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I wrote a short story for a contest on Deviant Art:
Jason glanced at the clock nervously, as cold sweat poured down his neck and shoulders, and slicked his blonde bowl cut down in place. A service to him since he hadn't had time to comb it that morning. He'd been sitting in the brown leather recliner for an hour, and while the abrasive cracks and musty old smell normally drove him mad, he was now oblivious to them. If he had only calmed down he might have had the presence of mind to leave. In fact, the only thing he'd paid any attention since eleven o'clock had been the rhythmic ticking of the round analog clock on the brick wall of his den.
He hadn't eaten supper yet since he had been later getting back to the house, but he wasn't feeling hungry anyway. He had considered it, but he had barely had the strength or drive to open the drawers in his kitchen, let alone actually throw something on the stove or into a microwave-safe container. Eventually he tried to eat a can of cold chicken noodle soup, but hadn't been feeling well enough to keep it down. After he'd finished wiping the vomit from the floor, he'd glanced at the clock, which had read ten o'clock.
His neighborhood wasn't safe anymore, and so as soon as the sun had started going down he had systematically closed the curtains to each and every window in the house. He used to dislike the thick velvet curtains which his ex-girlfriend Sarah had left behind along with their relationship. While she'd moved on without a hitch, they had forever reminded him of his broken heart, and he couldn't even bring himself to tear them down or replace them. But today, when he had closed the last of the drapes, he actually appreciated the rich, burgundy color which he found to be oddly appropriate. That had been when the grandfather clock in the upstairs hallway that his ex had also left behind chimed nine times.
He lumbered dizzily towards the red painted door of his two-story home. As the car sat at rest in the driveway, hot white steam poured from the hood. Though it had once been a brand new town car with a smooth, metallic silver coat of paint, it was so scratched and dented now that it hardly shone at all, even in the late summer sun. It had been slowly worn down over the years, but this day was an all-time low. Two tires had gone flat, and one of the mirrors had been smashed out. Well, after a pursuit which had nearly killed him multiple times, that was to be expected. It was a miracle that he had made it home before the engine had sputtered and died. He looked at his watch, the hands stuck at the eighth turn of the hour.
His heart was racing as he exited the freeway, and he was hyperventilating. He was a nervous man, and this was so far from who he was that he was almost scared to look at himself in his mirror. What terrified him was not, however, the thought that he might have changed. Rather, it was the idea that he might not have changed at all. If the face that returned his gaze was the same that greeted him every morning when he combed his hair neatly into place and shaved way his thin facial hair, what was there to set him apart from the very man he didn't want to be? He wanted more than anything else to take his mind off of the scent of iron and salt that pervaded his clothes, and so he turned on the radio for news at seven in the evening.
Dinner had started out nicely enough. He and present company were sitting around a table with a pure, white linen draped over it. But Jason had made the mistake of wanting too much, of needing too much. His treatment was expensive, and he didn't have the time it would take to earn his keep. So he took the money and bolted from his seat, crossing a man he should never have crossed. The bullets flew and shattered the glass of paintings on the wall, but somehow he actually made it across the room unscathed. There was a waitress who was unfortunate enough to be walking across the room when he had made his move, and the bullet that took her life would otherwise have hit him. But he felt no happiness at being saved by a complete stranger. He left his meeting with the loan shark at six before their meal could come out.
He recalled the events of hours past, and they made him feel empty. He'd felt throughout the day that it was the end of the line for him. He had seen death coming long before. However, he had said that he wasn't going to give up without a fight, as if he could actually make a difference. But after what had happened, he wasn't even sure he wanted to live anymore. Was his life worth someone else's? He knew that dying now would mean their gesture, unintended or not, would go to waste. Yet he was tired, was ready, was waiting. He had lived in the shadow of the valley of death for years, as disease wracked his body from the inside. Jason Wilmont's heart stopped as the clock struck midnight.
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I like everything about it besides the last sentence.
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Yeah this is good stuff. Last sentence would be awesome... in another story.
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I was told in a mibbit discussion yesterday that by rearranging the last sentence, it fits a lot better. I fogot to edit it here, though. Sorry bout that. :/
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iPhone:iPad :: Galaxy S:Galaxy Tab
Samsung Galaxy Tab
Smaller form factor offers much better portability. Bright, high-resolution screen. Runs Flash? Oh, yeah.
Some stability concerns. Proprietary connector and cable (looks like an iPod port, but ain't). Battery is nonreplaceable.
How We Rate
- 1/10A complete failure in every way
- 2/10Sad, really
- 3/10Serious flaws; proceed with caution
- 4/10Downsides outweigh upsides
- 5/10Recommended with reservations
- 6/10Solid with some issues
- 7/10Very good, but not quite great
- 8/10Excellent, with room to kvetch
- 9/10Nearly flawless
- 10/10Metaphysical perfection
That simple analogy is all you really need to know about the highly anticipated Galaxy Tab and what it can do.
With the first legitimate competitor to iPad for the consumer-focused tablet-computer market, Samsung continues to take its cues from Apple — just as it's been doing with cellphones.
That is not necessarily a bad thing. For all its faults, the iPad is still the tablet to beat. The Galaxy Tab takes direct aim at iPad's shortcomings and does a credible job at addressing nearly all of them.
The most immediately noteworthy difference from the iPad is that the Galaxy is considerably smaller — physically about half the size and weight, with a 7-inch diagonal screen instead of the iPad's 9.7 inches. However, the Tab's 1024 x 600–pixel resolution makes this less of a big deal than you might expect. Considering the iPad's 1024 x 768–pixel resolution, you'll find the Tab nearly as spacious, although the screen (a standard LCD) is not as bright and as clear as the iPad's beauty.
What you gain, however, is considerably better portability: The iPad is not always convenient to tote with you, while the Tab really feels like a jumbo-sized cellphone and slips easily into any bag and many jacket pockets.
Any screen shortcomings are rapidly put out of mind by the Galaxy Tab's rich feature set. Everything you'd want from a modern Android phone (version 2.2, upgradeable when 3.0 hits) is here: Full app support (though, as with running iPhone apps on the iPad, many apps look JUMBO SIZE in use), a fair-enough camera (3.2 megapixels) with flash, a mobile hotspot and tethering option, and virtually no buttons. The only physical buttons are the power button and volume toggle, both on the upper right side. Four touch-sensitive Android-standard buttons on the bottom of the front screen are usable only when the display is active.
Storage is what you make of it: A 16-GB microSD card, accessible via a flap on the side, is installed by default, and you can upgrade to 32 GB.
In use, the Galaxy Tab performs well, but is not exemplary. It feels snappy enough, but longish load times can sometimes be tiresome, and webpages invariably loaded more slowly than the iPad — sometimes taking twice as long. We also ran into a few issues with apps hanging and the Wi-Fi connection suddenly vanishing without explanation. Reboots solved both issues.
On the hardware side, the light, 13.4-ounces unit just fits in a single hand, but the slick surface tends to be slippery and prone to dropping. If you're the kind of person who is always finding his phone falling out of your grip, your Tab is going to spend a lot of time on the floor. (Maybe that's why Jobso was so critical of these devices?)
Compounding matters is the problematic location of the power and volume buttons. Holding the device in your left hand often causes you to hit these by accident. They're temperamental and touchy, until you eventually adapt to a grip further down the chassis.
Pricing is complicated and modeled after the cellphone, so pay close attention: The base unit is $400 with a new or upgraded two-year contract, or $600 without a rate plan. Data costs extra: $30 a month for 2 GB of service plus unlimited messaging, or $60 a month for 5 GB and unlimited messaging. Mobile Hotspot support is extra ($30 a month), and Sprint Navigation is extra, too.
These are relatively minor complaints, in the end. The Tab requires some retraining in the way you use a mobile device — it's somewhere between a phone and a regular tablet — but once you get it, it's a pleasure to use. The Tab ultimately reveals itself not as a competitor to the iPad but as a new class of mobile devices: a minitablet that is designed to go everywhere you do.
See Also:
- Mobile Product of the Year: Apple iPad 3G
- JooJoo Tablet Is a Real Piece of DooDoo
- New Archos Tablet Is a Kid's Toy, Not Suitable for Adults
- NYT: Google Android Tablet Imminent
- Android ePad Tablet Reviewed. Verdict: Junk
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Your first real paycheck is cause for celebration — and cause for some smart money moves.
You've got a little extra money on hand, but don't burn it on stuff. Instead, spend that windfall to build a better future for you and your family.
It's easy to make the right investments in hindsight. It's also easy to kick yourself for not taking the plunge when you should have.
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She insists that her thing is not His thing. That it's her own thing. And yet, no one else knows what her thing is.
Here's Jessica Biel covering the new issue of Glamour Magazine, perhaps her best photo shoot. The styling is great. She looks great. Asking her to BE great is a different story. It's not just that she's dull, it's mostly that she's so obvious.
When asked by Glamour about her own identity, because she totally has one, Shelfy's response was naturally to enlighten us to the fact that she does indeed independently, um, exist apart from Justin Timberlake:
GLAMOUR: Sure. How do you stay solid when you're romantically linked to a big star? Because his thing is no small thing. How do you maintain your thing alongside his?
JESSICA BIEL: I guess I would say my thing is just as wonderful. And that's the only way—when you each have your own world and it's just as great.
Then she goes on to talk about how ultra-private she is. Sure. At this point even I know her hiking schedule.
Click here to read the entire article and click here for more images of Jessica Biel in Glamour.
Jessica's next project is the Vivaldi biopic, playing the woman who inspired Four Seasons opposite Luke Evans as the composer. I asked Evans about this in Cannes and the first thing he said when I mentioned his co-star was that he couldn't wait to shoot with her because she's so fantastic to look at. Then he followed that up with a comment about how goodlooking she is. And what a tough job it would be to go to work to admire her hotness all day. There's was no more to it than that. Which is kind of what one would probably say about Rosie Huntington-Whiteley in Transformers 3. Because she certainly wasn't hired for her acting ability.
As for the Shelf Ass... how's THIS for a Shelf Ass? Click here.
Shelfy has her thing
She insists that her thing is not His thing. That it's her own thing. And yet, no one else knows what her thing is.


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Recipe from Miss Cross County Rice of Wynne, Ark.
Prep Time: 10 min
Total Time: 30 min
1 Box Rice A Roni Fried Rice
2 Tablespoons of margarine
1 1/2 cups of water
1 package Seasonings from Rice A Roni box
1 can of chicken broth
1/3 cup rice, uncooked
1/3 cup thin spaghetti, uncooked and broken into small pieces
1 can Rotel tomatoes and chilies with juice
1 can chicken, white meat drained
1. Combine rice mix and margarine in large skillet.
2. Saute over medium heat until vermicelli is golden brown, stirring frequently.
3. Slowly stir in water and seasoning. Add chicken broth, rice, spaghetti, Rotel, and chicken. Bring to a boil.
4. Cover with a lid and reduce heat to simmer. Cook 20 minutes with the lid on the pan.
Yield: 8 servings
Comments: This is a quick and economical one pan meal.
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'Family time' is 'irrelevant' anyway
Advocate claims the notion of 'family time' is 'irrelevant' anyway
All four of the major broadcast TV networks – ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC – filed statements last week with the Federal Communication Commission seeking an end to government oversight of indecency standards on television, according to a Dateline New York report.
The broadcasters want to be able to show just as much sex, violence and obscenity as the cable networks, and they don't want it limited to after 10 p.m. ET.
The networks argued that the regulations violate their First Amendment rights and that the rules are archaic because families don't just sit down and watch broadcast television anymore.
The Los Angeles Times reported Fox, for example, argued that the FCC's rules are "stuck in a bygone era" and unfair to broadcasters because cable and online outlets do not face the same regulations.
"The FCC should affirm that it has no right to deny broadcasters the same First Amendment protections enjoyed by every other medium of communication," Fox said.
Parents Television Council President Tim Winter, however, opposes eliminating decency standards.
"Fox has the audacity to argue that the entire broadcast indecency law should be abolished," Winter said in a statement. "This is brought to you by the network that has aired scripted animated programs featuring a man masturbating a horse, a character eating excrement out of a baby's diaper, and a baby eating a bowl of semen, just to name a few.
"Ask just about anyone who doesn't get compensated by the broadcast networks, and they'll tell you that these scenes are patently offensive," he continued. "Yet Fox wants the unfettered right to air this kind of content – or worse – at any time of day, even in front of children."
CBS, however, assured the FCC it needn't worry that relaxing its enforcement will make "broadcast television some sort of red-light district."
Besides, the network added, "The day when a child watching television was almost certain to be watching broadcast television has long since passed."
According to Dateline, Fox elaborated on CBS' argument: "Americans today, including children, spend more time engaged with non-broadcast channels delivered by cable and satellite television, the Internet, video games and other media than they do with broadcast media."
NBC agreed: "Broadcast TV is not a uniquely pervasive presence in the lives of 21st century Americans."
James Joyner, writing in favor of the idea for Outside the Beltway, commented, "The rules made sense 30, even 20 years ago. Back then, cable television was essentially a platform for showing re-runs from the networks, live sports and theatrical movies. … Nowadays, the distinction between 'broadcast' and 'cable' or 'satellite' is largely irrelevant."
Joyner added that because of DVRs, which easily enable viewers to record programs for viewing later, "Any show that airs after 9 p.m. is getting watched later in the week at an earlier hour, anyway, so the 'family time' concept is irrelevant.
"Presumably, there are still families that sit around the living room in the evening watching television together," he added, "[but] if parents aren't parenting, it really doesn't matter given that most homes are connected to cable or satellite and children who want to watch 'naughty' programming can easily find it.
"There's a market for family-friendly television," he concluded. "Most of what's on television, in fact, conforms to that standard, at least if we don't hold to 1950s notions of acceptable language and sexual depiction."
The network filings came in response to an April request from the FCC – since expired – for comments on a proposed change in policy to allow "fleeting" or "isolated" instances of nudity and cursing on public airwaves without subjecting the networks to fines.
Several news outlets reported more than 101,000 consumer comments poured in, while the networks filed just under the deadline, asking the FCC to go even further in abolishing all decency standards.
Yet Winter and the Parents Television Council argues the FCC must heed the people.
"The outpouring of the American people to the FCC is tremendous on the issue of broadcast indecency. The over 101,000 comments received over this FCC proposal dwarfs the number of people communicating to the FCC about any other matter," Winter said. "The American people (those without armies of lobbyists) are concerned about the volume of indecent material on TV that is targeting their children and grandchildren. The FCC and Congress must not ignore their voices."
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If anything, I like to be able to zoom the SRS screen out and see more long-range combat. Other games I play (Endless Sky one of them) seem to have a fetish for short-range combat, which gets annoying at times. Overuse of short-range combat feels more like hack-and-slash instead of a shooting game. Fortunately, Transcendence avoids excessive short-range combat.giantcabbage wrote: ↑Wed Aug 16, 2017 6:36 pmOr have different ranges for different types (personally I think it would be good to get more combat occurring onscreen rather than at the edge of the LRS) e.g.
Beams: short range (< screen)
Bullets: medium (~screen)
Missiles: long range (> screen)
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Everyone always bangs on about superconductors as if they're some super-amazing scientific miracle, but where's the proof, eh? Eh? Umm, here it is: check out how they compare to plain old normal conductors, and you'll be gobsmacked.
The picture above, discovered by Redditor revnastyy shows two lengths of electric cabling taken from the LHC. The one at the top is old-style copper cabling, rated to carry 12,500 amps. The cable at the bottom, made of superconducting material, can carry the exact same current because of its insanely low electrical resistance.
Sure, it has to be cooled by liquid nitrogen, but stop being so picky. This is why superconductors are—both literally and metaphorically—cool, and why a room-temperature version is every physicist's wet dream. [Reddit]
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Please Note: SeqPlot is a tool designed for use by the Sequence Team to create comparison star sequences for use in AAVSO Charts. For consistency sake, all variable star data submitted to the AAVSO database should be based on comparison star sequences chosen by this experienced team of volunteers. If you need a sequence or a revision to a sequence for a star, please follow the instructions given here to make your request and you will receive a response from the Team in a very timely manner.
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The Boy Scouts of Troop 68 used to like to song songs, mix them up a bit, and write new lyrics to them. They would then perform these "new" versions at campfire programs or during their annual Laughs For Lunch Show. This episode of Melrose Scouting Productions Podcast features one of those songs.
The troop has been spending one spring weekend a year at Camp Watchamagumee (private land north of Melrose). It is one of the Scout's favorite places to camp. We usually have a great time there, but one year things did not go very well. A local farmer had cattle grazing on the forty acre site. Usually, the cattle are not a problem. We leave them alone and they leave us alone. Not that year. The troop was away from camp for awhile to play some softball. When we arrived back at the site the cows had invaded the camp and had damaged equipment along with a few other problems. It was the one time we left camp due to cattle issues.
A couple years later we decided to take the song "Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer" and rewrite the lyrics to describe what happened during the weekend in which the cows drove us away from our campsite. Everything in the song did actually take place. This video was taken from the 2001 Laughs For Lunch Show performance. I forgot where the cow costumes came from, but they did add a little something to the song.
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DuraFlex parts are manufactured with fiberglass mixed with flexible plastic resin (FRP), which allows them to be somewhat flexible, rather than brittle. Comes unpainted, with a black gel-coat/primer.
2007-2018 Jeep Wrangler Duraflex Hellcat Look Hood - 1 Piece
NOTE: Hood pins are required.
Installation Notes:
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Appropedia:Porting PDF files to MediaWiki
This is still a work in process - you can help by trying these methods and adding any information about what works. Contact Chriswaterguy or Curt if you have questions.
Methods[edit source]
At present, we do not have a simple one-step PDF-to-MediaWiki translation process which retains the desired text formatting. We have many multi-step approaches which retain text formatting, all of which can be broken down into two main steps:
- Convert (save) the PDF to a more workable intermediate format that supports interesting formatting, and
- Convert the resulting file into MediaWiki format.
The various options for each of these main steps are described below.
The OpenOffice 3 approach may come closest to a straightforward solution, if we can get it to work.
Alas, we do not yet have an automated way to transfer the images (though mw:Extension:MultiUpload may make it easier). Help is welcome!
1. Save as formatted text[edit source]
Convert to a Word, RTF or HTML file.
It is preferable to use:
- An open source solution, which can be used by anyone and can be improved if needed.
- If this doesn't work, Acrobat Professional - some academics, students and business people will have access to it, and it is likely to work better than freeware or web services.
(When searching for solutions, note that word combinations like PDF export gets a lot of false hits - mainly exporting to PDF, and also very many commercial programs. So, try this search:
- export OR convert pdf-to freeware -demo -free-trial images formatted OR layout)
Open source options[edit source]
There is an extension for OpenOffice 3 Beta (presumably works with OO3) that facilitates import of pdf documents Sun PDF Import Extension (Beta). If this works well, combined with OpenOffice's existing MediaWiki export functionality, this may be a one stop tool for PDF to MediaWiki conversion. Chriswaterguy is trying this out now, but having trouble with bugs preventing acceptance of the EULA. 21:24, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
- use http://pdftohtml.sourceforge.net/ or xpdf to convert to html
- clean up with htmltidy. It should now be ready to convert to MediaWiki.
Scanned documents:
- Sometimes scanned documents have the actual text embedded in the document.
- The pdftotext command extracts raw text: "pdftotext file.pdf" without the quotes.
- Evince PDF viewer (and possibly others) allow you to select and copy.
Acrobat Professional (i.e. paid version)[edit source]
This is the best option so far. Check if your school/college/company has this program (you might have to ask for access).
- In the non-free Adobe Acrobat there is an option to save to rich text formats - see Save a PDF file as a Word document, HTML file, or image. Fatima has used this and found it helpful. We should experiment and find the best path - saving to which format, and then using which method to translate to wiki markup.[expand]
- The free program Acrobat Reader has an "export as text" function, but only plain text. Copying and pasting also only gives plain text.
We could also test other readers to see if any allow copying with formatting. The following only do plain text: Evince Document Viewer 2.24 for Linux.
"Freeware"[edit source]
Options that are free (as in free beer) but not open source:
- Sorax PDF SDK DLL Edition 1.1 - "export PDF files to... XML." (image or text?)
- Okay, so I (CurtB) have poked around with the Sorax DLL, and it looks interesting. I figured this commentary makes more sense on the article page than the talk page, and yet this is almost a discussion at this point, hence my chatty tone. It turns out that the DLL is indeed free, and the license for usage is generous, essentially do what you want with it as long as you don't reverse engineer it or hack it into something else. It also comes with a "demo" application, which could be very useful. Using this demo program, one can open a PDF document and export it into XML. It exports all the text (no images, sorry) into an xml file with useful formatting information, including font name, font size, italic or bold (true or false for those last two). There is a fair bit of other info that might not be interesting (paging, for example) and would need to be stripped off. Nevertheless, it is quite conceivable that a PERL or Python-based tool could quickly be written to strip the undesired stuff away, and convert the remainder to wiki form. Maybe even some clever SED scripts could do the bulk of the work! Yay!
- It should be noted that the DLL is really intended for use by developers, and most particularly for Visual C developers, since the tool includes a "vcproj" file, which is a Visual C project file. Python developers also may be able to make use of the tool, based on the information in the included (PDF, of course) document, and with some help from this page I found. Writing an actual application that could use the DLL would be ideal, since it would allow bulk translation of PDFs, instead of the one-by-one conversion process that would be offered by the Demo application plus xml-to-wiki tool. Hmm. New thought. How well does OpenOffice convert XML to Wiki? Be right back! Nope, not much help. Okay, done for now. CurtB 00:29, 5 February 2008 (PST)
- Does Sorax do the formatting for image placement? (As wikEd does when converting HTML.)
- Free PDF to Word Doc Converter - reviews and comments[1][2] suggest that this is "nagware" (i.e. freeware hassles you, adds extra steps) and that Zamzar (online service, below) gives better results.
Free online services[edit source]
Check these (and do a search to make sure you've got the latest version):
- docq - upload the file and it will convert online. DocQ provides online PDF editing, highlighting, and e-signing. Free account trials available.
- Zamzar (review) - upload the file and receive an email with a link to the output file. Works well, some hassle and hiccups. Formatting may need extra work, e.g. double line-breaks need replacing with single line-breaks for best results. This is the only free solution known to work so far.
- Adobe's online conversion service - appears broken. After a long period (e.g. 75 min) it still displays "In progress".
- Form Swift
Commercial programs (apart from Adobe Acrobat)[edit source]
Question: are there free trial versions that do what we need? Help by trying them out. (These programs are not guaranteed - do some Googling to make sure they're safe, and make sure you've got good anti-spyware and anti-virus.)
These are not ideal, as:
- we can't invite everybody to help out without paying lots of money or stretching/breaking the licensing agreements,
- they usually take an extra step, via Word, and
- They're only for Windows.
But for reference (in case of desperation):
- ABC Amber PDF Convertor - $13, or $40 for multi-user (company) license. Best price of the commercial programs.
- http://www.coolutils.com/product.php?product=TotalPDFConverter - $40, trial download, saves images
- http://www.adorepdf.com/ - $20
- http://www.pdfgrabber.com/ - EUR 32,77, + trial version.
- http://www.quickpdftoword.com/ $30, + free trial
- http://www.topshareware.com/PDF-Export-Kit-download-40390.htm - $49, + free trial version
- http://www.convert-in.com/pdfekit.htm $29 just for PDF-to-HTML. Demo available (functional?)
- http://www.docudesk.com/deskUNPDF-PRO-PDF-Converter.shtml PDF-to-Word. Also supports PDF to XLS and optional OCR.
- Quick-PDF PDF to Word - $29 + 10-day free trial version
OCR[edit source]
When a PDF file (or other format) is image based rather than text-based, this may be helpful. See User talk:LeissKG for a discussion of this technique.
OCR should probably be limited to those cases when text is only available as an image, as it will inevitably introduce some errors. It seems likely to be more difficult as well.[verification needed] Nevertheless, if proven out, this could be a useful tool for creating wiki versions of out-of-print articles or texts. Care must be taken, however, that copyright permissions are handled appropriately!
Here are some resources for OCR:
- GOCR is an OCR (Optical Character Recognition) program
- Article on Tesseract: an Open-Source Optical Character Recognition Engine and the software is here
- List of free OCR programshere
2. Convert from formatted text to MediaWiki[edit source]
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Explore the growth of the United States from the thirteen original colonies to its present range with the Territorial Growth of the United States map. Featuring eight individual insets higlighting historical periods, it also contains an antique map of the the country in 1783. Published in September 1987, this map is half of a two-map set, appearing with the map of the United States.
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COLUMBUS—Saturday's 2-0 loss to Los Angeles was the best and worst of times for the Crew.
In the aftermath of falling to the other unbeaten team, Columbus rediscovered their fluidity with Guillermo Barros Schelotto masterminding the attack that had everyone involved for long stretches of possession and sharp runs to goal.
What the Crew couldn't do was score, despite having 21 shots on goal and 15 corner kicks.
"It was the best game we've probably played all year," midfielder Adam Moffat said. "We just didn't get the result to match, but if we keep that up they'll come."
Coach Robert Warzycha was much happier with the performance than in many of the victories this season but clearly understands the bottom line.
"It was the worst game of the season because we lost," he said.
As pleased as he was with the number of opportunities, the gnawing question is how the Crew could get so many shots but put only four on goal?
"We need to finish better," he said.
The Crew (6-1-2) have road games vs. San Jose on Wednesday and against Colorado on Saturday, but Warzycha doesn't expect a Galaxy-size hangover coming off their first defeat.
"We're going to be fine," he said. "We played the game the way we wanted. It wasn't like somebody came here [to Columbus] and did damage to us mentally. We played very well and we didn't win."
UNEVEN STEVEN – Warzycha still believes in third-year striker Steven Lenhart but said it's time for him to up his game. Lenhart missed an early chance from 5 yards Saturday that could have swayed the match and was replaced by Jason Garey in the 74th minute.
"At some point I need to see progress," Warzycha said. "As a forward he can do a lot of things, but he has to score his chances on the ones he absolutely has to score. That one against LA was absolutely one he would have to score."
Lenhart has started every game and has one goal and one assist in 752 minutes. He has taken 19 shots, put five on target and been offside 15 times. Reserve forward/midfielder Emilio Renteria has two goals on three shots in 100 minutes.
Warzycha loves Lenhart's spunkiness and carefree attitude as long as it doesn't veer into recklessness.
"He's doing almost everything right," Warzycha said. "Would I like him to have a better touch? Absolutely. Would I like him to not argue with the defenders and push and shove and battle with them and instead think more about the game? Yes, but that's going to come with experience; with him being on the field consistently."
NO WAY TO SAN JOSE – Defender Frankie Hejduk (hamstring strain) and Danny O'Rourke (quadriceps strain) did not make the trip to California and are unlikely to play Saturday as well with a three-week break from games to follow.
Warzycha hinted that he may go deeper into the bench than usual with the heavy schedule, including at altitude in Colorado.
Recovery from the LA match will be a factor as to who starts on the trip.
"I'm looking at this as a three-game swing, not two," Warzycha said. "Absolutely, we're going to see more players because whoever is fresh is going to be playing. I don't think it's possible to play three games with the same lineup, 90 minutes for everybody. There's a limit."
Schelotto, still a force at age 37, could play both.
"He's an older guy, but he finds a way to get through the game," Warzycha said. "If his service is as good as it was against LA, he's got to be on the field."
A NUMBER OF THINGS: The Crew's last multiple-goal loss at home was 2-0 vs. San Jose on June 7, 2008, before starting an MLS-record 24-game home unbeaten streak… The 15 corners were three shy of the team record 18 taken at San Jose on May 10, 2008… Since Alex Grendi played 10 minutes at Toronto FC on May 2, 2009, no rookie has appeared in a Crew regular season or playoff game (34 matches). Barring injuries that won't change this week since Dilly Duka, Shaun Francis and Othaniel Yanez did not travel.


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(Pocket-lint) - Nokia isn't the first name you think of when you mention netbooks, but the mobile phone company is hoping to diversify with the launch of just that, a high-end netbook called the Nokia Booklet 3G. But can the phone manufacturer get it right? We started tapping away to find out.
Out of the box and the Nokia Booklet 3G looks and feels solid and well built. While the back plate is a gloss plastic (to add a dash of colour to the proceedings) the main material used is aluminium both inside and out.
The use of aluminium does make the netbook heavier than it probably should be (it weighs 1.2Kg), however the additional weight is worth it. This is MacBook Pro territory.
The gloss plastic isn't swappable, but there are three colours available, black, ice (read silver), and azure (read blue) to choose from, although you'll be pleased to know those colours aren't carried through elsewhere in the design.
Get past the styling and there are plenty of connection options available. Split across the two sides, you get three USB sockets, HDMI output, 3.5mm headphone jack and an SD card reader. This being a netbook, there isn't a DVD drive, however as the name and company might suggest, the Nokia Booklet 3G is "connected".
Available subsidised in the US with AT&T, the Booklet isn't currently available on any operator in the UK, though that doesn't stop you from adding in your own SIM card in the 3G module found on the side.
We tested it with a Vodafone SIM card, although you could use any 3G operator's card as the netbook isn't locked. In our install we experienced zero difficulties in performance or setup, inserting the SIM card caused Windows 7 to automatically recognise it and we were online via the 3G connection in a matter of seconds rather than hours. A very nice experience indeed.
It's not just 3G that will let you connect to the Internet, the Booklet 3G comes with Wi-Fi b/g/n and Bluetooth too, all of which can be turned on or off accordingly via a shortcut key on the keyboard.
Open up the netbook and the style that was so apparent on the outside can be found on the inside. You'll get a 10.1-inch 1280 x 720 pixel display that sports a gloss glass window, which is as crisp as it is stunning.
Like Apple, Nokia has opted for a chiclet keyboard for the keyboard style. Although the keys are on the small side (you'll have to be precise in your typing) the layout is straightforward with the "F keys" doubling up as a controls for media, screen brightness, volume, and connectivity options when the function key is pressed.
Beneath the keyboard is a largish trackpad and two keys beneath it. It's very comfortable in use, and supports, like the MacBook and MacBook Pro, multi-touch for vertical scrolling as well as zoom pinching.
Attempting to offer something different, there is a "Nokia" button that when pressed launches the Nokia Social Hub. The idea is that it's one single app that lets you manage your Twitter, Facebook and other social networking profiles as well as your SMS messages in a similar way to Tweetdeck.
Status lights are to be found on the screen hinge, which let you know whether Bluetooth, Wi-Fi or 3G are connected, whether your battery is about to run out (it turns red from 25% left) and whether or not you are connected to a power source. The lights aren't that helpful and although they let you know what's turned on and what's not - you don't really need to know all the time.
Randomly, the screen tilts back almost flat. We aren't sure why, but we haven't seen this feature on a laptop for a long time.
Spec wise and the Nokia Booklet 3G's interior doesn't match the exterior. The core of the system is an Intel Atom Z530, 1.6 GHz processor with 1GB DDR2 of RAM, whilst the hard drive is 120GB. On the multi-media side there is a 1.3 megapixel webcam and built-in stereo speakers, although they aren't very loud. Somewhat unexpected is an integrated GPS and A-GPS chip giving the laptop and location awareness not normally seen in netbooks or laptops at the moment.
In practice, running Windows 7 Starter edition, the netbook or Mini Laptop as Nokia likes to call it gave us mixed results.
Surfing standard pages on the Internet using the major browsers was as quick as you would expect. Loading Word documents was okay, but it's here that chinks in the performance start to show. Watch a HD movie stored on the hard drive and you'll manage 1080p without any problem, start streaming from the Internet and even with the latest version of Flash the computer struggles, and struggles badly, showing up the processor for what it really is - lacklustre.
While there is a HDMI socket, Nokia has failed to back it up with an Nvidia ION chip for the HD support meaning that you'll struggle online. As for games, we tried Dirt 2 and Batman Arkham Asylum, and while we expected it would struggle, those expectations were confirmed with both games being virtually unplayable.
There is also the question of Nokia choosing to include the Starter edition. Fine for most, it's worth pointing out that while you will get most of the core functions (it's not just a browser in a box) you will also miss out as well. Annoyingly you don't get multiple monitor support, something that given the small size of netbook screens we would have thought would be a must, and you won't be able to jazz up your wallpaper either.
There is no Aero support, while Media Center isn't included either. There is no XP mode, no Desktop Windows Manager or Remote Desktop support. That doesn't mean you are buying a crippled system, you still get most of the new interface features like the improved taskbar and Snap features - you've just got to remember, Starter really does mean starter.
Battery life, is as Nokia boast, very impressive, with us managing to get around 7 hours with heavy Wi-Fi and 3G use from a single charge. Without either on the Booklet 3G will easily last you an entire day.
If we were to judge the book by its cover we would be praising the Nokia Booklet 3G from the rooftops. It's a stylish well built piece of kit from the outside. The trouble is that Nokia hasn't maximised the inside as well as they could have, meaning that you are left with a machine that isn't as good as it could have been.
If you're not looking to do anything too aggressive then the Booklet 3G will suit you fine, but that posh exterior makes you believe otherwise. More worrying, however, is the price. At £649 in the UK and $550 in the US, this isn't a cheap netbook by any stretch of the imagination and that's a big problem, especially when you measure it up against the competition such as the Toshiba NB200 series and the HP Mini 311.
In fact at £649 it's MacBook territory, which, in terms of performance, will give you a considerably better machine.
The Nokia Booklet 3G can and probably is best described as a supermodel, wonderful to look at, but for the most part vacant on the inside.


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It's not over, said one of the most powerful men in America, Senate Majority Leader Henry Reid. He said now that a jury of his peers has found George Zimmerman not guilty of murdering Trayvon Martin, it is time for the federal government to step in.
Appearing on Meet the Press this morning, Reid told host David Gregory the Justice Department will go after Zimmerman.
"And the president, does he have a role in speaking about it as he did after the shooting?" Gregory asked.
"Yeah, of course," Reid responded. "And I think the Justice Department's going to take a look at this. You know, this isn't over with, and I think that's good, that's our system. It's gotten better, not worse."
In other words, if a jury reaches a verdict the federal government and the Obama administration think is not politically correct (or is contrary to their political agenda), they will move to "take a look" at it and take action to placate special interests and preferred minorities.
Soon after the verdict was reached on Saturday night, the NAACP called on the Justice Department to persecute George Zimmerman for the inexcusable crime of self-defense. President and CEO Benjamin Todd Jealous sent out the following petition:
Attorney General Eric Holder,
The Department of Justice has closely monitored the State of Florida's prosecution of the case against George Zimmerman in the Trayvon Martin murder since it began. Today, with the acquittal of George Zimmerman, it is time for the Department of Justice to act.
The most fundamental of civil rights — the right to life — was violated the night George Zimmerman stalked and then took the life of Trayvon Martin. We ask that the Department of Justice file civil rights charges against Mr. Zimmerman for this egregious violation.
Please address the travesties of the tragic death of Trayvon Martin by acting today.
Thank you.
Other "civil rights" organizations called for Zimmerman to be prosecuted. "We will be calling on the federal government to file criminal charges on the basis of civil rights violations," said CD Witherspoon of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference of Baltimore. "This was done immediately after the Rodney King verdict, and should be done if justice is not rendered by the Florida courts."
The NAACP has pledged to "fight for the removal of Stand Your Ground laws in every state" and make racial profiling a primary consideration in self-defense cases.
A number of liberal advocacy groups – including NAACP, the Urban League, Color of Change, Common Cause, People for the American Way and MoveOn.org – have worked to eliminate the right of Americans to protect themselves.
"Florida's dangerous 'Shoot First' law allowed Trayvon's killer to walk free without charges for more than a month. Shoot First legalizes vigilante homicide, has demonstrated racial bias in its application, and has led to an increase in gun-related deaths in the more than two dozen states where it has been passed into law," states Color of Change, as part of a campaign to eliminate "stand your ground" laws,
The characterization of self-defense as "vigilante homicide" when it contains "racial bias in its application," in other words when a white person defends himself against violence perpetrated by a black person or other government designated preferred minority, underscores the globalist agenda to disarm all Americans.
The Trayvon Martin case is not about racism, it is about destroying the Second Amendment and turning the American people into a defenseless herd no different than the Russians under Stalin or the Chinese under Mao. "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun," Mao infamously said. He wasn't talking about guns in the hands of citizens.
Since 2009, Color of Change has received $550,000 from Soros' Open Society Foundation and is closely connected to MoveOn.org, an organization perpetually engaged in peddling Obama's globalist agenda and fundraises for establishment Democrats. MoveOn.org has also launched a petition demanding the Justice Department ignore the jury decision in Florida and further victimize George Zimmerman.
Color of Change is "an organization dedicated to shutting down free speech, free expression, free markets, and free enterprise," writes Peter Bella. "They are against capitalism and civil liberties. They want to repeal the Second Amendment, force people to be victims, and are against stopping voter fraud."
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A combination of Borscht Belt comedian and Hanna-Barbera animation, Yogi Bear was a clever enough creation that more than 50 years later, we still can't help but impersonate his "pic-a-nic" basket and "Ay, Boo Boo!"
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Inspired by Art Carney's Ed Norton from "The Honeymooners" and originally voiced by Daws Butler, Yogi Bear has always had an intelligence that surpasses that of your typical clawed mammalia.
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Run time: 1 hour, 20 minutes
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He has finally gotten his own movie — in 3-D, no less — and so it comes with little surprise but still some disappointment that "Yogi Bear" is a bland pic-a-nic, indeed.
There he is, in trademark green tie and white collar and voiced by Dan Aykroyd, with the bow-tied Boo Boo (Justin Timberlake) at his side. Of course, this being the highly advanced 21st century, simple animation won't do, so we must suffer through mediocre, lifeless computer-generated animation of this treasured twosome.Story: Grownups need to get over dread of big-screen 'Yogi Bear'
They're in an otherwise mostly live-action film with the typically charming, motor-mouthed Tom Cavanagh ("Ed") as Park Ranger Smith and Anna Farris as Rachel Johnson, a documentary filmmaker visiting Jellystone Park, most likely trying to beat Ken Burns to the punch.
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Arriving at the forest, Rachel says she's interested in filming the famous Yogi, who's "very rare," she notes, being a talking bear. Smith, of course, is abundantly familiar with Yogi, who has long terrorized his park visitors with his picnic basket stealing ways. They hold "dreams," Yogi rhapsodizes.
For his part, Yogi — the Rodney Dangerfield of cartoon characters — sees himself as the main attraction, claiming that the honor of having your lunch stolen by him is like catching a foul ball at a ball game. "Make me a headliner," he argues.
Jellystone needs visitors, though, because Mayor Brown (the funny Andrew Daly of "Eastbound & Down") and his yes-man chief-of-staff (Nate Corddry), having sold-off the town's other resources, want to open up the park to logging. Interested only in the next election and shortsighted quick-fixes to the budget, Daly and Corddry make for a surprisingly good and relevant political parody.
Yogi and company fight to save the park and the whole ordeal is over in little more than an hour and a quarter. "Yogi Bear," directed by effects veteran Eric Brevig ("Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D") is blessedly brief. Its best quality is that it moves along briskly, as if it knows — and accepts — just how thin its plot is.
But more should be expected. Aykroyd and Timberlake supply good voice work, and the supporting players are well cast. But Yogi, above all, deserves better jokes and more wildness in which to roam free. Can't a bear get some lunch around here?
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347 Days
68486 Haikus
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Haiku #66693
, by vhs
January 11, 2020 6:25 am ET
Do you like Wheat Thins?
They are thin and made of wheat.
Tom Bosley's penis.
Haiku #66692
, by Captain Twerk of the Starship Enterprise
January 9, 2020 10:49 pm ET
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The Haiku necropolis.
How scintillating.
Haiku #66691
, by Overwhelming Undertaker
January 9, 2020 9:34 pm ET
Haiku #66690
, by Josephstole of Guatemala
January 9, 2020 6:09 pm ET
In 1930
Kurt Godel showed that systems
Have unsolvable
Problems: the truth is
Superior to given
Haiku #66689
, by krav MAGA
January 8, 2020 3:37 pm ET
Love God even more
Than Biden loves to fondle
Tiny little girls
Haiku #66688
, by krav MAGA of that's how to win
January 8, 2020 3:04 pm ET
Pro-sodomy and
Infanticide, Sodom? nope:
It's just Hollywood
Haiku #66687
, by Daniel of Hollywood Babylon
January 8, 2020 1:24 pm ET
My comrades
It is time brothers
It really do be simp hours
Haiku #66686
, by Not a Simp of Chad
January 8, 2020 10:36 am ET
Talk tough with haiku!
Real men make real poetry...
And then we make tea.
Haiku #66685
, by Oolong Yunnan of Camellia
January 8, 2020 4:40 am ET
now there is a goal
let us get to 69000 fam
let's get this bread
Haiku #66684
, by Antisocial Kid With No Life of Their Bedroom at 11 pm
January 7, 2020 11:44 pm ET
if this got to 6900 haikus
by march i think
that'd be epic
Haiku #66683
, by Nice of Weed
January 7, 2020 11:42 pm ET
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i am calling you from hell
it is your time
Haiku #66682
, by Satan Himself of Hell
January 7, 2020 11:41 pm ET
hi sierra
you're gay but i still love you
you mega fag weeb
Haiku #66681
, by Ferdinand of The Closet
January 7, 2020 11:38 pm ET
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in my large pussy
so very very good, yah?
Haiku #66680
, by Bumblebee of Canada
January 7, 2020 11:34 pm ET
being gay
is very good, yah.
im gay, so hard, penis in throat
Haiku #66679
, by A legit gay person of Gayland
January 7, 2020 11:31 pm ET
having some rights
i am not human, i'm crow
Haiku #66678
, by Crow of New York, ow ow my ears it's loud
January 7, 2020 11:26 pm ET
oh, to be with a fairy in the woods, making potions and do sex
Haiku #66677
, by Caitlin of Uranus
January 7, 2020 11:23 pm ET
Iran slaps US
Limp wristed Shiite faggots
They're not too dumb though
Haiku #66676
, by krav MAGA
January 7, 2020 10:51 pm ET
I've nothing to say.
I'm just here to be stupid.
Wanna buy some crack?
Haiku #66675
, by DRR
January 7, 2020 8:02 pm ET
Maxine Waters' wig
Higher intelligence than
The one wearing it
Haiku #66674
, by krav MAGA
January 7, 2020 6:13 pm ET
Thanks Maxine Waters
For running that old horsemouth
Right into the wall
Haiku #66673
, by James Brown of Hee Haw
January 7, 2020 10:20 am ET
Ricky shredded new-
Hollywood hypocrite clowns
He owns all their base!
Shut up don't know shit!
Greta the screamer has more
Time in school than you!
Slapped them in the mug
With the hard reality
They are brain dead twits.
Haiku #66672
, by Wong Lofan of Kalifornia
January 6, 2020 12:51 pm ET
Thanks Maxine Waters
For a most wonderful speech
On global warming
Haiku #66671
, by People of Chongochongo
January 5, 2020 8:36 pm ET
Fake News Media
There are Mockingbirds (hint, hint)
With higher IQs
Haiku #66670
, by krav MAGA of sharpening sword
January 5, 2020 8:03 pm ET
Listen, Wong Lofan:
Smart feminists LOVE Iran.
Haiku #66669
, by Wimmen Hold Up Half of the Lie
January 5, 2020 2:23 pm ET
MSM: just die!
We don't need the Fake News spin.
Reality's here.
Haiku #66668
, by Rachel Madcow of Clean my Ass
January 5, 2020 1:54 pm ET
Medo-Persia smacked!
Hornets' nest is buzzing now.
Don't believe the hype...
Haiku #66667
, by Manipulated of Neo-Con Chickenhawks
January 5, 2020 1:50 pm ET
Hey Rose Macgoonan
Put on a big black burka
Put fat @$$ on broom
And fly fast to Iran
It's a wimmen's paradise!
You will like it there!
Haiku #66666
, by Wong Lofan of Kalifornia
January 5, 2020 6:11 am ET
@$$holes CNN-
Weeping for Gen. Salami
Who killed our troops
Verily you tools
Are slimey SOB's
Disgusting ditch pigs.
Haiku #66665
, by Wong Lofan of Kalifornia
January 5, 2020 6:02 am ET
Hollywood clowns again
Cry for killer salami
Move to Iran fools!
The Killer salami
Murdering terrorist thug
Turned into red mist
Can't do a damn thing?
Now you are in red hot hell
With seventy two
Horny billy goats
Fook around see what happens?
New sheriff in town
Haiku #66664
, by Wong Lofan of Kalifornia
January 5, 2020 5:55 am ET
Prez Trump can't do squat!
Said the jive king bee mullah
Talk to the hand....
Haiku #66663
, by Wong Lofan of Kalifornia
January 5, 2020 5:47 am ET
Mid-East surrogates
Japanese warships, Putin
Some strange bedfellows
Haiku #66662
, by krav MAGA
January 4, 2020 2:16 pm ET
probably, but here
we go again, life goes on
whether live or dead
Haiku #66661
, by vhs
January 4, 2020 7:19 am ET
Manufactured war:
Keep the masses all confused
before elections.
Haiku #66660
, by Sick of it all
January 3, 2020 11:02 am ET
It just dawned on me
Kangaroos must look funny
When they take a shit
Haiku #66659
, by I. Cumfromaland of Down under
January 3, 2020 8:24 am ET
blue balls in baghdad
the president shoots his wad
patriot jism
Haiku #66658
, by ash
January 3, 2020 6:25 am ET
my country's aflame
fuck the paris agreement
bravo! encore fois
Haiku #66657
, by ash
January 3, 2020 6:17 am ET
ghost of Bolton's 'stache
pacing the oval office
having war wet dream
Haiku #66656
, by krav MAGA
January 2, 2020 9:51 pm ET
i heard there's airstrike
iranian official
he's super dead now
Haiku #66655
, by krav MAGA
January 2, 2020 9:44 pm ET
i hear theres rocks called
asteroids in orbit, they
like to crash on down
Haiku #66654
, by vhs
January 2, 2020 7:10 am ET
Strolling through the park
Masturbating at high noon
Was it a werewolf?
Haiku #66653
, by Worth a second look of Park
January 2, 2020 6:33 am ET
orbit the same star
there's nothing new about this
hallmark occasion
Haiku #66652
, by ash
January 2, 2020 2:04 am ET
Instead of friendship
I received the Christmas card:
Meaningless gesture.
Haiku #66651
, by Seasons of Futility
January 2, 2020 1:45 am ET
Though he's not that great,
Just to derange them further:
Haiku #66650
, by Year of Orange Greatness
January 1, 2020 8:03 pm ET
Stop being a fag
Continue until you are
No longer a fag
Haiku #66649
, by Sparklepony, MD
January 1, 2020 6:35 pm ET
Haiku #66648
, by vhs
January 1, 2020 8:49 am ET
Heard you had E.D.
What is wrong with your lizard?
What's the prognosis?
Haiku #66647
, by Hard O'Hearing of Up 2 streets and Take a left
January 1, 2020 6:10 am ET
Drop your pants, Dick Clark
His ghostly jizz coats Times Square
As time marches on
Haiku #66646
, by Noticer of Details of Behind binoculars
January 1, 2020 2:45 am ET
so long and first dibs
2020 here we come
chewie, we are home
Haiku #66645
, by vhs
January 1, 2020 12:02 am ET
this is it boys, the
end of the end of something
paint the country rec
Haiku #66644
, by vhs
January 1, 2020 12:01 am ET
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I have lived in Washington for most of my life been born in the Central
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election I had a nursing Career and trained in the Old Sunderland Royal
Infirmary and I've volunteered in the ward. I
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Biddick Academy. I'm an active member of the City Councils Scrutiny Committee
and currently serve as Vice Chair. I
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Independence Day Quotes for Fourth of July
Independence Day, commonly known as the Fourth of July, is a federal holiday commemorating the adoption of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, declaring independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain. Independence Day is commonly associated with fireworks, parades, barbecues, carnivals, fairs, picnics, concerts, baseball games, political speeches and ceremonies, and various other public and private events celebrating the history, government, and traditions of the United States. Independence Day is the national day of the United States.
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SHOW BITS: Fey, Poehler are big winners
Show Bits brings you the 70th annual Golden Globes awards through the eyes of Associated Press journalists. Follow them on Twitter where available with the handles listed after each item.
The Golden Globes' shrewdest choices may not have had anything to do with those nominated for awards.
At midpoint in Sunday's broadcast, Amy Poehler and Tina Fey were poised to be the night's big winners for their roles as co-hosts.
Poehler had promised not to be "edgy or offensive tonight," as past host Ricky Gervais had been in many viewers' eyes.
"Because as Ricky learned the hard way, when you run afoul of the Hollywood Foreign Press, they make you host this show two more times," Poehler said.
She and Fey weren't edgy or offensive. Just charming, irreverent and hilarious.
That should be grounds for having to host the Globes two more times - at least.
- Frazier Moore - Twitter https://www.twitter.com/tvfrazier
Jeremy Irons had stepped outside the Golden Globes show and was preparing himself a hand-rolled cigarette when he stopped in mid-roll and pocketed his tobacco.
"Wait, I want to see Jodie," he said.
He rushed back inside the ballroom in time to see Jodie Foster accept the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement from Robert Downey, Jr.
- Sandy Cohen - Twitter https://www twitter.com/apsandy
Toby Jones dropped a little scoop on the next chapter in "The Hunger Games" series.
"It's obviously bigger and a different kind of film this time, more centered on the games themselves," he said on the red carpet at the Golden Globes.
Jones was at the awards show as a nominee for best actor in a miniseries or movie for his performance as Alfred Hitchcock in HBO's "The Girl." He lost out to Kevin Costner.
The actor will reprise his role of Claudius Templesmith in "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire," and of course Globe winner Jennifer Lawrence will be back as Katniss Everdeen.
- Beth Harris - Twitter https://www.twitter.com/bethharrisap
QUICKQUOTE: "NO! Hahahahahahaha" - Adele, responding to a question about whether she expects to play a Bond girl now that she's won a Golden Globe award for "Skyfall."
- Anthony McCartney- Twitter https://www.twitter.com/mccartneyAP
QUICKQUOTE: "What do I do? Good, ask questions. This is so awkward." - Jennifer Lawrence, who endured an awkward pause while waiting for reporters to begin asking questions backstage after winning an actress Golden Globe award for her role in "Silver Linings Playbook."
- Anthony McCartney- Twitter https://www.twitter.com/mccartneyAP
QUICKQUOTE: "I'll revisit that area because I like original story and I think that they are our Shakespeare in a sense. I never do Westerns for the shootouts. I always do them for the language." - Kevin Costner on whether he'll make another Western project after winning a Golden Globe for his role on "Hatfields & McCoys."
- Anthony McCartney - Twitter https://www.twitter.com/mccartneyAP
QUICKQUOTE: "Oh my God, what an exciting special guest: That was Hillary Clinton's husband! - Golden Globes co-host Amy Poehler after a special appearance by former President Bill Clinton.
- Sandy Cohen - Twitter https://www.twitter.com/apsandy
There was big-name celebrity heat on the Golden Globes red carpet. That was about the only heat to be found anywhere in Beverly Hills, however.
On a sunny afternoon, when temps dipped unusually low into the 50s, goose bumps popped on the sinewy arms of actresses like Debra Messing, Connie Britton, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Sally Field.
"No, I'm not wearing any leggings or long underwear," a smiling Louis-Dreyfus said, patting her strapless gown's layers of tulle, silk and lace.
Asked how she was coping with the chill, Messing replied, "Not well."
Britton didn't mind as much.
"I don't think it's that bad out here," she said. "Maybe it's the adrenaline or something. It's fun to wear a strapless dress to an awards ceremony, so sometimes you got to suck it up."
- Beth Harris - Twitter https://www.twitter.com/bethharrisap
Gowns with long trains are glamorous but can pose a serious traffic hazard. Just ask the guy behind Jennifer Lopez.
When Lopez strolled into the Golden Globes show pulling an impressive amount of fabric, the man behind her had to do a quick bunny hop.
His quick thinking and fast maneuvering avoided not only a possible derailment but also what could have been an embarrassing wardrobe malfunction.
- Lynn Elber - Twitter https://www.twitter.com/LynnElber .
Olympic champions Gabby Douglas, Missy Franklin and Evan Lysacek shed their athletic garb and slipped on slinky duds to walk the red carpet at the Golden Globes.
"Evan put it perfectly," Franklin said. "He said, `This is kind of like the Olympics for the celebrities.'"
Douglas, the all-around gymnastics champion, shimmered and shivered in a lime dress on the chilly carpet, where temps hovered in the 50s.
Franklin, the five-time swimming medalist, wore a black silk gown with a sparkly statement necklace.
Lysacek, the reigning Olympic figure skating champion, donned a black velvet tuxedo that would have looked equally as dashing on the ice.
"I want to see everyone," gushed Douglas, who stopped to pose for a picture with Sean "Diddy" Combs. "I want to meet Emma Stone. I'm having so much fun."
- Beth Harris - Twitter https://www.twitter.com/bethharrisap
QUICKQUOTE: "When my name was called, my knees gave a little bit. Actually, I was sitting. My knees gave when I walked up there." - Christoph Waltz, who won a Golden Globe for supporting actor for his role in "Django Unchained."
- Anthony McCartney- Twitter https://www.twitter.com/mccartneyAP
Golden Globe nominees Steve Buscemi and Louis C.K. shared some love inside the Beverly Hilton Hotel International Ballroom as they waited to find out whether they'd go home winners or losers.
"Thanks, it was fun," the comedian said sheepishly after the star of "Boardwalk Empire" complimented him on his Globe-nominated performance in "Louie."
Buscemi was nominated for best actor in a TV drama, while C.K. was up for best actor in a TV musical or comedy.
Elsewhere in the ballroom, Kathryn Bigelow and Jodie Foster made a beeline for each other, navigating around several star-filled dinner tables to exchange greetings and a hug.
- Sandy Cohen - Twitter https://www.twitter.com/apsandy
As the announcer shouted out that it was time to clear the red carpet and get inside for the Golden Globes show, Anne Hathaway managed to quickly sign her name to a fan's autograph book.
George Clooney and his fan weren't so lucky.
The fan-friendly actor was heading toward the bleacher crowd before he was ushered inside just in time for cameras to roll.
- Anthony McCartney - Twitter https://www.twitter.com/mccartneyAP
A tube of lip gloss, some mascara, an iPhone and her driver's number.
That's all Megan Hilty of "Smash" is carrying in her golden clutch at this year's Golden Globes.
Tina Fey and Amy Poehler have even less in their itty-bitty purses. They're empty.
The ceremony's co-hosts whipped them open and held them upside down on the red carpet for the "Today" show co-hosts before the heading inside to prove nothing was weighing them down Sunday.
- Derrik J. Lang - Twitter https://www.twitter.com/derrikjlang
He is Bond after all. He has to look cool. Even when it's cold.
With the sun going down and temperatures dropping, Daniel Craig strolled down the Golden Globes red carpet still wearing his sunglasses.
As fans shouted his name, the man who plays James Bond turned to the crowd and waved, flashbulbs flashing in his face and reflecting off his shades.
- Anthony McCartney - Twitter https://www.twitter.com/mccartneyAP
Max Greenfield of "New Girl" stopped to sign an autograph for bleacher sitter Arturo Vargas, just after Vargas' mom, Patricia, remarked that she had the best seats outside the house.
She and her 22-year-old film student son's bleacher seats were next to the area where the Golden Globes' very own camera crew had set up.
As a result, just about everybody who was anybody stopped to say hello to their fans on their way into the Golden Globes show.
-Anthony McCartney - Twitter https://twitter.com/@mccartneyAP
Film students Arturo Vargas and Renee Huesca snagged front row seats for the Golden Globe Awards bleachers, with Vargas providing some veteran commentary to his fellow fans.
This is the third time the 22-year-old Vargas has attended the show and this year he was accompanied by his mother, Patricia, and aunt Claudia Verdes, who traveled from Mexico City to take in the event.
Verdes craned to get a photo of "Nashville" star Hayden Panettiere and Vargas' mom. She joked that she planned to play paparazzi later and sell it to her nephew.
Vargas, meanwhile, fielded questions as stars arrived on the carpet.
He's hoping to eventually become a science fiction writer and director.
Huesca, also 22, says she hopes she might be walking down that red carpet herself someday.
"I've already thought about what I would say when interviewed," she said.
-Anthony McCartney - Twitter https://twitter.com/@mccartneyAP
EDITOR'S NOTE: Show Bits brings you the 70th annual Golden Globe Awards through the eyes of Associated Press journalists. Follow them on Twitter where available with the handles listed after each item.


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Social Security offers you many options to conduct business with us online. Far gone are the days when you needed to visit our offices or call us on the phone to appeal a denial of your disability benefits. Now you can file an appeal online, even if you live outside of the United States!
The online appeals application is simple, convenient, and secure, guiding you through every step of the process. From outlining your rights to an appeal, to publications on the appeals process, a fair review of your Social Security case is right at your fingertips. The online application even allows you to upload supporting documentation, like treatments, doctors, and medical reports, as well as an option to save your submissions.
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7 lucky tech stock bargains. Yes, they existApril 10, 2014: 2:40 PM ET
The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Paul R. La Monica. Other than Time Warner, the parent of CNNMoney, Abbott Laboratories and AbbVie, La Monica does not own positions in any individual stocks.
Tech stocks have been a bit of a whirling dervish lately. And the Nasdaq was getting taken to the proverbial woodshed again Thursday.
But repeat after me. This is not 2000! Tech stocks, writ large, are not overvalued.
Yes, there are plenty of bubbilicious stocks in the sector. Twitter (TWTR), LinkedIn (LNKD), Netflix (NFLX) and Amazon (AMZN) are all in that camp.
Related: Check out CNNMoney's Tech 30 index -- the most important tech stocks in the world
But the biggest difference between now and 14 years ago (other than Lindsay Lohan still having a promising acting career) is that most major technology stocks are trading at very reasonable valuations. The days of Cisco (CSCO) fetching a triple-digit P/E ratio are long gone.
Heck, in 2000 you couldn't even calculate a P/E ratio for a lot of the Internet stocks because many of them didn't have what the E stands for: earnings.
Fortunately, there are plenty of values to be had in tech. I ran a screen (thanks, FactSet!) to find tech stocks at attractive prices that are expected to post healthy gains in sales and profits. To top it off, these stocks also have squeaky clean balance sheets (i.e. little debt) and all but one of the ones I'm about to discuss pay a dividend.
So here are a "Lucky 7" tech stocks that might be able to withstand more volatility in the Nasdaq.
Apple (AAPL) I realize that Apple hasn't released a truly innovative new product in years. And Tim Cook is not Steve Jobs. So?
Related: Apple is leaving $63 billion on the table
This stock may have been abandoned by momentum investors. But it trades at just 12 times earnings estimates for this year, below its long-term projected average annual earnings growth rate of 14%. And it has an iNormous amount of cash. Ignore the haters and focus on the still solid fundamentals and thrifty valuation.
Microsoft (MSFT) The maker of Windows is actually the flip side of Apple. Investors are thrilled that new CEO Satya Nadella is not old CEO Steve Ballmer.
Like Apple, Mister Softee is a stock that no longer makes the growth investor crowd that excited. But that could change under Nadella, who is focusing heavily on the company's cloud-based business in a way that Ballmer failed to do. With a P/E of 15 and a long-term growth rate of 11%, it's not as much of a bargain as Apple.
Still, Microsoft may have more potential than Apple thanks to Nadella. And when's the last time you could say that Microsoft is a more dynamic company than Apple? 1990-something?
Qualcomm (QCOM) The beauty of owning this company is that it allows you to make an agnostic bet on the future of wireless.
Qualcomm's wireless chipsets are a mainstay of nearly all mobile devices. So if you are an iPhone/iPad owner or someone that prefers products running on Google's (GOOGL) Android system, Qualcomm doesn't care. The company also has no debt and pays a dividend that yields nearly 2%.
Related: How Qualcomm plans to triple Wi-Fi speeds
And new CEO Steve Mollenkopf, who actually was rumored to be a candidate for the Microsoft top job before Qualcomm hastily promoted him, is focusing heavily on China as a new area of growth. If he's successful in getting Qualcomm technology in more Chinese phones, this stock could really pop.
Corning (GLW) This company actually lived through the last tech boom and has adapted to take advantage of the latest big trend in tech: mobile. Corning was a star tech stock in the late 1990s because of its fiber-optic cable business. There was huge demand for that when the Internet was in its infant stages.
But that segment collapsed with the rest of tech in 2000. Can you say JDS Uniphase (JDSU)? Fortunately, Corning is hot again due to the more mundane business of glass. Its Gorilla Glass products are a mainstay of smartphones, tablets and laptops.
Related: What's the deal with Apple's new sapphire plant in Arizona?
While Corning's shares are occasionally prone to some swings any time there is a rumor about Apple considering the use of sapphire glass displays from rival GT Advanced Technologies (GTAT), the worries seem to be priced into the stock. Corning trades for just 15 times earnings estimates and profits are expected to grow at a 17% annual clip.
Applied Materials (AMAT) In case you haven't noticed, the chip sector has held up quite nicely during this nasty bout of tech turmoil. The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index (SOX) is up 8% so far in 2014.
One of the best ways to play the rebound in semiconductor stocks like Intel (INTC) and Texas Instruments (TXN) is through the companies that supply equipment to these firms. Applied Materials is the chip equipment leader. And as long as chip companies are ramping up capital spending, that's great news for AMAT.
The stock trades at 18.5 times earnings estimates. So it's not dirt cheap. But earnings are expected to rise by more than 20% a year, on average, for the next few years. The 2% dividend yield does not hurt either.
AOL (AOL) I did a double take when I noticed this stock. But AOL is finally benefiting from stronger online advertising demand and cutting its reliance on its legacy Internet access business. It's telling that AOL is the only online ad company to make it through my screen. No Google, Yahoo (YHOO) or Facebook (FB).
Why? AOL has little debt, trades for less than 20 times earnings estimates and should be able to post annual profit increases in the mid-teens for the next few years. With AOL putting the worst of the Patch hyperlocal debacle behind it, investors can focus on its more lucrative online video and content businesses like Adap.tv and The Huffington Post.
Sure, CEO Tim Armstrong doesn't win points for being a nice guy after his Obamacare snafu earlier this year (who can forget "distressed babies"?). But it's best to ignore emotions when you invest. Look at the numbers.
NetEase (NTES) I was hoping that at least one Chinese tech stock would pop up on my screen. Online gaming company NetEase did. Now don't worry about how NetEase is China's King (KING) or Zynga (ZNGA). This is a very profitable company that even pays a dividend.
NetEase has recently expanded into South Korea and Thailand. And it has plans to launch games in the U.S. as well. That may be a risky move. But NetEase trades for less than 12 times 2014 earnings estimates. It's much cheaper than most other Chinese techs, such as Qihoo 360 (QIHU) and Sina (SINA).
So there you have it. Seven tech stocks that should hopefully let you sleep easily at night -- even on days when the Nasdaq is falling more than 2%.
We'll be talking about all this and more on CNN this Saturday at 2 p.m. ET. I'll be on with Christine Romans on "Your Money." Watch us talk stocks -- it might even help you decide what to do with your tax refund.
Reader Comment of the Week ... and see you on April 24. These are strange times for the markets. Remember the PIIGS? No? That was so 2011. Well, the G member of those once-sad peripheral European nations is back in the fixed-income market. My colleague Mark Thompson wrote about the remarkable demand for a Greek debt offering.
One of my snarkiest readers joked about how these assets may be safer havens than U.S. stocks and bonds.
Opa! Speaking of celebrating, I'm going to be off all next week and the first two days of the following week. Yay me! So Twitter radio silence begins tomorrow after the market close ... and my next Buzz column will be published in two weeks. Enjoy the silence.


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The MOU will see that during the design, development and subsequent operation of Khalifa Port, ADPC will ensure that sufficient land, storage facilities, infrastructure and services are made available at Khalifa Port to accommodate Borouge's products and to assure the seamless transition of Borouge's current port operations at Mina Zayed to Khalifa Port.
Borouge currently utilizes Mina Zayed for a throughput capacity of 600,000 tons of polyethylene per year and will require the provision of port services for an increase in throughput capacity of approximately 2.1 million tons of polyolefin per year by 2010, once Borouge 2 expansion project is completed and to an ultimate throughput of 4.5 million tons by the year 2014, upon the completion of Borouge 3.
Under the terms of the Memorandum, ADPC will ensure that the Port Operation shall make all the necessary arrangements to ensure that Borouge's current production level and future increased production levels inclusive of Borouge 2, shall be effectively handled by Mina Zayed alone until the commencement and full operation of Khalifa Port.
Construction of Borouge 2 began in late 2007 and consists of an ethane cracker of 1.5 million tons per year, the world's largest olefins conversion unit of 752,000 tons per year, two Borstar® polypropylene plants with a combined annual capacity of 800,000 tons, along with a new Borstar Enhanced polyethylene plant with an annual capacity of 540,000 tons.
Khalifa Port is part of ADPC's multi-billion dollar flagship project. Khalifa Port and Industrial Zone (KPIZ) is one of the world's largest green-field port and industrial zone development projects that will provide essential infrastructure for the growing industrial and commercial sectors of Abu Dhabi, as outlined in "Plan Abu Dhabi 2030".
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Man accused of neglecting horses gets them back
Eight horses were returned to a man after police seized them two weeks ago
Several horses were returned to a man accused of neglecting them.
The Leflore County Sheriff's Department seized 26 horses from Jerry Shropshire earlier this month.
A judge allowed eight of those horses to be returned to Shropshire on Friday.
Shropshire failed to post a $3,200 security bond and was only able to take home seven of those horses.
"As a result of him failing to meet the requirements of that bond, those horses were forfeited to the sheriff's office," says Leflore County Sheriff Rob Seale. "Right now, we have 18 horses."
Seale says the eight horses returned to Shropshire are healthy and in good shape.
The sheriff says he has concerns Shropshire will not take care of the animals in the future.
"I'm afraid that after a period of time, if he keeps horses out there and the herd builds back up, we're going to be in the same situation again," says Seale.
Seale says the sheriff's department will keep an eye on the horses to ensure they are healthy.
"We'll do sporadic checks out there to make sure the horses are being taken care of like they're supposed to be," says Seale. "And if they're not then we'll address that situation again."
The sheriff says many people underestimate the amount of care horses need.
"A horse is a high-maintenance animal," says Seale. "It's not like buying a puppy for your kid. People don't realize how much work there is in keeping up a horse."
The sheriff says the 17 other horses seized by the county are being nursed back to health at the Triple O Equine Sanctuary in Wister.
The sheriff says it is unlikely Shropshire will face any criminal charges.