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On 23 April 1987, 'Nuova Automobili Lamborghini SpA' was taken over by the US Chrysler company.
The American owners quickly settled in at Sant'Agata and a period of intense activity began, this time in close collaboration with a major automotive industry. The premises were good, although there were a few false steps at the beginning: the prototype of the Portofino. Production of the Quattrovalvole series stopped in 1988, with a total of 631 units. In the meantime, the company gained experience with composite materials and a special Countach, the Evoluzione, demonstrated the full potential of this project. Weight reduction permitted by these new materials, coupled with a more powerful engine achieved above all using new engine technologies management, offered extraordinary performance. Unfortunately, however, the Evoluzione never went into production.
Towards the end of 1987, the French Formula 1 team Larrousse asked Mauro Forghieri, the celebrated designer of Ferrari's finest models from the Sixties and Seventies, to create a new engine, and he turned to his good friends at Lamborghini with the proposal of embarking on the project together. After obtaining Chrysler's approval, Forghieri designed his engine, a V12 with a 3.5-litre capacity, the maximum displacement allowed by regulations. Ready within a matter of months, the new engine was officially demonstrated to the public in April 1988.
As a result, even a titled team like Lotus requested Lamborghini engines for the following season. Thanks also to this double supply of engines to two teams, the results for 1990 were nothing short of brilliant. At the end of the British Grand Prix, Bernard won an extraordinary fourth place and Suzuki placed sixth. The Hungarian Grand Prix was even more rewarding for the Lamborghini engines, which placed fifth, sixth and seventh, respectively with Warwick (Lotus), Bernard (Larrousse) and Donnelly (Lotus). Nevertheless, the best placement of the whole season came from Suzuki on his home turf at the Grand Prix in Japan, as he placed third and gave the company its first podium finish. This was the best placement ever achieved by a Lamborghini engine in all its seasons of activity.
Despite Forghieri's commitment, the American company's insensitivity to the financial problem led to a progressive decline in automotive performance and the 1991 season ended negatively, with the definitive withdrawal of the Modena F1 Team from the world championship. Now this lovely single-seater can also be admired at the Sant'Agata museum, and it represents one of the most important missed opportunities in the history of Lamborghini.
In the meantime, Lamborghini managed to make significant progress in renewing its model range of road vehicles. In order to celebrate the company's twenty-fifth anniversary, a commemorative version of the Countach was produced. The Anniversary was the praiseworthy final version of this glorious car, and needless to say, it was welcomed enthusiastically by customers, who purchased no less than 657 units. The Countach's successor was presented in 1990. The 132 was dubbed the Diablo, the name of a particularly fierce fighting bull of the nineteenth century, and it proved to be up to expectations. The Countach's follower could not be a conventional car, of course, and it had to be extreme, spectacular, forceful and uncommon: the Diablo, with its 492 hp generated by a 5.7-litre V12, was all this - and more.
Its designer is Luigi Marmiroli. In 1990, the Diablo was presented in the two-wheel drive version, but a four-wheel drive version was already in the wings, and from that point on this would become a distinctive feature of the top Lamborghinis. This version, named the Diablo VT for 'Viscous Traction', given the presence of a viscous coupling between the front and rear axles, was presented at the Geneva Motor Show in March 1993.


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Bean Bags up to 50% Off
First vinyl comes back, now bean bags? WHAT'S HAPPENING TO THE WORLD?
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Great for survival. If you run out of food you can eat the beans.
I see one that's 50% off. Most are in the 10%-30% range.
The least expensive one is $60 for a NASCAR chair that's currently available for $23 at Meijer, next least is $85...who pays that much for a bean bag chair? Are they full of magic beans? Unless buying one somehow leads to a goose and golden eggs, this isn't a deal.
My personal opinion is that nobody should pay for a bean bag chair; they should all be obtained for free from the curb and duct-taped back into usefulness, like God intended.
If this is similar to the last deal with the 5ft Fuf Foam bag chair on here, it is worth EVERY penny.
@whatawhiner: I like the cut of your jib. I've never even met someone who has purchased a beanbag chair, but I know several people who have them. The life cycle of the beanbag chair is a wonder of nature.
@sinner3k: yes survives roommates
It's all fun and games until a child finds the zipper.
Bummer they show a nice bean bag that's not 50% off what a great deal that would be.

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At the moment we are writing modules for an open source cms. We would like to sell these with a license.
But which are the best options? Any suggestions and experiences.
At the moment we are writing modules for an open source cms. We would like to sell these with a license.
But which are the best options? Any suggestions and experiences.
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First off, you'll need to look at the licence for the CMS and whether it allows you to do this.
Unlike the various open-source licences (creative commons, GPL, BSD, Apache, Mozilla Public Licence, Perl...) there is no standard licencing terms avaialble off-the-shelf. Indeed, most commercial licences have explicit terms convering the licence itself - and even where that is not the case, they will be covered by copyright.
Open source licences do not prevent you from charging for the software. Some affect the users rights for redistribution / modification. Microsoft admit that piracy of their software has probably been a net benefit to them via acquiring market share. Have a google for the discussions on GPLv3.
If possible, GPLv3 will allow your software to be redistributed, but not allow other people to charge a premium for redistributing it or providing a service based on it. This of course does not preclude you from offering the product under a different licence (which you can explicitly promote via the GPV3 version).
And under most of the open-source licences you can still charge for support.
Check if you can sell them with the license of the CMS. If it's possible, you can sell them with that license.
Options depend on what you can do and what you want to achieve. You have not told with your question, so that part can not be specifically answered.
Normally all licenses that allow commercial re-distribution of modified works should be suitable.


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10 ''Me Time'' Ideas for Busy Momsby Erin Dower
The concept of "me time" can be laughable and guilt-inducing for many busy moms. But it's a healthy, necessary part of modern parenting. Check out 12 real time-savers for moms, and then enjoy these 10 simple ways to enjoy a bit of time to yourself.
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Make Dates with Friends
Meeting up with other busy women and moms can be twice as tricky as finding plain old "me time." Mark your calendar with some "friend dates" each month. If your spouse or someone else can watch the kids in the evening, that's great. If not, try to make lunch or coffee dates during the day with friends who live or work near you.


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What's the meaning of pushing it?
Is a 19 year old too young for a 28 year old?
Yeah 9 years is kinda pushing it, 'specially when the delta is like half her life.
What's the meaning of pushing it?
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As Memming said, the idiom derives from pushing the limit, or trying to go beyond a limit.
But I don't think this makes its metaphorical meaning clear. It is always used to mean hoping or pretending that something will work or fit or be acceptable when really it won't.
So here it means pretending or hoping that an age difference of 9 years will work, but the speaker is suggesting that in reality 9 years is too much.
It means pushing the limit. In your example, trying to force the limit of age difference as if there were a barrier.


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In his Sept. 3 letter, "Senior citizens have great deal of say in choosing their care," T.H. Martland asserts that nursing homes are strictly for the elderly, that ending up in a nursing home is not so bad, and that is a matter of choice. He's wrong.


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65 degrees in CB? 64 degrees in WB? really?
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65 degrees in CB? 64 degrees in WB? really?
53 in emerald isle
Probably bouy data. The water gets a lot warmer the further off shore and closer to to gulfstream you get.
I think there's a glitch in how the temp is updating. SI uses buoy 41110, which is right off Masonboro Inlet, for our local forecast and whatnot. Fryingpantower.com, the fishing site I frequent is showing it accurately at 53 deg this am.
There was a coding typo, which caused the mix up in the Ocean Temps.
This has been fixed!
Thanks for bringing this to our attention. In the future, don't hesitate to say something if you notice anything funky...
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Love this show, much like the X-Files which i know to be based on fact because I am one of those underground deciders that made a deal with the aliens to land their space ships in the Antarctic and import that black serum, that we inject into politicians so they will do our bidding. How do you think our banks got so much federal money and why our ( I mean our groups) are doing so well and the general pubic so poorly. Just look at the US President, every time we let him talk on TV his skin turns really dark. ( He did not turn so well but we may decide to keep him as the dumb US public likes him). Read more
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If the other reviewers are correct then I can't in good faith watch this show. It's not based in science. I thought if it was on TV then it had to be real and factual. Maybe I'll just watch Sons of Guns, or River Monsters. You can't get any more real than that. Read more
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The Ministerial Council of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) held a special session at the headquarters of the GCC General Secretariat in Riyadh today, under the chairmanship of UAE Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al-Nahyan. The meeting participants included Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal; Bahraini Foreign Minister Sheikh Khalid bin Ahmed bin Mohammed Al-Khalifa; Omani Foreign Minister Yousuf bin Alawi bin Abdullah; Qatari Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jabr Al-Thani; Kuwaiti Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammad Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah; and GCC Secretary General Dr. Abdul Latif bin Rashid Al-Zayani.
The Ministerial Council reviewed the latest developments in the region and expressed deep concern over the continuation of Iranian interference in the internal affairs of GCC countries. They condemned Iranian actions aimed at destabilizing national security and spreading division and sectarian strife in GCC countries, in violation of their sovereignty, the principles of good neighborliness, international norms and laws and the charters of the United Nations and the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC).
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6 Great Products For Making Your Pet Hate You
#3. Tattoos
Not every pet has fur to dye. This presents a challenge to certain pet owners, who know they can't just settle for boring old animal clothing to suit their pet pimping needs. Fortunately, enterprising souls in Russia solved that dilemma in the most ridiculous way possible.
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We're going to go ahead and just blame this on Chernobyl.
That is not paint, nor is it a henna tattoo. That is an adult Sphinx cat with a chest tat bigger than its own head. Proportionally, it's bigger than what you're likely to see in most biker bars, and it's far from an isolated incident.
Farm animals and larger pets -- mainly dogs -- have been given identification tats for ages. But those are usually done with this little plier-like apparatus:
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... while decorative tattoos use the same two-coil tattoo machines used on 300 lb. bikers.
Via Wikimedia Commons
"Heeere, kitty, kitty ..."
If you've ever gotten a tattoo, you know that when it's in action, that thing is a buzzing, prickling horror that can make a grown man cry long before he realizes how fast he'll grow out of his Grateful Dead phase. Of course, that's not really a fair comparison since the percentage of your cat's body that's having ink permanently stabbed into it is far greater than anything you, or most bikers, would be able to handle.
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He's caught between running away and biting her jugular.
It's not surprising that a large colored piece can hurt well after the animal wakes up. Giving your pet a tattoo that big is basically like subjecting it to major surgery, complete with the aches and itching of the healing process. Oh, and they also use the same potentially allergy inducing inks your vet doesn't want you putting in their hair, because of how sensitive animal skin can be. But surely it'll be OK when stabbed under its skin.
The tattoo fad goes beyond cats and dogs, though. Look no further than New York for tattooed goldfish of all things, imported straight from Singapore.
Via Underwatertimes.com
Wait, what? ... How do you even? ... What?
The fish have been tattooed with simple designs using that same human tattoo gun, which is the rough size equivalent of a human getting tattooed with a harpoon.
Businesses have noticed the pet tattoo trend and are trying like hell to make it profitable in one way or another. There is, in fact, an actual payday loan company right here in the U.S.A. that offers its loans with an inbuilt stipulation to shave parts of your pet and tattoo it with the company logo of their choice.
#2. Messing With Their Senses
We can take their dignity, but the one thing our pets will always have on us are their keen animal senses. Fortunately, the senses are mostly invisible verbs, so there's no clear way for pet owners to dye them hot pink and pack them full of plastic testicles. Doesn't matter. We've found a way to mess with them.
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Take for instance the dog's superpowered sense of smell. The reason dogs sniff around so much when we take them on walks is that their sense of smell can detect who was doing what in these parts over the course of weeks. Unlike any of our senses, a dog's nose lets it sense across time. Imagine how badass it would be if you could hear stuff echoing around your neighborhood days after it happened.
Now imagine if you could do that, but were forced to carry around a giant boombox all the time because your deaf caretakers didn't like the sounds you made. Now you know how dogs must feel when we make them wear dog perfume. Despite the aggressive stupidity of that concept, there are many, many varieties of dog perfume, including one that people are apparently willing to pay $60 for called "Sexy Beast," to a large variety of $6 dog perfumes that are probably just left over Drakar Noir from the early '90s. There appears to be a thriving industry in making sure our pets smell like a middle school dance while robbing them of the one thing they do better than us.
Via Petsugar.com
$44, and it smells like baby powder. Christ.
Dogs and cats are pretty tactile creatures, so if you want to pretty much render them oblivious to the world around them, you can give them the full Sex and the City treatment: outfit it with pet shoes to go with its perfume. Pet shoes are exactly what it says on the box: tiny little dog ballerina slippers some people make their dogs wear so they don't mess up the floor after those pesky "walks." Just look at this video to see how much the dogs love that shit:
Haha! His only sense of firm ground under his paws is robbed from him, and he's running like an idiot. Next let's blindfold the kids and make them run around in the backyard!
#1. Piercings
At first glance, piercings on pets seem kind of stupid, but by no means as bad as some of the other stuff out there. After all, everyone's seen those plastic earmark things on cattle, and they don't seem the worse for wear. Then you take a second glance, and the madness unfolds.
Via Holy Taco
Both of these people need to be in protective custody.
See, unlike most other items on this list, this is something there are absolutely no professionals for. The few that have tried to offer pro pet piercing services have (understandably) been browbeaten to oblivion. Pet piercers are a DIY community, and holy shit there seems to be a lot of them. Since they appear to be naturally ashamed, no actual figures on the amount of hobbyists exist, but the world's largest online body modification community BMEzine used to maintain huge gallery of "modified" pets. BMEzine.com, a site dedicated to bragging about drilling holes in your body, was pretty uncomfortable with pet piercing, and have since taken the whole thing down. And it's not hard to see why.
For instance, take the dog groomer who took up manufacturing "gothic kittens" as a hobby. She did this by giving the animals multiple piercings with a 14-gauge cattle needle and tying their tails with elastic bands to stem the blood flow so the tail would fall off. Then she tried to sell them on eBay.
Via CBS News
Are people this stupid? Really?
She ended up in court and was found all kinds of guilty, and the kittens were taken to a new home.
No such luck for this poor fish whose owner gave him a lower lip stud because quote, "I was bored, and the fish was at the shop. It all started out as a joke, but it looked cool and it never affected him adversely. So I just left it in."
Via Boingboing.net
Apparently, making him the first douche bag in the history of fish wasn't considered an adverse affect.
Not to enter zoological debates with a clear professional, but how the hell does piercing a fish not affect it adversely? Lip piercing is how humans catch fish.
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You'll get through this. We've either said that to someone, even ourselves, or have heard it said to us. It's a reassuring statement when facing a tough situation. It's also the title of Max Lucado's latest book You'll Get Through This: Hope and Help for Your Turbulent Times. Remember Joseph? He was the dude who got tossed into a well by his jealous brothers, sold into slavery, put in prison and more. And through it all God had a plan…a test.
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He sent a man before them,
Joseph, who was sold as a slave.
They afflicted his feet with fetters,
He himself was laid in irons;
Until the time that his word came to pass,
The word of the LORD tested him.
So, we talked with Max Lucado today about survival lessons from the life of Joseph. As Max wrote, "What's your Joseph moment? Perhaps you've had many. From diseases to emotional hardships things happen in our lives that can leave us confused or hurt, and asking God, "why?"
As we explore alongside Max the hardships that Joseph endured, and his reactions to the situations, we pray that you will take away valuable lessons that show God is always working in your life and that You'll Get Through This."
Here are some bits of wisdom Max Lucado shared this morning:
"To wait on God is to hope, to aspire, to trust. It's to envision an answered prayer and to live in an awareness of God."
"What is important for us during times of suffering is to not give up on God. He has not, nor ever will, give up on you."
"God does not promise a pain free life. But He does promise the redemption of your pain into something that is good."
And we were wondering, what's one tip you have that could help someone else "get through this"?
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Ken Klein of Timber Tree Services recently brought his 65-foot boom truck to Green View Point Park to trim trees and remove branches that were blocking the views of the Grand River and adjoining areas.
It is often said that Mother Nature abhors a vacuum. Green View Point is no exception. Five years ago, Ken and crew spent a day felling a few trees but mostly trimming branches that blocked views. Mother Nature responded by growing limbs and leaves to block the sunny areas again. Something had to be done.
For a relaxing diversion, stop at Green View Point Park one mile east of Lyons. Check the view from your car or from the Pedestrian Overlook. Even better, tread down the 92-step stairwell and inspect the new 58-foot bridge. Your body needs the exercise, and your mind and spirit can use the break.
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5 Barbaric Practices That Are More Modern Than You Think
When it comes to history, it can be difficult to get a real sense of scale, like when you learn that the last surviving Civil War widow died in 2008. History is like that -- things we assume were left in the distant past have a way of lingering on, decades or centuries longer than you'd have thought. For example ...
#5. The Last American Execution by Firing Squad Was in 2010
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If there is one thing humans have been especially good at throughout history, it's coming up with increasingly more efficient ways to execute people. As time progressed, crucifixion gave way to the guillotine, the guillotine gave way to hanging, hanging gave way to the firing squad, and the firing squad gave way to the electric chair. In recent decades, Old Sparky has lost out to chemical injection as the most popular method of removing the most unsociable of us from the mortal realm. It's just so much more civilized to treat it like a medical procedure, rather than, say, straight up shooting a dude.
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Though the idea of a win-and-you're-free deathmatch with a bear has been steadily gaining support.
But Actually ...
Despite the forward march of execution technology, it's only been about four years since the last firing squad execution was carried out in America.
In Utah, those sentenced to the death penalty had their choice of execution method from a list of options (you can't choose "be kicked into a jet engine by Steven Seagal"). This tradition technically ended in 2004, when the firing squad was officially outlawed in favor of lethal injection as the go-to technique for reducing the population of death row, but a caveat in the rule stated that anyone who received a death sentence before then was still permitted to choose to go out in a hail of gunfire.
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It just has a certain flair to it, on top of giving you a good setup for your last words.
Double murderer Ronnie Lee Gardner, who was sentenced to death for murdering a lawyer while trying to escape trial for a previous murder, was the only guy since that ruling to decide that being shot to death was somehow better than dying peacefully in his sleep. And so, after sitting on death row for 25 years, Gardner was strapped to a chair and had a target painted over his heart, and five officers who volunteered to be a part of history were equipped with old school .30 caliber Winchesters. In line with tradition, one was loaded with blanks so that none of them could feel guilty (or on the other hand, brag) about being the one who fired the kill shot.
Although Gardner was one of only three people executed by firing squad since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976, there's a chance it might soon make a comeback due to a recent shortage of drugs that is pushing states to find new ways of disposing of criminals. Of course, we could go back to the electric chair, but shit, prisons have to pay power bills, too, and besides that, they've probably been traumatized after watching The Green Mile.
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Leading to exploding mouse populations in prisons.
#4. Chernobyl Kept Running Until December 2000
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In 1986, the worst (accidental) nuclear incident in history at the time occurred when the Chernobyl nuclear plant decided to spit radiation over a good portion of the Ukrainian countryside and create an iconic Call of Duty level in the process. Since then, the region has been an abandoned, irradiated wasteland, overgrown with weeds and probably mutated rats or some shit. The plant itself is probably nothing more than a sprawling, silent complex with a big-ass crater in the center.
But Actually ...
Not only did the Chernobyl plant survive the meltdown, but it was business as usual for over a decade afterward. The world's most notoriously explosive power plant continued providing energy until December of 2000.
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But unlike those Ruskie quitters, Three Mile Island is still going strong! U-S-A! U-S-A!
Though the popular impression is that the Chernobyl disaster was a Hiroshima-scale event, it was really just one reactor that was affected, and then it was less an atomic explosion than it was an atomic crop dusting. The other three reactors were just fine after the incident, and given that Eastern Europe still needed power to watch Wheel of Fortune and whatever crazy bear-wrestling game shows they have over there, the technicians continued to run the place for almost 14 more years. To keep the lethal radiation enclosed (and to ensure no one else gained mutant superpowers), a gigantic steel and concrete sarcophagus was placed around the ruined reactor, and from there it was just the same 9-to-5 as it had always been.
It was only after much international scrutiny spearheaded by Bill Clinton that the United States pledged $78 million to help Ukraine close down that nightmare factory and repair the structure that protects the rest of the world from its horrors. In December 2000, former Ukrainian president Leonid Kuchma appeared on television and announced the closing of the plant, at which point chief Chernobyl technician and consonant hoarder Oleksandr Yelchishchev turned the switch that would see the permanent termination of the plant's unholy existence.
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The switch itself was rather anticlimactic.
Kuchma's address appeared to lament the premature closure of the plant, which seems odd, because it did run for over a decade after, y'know, killing all those people and irradiating over 1,000 square miles of land for the foreseeable future.
#3. The Last Battle Between Sailing Vessels Was in World War II
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Before people discovered how to build ships that ran under their own power, naval battles from the dawn of civilization had always been decided on the whim of whichever direction God decided to blow wind on their sails. Considering that we've had boats powered by actual engines since the Industrial Revolution, you'd assume that by the time World War II rolled around that nobody was out there fighting Master and Commander style. This was, after all, a conflict featuring tanks, stealth bombers, and goddamn nuclear weapons.
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And missiles from outer space.
But Actually ...
Not only did history's last battle between sailing vessels happen in World War II, but it was actually the final naval battle of the war, occurring shortly after the Japanese had surrendered but before all of the Japanese had received the memo. It was late in August 1945, and having been given notice that the war had ended, U.S. Navy Lieutenants Livingston Swentzel and Stuart Pittman were on their way home via China. They weren't making the journey by battleship, but instead commanded two Chinese junks.
If you haven't seen Pirates of the Caribbean, a junk looks like this:
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"Junk" is being kind.
On August 20, the two were probably wondering what they did to get stuck with this shitty assignment on their measly sailing ships when suddenly they came across yet another sailing ship that was acting suspiciously. It turned out to be a Japanese vessel, and when it saw the Americans very slowly approaching, they gradually turned around and, after several minutes of slow motion suspense, opened fire, kicking off the last sailing battle the world will probably ever see until Kevin Costner's Waterworld becomes real.
Pittman, realizing that his day just got much more exciting than expected, responded by opening fire with all weapons he had on board, to which the Japanese responded in kind. Discovering he had a bazooka, Pittman ordered his ship within 100 meters to fire it onto the enemy ship. Three bazooka hits later, the Japanese still continued to fight on, and Pittman ended the battle as any movie-quality sailing battle should end: with a hostile boarding. He maneuvered his ship next to the Japanese one and gave the one order all Navy officers secretly hope to yell: "Prepare to board!"
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A controversy later arose as to whether the lack of rope swinging constituted a proper boarding.
Pittman personally led the charge onto the enemy ship for vicious hand-to-hand combat with guns, bayonets, and a freaking meat cleaver. The battle continued until the Japanese surrendered, with 43 dead and 39 captured. And as of yet, Hollywood has somehow still neglected to make a movie out of this whole thing.


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10 Feb 2012 6:45 PM #1
Unanswered: Image grid - wrap items within panel
I'm trying to put 100 images (50x50pixels) in a panel that is 500x500pixels. I want 10 images per line, right next to one another, filling up the entire panel. I've been stuck for 2 days on this, and would really appreciate help. The code as follows:
note: i've also tried with a 10x10 array, listing each row as a different item with vbox, but it didn't work. thank you in advance for any help!
App.data.Images = new Array(); //I put all the images into an array
for (var i=0; i<100; i++){ //One by one, fill the array
App.data.Images[i] = new Ext.Panel({
width: 50,
height: 50,
style: 'background-color: #ff0000; border: thin solid blue;' //for simplicity here, just using solid colors instead of images
App.views.ImageContainer = new Ext.Panel({ //The container, sized to hold 100 images
App.views.ImageGrid = new Ext.Panel({
layout: ????? //I haven't been able to get any layout to work
items: [App.data.Images]
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If you will always know the number of items then you can simple do some CSS and use the Multi-column layout
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Is there a sequence $(a_n)_{n \in \mathbb{N}}$ of real numbers in the range of $[-1..\,1]$ such that the sequence of their arithmetic means $(\alpha_n)_{n \in \mathbb{N}}$, given by $$\alpha_n = \frac{1}{n}\sum_{k=1}^n a_k,\quad n \in \mathbb{N}$$ has a dense image in $[-1..\, 1]$?
My thoughts: Yes, there is and I strongly suspect the sequence which alternates between $1$ and $-1$ such that it will be constantly $1$ for $2^k$ members and then constantly $-1$ for $2^{k+1}$ members and so on ... to do the trick. And if it doesn't something similiar will do.


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People are often too busy to cook, but they may not want to eat out, either. Takeout and delivery offers the perfect alternative to working men or women who want to spend a relaxing evening at home, but do not have time to prepare their own meal.
If you own a quick-service establishment, takeout business could account for up to 70% of your customers. However, even if you own a full-service restaurant, takeout can probably add about 10% to your revenues.1 Takeout and delivery services can be especially profitable because they can increase business without significantly increasing your regular operation costs or requiring that you expand your facilities.
Marketing Takeout and Delivery
Before you begin marketing your to-go services, make sure your takeout and delivery operations are in order. You need to have special space and materials ready for your to-go business and make sure you can handle a new wave of takeout and delivery orders, in case your marketing is successful. » Learn More
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Takeout and delivery menus. Make sure your takeout menu only includes items that are easily transportable. Print an abundance of takeout and delivery menus and distribute them around town. Good places to put them include hotel lobbies, convention and welcome centers, the chamber of commerce and resorts or spas. You can also deliver them door-by-door in your trading area and give them to dine-in customers to take home with them. » Learn More
Packaging. Your to-go containers and bags should make it easy to store and reheat the food. Furthermore, the packaging should remind customers of your business. Consider printing delivery bags and takeout containers with your restaurant logo, slogan or a design that fits well with your restaurant's creative platform. » Learn More
Website. About half of consumers check out restaurant websites. It is essential that you market your to-go services on your website, whether or not you offer online ordering. Many new or repeat customers may not have a takeout or delivery menu, and they will likely go to your website to look for one before ordering. » Learn More
Flyers and personal selling. One of the best ways to get takeout business is simply to distribute flyers or takeout menus throughout the neighborhood. You should also go to any nearby businesses or factories and distribute your takeout menu or post it on the bulletin board. You could even consider speaking to the HR departments of companies in your trading area to try to set up delivery for a company party. » Learn More
Phone book or newspaper. Advertising in the phone book can bring a sizable return on investment, especially if you are hoping to attract tourists. Make sure your ad mentions your takeout or delivery services, and with a full-page ad, you could even include your takeout menu. Newspaper ads offer another form of paid advertising that could inform a broad audience of your takeout and delivery options. » Learn More
Takeout Ordering and Building Your Database
Whatever methods you use to take delivery and carry-out orders, make sure you reserve all of the customer information in your marketing database, so that you can use it in your direct marketing campaign. You can also reserve customers' past purchasing information, so you know what they like to order and can tailor your direct marketing promotions to their buying habits. » Learn More
Telephone. When taking delivery or takeout orders on the phone, be sure to reserve the customer's contact info, including address and email, in your database for future direct marketing promotions.
Online ordering. With an electronic POS system, it is easy to build a marketing database, since all the customers' contact information can be sent directly from the online form to the database. When customers order online, make sure to prompt them for an email if they would like to receive special offers.
Text message. Several quick-service chains, including Papa Johns and Subway, have added the option of text messaging to their ordering processes. If you take orders via text message, record customers' cell phone numbers in your database, since customers who order through text message may respond well to a future text message marketing campaign.
Building a database is a great advantage of offering takeout and delivery services. The more methods for ordering you offer, the more information you will be able to record in your database. Any restaurant could help profits by offering takeout and delivery services, but only if they use good marketing techniques to inform customers about their to-go options. Once you start marketing your takeout and delivery, make sure you are ready for the increase in business. If there is not enough increase in to-go sales, perform a restaurant marketing assessment to help determine where the problem lies. » Learn More


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I was telling someone about the smash product and he asked whether it was the categorical product in the category of based spaces and I immediately said yes, but after a moment we realized that that wasn't right. Rather, the categorical product of $(X,x_0)$ and $(Y,y_0)$ is just $(X\times Y,(x_0,y_0))$. (It seems like in any concrete category $(\mathcal{C},U)$, if we have a product (does a concrete category always have products?) then it must be that $U(X\times Y)=U(X)\times U(Y)$. But I couldn't prove it. I should learn category theory. Maybe functors commute with products or something.) Anyways, here's what I'm wondering: is the main reason that we like the smash product just that it gives the right exponential law? It's easy to see that the product $\times$ I gave above has $F(X\times Y,Z)\not\cong F(X,F(Y,Z))$ just by taking e.g. $X=Y=Z=S^0$.
Two reasons why we want the smash product:
As a side note, in response to your parenthetical statement: If you want to know when some functor preserves products or coproducts or some type of limit, it's usually easiest to first check and see if it has an adjoint. See wikipedia on adjoints and (co)continuous functors.
From nLab:
There's more at the link. I must admit that I know nothing about this, but I recommend nLab as a good place to look for the categorical place of mathematical constructions.
This is pretty much (derived from, I guess) Jonas Meyers answer, but a bit more concrete, and as far as I know why we're interested in it. There is an adjunction $\hom_*(\Sigma X, Y)\cong\hom_*(X,\Omega X)$, where $\Sigma X:=S^1\wedge X$ and $\Omega X:=\hom_*(S^1,X)$. If we define $\pi_n(X):=\pi_0(\Omega^n X)$, or indeed $\pi_n(X):=[S^n,X]_*$, we get $\pi_n(X):=\pi_0(\Omega^n X)\cong[S^0,\Omega^n X]_*\cong[\Sigma^n S^0,X]_*\cong[S^n,X]_*$, which is an interesting relationship.


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Other than the sheer absurdity of it (read: real world limitations), is there anything stopping a multiclass Monk/Druid from using flurry of blows while in wild-shape?
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The Feral Combat Training feat will add a natural weapon to the monk weapon lists.
However. Tigers, as any other creatures, possess an Unarmed Strike. This means your Improved Unarmed Strike is relevant, and everything under "Unarmed Strike" in the monk description is relevant too. Including and especially:
So even though you have natural weapons, you can decide not to use them and do a normal Flurry of Blows, dealing damage as shown under "Unarmed Damage" (using your modified size).
So yes, a tiger can do kung-fu (a T-Rex too).
You cannot usually use natural weapons as part of a flurry of blows, so by default the answer is no. Luckily Paizo has come to your tiger-monk's rescue with the Feral Combat Training feat in Ultimate Combat, which explicitly allows this. See Can I use a full attack and natural attacks in the same round? for how natural attacks and monk flurries interact usually.


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You are most likely going to host a party this holiday season, or go to one. Vegan Mom and I have hosted/helped host two parties thus far. The first was a neighbourhood affair with about 50 people in attendance so I thought I'd share what we did to help you with your own partying over the next week or so. Many apologies for the quality of the pictures; they were snapped rather quickly right before guests came through the door.
Veganomicon) and mincemeat tarts (if you are not making your own mincemeat, make sure the stuff you buy does not have suet (i.e. beef or mutton fat) in it).
Vegan Cookies Invade Your Cookie Jar.


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Our Solar System: In Order From the Sun
7 of 10
The sixth planet from the Sun is the majestic Saturn. It takes 29 years for Saturn to make one trip around the Sun. Orbiting this giant, gas-filled planet are its famous rings. The rings are a collection of billions of boulder-sized chunks of ice. Saturn's intense gravitational field keeps its icy rings from clumping together.
Fun Fact: Saturn rotates rapidly, making each day only 10 hours long.
Photo source: NASA
Next: Uranus
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What is Liver Extract?Liver extract is a product that comes from animal liver, most commonly from cattle. Liver extract is used to make medicine.
Liver extract is used for improving liver function, treating chronic liver diseases, preventing liver damage, and regenerating liver tissue. It is also used for allergies; chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS); enhancing muscle development in bodybuilders; improving stamina, strength, and physical endurance; removing chemicals from the body (detoxification); and as an aid to recovery from chemical addiction or poisoning.
Possibly Ineffective for...
- Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). Some research suggests that injecting a combination of bovine liver extract, folic acid, and vitamin B12 for 3 weeks does not seem to improve fatigue in people with CFS.
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- Hepatitis C. Early research suggests that injecting liver extract plus flavin adenine dinucleotide intravenously (by IV) or as a shot into the muscle might improve response to interferon-alpha or interferon-beta therapy in people with hepatitis C.
- Improving liver function.
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It's set before it, so technically no.
Listen to Steve. Go watch important films. Ignore LOTR, that will only make the Hobbit worse.
Got it!
Hobbit, then download some while i watch LOTR!
Extended Editions or gtfo.
Just got back from watching The Hobbit in 48fps, it was pretty spectacular. Film was good too.
It's just a damn frame rate. As gamers we should be least amazed.
Does it make a difference in terms of the experience or is it just a gimmick?
Not even a fucking gimmick, it's just a technical specification.
The reason it is even discussed is because the film reviewer scene is packed full of terrible people that get hooked up on shit like this. The standard frame rate for films is/was/can be/bananas 24fps, which borders on the limit under which the human ocular jazz will not see a series of images as smooth progression, moving away from it makes sense since it was only ever so low to save on film costs.
I'm glad we sorted that out.
Basically just go look up frame rates on wikipedia.
I'm watching 50/50 finally. It's already doing something right because JGL doesn't have prosthetics to make him look less pretty.
50/50 is pretty damn good.
Spoiler!There's a great bit where he gets high on some medical marijuana and is just walking though the hospital is a haze, laughing at the dumbest shit. The best part of that sequence is when he walks past a dead guy and bursts out laughing. Awesome.
It's a really realistic film to me because I'd be real sad if JGL had cancer or ever had a bad day ever.
I watched 'The Do-Deca-Pentathlon' yesterday. As I've said before, I'm a huge fan of the Duplass brothers, and this film is what they're known for so I really liked it. It's more in common with their earlier movies than the last two, like they were getting back to their roots, which is an odd thing to say since they really haven't ever strayed from their roots. This just feels smaller and has more of their indie-mumblecore-fidgety camera work. I like that stuff, so it felt comfortable to me. I still think their previous movie, 'Jeff Who Lives at Home', is their best work yet, but this is right there with the rest of their work. Well, above 'Cyrus' because even though it's not a bad movie I still feel 'Cyrus' to be the bottom of their output.
Aaaaanyways, 'The Do-Deca-Pentathlon' is a story about two estranged brothers competing in twenty-five events to see who is the "best" brother. They are estranged because their competitive natures never let them get over the originial "do-deca" ending in controversy over twenty years ago when they were in high school. It a simple little dramedy that covers a few different family issues, between siblings, parents and kids, and spouses. The ending elicited feelings in me, but that's easy to do since I'm a giant softie.
Speaking of the Duplass brothers, I don't think I've talked about 'Safety Not Guaranteed' since I watched it. They were producers on it and Mark Duplass is one of the leads. Great movie. Quirky in a good way. While on the surface it's about a guy who may or may not be crazy who may or may not be building a time machine, it's really about relationships and maturing. I loved it.
Safety Not Guaranteed was really cute, I liked it a lot.
So after seeing the Hobbit I can suspend disbelief enough to accept elves, dragons, trolls, and magic... yet it still bugs me that there's a character that has half his head covered in birdshit for his entire time on screen, yet nobody brings this up to him.
Man, the Marius in this new Les Miserables movie sounds awful!
The other trailer looks amazing though!


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If you are a low fat vegan type you probably should stop reading now. As I was putting the cookbook together (almost done!) I noticed how much of my food is related to some childhood memory. This soup is no exception. I always got to choose my birthday dinner as a kid, and I usually asked for tacos and corn soup. The original is made with cream and milk, so I used soy milk and coconut milk. It's pretty rich, but also pretty tasty. We always garnished it with corn chips, but I didn't have any on hand.
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Oil Companies (and Their Koch-Funded Front Groups) Run Campaign to Raise Ire at Gas Prices, Protect Profits
U.S. oil production under Obama has soared, as have oil prices, showing that "drill baby drill" can't solve our energy security problems.
Our guest blogger is CAPAF's Noreen Nielsen.
Koch-backed, oil-company funded, Americans for Prosperity recently announced their new campaign attacking the Obama administration for the increase in gas prices. That's right. The energy industry is set to run efforts to raise public ire at gas prices. Koch Industries and others in the oil industry hope this effort will raise public support for pro-industry policies that put profits ahead of consumers.
Ø Industry rallies are sponsored by the multibillion dollar Koch Industries, one of the "world's top five crude oil traders and key player in distorting oil markets for private profits.
Ø These rallies are strikingly similar to the astroturf "Energy Citizen" rallies of 2009 that were funded by oil-industry lobbyists.
Ø Koch Industries has funded the Americans for Prosperity Foundation and Americans for Prosperity for years, which has supported many Tea Party efforts.
Excessive Speculation in the Commodities Market is Pushing Up Prices at the Pump
- The world's largest commodity trader, Goldman Sachs, recently admitted that speculation was to blame for high oil prices, telling its clients that it believed speculators like itself had artificially driven the price of oil at least $20 higher than supply and demand dictate.
- CNBC business reporter Erin Burnett: "A lot of it is a speculation problem, it isn't supply and demand," which was echoed by others.
- Oil speculators have doubled their share of oil futures markets since the 1990s, with a ratio of 68 percent speculators to 32 percent users of oil, according to a recentMcClatchy report.
Koch Industries Plays a Key Role In Helping Manipulate the Oil Market for Profit
- A new Think Progress investigation of Koch's oil speculation business reveals that Koch is perhaps the most important player in distorting oil markets for private profit.
- Koch Industries' executive actually devised the "first ever oil-indexed price swap," while also being heavily involved with deregulating oil derivatives in the early '90s.
- Since the Koch-Gramm-Enron deregulation bonanza, non-commercial oil speculators have flooded the market and increased the price volatility of oil in leaps and bounds, hurting consumers and businesses across the globe while making a small set of oil barons and financial giants very rich.
- Koch executive even admitted to benefiting from the "Contango Market where crude prices are higher for future delivery.
- Koch is one of the "The World's Top Five Crude Oil Traders," according to a slideshow, given to an industry association for oil speculators, describes Koch as the "world's top five crude oil traders and actively trades about 50 types of crude oil around the world."
Despite Big Oil Talking Points, Oil Production Highest Level Since 2003
- The Financial Times reported that U.S. domestic oil production has actually risen to its highest level since 2002. "According to the US government's Energy Information Administration, domestic production of crude oil and related liquids rose 3 per cent last year to an average of 7.51m barrels a day – its highest level since 2002."
Oil is priced and sold in a world market, so drilling domestically wouldn't help bring down prices spikes. The U.S. possess only 2 percent of the world's oil reserves but use almost 25 percent of the world's oil.
- According to a CNN report, the amount of extra oil that could be produced from more drilling in this country is tiny compared to what the world consumes.
- Oil is a fungible commodity, meaning there's really no way to ensure that the oil we produce here, stays here, wrote TIME. Instead, any additional production would be absorbed and digested by the global oil markets, having minimal impact on the prices at the pump.
- Even the Bush Administration stated that additional offshore drilling "would not have a significant impact" on crude oil prices before 2030, because oil prices are determined on the international market.
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High price of adaptability
Humans are adaptable. Our adaptability has enabled us to reach heights denied to other species. Whether you believe our adaptability comes from God or nature, it is a blessing and a curse. It has led us to do countless wondrous things, but also to act abominably.
The Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre is but the latest manifestation of human evil. But the tragic truth is Adam Lanza could not have achieved infamy without adapting to tough gun laws and the best practices in school security.
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To call Shipulina 'a mediocre dancer' is very harsh.
I would say based solely on her sunday afternoon performance, that Shipulina is mediocre, but I am sure that she would have danced much better had it not been her 5th or 6th Medora in a week. This might sound harsh, but I feel obligated to hold the Bolshoi to an extremely high standard. She had trouble with virtually every double pirouette, never completing two full rotations. She had some of the least attractive feet I've seen. And although she has a beautiful arabesque, she simply does not have the star-quality one comes to expect from a Bolshoi leading lady. I agree with other reviewers that she is far better suited as a soloist, and was completely out-shined by Kaptsova as Gulnare, who showed no signs of exhaustion after dancing in EVERY performance. Kaptsova was exquisite!
When I think back, Shipulina's Medora was the most "blah" starring role I've seen from a Russian ballerina. I would prefer Osipova, Alexandrova, Zakharova, Tereshkina, Lopatkina, Vishneva, even Somova!
Having said all the negatives, I truly am thankful that she was willing to step up and fill in for Osipova on Sunday. Like others, I do not fault Shipulina for the lack-luster situation. I wish the Bolshoi would have made wiser decisions.
That the Bolshoi was short on Medora's for Washington is a regrettable thing. It isn't the first time this happens in touring situations, and it won't be the last time either. As mentioned here Zakharova is busy in Milan, Lunkina is on maternity leave, the scheduled Nikulina was injured, Alexandrova left after opening night, and it was undoubtedly a mistake to cast Osipova so soon after her New York/ABT outing. Some posters here make it sound as if audiences in Washington DC were victim of some special treatment. Really they were not!
Moreover, one doesn't judge a dancer on a sole sunday afternoon performance, as you know quite well, mariinskyfan. How anybody can call a ballerina "mediocre" when she has the bad luck to appear in successive performances of a ballet of this scale is beyond me. If she was really mediocre then she wouldn't even have been able to tackle them all. We had a similar situation in Paris last year also with the Bolshoi's Corsaire when Svetlana Lunkina danced three successive performances of Medora. Of course the third effort wasn't as sharp as the first and showed severe signs of fatigue - how could it be? But is that a reason to condemn her as a "mediocre" ballerina ?
Shipulina has always proven an extremely reliable artist, regardless of the number of times she had to perform, the shape of her feet, or of the pointes she is wearing. Natalia, I find it completely gratuitous to link her to Alina Somova (and the fact that they are both wearing pointes of a certain label is really of no further consequence here). We all know by now that you don't like this artist, and it is your good right to do so, but with all respect you do sound like a broken record with your ad nauseam derogatory remarks against her.


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Target: $5 Off Grocery Purchase of $30 or More w/Coupon
Target.com is offering $5 Off Grocery purchase of $30 or more with the printed coupon.
There are many other coupons available in several departments.
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You need to install the "Coupon Printing" program, which kind of sucks, as far as I''m concerned. The featured coupon isn't too bad, but the others are mostly for a buck off candy or gravy.
@honestmonkey: There are lots of coupons other than just gravy and candy. One is for $10 off Indiana Jones: The Complete Adventures Blu-ray Disc set, which lowers the price to $54.99 shipped:
@thebopster: The only way I can see that even remotely relating to the Grocery coupons is if you took "Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" and used it as a cheese plate. Much better than watching it...
We quit shopping at super target when we were told - oh we don't match store ads, who do you think we are? Walmart? Well, Walmart gets all our business now along with all store ads and target ads too! LOL :o
@briansmac: You should price check a bit more. On average, I've found that Target is less expensive than Walmart when it comes to groceries. Plus, their generic brand is not only edible, but tastes like name brands. I actually prefer their frosted mini wheats to the "real" thing - they have more frosting!
Used this coupon today, along with the 5% savings I always get from my Red debit card. No extra fees, no weird contracts, and an additional 5% off everything just for carrying an extra card in my wallet? Yes please!
Since the Walmart vs Target debate came up....the types of people I have to mingle with at Walmart are like inbreds that came out of the back woods. Ever looked at one of the people of Walmart sites. The shoppers at Target, my local store at least, are mainly college girls. The store is cleaner, less crowded and the prices are good. If you take advantage of the 5% off with their card, coupons and sale items, you can do quite well. +1 on the store brands, very good stuff. I just got my second $10 gift card free with $50 purchase this month. All I bought was stuff that was on sale or that I had a coupon for. Now, I'll get a $5 with $30 purchase. Did I mention college girls?
This week you can buy two 18-pack boxes of Keurig K Cups and get a free $5 gift card.
So if Target lists coffee as "grocery" items, then just spend another $8 to hit your $30 mark and get your $5 off that and a free $5 gift card. :D
Until Target gets with the 21st Century and supports Linux-based browsers for coupons, I'm just going to go to... well, pretty much any other major discounter for deals.
I just go to Walmart when its not crowded. I don't have a half hour to wait at Target's one open register.
the e-centives coupon app is safe, it's been around for years and works as it's supposed to (limits number of coupons printed per computer and helps deter fraud by people who decide to start photocopying the coupon after they print it.).
Last week they had a $10 gift card with $50 transaction coupon you could print that came in handy when combined with the $8 off $80 coupon I got earlier in the week at the checkout... used them on a bunch clearance 50% off lego sets and got some great deals.
@aimhighwoot: I have to agree 100% with your statements, especially the in-bred, backwoods clientele. When our WalMart first opened the people coming into the store looked as if they were beaming in from another planet.
Consider checking out "The Power of Habit" if you want to know what Target does with your data after tracking your behavior.
Even if they're not adware/spyware, those coupon printers are annoying in that you have to install yet another rarely to frequently used program (possibly multiple coupon printers since merchants/OEMs don't all use the same coupon service) on your computer.
Their purpose is to prevent consumers from printing multiple copies of coupons but with cheap high quality digital scanners (even at home), there's no stopping us (consumers) from simply making copies. Traditional clipped coupons from the Sunday paper are harder to dupe because they're printed on paper that's hard for consumers to reproduce.
Using multiple user names/emails also allows us to bypass these pointless coupon printing limitations. Screenshots of smartphone coupons allow reuse.
Until/unless they start using bio-metric coupon tracking, they can't stop us from relatively easily duping coupons. Show of hands...who out there is ready to give up a fingerprint (spot of blood? retina scan?) just to use a coupon?
@whitewind: You're dumb. Just save your dollar and move along :P
@whitewind: Pennys prints coupons with Different Bar Codes (one use only), no special coupon printer bloatware needed. If the vendor wants to control printing, I prefer they not install software on MY PC to do so (and, yes, easily circumvented - heck, after clerk tries to scan one a few times, they'll likely just 'override' the discount amount to keep lines moving).
@whitewind: multiple usernames does or emails does not circumvent the ecentives or coupons.com coupon app. It limits the number of coupons printed per COMPUTER, and the coupons you print are embedded with unique codes that can be tracked back to the computer/ip address of the person who printed it. If multiple coupons with the same info get redeemed, they can ban the computer or ip address that printed that coupon originally, and in some serious cases even prosecute criminally for fraud.
Personally, I use the ecentives target coupon printing app 2-3 times per week, and coupons.com daily.


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The announcement underscores how Cheniere, the only company to possess the necessary government permits to export natural gas to countries not in free-trade agreements with the US, is on schedule with its first two processing units while government regulators pore over other permit applications.
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Cheniere Energy reiterated Friday it will be ready to begin
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The announcement underscores how Cheniere, the only company
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I'm running FreeBSD in a small VMWare image and I want to keep it headless. Is there a setting someplace that will guarantee I never pull in X as a dependency, or will I have to rely solely on eternal vigilance? Thanks.
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There must be a better way than a constrained numeric updown control.
We started with Q&A. Technical documentation is next, and we need your help.
Whether you're a beginner or an experienced developer, you can contribute.
The easiest way to enter numbers (especially non-integer numbers) in Windows Mobile (or in a regular Windows application) is to just have a text box that the users type into, and then validate that they've entered a proper number.
The problem with this approach in Windows Mobile is that the default SIP (Soft Input Panel aka little pop-up keyboard) looks like this:
On a real Windows Mobile device, the SIP looks even smaller than this, and it is a gigantic pain in the keister to hit the little number keys at the top correctly. What you want to use for this purpose is the Numeric mode, which you get by clicking the "123" button in the upper left corner, and looks like this:
The problem with this is that there is no (simple) way programatically to make this mode of the SIP appear instead of the regular keyboard. To get the SIP to appear in numeric mode, add a reference to your project to Microsoft.WindowsCE.Forms, and then add this code as a class named "SIPHandler" (you will have to change the namespace to your project's namespace):
Sorry about the length. To pop the SIP up in numeric mode, you just use this line:
or to make it appear in regular keyboard mode:
And to hide it again:
The basic trick behind this code is to sort of "peek" the color in the upper left corner to determine whether the SIP is already in regular keyboard or numeric mode, and then to simulate a mouse click (if necessary) in the same corner to ensure that the SIP is in the mode desired.
Note: this is "borrowed" web code, but I no longer know where I got it from. If anyone on SO knows where this hack came from, please let me know and I'll be happy to attribute it to the original author.
Update: well, after 2 seconds of Googling, I've found that the proximate source of this code was Daniel Moth:
... who credits Alex Feinman with the original:
Thanks, guys! This code actually brought me to tears once (I was chopping onions at the time, but that couldn't have been it).
The MaskedTextBox might be of use. Failing that, I recommend using an ordinary TextBox with an OnTextChange event handler that checks to make sure the value entered is actually a number. Any non-numerical characters, and you can bang out a message box, or simply remove those characters completely, depending on your needs.
The NumericUpDown controls are slow to use sometimes, but they have intrinsic data validation which in some cases is quite useful. If the control is one the user is not going to use often, consider using it. Otherwise the MaskedTextBox or TextBox is the way to go.
Another approach to this problem is to use a multi-level ContextMenu, where the first layer of options covers ranges of numbers, and the second layers let the users pick specific values, like this:
You can create the full menu structure ahead of time (kind of a pain) or just load the structure dynamically depending on the range of values and the resolutions required. You can do this with hundreds of menu items in much less than a second, even on Windows Mobile devices.
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I thought there was something special about this episode. Not sure what, but it stuck out a lot more then the others.
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Famitsu Japanese Software Sales for week ending December 29th: Nintendo games dominateWritten by: / / 1 Comment
The latest Famitsu software chart effectively demonstrates how popular Nintendo games are in Japan at this time of year. The publisher's critically acclaimed 3DS adventure The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds made the biggest splash this week, selling 225 418 copies during its first four days at retail.
Meanwhile, Square Enix's highly anticipated Final Fantasy X | X-2 HD Remaster performed well on both PS3 and PS Vita, beating Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII in terms of opening week sales. Hopefully the success of this HD compilation will pave the way for more Final Fantasy remasters, with FFXII seeming like the next logical choice.
It's interesting to see games such as Monster Hunter 4 and New Super Mario Bros. U making a comeback this week, showing that it's mostly established franchises which sell well over a long period of time in Japan.
Here are the ten best-selling titles during the past week:
- [NEW] The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds (Nintendo) – 3DS – 225 418
- PazuDora Z: Puzzle & Dragons Z (GungHo Online Entertainment) – 3DS – 198 968
- [NEW] Final Fantasy X | X-2 HD Remaster (Square Enix) – PS3 – 182 638
- Pokémon X & Y (Pokemon Co.) – 3DS – 156 483
- [NEW] Final Fantasy X | X-2 HD Remaster: Twin Pack (Square Enix) – PS Vita – 134 645
- Wii Party U (Nintendo) – Wii U – 87 262
- New Super Mario Bros. U (Nintendo) – Wii U – 75 131
- Super Mario 3D World (Nintendo) – Wii U – 71 159
- Monster Hunter 4 (Capcom) – 3DS – 40 338
- Animal Crossing: New Leaf (Nintendo) – 3DS – 37 300
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And the No. 1 Ranking Goes to…Gonzaga?
When the Associated Press college basketball poll comes out Monday, Gonzaga is poised to become No. 1 for the first time in school history. But even if the Bulldogs stay at No. 2 for the second week ever, their stint in runner-up purgatory wouldn't approach that of some other teams. These Johnny Depps have come close repeatedly but never snagged their sport's equivalent of an Oscar: the AP No. 1 ranking.
During the 1955-56 season, Dayton spent seven tantalizing weeks at No. 2 before losing to Louisville in the final of the National Invitation Tournament at a time when it rivaled the NCAA tournament. St. Bonaventure rode Tom Stith's 29.6-point scoring average to seven consecutive weeks at No. 2 in 1960-61, losing to Wake Forest in the NCAA tournament regional semifinals. In 1986-88, Troy Lewis and Todd Mitchell led Purdue to 10 weeks of scraping the No. 2 glass ceiling. (UNLV, Arizona and Temple were No. 1 for most of those two seasons, though none won the title.)
Dominating the symphony of second fiddles, according to collegepollarchive.com, is Maryland, which has spent a whopping 23 weeks at No. 2 over six seasons without reaching No. 1. The Terrapins haven't been No. 2 since March 2002, but that year they won something better: the national championship.
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August 1914. As Michael Clifton is mapping land he has just purchased in California's beautiful Santa Ynez Valley, war is declared in Europe—and duty-bound to his father's native country, the young cartographer soon sets sail for England to serve in the British army. Three years later, he is listed as missing in action.
April 1932. After Michael's remains are unearthed in France, his parents retain London psychologist and investigator Maisie Dobbs, hoping she can find the unnamed nurse whose love letters were among their late son's belongings. It is a quest that leads Maisie back to her own bittersweet wartime love—and to the stunning discovery that Michael Clifton was murdered in his dugout. Suddenly an exposed web of intrigue and violence threatens to ensnare the dead soldier's family and even Maisie herself as she attempts to cope with the impending loss of her mentor and the unsettling awareness that she is once again falling in love.
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"Compelling." — People (3 ½ out of 4 stars)
"In Maisie Dobbs, Jacqueline Winspear has given us a real gift. Maisie Dobbs has not been created—she has been discovered. Such people are always there amongst us, waiting for somebody like Ms. Winspear to come along and reveal them. And what a revelation it is!" — Alexander McCall Smith
"An engaging plot coupled with captivating character makes this the best Dobbs novel to date." — Library Journal
"Endearing. . . . As often in this winning series, the action builds to a somewhat sad if satisfying conclusion." — Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"When people ask me to recommend an author, one name consistently comes to mind: Jacqueline Winspear." — Deirdre Donahue, USA Today
"A sleuth to treasure." — Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book Review
"A detective series to savor." — Johanna McGeary, Time
"[Catches] the sorrow of a lost generation in the character of one exceptional woman." — Dick Adler, Chicago Tribune
"What charms most is Dobbs herself: a woman 'not as adept in her personal life as she was in her professional domain,' and all the more engaging for that." — Tom Nolan, Wall Street Journal
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An NFL Farewell With a Nice Ring to It
Few NFL greats have accomplished what Baltimore Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis could Sunday: Win the biggest game as a last act before collecting a blinding yellow Pro Football Hall of Fame blazer.
Only five hall inductees—John Elway, Russ Grimm, Ted Hendricks, Mel Renfro and Gary Zimmerman—played in and won their final game at the Super Bowl. Lewis would likely join that class when he is eligible for enshrinement in five years, if he were to earn his second Super Bowl ring this weekend.
Elway was the most recent football legend to take his final bow in football's biggest game. He called it quits after leading the Denver Broncos to consecutive wins in Super Bowl XXXII and XXXIII. Zimmerman, an offensive lineman, was Elway's teammate and retired after the first of the two titles.
Bill Walsh is the only Hall of Fame coach to step down after a Super Bowl victory, doing so after the 49ers won in 1989. But like Zimmerman, Walsh potentially left some championship hardware on the table as San Francisco won the title again the next season without him.
Two other players who played their final NFL game in the Super Bowl could actually beat Lewis into the elite club. Pittsburgh Steelers running back Jerome Bettis and New York Giants defensive end Michael Strahan are both Hall of Fame finalists. The Hall's selection committee meets Saturday in New Orleans to vote on this year's inductees.
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An earlier version of this article included Green Bay's Paul Hornung as one of the hall inductees that played in and won their final game in the Super Bowl. Hornung was injured for Super Bowl I.
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6 Things From History Everyone Pictures Incorrectly
#5. Velociraptors Had Feathers
The Perception:
Sure, the T-Rex may be the go-to killer dinosaur, but everyone who's anyone knows that Velociraptors were the real baddest asses of prehistoric times. Cracked Paleontologists theorize that if it wasn't for a giant boulder shot from outer space wiping them all out, Velociraptors would be ruling the planet today, only keeping humans around for food and sport.
"We'll give you a two minute head start."
These deadly beasts of yore looked like miniaturized Tyrannosaurs, but sleeker, quicker and more dangerous. The dinosaur Kobe to the T-Rex's Shaq, if you will. Anyone who's seen Jurassic Park has a pretty good idea of what Raptors looked like. Well... except for one minor detail.
"We hope it's not something that makes us look totally lame!"
The Reality:
They had feathers. Not just a few here and there either. But a full on, honest to goodness coat of teeth-to-tail FEATHERS.
Now, it would be awesome if this meant they could fly, but obviously if they could do that, you'd already damned well know about it. No, it turns out Velociraptors were just big fluffy looking lizards, who most likely used the feathers to show off to other raptors, or in mating rituals. Apparently Raptor ladies were impressed if you looked like the bastard offspring of a komodo dragon and Big Bird.
Velociraptors: Preening douchebags of the thunder lizard kingdom.
Why We Picture it Wrong:
We actually didn't know about this until 1998, when a bone proving the extent of quill knobs on Velociraptors was discovered, and many a childhood ruined.
Here's to hoping they do a Star Wars-style special edition for Jurassic Park, with updated, more accurate CGI dinosaurs. That should be goddamned hilarious.


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The typical solution is what is know of as a Baffle Box. Basically, you create a crooked path for the air to flow through, with each turn insulated with sound absorbing foam.
Using sound proofing materials like are used in low-end home recording studios would work well as the 'walls' or 'baffles' in the baffle box and thus, being much more effective at damping sound than most other materials, would also allow for fewer baffles (fewer: walls / turns / corners) making the box more compact ideally so it could sit more easily in the window without protruding in/out too much (without knowing the details of the window in question).
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Located in China's Special Economic Zone, Shun Hing Square rises to 1,260 ft (384 m). Its 69 stories include business offices; a 35-story annex includes residential apartments, a parking garage, and a 5-floor shopping mall. Completed in 1996, Shun Hing Square is the tallest steel building in China.
Fun Fact: Shun Hing Square was built at the stunning rate of four stories every nine days.
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