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Conquering Colombia first; then the World
After falling out of favour with my last career save, this will be my last one on FM11 that I will report on if it fails.
I have loaded up the following nations;
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- China [Second Division]
- Columbia [Second Division]
- England [Blue Square South/North]
- Holland [Eerste Division]
- South Africa [Second Division]
- USA [MLS only]
Those nations are spread all around the world, with at least one in each of the continents. I would like to build up my reputation by starting at a smaller footballing nation then moving up to the next level.
I have started as an unemployed manager with Automatic reputation. I holidayed until I was offered a job and it took just one day as Atletico La Sabana of the Columbian Second Division offered me a 6 month deal worth £475 p/w.
Atletico La Sabana are based in the Columbian city of Sincelejo, the capital of the Sabana region in the North West of the country. Formerly known as Cordoba FC, the club was rebranded as La Sabana when club found itself in financial difficulties and had to be liquidated.
CD Atletico La Sabana are a professional club currently playing in the Columbian Second Division. They play their home games at the Arturo Cumplido Sierra stadium which according to FM has a 25k capacity (although Wiki says it has a capacity of just 5k). They possess fairly basic training and adequate youth facilities. They have a youth academy and a basic youth recruitment network. The club are affectionately known as Los Cordobeses.
I take over the club with them lying in 13th place, with them being touted to finish down in 18th place. The chairman has backed me with 36k to spend on transfer targets and a 3.7k weekly wage budget.

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I have rocks orbiting moons, moons orbiting planets, planets orbiting suns, and suns orbiting black holes, and the current system could have many many layers of orbitage.
the position of any object is a function of time and relative to the object it orbits. (so far so good).
now I want to know for a given 2 objects(A,B), a start time and a speed, how can I work out the when and where to go. I can work out where A and B is given a time. so i just need.
1: direction to travel in from A to B(remember B is moving(not in a straight line)) 2: Time to get to b in a straight line.
travel must be in a straight line with the shortest possible distance.
as an extension to this question, how will i know if its better to wait, EG is it faster to stay on object A and wait for a hour when the objects may be closer, than to set off from A to B at the start.
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My machine is a 2010 Mac Pro 2 x 2.66 6-core intel xeon with 32 GBs of ram running Mac OS X 10.8.3. Just the other day it started to beach ball after about an hour of use. It doesn't make any difference what I am doing on it whether it be CPU intensive or the machine is just idling, without fail after an hour goes by it starts to beach ball and becomes totally unresponsive. I let it sit for an hour the other day but it just kept beach balling, so all I can do is hold the power button to shut it down and then restart it, but after an hour the same thing happens again. I have had this Mac Pro for about a month and a half now and everything seemed to work really well up until a couple of days ago. The computer is running a 30" and 20" apple display and it has the ATI Radeon HD 5870 1024 MB, also my hard drive is a Crucial M4 500gb SSD, I have it installed with APRICORN VEL-SOLO-X2. If anyone has any ideas what could be causing this please let me know.
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I would start with running
If it's an infrequent issue (and it is cured 100% of the time from a reboot), it's more of a resource exhaustion / rare bug and having detailed sysdiagnose snapshots is even more invaluable for teasing out what part of the software stack is getting stuck and causing the Finder / UIServer to mark the cursor as non-responsive.
The next time this happens, press the shortcut and start seeing if the logs can help you.
Eventually, a Finder window will open showing the sysdiagnose report - or you will pull the power / forcibly shut down the Mac. Just knowing it was blocked to tight to not even be capable to run sysdiagnose is valuable troubleshooting information.


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The Wiener process is defined by the three properties: 1. $W(0) = 0$, 2. $W(t)$ is almost surely continuous, and 3. $W(t)$ has independent increments with $W(t) - W(s) \sim N(0, t-s)$ (for $0 ≤ s < t$).
What would be an example of a process which satisfies 1) and 3), but not 2) ?
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May siblings of the opposite sex that share only one parent be secluded (yichud) with one another? Does it matter which parent they share?
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Nitei Gavriel (Hilchot Yichud, chapter 3, halacha 11, footnote 14) brings several opinions (including R' Moshe) that all half-siblings have the same halachot as full siblings. This is what the Nitei Gavriel says in the halacha as well.
He then brings that R' Eliyashev says only half-siblings on the mother's side are considered like full siblings. The reason given is that they have a natural feeling of love to one another (that I'm assuming is more than the natural feeling of love half-siblings on the father's side share).
The Nitei Gavriel (I think) then concludes that it really only applies if the half-siblings grew up together (I think he is saying all the opinions hold this). My understanding is that if they have not grown up together than there is no familial bond felt between them, and therefore they are treated as strangers with regards to Yichud.


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Is it true that taking too much of weight on the leg-press machine can affect a woman's body.If so what could be an alternative to the same ?
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By "affect" do you mean make you look like a male bodybuilder? if yes, then the answer is "surely no". There is a misconception about women and weight lifting, a lot of women think that if they do some weight training they will grow huge muscles like male bodybuilders.
While increasing weight will make you build a bit more muscles of course, but there is a big difference in the physiology of men vs women, of which : Men have more muscles, have more testosterone (which helps build muscles),etc..
My personal recommendation if you want to "tone" your body, all you need to do is "body-weight" training. It will make you build the necessary nice looking muscles, strength, endurance, and will give you a much better looking shape than machines and body building. body weight training might not be suitable for someone joining a body building competition, but it is the BEST for someone who want to tone their body and have good shape. (I assume that's what you are aiming at)
Yes, the leg press will affect your body. It will help make you stronger, and look more fit. A barbell squat is often advocated as a better alternative to the leg press machine. It activates more muscles during the exercise, specifically your core (back and abs).


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Instead of directly farming these another great way to get them is by opening the "Moldy Bags" in the game. These have an extremely good chance of giving you a fine crafting material (a blue one, like this one) and are rather cheap on the Trading Post. Usually ranging from 20 - 50c a bag, depending on the type of bag.
While you won't get rich buying bags, opening them and selling the reagents on the Trading Post you definitely will be able to stock up your collectibles tab at an insanely fast rate. I made a video on how this method works, if you'd like to see it: Fine Crafting Material Farming Video for all skill ranges.
Here are a list of all the bags in the game so you know which type you'll need to buy for whatever item you're after.
Tiny Moldy Bags (0 - 50 Components)
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Light Moldy Bags (75 - 175 Components)
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Making Booklet #320 Big Kids/Little Kids, one of our spring 2012 pattern booklets, was an adventure. We designed 27 different patterns (more than 3 times what we usually include in a pattern booklet) and began planning our photo shoot. We hired a mix of professional models and friends to wear our designs, and secured a beautiful location on the southern coast of Massachusetts.
To add to the cuteness factor, we brought in adorable animal reinforcements: two fluffy chickens, a bunny named Peter Rabbit, and Cooper, our office manager's sweet new puppy. Since we ran out of space in the printed booklet, most of the animals didn't make it onto the printed pages… But now we can show you the mini-zoo we had behind the scenes!
Here are the chickens in all their glory… (photos by Kerry Goodwin)
Peter Rabbit's close up on the left, and his time in the spotlight with one of our models and the chickens. (photo on right by Kerry Goodwin)
Cooper was as friendly and well-behaved as a young puppy could be, but who could resist the chance to see if the Kendall vest was chewable? (photos by Kerry Goodwin)
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If $X$ is a K3 surface over the complex (algebraic) then I wonder if the poincare pairing induces a polarization on the Hodge structure $H^2(X,\mathbb Z)$? The point is that I see that when constructing the Kuga-Satake abelian variety, people take the primitive cohomology in order to have a polarization on the induced Hodge structure, but I wonder if the reason they do not take the hole $H^2$ is because we do not have a polarization induced by the Poincare paring... I know that if this induces a polarization of the Hodge structure, then the Hodge decomposition is orthogonal but if this is not a polarization, is the Hodge decomposition stil orthogonal?
On the other hand, on etale cohomology, Faltings theorem give an analogous to the Hodge decomposition for (say) a $K3$-surface over a $p$-adic field $K$:
$H_{et}^2(X_{\bar K},Q_p)\otimes \mathbb C_p = H^2(X,\mathcal{O}_X)(0) \oplus H^1 (X, \Omega^1)(-1) \oplus H^0(X,\cal O_X)(-2)$ Is this decomposition orthogonal respect to the Poincare pairing on etale cohomology?


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Let $X$ be a Banach space and let $x_n \overbrace{\rightarrow}^w x$ and $x_n \overbrace{\rightarrow}^s z$ can we then say that $x = z$? My try:
$$\| x- z\| = \sup_{\ell \leq 1} |\ell(x-z)| = \sup_{\ell \leq 1} |\ell x -\ell z| \leq \epsilon$$
Where $\ell$ is a continuous functional in $X'$ Is this correct? is there any easier way? Thanks Btw if this already is correct, should I delete the post or what do I do?


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What we know about our mammal ancestors that were alive (and survived) at the extinction event 65 million years ago?
Many of them looked like little rodents. However, several distinct mammalian lineages were already present, including Monotremes, marsupials and placental mammals. Throughout the whole mesozoic era, mammals were already quite diversified! Also, even though most of the mammals that survived the K/T boundary were rather small, there were already some larger mammals around in the Cretaceous.
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See a nice page on early mammals.
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Steubenville-area churches have announced the following sermon themes for their Sunday services:
-- Bell Chapel United Methodist Church, Steubenville: "Life's Lessons."
-- Covenant Presbyterian Church, Steubenville: "The Lord's Prayer: Part 1," Rex Baker, guest speaker.
-- Finley United Methodist Church, Steubenville: "Mother's Lamp," morning service; "The ABC's of Faith (Part Two)," evening service.
-- First Christian Church, Disciples, Steubenville: "Christian Mothers vs. Worldly Mothers."
-- First Church of Christ, Scientist, Steubenville: "Adam and Fallen Man."
-- First United Methodist Church, Toronto: "Leaving A Legacy."
-- First Westminster Presbyterian Church, Steubenville: Singing group Friends to perform.
Grace Lutheran Church, Steubenville: "Jesus Prays for You."
-- Harmony United Methodist Church, Mingo Junction: "I am the Lord's Servant."
Pleasant Hill Presbyterian Church, Steubenville: "Religion in the Family."
-- Rush Run Community Chapel, Rayland: "Children, Obey Your Parents."
Second Baptist Church, Steubenville: "The Blessing of Honoring Mama."
-- St. Mark Lutheran Church, Steubenville: "The Lord Earnestly Desires for Us to Be With Him Always."
-- St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Steubenville: "Chains of Freedom."
-- St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, Steubenville: "With Countless Gifts..." guest priest Pastor John Zimmann.
-- Starkdale Presbyterian Church, Steubenville: "Our Ascended Savior."
Tiltonsville United Methodist Church: "The Power of Mom."
-- Toronto North River Avenue Christian Church: "Modeling a Christian Life," (Part Two), morning service; evening service.
-- Two Ridges Presbyterian Church, Wintersville: "The Last Word," the Rev. Ed Rudiger, guest speaker.
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Curriculum Requirements for the Accelerated Certification Program – Art Education
The courses listed below may not be the most up to date listing of requirements for this degree. Students should consult the College catalog and their academic adviser for the most accurate course selection and degree progress.
In addition to the General Education requirements and the Institutional Learning Outcomes for all majors, the following courses are required for graduation from the Art Education Accelerated Certification Program:
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- EDUC 1710-1735 - Field Observation/Participation
- EDUC 2135- Teaching in the Secondary Schools
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Lets say a Christian is in a position where he must make a hard decision (assume it has to either be a yes or no by a deadline) and each one has negatives consequences (more negatives than positives). How should a Christian pick one option over another?
Both options can and will affect the future of himself and others, but it is impossible to tell which one will impact the least or which one is a better decision, only time will tell.
Based on Christian teaching, if Jesus specifically was talking to that person, how would he advise, or what are some things he would tell the person to keep in mind?
I am sorry it is not specific but I can't put details to it. So if it helps, the main part of the question is how should a Christian put a decision in God's hands if he really doesn't see a logical answer but has to pick one? (I am also assuming the person was put into making that decision by God?... since he would rather not be in such a situation...)


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According to one of the questions already asked on EL&U, "E = mc²" is read as
E equals M C squared.
How do we read "E = (mc)²" so that it is not mistaken for "E = mc²"?
According to one of the questions already asked on EL&U, "E = mc²" is read as
How do we read "E = (mc)²" so that it is not mistaken for "E = mc²"?
As a member of the mathematics community for many years, I'd say the standard pronunciation is:
Also, as pointed out by Mark Adler in the comments, this is the standard pronunciation used when recording mathematics textbooks for the blind (thanks for the info Mark!).
Trying to swap things around to make it the least ambiguous possible and still sound light:
The word all can be used to indicate the grouping that is shown in print by brackets, so this could be read as
In this specific example that's probably sufficient for a listener to realise you're saying something different from the more common "E equals M C squared", and the correct meaning ought to be clear because it's a simple expression with no other plausible interpretation – but in the general case it can be extremely difficult to express the precise meaning of an arbitrarily complex equation using a natural language in place of a symbolic one.
As a mathematician, I would say "E equals m c quantity squared".
Why does the mathematical notation system exist? It exists because it is an easier way to explain mathematical expressions. Spoken languages have limits. They are not able to perfectly transfer every idea from one person to another, and they are not fully capable of describe feelings and emotions. Don't expect much from spoken language. Don't expect to easily speak everything you want to say. Peoples inner feelings and what they are trying to say usually has a wider meaning then they actually say.
Your question is just an example of the limits of spoken languages. Complex mathematical expressions can not be easily expressed with spoken language. If you want to say them, you need to form long sentences.
For example, A = ((a2b3)2 + 5 - ab2 - (ab)2)3 can be read as "capital A equals, open parenthesis, open parenthesis, a squared times b cube, close parenthesis, square, plus five, minus a times square of b, minus, open parenthesis, a times b, close parenthesis, squared, closed parenthesis, cube".
Talking about mathematical expressions requires a lot of words. Look at this very common dialog below (science students usually explain it this way):
There is no standard for reading mathematical expressions. Because it is very hard to set a standard for it since the complexity of expressions have no upper bound. In practice, the reader reads the expression without putting any extra afford in it for making it clear (even usually skips the inner parenthesis, etc for simplicity - if he/she reads every detail it becomes a bother for both the reader and listener). Listener knows the subject and recalls the expression in his/her mind as he/she listens to. If the listener cannot remember it, he asks the reader for its details. If it is a conference, the speaker must use a projector, white board, or any other tool for clearly showing the mathematical expression (if he doesn't use any explicit tool and just speak it, then it means that that conference is not well organized; people usually complain after a conference like that).
You should take a pencil and paper with you when you are talking about something related to mathematics. Without using a pencil and paper, you cannot explain the derivation of a mathematical formula to your friend as easily as talking about the summary of a novel or debating about a political matter. This is because, as I stated above, spoken languages are not convenient for expressing mathematical expressions.
Of course, it is easier to read simpler expressions. For the case of E = (mc)2, you can simply read as "E equals the quantity MC squared" as @Macro suggested.
Due to the distributive property of exponentiation over multiplication, you could read this as "E equals M squared C squared", also written E = m²c².
Apparently I'm the odd one out:
I had a stats professor who drilled into my head the formula for variance:
by saying:
With a longer pause every time he said it. It may not work in all circumstances, but I found it to be a clear (and memorable) way of saying the formula aloud. So, for your question,I think it would be valid (at least to mathematically inclined listeners) to say:
"E equals square of the product of M and C"
If your audience can physically see you, you could use a hand gesture while speaking:
E equals the square of the product of m and c
It really comes down to the pause. Consider this,
When you say
Edit: frankly I don't understand the use of quantity. But, that's just me.
E equals mc whole squared.
This is the notation used in schools and Universities usually.
E = mc² is pronounced as E equals M, C-squared. With slightly different rhythm, E = (mc)² can be pronounced as E equals (MC)-squared.
Generally, I'd differentiate between
However, if you're concerned with the specific case of
Read it as
E equals the squared product of m and c.
Reorder by decreasing exponent and pronounce that way:
If only Einstein had thought to write it that way originally, sigh.
I think "all" is still the easiest way to express that equation "e equals m,c all squared". This is meaningful to non mathmaticians too (unlike quantity or perhaps even product). Pauses are unsafe (especially on the phone etc). Order changes can work but can also confuse (e.g. "e = the square of mc").
For example - the famous quadratic factorisation equation (-b+/=SQR(b^2 - 4ac))/2a "minus b, plus or minus, the square root of b squared minus four a c, all over two a"
The real answer is, it depends on your audience - use the language graded to the least proficient listener (that you expect to understand - not the baby or dog).
(E)nergy is equal(=) (Mass of the Object(m) multiplied by the Speed Of Light(c)) Squared(²)
One would obey the order of operations and perform the multiplication inside the
The pronunciation would be said as
It will be read as E equals to whole of mc square.
E = (mc)² should be spoken as:
The most unambiguous way to say this, if a little awkward, would be:
What about this.
I'd just say
The "open/close" parentheses sounds good. One simplistic option when pronouncing the statement would be to say M-C very quickly as if they were one.
I'd speak in pseudo-polish notation:
How about E equals m squared times c squared?
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In the most controversial episode of South Park, involving Mohammad, did the producers Trey Parker and Matt Stone intend to show the face of Mohommed, or did they cave into network pressures demanded by Comedy Central?
The short answer is no. Below is the long answer. It is also no.
In the South Park episode 200 Tom Cruise and other celebrities ridiculed by the show over the years threaten to file a class action lawsuit against the town unless the town brings them the Prophet Muhammad. The celebrities want to obtain Muhammad's ability to not be ridiculed. Muhammad appears in the episode disguised in a bear suit.
Part of the reason this episode was done is that in 2009 a Danish cartoonist depicted Muhammad in a series of cartoons. Some Muslims find the depiction of Muhammad and the human form idolatry although this was not always the case.
Trey Parker and Matt Stone tried to put an image of Muhammad into the show during the initial uproar but Comedy Central prevented it from happening.
In an interview with Parker and Stone they stated:
The storyline from episode 200 continued into the following episode 201.
The storyline was supposed to have gingers (redheads) and the celebrities fighting over possession of Muhammad who is rescued by the Super Best Friends.
After a warning was issued to Parker and Stone on Revolution Muslim website Comedy Central decided to censor the episode by bleeping all mention of Muhammad. The character was also covered with a large black bar that said "CENSORED."
Trey Parker and Matt Stone then issued the following statement:
According to Parker and Stone they did not cave to pressure, but the network did.
Extending Legion600's great answer
The real insteresting fact is that in 2001, before the danish incident, south park aired its first episode featuring Super Best Friends. Muhammed character was shown all episode long
They make a refference to this in the episode with "Censored" , the main characters say Muhammed was there and it was ok.
Even more interesting, you cannot watch Super Best Friends episode in their website southparkstudios.com .. ;) today, but you could before this polemic 200 episode aired.


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The 6 Greatest Twist Endings in the History of Battle
There's a reason Hollywood makes more movies about war than, say, wine tasting competitions. Horrific human suffering aside, these are history's greatest dramas, and you never know how they're going to turn out. To quote Sun Tzu, "War? That shit is bananas."
For examples of war stories with ridiculous twist endings, look no further than ...
#6. A Civil War Battle Is Won With Painted Trees
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Our favorite war stories are the ones that easily could have occurred in the universe of a particularly wacky cartoon. For instance, while the American Civil War was a spectacularly brutal and awful situation for everyone involved, that just makes it even crazier that somebody once turned a battle by painting a bunch of trees to look like cannons.
That absolutely happened in 1862, when Union General George B. McClellan was marching his massive 100,000-strong army toward the shoddy fort at Yorktown being defended by Major General John B. Magruder and his pitiful 13,000 men. It should have been a minor speed bump along the way for the Union army, if not for the power of shenanigans.
George N. Barnard/James F. Gibson
"Our backup plan was tomfoolery."
The Twist:
Magruder was a playwright by trade, and he often put on stage shows to entertain his men. That's the sort of skill that doesn't come in super handy in a brutal, primitive war of attrition, but as Union soldiers descended on Yorktown, Magruder knew it was time for him to put on his greatest show yet for this new audience from the North.
With McClellan's forces gearing up to attack the fort, Magruder had his men scurry around inside and make a lot of noise, to make it seem as though there were more of them than there really were. They then hauled rocks around randomly so that, through McClellan's binoculars, it looked as though they were moving supplies around the fort that they didn't actually have, presumably while shouting, "Damn it, there's nowhere to sleep with all of these EXPLOSIVE CANNONBALLS laying everywhere! Go stack them next to the dragon's cage!" When the Union soldiers got too close, the Confederates fired haphazardly, to make it seem like they had plenty of ammunition to waste.
George N. Barnard/James F. Gibson
"Shouldn't we at least try to hit someone?"
"No ... that's just what those Yankees are expecting."
But Magruder's most ingenious innovation was probably the so-called "Quaker cannons" -- ordinary wooden logs carved and painted to look like cannon turrets. By lining dozens of these faux cannons up along the borders of the fort, Magruder was able to make it look like his forces were armed to the teeth and ready to rumble, when in fact they were relatively helpless and desperately hoping their crazy general wasn't about to get them killed.
George N. Barnard
"Uh, he knows that's not real, right?"
But the theatrics worked -- McClellan and his men were sufficiently confused to hold off their siege for a month while they tried to figure out what the hell was going on. This was long enough for Magruder's army to summon reinforcements, and eventually they were able to sneak away under cover of night to join the larger Confederate forces that would go on to drive the Union back. And that was how the South won the Civil War! Or kept it going for a few more years, anyway.
#5. The Dutch Deliberately Flood Their Own Country
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As anyone who has ever witnessed a schoolyard brawl can tell you, if you're smaller and weaker than your opponent, it helps to be crazy. Just ask Holland, which once thwarted an invasion by intentionally flooding their own fucking country.
Back in the 1500s, the small Protestant country found itself at war with the much larger and more powerful Spanish Empire, which had been stuffing Catholicism hand over fist down the throats of the Dutch by way of the Spanish Inquisition. The Dutch eventually got tired of this and started the Dutch War of Independence to reclaim their homeland. The problem with this was that Spain was one Sith Lord away from the Galactic Empire, while Holland was, to keep the analogy, a tiny nation of moisture farmers. Their navy ships were nicknamed "water beggars," because to the Spanish, they were basically the hobos of the sea.
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They were so scruffy, they didn't even have nerf to herd.
So the Spanish sighed and geared up for a good old-fashioned imperial beatdown, figuring that after having already subdued half the world, they should have been able to conquer Holland half-asleep and hung over.
The Twist:
What Holland lacked in military strength, they made up for in ingenuity and/or insanity. The ingenuity part was a necessity, as it just so happened that their country was below sea level, and the only thing keeping it from doing an Atlantis was the system of levees and dikes that they're famous for. Although the sea was their mighty adversary, they were also better at dealing with it than the Spaniards, which is why the leader of the Dutch rebellion, Prince William of Orange, made the brash decision to tear down the dikes and deliberately flood Holland. It's kind of like when you ask a little kid for some of his candy and he quickly licks it all so you won't want any.
Michiel Jansz. van Miereveld
"We peed in the water, too. Because fuck 'em, that's why."
But there was more to it than just making their country all soggy and gross so the Spanish wouldn't want it. Those tiny, shitty ships in the Dutch navy could navigate around the shallow floodwaters just fine, whereas the big fancy Spanish warships could not. And since the Spanish infantry didn't have Aquaman powers, they were kind of at an impasse. Although the war continued to rage for some years, the Spanish were never again able to penetrate Holland's borders, and eventually they gave up trying.
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"You're all clear, kid, now let's *blow* this thing and go home!"
#4. The Soviets Invent Warplanes That Are Too Slow to Kill
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When the Germans decided to invade Russia during World War II, they started off strong, kicking Soviet ass until they reached a region known as Caucasus, which was the Russians' last stand before the Nazis started rocking up on the doorstep of Stalingrad. Up to that point, the only defense the Soviets had was basically throwing technologically inferior soldiers at the enemy, like trying to smother a fire with dry kindling.
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And the fire has a flamethrower.
Outgunned and on their heels, the Soviets were starting to run out of options. And then, someone said, "What if we could attack the enemy with a weapon so shitty that they don't even know how to kill it?"
The Twist:
As we've mentioned before, the Soviets were one of the first nations to allow women into major combat roles, mainly because they were running out of men to send to their deaths. One of the all-female combat teams Stalin put together was an air force division called the 588th Night Bomber Regiment. The Soviets didn't actually have a lot of warplanes to go around, but what they did have a shitload of were slow, creaky crop dusters.
"Oh, we're not giving you parachutes either."
These were biplanes made of plywood and probably held together with twine and chewing gum that were designed mainly for dusting fields and terrorizing Cary Grant. Nevertheless, the Germans weren't laughing for long -- the biplanes were so shitty in comparison to the German air force that their maximum speed was slower than the Nazis' minimum speed. In other words, the Germans couldn't go slow enough to engage them without falling out of the sky.
The Germans came to refer to the women pilots as "Night Witches," because the relatively silent aircraft attacked under cover of darkness, and presumably "Night Bitches" didn't have the same ring to it. The Witches were instrumental to the war effort during the Battle of Caucasus by basically annoying the Germans into retreat, swooping in silently at night, and bombing their frontlines. Even when they were shot down, the wooden planes crashed so delicately that the pilots often survived to scurry back and get on another biplane.
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Not Wright brothers footage.
The Nazis held on to Caucasus for two years, trying desperately to push into Stalingrad, before Hitler eventually cried "fuck it" and pulled them back.


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Is this area a good homebase for sightseeing in New York? To be more concrete: How long do I need by public transport to the major sights? How much does this cost? Is it a safe area in New York?
This zip code finder shows 11217 as the neighborhood of Boerum Hill.
This is a very nice part of Brooklyn. You have a choice of several nearby subway lines (Atlantic Ave - Barclay's Center is a major transit hub), which will get you into downtown Manhattan in 10-15 minutes, midtown in maybe 15-20 more. Smith Street has a lot of very good restaurants, as do 4th and 5th Aves. The area should be quite safe.
[Edit from a Brooklyner: Boerum Hill is a very low-crime area; you can look up crime statistics on NYC.gov for any neighborhood. Here's Boerum Hill's. It's still part of the city, so be smart about not displaying valuables, etc., but it's a very nice neighborhood.]
I'm not sure what you mean by "how much does this cost". If you mean the transport, New York City has a flat fare of $2.25 for all subway trips, including transfers, and local buses. (You can also buy various kinds of passes, see http://www.mta.info/ for details as well as transport maps, etc.) If you mean living in general, I'd expect Boerum Hill to be less than Manhattan but still fairly expensive. For lodging, I think you'll just have to see what hotels are charging. For food, there is a wide range of choices from cheap pizza at $2-3 per slice to gourmet restaurants charging $30-50 and up for dinner.
I would call it an excellent sightseeing base if it is in your price range.
The Boerum Hill neighborhood is not a bad option. I have never been there at night; however, it is a mostly residential area and I at least have never felt unsafe. While the media has made much of some recent incidents of violent crime, similar incidents happen in any gentrifying neighborhood, including the adjacent neighborhoods of Fort Greene or Park Slope.
It is a good location for transportation connections into Manhattan. For quick access to Midtown Manhattan there is a Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) terminal at Atlantic Avenue and for the City as a whole as there are many subway lines near the intersection of Atlantic and Flatbush Avenues, namely
A little farther north you can get to
On the western side of the neighborhood you have access to
Being in Brooklyn, it will take you some time to get uptown. The 4 Train from Atlantic Av to 86th Street for (e.g. for the Guggenheim Museum) would take at least 45 minutes, plus walking time. On evenings and weekends there is often construction and trains may be rerouted, and if you must transfer lines you will also need to account for headways of 20 minutes or more during off-peak times. Plan your days using sites like HopStop or 511 NY and remember that part of the fun of Manhattan is walking its streets, especially for distances under about 2½ miles (4km) or so.
Fares on the New York City Subway system and MTA buses are a flat $2.25. If you purchase a Metrocard with at $10 of value, you get a 7% bonus. If you will be spending a few days in New York there is a 7-day unlimited ride pass you can purchase from the same vending machine for $29.
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Why is defragmenting unnecessary in Ubuntu?
The underlying filesystems used by Ubuntu, like ext2 and ext3, simply don't need defragmenting because they don't fragment files in the same way as NTFS. There are more details at ext3 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Some argue that it's actually a myth that we don't need defragmentation. It's argued that we do in fact need it, but only once the filesystem gets pretty full (i.e. less than ~10% free space). Tools are available for defragging such as e2defrag.
Fragmentation is the product of writing files in the first available open blocks on a drive. Over time, as files get created and deleted, small sections of disk open up, which causes newly written files to be split over several such openings. This can reduce performance, although it was much more of a problem in the past with slow hardware and slow disks.
The default filesystem in Ubuntu, ext4 (and until recently, ext3) are designed to limit fragmentation of files as far as possible. When writing files, it tries to keep the blocks used sequential or close together. This renders defragmentation effectively unnecessary.
See this link. It gives quite a detailed explanation of how files are stored in Windows and in Linux, and why Linux filesystems usually do not need to be defragmented.
Ext4 Howto - Ext4 According to this article ext4 defragments on the fly but they are working on a defrag tool. I personally don't think it is needed except maybe for file servers that get heavy use.
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Over the past few months, I've been contributing to both Wikipedia and Stack Overflow, and working on open source software projects. However, I've found that my obsession with software development has interfered with my college education, since my enthusiasm for software development has begun to overshadow my desire to work on college assignments. How can I regain focus on the tasks that I'm actually obligated to finish, while also finding time for all of my personal software projects?
I can empathise with you in your current situation. I'm a part-time student studying for a Masters degree in Systems Engineering. I also have a full-time job and lots of other interests, amongst them software development, coding paradigms, game design, etc. The first thing I can say is that you must learn to prioritise, if you haven't already. Work out what's important and what the deadline is and, if need be, put things on hold until that deadline happens.
My main piece of advice, however, would be to look for connections between your different areas of work. By doing this, as with connecting work with anything personal, you will have an angle which will be different to everything else. So to give you an example from my studies--my background is Literature and Philosophy and that gives me a different perspective on my studies now, which few other students seem to be able to understand. But it seems to have paid off in terms of the quality of my work.
In one of your comments you wrote about creating websites about the subjects you have to study. This to me seems like exactly the kind of thing you should be doing. It will mean you have to learn your subject pretty well in order to structure the website, that you will have to look at what else is out there (thus increasing your knowledge and understanding of each field), and that you will have something you can use towards your college assignments. Completing the websites isn't important but working on them will be a great way to focus on your subjects whilst indulging in what seems to be one of your passions. If you ever do finish them, you will have a potentially useful piece for a portfolio of work that you can then show to prospective employers.
If you don't finish them you will have learned something and can talk about the experience. And here is where I must bring up a warning to go with this advice. It's important not to feel too much pressure to finish these things which will essentially be extra-curricular. Going back to the first piece of advice, always keep sight of your priorities and that way you can avoid burn-out. I say this because you mention 'obsession'. It's really easy for some people (I include myself in this group) to get fixated on work, especially in an area like software development which if you have that inclination can feel like very rewarding work. But it is still work. Never forget to relax and do something totally unrelated to whatever you're working on now and again. This is especially important when you start connecting things you have to do to things you want to do; after a while it can feel like even the things you want to do are just things you have to do. Relaxing and/or doing something unrelated will prevent you from getting properly exhausted (which, much more than being tired, is a terrible feeling, akin to madness) and it will help you keep things in perspective.
I don't usually give advice but I hope this is of some use. Best of luck.
My co-founder wrote up a brief essay on the topic of time management for college students a few months ago. These are his main points, but I won't copy the whole thing here:
The best thing you could do is try to organize things out so that you could manage life/work balance. You could list your entire tasks and organize it depends on their priority level. Another good thing to do when working is to set an estimated amount of time when working on each task, which could also help you improve focus, limit wasted time and finish tasks on time.
It personally helps me balance life and work. I use Time Doctor to track time accurately at work. At the end of the day I feel the fulfillment at work each time I see finish tasks.


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6 Hilarious Pranks Pulled by Soldiers in the Middle of War
War is hell, but it is a hell that historically is made up almost entirely of young, high-testosterone males. And no matter what the setting, when you get a bunch of dudes together in the same place, shenanigans will ensue. That's why the horrific history of warfare is littered with wacky pranks that are alternately admirable and utterly insane, making us think that war is really just high school with bombs. How else do you explain things like ...
#6. Sarcastically Bombing Fake Airfields With Fake Bombs
With World War II raging in Europe, the Germans were fighting a losing battle. They needed to look more powerful than they actually were, so they came up with an ingenious solution: build a bunch of fake airfields out of wooden decoys. It's not as stupid as it sounds; a good fake can look just like the real thing from 30,000 feet.
Via Tracesofwar.com
This is a remnant of one. We're pretty sure it's now just filled with used condoms and homemade crack pipes.
But in fact, the Allies soon realized that all of those airfields, complete with runways, fake aircraft, and buildings, were nothing more than elaborate props that could be defeated by an army of termites. The only thing left was to figure out the best way to let the Germans know that they weren't fooling anyone (in the most sarcastic way possible).
So the Allies flew bombing raids over these fake wooden airfields, presumably sending the German fake (wooden?) ground crews scrambling for cover. After several intense minutes in which nothing happened, the Germans finally realized what the Allies were doing: They were dropping fake wooden bombs on them.
Via Airminded.org
"We need a volunteer for a highly classified mission. Who's good with a lathe?"
Just to make it absolutely clear to the Germans what was going on, many of these bombs had the phrase "Wood for Wood" painted on them. Yes, what the military calls "psychological warfare," the rest of us call "being a smartass."
#5. Braving Gunfire in Order to Prank Some Marines
Have you ever watched a cop movie where the hunt for some serial killer gets interrupted by a pissing match between the cops and some other agency, like the FBI? You know, where the feds are asserting "jurisdiction" in order to get all the credit for catching the bad guy? Did you find yourself thinking that the whole thing was ridiculous, as if nobody in the real world would actually put the mission aside over some dumb rivalry? Just wait until you hear about the pissing match between the U.S. Marines and the Navy frogmen.
People always think the Marines were the first ones to hit the beaches in World War II, but there was an elite group of Navy sailors who actually went to the beaches first to scout them out. They were known as the frogmen, and they were basically the Navy SEALs of World War II.
Via Navyseals.com
"War is that way. Here's your Speedo."
Being the predecessors to bin Laden killers, the frogmen had a reputation they took quite a bit of pride in -- so the frogmen wanted to make it abundantly clear to the Marines who exactly was at the beach first. And after the Marines bragged that they would totally be first, the completely mature frogmen planned a prank to prove the Marines wrong.
So, on one mission in Guam, several of the frogmen scurried up onto the beach in full view of the enemy. With bullets and death quickly reaching them, they hastily left something behind and got out of there. They had risked their lives so that when the Marines invaded Guam later, they would find a certain sign waiting for them:
Via Sofrep.com
"We'll be in town getting syphilis long before you pull out your filthy Marine junk."
Yep, it's a hand-painted sign planted in the middle of a war zone, taunting their fellow soldiers for coming in second place in the race to get to a spot where they were likely to die. We're telling you -- war does funny things to people.
Naturally, the frogmen's commanding officer was pissed off and reprimanded the men. And then proceeded to brag about the incident to Marine generals later.
"It was a dangerous and stupid stunt, and- wait, this isn't a person I'm yelling at. Oh, you wacky frogmen!"
#4. Singing Sarcastic Songs on a Sinking Ship
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In 1979, the British comedy film Life of Brian was released. Among its more famous sequences is when Brian is left to be crucified, and a soon-to-be-dead Eric Idle starts singing a song about always looking on the bright side of life, aptly named "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life." The song caught on in popular media and, of course, war zones.
In 1982, the Falklands War was raging between Argentina and the United Kingdom. On the fourth of May, an Argentinian jet unleashed a lethal Exocet missile onto the British ship the HMS Sheffield. The ship was destroyed, and the crew was left to sit and wait for rescue. Sensing an abrupt drop of morale, the crew decided to cheer themselves up by singing. Appropriately, they sang "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life." And this, it turns out, would begin a truly insane tradition among British troops.
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"It's going down! Quick, break out the emergency karaoke machine!"
A month later, the HMS Coventry was bombarded and eventually sunk. Sitting in the water while watching their ship flip over and fall to the depths, the crew could think of nothing better to do than sing a wonderfully ironic tune to cheer themselves back up. And stick it to the enemy as well.
Nearly a decade later, the tradition still hadn't died out. In 1991, during the Gulf War, British Tornado bombers often had the most dangerous missions. They were flying hazardous low-level bombing runs on Iraqi airfields in a storm of anti-aircraft fire. Every time they went up, they knew there was a good chance they might not return, so they needed something cheerful to send themselves off. Which is why they sang "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life."
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"If you're taking requests, can you do the universe song next?"


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Welcome to Seasonal Sundays!
As the reports of Blizzard Nemo started flooding in, my thoughts turned to Hurricane Sandy. If we lost power again, I wanted to be prepared. What had I learned from Sandy, and how could I do better this time? The wood came into the living room so it would be dry, in the event that became our source of heat. The lanterns sere placed center stage.
As odd as it sounds, one of the things I wanted to change from Sandy, was that I wanted to have more fun with it. If we lost power, there wasn't a darn thing I could do about it, but I could change my attitude. I was not a happy camper during Sandy, being without power for 6 days. Nor were my children. What's the old saying? If momma ain't happy, nobody is happy. So I thought, at least I could have a little fun with my camera. This is what it looked like around 11:30 pm as I let my doggies out right before bed.
And this morning! For whatever reason, we got far less snow than most of Long Island. Even our neighboring communities got 13 and 15 inches. We only got about 7 inches. And…the best news was we didn't lose power!
This was last night with the snow flying…
And this was this morning. Kind of peaceful.
Last night and…
…this morning. Man, I need to get those stickers off of those pots. Funny how sometimes you don't notice things. Do you think that rosemary will make it through?
And in all fairness, it's a whole lot easier to have a positive attitude…
…with power!!! We've been told not to travel, unless necessary. Many of the highways are closed. I'm pretty happy to be snuggled up at home with my family.
So, what have you been up to? Can't wait to hear. It's always so neat to hear what everyone is doing, whether they be near or far.
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How Manning Did It
An Analysis of Peyton Manning's Seven-Touchdown Game
There is a joke that Peyton Manning's old offensive coaches sometimes tell. It goes like this: They would like to be a head coach someday, but they are terrified that whoever hires them might think they are somehow responsible for the feats Manning has accomplished.
The truth of the matter is that Manning, 37, is the master of improvisation. He isn't Tom Brady, whose deep throws coldly execute a vertical passing game. Manning just runs whatever play comes to mind.
On Thursday night, Manning, who has had four neck surgeries and missed all of the 2011 season, turned in his greatest performance, throwing for seven touchdowns in the Denver Broncos' 49-27 win over the Baltimore Ravens, the defending Super Bowl champions. The last player to throw seven touchdowns was Minnesota Vikings quarterback Joe Kapp in 1969.
Manning did it despite an arm that is getting worse with age. Here is how his record-setting night came about:
Touchdown No. 1
What happened: 24-yard pass over the middle to Julius Thomas.
The strategy: Manning tinkered with this play before the snap. Count it among his most brilliant moves.
Manning put running back Knowshon Moreno to his right side instead of his left. This was also the side that tight end Julius Thomas was lined up on, which indicated he would simply be blocking. But upon the snap, Thomas jetted out for a pass and Moreno faked a handoff, freezing the defense and allowing time for offensive tackle Orlando Franklin to step over and block the man initially in front of Thomas, Elvis Dumervil.
By the time this had all materialized, Thomas had blown past linebacker Daryl Smith, unaware that the tight end—who wasn't likely to go out for a pass before the play—was his assignment. Thomas was in the end zone a second later.
The most interesting part? The confusion resulted in three Broncos being wide open.
Touchdown No. 2
What happened: 23-yard pass over the middle to Thomas.
The strategy: This was less on Manning's genius and more on Thomas's deceptive route.
Thomas, lined up snugly behind the line of scrimmage and to the left (again, a perfect place for a blocker to be), took an unorthodox path once the ball was snapped. As the other three wide receivers ran full speed at the snap, Thomas inexplicably took slow, deliberate strides.
This fooled Ravens safety Michael Huff, who didn't realize he needed to give the slow-moving Thomas his full attention—until Thomas exploded to go full speed as soon as he passed Huff. No Ravens could recover.
Touchdown No. 3
What happened: 28-yard pass left to Andre Caldwell.
The strategy: When you pepper a team with enough twisted, tangled plays, eventually the easiest stuff possible will open up for you. So after Manning had tortured the Ravens secondary for a half with tricks, he hit Caldwell on a straight-ahead "go" route.
The "go" route is a staple of deep-threat offenses but only opens up after the defense gives enough respect to shorter passes. Ravens cornerback Jimmy Smith was clearly thinking this way.
Touchdown No. 4
What happened: 5-yard pass left to Wes Welker.
The strategy: After a blocked punt, the Broncos started 10 yards from the Baltimore end zone, but it wasn't easy to punch it in.
On first glance on this play, no one is open. The Ravens (for once) had everyone covered, until Manning forced a throw to Welker, who had Ravens defensive back Corey Graham directly behind him. But Manning threw it to Welker's outside at the same moment that Welker was changing directions, creating a perfect catch-and-spin move from Welker that was so effective that Graham immediately fell down.
Touchdown No. 5
What happened: 2-yard pass to Welker.
The strategy: A Manning staple is at work here: When you're near the goal line, don't play typical goal-line offense in which players are aligned tightly to try to power the ball into the end zone. Instead, spread the receivers out and find a receiver covered by only one defensive back.
On this play Welker was aligned in the slot as the inside receiver to Manning's right. Ravens cornerback Lardarius Webb was aligned directly across from him but inexplicably let Welker go at the snap. Here's how you knew it was a busted play for the Ravens: 340-pound tackle Terrence Cody realized the mistake and went in pursuit of Welker. (Unsuccessfully.)
Touchdown No. 6
What happened: 26-yard pass to Demaryius Thomas.
The strategy: The Broncos were incorporating the "pistol" formation in which Manning lines up a few yards behind center with one running back behind him. This is helpful for Manning, because he can call a play going either direction without making the running back physically move and tip the defense.
He did this plenty on Thursday and by the fourth quarter, he'd mastered it. On this play, he pointed out a blitzing defender, which the running back could block. That blitz meant Thomas, lined up on the outside of Manning's right, would have single coverage. Manning simply grooved it into his arms.
Touchdown No. 7
What happened: 78-yard pass to wide receiver Demaryius Thomas.
The strategy: The Ravens were bringing five rushers at Manning. He was well aware of it.
Before the snap, Thomas can be seen consuming all of Manning's play changes at the line and adjusts accordingly. At the snap, Thomas, despite getting about eight yards of cushion from the defensive back, simply ran two yards and then stopped. The blitzing linebackers, now a few yards in front of Manning, had left the middle-left of the field wide open.
Thomas caught Manning's pass flat-footed but so close to the line of scrimmage that the offensive linemen, led by 305-pound Zane Beadles, could jet out next to Thomas and block defensive backs. Despite about 10 Ravens being near Thomas on the run, he was barely threatened with a tackle.
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Say I want to write a card game. I have a hand of cards and I want to be able to draw a smooth animation of a card moving from the hand to the table. I am looking for suggestions on how to elegantly represent the situation in data structures. Of course, I am not solely interested in cards, it seems to be a problem with more complex user interfaces in general.
The obvious representation of the hand is an array/list of cards. Given a rectangle in 2d space this hand is trivial to draw. When playing a card I can remove that card from the array and create a new structure that draws that card moving along any curve I like. The problem is then how the hand is drawn. In trivial implementation the hand in one instant shrinks in width by one card (as the array was replaced). Also, the selected card is now either above or bellow the hand (as it is drawn before or after drawing the hand), while a moment ago it was between the two cards next to it. These problems I'm not sure how to solve. They get even worse if trying to move several cards at once.
It would most likely work to make every card a separate body aware of it's position and movement in the plane (and possibly, the z axis to make overlaps work, as OpenGL allows this). It does seem like poor design to allow a system that almost always stays in a fixed shape too much flexibility. It also looks like a recipe for unexplainable bugs.
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Olympic gold medal-winning swimmer Janet Evans took the podium for a different type of event when she attended Orangewood's 44 Women for Children lunch at the Westin South Coast Plaza. She talked about the difference between winners and champions. They "support others, ignore criticism… and learn how to lose," she says. It's a striking theme that resonated with the 300 guests, who came to help raise college scholarship money for foster kids. The daytime soiree featured opportunity drawings for prizes like a Black, Starr & Frost diamond ring, but the most impactful moment came when Osiris Avalos shared how the nonprofit helped in her time of need. A true champion. Photography by Ann Chatillon


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Li Li Vu at the Tet celebration in Oklahoma City, 1998.
A typical Christmas tree, Oklahoma City, 1940.
Young American Indian ladies dressed in their finest. Anadarko, Oklahoma, 1949.
Young girls at Seminole Days 1995
This arbor was made for a Cheyenne Sun Dance near Concho, Oklahoma. Although this arbor uses cedar boughs other non-Cheyenne traditions make arbors using cottonwood, and other trees. Arbors were once common for Anglo American cultures too most often for church gatherings or just for a cool place to sleep in the summer months.
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The Joyful Noise gospel singers singing is joyful and entertaining. The singers are participating in the Kolache Festival in Prague, Oklahoma. Prague is pronounced with a long a sound as in amen.
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Best deal since the Black Friday/Cyber Monday price of $200..
It's been $250 recently, but not with a $25 Amazon Gift card to sweeten the pot! jump on this if you need an xbox! :)
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Tempted to trade in my out of warranty slim for this... What do you guys think?
Better deal than I got for the same package by about $10. If you're tempted, go for it, I doubt you'll get a better bang for your buck on a 360s than in this package.
Dammit, why couldn't this have come up a month ago. My original Elite's CD drive was acting up, and I wanted a replacement.
Holiday bundle huh? The Easter Bunny upgrade from marshmallow peeps?
Is this just the standard price for this now? It has been like this at newegg for about a week iirc.
@awildmalcolm: Just checked Newegg since I posted that deal a while back. It is back to $299.
@awildmalcolm: It's been 250 for a while... the deal is the extra $25 Amazon Gift Card.
@jeremytheindian: No point in trading in a slim as a preventative measure, unless you've had any problem with it. The slims have proven (thus far) to be pretty reliable.
For the record, the "Jasper" version of the phat xbox, the final chipset revision of the original model, has also been pretty reliable. These are the ones that have on-board flash memory (either 256 or 512MB). The RROD was of course a major problem with the earlier versions.
@djp519: Well I was about to open it up and lubricate the fan because I think it's being louder than it should.
Also consider I only paid $209 for my system, so I would only be loosing 9 dollars if I traded it to amazon for $200.
Still feel the same? I'm conflicted.
@jeremytheindian: $9 for a 1-yr warranty isn't too shabby! especially when you get a 3-month xbl card and 2 games to go with it lol
@devexityspace: It would be more like $30 plus another $30 for a second controller... I may have just talked myself out of it.
Thanks for this post! I've wanted an xbox for quite a while. I used this with my Amazon points and got it down to $149. Gonna be a fun weekend!
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Welcome to my backyard garden. I am excited to share the journey of building this backyard garden. It is definitely still a work in progress. But isn't that the definition of a garden?
I adore mature landscaping. With that in mind, my goal in the first year was to get the "infrastructure plants" in, so the garden could begin maturing.
August is near the end of our dry season in the west. When the rain starts, so does the growing season, and I didn't want to miss a day of that!
With that goal in mind, let's have a look around, shall we?
Until last year when the home was built, this land was a cow pasture and literally millions of years of
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If I have multiple filters that match the same email do they all get processed? If so, in what order are they processed? What if the first filter matched modifies the email to make it match (or no longer match) a different filter?
I just tried it, and it seems that they happen in the order they are defined in the list:
If you have:
... then it will apply the label to the message. If you reverse the order, it won't.
The only exception to bbodiens comment (I was just about to post almost exactly the same answer!!) is that one would expect a 'marked as read' and 'archived' message to essentially skip further filtering, but this is not the case.
To test this i set up two test filters, one that labels incoming mail with the subject 'testing' as test1 and archives it, and a second filter on 'testing' that labels test2.
The mail was archived AND labeled twice, so it appears that filters are concurrent.
I have two filters, A and B, and two labels, A and B. If filter A is applicable to an email then I wanted label A to be applied to the email and for that email to skip the inbox and be archived.
I also want to do the same thing with filter B, but I don't want label B to be applied if label A has been applied.
It turns out this can be done.
Note that Gmail may throw up a message about using "label" as a filter is not recommended because it cause the filter to not be applied to any incoming messages. I just ignored it, this seemed to work.
Any and all GMail filter rules that match will run and do their thing.
I'm not sure it's possible to create rules that potentially conflict. The filter criteria available are:
You can't affect any of these with the filter actions that are available, so I don't see how one rule could run and then affect the message in a way that would stop it matching another filter that it would have previously matched.
I ran into a funky bug where the order of filters made a difference:
Filter #1: Apply label "Foo" to mail from "foo-sender"
Filter #2: Apply label "Bar" to all mail EXCEPT for mail from "foo-sender".
If I fully specify the email address in the filter definition, including the domain ("firstname.lastname@example.com"), then the order doesn't matter. But if I just give the username without the domain in the filter definition (just plain "foo-sender"), then both labels are incorrectly applied to mail from "foo-sender". It only works if I reverse the order of the filters.
I think this is just a bug, not a feature.
From Gmail help:
If you have your filters set to be marked by labels an email will be label with all that match.
I think these two filters in this order will cause the email to remain in the inbox:
if From firstname.lastname@example.com then Skip the Inbox. if From @bar.com then Never send it to Spam.