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August 2013 Top Songs – Q-106.5 Playlist
Here's the Hottest Songs on Q-106.5 as we head into August!!
Here's the Hottest Songs on Q-106.5 as we head into August!!
Darius Rucker's new single 'Radio' is a perfect song for summer. The uptempo tribute to young love, open roads and, of course, the radio is familiar and easy to fall for, especially when powered by Rucker's unequaled exuberance.
As we heard live on the Bangor Waterfront just a few weeks ago, Darius Rucker has released 'Radio' to...well, to Radio and it's Today's Fresh Track of the Day!
July means the Summer of 2014 is in full swing! Days and night are getting hotter, and so is the great country music! Here's the Hottest Songs on Q-106...
Jana Kramer was part of the entertainment at Darling's Waterfront Pavilion on Friday, June 21. If you didn't make it, you missed a great concert as Darius Rucker headlined the show, which also featured Rodney Atkins...
Darius Rucker, Rodney Atkins & Jana Kramer are in the House! That's right, tonight at 7:30, it's the first Country Show, the 'True Believers Tour' at Darling's Waterfront Pavilion!
I don't have to tell you that prescription eye glasses are incredibly expensive, and I've been wearing them since I was 26 years-old. I've been through quite a few pair over the years, and I've spent a few grand on seeing clearly...
We asked you to send in your best concert photos, and we got a bunch of them!
That makes a lot of sense, though. Who wouldn't want to win VIP passes to the Darius Rucker, Jana Kramer and Rodney Atkins at Darling's Waterfront Pavilion on Friday? Oh, we almost forgot, the winner gets to meet Darius, himself!
'Wagon Wheel' hitmaker Darius Rucker is a truly terrific performer, as evidenced by his recent smashing show at Red Rocks Ampitheatre, and he brought his stellar musical skills to the stage on June 3 for his fourth annual 'Darius and Friends' concert, which benefits St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. Rucker and pals raised over $95,000 in the process.
'Wagon Wheel' singer Darius Rucker is booked to appear on ABC's hit show 'The Bachelorette,' but the 47-year-old country star isn't expecting to get the final rose. In fact, Rucker won't be at all vying for the attention of bachelorette Desiree Hartsock -- he'll actually be doing what he does best: performing.


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Around a million poverty-stricken Zimbabweans face hunger after the UN World Food Programme (WFP) announced Tuesday it was cutting food rations due to a cash crunch.
"We'd been hoping to have scaled up our seasonal relief operations... in the coming months with distributions of food and, in some areas, cash," Tomson Phiri, WFP spokesman in Zimbabwe, said as the country enters the peak of the so-called hunger season.
But "we've had to cut rations for one million of our beneficiaries in recent months and there are likely to be deeper cuts as from next month," Phiri said in a statement.
At least 2.2 million people -- a quarter of Zimbabwe's rural population -- will need food aid until the next harvest in May, according to estimates by aid agencies and government departments.
Food prices have doubled since last year, forcing many more into hardship, according to the WFP.
The UN food agency needs $80 million to feed hungry Zimbabweans in the next six months.
So far it has just $20 million and is working at raising the remaining $60 million, WFP regional spokesman David Orr told AFP in Johannesburg.
"Our operational funding for the next six months is about $80 million and so far we are only a quarter funded," said Orr.
Some of the hardest hit areas are in the west, central and southern regions of the country, Phiri said.
WFP is "very concerned about the food security situation in rural areas right now," he added.
Last week, the cash-strapped government of President Robert Mugabe said it would import 150,000 tonnes of the staple corn from neighbouring countries to avert food shortages.
Food production has dwindled in Zimbabwe in recent years with the government blaming low yields on erratic weather patterns.
But critics say the shortages were caused by Mugabe's land reforms seizing land from white farmers for redistribution to landless blacks in what he said was "a correction of historical imbalances."

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Floating Fruit Parfaits
Total Time
Prep 15 mins
Cook 1 hr 20 mins
Went looking for interesting strawberry recipes for the Strawberry recipe swap and opened a new magazine and these popped out at me! The pic looks de-liteful and that is what they are, lite and better for you!
Ingredients Nutrition
- 1⁄2 cup sliced strawberry (or cantaloupe balls)
- 1⁄2 cup boiling water
- 1 (3 1/2 ounce) packagejello strawberry flavor low calorie sugar-free jello (or Orange)
- 1⁄2 cup cold water
- 3⁄4 cup ice cube
- 1 cup thawed Cool Whip Lite, divided
- 6 tablespoons thawed Cool Whip Lite, divided
- Divide strawberries (or cantaloupe) between 6 tall dessert glasses.
- Stir boiling water into dry jello in medium bowl at least 2 minutes til completely dissolved.
- Add cold water and ice cubes, strring until ice is completely melted.
- Remove 3/4 cup jello and pour evenly over berries.
- Refrigerate 20 minutes or until jello is set but not firm.
- Add 1 cup cool whip to remaining jello.
- Stir with gently wire whisk til well blended.
- Spoon evenly over jello.
- Refrigerate 1 hour or until firm.
- Top each parfait with 1 TBS cool whip just before serving.
- Store leftovers in the refrigerator.
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Having never made or tried a Jello dessert, it was fun coming across this one. Turned out the perfect simple ending to a weekend of heavy and complicated food. The 1:1 ratio of Cool Whip and Jello resulted in a softer foam than I expected but thoroughly enjoyed. I made mine with strawberry Jello, blueberries and diced fresh pears. The playful kid in me gives this five stars.


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Huevos Rancheros
Total Time
Prep 5 mins
Cook 15 mins
Spicy breakfast!!
Ingredients Nutrition
- 1 (18 ounce) can black beans, rinsed and drained
- 1 1⁄4 cups salsa (pick your strength)
- 1⁄4 cup water
- 4 eggs
- 3 ounces shredded, hot cheese
- chopped cilantro
- In 10 inch skillet mix beans, salsa, and 1/4 c.
- water.
- Heat to boiling.
- Carefully break eggs into skillet on top of bean mixture.
- Reduce heat and simmer, covered for 5 minutes.
- Sprinkle with cheese.
- Garnish with cilantro.
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Delicious, quick & easy recipe using ingredients I had in my pantry.
Great recipe! Nice, tasty, and healthy (I think?). We had black bean soup a day or two previously, so instead of the can of black beans, instead we used some of the leftover soup. That added some corn and such to the mix, which was a nice addition as well.
Wonderful way to start the day. We have enjoyed eggs poached in salsa in the past and especially like your addition of black beans and cilantro. We will add this to our list of easy, delcious weekend breakfast foods! Muchas Gracias!


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I have been looking at a solution to this question for many weeks and suffice I have read a lot of material, I have not been able to find a working solution.
I have a couple wordpress sites that I'm running and very happy with the packages and the capabilities. However I'm still learning my way around the ropes so to speak.
I cannot figure out however how to add my RSS feeds to feedburner. I've followed the documentation on feedburner.com (google) to add steve smiths plugin but this does not seem to work with the latest version of wordpress. I've tried a couple others but they seemed to not work either. So I'm open to trying all over again from scratch if someone has a working 'how to' for the latest version of WordPress.
Another related issue is if I click on the link for RSS feeds on one of my sites, say http://www.example.com/feed/, I get a 'google' page to either add it to my home page or to Google Reader, which seems normal enough to me. But when I add it to Google Reader instead of picking up the latest stories it only picks up the first two (really old) and does not update.
Perhaps learning how to get feedburner to work will solve this problem but I'm hopeful to get some answers from experts who've mastered this step.


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|Publication number
|Publication type
|Publication date
|8 Apr 1924
|Filing date
|3 Aug 1922
|Priority date
|3 Aug 1922
|Publication number
|Oscar Byron
|Original Assignee
|Oscar Byron
|Export Citation
|BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan
|Referenced by (12), Classifications (7)
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
April 8, 1924.
O. BYRON SOUND RECEIVER EARPIECE Filed Aug. 5, 1922 Patented Apr. 8, 1924.
Application filed August 3, 1922. Serial No. 579,437.
1 '0 all 101mm it may concern:
Be it known that I, OSCAR BYRON, a citizen of the United States, and residing at 507 Summit Avenue, Jersey City, in the improvement is directed particularly to an ear contacting member which is capable of application directly to the ear of the user in a manner to exclude all external noise and vibration; also to enable the device to be pplied and worn with a maximum of comort.
With the head pieces of receiving sets now in use either low efficiency in external sound exclusion exists or else the pressure exerted to provide snugly ear enclosing means, whether applied to the ear or to the head around the ear, involves considerable discomfort through protracted usage; and it is an object of my invention. to rovide means for the remedy of this condltion.
Therefore my invention consists in the use of a pad of soft, resilient material such as spongy rubber, which can be applied con tactingly against the ear under moderate pressure, so as to mould or embed the irregular contour of the ear into the substance of the pad; and in providing the pad with an orifice therethrough, for communication with the auditory canal of the ear.
The pad may be suitably connected to a sound receiver, and in one form of-my invention it is provided with means whereby it is capable of removable engagement with a receiver.
Other features and advantages of my invention will hereinafter appear.
In the drawing ,Figure 1 is a cross sectional view of my improved device, showing it as fitted upon a sound receiver and as applied to a human ear.
Iiig. 2 is a front elevation of the device,
Fig. 3 is a section on the line 33 of Fi 2.
n carrying out my invention I prepare a block or iece of porous or spongy material, such as spongy rubber, which has a normally set structural form but is also of resilient or yieldable character so that under the application of slight pressure will yield to embed therein any object having a more rigid structure.
This block indicated in the drawing by the reference numeral 1, is there shown to have a uniform thickness of a sufficient degree to enable it to serve the purpose of my in vention, which purpose is that the block will contactingly overlay a human ear, and, under pressure, absorb within its yielding substance, by embedment at its surface 2, the characteristic ear features, such as the tragus, antitragus and antihelix, thereby effectually closing entrance, between the block and the ear, to the auditory canal.
The block 1 is rovided with an aperture 3 that extends t erethrough axially with relation to the auditory canal of the ear, when applied; and this aperture, as shown, is directed toward the entrance to them;- ditory canal, for the better directional conveyance of sound waves toward the tympanum. 1
Upon the opposite, or outer surface 4 of block '1, I secure, as by cementing, or otherwise, a flexible cap or'hood 5, which is provided with a central 0 ening 6. This hood is composed of elastic material, like soft rubber, to be capable of stretching so that its opening 6 may be enlarged to fit snugly over a sound receiver 7, to keep out external noises, and restrict the communica tion of sound to the ear solely through the aperture 3.
The receiver 7 is here shown as forming part of a head piece 8 to illustrate one of the various manners in which the block 1 may be applied with pressure contactingly against the ear.
I Variations within the spirit and scope of my invention are equally comprehended by the foregoing disclosure.
I claim 1. An ear pad for sound'receivers consisting of a. block of resilient, porous material to lie mouldably against the ear, said block provided with an aperture therethrough for communication with the auditory canal, and a cap of stretchable material secured to said block for removably fitting upon a sound receiver.
2. An ear pad for sound receivers consisting of resilient very soft and yielding material having a substantially flat outer face whereby said face may-be pressed against the ear and the material yield to conform to and fill the convolutions of the ear, and having a sound conducting aperture for con'imunication with the auditory canal.
3. An ear pad for sound receivers comprising a body member of resilient very soft and yieldable material having a substantially flat outer face, whereby said face,
may be pressed against the ear and the material yield to conform to and fill the convolutions and irre ular surface of the ear, and having a sound conducting aperture for communication with the auditory canal, and means for securing said body member to a sound receiver.
Signed at the borough of Manhattan, in
the city, county and State of New York, 25
this 2nd day of August, 1922.
|Citing Patent
|Filing date
|Publication date
|26 Dec 1947
|4 Jul 1950
|Automatic Elect Lab
|Ear cushion with earplug
|11 Mar 1950
|16 Dec 1952
|Sydney K Herman
|Ear pad for earpieces
|3 Jan 1952
|16 Feb 1954
|Dent Harold F
|Sanitary attachment for telephones
|15 Dec 1958
|5 Jun 1962
|Electric Storage Battery Co
|Cushioning attachment for safety devices
|24 Oct 1958
|11 Sep 1962
|Electric Storage Battery Co
|Face protective devices
|24 Sep 1999
|20 Nov 2001
|Hello Direct, Inc.
|Headset with adjustable earpiece
|24 Dec 2001
|10 Aug 2004
|Hello Direct, Inc.
|Headset with movable earphones
|17 Jan 2003
|22 Jul 2004
|Fellowes, Inc.
|Earpiece with interchangeable end portion
|13 May 2005
|4 Jan 2007
|Electrosource Llc
|Amplified and acoustic-coupling-compensated headphone and earbud system
|24 Dec 2001
|14 Jan 2003
|Hello Direct, Inc.
|Headset with moveable earphones
|10 Feb 2014
|11 Aug 2015
|New Audio LLC
|Headphone device
|21 Dec 2006
|19 Jul 2007
|Sennheiser Electronic Gmbh & Co.Kg
|U.S. Classification
|181/129, 181/21, 128/866
|International Classification
|Cooperative Classification
|European Classification


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Is there a way I could automate part of the mail account configuration in outlook as with thunderbird? (more info at https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Thunderbird/Autoconfiguration)
ex. Using an .xml file to provide info for a specific domain (for domain.com, use IMAP with ssl on port...)
I've found out that Outlook can use a feature called Autodiscover, but I can't manage to make it work. (more info at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc511507.aspx)
(I've been trying to use a local xml file).
Any clues on how I should procede / if a way exist?


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We hit the streets to find out who's catching 'em all.
Easy tricks for adding color, patterns, and texture to a space.
Everything from hot pink to shimmery brown to many, many shades of nude.
It might sound woo-woo, but rose-quartz rituals definitely had me feeling more loving vibes.
Got you covered. Literally.
Up next
But she draws the line at Velveeta.
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SALT pushes the preferred minimalist palette of this artist with ariel views of Mexico, Utah and Australia. Now it becomes an explosive array of colors contained between sinuous lines of rivers, roads and tracks either man-made, Nature made or both. These abstract presentations appear closely akin to the 1950s and 1960's period of painting history, making the observer question whether they are looking at a painting or a photograph.
VELD focuses on the annual spring growing season in Flevoland, The Netherlands, the largest tulip area in the region. Flying in an open door helicopter at 250-500 feet, Burdeny had to time the shoot precisely to capture the fields at peak bloom.
The artist's first color abstract landscapes - DRIFT of 2000-2006, a series of moving and still photographic images collected during travels through Canada, France, Japan, England, Belgium and the USA, catalogued the shifting light and color of the world's oceans and shorelines into horizontal "bands". 16 years later, Burdeny welcomes the viewer to experience the incredible color abstraction of these ordered fields from afar and then the extreme details of the flower blooms revealed at nose length.Latest Artwork
The images of Jim Kazanjian are digitally manipulated composites built from photographs he finds through the internet. The technique used could be considered "hyper-collage". Manipulating and assembling a disparate array of multiple photographic elements (sometimes more than 50) can produce a single homogenized image without the use of a camera at any stage in the process..
The method of construction has an improvisational and random quality to it, since it is largely driven by the source material available. Wading through his archive constantly and searching for interesting combinations and relationships, each new piece brought to the composition informs the image's potential direction. It is an iterative and organic process where the end result is many times removed from its origin. The work acts as a type of mutation which can haphazardly spawn in numerous and unpredictable directionsFeatured Artwork
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President Putin said for the first time yesterday that he would recognise the outcome of Ukraine's presidential election tomorrow.
After months of violent chaos in the east that have made voting in some areas impossible, and which claimed at least five more lives yesterday, his intervention looked like a watershed moment.
He told business leaders at an investment forum in St Petersburg that he would "respect the choice of the Ukrainian people" and work with the new leadership — even as he accused the US of backing a "coup" and driving the country into "full-scale civil war".
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I have the following to swap. First I'm listing what I offer, then what I am after.
Serge Lutens
Manufacturer samples on cards 1.2ml
- Cèdre 3 full + 1 half-full
- Daim Blond 1 full +...
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I have the following to swap. First I'm listing what I offer, then what I am after.
Serge Lutens
Manufacturer samples on cards 1.2ml
- Cèdre 3 full + 1 half-full
- Daim Blond 1 full +...
Believe me, too much of a good thing :)
Yes! Declaration wannabe at the start, with a gloopy spoon of concentrated cumin paste, operates a twist to an eau d'hermès on the cheap kind of frag (makes sense so far). Another twist and you're...
Once. To my utter disappointment. It was Cuir Beluga. I was catching big whiffs of musc, the kind I really don't like (think Louve by Lutens). I understood later why. I dabbed it in minute amounts...
Petite Chérie by Goutal, girly though. Biggest pear in a masculine oriented frag has to be Cerruti Image.
It is Le Beau Mâle. Eau de toilette fraicheur intense ;)
Your code indicates vintage, or pre reformulation.
- - - Updated - - -
December 2010 to be precise about the code, this is the production timestamp.
Congrats! My best experience was at a discounter shop, they are scattered everywhere in Paris and they usually sell cheap crap. But the one near my home carries fragrances. Mostly drugstore type of...
Not available yet. It will be out in June I guess.
Smelled it a week ago. Excellent work. A tad drier and thinner than the original, but still a towering masterpiece.
My bottle of Séville A L'Aube has this oversized logo on the cap.
I'm sure they will be great. I think this relaunch purpose is not to make a quick buck but to revive those fantastic perfumes created by JM Duriez!
No updates. The official staement from Serge Lutens is that there will be be no more ephemeral editions, only different travel spray refills every year.
To me, Un Bois Vanille is among the very few Lutens that a man would find hard to wear, along with Louve. I just can't wear it, and find it very disturbing on a man.
Azzaro Chrome
Try a Lavender Palm + Oud Wood combo, if you can lay your hands on a sample. 2/3 Lavender Palm + 1/3 Oud Wood.
Care to share ? Lol :p
That is a 2004 bottle. Congrats on your finding ;)
Just find the production code and post it here, we'll know when it was produced :)
It's real. Production code is legit. Considering the numbers of bottles manufactured in a single day, bottle molds do get a heavy use and I would assume your bottle is from a very worn out mold, thus...
Kiss your Mitsouko goodbye ... And don't fool yourselves, in the end, oakmoss is going to be banned entirely from formulas.
Not much unfortunately ...
The EdP is very close, to my nose, to Al Oudh from L'artisan Parfumeur, which I prefer, so my vote goes for the EdT.
Definitely toned down, around 2006-2007 I guess. Still sold in France. But as a slow seller, could be very hard to find sometimes.
Iris Silver Mist. Heard of La Myrrhe too but would bet on ISM.
Iso E super restriction. What else ?
Production code : first letter is the year of production.
2011 : Txxx
2010 : Sxxx
2009 : Rxxx
2008 : Qxxx
and so on.
It is correct for all brands related to Shiseido : Shiseido,...
Santal De Mysore was briefly available in square export bottles a few years ago, on the SL website shop mostly.
The Paris Publicis Drugstore on the Champs-Elysées still carries a few bottles. Older...
No way to tell unfortunately.
But don't fret too much about it, as long as the bottle is fairly full and you don't shake it like mad, the juice will stay fresh for a long long time. As usual, keep...
How intriguing. Another take on sandalwood, verging on floral, could be unusual. I've been said it somehow reminds Jeux de Peau more than any other sandalwoods in the SL line.
On a close but...
Tried it in Le Bon Marché last saturday. Wasn't crazy about it. the citrus top/heart is too sharp and the oud verges on moldy.
La Myrrhe was rumored a few weeks ago to be next export, wasn't it ?
Considering the overall quality of RL socks, they are greatly overpriced at 10 pounds a pair
Dumb question maybe and the title says it (mostly) all.
I just wanted to know if Amouage Jubilation XXV is available in Dubai airports.
Thank you gentlemen.
I don't like it, at all. Not because the smell is horrible, but because I smell it on everyone, everywere and nobody seem to be able to wear less than 20 sprays of this stuff. And certainly not one...
El Attarine by Serge Lutens
HM Hanae Mori EdT
Diorella (2010 version) : not that bad; makes a refined masculine.
SotD : Youth Dew
SotE : Guerlain Homme L'Eau Boisée
Call Sens Unique in Paris (01 71 50 30 09), they might agree to ship you what you're looking for.
(Conservatively sprayed) Kouros (vintage)
Excellent !
Something that smells clean like Aqua Universalis or Eau d'Orange Verte. Pour Un Homme works wonders too
Oh, I guess one deserve to live a little ^^
I remember summers spent in Spain with my family, dousing in Eau de cologne du Coq et Eau de cologne Hermès (as it was called back in the days). We went...
Any Eau de Cologne by Guerlain is a good way to get through the summer
Habit Rouge by Guerlain (80's vintage)
L'Instant PH de Guerlain
Egoiste Cologne Concentrée.
Uber delight
Gaultier2 (evening)
Le Mâle
Interesting. Wonder if it's going to be a limited edition like Fraicheur Cuir.
- Dr Bronner's Peppermint Liquid Soap. Fresh !
- Frédéric Malle Bigarade
- Nesti Dante Luxury Gold Soap
- Nesti Dante Bergamote et Cèdre
I'm exactly in the middle of this sort of crisis !
I'd happily dump the cash for a good (vintage) classical perfume than for whatever "Oud Du Jour" that comes along.
Tobacco Vanille by Tom Ford
The title says it all and doubt flooded me today as Grungevig reported in the SOTD thread that he wears vintage.
As far as I know, I checked ingredient lists of both older and newer packaging and...
Chanel Cuir de Russie extrait, Cuir Mauresque and, as said previously, Knize Ten.
Jules (vintage) by Christian Dior
The juice has been slightly tweaked too
It's clear by the way it is displayed in various shops that Kokorico doesn't sell well regarding other JPG fragrances, so I went on asking several SA how people react when presented with this...
As far as I know London isn't a powerhouse with monster projection and sillage though it has a pretty decent longevity.
I suggest you to be a bit more trigger happy at places you're sure to catch...
Prada Amber Pour Homme Intense
"aerospray" : fancy way to call a natural spray. Eau de toilette, bottle size and cap confirm (for me) a bottle produced by mid-eighties. Masculine eau de toilette were rarely sold as sprays before...
Celebrating this month 2 years on basenotes :)
Thank you all for everything you are doing everyday with passion and commitment :thumbsup:
Ugh, thought the picture would be bigger :( Oh well
Speaking of Jaipur For Men, I recently smelled the current EdP version, I'm glad I bought a backup 2 years ago when it was showing signs of discontinuation due to the license passing from BRI to...
6 hours ? More like 12 if sprayed properly. At least that's what I get from 2 sprays.
NU and M7 Oud Absolu.
The real M7 is back !!
Here are some pics of my little reminder from this evening (crappy quality pics, sorry)
Looks perfectly ok to me.
My guess is that Bvlgari doesn't print serials on the box of testers, have the same issue with a Black tester which I know is absolutely legit (it came from a reputable...
Maxim's de Paris, first one. But the name of the frag is supposed to be written on the bottle. Fake ?
CD - Eau Sauvage Extrême (pre 2010 relaunch formula)
Still loving it :)
I'm usually not into layering but had a successful one with SL Serge Noire and Chanel N°5 EdT (mid-90's formula). One part Serge Noire, 2,5 part N°5. I did actually blend a few drops from samples,...
Dior Homme Intense discontinued ? Very unlikely, it's still widely available, taking as much shelf space as the (reformulated) original in most sephoras and whatever retailers we have in France. I...
Jeux de peau - Serge Lutens
El Attarine - Serge Lutens - Les Salons du Palais Royal Shiseido
I'd like to hear a bit more about Cuir Mauresque refo because what I bought in export limited edition smells really good to me. And Serge Lutens is known to be very careful about reformulations....
Best shop to visit is Parfumerie Régine Duchayne 10 r Fosse 44000 NANTES. Niche brands and exclusive Guerlain ...
I will cook up something with pics and "recipes" as soon as i can lay hands on my bottle back at home. Meanwhile, I'll take pictures of the new one during lunch break.
Indeed, this shows very poor consideration for customers. Ha!
@hypr : this is unlikely because the tester was fairly full and this is a huge sephora in the suburbs of Paris that is packed with people everyday, and Dior Homme being quite popular here, I guess...
Recently I was browsing through Sephora aisles and I noticed the bottle of Dior Homme (regular, not Intense, nor Sport) has changed. The ring near the nozzle is no longer alu grey but black, a silver...
My apologies if it has already been asked. The title says it all basically.
I had quite a shocking experience recently with a distant friend of mine. I noticed he smelled of Eau Sauvage (faintly,...
Usually 3 sprays, 1 behind each ear, 1 one the chest, though I have serious problem spraying less than 10-15 times with very light scent (Eau d'Orange Verte, Eau Parfumée au Thé Vert, Bigarade), I'd...
A Procter & Gamble rep. told me last summer @ Galeries Lafayette Haussmann in Paris that everything released during the Tom Ford era at Gucci will be discontinued within 2 years. And since then it...
I usually get 5 wears out of a 2ml Malle spray sample, averaging 5 sprays per wear, which gives a little less than 0.1 ml per spray.
Hope this helps.


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Secretary-General's statement following meeting with the Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot Leaders
New York, 25 January 2012
Good morning, Ladies and Gentlemen,
I would once again like to thank Their Excellencies, Mr. Christofias and Mr. Eroðlu, for accepting my invitation to join me at Greentree over the last two days.
This has been our fifth meeting together to support the leaders' work to develop a comprehensive settlement for Cyprus, building on the steady efforts that have been made on the island since the resumption of negotiations more than three years ago.
When we met in Greentree last October, the leaders expressed confidence that they could reach a settlement. The two sides have continued their negotiations since that time to meet this objective. Just before this latest meeting at Greentree, I wrote to the two leaders pointing out that the talks have moved into the final phase. Substantive discussions at Greentree were an integral part of this phase, leading to a multilateral conference and an ultimate settlement. Both leaders responded by reiterating their commitment to a solution.
The two sides came to Greentree with three main challenges to resolve: the election of the executive, property and citizenship. I asked the leaders to use this time to make decisive moves. Discussions over these two days were robust and intensive, although limited progress was achieved. I reminded the leaders that this process is Cypriot-owned and Cypriot-led. The UN is not here to impose solutions upon the sides.
In terms of next steps, I have proposed that the sides complete the exchange of data on property within the next two weeks to which they agreed. Today my Special Adviser Mr. Downer will brief the Security Council in informal consultations. I will be providing a report to the Security Council on the status of the negotiations at the end of February. At the end of March I will seek a review of the process from my Special Adviser, Alexander Downer. If his report is positive, consistent with relevant Security Council resolutions and following consultations with the two sides, I intend to call a multilateral conference in late April or early May.
At this stage of the talks, to maintain the momentum and continue negotiations, even in an intensive manner, is not enough. I have urged the leaders to make decisive steps to move to a final agreement.
The United Nations remains convinced that it is in the interest of all Cypriots to reach a durable settlement. My Special Adviser and his team have been doing their utmost to assist the process. They remain ready to assist the sides in this important task. Thank you very much.
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That is an old JB pump.
I moved in 1982, but my tastebuds still long for WNY.
I hate you...:p
You know this thread is over 6 years old, right?
Same here. Originally from Amherst before moving to the sandbar.
When I get an urge for back home goodies I order a care package. :grin2:
Doug addressed this issue in another thread.
See post #407 in the link below.
Good luck.
Looks like a 2 1/2 ton AHU and a 2 ton condenser.
Check the piston size.
Just download to and run the update from a flash drive. ;)
I'd be happy to show you mine if you want to travel to Brevard County, Melbourne/Palm Bay area.
Here is the one that I built, works like a charm. :yes:
It is slower than usual here as well.
I have an AK900 from the 1st batch that was available for purchase.
To date I have had no manifold issues.
Zip, zero, nada...............:cool:
I've had a DL389 for a little over 3 years now.
No problems with it at all, does everything that I need it to.
Pricier than say AA batteries but hold a high power level until nearly exhausted.
Also have a very long shelf life.
I use YJ ball valves on my hoses.
The low loss should not be a problem as long as you remember to release any pressure in your hoses before zeroing the DRSA.
As has been said, the digi-cool case IS a HARD case.
You wont break it...:grin2:
Bosch pocket driver has been good to me.
Changed one out about a month ago on a 3 ton heat pump.
Seems to be well made.
I use the Testo 605-H2 for taking measurements inside of a duct.
It's long probe makes it ideal for this purpose, but it is slow.
For taking an IDWB reading I prefer my Amprobe THWD-2.
farmfriendly, I can appreciate your reluctance in dealing with digital gauges given your past experiences.
I have owned Digi-Cool's for several years and was part of the beta testing team for the...
What happened to the OP topic?
This has become ARP. :gah:
I know that I will probably get slammed by the Fluke and Fieldpiece owners, but I have had have been using a UEI DL389 TRMS meter for about 3 years with no problems whatsoever.
Great meter, does...
sorry, double post.
You can find your answers here.
Good luck.
IMO the best system on the market at this time is the IQ Drive.
Use the HW work for fill in if you're slow.
Get your sticker on those units for when the HW contract expires.
I've had my DL389 since they first came on the market.
No problem with it so far, but if I do I have a perfectly good DL289 for a back up. ;)
A friend of mine just purchased a Husky 180 led worklight.
Supposed to work with cord or cordless up to 4 hours.
He has not had it long enough to give it a yea or nay but say's it is bright.
From thedealertoolbox dot com.
It's free, just pay shipping.
If you want durability, it's digi-cool without a doubt IMO.
Manufactured 24th week of 1996.
My Fieldpiece srl2 has yet to let me down when it is used to detect R410A.
My Inficon Tek Mate is better for R22 though.
Not very profitable playing to an empty house.
I run Firefox with the no script add on, no pop up's here or anywhere else.
That is a 3 ton.
I have not had good results with my Tek Mate on R410a, it's great on R22.
I use the Fieldpiece SRL2 for R410a and have found every leak so far in the past year that I have owned it.
I have used the SRL2 for a little over a year now.
I bought it for R410A leaks and it has yet to fail me in locating leaks quickly.
I have to agree, the SRL2 has proved to be an excellent R410A leak detector for me as well.
I've had very good luck so far on R410A and R22 with the Fieldpiece SLR2 IR leak detector.
Come on Swampy, bite the bullet.
The clamp is the bomb.
I wouldn't kid you about this. ;)
Best uninstaller that I have found so far.
And it's free.
Smart move my friend.
Believe me, it will be worth the wait.
What Reeferman said.
I work out of Melbourne.
If you would like to discuss options other than Lennox I would be happy to meet with you.
If you are interested email is in my profile.
Good luck Lee,sincerely.
I've lived here (Melbourne/Palm Bay) for 24 years and its never been this slow.
Check with the supply houses along Ellis Rd (near CMS), they usually know if anyone is...
The velcro holds the shoulder strap out of the way when its not in use.


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- 1 1.1 (provide lodging for)Example sentences1.2 (have room for)
tener cabida parathe restaurant can accommodate 20 tablesel restaurante tiene cabida para unas 20 mesas1.3 (contain, house) the library accommodates a fine collection of booksla biblioteca alberga or contiene una excelente colección de libros
- Scattered across 180 acres of tranquil hills, valleys and brooks are cottages and rooms accommodating guests of all categories and tastes.
- This room is at the heart of the property; a recessed area accommodates an oil-fired Rayburn range while there is a cut slate floor and work surface.
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tener en cuenta
complacer(need)I will not change the date to accommodate him
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satisfacerno voy a cambiar la fecha para su convenienciaour plan accommodates every eventualitynuestro plan contempla or cubre cualquier eventualidadExample sentences
- The new regime has no time for the tiresome (if unselfish) business of accommodating the wishes of other festivals.
- It is difficult to accommodate the wishes of all in the community but we do try to get it right as far as we possibly can.
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Baidu Inc. rallied the most in a month in U.S. trading on prospects China's biggest online search engine may unveil new products at the company's annual conference on technology innovation.
American depositary receipts of Beijing-based Baidu rose 4.8 percent yesterday in New York, nearing an all-time high reached in July. Travel booking website Ctrip.com International Ltd. climbed to a record while China Southern Airlines Co. surged the most since November. The Bloomberg China-US Equity Index added 0.6 percent to 116.94.
Baidu will release a smart device that can be used in e-commerce at its annual conference in Beijing today, Sina News reported on its website, citing an unidentified person with the company. Baidu is also expanding mapping services to better compete with online retail platform Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. Chinese stocks in New York followed gains in local markets amid speculation the government will step up stimulus after manufacturing grew at a slower pace in August.
The Baidu World event "is generally something that's seen as potentially a catalyst in terms of new products, or new announcements for the company," Cheng Cheng, an analyst at Pacific Crest Securities LLC., said in a phone interview from Portland, Oregon. "Probably there's some optimism around that."
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Baidu's ADRs climbed to $224.80, rallying the most since July 25 when it closed at a record $226.50.
The company, which formed an online shopping venture last week with Dalian Wanda Group and Tencent Holdings Ltd., is investing about $10 million in U.S. startup IndoorAtlas Ltd. to expand mapping services inside buildings and shopping centers, a person familiar with the matter said.
"Indoor mapping, which provides more clarity on where things are inside a building, is the direction where the market is heading," said Cheng at Pacific Securities. "It's probably longer term in nature."
Besides e-commerce, the BaiduEye smart device will be suitable for education, mass transportation and helping the visually impaired, the Sina report said.
Ctrip.com, the largest online travel agency in China, soared 5.8 percent to $67.91, the highest level since its 2003 U.S. debut.
ADRs of China Southern, the country's largest airline by passengers carried, jumped 6.8 percent to $17.29, the steepest advance since November. China Eastern Airlines Corp. gained 5.8 percent to $17.17, rallying for the first time in a week.
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Chinese government's Purchasing Managers' Index was at 51.1 for August, missing the median 51.2 estimate in a Bloomberg survey before the data was released Sept. 1. The final reading of a separate manufacturing gauge from HSBC Holdings Plc and Markit Economics was 50.2. Both readings fell from 51.7 in July and remain above 50, indicating expansion.
The government should use targeted relending and reserve-ratio cuts in the second half to support growth, according to a front-page commentary yesterday in China Securities Journal, which is controlled by the official Xinhua News Agency.
The iShares China Large-Cap ETF, the largest Chinese exchange-traded fund in the U.S., rose 0.6 percent to $40.71, its first gain in four days. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index slipped 0.1 percent as energy producers sank with the price of crude to offset data showing U.S. manufacturing expanded at the fastest pace in three years.
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john fowles | Email | Homepage | 04.04.05 – 7:27 pm | #
I guess it depends on whether you're a letter of the law sort of guy or a spirit of the law sort of guy (and goodness knows the Church breeds plenty of the former sort). IMHO, taking a draw on your credit card to put big money on the tournament through one of your bookies is going a bit too far, but the standard office NCAA tournament pool is just good clean fun.
Of course, there are letter of the law sorts who wouldn't be caught dead putting a nickel in a slot machine but who thinks it's just fine to risk/bet thousands of dollars on daytrading action through an online trader every day. Go figure.
Dave | Email | Homepage | 04.04.05 – 7:28 pm | #
Yeah, that would have been nice to just say, "gambling is wrong!" But something I've been wondering is aside from these new specifics, did President Hinckley say anything new (aside from emphasis)? I mean, we've always known gambling is wrong. It seems that the only new information is what will now be the "no more poker" rule (akin to the "no R-rated movie rule, but I digress).
I considered writing about daytrading (and the nature of risk) but decided not to. It is a really interesting topic. President Hinckley is actually wrong in saying that gamblers don't get a fair return. It's just that they don't get it often enough for it to be considered a safe risk. There are professional gamblers out there that have eliminated a lot of the risk (in the same way that I eliminate risk when I research a company I consider investing in). Ugh, there is so much gray area here that could fill volumes. I think John is right, saying "gambling is wrong!" might have been a better solution than to add the value argument.
Rusty | Email | Homepage | 04.04.05 – 7:42 pm | #
The problem here is that the prophet realizes that the people he is going to be talking to, the people who need to hear this are going to justify themselves. The person who gets addicted to risk is never going to know this until after they try it for a while, and then it's too late. They are going to say, hey, that's not me. I'm not really gambling. I can handle this. It's not so bad. So he spent a whole talk outlining as clearly as he could what he meant by gambling so that we can't get around it. So that whatever else we can do, we can't say we haven't been warned.
Add to this what I see as a very large new trend that seems to be questioning whether we really have to take seriously what the prophet says if it isn't clearly in the standard works already, and he's got to do even more to make it very clear that he's not just talking about "hard" gambling or high stakes gambling or gambling that you can't afford, and that he menas that it is the official position of the church and so on and so on just to get it accross to people that he's serious and he's talking to them, and that they are supposed to really listen and do it.
the standard office NCAA tournament pool is just good clean fun.
Wasn't his example about the guy who thought it wasn't gambling because he was just putting some money in a pot and the winner gets it explicit enough? How much more plain could he be?
Stephen Hancock | Email | Homepage | 04.04.05 – 7:54 pm | #
A couple things: first of all, I don't think it's a new trend to question the prophet, it's as old as humankind. However, I'd like to distinguish myself as someone that is trying to understand the Prophet, his intent, and my feelings, NOT someone that is questioning "whether I have to take what the Prophet says seriously". I want to take it seriously, but I want to understand first what I am to supposed to take seriously. Please don't jump the gun condemning bloggers that are sincerely trying to work out their understanding of the Gospel.
Secondly, I confess that I wasn't at the priesthood meeting so I didn't hear everything word for word. I read some very good (I thought) notes soon after the session ended. Therefore, I was ignorant to his words about the "just putting some money in a pot and the winner gets it" If I would have known he said something along those lines, I probably would have written this post differently.
When you said, "the standard office NCAA tournament pool is just good clean fun." I'm not sure if you're quoting someone or if you're making that statement, but you're following statement kinda contradicts it. I agree with that statement, but when you say it, you're saying that that form of gambling is okay. Which is it? Some form of "good, clean, fun" forms of gambling are okay? Or none?
Rusty | Email | Homepage | 04.04.05 – 8:15 pm | #
I understand that investing in the stock market might appear close to gambling, and for some it certainly is. But it seems like an altogether different species upon closer examination. That is, because people are willing to invest in the market, companies are able to raise capital through public offerings. What happens after the initial public offering–with people buying and selling, in effect wagering based on the success of the company–could almost be considered gambling, as Dave noted, but this activity is socially productive. Our economy depends on this type of market activity to keep growing. Thus, trading in the stock market, as a general matter, adds value to society, allowing companies to produce and create jobs. I would guess that President Hinckley would not have kind words for someone who is addicted to day trading; but I don't think it is the same as the gambling to which President Hinckley is referring.
john fowles | Email | Homepage | 04.04.05 – 8:27 pm | #
Count me as one who was happy to hear President Hinckley speak out against gambling.
I have no objection to games. I do object to gaming, whether it's casino gambling or state-run lotteries (which are essentially education taxes levied on the uneducated and ignorant).
Chris Williams | Email | Homepage | 04.04.05 – 8:43 pm | #
C'mon Chris, that was a pretty wimpy way out. Of course we're all "against gambling" and hopefully none of us have any "objection to games". The question is where is the crossover?
Rusty | Email | Homepage | 04.04.05 – 8:48 pm | #
I don't think your attempt to rescue capital markets quite works. After all, when one gambles in Vegas, one is certainly contributing to the local economy, helping produce jobs, etc. I think there are certainly distinctions between buying and selling stock and gambling, but I don't think "adds value to society" does the work.
Coincidentally, I spoke with a fellow in my ward who was thinking about dropping out of his fantasy baseball league because it cost 20 bucks and he stood to win 150 bucks. I thought this was crazy: clearly fantasy baseball is a game of skill, not of chance, right?
Greg Call | Email | Homepage | 04.04.05 – 9:16 pm | #
I was mostly expressing the frustration I felt as I watched the conference session. It really felt to me like Pres. Hinkley was deliberately going to excess to try and make it clear that the church was against "all" gambling, and I got the sense that he was trying to close off the loopholes he could anticipate people creating. I was trying, mostly to provide a rationale for his being so specific. If he just says no gambling, people say, hey I'm not doing what I consider gambling, and they don't change behaviors that he's trying to tell them they should change. I felt for the prophet who was trying to be plain.
The part about the tournament in my post was a quote from Dave's comment, but I got the tags wrong. I am in favor of not doing office pools.
As far as the no value argument, I think it is valid. What value is added by playing games of chance for money (or m&ms) that isn't there if you play for points, chips, etc? Unless of course, what lures you is the chance that you will actually end up with more money, getting something for nothing, which is another part of Pres. Hinkley's message.
Stephen Hancock | Email | Homepage | 04.04.05 – 9:22 pm | #
No more Chutes and Ladders for me!
Anonymous | Email | Homepage | 04.04.05 – 11:20 pm | #
Ironically, long before this conference, my unofficial mental rule was less-than-five-dollars-isn't-a-big-deal. Whew! Good thing it wasn't less-than-OR-EQUAL-to…
No, but really, in my dozen or so trips to Las Vegas, I have gambled a couple times, if you can call it that. Have you ever tried to loose three dollars in Vegas on nickel slots? Betchya can't beat my record of 30 minutes (it usually takes well over an hour). It's actually quite a fun game and a nice social event (err.. for some). Return on investment wise, I'm occupied and having fun for less than it costs per hour to watch a movie!
My beef isn't exactly with what President Hinckley said, per se, it's with all the repercussions it causes as it flows throughout the Church. Remember when he said something about having more than one set of earrings? That STILL hasn't subsided all the way, and we (primary teachers) have to continually remind kids in the primary that there are good people, heaven forbid, who have more than one earring per ear.
In other words, little will change in how I live my life. What scares me is how overnight the perception of those who gamble with even $5 will be intensified further fueling finger pointing at me as a bad example of…something. Or worse, a non-member friend zoning in on the most mundane aspects of our religion (more appropriately, our culture) when, in fact, there is so much more that is oh-so interesting, which we may never get to.
It looks like gambling (or anything remotely akin to it) will be the R rating of 2005. On the flipside, with this help subside the rated R dilemma? I only hope so.
Bob Caswell | Email | Homepage | 04.05.05 – 12:45 am | #
I was sitting there trying to think of a good defense/answer to your question "What value is added by playing games of chance for money (or m&ms) that isn't there if you play for points, chips, etc?" and I couldn't come up with anything. My initial thought is that it adds excitement (because there is a chance that I can get something for nothing) oops, bad answer. You might be right.
(again, I think talking this over with people helps me understand it better, so thank you)
Well said. I agree that it's not what President Hinckley said that bothers me (because I agree with him), it's the way that everyone will react to it. Less than 24 hours after it was said I was having a conversation with a friend who suggested that ALL poker was out from now on. I guess it's that kind of a reaction (I'll see your council, and raise you a law of moses!) that I oppose.
Rusty | Email | Homepage | 04.05.05 – 1:15 am | #
By the way, Rusty, I have an answer for you to convey to Stephen:
You can't fit chips into a nickel slot! If you could, then sure, I'd use the chip slots.
Bob Caswell | Email | Homepage | 04.05.05 – 1:19 am | #
The timing of President Hinckley's talk was interesting to me. Gambling is a HUGE problem at a local high school here. The Stake President very recently replaced the given Stake Priesthood session "pornography" talk with a stern lecture on gambling. These kids are winning and losing $100/day, but aren't feeling the effects since they're families have more money than they know what to do with. His message was that he didn't want the members to get comfortable with gambling. Many 12-year olds could go to Vegas right now and feel in their element sitting at the tables. This could be a Mesa, AZ thing, and I'd be curious to know how big a problem it is in other areas.
Office pools and fantasy sports really do take too much skill (with a little luck mixed in) to be considered gambling. I picked North Carolina to win my bracket. They were a top team all year. So did I gamble by choosing them? I feel like I'm slipping into justification mode, but I feel good about the fact my wife knows about every bracket I purchase and which fantasy league I'm participating in, along with the cost. That and knowing the money at stake is secondary to the enjoyment will always work for me.
Rob | Email | Homepage | 04.05.05 – 2:15 am | #
Can someone please explain to me why gambling is wrong?
I can see how some of the attendant social phenomena (addiction, corruption, etc.) are wrong, but what's wrong with gambling?
Steve Evans | Email | Homepage | 04.05.05 – 11:49 am | #
I suspect, Steve, that the real issue is much broader than gambling. It's gotta extend to playing solitaire on the computer, playing Halo, and, Heaven forfend, blogging!
How, after all do you square all those things with the following statements:
Regarding the church welfare programs: "a system under which the curse of idleness would be done away with, the evils of the dole abolished, and independence, industry, thrift and self-respect be once more established amongst the people."
Or: "men should be anxiously engaged in a good cause . . ."
Mark B. | Email | Homepage | 04.05.05 – 12:16 pm | #
If gambling causes those things, then that is why gambling is wrong.
john fowles | Email | Homepage | 04.05.05 – 12:19 pm | #
Bob said the bad thing with President Hinckley's message was that the reaction to it would be upsetting. He was referring to people following the prophet and trying to rid their lives of gambling and teach their kids not to gamble. This is bad, according to Bob, because people (like him?) who are going to disregard the prophet's admonition might be viewed as less obedient by the fellow Latter-day Saints. True, in a perfect world noone would judge another based on their level of obedience to the prophet. But we are all imperfect, and I concede that this might be a result of President Hinckley's talk: people might look at Bob and wonder why he is still gambling after such a direct statement by the prophet.
This is not the only "reaction" to such direct counsel to avoid gambling that is bad. Do you consider your own reaction, Bob, to the counsel to be bad? In other words, you have stated that it will be bad that Latter-day Saints will now look at those who continue gambling as if they are less obedient (they are, after all, less obedient). But isn't it also bad that now there will be much criticism of the counsel? Which is worse, obeying the counsel and looking sideways at those who don't; or rejecting the counsel and criticizing the prophet for such an unwise move as to give counsel that some might disobey?
john fowles | Email | Homepage | 04.05.05 – 12:25 pm | #
Rusty, Good post! I know your dad used to go to Vegas every year for the theater owner's convention and would allocate $200 to the blackjack table. It was very entertaining for him, cheaper than going to a couple of the "shows" on the strip. (Blackjack doesn't leave any 1/2 naked women images on the brain either) He even got to play with Jody Foster and Angela Landsbury. Is it entertaining? YES! Is it fun? Yes! Can it be justified as being ok with past and present council? NO! And that's the problem.
Justification seems to be our goal. Anything to make what we want to do ok. There is nothing wrong with living the letter of the law…as long as we include the spirit as we do.
(By the way Rusty, you dad has been to Vegas 6 times in the past 5 years and he's $1200 ahead)
Don | Email | Homepage | 04.05.05 – 12:47 pm | #
it adds excitement (because there is a chance that I can get something for nothing)
It adds excitement because there is a chance I can prove that I know more about sports than anybody else. Better answer? Oh, well. I'm going to keep playing (NCAA pools, that is)and donating any winnings to the local ARC.
Last Lemming | Email | Homepage | 04.05.05 – 12:47 pm | #
"In other words, you have stated that it will be bad that Latter-day Saints will now look at those who continue gambling as if they are less obedient (they are, after all, less obedient)."
John Fowles,
No, they are NOT less obedient, because I wasn't referring only to LDS people. Hence, LDS people finding an arbitrary rule for themselves just sets the stage for them to apply those same standards to good people who don't even know who President Hinckley is. I see this time and time again and find it sad because I happen to know good people who drink, smoke, and/or gamble who I admire without letting my initial judgment shut them out of the "good" people pool (and there is no question of obedience).
And for the record, being less obedient is pretty underrated (especially when it's within the context of specific interpretation of counsel givers rather than eternal gospel truths). Come on, John, the invitation is still open. You're invited any time to watch a rated R movie at my place.
And Angel Landsbury?! Cool!!
Bob Caswell | Email | Homepage | 04.05.05 – 3:43 pm | #
I have a simple rule that helps me keep everything in perspective. I only gamble the money I save by sneaking treats into movie theaters. (j/k)
danithew | Email | Homepage | 04.05.05 – 3:46 pm | #
It seems your argument is that if it takes skill, it's okay (fantasy baseball). That's nice, but what about professional gamblers? They're pretty good. And that doesn't even touch on the day-trader issue. Also, you said that the money is secondary to the enjoyment. Why not just have the enjoyment, why does money have to be involved? (I'm stepping in for Stephen H as he is currently absent from this conversation)
That's a mighty good question. The answer to that might help me understand if it's still okay to play poker for candy. Because if there is something INHERENTLY wrong with it, we shouldn't be doing it no matter the currency. However, if it's only about money and addiction, then we should only be addressing gambling as a catalyst to the social phenomena you mentioned.
Marc B,
Are you suggesting that your son's seminary teacher shouldn't encourage your son to play Halo with him anymore?
John F,
If gambling causes those things, then that is why gambling is wrong.
If Church basketball causes tempers to flare, then Church basketball is wrong. If driving cars cause accidents, driving cars is wrong. If blogging causes contention, blogging is wrong…
Also, John, I don't think Bob is criticizing the council, I think he's criticizing those who will over-define the council and use it as a benchmark for righteousness.
Funny you suggest that $200 for blackjack is cheaper than shows on the strip, as if it's an either/or situation. But I get what you're saying. You say you're $1200 ahead, but you COULD be $12,000 ahead if you knew what you were doing!
Last Lemming,
Yeah, I guess there are other motivations for gambling (or whatever you want to call office pools and fantasy sports). Pride is a good one. So is it gambling if the only thing on the table is your pride? (maybe Pres. Hinckley would say that you SHOULD gamble that away
Rusty | Email | Homepage | 04.05.05 – 4:01 pm | #
That's funny.
Rusty | Email | Homepage | 04.05.05 – 4:02 pm | #
Thanks Dan, if all the people who sneak food into my theater spent the savings on gambling the church would really have a problem….or maybe they are and that's why Pres. Hinckley made his comments. (I wish he would have said quit sneaking food in).
Rusty, I was good, you're right it could have been $12,000, but then again it could have been -$1200 or more 00000s.
Don | Email | Homepage | 04.05.05 – 5:31 pm | #
Not gambling, Rusty, gaming. The industry built around separating fools — or the poor and uneducated — from their money. Casinos, state lotteries, professional poker tournaments, etc.
I have no particular concern about NCAA pools — unless, of course, the pool is just one of several games one feels compelled to join.
Chris Williams | Email | Homepage | 04.05.05 – 8:31 pm | #
This is a very interesting discussion. It at first was easy for me to just say we should avoid all gambling whatsoever because that's what the prophet said and hey, I have never done any sort of gambling in my life so why not? (it's easy for me, so everyone else should have no trouble following it, right?)
However, when compared with the discussion on rated R movies, it really DOES get murky. It's like Rusty said I think, what about gambling is INHERENTLY wrong with it. I think the prophet was so specific because he knows his audience and is trying to solve many of the problems and questions he's going to face ahead of time.
Just saying "I bet you" does not mean gambling. If that was the case most any form of bribery or reward could be considered gambling. One example is how in my apartment if one of our roommates kisses a girl, then we owe him a pizza. Is this a not a bet since we didn't say "I bet you can't get a girl to kiss you, if you do I owe you a pizza"?
Anyway, whatever. So what's your guy's bet for the next pope? Mine is on the cardinal from Honduras as his odds (according to a group in Ireland) are 11 to 4.
Bret | Email | Homepage | 04.05.05 – 10:26 pm | #
I thought this was crazy: clearly fantasy baseball is a game of skill, not of chance, right?
Depending on who you ask, so are certain versions of Poker, which is why some states have, in the past, legalized "Lo-Ball" poker while outlawing other forms.
Mark N. | Email | Homepage | 04.05.05 – 11:41 pm | #
Return on investment wise, I'm occupied and having fun for less than it costs per hour to watch a movie!
Ah, but, you see: if you were of the right "spiritual" frame of mind, that wouldn't strike you as being fun at all. You'd simply see it as a colossal waste of time.
Isn't calling people to repentence fun?
Mark N. | Email | Homepage | 04.05.05 – 11:43 pm | #
Mark N.,
Yeah, it always sucks when I find out that having fun has to do little with what I think of as having fun… But I still love the Church nonetheless.
"…I think he's criticizing those who will over-define the council and use it as a benchmark for righteousness."
Thanks for giving everyone the Readers' digest version of my wordy thoughts. And I think you're on to something with your question as to the "inherent wrongness" of poker. I'd like to know the answer so that if has anything to do with the cards, I can throw out my inherently wrong Uno set.
But if you'll excuse me, I'm off to go have fun by doing some hometeaching!
Bob Caswell | Email | Homepage | 04.06.05 – 12:26 am | #
I wasn't able to catch conference this time (the reason why could probably be its own post), and I'm way too lazy to do much checking around to get the context surrounding Prez Hinckley's talk, but I'm willing to live with the resulting credibility gap. And I'm sure people will be happy to fill me in if I need it. Okay, disclaimer out of the way. . .
Going back to what President Hinckley said in Rusty's first paragraph, what I see is the reason Prez H. doesn't gamble. He explained it: he doesn't get any value from gambling. This is probably a bit radical for very many people to agree with me, but I think he was giving his opinion, trying to convince us as a very experienced, very credible, very wise, very inspired man not to gamble. I don't think he meant to say "the Lord says that gambling is always wrong, and the reason is that it offers nothing of value in return." Much like the infamous "only one pair of earrings" talk, he's telling us that he doesn't see any reason someone should have more earrings than that. Fine. Maybe when we're all as close to the Spirit as Prez H. we'll all agree. But for now, as I'm trying to become more like Christ in my own life, I don't see it the same way — his argument didn't convince me — and I'm extroardinarily happy to be in a Church that won't kick me out (or keep me from the temple, release me from the EQ presidency, whatever) for wanting to decide some things for myself about what kind of person I want to be.
Logan | Email | Homepage | 04.06.05 – 8:19 am | #
Er, sorry not to give you any paragraph breaks in that last comment.
Logan | Email | Homepage | 04.06.05 – 8:20 am | #
It is nice that advice from Church leaders (even the prophet) rarely gets turned into a new Word of Wisdom or a new temple recommend interview.
We should more actively praise the relationship we have with our Church.
Bob Caswell | Email | Homepage | 04.06.05 – 10:22 am | #
What you're doing is talking is the whole "advice vs. council vs. commandment" debate. Which one of these was it? Different people will have different answers.
It's interesting that I find myself agreeing very much with a part of what John Fowles said in the very first comment, that it's too bad President Hinckley didn't just come out and say "Gambling is wrong. Period. It is spiritually harmful" because then we would sit back and say, "I don't understand WHY he said gambling is wrong, but it must be because he said it." Now, since we got his explanation we find ourselves disagreeing with it because it is so often not true. It's as if he were to say, "the reason we don't drink coffee is because of the caffeine" and then people go off and say that caffeine is against the WoW. (I don't think anything I just said makes sense…)
My problem, my original intent of this post is that I still don't understand what constitutes gambling. Poker? Or poker with money? Or no poker but betting for money? Is it the money, is it the cards, is it the risk, what is it that makes it gambling?
Rusty | Email | Homepage | 04.06.05 – 12:12 pm | #
What I got from listening to the talk was that gambling is wrong because it is trying to get something for nothing. So, whatever you may do to try and achieve that is gambling and is wrong.
Now, if I can just figure out what all THAT encompasses…
Bret | Email | Homepage | 04.06.05 – 1:24 pm | #
Bret, I think that really is part of the whole struggle here…is it only gambling when you hope to get something for nothing? If that really is the definition, then is there entertainment value, is there value in having "fun" doing it at Vegas, or doing it with your buddies?
Can the something you're hoping to get be "I won", or beans or toothpicks?
I also agree with John, if Prez. H would have only said all forms of gambling are bad it would have been easier. But then again, we wouldn't be having this discussion if he had!
Don | Email | Homepage | 04.06.05 – 1:42 pm | #
I can't imagine gambling consists of "getting something for nothing" because that is the base of ALL negotiation! You want to get the most and pay the least. Plus, when someone says, "ooh, I don't know, that's a gamble" they are talking more about risk than they are about getting something for nothing.
Additionally, I agree with Don, that according to your (President Hinckley's) definition, playing with candy is wrong as well. $5 worth of candy has the same value as $5. What is it about the green paper that makes it so much more evil?
Rusty | Email | Homepage | 04.06.05 – 3:06 pm | #
You asked why money had to be involved. It really doesn't. In fact, I participate in two football and one baseball fantasy league every year. Only one of the leagues costs money. The money at stake does absolutely NOTHING to add enjoyment. However, since it is a requirement to join the league and I enjoy being in the league, I participate and pay the fee (which could turn into a payout…gambling?). The same goes with NCAA pools. I got an offer from a friend to join his pool. The cost was $10. The alternative was to not join or initiate a free pool, which I didn't have the interest in. Don't ask me what place got how much, because I didn't care. I wanted to join the pool, compete against friends and have a good time. For me, that enjoyment happened to cost $10. From that point of view, it's enjoyment. If I was looking for a way to pay my bills, it's unwise. You could also call it "gambling" or "risky", but that's beside the point.
Should I feel guilty for never having felt guilty? I'm predicting President Hinckley's next talk will be on video games.
Rob | Email | Homepage | 04.06.05 – 7:32 pm | #
Rusty, I don't believe you've understood me. I don't think this statement was "counsel" or "commandment". I think it was Prez H's views on gambling. I don't think he gives "commandments". Has he ever? Have I just missed them?
Depending on your definition of "counsel", I suppose this may be that, although it doesn't fit my own definition.
What I'm telling you is that I'm annoyed to simply be pigeon-holed as an "oh, you're on the counsel side of the great divide" person.
But if you're asking what kind of gambling he's talking about, I think betting for candy and office pools are included in his definition. I think it's clear that he would personally frown on both of those and on poker, with or without money (although in my opinion betting is an essential aspect of poker).
I think your question misses the point, though. What good does knowing the answer do? What if his definition is the broadest that we can think of? What would that mean, what would change?
Drawing a clear line is something that the Brethren just won't do on something like this — it would be even more disastrous than the ambiguity. You can't spell out what to do in every single circumstance, nor is it worth it for something of as little intrinsic relevance to our souls as gambling, although heaven knows the Pharisees tried. It's just not what he's setting out to do. Unfortunately, members of the Church keep wanting that very thing from him and reacting to his talks as though he were trying to determine every choice we make.
Logan | Email | Homepage | 04.06.05 – 8:47 pm | #
We shouldn't judge people for anything they happen to have done. Sometimes good people just don't know better or even mess up and do wrong things. If they don't try to consciously get me to break my own standards, great. I think it is, indeed, a bad thing when people decide that their transgressions are forgivable and other people's must be thought of as making them unworthy of fellowship. Granted. Good advice.
"But for now, as I'm trying to become more like Christ in my own life,"
We all have to decide what we are trying to do to be obedient in our lives. Some people are working on one thing. Some people are working on another. Granted. A principle in there somewhere as long as we're honest with ourselves. I hope we never think what we are working on is what everyone should be working on.
We have to separate, however, these issues from the fact that Pres. Hinkley was really preaching his heart out up there to get us to take him seriously. We can't set the counsel aside because we don't like the way some people will get self-righteous about it. (I know that not everyone here is saying that.)Those people will find a way to get self-righteous about something. We also cannot simply say, hey, good advice. Sorry, don't really feel like any today. We all have things we haven't gotten around to fixing in our lives. In the mean time, that means recognizing that we aren't always obedient, not convincing ourselves we are obedient, no matter how obedient we happen to be.
I am certainly willing to grant that there might still be some degree, however small, here, of ambiguity about the counsel. The problem comes however, for me when someone hears the talk, says, "I'm giving up poker," or the office pool, or whatever, and someone is ready to call them pharisaical, self-righteous, crazy, or whatever else because they're treating the words of the prophet as counsel from their god. (If the last part of that sounds more personal than the rest, it has less to do with this issue than related issues.)
Steve H | Email | Homepage | 04.07.05 – 2:35 am | #
Hmm. Ok so Im still alittle confused here. Growing up and all my knowlege previous to this confrence led me to believe that gambling was wrong due to what surrounds it. (I.E. Addictions etc) Gambling or more specifically gamming, is not wrong or evil as so many of you are on the verge of saying, but those sins that surround it. Satan has always had his perversions of things, sex isnt evil its one of the most beautiful things in this life, but outside of marriage it is.
So from what has been stated by most of you is that gambling is evil because of the risk or the money or the lack of "return". In comparison to movies this is a joke. Ive seen some pretty bad movies in my life, the return was nothing. So was it evil of me to see this movie cause I wasted time, and money? Based on your arguments that since it wasnt productive and I was trying to get something for nothing, it was evil. And like Rusty said, when gambling you place a great deal of skill or knowlege into it. If you went into a casino and slapped money down with out even knowing the rules…I'm sorry but you deserve to be taken blind.
What I see comming from this is like what Bob said of our members making the ever so common judgments upon eachother. OR the letter of the law lovers will take this new rule to the hoop and start laying down how all types of games are evil since theyre all for entertainment, provide nothing of value in return, and we need to spend our time reading the scriptures praying and spending time with loved ones…with whom you can no longer play games.
Bryce | Email | Homepage | 04.07.05 – 6:59 am | #
One more thought though…since I pay to play Xbox Live with my brothers, where I get nothing of "value" according to the defanitions above, and I risk never using it and losing my money, is that gambling?
Bryce | Email | Homepage | 04.07.05 – 7:01 am | #
Steve H, I thought your comment was well and respectfully put. I appreciate that level of understanding in blogging discussions.
One thing I'd like to bring up is regarding the way it has been brought up (not necessarily by Steve, although he alluded to it, but more explicitly by others) that it is important to take President Hinckley's words seriously and not just disregard them. In my mind 'taking seriously' and 'blindly following' are not the same thing. That's not to say that they are in anyone else's mind, either — just to point out that whatever people come away from this discussion having decided about this issue, I think we've been doing just that: taking these words seriously enough to discuss them openly and with an open mind. I applaud Rusty for bringing it up.
Logan | Email | Homepage | 04.07.05 – 7:25 am | #
If you were me, the X-box live would be much worse than gambling. You'd waste too much time, drive away your wife and would have no way to win back any of the money you put into it. You would have fun though.
Rob | Email | Homepage | 04.07.05 – 3:44 pm | #
A couple things I'll toss out here. I think a lot of the direction we're given, including the WoW, is so that we'll err on the side of caution. (Is it really such a deprivation to give up whatever form of gambling you indulge in? And what does that say?)
One of the reasons I personally think gambling is wrong is that it just seems like throwing money away. It seems so wasteful.
Funny aside: My grandma-in-law was travelling through Vegas years ago with her young son, and he wanted to try a slot machine. To demonstrate to him how bad gambling was, she allowed him to put a nickel in, thinking he'd lose and it'd make a better impression than just telling him. I'm sure you know what happened.
He hit the jackpot.
Susan M | Email | Homepage | 04.11.05 – 8:48 pm | #
It is interesting how few posters here commented on the number of kids playing poker and the addiction that is sweeping many high schools. It was interesting to watch my sixteen year-old eat up the prophet's words on gambling and then turn and start talking about just how right he is.
Not to mention the way lotteries grip some people.
Yes, there are some people who are paying out as an entry fee for entertainment. When we lived in Vegas, my dad had guys in his shop who would buy two keno cards (at twenty-five cents each) in order to pick up the complementary drinks and the free show.
But I also have a vivid memory of watching an older lady come in, cash her check, and put the entire thing into the slot machines behind her and then shuffle out.
As for I considered writing about daytrading the two studies I saw both reflected that at the six month point, all traders had lost money vs. just putting the money in an index fund and watching it. The only thing that masked what was happening was the fact the market was rising at the time.
Yes, there are professional gamblers. Especially with modern gambling odds which are calculated to give the house a profit based on the way people are gambling rather than the true odds — the essence for the successful ones I've had any knowledge of was that they had no emotional involvement in the sports or areas where they gambled. Drier than bond trading.
Anyway, my two bits on a topic that is probably exhausted.
It is a real problem, yes, the speaker probably has no contact with people who are paying the money as an entry fee, though those people are a small, small part of the gaming industry, formal or informal, and merely add to its strength.
Reminds me of a friend of mine who used to say p0rn was ok for him, since he didn't have any sexual involvement or attachment to it. Maybe so, but he was still supporting something that was bad for society by participating in it.
My two bits.
Stephen M (Ethesis) | Email | Homepage | 04.17.05 – 9:43 am | #
You make some good points. But what about the friendly games among friends and family? These do not support the industry. If I play once a month with some of my colleagues and enjoy a few hours of entertainment, how is this bad? If we get together and play Monopoly, this is OK but if we play poker for a nominal fee and very small pot, it isn't? What about entry fees to sports tournaments? I have never gambled at a casino and do not bet on sports. Before Pres. Hinckley's talk I would play about once a month in game of Hold'Em with some friends of mine. 20 bucks each. I used the movie analogy. Pres. Hinckley attacked that rationale in his talk and I now feel like I can't play in this game and be obedient to his counsel. Indeed, he seemed to infer that even watching poker on TV might be bad. I will follow the prophet even if I don't see the wisdom in his words. But one thing I have a problem with generally is using the addictive behavior of some as a basis for a rule of prohibition against all. It seems to me that what was driving this is concern about the folks who are quitting school and gambling away the family's grocery money on the Internet and in casinos. A wife or mother writes a weepy letter and suddenly there is a great problem that needs fixing. There are folks who are getting addicted to all sorts of things and who are acting unwisely in a whole host of areas. Should their foolishness be the basis of proscribing behavior of those who are not so susceptible to addiction?
Eric | Email | Homepage | 05.27.05 – 3:59 pm | #
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Sorry for the lurid subject line, but I want to gush about seeing The 400 Blows this weekend at SIFF's new Seattle Center digs, and "Attending Janus Films Essential Art House Cinema at Nesholm Family Lecture Hall at Marion Oliver McCaw Hall" seemed too dry an introduction to what was a thoroughly wonderful experience.
As Annie Wagner will be explicating fully in next week's film lead, the Seattle International Film Festival has begun year-round programming at Seattle Center, starting with Janus Films' Essential Art House Cinema Festival, a crash course in 20th-century cinema featuring masterworks from Bergman, Kurosawa, Jean Cocteau, Max Ophuls, and many more.
On Friday night, I joined a couple hundred other folks at the screening of Truffaut's 400 Blows, which I'd never seen before and which knocked me out. I think I first heard of the movie in connection with Lasse Halstrom's My Life as a Dog, which was hyped by a critic or two as some sort of sibling of/successor to The 400 Blows. But as most people know and I just found out, Truffaut's film is in a class by itself, capturing the experience of childhood more fully than any movie I've ever seen, and featuring a number of scenes I'll never forget. (Top of the heap: the spin-cycle centrifugal-force carnival ride, and the kids watching the puppet show, shot from the puppet show's perspective.)
As for the venue: It's dreamy. It reminds me a bit of the BAM Cinemas in Brooklyn, where I saw Memento for the first time years ago. Comfortable, great sightlines, big screen, and the coming weeks bring more great films that I can stand (Jules & Jim! The Seven Samurai! Smiles of a Summer Night!!!), all of which deserve to be seen on a big screen in a dark room full of entranced strangers. (For a full list of films in the Essential Art House festival, go here.)


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Is there a way to have all files created by a particular user under sftp to have a specific group and file permissions? The user in question, of course, will be a member of the group, but it is not his primary group. In other words, is there a way for sftp to automatically duplicate the effects of umask and newgrp?
There is such thing as a subsystem in (Open)SSH: it is a program which gets lauched when you request something other than interactive shell. Technically it is just an executable on remote host which is
You can locate a standard subsystem definition for
As it is just a plain executable, not a SUID one or special in any other way, you can write a shell script that will change any attributes you need and then just launch original subsystem handler.
Place the following script into
Then add a line in the end of
And then restart
If you do not want to specify that option each time, just change the standard subsystem definition. Interactive sessions won't be affected by it, so there are no chances of breaking somthing.
If you want to use the
Actually calling the
To add to what whitequark is saying, you could build a solution along those lines but use the "sg"-command in place of newgrp, which is a kind of "su" for groups. Look it up as "man sg" on any linux system, at least.
I would assume that this is server specific. Check the server configuration for potential configuration options.