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BOWLING GREEN, Ohio – Junior Jess Hoover led the way for the Miami University women's cross country team for a second straight week, finishing first for the RedHawks and third overall at the Mel Brodt Collegiate Invitational hosted by Bowling Green State University. The race began at 7:10 p.m. Friday evening and there was no team scoring.
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Junior Anna Lamb finished behind three Toledo runners after she was unable to catch up to the front of the field, taking seventh overall in 17:37.78. Junior Melissa Girgis followed, finishing third for Miami and ninth overall in 17:40.98.
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City councils in Mebane and Graham approved economic incentive agreements with Wal-Mart on Monday paving the way for the company to construct a new distribution center in Hawfields.
Graham City Manager Frankie Maness said the company behind Project Swordfish is Wal-Mart. Project Swordfish was the code name being used by Wal-Mart over the past year to identify the proposed distribution center project slated for a 186-acre site.
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well i just paid like 80 for a large bottle, so i think u got a great deal.. although personally i would have been happy with 1 small bottle at the price u got yours for..
i already want to get rid of my bottle and get the multi-platinum instead
The day before Thanks giving I bought a 1.7 oz Unforgivable that was buy one get one half off. So I got both, and since I had a coupon the total came out to $24
The day after Thanksgiving I go to Sears and see that an Unforgivable gift set with a 1.7 oz EDT, a 2.5 deodorant, and a 2.5 shower gel. It was on sale for $18.99 I remembered I had a Sears Gift card so Bought 8 gift sets for $60 after using the gift card.
Do you think I made a good decision? I like the synthetic hybrid between Imperial and Wallstreet. They are my two favorite fragrances. Unless my nose is deceiving me, there also seems to be a hint of Cool Water. I don't know why but all of a sudden i am liking this fragrance I never thought I was even considering smelling again.
So now I have 10 bottles of 1.7 oz Unforgivable. 8 gift sets, and two bottles by themselves. All for less than $100. And I like the hbrid of my two favorite fragrance, even if it is sub par. Its fun to wear when you don't want to use up any of your favorite expensive scents, and still be wearing a fragrance reminiscent of them. I think I made a good choice, But tell me my Basenotes friends, would you have made the same decision?
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well i just paid like 80 for a large bottle, so i think u got a great deal.. although personally i would have been happy with 1 small bottle at the price u got yours for..
i already want to get rid of my bottle and get the multi-platinum instead
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I dunno, mate. I remember another thread by your hand which centered on compulsive buying. I'd file this behaviour there.
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You'll never use that in a lifetime. Sorry, I see this as a waste of money. You don't need 5 or 10+ bottles of everything you own, especially not things that are still in production or easy to obtain.
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Maybe you can turn it from compulsive buying to business by selling some of them and make some income.
Weren't you the guy whose wife told him not to buy any more bottles of cologne? How is that going?
I'd have bypassed the lot and just got another bottle of M I.
Last edited by Maz24; 3rd December 2009 at 10:13 AM. Reason: Sorry I only own one dozen MI, not 2 dozen ( I wish!)
Was it a good decision? Depends what your goals are. If you are selling them, you could turn a bit of profit. If you actually think you will wear all of them and you saved yourself money finding a good deal, great. If you are buying them to fill a closet, most people would probably not consider it a good decision.
edit: oops, meant to quote the original post
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The theme in the last thread was a thinly veiled attempt to have others justify your compulsive behaviour, and when commenters expressed their doubts, defending that behaviour. Seems the same is happening in this thread. Which -again- makes me wonder what the use of asking for advice is, other than justification of your actions.
I mean, it's your money and you should do with it as you please, but I'm not going to pat you on the back for it.
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That's a lot of Unforgivable. I can see having one or two backups but 8 of them is a bit much especially since it's still in production and easily found. At least you got a great deal.
While flipping through tv last night I came across Diddy pushing his wares on HSN and he sold a ton of it at $57 plus shipping so you didn't do so bad. He actually sold out of all of the Unforgivable in one segment and so much of the rest of his stuff that they cancelled the later show cause there was nothing to sell. Amazing. A caller asked what he was wearing at the moment and he said that puts on Unforgivable first and then "tops it off" with I am King. I don't know if he's telling the truth but he's so smooth that man didn't skip a beat.
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Well you did get a great deal. And I can see the logic of having a bunch of bottles onhand for everyday, workhorse usage so that you don't have to use your high-end stuff as much. I'd say if you have the money to spare, then be happy with the deal you got and spray liberally
Well, do you really have a serious shortage of the premium stuff, so that you need to use sub-premium stuff in very, very large quantities? Is it extremely rare that you can afford a premium bottle?
From the other posts in this thread, it sounds like the purchase of the premium stuff is not a rare occasion. So, no, I wouldn't have made this purchase. I'd recommend gifting, donating, or selling most of it away.
From one compulsive buyer to another: you've got a problem, bro'.
You're buying it, not because you really really like the perfume or really need it (it's way too much to ever use) or for the explicit purpose of reselling it at a profit, but entirely for the short-lived kick of having made a great deal. Call it a variation of ebayitis. If it makes you feel better: your affliction IS necessary to keep consumer capitalism from collapsing.
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I have been using it almost everyday and enjoying the hell out of it. I have used the gift set as well. The smell of Imperial somehow always puts me in a good mood. This puts me in a good mood similar to wearing MI. So basically it uplifts me for a fraction of the price of Imperial.
Wow. That's really excessive.
Just because you could, doesn't mean you should.
Good deal aside, you've given in to your compulsion again BIG TIME, and that's worrying. I personally would not stock up on a single scent like that unless it was being discontinued.
Ultimately you can do the heck what you want, but Im kinda glad you're not managing my finances.
I can't stand Sean Jean/P Diddy. I wouldn't even buy one of those.
But if you like it, that's cool. You wear what you like right? I probably would have only bought one bottle though, unless I either planned to sell the rest and make a profit or smell like Unforgivable for the rest of my life.
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Well, compulsive buying is only a problem if you don't have money left to save on the bank.
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If I were you, I might have done the same thing, but then sold most of them. There are some scents that I'd like to have backups due to their good price, but always stop because the money can be spent on new scents, instead.
How many bottles of Unforgivable have you emptied? Who knows? Maybe you will get through them.
To me, Unforgivable was less interesting than MI, so it wasn't an option.
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And here I thought you're buying all those as X'mas gifts for your friends... On a more positive note, this would be a good time to literally soak yourself in a bathtub of Unforgivable...
You made P. Diddy (or whatever he's called now) an even richer man.
That's Unforgivable
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As on the other thread, I'm going to echo others' sentiments on this situation as well. While I agree, that a problem only truly becomes a problem when it begins interfering with your life or your finances, if you can afford these splurges then perhaps it doesn't become an immidiate issue. However, I feel that it has become quite clear with this thread and the other similar one, that you DO have a problem, that could perhaps be playing itself out in other ways in which you aren't sharing with us. Trust me, coming from someone with clinically diagnosed Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, I understand how difficultit can be when you have Compulsions, but you need to accept that you DO have them, and get them treated, and Maz, this IS a compulsion, it's simply not normal to need to purchase an obscene amount of something, that you clearly won't use or even particularly like, and then proceed to seek approval for said actions.
Before you say that you really do enjoy and need them, pay attention to all of your posts (not just in this thread) regarding Unforgivable, and notice the gradual change in your opinion on it once you purchased this mass amount of bottles, its reflective of the natural need to rationalize the compulsion. My friend, trust me, you need to STOP, and just take a deep breath, and look at your wardrobe. Look at the multiple bottles, and ask yourself "Am I ever going to even touch 75% of these in my life. Am I going to gift them or sell them off?" If the answer is no to either of those, you need to seek some help.
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...then found out you're gonna use them all yourself? Whoa
...just my two cents, if I had that many bottles of one scent it would spare me the hassle of thinking of something to give my Dad, the boss, my client-friends...Shopping buzz? Check,done and over with. Saved me a whole lot of time and effort to think of gifts too? Check, check and another check (okay...to whom should I give out these other bottles to...)
How many of your frags have similar stockpiles to back them up?
Some of you guys seem to have missed the post where he said he has twelve bottles of Millisime Imperial. He bought 10 bottles of a fragrance he doesn't seem to particularly like based on the fact that he doesn't want to waste his MI, which he has 12 bottles of.
Yes, you got a good deal. Now please consider immediately donating all those gift sets to a charity that gives out Christmas gifts People are very generous with giving toys for younger kids but these charities are usually in desperate need of gifts for the older teenagers.
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Flip on Ebay or donate to charity, or sell for cheap to those on Basenotes starting out... It's not a huge amount of money and you got a lot, but yes, it does seem a little excessive
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If I get a great deal on frags I enjoy, I will often buy a couple of back ups. As long as you have the room to store them! LOL. In any case, I think the crucial thing is to be fairly certain that you really do like the frag, and won't get bored by it. And in some cases, you can get lucky and it becomes discontinued, leaving you with several items to sell on ebay for a lot more than you bought them for. I don't see a huge downside here, unless you are buying several backups of expensive niche frags for a modest discount.
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I agree with Maz about unforgivable being somewhere between Wall St. and MI, it's got good topnotes especially. The Multi-Platinum Version of Unforgivable is actually better than Wall Street imo (less blaring geraniol and givaudan orange), and closer to MI than Wall street is. I like the regular Unforgivable, but the Multi-Platinum version isn't just more concentrated, it's far better.
you should try multi-platinum.
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Yeah, that's....Wow. There aren't many options there.Some of you guys seem to have missed the post where he said he has twelve bottles of Millisime Imperial. He bought 10 bottles of a fragrance he doesn't seem to particularly like based on the fact that he doesn't want to waste his MI, which he has 12 bottles of.
Option 1: This is a reasonable amount considering your usage. Which means you wear WAY too much fragrance and are choking us all to death.
Option 2: You have serious hoarding issues. Sell some on ebay, give some as gifts, ease up. And...maybe get some help. There is something that seems a bit off about your tone, it's like you want someone to tell you it's OK, it's nothing to worry about...but methinks you doth protest too much.
I normally try not to jump in a judge like this, but you did ask.....
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^To put all that in perspective I own both MI (12oz for under $240) and Multi-Platinum (7.5oz for under $65), and each time I wear MI, it's about 12-14 sprays, each time it's multi-platinum, it's about the same. I probably used 1oz of MI and .5oz of multi-platinum just this summer alone.
It's not sables he's hoarding, although a dozen bottles of unforgivable and MI seems excessive even if he's as heavy handed as me.
Maz, you should contact A&E and see if they can get a camera crew out to you right away.
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I'd like a fragrance named Unforgiven. Eastwood-power, yeah! ;-)
That's... a lot. I have one backup bottle for A*Men Pure Malt because it will be discontinued and that's it. To be honest, I would never even buy ONE bottle of a fragrance I thought was "alright". There's a lot of frags that I think are alright, I only buy the ones that I thoroughly enjoy. I'd send them off for charity or as gifts for friends
Has anyone tried the third flanker Unforgivable Night yet?
^Or unforgivable Eau fraiche
Thanks. I'll check it out.
Unforgivable has a horrible shelf life, so I think you definitely made a mistake. Plus it lasts all of 2 hours, and thats with 10+ sprays, so I'm thinking I either got an old bottle or its just weak stuff.
I would sell a few of them on Ebay or give half away as Christmas presents, no one needs that much of Unforgivable.
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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is taking a page out the credit card industry's playbook to reduce the amount of money they pay out improperly.
CMS is reviewing bids from contractors for predictive modeling services.
"We received about $100 million from the Small Business Jobs bill and some of that goes to create a contract to do predictive modeling," said George Mills, director of CMS's compliance group at an event on improper payments Wednesday in Washington sponsored by 1105 Government Information Group. "We do a lot of data analysis on the back end, but the law requires us to focus more on the pre-payment challenges and less on the post-payment areas."
Mills said CMS, like many agencies, needs to get away from the "pay-and-chase" approach, where recovering improper payments only happens after the fact, instead of stopping it on the front end.
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McCullough said traditional treatment usually involves the parent leaving their child at the therapist's office and not being involved with the treatment.
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McCullough said she has many success stories of how the treatment has helped an individual. She shared one about a girl with anorexia and self-harm issues.
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Using threads and AtomicInteger
From Groovy you can use all of the normal concurrency facilities in Java and combine them with threads and closures as necessary. E.g. a (slightly modified) atomic counter from a Groovy example here:
The output will be something like this:
thread loop 1 main loop 1 thread loop 2 thread loop 3 main loop 2 thread loop 4 thread loop 5 main loop 3 thread loop 6 main loop 4 thread loop 7 thread loop 8
Fibonacci with Executors
A Groovy script to naively calculate the Fibonacci series inspired by the example here.
Note: a version using memoizing will be much more efficient but this illustrates using Java's built-in concurrency primitives from Groovy.
Which produces this:
Calculating Fibonacci sequence in parallel... n=8 => 21 n=9 => 34 n=10 => 55 n=11 => 89 n=12 => 144 n=13 => 233 n=14 => 377 n=15 => 610 n=16 => 987
If you want to convince yourself that some threads are actually being created, replace the last
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which will add something like the following to your output:
Thread[Finalizer,8,system] Thread[Reference Handler,10,system] Thread[TimerQueue,5,system] Thread[pool-1-thread-2,5,main] Thread[Thread-3,6,main] Thread[Thread-2,6,main] Thread[pool-1-thread-3,5,main] Thread[AWT-Shutdown,5,main] Thread[Signal Dispatcher,9,system] Thread[Attach Listener,5,system] Thread[AWT-EventQueue-0,6,main] Thread[DestroyJavaVM,5,main] Thread[pool-1-thread-1,5,main] Thread[Java2D Disposer,10,system] Thread[pool-1-thread-5,5,main] Thread[pool-1-thread-6,5,main] Thread[pool-1-thread-4,5,main] Thread[AWT-Windows,6,main]
Fibonacci with Functional Java
If you wish to make use of the functionaljava (tested with 2.1.3) library (see the link to the original example), you could use a Groovy program such as this:
Using java.util.concurrent.Exchanger
An example using
Exchanger. We have two threads - one keeping evens and exchanging odd values with the other thread. Meanwhile the other thread is working in reverse fashion; keeping the odds and exchanging the evens. The algorithm here is dumb in that it relies on the same number of swaps for each side - which is fine for this example but would need to be altered for more general input values.
Which has the following output:
evens: [2, 22, 4, 24, 6, 26, 8, 28, 10, 30, 12, 32, 14, 34, 16, 36, 18, 38, 20, 40] odds: [1, 21, 3, 23, 5, 25, 7, 27, 9, 29, 11, 31, 13, 33, 15, 35, 17, 37, 19, 39]
Catching Exceptions with an Exception Handler
When catching Exceptions with an exception handler in Groovy Scripts, there is potential for interaction with Groovy's runtime which catches exceptions and filters stacktraces. The best way to avoid this interaction is to create your own thread and call
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Roger Lawson a good friend of mine is in the auto industry line of work and Nick was asking $150 so thats what he got for him. Also I got 4 Glow putters, I think warlock, wizard,magic and one other, im sure Nick knows,from discgolfclub.org out of Springfield, Illinois from Jim trotter that Nick is in contact with and shall receive soon I hope. so I think that brings the hole sponsors to 4 only 15 left to go. Im going to ask the local businesses around the park if they want in and try to make this a great event for everyone. This tournament means a ton to me personally because last year this is where I fell in love with the sport. I hope everyone comes out and has fun and look forward to this more then Christmas
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TomTom and Swisscom sign agreement to bring High Definition Traffic (HDT) to Switzerland
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Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 25th March 2008 - TomTom, the world's largest navigation solutions provider, today announces that it will be exclusively working with Swisscom (Schweiz) AG to bring TomTom High Definition Traffic (HDT) to Switzerland. HD Traffic™ is TomTom's unique patented, traffic information system that delivers a new superior level of travel time information to customers.The ground-breaking technology behind HDT uses anonymously collected and processed traffic data using multiple sources and techniques to calculate travel times and recalculate routes. As well using traffic data generated by the movement patterns of mobile phones in cars, via the Swisscom mobile phone network TomTom HD Traffic™ also incorporates third party information provided by traffic authorities and road operators.
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Georges Schlegel, Head of Customer Experience Design, Corporate Business, Swisscom (Switzerland) Ltd: "Swisscom strives to enhance and simplify many different aspects of everyday life – not least through innovations in the field of mobile communications. The unique quality of our mobile phone network, coupled with the innovative new TomTom traffic information system, provides road users with the precise information they need so they can make efficient and effective use of the road network. We're there for our customers – because we don't want them getting stuck in traffic jams".
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Integrating with ActiveMQ
For using ActiveMQ queues and topics with Jetty, you have two choices:
- Traditional server-side jms api calls
ActiveMQ with Ajax and Jetty
Due to some clever integration, you can use queues and topics directly in your client side javascript very easily and simply.
Here's an example of sending a message to a queue:
Here's an example of setting up to receive messages from a queue. All you need do is to add a listener with a unique id, the name of the queue or topic from which you want to receive messages, and the name of a function which will be called back when a message is available.
Here's the plumbing you need to take advantage of this very convenient feature:
- Include these lines in your html:
<script type="text/javascript" src="amq/amq.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript">amq.uri='amq';</script>
- Include thse lines in your
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<context-param> <param-name>org.apache.activemq.brokerURL</param-name> <param-value>vm://localhost</param-value> <description>The URL of the Message Broker to connect to</description> </context-param> <context-param> <param-name>org.apache.activemq.embeddedBroker</param-name> <param-value>true</param-value> <description>Whether we should include an embedded broker or not</description> </context-param> <servlet> <servlet-name>AjaxServlet</servlet-name> <servlet-class>org.apache.activemq.web.AjaxServlet</servlet-class> <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup> </servlet> <servlet-mapping> <servlet-name>AjaxServlet</servlet-name> <url-pattern>/amq/*</url-pattern> </servlet-mapping> <filter> <filter-name>session</filter-name> <filter-class>org.apache.activemq.web.SessionFilter</filter-class> </filter> <filter-mapping> <filter-name>session</filter-name> <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern> </filter-mapping>
- Include the
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<dependency> <groupId>incubator-activemq</groupId> <artifactId>activemq-web</artifactId> <exclusions> <exclusion> <artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId> <groupId>commons-logging</groupId> </exclusion> <exclusion> <artifactId>org.mortbay.jetty</artifactId> <groupId>jetty-util</groupId> </exclusion> <exclusion> <artifactId>mx4j</artifactId> <groupId>mx4j</groupId> </exclusion> </exclusions> </dependency>
You will also need to make sure that jcl104-over-slf4j-1.0.1.jar and an slf4j log implementation jar are available at runtime, as ActiveMQ uses commons logging. You can move these jars out of $JETTY-HOME/lib/jsp-2.0 and into $JETTY-HOME/lib to make them generally available on the classpath.
This ActiveMQ Ajax mechanism is based on Jetty's Continuations mechanism and thus in fact works most efficiently when deployed on Jetty, however the same webapp will also run unaltered on other containers.
There is more information on available on ActiveMQ in general and the Ajax mechanism in particular.
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You can use ActiveMQ queues and topics in the traditional manner from Servlet code with Jetty. Firstly, if you are not familiar with how JNDI resources are configured with Jetty, take a look at the JNDI Feature page.
Now lets look at the steps you need to perform to be able to access queues and topics:
- Copy all of the activemq jars and their dependent jars into
- Make sure that you have jcl104-over-slf4j-1.0.1.jar and an slf4j log implementation jar available on the classpath. These jars are available in
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Here's an example of a Queue:
- Edit your
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The Lion King Character Study series kicks off with Patrick R. Brown. Watch how he describes Scar's evil actions, and how his costume and makeup design work to make Scar sharp and unlovable.November 8, 2012
The long-running favorite celebrates several Broadway milestones.April 23, 2012
Scenes from the well-loved musical, now playing at the Minskoff Theatre.March 18, 2010
Scenes from the Broadway production of "The Lion King"January 21, 2010
Young stars Alphonso Romero Jones II and Shereen Pimentel take viewers backstage at The Lion King to get holiday facts from their theatrical family.December 17, 2009
Behind the Scenes at The Lion King hosted by star Kissy Simmons, who plays NalaJuly 21, 2009