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HIGH POINT, N.C. - Conference Carolinas is proud to announce that 1723 student-athletes have been named to the 2012 Fall Presidential Honor Roll. Each institution within the conference has emphasized their commitment to academic importance as they have continued to have student-athletes achieve a grade point average of 3.2 or higher (on a 4.0 scale) at each of their institutions to achieve this honor. Pfeiffer University placed 141 student-athletes on the fall list.
Conference Carolinas continues to emphasize "Academics and Athletics Working Together" as each school strives to grow their Presidential Honor Roll each and every year. The Presidential Honor Roll recognizes student-athletes who have earned a 3.20 grade-point average (up from 3.00 in previous years) on a 4.00 scale for the semester and includes freshman and transfer student athletes (that have participated in either a conference or non-conference sponsored sport).
Commissioner Alan Patterson shared some of his thoughts about the outstanding number of student-athletes represented in the 2012 Fall Presidential Honor Roll. He stated that, "Conference Carolinas takes great pride in preparing student-athletes for collegiate competition on the field and in the classroom. The large number of Presidential scholars and an annual increase reflects our "winning the Fifth Quarter" attitude. Conference Carolinas athletes are prepared for today's play and tomorrow's success."
The Conference Carolinas Presidential Honor Roll is awarded twice a year covering each of the fall and spring academic semesters and is based on meeting the criteria at the end of the previous semester. For the 2012 Fall Season, Limestone College led all league members with 209 student-athletes represented. They were followed closely by King College with 205 and Mount Olive College and Queens University of Charlotte, both with 188 honorees.
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Maldives Traveller is published by Tropical Paradise Pvt Ltd, one of the leading travel publishing companies in the Maldives. Founder and Publisher, Nasheed Mohamed, said: "We are delighted with the endorsement from the Maldives Tourism Promotion Board. "It signifies to all our readers that Maldives Traveller is a publication that they can trust for the most comprehensive and up-to-date news and information on the Maldives. It is also indicative of both the high esteem and the confidence that the tourism industry regards Maldives Traveller in."
The Maldives Traveller 2011 edition, which comes out in September 2010, will proudly bear the endorsement of the MTPB. The MTPB will also help to distribute the Maldives Traveller magazine at international trade fairs. It is already distributed at more than 20 international industry events annually. The Maldives Tourism Promotion Board (MTPB) was founded in 1998 and is responsible for promoting the tourism industry of the Maldives. Its work includes promoting the Maldives to target markets and helping to raise the profile of the Maldives internationally as a holiday destination.
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Christopher Werner is Assistant Professor of Music and Director of Bands at Lakeland College. His responsibilities at Lakeland College include directing the Lakeland Concert Band, the Lakeland Jazz Ensemble and Muskie Pep Band. He also directs the pit orchestra for the spring musicals, teaches applied clarinet and saxophone. He has also taught courses conducting, music appreciation and courses as a part of the general education core. In 2014, he will become Camp Director of the College's annual Summer Music Camp.
Werner holds the Doctor of Musical Arts in Wind Conducting from the University of Nebraska where he studied conducting with Carolyn Barber and Tyler White. He has the distinction of being the first University of Nebraska DMA recipient of the Wind Conducting degree and also the first Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts F. Pace Woods Scholar in Music. He also holds a bachelor's degree in music education from the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse studying with Alden J. Hoefer and master of music degree in wind conducting from the UW-Milwaukee studying conducting with Thomas Dvorak.
For the eight years prior to joining Lakeland's faculty, Werner served as instrumental music teacher and music department chair at Central High School in La Crosse, Wisconsin. Passionate about new music, working with guest artists and composers, Werner instituted a commissioning project at Central High School that resulted in new works and composer residencies with Kim Archer, Rusty Banks, Travis Cross, Stephen Gryc, Roy Magnuson, and David Maslanka.
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Werner is an accomplished clarinetist, while in La Crosse serving as assistant principal clarinet for the La Crosse Concert Band, principal/assistant principal clarinet with the UW-La Crosse Choral Union and substitute assistant principal clarinet with the La Crosse Symphony Orchestra.
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October 4, 2011
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. - The Pfeiffer University men's and women's golf teams placed seventh and 14th respectively at one of the largest tournament fields of the season at the Myrtle Beach Intercollegiate hosted by Lenoir-Rhyne College. Thomas Sennett posted the best weekend on either side firing a one-under 143 after rounds of 72-71. Steph Peareth led the Lady Falcons with a tournament total of 162.
On the men's side, Michael Blair finished inside the top ten with a first round 69 en route to a 145 two-day total. Cameron Fields concluded three back on Blair while Luiz Jacintho crossed the finish line two behind Fields at 150. Tyson Louth concluded team scoring with a 154. All 10 rounds for the men were under 80 in the tournament. As a team, Pfeiffer wrapped up with a 586 team total, just six shots out of the runners-up spot, 14 behind tournament champs Wingate.
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First Known Use: 14th century
verb cor·rupt \kə-ˈrəpt\
: to cause (someone or something) to become dishonest, immoral, etc.
: to change (something) so that it is less pure or valuable
: to change (a book, computer file, etc.) from the correct or original form
Full Definition of CORRUPT
transitive verb
a : to change from good to bad in morals, manners, or actions; also : bribeb : to degrade with unsound principles or moral values
: to subject (a person) to corruption of blood
: to alter from the original or correct form or version <the file was corrupted>
intransitive verb
a : to become tainted or rottenb : to become morally debased
: to cause disintegration or ruin
— cor·rupt·er also cor·rup·tor \-ˈrəp-tər\ noun
— cor·rupt·ibil·i·ty \-ˌrəp-tə-ˈbi-lə-tē\ noun
— cor·rupt·ible \-ˈrəp-tə-bəl\ adjective
— cor·rupt·ibly \-blē\ adverb
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Examples of CORRUPT
- a politician corrupted by greed
- music that corrupts the morals of children
- corrupting the country's legal system
- the corrupting influence of power
- Their idealism has been corrupted by cynicism.
- The file has been corrupted and no longer works properly.
- a corrupted version of the ancient text
Origin of CORRUPT
Middle English, from Latin corruptus, past participle of corrumpere, from com- + rumpere to break — more at reave
Related to CORRUPT
: doing things that are dishonest or illegal in order to make money or to gain or keep power
: done or controlled by dishonest and immoral people
: dishonest, evil, or immoral
Full Definition of CORRUPT
a : morally degenerate and perverted : depravedb : characterized by improper conduct (as bribery or the selling of favors) <corrupt judges>
: adulterated or debased by change from an original or correct condition <a corrupt version of the text>
— cor·rupt·ly \-ˈrəp(t)-lē\ adverb
— cor·rupt·ness \-ˈrəp(t)-nəs\ noun
Examples of CORRUPT
- The country's justice system is riddled with corrupt judges who accept bribes.
- corrupt cops who sell drugs
- the country's corrupt legal system
- a corrupt version of the text
- a corrupt computer file that no longer works properly
Origin of CORRUPT
Middle English, from Anglo-French or Latin; Anglo-French, from Latin corruptus
First Known Use: 14th century
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- Antonyms
- pure, uncorrupt, uncorrupted
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The University of Maine Cooperative Extension and the Maine Vegetable & Small Fruit Growers Association will hold a sprayer calibration clinic for airblast sprayers at David Pike's Farm to You in Farmington on Tuesday, May 21 at 2:00 p.m. – RAIN OR SHINE. George Hamilton with the University of New Hampshire Cooperative Extension will demonstrate new tools for making sure your sprayer is delivering the correct rate of pesticides to your crops. Having a sprayer properly calibrated will improve the effectiveness of your sprays, and can save you money by reducing the amount of pesticide used and reducing crop losses due to pests. Participants will receive two pesticide applicator recertification credits.
The calibration clinic will be followed at 5:00 p.m. by a tour of David Pike's strawberry and vegetable fields. David has been a leader in innovative strawberry production techniques, including raised beds, plastic mulch, fertigation, fall cropping, and season extension. There will be some new low tunnel technology on display, as well as replant experiments and new varieties on trial. One pesticide applicator recertification credit will be awarded for the meeting.
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Heyneke Meyer wants Jean de Villiers to continue as Springbok captain in 2013.
When De Villiers was handed the captaincy in early 2012, Meyer made it clear that it was a short-term appointment. Meyer said that he would not be rushed into appointing a long-term skipper, and that he would review this position at the end of the 2012 season.
It was believed that De Villiers's age (31) counted against the Stormers veteran, as he would in all likelihood not last through to the 2015 World Cup.
But it seems that Meyer has now had a change of heart. Following Saturday's win at Twickenham, a victory that saw the Boks finishing their three-game tour unbeaten, Meyer confirmed that De Villiers is likely to continue as captain in 2013.
'Provided Jean is able to carry on and he continues to play like he is at the moment, and there is no reason why he shouldn't be able to, then I would like him to carry on as the captain next year,' said Meyer.
'Jean was new to me at the start of the year in the sense that I had not worked with him before. I had only coached against him [when Meyer worked at the Bulls]. But I went with him as the leader and it has worked out really well.'
The Boks have finished the 2012 season with seven wins in 12 Tests. They struggled with injuries to key players throughout the season, but Meyer feels that De Villiers played a key role in keeping the side together.
'He has done a great job in creating the culture of the team and he was one of the few players, there being two others, who played every Test match this year.
'He has proved himself to be a really good captain and he has been a great help to me during the course of the year, particularly with the way he has worked with the youngsters.'


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Pain, in the sense of physical pain, is a typical sensory experience that may be described as the unpleasant awareness of a noxious stimulus or bodily harm. Individuals experience pain by various daily hurts and aches, and occasionally through more serious injuries or illnesses. For scientific and clinical purposes, pain is defined by the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) as "an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or described in terms of such damage".
Pain is highly subjective to the individual experiencing it. A definition that is widely used in nursing was first given as early as 1968 by Margo McCaffery: "'Pain is whatever the experiencing person says it is, existing whenever he says it does".
Pain of any type is the most frequent reason for physician consultation in the United States, prompting half of all Americans to seek medical care annually. It is a major symptom in many medical conditions, significantly interfering with a person's quality of life and general functioning. Diagnosis is based on characterizing pain in various ways, according to duration, intensity, type (dull, burning or stabbing), source, or location in body. Usually pain stops without treatment or responds to simple measures such as resting or taking an analgesic, and it is then called 'acute' pain. But it may also become intractable and develop into a condition called chronic pain, in which pain is no longer considered a symptom but an illness by itself. The study of pain has in recent years attracted many different fields such as pharmacology, neurobiology, nursing sciences, dentistry, physiotherapy, and psychology. Pain medicine is a separate subspecialty figuring under some medical specialties like anesthesiology, physiatry, neurology, psychiatry.
Pain is part of the body's defense system, triggering a reflex reaction to retract from a painful stimulus, and helps adjust behaviour to increase avoidance of that particular harmful situation in the future. Given its significance, physical pain is also linked to various cultural, religious, philosophical, or social issues.
The terms pain and suffering are often used together in different senses which can become confusing, for example:
To avoid confusion: this article is about physical pain in the narrow sense of a typical sensory experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage. This excludes pain in the broad sense of any unpleasant experience, which is covered in detail by the article Suffering.
Damage to the nervous system itself, due to disease or trauma, may cause neuropathic (or neurogenic) pain. Neuropathic pain may refer to peripheral neuropathic pain, which is caused by damage to nerves, or to central pain, which is caused by damage to the brain, brainstem, or spinal cord.
Nociceptive pain and neuropathic pain are the two main kinds of pain when the primary mechanism of production is considered. A third kind may be mentioned: see below psychogenic pain.
Nociceptive pain may be classified further in three types that have distinct organic origins and felt qualities.
Nociception is the unconscious afferent activity produced in the peripheral and central nervous system by stimuli that have the potential to damage tissue. It should not be confused with pain, which is a conscious experience. It is initiated by nociceptors that can detect mechanical, thermal or chemical changes above a certain threshold. All nociceptors are free nerve endings of fast-conducting myelinated A delta fibers or slow-conducting unmyelinated C fibers, respectively responsible for fast, localized, sharp pain and slow, poorly-localized, dull pain. Once stimulated, they transmit signals that travel along the spinal cord and within the brain. Nociception, even in the absence of pain, may trigger withdrawal reflexes and a variety of autonomic responses such as pallor, diaphoresis, bradycardia, hypotension, lightheadedness, nausea and fainting.
Brain areas that are particularly studied in relation with pain include the somatosensory cortex which mostly accounts for the sensory discriminative dimension of pain, and the limbic system, of which the thalamus and the anterior cingulate cortex are said to be especially involved in the affective dimension.
The gate control theory of pain describes how the perception of pain is not a direct result of activation of nociceptors, but instead is modulated by interaction between different neurons, both pain-transmitting and non-pain-transmitting. In other words, the theory asserts that activation, at the spine level or even by higher cognitive brain processes, of nerves or neurons that do not transmit pain signals can interfere with signals from pain fibers and inhibit or modulate an individual's experience of pain.
Pain may be experienced differently depending on genotype; as an example individuals with red hair may be more susceptible to pain caused by heat, but redheads with a non-functional melanocortin 1 receptor (MC1R) gene are less sensitive to pain from electric shock. Gene Nav1.7 has been identified as a major factor in the development of the pain-perception systems within the body. A rare genetic mutation in this area causes non-functional development of certain sodium channels in the nervous system, which prevents the brain from receiving messages of physical damage, resulting in congenital insensitivity to pain. The same gene also appears to mediate a form of pain hyper-sensitivity, while other mutations may be the root of paroxysmal extreme pain disorder.
Despite its unpleasantness, pain is an important part of the existence of humans and other animals; in fact, it is vital to healthy survival (see below Insensitivity to pain). Pain encourages an organism to disengage from the noxious stimulus associated with the pain. Preliminary pain can serve to indicate that an injury is imminent, such as the ache from a soon-to-be-broken bone. Pain may also promote the healing process, since most organisms will protect an injured region in order to avoid further pain.
Interestingly, the brain itself is devoid of nociceptive tissue, and hence cannot experience pain. Thus, a headache is not due to stimulation of pain fibers in the brain itself. Rather, the membrane surrounding the brain and spinal cord, called the dura mater, is innervated with pain receptors, and stimulation of these dural nociceptors is thought to be involved to some extent in producing headache pain. The vasoconstriction of pain-innervated blood vessels in the head is another common cause. Some evolutionary biologists have speculated that this lack of nociceptive tissue in the brain might be because any injury of sufficient magnitude to cause pain in the brain has a sufficiently high probability of being fatal that development of nociceptive tissue therein would have little to no survival benefit.
Chronic pain, in which the pain becomes pathological rather than beneficial, may be an exception to the idea that pain is helpful to survival, although some specialists believe that psychogenic chronic pain exists as a protective distraction to keep dangerous repressed emotions such as anger or rage unconscious. It is not clear what the survival benefit of some extreme forms of pain (e.g. toothache) might be; and the intensity of some forms of pain (for example as a result of injury to fingernails or toenails) seem to be out of all proportion to any survival benefits.
By using the gestalt of these characteristics, the source or cause of the pain can often be established. A complete diagnosis of pain will require also to look at the patient's general condition, symptoms, and history of illness or surgery. The physician may order blood tests, X-rays, scans, EMG, etc. Pain clinics may investigate the person's psychosocial history and situation.
Pain assessment also uses the concepts of pain threshold, the least experience of pain which a subject can recognize, and pain tolerance, the greatest level of pain which a subject is prepared to tolerate. Among the most frequent technical terms for referring to abnormal perturbations in pain experience, there are:
Medical management of pain has given rise to a distinction between acute pain and chronic pain. Acute pain is 'normal' pain, it is felt when hurting a toe, breaking a bone, having a toothache, or walking after an extensive surgical operation. Chronic pain is a 'pain illness', it is felt day after day, month after month, and seems impossible to heal.
In general, physicians are more comfortable treating acute pain, which usually is caused by soft tissue damage, infection and/or inflammation among other causes. It is usually treated simultaneously with pharmaceuticals, commonly analgesics, or appropriate techniques for removing the cause and for controlling the pain sensation. The failure to treat acute pain properly may lead to chronic pain in some cases.
General physicians have only elementary training in chronic pain management. Often, patients suffering from it are referred to various medical specialists. Though usually caused by an injury, an operation, or an obvious illness, chronic pain may as well have no apparent cause, or may be caused by a developing illness or imbalance. This disorder can trigger multiple psychological problems that confound both patient and health care providers, leading to various differential diagnoses and to patient's feelings of helplessness and hopelessness. Multidisciplinary pain clinics are growing in number since a few decades.
Analgesia is an alteration of the sense of pain without loss of consciousness. The body possesses an endogenous analgesia system, which can be supplemented with painkillers or analgesic drugs to regulate nociception and pain. Analgesia may occur in the central nervous system or in peripheral nerves and nociceptors. The perception of pain can also be modified by the body according to the gate control theory of pain.
The endogenous central analgesia system is mediated by 3 major components : the periaquaductal grey matter, the nucleus raphe magnus and the nociception inhibitory neurons within the dorsal horns of the spinal cord, which act to inhibit nociception-transmitting neurons also located in the spinal dorsal horn. The peripheral regulation consists of several different types of opioid receptors that are activated in response to the binding of the body's endorphins. These receptors, which exist in a variety of areas in the body, inhibit firing of neurons that would otherwise be stimulated to do so by nociceptors.
The gate control theory of pain postulates that nociception is "gated" by non-noxious stimuli such as vibration. Thus, rubbing a bumped knee seems to relieve pain by preventing its transmission to the brain. Pain is also "gated" by signals that descend from the brain to the spinal cord to suppress (and in other cases enhance) incoming nociceptive information.
Traditional Chinese medicine views pain as a 'blocked' qi, akin to electrical resistance, with treatments such as acupuncture claimed as more effective for nontraumatic pain than traumatic pain. Although the mechanism is not fully understood, acupuncture may stimulate the release of large quantities of endogenous opioids.
Pain treatment may be sought through the use of nutritional supplements such as curcumin, glucosamine, chondroitin, bromelain and omega-3 fatty acids.
Hypnosis as well as diverse perceptional techniques provoking altered states of consciousness have proven to be of important help in the management of all types of pain.
Some kinds of physical manipulation or exercise are showing interesting results as well.
Phantom pain is the sensation of pain from a limb or organ that has been lost or from which a person no longer receives physical signals. Phantom limb pain is an experience almost universally reported by amputees and quadriplegics. Phantom pain is a neuropathic pain.
Philosophy of pain is a branch of philosophy of mind that deals essentially with physical pain. Identity theorists assert that the mental state of pain is completely identical with some physical state caused by various physiological causes. Functionalists consider pain to be defined completely by its causal role and nothing else.
Religious or secular traditions usually define the nature or meaning of physical pain in every society. Sometimes, extreme practices are highly regarded: mortification of the flesh, painful rites of passage, walking on hot coals, etc.
Variations in pain threshold or in pain tolerance occur between individuals because of genetics, but also according to cultural, ethnical, or gender background.
Physical pain is an important political topic in relation to various issues, including resources distribution for pain management, drug control, animal rights, torture, pain compliance (see also pain beam, pain maker, pain ray). Corporal punishment is the deliberate infliction of pain intended to punish a person or change his/her behavior. Historically speaking, most punishments, whether in judicial, domestic, or educational settings, were corporal in basis.
More generally, it is rather as a part of pain in the broad sense, i.e. suffering, that physical pain is dealt with in cultural, religious, philosophical, or social issues.
Veterinary medicine uses, for actual or potential animal pain, the same analgesics and anesthetics as used in humans.


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Wednesday - 6/26/2013, 5:18am EDT
The pace of the mobile revolution is causing some in government to ask for more standards, especially around testing the security of apps.
Agencies are creating separate processes and procedures to vet software tools that run on smartphones or tablet computers. But history has shown the lack of a governmentwide process leads to inconsistencies and extra costs.
Robert Palmer, the director of information assurance in the Information System Development Office at the Homeland Security Department, said the technology to test these apps exists, but no common criteria exists.
"What I'd like to see is alignment across the federal government around what are those criteria so we could potentially get to some kind of federal government app store," Palmer said Monday at the AFCEA Washington, D.C., chapter event in Arlington, Va. "The heavy lift is the distribution model. How do we get around the privacy problems? How do we get around the legal and terms of reimbursement and personal use concepts that we haven't gotten folks engaged on. That's really the key."
The obvious choice would be for the National Institute of Standards and Technology to create the governmentwide standard for securing mobile apps.
NIST is developing a new document to help agencies test the security of mobile software, but it's not a standard or guidance, said Tom Karygiannis, a computer scientist at the bureau.
Two years of work
He said NIST has been working with industry sectors, such as banking, over the last two years for how to best secure mobile apps.
"We are hoping to translate some of that expertise into these documents we are publishing. We are coming out, hopefully within a month, a draft mobile app testing guideline," Karygiannis said. "Basically, it's voluntary guidelines for government agencies for how to vet and test mobile apps before you deploy them. It doesn't give you a go or no-go or red light, green light type of thing, but it gives you an idea of what you should test for. Then, in turn, you would need your own security analyst to decide in your environment whether that's acceptable or not."
Some of the criteria include permissions, cryptography, privacy issues and the types of services the mobile app provides, he said.
He added NIST also evaluated various commercial, open source and government tools for app testing.
Karygiannis added the use of app stores could help improve the security of the software, because agencies could screen them before being added to the store and device.
Additionally, NIST is developing standards about using a derived credential on mobile devices. This is part of the effort to better integrate the Homeland Security Presidential Directive-12 smart identification card with mobile devices.
Karygiannis said several industry sectors are interested in the standard, including the banking industry, which would create a root of trust on the phones.
The Office of Management and Budget and Chief Information Officer's Council released the government mobile and wireless security baseline under the Digital Government Strategy in May. The document contains the mobile security baseline and explains its relationship to the reference architecture, the Mobile Computing Decision Framework and other Digital Government Strategy mobile security activities.
It also includes core mobile device management and mobile application management controls, and initial controls for identity and access management.
But these controls are voluntary, not mandated like a NIST special publication or Federal Information Processing Standard would be.
Wash, rinse and spin cycle for code
And with the baseline controls just a month old, agencies already have gone down a path to create their own processes and procedures.
DHS, for example, is testing a new approach to making sure mobile apps are secure.
Palmer said DHS named the process, the car wash, which still is in the proof of concept stage.
"Code goes in, gets cleaned and comes out on the other end and it's washed, usable and ready to go," he said. "It's really all about orchestration. The automation piece is orchestrating whatever tools you may have available. For us, we took what we had licensed in house. We took some open source. We worked with our friends at the General Services Administration. We worked with the National Security Agency Center for Assured Software and we worked with our own software assurance folks and came up with some good candidates to get out of the gate."
Palmer said the goal is to automate the approval process as much as possible so it can happen more quickly. He said developers can create an app in a matter of hours, so the agency can't take months to approve it for use.


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I work retail (Score:3, Insightful)by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 21, 2012 @03:10PM (#42058611)
As one who works at a retail store I absolutely hate that this day even exists and ironically enough it exists the day after we give thanks for everything we already have.
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You're silly. Buy stuff you need, don't buy it WHEN you need it.
Read this again.
"Buy stuff you need" - clearly implied I do need it, and clearly I'm going to buy it when I need it, because the need is present.
To be more clear: If I need something, I'll buy it then, rather than wait for whatever time comes when it's 20% off or whatever. As far as clothing goes, I only buy it from overstock stores we have here, where everything is on sale anyway, with as much as 80% off. I need a pair of jeans? I go to those cheap stores and just get it.
Also, you clearly missed my country of origin. It is NOT the US. And Lands' End, for example, charges to ship overseas add at least 10% cost (for above 4500 USD orders!), which makes it "unfeasible" for me. Prices here are already way lower than what I see there anyway. So thanks for the detailed, yet useless answer. Keep trying though
Re:Not exactly trample kids but a knee to the face (Score:5, Insightful)
Yeah I don't shop like the plague either. the plague isn't choosy and thrives on ignorance.
Setting traps for children, what an ass.
Re:Gifts? No. (Score:5, Insightful)
Becasue all gifts are just things you buy.
Seriously dude, you might want to think again.
I have a one of a kind glass ornament, hand made and its beautiful.
It was s great gift.
My kids make my things. one year my someone made me a little minecraft game where I though levers in a sequence and then a huge explosion happen revealing the words 'Happy Birthday, Dad" underneath it.
Good luck buying that.
One year, a friend gave me a hand made and painted papper lanterns from overseas. It's really cool and nice. I never would have bought that for myself.
I don't give, 'junk'.
Re:I work retail (Score:3, Insightful)by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 22, 2012 @12:46AM (#42063749)Of course not, he works in an american retail chain. We'll just let all the customers give him a tip. More customers means more tips, right?


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These anthropologists added their working paper and have received more than 4,000 abstract views and 1,400 downloads.
The Resource Development Committee raised funds to support AAA members and anthropologists in sharing their research faster and more efficiently. With donations for the Gray Literature Portal, AAA has partnered with the Social Science Resource Network (SSRN) to create the Anthropology and Archaeology Resource Network (AARN).
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These mostly have significance for servlet and related handlers. For example, the security handler only applies authentication and authorization to REQUEST dispatches.
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- ContextHandlerCollection - collection of Handlers of which on is selected by best match for the context path.
See org.mortbay.jetty.handler package for some examples.
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Links to example headers are all broken on this page, e.g. http://jetty.mortbay.org/jetty6/jetty/org/mortbay/jetty/handler/AbstractHandler.html
Thanks for bringing that to our attention Sam. Fixed now, and with some extra links.
Could someone add an example of how to add a custom handler to be integrated with JAX-WS for supporting Web Services easily?
The sample in The Request and Response section should be:
Request base_request = request instanceof Request?(Request)request:HttpConnection.getCurrentConnection().getRequest(); Response base_response = response instanceof Response?(Response)response:HttpConnection.getCurrentConnection().getResponse();