conception can be used near-identically or near-interchangeably and in a way that differ only to the extent of some kind of inflection.
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Do the low quality shirt blanks keep you from purchasing from Shirt.Woot?
I know we've had similar questions before regarding your opinion towards the low quality blanks that Shirt.Woot uses. But does that, and that alone, keep you from making the purchase? I really like today's Shirt.Woot offering, but I can't bring myself to purchase it knowing it's going to be printed on a used paper bag. The last shirt I bought was so thin and cheap feeling. One wash later, the neck hole was HUGE and the entire shirt was a solid 2+ inches shorter. I'm sorry Woot.... but I will not be buying any more of your shirts until you can guarantee me quality. :-(
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Not just low quality, but the women's shirts don't fit me anymore is the biggest factor for me.
I do have one of the new blanks and after one wash the thread around the bottom hem was all over the place.
Yes, the shirt quality does get to me a bit. However the main reason that I stopped purchasing was the whole situation regarding shirt price vs. shirt provider. The whole ordeal when prices went up AND Woot switch shirt providers sorta felt like betrayal. I understand that costs go and and a rise in price is logical, but it is nevertheless having an impact on my shirt purchasing.
not only the low quality of the blanks, but the increasing mediocrity of the designs
@studerc: Agree wholeheartedly. Whole debacle with American Apparel/raise price/switch vendors really turned me off. Haven't bought a shirt since. Usually won't even look at their shirts anymore.
Not that I hold grudges.
And I'm sure other people are making up for my lack of purchasing, but it's really the only way I have of "voting"
Not really. I had some AA shirts that were junk too. Can't remember if they were from random shirt buys or not, but that shouldn't have mattered. The main issue was the "trim" (at the bottom of the sleeves and at the bottom of the shirt) where it was folded over and sewn together. Sometimes this trim was all wrinkled because it wasn't sewn straight. No amount of ironing would fix it.
I'm buying fewer shirts because the price went up. I still tend to buy the randos, though. For $6.66, I can't complain about less than stellar quality.
At first I was boycotting them simply because of the change in women's sizes - according to the size chart they're all too big for me now. However there was a design last week that I just couldn't resist, and I had a jumbowoot coupon, so I ordered a small and paid $7. It's still in the mail, so we'll see how it goes.
Agreed on the betrayal with the price hike and then switching to lower quality, foreign produced blanks. Especially since Woot justified the price hike by saying that they needed to raise prices to continue using the same shirt blanks. Feels like a bait & switch and leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
I bought 1 shirt in the new blanks because I loved the design, but I don't even wear the shirt very often due to the lower quality of the material. Very disappointing.
I wish Woot would go back to the AA blanks, which fit me perfectly and were the softest, most comfortable shirts I own
No. I don't buy the shirts because they're almost invariably stupid.
Yes, price increase in order to keep the same quality, i am ok with. Followed what seemed like immediately to a switch to an inferior product with no price correction, i am not ok with.
I bought three randos soon after the switch because i was assured they would be the old blanks, but haven't bought any since.
I'm glad i know about the lower quality shirts now :( i haven't bought one in about a year (mostly due to the designs being sub-par now). Thats upsetting because woot was my go-to for shirts.Threadless & Busted Tees you're my only hope!
I only buy shirts when I have a coupon.
I bought my daughter the Univ. of Procrastination shirt today, because the shirt is warranted since she is at Uni. and procrastinates, and used the last coupon I had. Then I found the "Is that you Jimmy" pumpkin shirt, and wish I had gotten that one instead. Oh, well.
I haven't bought a single shirt since the change. I could handle the price increase but not the quality drop, and both right on top of each other was just an insult--a punch in the face from woot to its own customers/community.
I don't think anyone at woot understands what Anvil shirts are actually supposed to be for--if you're making a run of shirts for, say, a college event or a family reunion that are going to be worn once or twice, Anvil blanks are just fine. They aren't okay for something you want to wear regularly and actually be comfortable in. Why doesn't anyone at woot actually seem to understand this?
For what it's worth though, yes, the designs ARE worse too, which compounds the problem. Just look at the awful "nesting doll"/baby bib shirt from a few days ago which is supposedly the second-lowest selling shirt in woot history.
I will still purchase if I REALLY like the design and Jumbowoot has graciously given me a coupon, but my whole family has drastically reduced their amount of shirt.woot purchases.
I drank the metaphorical Woot Kool-Aid after they pulled the trigger on lower quality shirts (coupled with a $2 price increase). Needless to say, I was not pleased with the outcome. Neither the shirt I purchased for myself, nor the one for my wife fits, feels, holds up in the wash. They now look physically older than the Woot shirts I had purchased 3 years ago.
I find myself visiting Woot less and less, also due to the website redesign (but that's a whole 'nother can-o-worms). Shirts I would have snapped at a year ago are now not being added to my collection.
It's too bad. I love Woot, I really do. The quirky emails, the snarky news letters, the fun tongue and cheek meta games. I understand business decisions that pay homage to the law of large numbers - but in my mind, I'd rather have a few really close friends than a plethora of casual acquaintances. Ah well, C'est la vie.
I think most of you knew my stance already, but ABSOLUTELY it keeps me away. I gave up counting how many designs I've passed up since the switch, but it's over 30.
@firebirdude: Wait until the second wash when it'll shrink even more!
The AA small is longer than the Anvil large after two washes, but its neckline remains even wider than the 2XL that's underneath both of them.
I paid $1 for a slightly used copy of My Morning Sidekick in Anvil 2XL ... its length is comparable to an AA medium and its neckline ... well, my pants might have a smaller waist than that!
@75grandville: If you look at the reckoning, you'll see that sales are dramatically down. @neuropsychosocial has taken over the sales numbers since my retirement, and they're very revealing. This time last year, we had 4 shirts in a row sell over 4,000 each and collectively 17,764 just on their first day. This year, we had 4 shirts in a row sell 2,209 ... combined.
@thejester220: Threadless is due to switch blanks again; currently, they're using USA-made blanks by Canvas/Bella for most of their shirts. Their shirts last year make Woot's current ones look stellar, but at least they did something about that.
Since the switch, GoodJoe is where most of my shirt buying dollars have gone to; they print on AA.
Back in January when the price increased to $12, I posted my support for woot stating that $12 shipped was still a great price for a quality shirt. When a month later the quality was gone, so was my support.
One week ago, today, I found myself touring Woot in Carrollton, and met some very friendly people there. I don't believe that anyone I met was responsible for this horrible choice to use inferior blanks. I decided that day to tone back my rants just a little bit. The ones who have to read and put up with my rants are most likely not able to fix the situation.
I'll probably continue to buy random shirts. The Anvil blanks with their freakishly huge neck holes, and super shrinking short lengths will probably become sleep shirts for me. It's the only way I can see being able to continue buying shirts unless something changes. That stinks for the artists. :-(
Oh, how I wish Woot had never done this!
The quality keeps me from buying designs I'm on the fence about. If I love a design, I'll buy it and if I dislike a design I won't. But if I'm lukewarm on a design, I'd buy it on a better quality shirt. I think there have been about five shirts so far that I've wanted but didn't buy because of the bad blanks.
I may buy a design if I really love it but the neck on the new shirts stretch out way to easy. I hate the way a shirt looks if the neck is loose.
For me it is the printing mistakes. I do seem to be in the minority that the Anvil blanks actually fit me a bit better. I agree the fabric is a lower quality but the AA cut was not comfortable for my body (broad shoulders meant I had to order a shirt that fit like a dress to fit my shoulders). With the Anvil I order 1 the shirt 1 size to large and after shrinking they tend to fit pretty well, tho each color does seems to shrink at a different rate which is frustrating.
My issues lies with printing mistakes. 3 of the 4 shirts I ordered since the Anvil switch have been misprinted, each in a different way (blurry, womens print on mens shirt and off center print). With a personal misprint rate of 75% I cannot justify the order even if todays design happens to be one that would have interested me in the past.
@mrgrogg: I agree completely...today's shirt is a prime example of one I would have bought on an AA blank but just won't pull the trigger on it because of the Anvil blank
@natedogg828: today's shirt is one I would have bought on AA, also.
I was bad and bought today's shirt but I used a coupon and it is for my kid that will wear anything (he is still wearing shirts from his middle school days and he is in college days). I really hate the shorter lengths and the wide necklines so, I don't purchase for me anymore unless it is from a plus sale and it isn't a shirt.
@trekmiss: Likewise, I don't believe the decision was by any shirt.woot.staff either, but rather, by the bean counters.
I would've procrastinated on buying today's, however ... it'd be the proper thing to do. That way, @fishbiscuit5 gets a commission. :) I probably owe her a commission anyways ... I spilled coffee on one of my other cat shirts, and ummmm ... similar shirts exist.
Woot, do you hear us? We're willing to pay more for quality AA blanks. I'm in the boat with many others who have already voiced the same opinion. I don't even look at the designs anymore because I know the quality of product I'm going to receive, there is no point. You continuously told us that the shirts were as good or better as AA, but we're saying they're not.
I didn't know they had changed the blanks and I bought a shirt (at $15, not $12). Done buying.
The womens shirts did a total flip, from smaller than normal to way bigger.
I'm guessing trim women have no real choice in a woot shirt anymore.
There would be no size in mens or womens that I could buy for my daughter anymore. She is 5'5" and around 105 lbs.
I'll wear a mens shirt. Had to with AA, the womens were just too small. Now the womens L fits on top, but is big on the bottom and shorter than I would like. The WM might fit on the hips, but not on top. The reality is, I have too many tee shirts, so unless I adore a shirt, I'm not buying anymore.
I would think woot messed up it's womens sales. There is no size that fit a trim woman anymore. So they might has lost the high school, and college age girls completely.
No, I would buy less if they went back to AA. I think the Anvils are far better quality than the AA shirts I've received. Many of the AA shirts had seams unraveling upon arrival. I hated the fit of them and the collars all fold and curl up and look horrible. I love the fit of the Anvils and have only had one problem. I'd say I've bought about 12 of each and 5 of the AAs had seam problems and ALL of the AAs had collar problems. Only one Anvil shirt had a blotchy color problem which Woot customer service immediately fixed.
Quality of the shirt blanks and quality of the screen print keep me from buying more often. I have a shirt where the image is supposed to be round, but turned out an ellipse. Things like that, and off-center registration, make purchasing the shirts a risky venture.
I haven't bought a shirt since the "great shirt debacle". The reasons have been listed here repeatedly. Inferior quality and designs.
@dontwantaname: see, i actually like the slightly roomier fit (and i guess i'm "trim," although progressively less so. daily.)
i am not sure what more can really be said about the topic.
i got nothin'.
@sunnyx0r: Please ping back and let us know how it fits.
The new sizing has me swimming in the women's large, especially since the new shirts tend to "bell" at the hips. I have the classic hour glass leaning toward being wasp-waisted, and while I like the room in the bust so the design isn't stretched out, the rest of the shirt is too danged baggy. I still haven't figured out the appropriate size for my shape, I'm going to see if dropping down to a women's medium will do the trick.
One last annoying thing is no matter the size of the shirt, the eyes on the little ninjas are all but non-existent.
Before the switch I purchased at least 50 shirts. It could be closer to 100 but the new account page doesn't allow me to easily count them anymore. They are still my favorite shirts to wear but I have refused to buy them since the nearly concurrent price increase / blank change. Put me in the category of buyers who would have been fine with the price increase to keep the same blanks.
It has become pretty clear that the AA blanks are not going to return, and neither am I. Just wanted my voice to be heard as well.
I bought one shirt on the new blanks; since the dimensions had changed I bought it in men's L and women's XL to compare them. I actually threw the women's size shirt away it was so horrible (boxy, too short, and printed crooked - this was before I knew the printing issues were common and so didn't think to ask for a replacement... which I wouldn't have worn anyway due to the shirt shape). I kept the men's size one to wear to bed, because I just love the design so much ("after all this time"), but I don't wear it in public.
I bought some random kids' shirts thinking hey, they're for kids, you can't mess that up anyway!... and the shape and fit of those was so horrible (so wide and short) I don't think I'll be doing that again, either.
Since then, there have been at least a dozen shirts that I LOVED and wanted to pull the trigger on, but couldn't justify.
I have bought a couple for male friends and family because I know they won't mind the weird shape. But that's all. None for me.
@lavikinga: A sharpie marker will give eyesight back to the UnNinja.
@narfcake: BRILLIANT! And I'm smacking myself for not thinking of that myself. Thank you! Now, if you can figure out a way to bring some sense into the shirt sizes...
I've purchased 2 Anvil shirts since the change (and 2 more were ordered under my account for my husband) and am not impressed. I'm out until they change back to AA. Especially since the price increase and quality decrease debacle. Yes with the new "high run" quality is shot, of my 2, one was a ridiculously blurry print, the 2 replacements woot sent we also blurry, the other is okay, but some of the GITD ink is already flaking. Lucky for me it's a Halloween shirt that only gets worn a few times a year and should, hopefully, last.
I do, however, now own far too many woot hoodies. I'm don't with those as well. Not in protest, but I just can't buy more without starting a closet riot.
Absolutely. I have to absolutely LOVE the design to buy. If the shirts were higher quality, I would purchase 5 times as many shirts as I do now
Thank you all for your responses. I think Woot gets the picture...
I'm so bummed about the recent shirt I bought (discussed in the details). After one wash, I really don't feel it's wearable anymore. I basically paid for the opportunity to wear a shirt once (didn't even fit right the first time, actually). We're not all 5'5" 350lbs. I feel as though I ordered the correct size, but received some random piece of cheap cloth. Imagine if I bought a Dyson and it cleaned one room, then stopped working.
Any chance at a return? Though probably a net loss after paying return shipping ... :-(
@firebirdude: Nah, you're probably SOL on a return. And if woot isn't listening to the 38 page rant of a thread on shirt.woot - or the ladie's size change thread (25 pages) - or the many, many threads about shirt quality and fit issues - I doubt they'll listen to this one. Head over to GoodJoe - AA blanks, good designs, and charity donations to boot.
I sincerely miss the awesomeness of the $10 American made shirts.
It's funny, because I never liked the old shirts. I had them back to the screaming monkey shirt/cape. I thought the material was too thin and the fit too tight. I had given up buying the old style shirts and hadn't paid attention to the change in supplier. I had to have the Fuego de la Muerte shirt and ordered one. I was pleasantly surprised to find the fit much better and the material seemed a little thicker than the older shirts.
I wasn't really 100% happy with the AA shirts and I'm not particularly thrilled with the current ones, all for different reasons.
AA shirts did have unraveling hem issues. The women's sizes were all super small. I guess they'd fit daintily built women, but I am tall/busty/broad shouldered. Even the women's XL could be uncomfortably tight, especially if I slipped up and the shirt ended up going in the dryer. Those things shrunk like crazy. I usually wear a large shirt with any other brand. I positively swim in most XL sizes. But in AA blanks I looked as if taking a deep breath would result in Hulk-like clothes-ripping.
The new Anvil blanks are shapeless and could probably stand to be an inch or two longer. I do like how the hems seem less likely to come undone, but I agree that the overall cut of the shirts is more sloppy than the AA. And the AA shirts are made of better material.
Ideally, I'd love to see a shirt that combined all of the good points of each brand of blank.
I also have not ordered a shirt since "The Change". I bought a few randoms when I knew they would be AAs but that's all. Sadly, woot won't listen.
@lavikinga: I can't take credit, as IIRC, someone else posted about in the QC concerns thread.
Today's shirt is a great design, but I passed because of the lower quality/increased skrinkage of the Anvil blanks. So in short, yes.
I haven't bought a shirt since the switch, but that has much more to do with the price hike which closely followed. To me, I can spend $10 without really worrying about whether "I really need that" or not. When you raise it to $12, it's only a couple bucks more, but mentally that takes it into the "do I REALLY need this shirt" territory. Plus there are a lot of $15-17 shirts out there in the intertubes that $12 is pretty close to.
Plus there haven't been that many designs since the switch that I've even liked.
Heck, when I could get a quality shirt for $10.00, I'd buy them over birthday cards all the time. My thinking was "I'll spend nearly that much on a stupid card and postage. Why not get them something they''ll really like for just a little more?" That logic led me to buy many shirts for friends. When the price went up, I had to work harder to justify it. Now that the quality is so poor, I don't really buy shirts. I'd be embarrassed to give that quality shirt to a friend and would feel stupid for spending that much on something that will end up as a dust rag after two washings. It's a shame; I've seen several designs I would've been proud to own.
@fishcandy: They were pretty thin and that was one of the reasons I liked them. The heat and humidity is pretty constant where I live and having my T's made from a lighter weight cloth was wonderful.
I was digging around in my Woot T drawer yesterday looking for my Krampus shirt, and found the original Launch T & a screaming monkey T. Had forgotten all about them ( I have one drawer devoted to Woot & Dr.Who shirts because I am a doofus).
I might just have to switch to buying the apron version of designs when they're offered--unless the aprons are crappy canvas.
I wish Woot could find a happy medium where the Bottom Line
AND the customers are happy with the product offered.
Something else I've noticed: the woot designs aren't holding up as well since buying one of the new HE low water capacity washing machines. We turn the shirts inside out to wash and hang them to dry, but notice the paint is flaking off much faster. (I hate that machine & am saving for a Speed Queen!)
@lavikinga: I have to say, the Anvil 980s are still pretty lightweight. Not as light as the Canvas 3001u blanks that Threadless uses or Next Level 3600 that DBH/Teeturtle uses, but I honestly have to say that many of the comments regarding their thickness have been more subjective rather than objective.
The Anvils definitely not as "preshrunk" as the others, however; they still shrink a measurable amount when line dried and I'm not the only one who's documented them losing 10% in length in the dryer. On the corollary, the NL blanks are completely preshrunk and at least for a couple of mine, actually increased in length after line drying.
As for your washer ... is it a front loader or a top loader with the wash disc agitator? The latter is definitely more torturous than the former.


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I'm using Linq to query MS CRM 2011 Web Services. I've got a query that results in very poor SQL, it fetches too much intermediary data and its performance is horrible!! I'm new to it, so it may very well be the way I'm using it...
I've got two entities linked via an N-N relationship:
Product and
SalesLink. I want to recover a bunch of
Product from their
SerialNumber along with all
SalesLink associated to them.
This is the query I have using PredicateBuilder:
// Build inner OR predicate on Serial Number list
var innerPredicate = PredicateBuilder.False<Xrm.c_product>();
foreach (string sn in serialNumbers) {
string temp = sn; // This temp assignement is important!
innerPredicate = innerPredicate.Or(p => p.c_SerialNumber == temp);
// Combine predicate with outer AND predicate
var predicate = PredicateBuilder.True<Xrm.c_product>();
predicate = predicate.And(innerPredicate);
predicate = predicate.And(p => p.statecode == (int)CrmStateValueType.Active);
// Inner Join Query
var prodAndLinks = from p in orgContext.CreateQuery<Xrm.c_product>().AsExpandable()
join link in orgContext.CreateQuery<Xrm.c_saleslink>()
on p.Id equals link.c_ProductSalesLinkId.Id
where link.statecode == (int)CrmStateValueType.Active
select new {
productId = p.Id
, productSerialNumber = p.c_SerialNumber
, accountId = link.c_Account.Id
, accountName = link.c_Account.Name
Using SQL profiler, I saw that it causes an intermediate SQL query that has no WHERE clause, looking like this:
top 5001 "c_saleslink0".statecode as "statecode"
, "c_saleslink0".ModifiedOnBehalfByName as "modifiedonbehalfbyname"
, "c_saleslink0".ModifiedOnBehalfByYomiName as "modifiedonbehalfbyyominame"
c_saleslink as "c_saleslink0" order by
"c_saleslink0".c_saleslinkId asc
This returns a huge amount of (useless) data. I think the join is done on the client side instead of on the DB side...
How should I improve this query? I runs in around 3 minutes and that's totally unacceptable.
Based on Daryl's answer to use QueryExpression instead of Linq to CRM, I got this which gets the exact same result.
var qe = new QueryExpression("c_product");
qe.ColumnSet = new ColumnSet("c_serialnumber");
var filter = qe.Criteria.AddFilter(LogicalOperator.Or);
filter.AddCondition("c_serialnumber", ConditionOperator.In, serialNumbers.ToArray());
var link = qe.AddLink("c_saleslink", "c_productid", "c_productsaleslinkid");
link.LinkCriteria.AddCondition("statecode", ConditionOperator.Equal, (int)CrmStateValueType.Active);
var entities = serviceProxy.RetrieveMultiple(qe).Entities.ToList();;
var prodAndLinks = entities.Select(x => x.ToEntity<Xrm.c_product>()).Select(x =>
new {
productId = x.c_productId
, productSerialNumber = x.c_SerialNumber
, accountId = ((Microsoft.Xrm.Sdk.EntityReference)((Microsoft.Xrm.Sdk.AliasedValue)x["c_saleslink1.c_account"]).Value).Id
, accountName = ((Microsoft.Xrm.Sdk.EntityReference)((Microsoft.Xrm.Sdk.AliasedValue)x["c_saleslink1.c_account"]).Value).Name
I really would have liked to find a solution using Linq, but it seems to Linq to CRM is just not there yet...


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Baked French Toast
Categories: Kid-friendly, New Year
Type: Breakfast
Type: Breakfast
French bread makes great French toast, and this recipe makes it healthy.
Serves: Serves: 8
- 1 cup lite maple syrup
- 1 pound loaf French bread, cut into 2-inch-thick slices
- 3/4 cup egg substitute
- 3 large egg whites
- 1 1/2 cups skim milk
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 3/4 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoons ground nutmeg
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- Spray large baking dish with cooking spray.
- Pour syrup in bottom of dish. Arrange bread slices on top of syrup.
- Combine egg substitute, egg whites, skim milk, vanilla extract, cinnamon and nutmeg in a medium bowl and mix until blended. Pour mixture over bread slices, generously soaking bread.
- Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate overnight.
- To prepare and serve: Preheat oven to 350F. Bake French toast casserole 40 to 45 minutes, until golden brown. Serve with additional syrup, powdered sugar or cinnamon-sugar mixture if desired.
- One more good reason not to skip breakfast: Those who eat breakfast are up to 10 pounds slimmer than those who go hungry before noon.
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Since Glowbo totes forgot to, can you throw up a pic of it from the described angle? :-P
I'll PM you the answer.
Since Glowbo totes forgot to, can you throw up a pic of it from the described angle? :-P
I'll PM you the answer.
I forgot to take a picture of the knob?
There's a first time for everything.
Maybe it was just me, but I thought when you face front, it'd turn into M Randy giving a big ol' thumbs up.
Are you implying the pee-hole looks like a mini-vagina?
If so I agree.
I'll get mine next year.
It's a Kung Fu Christmas, brought to me by the late and great Gatsbro.
Damn good haul this year.
Unfortunately, the stuff for my giftee won't make it till new years. And it won't all come at the same time. But it's coming. Or going. Or something.
I watched one of the fight scenes from Chocolate. That girl is pretty badass, hope she keeps doing stuff.
I got my present from an amazing person, deadpool corps collection, so much squee.
Pics to follow when my phone isn't dead.
Got my SS gift today, and well...See for yourself!
Hadn't noticed how much my beard is in effect until watching this video.
Well, it actually came in on the 22nd, but I was out of town. I'm pretty sure it's from Mece.
Homemade cookies out the wazoo and some hot cocoa with homemade marshmallows. I'm getting the beetus today baby!!
Thank you Mece, they will be thoroughly enjoyed.
Opened my SS's (panza) present, so cooool.
She does her own stunts, which is rad. If I remember right her main martial art IRL is Taekwondo and she's started incorporating a blend of Muay Thai into it, as you saw in Chocolate.
Check out "Raging Phoenix" which came out after Chocolate. She also did "The Kick" in 2011 which I haven't seen, and is set to be in The Protector 2 (with Tony Jaa), which is filming right now.
Came home yesterday to my secret santa gift from Conor (Bloodspray)!
To start, some anime.
Despite my love for Akira Kurosawa, I've yet to see the Samurai 7 anime, so that's radacular. Other is from his personal collection; mentioned in the lovely letter (not picutred) that no one seems to have heard about it, and I count myself among the ignorant, so I'm excited to check out something I'm totally unfamiliar with.
Next, we've a pretty badass book.
Which on initial thumb throughs is proving interesting already!
And some badass art!
But the best piece of art...
On top of all this, scored some emergency mustaches because, quote Conor, "you just never know when you might need them." Truer words have never been spoken.
For some reason he wouldn't sit still when I'd put the mustaches in front of his face.
Thanks a ton, homie! Great way to round out the holiday season.
Glad you like it man! Sorry I couldn't find Samurai 7 #1, but I figured that's midway enough that you can decide if you like it without spoiling anything major. Glad you haven't seen Iria! I seriously loved that series. It's actually a prequel to a live action film called Zeiram but I've never seen that. Also you have a handsome dog. Merry Christmas!


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SYRIA (CNN) -- Israeli fighter jets struck overnight a suspected Syrian convoy along the Lebanese-Syrian border believed to have been moving weapons to Hezbollah in Lebanon, a senior U.S. official said Wednesday.
Fighter jets struck the vehicles because they were carrying SA-17 missile parts, a Russian-made, medium-range delivery system, and other equipment that could have been used to attack Israel, another source told CNN.
Lebanon's state-run NNA news agency dismissed the report. "The news circulated by media about an Israeli raid on the Lebanese-Syrian borders are sheer rumors," it said. For its part, Damascus said the strike had instead targeted a research facility near the Syrian capital.
"Israeli warplanes penetrated our airspace at dawn today and directly bombed one of the scientific research centers responsible for raising the level of resistance and self-defense in the area of Jimraya in the Damascus countryside," the military said in a statement aired on state-run television. "This comes after multiple failed attempts over months by terrorist groups to enter and seize the mentioned site."
A former high-ranking Israeli Intelligence official told CNN that Hezbollah likely wants to take hold of all the weapons it can in the event that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is forced to flee. Should al-Assad ultimately decide to leave, he may choose to further arm Hezbollah ahead of time so that militants could better attack Israel, the official said.
In recent years, Syria transferred Scud missiles to Hezbollah that are capable of carrying chemical weapon warheads. But the senior U.S. official said American authorities do not believe the strike was linked to growing concerns about chemical weapons.
"We see no nexus," the official said Wednesday. The strike is thought to have hit a "target of opportunity," he said.
"Whether it was an attack against a supply convoy or a terrorist leader, it's not particularly surprising," senior Brookings fellow Michael O'Hanlon said. "At first glance, it likely won't be seen as a large escalation -- though there's still a possibility for retaliation."
Israeli military and government officials declined to comment about the strike. The move came days after Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said al-Assad's hold on power was "slipping away."
Russia, a power broker in the nearly 2-year-old conflict, has criticized Western powers, including the United States, that have recognized the opposition as Syria's rightful leadership.
There have been concerns about the security of Syria's chemical weapons arsenal, as well as the security of its larger conventional weapons.
Last month, NATO said Syria's government was "approaching collapse" and urged al-Assad to stop fighting and accommodate a political transfer of power.
The United States has provided more than $200 million in humanitarian aid and other funding to the Syrian opposition. On Tuesday, President Barack Obama approved another $155 million in aid.
The United States has pressed the Syrian opposition to establish a leadership structure amid a conflict that has claimed the lives of about 60,000 people, according to a United Nations estimate.
But Washington has been circumspect about its involvement in Syria. "We want to make sure that not only does it enhance U.S. security, but also that it is doing right by the people of Syria and neighbors like Israel that are going to be profoundly affected by it," Obama told CBS News' "60 Minutes."


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DHS "Fish Camp" set for July 29
Fish Camp, the annual orientation for incoming Denison High School freshmen, is set for Friday, July 29th from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m. in the DHS Commons, located at the south end of the high school campus at 1901 South Mirick.
According to Fish Camp director Jamie Weems, veteran student leaders have put together a fun an informative event that will feature photo-ops for student IDs, escorted tours of the building, free t-shirts, fun skits and games, lots of great music and a pizza luncheon.
"Our Student Council members are the brains behind this bash, so you know it's going to be great fun," said Weems, who added that the doors will open at 8:30 a.m. for students who may arrive early. "Our goal is to orient our freshmen in all areas of school life so they'll be comfortable and confident on their first day at DHS. Moving from middle school to high school is a big and important step. We want everyone to enjoy a good experience, start to finish."
Weems says the incoming freshmen will view a video that introduces school officials, administrators, counselors, athletic directors and other school officials.
"Next up is the fun," said Weems. "We'll have a lot of great music going on, as well as skits and interactive student discussions that address issues like peer pressure, attendance, personal relationships, and the pitfalls of substance abuse. Students will also tour the high school, have a chance to meet new students, and learn the rules governing personal dress and appearance."
"Later in the morning we'll break into smaller groups for ID photo shoots and campus tours. Fish Camp is free, and all incoming freshmen are urged to attend…not just because it's a great learning opportunity, but because it's also a whole lot of fun. Our goal is for all freshmen to be relaxed, comfortable and ready to learn when they start school on August 22nd."
Immunizations must be current to start school
School starts on all Denison ISD campuses on Monday, August 22nd, ushering in an exciting new year full of opportunities for growth and success. But before school kicks off, parents must make sure that kids are prepared.
"Preparation and good planning help students develop a sense of well-being and confidence," said Barbara Jamerson, counselor at Hyde Park Elementary. "Organization and parental involvement are also crucial to student success. We want the first day, and every day, to be successful and rewarding for all our kids. Being prepared, both physically and mentally, helps everyone reach those all-important goals."
Donna Grubbs, Denison ISD Head Nurse, emphasized the importance of current immunizations for school children. "All students must be current with their immunizations before school starts. The Grayson County Health Department offices in Sherman and Denison are currently conducting immunization clinics…and they have also scheduled special back-to-school clinics for mid-August. We're urging parents to look closely at their children's shot records…and get any needed immunizations as soon as possible."
Immunizations requirements
Hepatitis A vaccine: All students entering kindergarten must have two doses of Hepatitis A vaccine.
Hepatitis B shots – three doses needed.
Polio – four doses needed with one dose on or after the child's 4th birthday.
Measles, mumps, rubella (MMR) vaccine: All students entering kindergarten must have two doses of MMR vaccine.
Varicella vaccine: All Kindergarten students and seventh graders are required to have two doses of Varicella vaccine. A written statement from a parent or legal guardian, school nurse or physician certifying a child's positive history of varicella (chickenpox) or of varicella immunity will be accepted in lieu of the dose(s) of varicella vaccine.
Tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis vaccine (Tdap): All students entering seventh grade are required to have one dose of Tdap vaccine, or a booster dose of Tdap if it has been five years since their last dose of tetanus vaccine. Students in grades eight to 12 must have a booster of Tdap if it has been 10 years since their previous dose of tetanus vaccine.
Meningococcal vaccine: All students entering seventh grade are required to have one dose of this vaccine.
Additional information regarding school vaccine requirements is available on the Immunization Branch website at www.ImmunizeTexas.com
GC Health Department "Shot Clinic" schedules
The regular hours for immunizations at the Grayson County Health Department are: Denison Clinic at 205 N. Houston Street: Tuesdays from 1 until 6 p.m. – 903-465-2878; Sherman Clinic at 515 N. Walnut: Wednesdays & Thursdays from 1 until 6 p.m. (903-893-0131).
Parents must bring their children's current and complete shot records and/or a letter from the school. Cost is $14 (cash only) per child or a current/valid Texas Medicaid letter. The Health Department cannot accept Texas Star Medicaid or CHIP.
"You are encouraged to use the regularly scheduled clinics listed above before August, when the waiting times are relatively short," said Grubbs. "A back-to-school extended schedule has been set for the latter part of August, but the wait times at these clinics can often be as long as an hour or more."
Back-to-school clinics schedules at the Health Department offices are: Denison – Monday and Tuesday, August 15 and 16, from 9 a.m. until 11:30 a.m. and 1 until 5 p.m. daily; Sherman – Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, August 17, 18 and 19, and Monday, August 22: 9 a.m until 11:30 a.m. and 1 until 5 p.m. daily, and Monday.
Openings available in DISD Pre-K programs
Denison school officials are urging parents of all eligible three and four year olds to enroll their children in the district's fun and educational Pre-Kindergarten programs. Houston Elementary offers Pre-K classes for both three and four year olds. Terrell Elementary serves just four year olds, while Mayes Elementary offers the district's Bilingual Pre-K Program.
To be eligible, children must be three or four years old by September 1st and meet the guidelines prescribed by the district's Free and Reduced Meal Program. Bilingual Pre-K students must also meet prescribed bilingual guidelines. Openings are currently available in all programs, with families being served on a first-come, first-served basis.
"The goal of our Pre-K program is to prepare all Denison children for success when they start school," said Dr. George Hatfield, DISD Assistant Superintendent. "We currently have openings in all our Pre-K programs, with extremely qualified and caring teachers in place to help kids learn the academic and social skills they need prior to starting kindergarten. It's a great program…and so advantageous for the youngsters."
School principals agree that benefits abound. "In general, kids who have experienced Pre-K programs begin kindergarten with basic knowledge and skill levels that are similar to their peers…as well as the confidence needed to feel they can be successful in school," said Terrell Principal Dr. David Kirkbride. "Our Pre-K teachers work with these young children in caring and nurturing environments that are both structured and flexible. The results are amazing. I encourage all parents with eligible children to help their kids start school on positive footing by enrolling them in one of our Pre-K programs."
Eligible children can be enrolled Mondays through Thursdays between 8:30 a.m. and 4 p.m. and Friday's until noon at the DISD Administration Building. Parents need to bring proof of Denison residency and income as well as the child's birth certificate, social security card and immunization records. Anyone with questions can call Kim Pruitt at 903-462-7049.
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I have heard that Russia has been fighting with the Chechens on and off for about 300 years, occasionally losing control and reconquering. What exactly does Russia have to gain by retaining control of Chechnya, because I am not sure how could Russia be benefited by such a small nation, that is probably a huge economic burden to keep fighting in.
It's a bit of a long write-up, but the best reason is fairly easy to trace on a map.
The southern border of Russia between Caspian and Black seas is pretty defenseless as far as natural features (same is true for other borders). So historically, Russia worked/fought to extend its borders to defensible ranges, in case of this specific area, the Greater Caucusus Mountains range that extends from around Sochi on Black sea to NorthEast corner of Azerbaijan on Caspian sea.
This is not really an academic exercise, since historically, that region was strongly threatened by fairly expansionist Ottoman Empire and modern day Turkey (see larger Wiki map for good visual). Russia fought a whole bunch of wars with Ottomans/Turks, and given modern geopolitics, is still strongly competing with Turkey, which is on the accendant path in the region/world.
The of course ties into access to Caspian resources, especially oil (notice that if you lose Chechnya, you will possibly lose Dagestan, meaning the whole western Caspian seaboard).
First note that besides Chechnya there are some related and similar peoples in the North Caucasus: Ingushs, Dagestan peoples, Adygh people, Circassians etc. That is Chechnya is only a part of greater North Caucasus community.
The ancient lifestyle of most of these people, and especially, of Chechens was making raids on neighboring settlements, capturing horses, and hostages for a ransom. They had no agriculture and very little husbandry. This was quite intolerable.
But the main reason for capturing this region was, I think, making a tunnel towards Cristian Georgia to help it against Turkey after Georgians appealed to the Russian Tsar for incorporation of their lands into Russian Empire.
Regarding modern times I think the reasons for the first Chechen war were as follows.
The reasons for the second Chechen war were the same but the following reasons added:
It should be noted however that it is quite uncertain to which extent the Chechen population supported separatism. On all elections they voted for a candidate that was supported by the Kremlin. The originator of the secession of Chechnya, president Dudayev was initially supported by anti-Communists who seized power in Moscow in the early 1990s. He was a honored Soviet pilot who participated in the Afghan war and was the only Chechen to become a Soviet general. He then quickly proceeded to install personal dictatorship.
After Dudayev was killed, a new president Maskhadov was elected. He was known for signing a peace treaty with Moscow and was supported by the Russian media in hope he would be a moderate leader. This suggests that the Chechens in general did not want a war. It turned out later that Maskhadov either supported the Jihadists and terrorists or was unable to do anything to control the situation, so the accords he signed were broken.
Chechnya contains the oil center known formerly as Grozny. It sits on the road to Derbens, and the rest of Dagestan, as well as Baku in Azerbaijan, which are also major oil producers. The region could become critical in shipping other oil and gas resources from around the Caspian sea, across the Caucasus, to the Black Sea.
Basically, Chechnya is close to Russia's main sources of oil, both for its own use and for export, meaning that a hostile presence there could be economically and strategically threatening.