Jeru
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Personally I find smoking disgusting, and, if done in a confined area with non-smokers, quite inconsiderate. Recreational places like bars should be free to determine their own policy on the issue, but I'm for smoke-free public buildings and restaurants.
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Unexpected and mildly amusing
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*checks calender* Hmm, happy new year...
Do you have firework too?
We only have fireworks on Israeli Independence Day (Iyar 15th, usually the end of April or the beginning of May).
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!שנה טובה
You need the Hebrew ISO-Logical character encoding to see this greeting correctly. In my own transliteration, this is rendered "Šanáh Ťōváh" - Most other people would simply render it something like "Shana Tova". It's pronounced |shah-NAH toh-VAH|, and please try to keep the vowels as pure as possible, as in Spanish. It literally means "good year".
But enough about the greeting; I thought I should tell you a little bit about the meaning of the holiday, Roš Hašanáh (Rosh Hashanah). This holiday marks the beginning of the Hebrew year, which is based on a lunisolar calendar and uses a leap month (for more about the Hebrew calendar, see Wikipedia: Hebrew Calendar). It is the beginning of the Jewish holiday season, which includes 10 days of repentence, concluding in Yom Kippur, the Jewish day of atonement.
This holiday is characterized by the blowing of the shofar, a trumpet made from a ram's horn. During the afternoon of the first day occurs the practice of tashlikh, the symbolic casting away of sins by throwing either stones or bread crumbs into the waters.
Rosh Hashanah meals often include:
- Apples and honey, to symbolize a sweet new year
- Pomegranates, to symbolize a year full of success as the pomegranate is full of seeds
- Carrots (gezer), to symbolize a year free of draconian measures (gzeirot)
- A fish's head, to symbolize fertility and success.
Happy new year!
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We have a new literature teacher who needs to prepare us for a literature matriculation exam, which will take place in January. I'm lending my Literature teacher my notebook from last year, as well as some exams, so she could see what my class has already learned.
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That's a great site, a lot of those fonts are high quality.
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to burgle - to break into
to steal - to unrightly take another person's property as one's own
to smuggle - to transmit goods illegally
to abuse - to harm
to murder - to kill intentionally
to rape - to force sexual intercourse upon
to blackmail - to force another person to do something by threatening them to carry out something against their interests (e.g. publicizing something from the victim's private life)
to kidnap - to take a person where they are unlikely to be found
to beat - to use physical force with one's hands or with blunt objects to harm. (Or: to defeat)
to rob - to unrightly take another person's possession(s) as one's own
to embezzle - to appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use (Merriam-Webster)
abduction - kidnapping
vanadalism - intentionally causing damage to an inanimate object, e.g. by spraying grafitti
arson - intentional starting of fire to destroy property
manslaughter - unintentional killing
physical assault - attacking another's body
drunk driving - controlling a moving vehicle while intoxicated
extortion - blackmail, typically done to obtain money
bank fraud - lying to financial institutions for profit
forgery of documents - fabricating documents, making a document look as if it were genuine when it isn't.
to mug sb. - to rob someone, esp. of the valuables the victim carries on their body while in a public place
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I start senior year tomorrow morning and I can't say I'm too excited about it. I just hope the hard parts go by quickly and the fun parts last forever.
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My father wants me to go into engineering, but I cannot see myself getting up every morning and spending my day solving physics equations and such.
Whatever you study, ask yourself: Can I really envision myself taking interest in this? This is the time to be honest with yourself - Not in your last year before your final exams.
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If i COULD help with anything, i would never started Viking mod, i would joined WFG. But i cant do anything as far as i know
Just a thought: Even if you can't program, help with the artwork or anything else... You still speak perfect Norwegian, right? When the time comes, you could make the localized version of the game to Norwegian (translating the interface and such). This is relatively far off into the future, so don't get too excited about it now, but the more localized versions we have, the better.
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Next is probably Curufinwe
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Excellent idea for a poll!
I've been dreaming of a trip to Spain for some years now myself. My friends and I have been day-dreaming of a trip along Italy, southern France and Spain for quite some time, maybe we'll even get to do it someday.
In the more distant future I would like to take a trip to South America (especially Brazil and Argentina) and, political climate permitting, I want to travel around the Middle East: Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Iran, Tunisia, Morrocco and especially Lebanon... Such an interesting, unique, beautiful country.
Adding to Sam's comment, technically America isn't a country either (you were probably referring to the USA).
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I strive for excellence, not perfection.
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Hi everyone! Great write-up. I was reading your website and I just wanted to comment on one thing:
It was during this time that Adam and Frumpus began to consult various persons associated with the online Tolkien Community and began to take the first footsteps towards a final solution.
I'm sure this was not the writer's intention, but this sounds bad for historical reasons. I'd omit the word "final" here, or replace it with "permanent".Otherwise you have a great project going! Keep up the good work.
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BTW - In Athens 2004, the cultural aspect of the Olympic Games has been revived in part. Cultural Olympiad official website.
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Stocks, or shares, are pieces of ownership over companies. When you own a share of a certain company, you are one of its owners. The kind of shares you can buy in the stock market are shares of public companies, i.e. anyone from the public can buy them, as opposed to private companies, in which the owner sells shares of the company at his own discretion.
Stock indeces, like the Dow Jones (for the NYSE), the Xetra DAX (for the Frankfurt stock exchange) or the TA 100 (for the Tel Aviv stock exchange) provide an indication of what's going on in a particular market. Each index is a calculated average of the n "biggest" (most traded) companies in a specific market. If most of these companies' shares are going up in value, so will the index etc. Each index has a slightly different way of measuring the activity in its own market, with different markets having different numbers of traded companies, different amounts of shares, different levels of activity etc.
What influences a stock's value? Firstly, the value of a share of a company can change even if it is not traded. If I own all the shares of a company, and the company becomes more profitable, the shares go up in value. Like the value of any product or service, it is determined by supply and demand: The amount of shares available versus how much investors want to buy the shares. When supply is greater than demand, the price goes down, and when the opposite occurs, the price goes up. Investors are particularly interested not in what a company is already worth but in its potential to succeed in the future, and they look for various indications of said potential.
You'll notice that since the price of a share will decline due to a loss of demand for the share, investing in the stock market has to do with predicting what stocks will be in high demand. It's like a beauty pageant in which the all the judges each need to guess what the other judges will pick...!
Why would a company want to go public (in the NYSE, which is on Wall street, or elsewhere)? Because companies need money to grow! Going public enables companies to get funding from pretty much any private investor in the world. Until a company becomes public, its options to raise funds are fairly limited; They can only take so much money from the bank, only so many personal friends of the owner can pitch in to invest in the enterprise, venture capital companies will give only so much money, etc.
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The Olympic Games are like the mother of all world championships. The best athletes in the world compete in a myriad of events, trying to outdo their opponents and even break world records. It's a celebration of the human body and how it can be used to achieve beautiful things. With so many different events taking place within two weeks, everyone is bound to find at least something that interests them.
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*chattering pauses, music stops abruptly*
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*pause*
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*crowd returns to cubicles, grumbling*
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Has anyone seen the Seinfeld episode in which Elaine dances in front of a camera?
(Not an attempt to compare Jason's dancing skills with those of Elaine from Seinfeld. I'm sure he's a very good dancer compared to her - heck, anyone's a very good dancer compared to her!)
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This isn't a bug, but an easter egg: AoE had a cheat that substituted the catapult rocks with cows.
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Having more than one kind of house is a great idea. The bigger ones could also cost more, be more vulnerable...
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Commercials that assume that I am an easily manipulated consumer insult my intelligence. I am not the insecure idiot that advertisers seem to think I am.
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For some, breaking rules is a sign of bravery or moral fiber.
Just a side note: Not all rules, laws and regulations are legitimate. Sometimes it is more moral to break the law than to uphold it.
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Single player is more important to me. I originally hail from the scenario designer community, and most scenarios are meant to be played SP, just like a good book is often best read alone.
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Hilarious! Thanks!