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-0.407854 | 4.586361 | -1 | Instead of replacing windows, consider adding blinds
UPDATED 1:05 PM CST Jan 24, 2013 (NewsUSA) - Being aware of
your home's carbon footprint takes targeted effort, but it can
also save you money. Incorporating eco-friendly additions into
your home can massively reduce energy bills and save on repairs.
According to, up to 24 percent of a fuel bill can escape out of
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state of your windows, total cost could be anywhere from $3,000
to $10,000. One affordable yet environmentally efficient option
is insulating window shades. There's some hesitation around
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we need to replace them, or can we use insulating shades? A: If
your windows are no longer functional, and your energy bills are
off the charts, go with replacement windows. However, if they
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look dreadful, smell bad, and have the conversational skills of
a well-adjusted slug, but despite their bad manners and constant
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According to Voodoo traditions, powerful spiritual men called
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who created him. As outsiders began to look into the myths, they
discovered that these si |
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-4.200195 | 0.903038 | 18 | HOME > Chowhound > General Tristate Archive > Westchester
Restaurant Recs • 2 My older sister took driver's ed back in
high school and somehow managed to coax the DMV into giving her
a license. How, I don't know. She was never comfortable driving
and hasn't been behind the wheel more than once or twice in the
many years since. She essentially is a brand new driver. That
being said, she would like me to reteach her how to drive. We
both live in Manhattan, but don't think that it would be prudent
to conduct these lessons anywhere in our vicinity, at least not
to start. It just so happens that her birthday is next week as
well. I am looking for suggestions somewhere in Westchester or
Northern New Jersey where I can take her one day after work next
week and she can drive around, ideally in an area with not too
much traffic and perhaps a large parking lot nearby. You may be
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3.671479 | 2.645957 | 5 | 12 November 2006 Ucipital mapilary? I heard something sounding
like ucipital mapilary when I was watching on channel 5 this
evening Dracula: Dead and Loving It, a horror spoof in which a
clumsy, accident-prone incarnation of Bram Stoker's famous
vampire count left Transylvania for London in pursuit of a young
Englishwoman. Having not a clue about what the term really
means, I did some research. In the end I found out that
ucipital mapilary is the suprasternal notch (or in Latin lacuna
suprasternalis), the visible, little indentation between
clavicles (collarbones, the pair of bones joining the breastbone
to the shoulder blades), which is regarded as the mark of true
beauty. If you are by any chance a medical student, doctor,
anatomist or sort of forensic expert, don't tell me there is no
such term in Gray's Anatomy, because it's actually a fictional
term coined by the screenwriter Samson Raphaelson for the 1941
Hitchcock thriller Suspicion, in which an exchange between
Johnnie Aysgarth (Cary Grant) and Li |
5.318565 | 0.785328 | 13 | Liquid Tension Experiment - Liquid Tension Experiment CD
(album) cover Liquid Tension Experiment Progressive Metal
3.80 | 348 ratings From Progarchives.com, the ultimate
progressive rock music website Prog Reviewer 2 stars Possibly
the result of their label suppressing the rock on Falling into
Infinity, Mike Portnoy and John Petrucci teamed up with Tony
Levin and Jordan Rudess to make an album of all-out instrumental
fusion jam power. While the material on Liquid Tension
Experiment's debut borders on cheesy sometimes and borders on
useless other times, it borders on brilliance the rest of the
time and it makes sure that everyone knows that the boiz hadn't
lost their sense of technicality all together (though it does
also let everyone know that the inconsistency was at least
partly their own fault). On the back insert of the CD, it says
"CAUTION: "Three Minute Warning" is not for the musically faint-
hearted, impatient, or critics of extreme self-indulgence. If
you fall into any of the above categories, |
-0.531065 | 0.780915 | 6 | Covington officers called to domestic dispute Photo by Kristen
Ralph Photo by Kristen Ralph 'You know me' Covington Police
officers were called to the scene of a family fight with reports
that the husband was hitting his wife in the head with his fist.
Officers talked with the woman who said he hit her at least 10
times "like he was fighting a man." She said her husband was
upset because she "nudged" him several times to wake him up to
go to work. The husband was back in bed when police arrived and
when they entered the bedroom, he refused to acknowledge them.
Finally he woke up enough to see the officers and denied
fighting his wife. "Come on, you know me, I work at the Waffle
House," he told the officers. He went to jail. 'What's going
on?' CPD officers were working a traffic accident early in the
morning when one of the officers observed a car get out of the
line of traffic that was waiting to be waved through and park in
front of a closed pawn shop. The officer saw the man act like he
was going int |
1.332393 | 9.743827 | 22 | Take the 2-minute tour × I created an union and I put different
types of array inside of it. I printed outputs in an order and I
really didn't understand some points. 1) Why is my char array's
length always 8 even the content is different? There is only
"hello" inside of it. And why does the output is "Cats rock!"
when I try to print for second time. I didn't put anything like
that inside array. 2)Again length problem. Lenghts of all my
arrays are 8 even the length of union. Why? 3) My last question
is why double number's value changed when I try to print for the
second time. I'm posting you my code and out put that I get.
Sorry about long post, but I'm really confused. char: hello, 8
double: 5.557111111111111, 8 int: 1937006915 1668248096 8555, 8
char: Cats rock! double: 0.000000000000000 int: 1937006915
1668248096 8555 size of union: 8 my code #define NUM1
5.557111111111111 #define NUM2 1937006915 #define NUM3
1668248096 #define NUM4 8555 #include <stdio.h> /*created an
union*/ typedef union { |
-0.891286 | 3.037912 | 84 | Severe fog has forced the cancellation of dozens of flights
scheduled to take-off and land at Britain's airports on
Wednesday with more disruption expected later in the day.
Flights to Warsaw, Nice, Stockholm, Aberdeen and several German
cities were among 20 cancelled by London's Heathrow. "It's
better to cancel flights when there's fog because in fog you
can't land as many planes per hour because you have to leave
more space between the planes," said a spokesman for the
airport. The smaller London City Airport also reported
disruption. A message on the airport's Twitter page said:
"Visibility has not improved, flight disruptions are present and
expected to continue until further notice. Please call your
airline for info." Britain is in the middle of a cold snap with
temperatures hitting minus 10C (14F) in some parts of the
country. "The fog is currently pretty widespread," explained
Julian Mayes, forecaster for MeteoGroup. "It's currently
located over central England as a large area of low cloud, whic |
4.16732 | 2.649853 | 5 | Exclusive Interview: Matthew Goode for "Brideshead Revisited"
By Paul Fischer Thursday July 17th 2008 03:40AM Matthew Goode
for "Brideshead Revisited" British actor Matthew Goode is on a
roll. The young up-and-coming actor, who rose to prominence in
Woody Allen's "Match Point", is starring in two very distinctive
and eagerly waited films. First off, he stars as the social-
climbing Charles Ryder in the big screen adaptation of the
classic novel "Brideshead Revisited", to be succeeded by the
lead dual roles of Adrian Veidt and Ozymandias in the adaptation
of the graphic novel "Watchmen". In this exclusive interview,
Goode talks acting, Hollywood and these latest movies.
Question: Do you feel at all at any time making Brideshead, that
you were either consciously or not consciously channeling Jeremy
Irons at any time? Goode: Well, I think if there's any
similarities between our performances it's not because I watched
it again. I saw it five years previous to I was actually doing
it, and I think, you know, ob |
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-0.422832 | 3.93058 | -1 | Europe Forums Start a new topic Change Forum Advanced search
Packing for Baby Jump to last reply So, we are finally off to
Italy on Monday and I would love some pointers on what to bring,
supply wise, for our 9 month old baby who will be with us.
Here's what I've got so far: 1. Bought the Kelty
stroller/backpack carrier. Does everyone still like this? My
only concern is that I don't see how the baby can sleep during
the day when in the stroller, as he is always upright.
2.disposable pads 3. disposable washcloths 4. disposable bibs 5.
Motrin, Tylenol, thermometer 6. Ointment 7. Should I just bring
one pack of wipes and buy the rest there? 8. Should I bring SOME
diapers and buy the rest there? 9. Baby food (Do I bring 30
glass jars of baby food?) I understand that the flavors there
are VERY different. 10. Small, quiet toys for plane. 11. Blow up
tub 12. Formula 13. Bottles/nipples/bottle inserts 14. Dry
snacks ( like Cheerios) 15. Blanket I'm not bringing any cloth
lap pads or washcloths. Just the disposab |
2.592142 | 2.35676 | 25 | Friday, January 29, 2010 Gay Literature In the February 1st
issue of Time is an article titled "From Europe with Love,"
about the release in America of an anthology of short stories,
Best European Fiction 2010, containing translations of stories
"from thirty-five nations and regions from Albania to Wales...."
The columnist Radhika Jones writes, "Translations of foreign-
language works make up a mere 3% to 5% of the books published in
the U.S. annually, and that includes new editions of classics
like Anna Karenina. Except for a few recent
breakouts...translated authors tend to deliver anemic sales,
which makes mainstream American publishers loath to gamble on
them [p. 52]." The United States isn't the only country to
avoid releasing translated versions of foreign writing; Canada's
pretty good at it too, although I think, in general, Canadian
publishers do a better job of importing this material,
especially from England, which makes sense given our connection
to the Commonwealth. But it isn't just foreign |
2.438669 | 8.664427 | 24 | Take the tour × The set of $\mathcal{L}^p$ functions is closed
under addition, multiplication and convolution operations. I'd
like to know an example of a set of functions which is closed
under convolution and not under addition and multiplication.
share|improve this question The easiest example is the standard
orthonormal basis in $\ell^2(\mathbb{N})$, I presume. – t.b.
Jul 27 '11 at 8:12 @Theo Buehler : I do not know of such a
thing, could you please give a link or explain. – Rajesh D Jul
27 '11 at 8:28 @Rajesh: See
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequence_space. – joriki Jul 27 '11 at
8:37 Let $e_n$ be the sequence that is zero except at place $n$.
The convolution $c=(c_n) = a \ast b$ of two sequences $a=(a_n)$
and $b=(b_n)$ is given by $c_n = \sum_{k} a_k \cdot b_{n-k}$.
Using this formula you have $e_{m+n} = e_m \ast e_n$. But
obviously the set $\{e_m\} \subset \ell^p$ is neither closed
under addition nor multiplication. This convolution arises when
looking at the Fourier transform $\mathcal{F}(f\cdot g) = \m |
-1.172608 | 8.963599 | -1 | Re: simple exim configuration Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 21
December 2002 8:16 am, Paul Scott wrote: > Alan Chandler wrote:
> >but for instance, I do > > > >fetchmail ->smtp->exim (as
MTA)->pipe->spamassassin->exim(as >
>sendmail)->$HOME/Maildir->courier->pop3->kmail > Can you tell
me what configuration causes any of those connections > (except
for those which have already been answered in this thread).
Runs as a daemon (debian package loaded and started by
/etc/init.d/fetchmail) - - I have listed some of my
/etc/fetchmailrc below (I actually poll several seperate ISPs
and I also have 5 different blueyonder user lines for different
poll pop3.blueyonder.co.uk no dns proto POP3 tracepolls
aka blueyonder.co.uk localdomains chandlerfamily.org.uk
user "ac003a3222" password "xxxxx" forcecr is * smtpaddress
fetchmail.home this is the multidrop case (catchall for not
specific chandlerfamily.org.uk addresses). The specific line
is like this user "ac003a3222_5" password "xxxxx" forcecr is
alan fetchall sm |
0.417364 | -1.851827 | 69 | Will Egypt Rock Our Economy? Will the chaos in Egypt
reverberate here financially? Charlie Gasparino on how some
economists fear a return of 1970s-style "stagflation," and how
Chinese policy helps stoke it. All the signs have been pointing
to a robust economy in 2011, from the president's pump-priming
cave on Bush-era tax cuts (as well as accompanying extension
benefits) to business openness to turning cash stockpiles into
expansion. The stock market has cracked the 12000 level, and
Republicans have been privately worrying that, in prodding Obama
into adopting more free-market principles, they inadvertently
saved his presidency. Now comes the political crisis in Egypt
and you can almost feel the markets fret. Oil prices have been
edging up, the markets recorded their largest decline since
November, and even worse, the chatter among many economists has
raised the specter of global "stagflation," the economic
disorder that made the late 1970s and early 1980s among the
worst years for the economy since the Gr |
2.378345 | 2.701764 | -1 | Just another girl. Living for God, and writing her heart out
upon a page. Jesus Christ is my Savior. 2 Corinthians 12:9 is my
favorite Bible verse. Sour Patch Kids are my guilty pleasure. I
wouldn't be able to live without music or books. I write my
feelings so I don't have to bore people with them. I'm supposed
to be "perfect" but I'm honestly not. My best friends are either
stuffed animals, people I've known since I was 5, or live a
couple states away. Pictures are a huge part of my life. Nancy
Drew is amazing. Oh, and I'm working on my first novel. So
that's me in a nutshell, pretty much. Here, you'll find a
little bit of everything. A little personal, a lot of musicals,
plenty quotes, and a butt-load of Disney. I love movies with a
passion. |
-1.093864 | 8.347622 | -1 | Channels ▼ Web Development Geolocation in Perl brian has been
a Perl user since 1994. He is founder of the first Perl Users
Group,, and Perl Mongers, the Perl advocacy organization. He has
been teaching Perl through Stonehenge Consulting for the past
five years, and has been a featured speaker at The Perl
Conference, Perl University, YAPC, COMDEX, and Contact brian at
Many web server log analyzers now support "geolocation," meaning
that they can turn a host name or IP address into a point on the
globe. With geolocation, instead of looking at a bunch of
numbers, I can look at maps. Using the Geo::IP module and the
databases from MaxMind (http://www, both of which are freely
available, I can add this feature to my programs, too. Turning
IP addresses into locations is not perfect, but as long as I
understand how IP numbers are assigned and split up, I can put
my geolocation results into perspective. I need to know a little
about how IP numbers are assigned, so I can interpret the
results and judge the accur |
1.998784 | 5.153881 | 90 | Metro 2033 | | Release Date: March 16, 2010 Frequently Asked
Questions Edit Page Last Edit: 3 years ago The most
commonly encountered problems for Metro 2033 (the initial un-
patched release) will be addressed here. Please note that future
patches and updates may address or solve some issues mentioned
here. How can I distinguish military rounds from the regular
rounds? This is an admittedly tough one, especially without
high quality screenshots. The military rounds are ONLY used in
the Bastard Gun, Kalash (the AK-74), VSV (the VSS with no HUD
sight), and Kalash 2012 (Russian FN P90). No other weapons will
use the military ammo. When you hold the reload button to
switch between the home-made and the military ammo, take a look
at the ammunition graphic when you have your automatic weapon
selected -- if the base is reddish/brownish, you are using the
home-brew ammo. If the bullet's circumference is gold, you have
loaded the military grade ammo into the weapon. What's the best
weapon in the game? That |
0.627037 | 10.095963 | 16 | perlquestion perlcgi I'm investigating writing a shrink-wrapped
data-migration tool for non-technical users. It has to be win32
and it has to be gui. What's the best approach? <br> I would
like to write the guts of this app in perl. It needs a pretty
slick autoinstall. Would an all perl Tk app, including modules
like Net::Telnet, Date::Manip, Win32::ODBC/DBI be a contender
and how should I pull it all together i.e. could perl2exe work,
is anybody else doing this? <br>If not, is VC++ and perl
doable?<br> Many thanks for any info! |
0.111214 | 5.552149 | -1 | Quote Originally Posted by Ed Sukach The color differences
between brands of enlarging lenses, and between different lenses
of the same brand, would not surprise me much - but then after
the years I've spent, it takes quite a bit to surprise me. I
still don't understand a great deal - I'm just not surprised
that there are things I don't understand. It's interesting that
you cycle the enlarging lamp a few times to "warm it up". I
analyze the color characteristics of the lamp in my enlarger
before every session, and randomly, during the session, and I've
never found that the ambient temperature that exists in the
optical system affects anything worth mentioning. What lamps -
halogen, incandescent - or? are you using? Between the three
lenses I use - two Rodenstocks and one Schneider - I only see
3-4 cc difference. More would not surprise me, though (see
above). Variations in color balance of the negatives and paper,
and chemistry - are more pronounced .. and analyzing for those
would mask other variables. I |
-2.298529 | 3.315346 | 76 | Search OCA: Get Local! OCA News Sections Organic Consumers
Association The Curse of Fertilizer Without this
independent-minded element, disinclined to associate with other
gases, the machinery of photosynthesis cannot function-no
protein can form, and no plant can grow. Corn, wheat, and rice,
the fast-growing crops on which humanity depends for survival,
are among the most nitrogen hungry of all plants. They demand
more, in fact, than nature alone can provide. Enter modern
chemistry. Giant factories capture inert nitrogen gas from the
vast stores in our atmosphere and force it into a chemical union
with the hydrogen in natural gas, creating the reactive
compounds that plants crave. That nitrogen fertilizer-more than
a hundred million tons applied worldwide every year-fuels
bountiful harvests. Without it, human civilization in its
current form could not exist. Our planet's soil simply could not
grow enough food to provide all seven billion of us our
accustomed diet. In fact, almost half of the nitrogen |
0.236103 | -0.381763 | -1 | France : Introduction and Economy I. Introduction When we
examine France, we are looking at a country with a rich, if
varied history. The French comprise one of the oldest nation-
states in Europe and one that has played a dominant role on the
continent for the last millennium. - similar to the us in the
sense that there is a written constitution, yet there have been
sixteen different constitutions in France since 1789, and eleven
different government. Since the collapse of the Second Empire in
1870, with the exception of the interruption of the Second World
War, all of these governments have been democratic, yet they
have varied in form. Within French history we have seen the
contradictory impulses of egalitarianism and the desire for a
strong ruler. For examples of the first we can look at the
first, second, third, and fourth republics, for the latter see
the first (Napoleon Bonaparte) and second (Louis Napoleon)
empires and the present fifth republic (formed by de Gaulle). -
de Gaulle and the difficulty of |
4.354064 | 3.026843 | 5 | Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Producer Gets in Email Bitch Fight
with Movie Reviewer Hollywood bigshot Scott Rudin is all pissed
at New Yorker movie critic David Denby, because he ran a review
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo a week early. They're so angry
at each other that they're fighting. Over email! IndieWire has
the full transcript of their exchange so far, but Rudin (who is
on top in the photo above) got wind that Denby was going to
release his review today. That's a whole week early, against the
embargo! See, reviewers agree not to talk about a movie until
its release date so they can have the privileged of seeing the
movies for free in advance of the opening. Denby decided that he
was going to break this agreement for the hotly anticipated
movie. I hope that Rudin isn't afraid of spoiler alerts. It's
not like everyone who has spent more than seven minutes in an
airport in the last year hasn't read the damn book and knows
what happens. Some of this has to do with politics involving
the New York Film C |
0.233469 | -1.332632 | -1 | Brian Draper, Associate lecturer at the London Institute for
Contemporary Christianity Saturday, 14 January, 2012, 08:14 AM
- War, Draper Rating 1 out of 5 (Not platitudinous) Most people
are shocked by the video of American marines urinating on dead
Afghans. Unfortunately, in this internet age, we've seen it all
before, with Abu Ghraib and the last few minutes of Gaddafi. The
sanitised war that we used to read about in the papers, is now
revealed in graphic detail. Yet young soldiers, almost as a
requirement of their job, must dehumanise their enemy. My great
grandfather, who hadn't learned that lesson, killed a German in
hand to hand combat and screamed in terror every night for the
rest of his life. The irony of all this is the outrage over the
desecration of bodies. Few it seems, are outraged that they were
killed in the first place. 3 comments ( 258 views )
| permalink | ( 3 / 161 ) Rev Dr Giles Fraser - Ex Canon
Chancellor of St Paul's Cathedral Rating 5 out of 5
(Extraordinarily platit |
-2.915241 | 3.640007 | 45 | Punch Counting Don't just randomly punch the bag until you are
tired. Create a program. Start with sets of 200 punches, each
hand. Switch to two per hand, and then four. Track your
progress using SDXt iMetrics (requires Speed Demon XT). Pull up
your workout history in the iMetrics logbook, or review
your workouts using the analytics provided by iMetrics. Speed
Measurement You know you can hit the bag fast. You just don't
know how fast. Find out. Only the Speed Demon can quantify
your gains. Time Trials (SDXt iMetrics) Tired of the same old
routine? Set a time trial to see how many punches you can throw
in one minute (or more!). Switch it around and try to complete
a "punch down" - how fast can you throw 250 punches? 500? Speed
Endurance Ratings (SDXt iMetrics) Every time you workout, SDXt
iMetrics will rate your workout using a speed endurance
algorithm that analyzes the number of rebounds and your average
speed for the duration of the workout. Your current speed
endurance rating is your cumulati |
-4.424075 | 3.062812 | -1 | iOS app Android app More Riva Greenberg Meter Accuracy Counts
More -- and Less -- Than You Think Posted: 08/28/2012 6:30 pm
Recently I wrote a post asking, "Why Can't Meters Tell Me My
Blood Sugar?" It was prompted by checking my blood sugar on two
different meters from two different companies, and to my
surprise discovering the results were quite dissimilar.
Compared to a Standard Lab Test Home meters can't compare to
the standard lab test ("reference standard") they're measured
against. Hospitals are contained environments where elements
like temperature, humidity and altitude are controlled. Trained
technicians run the test on a very costly machine that is
regularly maintained and calibrated several times a day. Lab
tests also analyze a larger blood sample for 60 seconds or more.
As for why different meters give different results, it's largely
due to the meter's calibration and coding and the strips' design
that causes a unique interplay between strip and meter. The
last wild card in our glucos |
0.814386 | 2.355272 | -1 | Friday, February 8, 2013 What if money was no object? I as
just came across this video and thought it was something I
should share on here. It is one of the best videos I've seen on
the subject of following your dreams. I've watched it before,
but I watched at again just to remind myself of why I do what I
do. It poses the question "What would you do with your life
if money was no object?" It's a chilling question? What would
you do? What would you change? What type of person would you
be? Why go after your dreams, why follow your passion, why do
whatever it is that gives you pleasure and joy? Why? Because!
It is your life! You only live it once! If you live it as a
servant to money, or as a servant to a job you don't like, or to
ideas projected on you from another person, you will always
feel like something is missing. You will always feel unhappy,
and unfulfilled, and a victim of circumstance. You may feel
that if you do go after your passion, if you do what it is that
gives you joy, it |
-0.866315 | 8.951501 | 148 | Take the 2-minute tour × I've recently moved from a shared
hosting to a VPS at vps.net but I think I might have broken it
already! I have domain.com and domain.net. I have setup DNS
records for both to point to my server. However, only domain.com
pings to the correct IP address. domain.net is pointing to a
different IP address. Possibly the old server it was pointing
to. This has now been deleted. Is there possibly any way to
correct this without having to submit a ticket to VPS.net?
share|improve this question add comment 1 Answer up vote 1
down vote accepted It could be that the other name change has
not yet propagated to your local (ad ISP) DNS cache, and you are
just lucky that the other change became available as quick. Give
it a little time, for the cached entries to be refreshed, then
try again. All DNS entries have a time-to-live value (TTL)
which is how many seconds a DNS server should cache them for,
most registrars let you change this though some don't. Typical
defaults (or fixed values if |
-0.491675 | -0.053634 | -1 | Canadian Idiot Testo Testo Canadian Idiot Ben Harper: cinque
concerti in Italia nel 2014 Scarica la suoneria di Canadian
Idiot! Clicca qui Guarda il video di "Canadian Idiot" Don't
wanna be a Canadian idiot Don't wanna be some beer swillin'
hockey nut And do I look like some frostbitten hose-head? I
never learned my alphabet from A to Zed They all live on donuts
and moose meat And they leave the house without packin' heat
Never even bring their guns to the mall And you know what else
is too funny? Their stupid Monopoly money Can't take 'em
seriously at all Well maple syrup and snow's what they export
They treat curling just like it's a real sport They think their
silly accent is so cute Can't understand a thing they're talkin'
aboot Sure they got their national health care Cheaper meds,
low crime rates and clean air Then again well they got Celine
Dion Eat their weight in Kraft macaroni And dream of drivin' a
Zamboni All over Saskatchewan Don't wanna be a Canadian idiot
Won't figure out their temperatu |
0.37745 | -1.837326 | 69 | As many of you know by now, the powerful pan-Arab media
broadcaster Al Jazeera has just bought a US cable TV channel,
Current TV. Based in and owned by the Arab monarchy of Qatar, Al
Jazeera paid half a billion dollars for a failed TV channel in
order to get the unfettered US base it has been seeking for
years, “a pathway into American living rooms,” as the New York
Times put it. Qatar is supportive of Hamas and Hezbollah, but
maintains secretive contacts with Israel, which used to have a
trade office there. It straddles the fence, with regard to
relations with Israel and other Arab countries and tribes, from
a purely opportunistic basis. (I’ll leave it to the reader to
ponder the irony and meaning of Al Gore owning 20% of Current TV
when it was sold to Al Jazeera.) The representatives of the two
parties to the deal have been flacking Al Jazeera as not the
terrorist TV outlet that people used to think of, but as a
legitimate worldwide news organization. This it may be ― as all
such organizations now are bia |
0.040063 | 0.09918 | -1 | Mad Old Man From Massachusetts Ironically enough, the petition
campaign was developed by peace-loving Quakers and launched in
Essex County, Massachusetts, by the Quaker poet John Greenleaf
Whittier. The abolitionists were tireless collectors. One
petition, demanding the abolition of slavery in the District of
Columbia, carried 130,200 names; another to prohibit slave trade
between the states, 23,160; a third to prohibit slavery in
United States territories, 21,200; and so on down the line. In
Massachusetts, petitions circulated in 1843 to free the slave
Latimer drew 51,862 signatures. Dr. Henry Ingersoll Bowditch
described “the immense roll of paper” as “about the size of an
ordinary barrel.” The abolitionist leader Henry B. Stanton
estimated that in 1838-39 the American Antislavery Society
gathered two million signatures, an impressive percentage of the
total population of the United States, even allowing for some
inflation of the figures. In fact, the stacks of petitions
were piled so high in the baseme |
1.775504 | 0.190538 | 44 | Megiddo National Park Megiddo National Park, encompassing the
ancient biblical mound of Megiddo, whose universal value has won
it a place on the UNESCO World Heritage List, is located at the
western entrance to the Jezreel Valley in the Lower Galilee, on
an important ancient and modern crossroad. At the beginning of
the third millennium BCE, Megiddo was already a fortified city
with huge walls, and 1,000 years later it became a center of
Egyptian rule over Canaan. Strategically, it was invaluable: It
controlled the end of the Iron Valley in the heart of the
ancient Via Maris (the Way of the Sea), which linked Egypt and
Damascus. The Egyptian pharaoh Thutmoses III took Megiddo in
1468 BCE during his campaign to entrench Egypt’s power over the
region. Megiddo was taken by the Israelites apparently only at
the time of King David, and the city flourished during the time
of King Solomon. In 924 BCE, Pharaoh Shishak conquered Megiddo,
but the city was rebuilt, and in Ahab’s time it became an
important chariot city |
1.702068 | 0.836687 | -1 | From Papyrus to Digital: UCI’s Thesaurus of Ancient Greek Texts
The ancient Greeks produced an immense volume of writing
recording the birth and early development of Western literature,
science, drama, philosophy and other areas of human endeavor.
The Homeric epics, the philosophical writings of Plato and
Aristotle, Greek drama, the New Testament, the writings of the
Eastern Church Fathers, and the Justinian legal corpus are only
a few examples of this extraordinary heritage. Unfortunately,
only a very small percentage of these texts--an estimated
3-5%--has survived. Most have been irretrievably lost due to
accidental destruction, the natural devastation of time, or
plundered by foreign invaders. The few texts that remain--all
the more precious as representations of what has been lost--are
widely scattered and can be difficult to access. For centuries,
scholars have sought ways to ensure that the remaining corpus
both survives and thrives. Perhaps improbably, the fledgling
UCI campus began to play a central |
1.187174 | 5.50494 | -1 | Take the 2-minute tour × I have seen the Dirac equation in
curved space-time written as
$$[i\bar{\gamma}^{\mu}\frac{\partial}{\partial
x^{\mu}}-i\bar{\gamma}^{\mu}\Gamma_{\mu}-m]\psi=0 $$ This
$-i\bar{\gamma}^{\mu}\Gamma_{\mu} $ is the spin connection: a)
Why is it needed? b) Why is it minus could it be a plus (is it
due to metric signature)? c) Is the a suitable method to
calculate it for a given metric e.g FRW space-time?
share|improve this question add comment 2 Answers This is
standard theory. Try • Birrell, N. D., & Davies, P. C. W.
(1982). Quantum Fields in Curved Space. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press. Bog standard Curved space QFT text. Don't
remember how much is said specifically about spinors though.
• Brill, D., & Wheeler, J. (1957). Interaction of Neutrinos and
Gravitational Fields. Reviews of Modern Physics, 29(3), 465–479.
doi:10.1103/RevModPhys.29.465 <-- This paper was particularly
clear from memory. • Yepez, J. (2011). Einstein’s vierbein
field theory of curved space. G |
5.272038 | 0.752054 | 13 | Bent Out of Shape: Has Heavy Metal Become a Joke? + Add a
Comment This is a good article, crackasnowflake mentions, are
some good bands out there, but the question remains, why we
don´t have right now bands that really stand out of the crowd,
there's been so little bands that may sound interesting, but we
don't have something like Pantera or Metallica or whatever great
band that comes to your mind, I'm not speaking musically, but in
a way that you feel that "wow I have to check this out" every
band just feels the same, the point is that they feel soulless.
I have to agree. I don't consider Lizzy to be metal...but I am
glad he mentioned them. I actually bought Shades of a Blue
Orphanage on CD before I had a CD player. I knew I was missing
an album, this was before the internet, and I found Shades at
Camelot Music...I bought it and then went and bought a player.
I'm into metal...Maiden, Priest, Sabbath, Megadeth,
Metallica...I actually bought Kill 'Em All on vinyl just because
of the cover art and song, |
-0.346106 | 0.44827 | 6 | Reply to a comment Reply to this comment nightranger writes:
In these type of cases the suspect should be put in jail for the
rest of their lives. You can't trust anyone who does this ever
again regardless of age. What happened to kids just running away
from home. That is what we did when I was younger and got in a
fight with your parents. To shoot your parents in the head while
they are sleeping indicates a severe mental issue that can never
be corrected. This individual will always be a danger to
society. |
-1.544359 | 0.584451 | -1 | Bagot community changes could go to court Posted August 03,
2012 13:51:24 The Country Liberals' plan to redevelop Darwin's
Bagot community will probably result in a court challenge and
compensation, a lawyer says. Bagot is Darwin's largest
Indigenous community and the Country Liberals want to turn it
into a suburb where anyone can buy a home. The party says it
will have to change the lease arrangements for the land. But
barrister Lex Silvester says that would be legally difficult.
He says even if it did happen, payouts would follow. "I would
imagine there would be a very large amount of compensation to
pay to the Bagot community," he said. Treasurer Delia Lawrie
agrees. "Enormous amounts of money would have to be paid and
you'd be caught up in the courts for years," she said. The
Opposition's Dave Tollner says he cannot see why his proposal
would face any legal challenge. Topics: urban-development-and-
planning, indigenous-policy, bagot-0820, darwin-0800 |
-3.526636 | 2.843009 | 47 | Caring for a Puppy With Parvo | ThriftyFun Browse
Newsletters Contests Ask Share Account About Caring
for a Puppy With Parvo Puppy With Parvo It is important to
consult your veterinarian about your puppy's health concern.
This guide is about caring for a puppy with parvo. Article:
Homemade Parvo Treatment Ok, before the editors can place their
"disclaimer" along with this post, I am going to place it here
first. We full well understand NOT everyone is capable or has
the knowledge we have behind us. So with this said, home
treatment can be as expensive as vet treatment. Knowledge of
animals is what helped us. Also, there are 2 forms of Parvo. We
were lucky enough to be dealing with the intestinal type. If
your dog develops the cardiac type, seek immediate vet help.
Editor's Note (the real one): Please discuss with a professional
health care provider before starting this or any home treatment.
We have a pair of 7 month old Bull Dogs. Both had 1 set of
shots. We received them as strays, s |
-2.284932 | 5.060085 | -1 | Skip to main content debt-to-income ratio Definition from
Nolo’s Plain-English Law Dictionary The percentage of a
person's monthly gross income that is spent on paying debts,
such as housing and credit card payments. Banks and lenders use
this ratio to decide how much money (and on what terms) they
will lend someone for a mortgage, car, or other loan.
Traditionally, lenders have said that your housing costs
(mortgage principal and interest, homeowner's insurance, and
property taxes, also known as PITI) shouldn't exceed 28% of your
gross income, and that your overall debt (PITI plus car and
other loan payments) shouldn't exceed 36%. Definition provided
by Nolo’s Plain-English Law Dictionary. August 19, 2010, 5:14
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0.153434 | 7.894711 | -1 | Printed from Microsoft asks just $15 for each XP netbook
updated 10:35 pm EDT, Sun April 19, 2009 MS Asks 15 for XP
Netbooks Microsoft's determination to wrest control of netbooks
from Linux has seen it drop the bulk price of Windows XP for the
systems to under $15 per copy, according to a leak from an
unnamed source. Although Microsoft has never publicly disclosed
its pricing for netbook licenses, the Wall Street Journal now
hears that a copy of XP Home for the budget portables is less
than a third the price of a Windows Vista copy for a typical
notebook, which costs the PC maker between $50 and $60 per copy
in large batches. The price is well below the usual $30 asked
for the Starter Edition of Windows, which is meant for PCs in
the developing world. The pricing level partly explains
Microsoft's push to complete Windows 7 and use its Starter
Edition as the foundation for netbooks. The newer OS release is
expected to command a higher price and will also be the first to
have a clear upgrade path to more |
-0.058993 | 3.317056 | 138 | Tell me more × I've just applied for a conversion masters in
computer science. I graduated with a degree in English four
years ago, and so I've been a data entry clerk for a year and a
bartender for three. I want to have a 'proper' job so I can move
from home and all that. I've been given several reasons why I
keep failing interviews: According to info from careers advice
websites and the like, English is a 'useless' degree, and I
should attempt to get more sought-after skills and
qualifications. The masters I have applied for teaches Java
programming and would prove I have technical capability and that
I'm not "just another English grad." Well, that's the plan, at
least. Interviewers tell me that I sound like I'm "looking for
just any job, not THIS job in particular." This is absolutely
true; I have no particular compunction about what I do as long
as it pays and doesn't involve people as its primary focus. With
the masters, I applied because I use computers pretty much
constantly and I think I could be c |
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they can show the structure and movement of the body's internal
organs, as well as blood flowing through blood vessels.
Memorial’s Ultrasound services are available 24-hours-a-day. All
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1.296149 | 8.870513 | -1 | Continuous- and Discrete-Time Conversions Change model sampling
time c2d Convert model from continuous to discrete time d2c
Convert model from discrete to continuous time d2d Resample
discrete-time model translatecov Translate parameter covariance
across model operations c2dOptions Create option set for
continuous- to discrete-time conversions d2cOptions Create
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this topic helpful? |
2.536364 | 4.859589 | -1 | Articles on Psychology and Gambling Reform Needed For Online
Gambling, Gambling Advertising "Problem gamblers" health is
usually worse than the general population, with smoking and
hazardous drinking patterns more likely, and increased incidence
of physical illnesses. more Reform Needed For Online Gambling,
Advertising The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of
Psychiatrists supports better measures to prevent or reduce the
harm caused by problematic gambling. more here Problem
Gambling: You Got To Know When To Fold 'Em I worry about
promoting gambling in general. Yes, it's legal. But for many,
the closer they live to a casino, the higher the chances that
they'll develop a problem. more here Casinos For Kids Or
Gambling Prep Schools Victorian Government Bans Earphones With
Pokies "Such technology is clearly designed to immerse gamblers
in gaming machine play, potentially reducing their awareness of
their surroundings and time they spent playing." more Apes
'Gamble Like Humans By Calculating Od |
-0.915415 | 0.536071 | 6 | Citing dwindling manpower and a new focus on community-oriented
policing, Kingston Police Chief Egidio Tinti has ended the
department’s relationship with URGENT, the countywide drug and
gang task force. The move is the latest blow to an operation
that has been held up as a model of big-picture police work and
inter-municipal shared services. “The working relationship is
still there, it’s just that I, as an administrator cannot be
sending officers outside the city and footing the bill,” said
Tinti. “Right now I need all hands on deck.” The Ulster
Regional Gang Enforcement Narcotics Team was founded in March
2007 by then-newly elected Sheriff Paul Van Blarcum. The task
force combined personnel from the sheriff’s office, Kingston
police and a number of other agencies, including small-town
police departments, the county probation department and district
attorney’s office and the U.S. Immigration and Customs
Enforcement. Working from a headquarters at the Ulster County
Law Enforcement Center, URGENT carried out |
4.331073 | -4.232424 | 0 | Lawrence Rocca Voted For Hideo Nomo and Jack Morris for the Hall
of Fame, But Not Greg Maddux Who is honorary Hall of Fame
voter Lawrence Rocca and why did he vote for Hideo Nomo, Jack
Morris, Tim Raines and Alan Trammell over Greg Maddux, Tom
Glavine and Frank Thomas? First the who: Lawrence Rocca is a
Star-Ledger columnist and former beat writer for the Mets,
Yankees, Dodgers and Angels. His LinkedIN profile lists his
current occupation as Director of Development and Alumni
Affairs at Georgetown Preparatory School. Now the far-more-
pressing question: Why Nomo, Morris, Raines and Trammell?
Lawrence Rocca’s answer may astonish you. It was posted by
Rocca himself on Facebook back on January 2 (h/t:
@ChrisCotillo). Anyone who played the bulk of his career during
the Steroids Era, I am snubbing. Nomo gets a waiver because of
his time in Japan, the trail he blazed, and my (possibly naive)
belief that he did not use. Certainly, he could not have
influenced MLBPA leadership to take a harder stance against st |
4.337203 | -4.491673 | 0 | It's Not About the Payroll My email inbox is filling up with
messages from some mailing list about the Pirates' payroll and
how Bob Nutting is only trying to spend as little as possible.
I can understand any and all suspicions regarding ownership's
motivations, but to sculpt those suspicions into an argument
(and this is one we've probably all seen recently, not just on
this mailing list) without regard to the Pirates' circumstances
misses the point completely. How are the Pirates a worse team
for not having Matt Morris and his $10 million a year contract
on the payroll next season? They aren't. How would the Pirates'
chances of contending in the future be affected if the they'd
kept Jason Bay and Xavier Nady, both of whom would've been free
agents after 2009 anyway? They would be worse, because those
players would have been gone by the time the Pirates had been
ready to contend, and the Bucs would have gotten nothing for
them. And what role would Salomon Torres and Jose Bautista have
had on the next good |
-0.226918 | 7.860168 | -1 | Forgot your password? Comment: Too many phones! (Score 1) 171
The problem is Android phone manufacturers, rooted in
traditionally consumer electronics oriented companies, are
pumping out far more models than they could ever hope to provide
adequate support for, as they aren't used to actually having to
provide long term support for anything. This is one area they
could really learn something from Apple, whose home computer
roots have taught them what's involved with proper support. As
consumer electronics get smarter, you're gonna see the same
types of problems from everything these guys produce... next up,
smart televisions. Those companies would have us just throw
these perfectly good older devices away, and upgrade to a new
ones, but I don't think consumers much like that idea - or at
least, I know I don't. Comment: Morality (Score 1) 666 by
HRbnjR (#37889020) Attached to: How Can I Justify Using Red Hat
When CentOS Exists? You can try to tackle this from a
financial, support, or business perspective, |
4.503102 | -3.135132 | 1 | OSM Special Investigation Racist. Violent. Corrupt. Welcome to
Serie A (part two) For years it was the finest league in the
world: beautiful, brilliant and glamorous. But this season a
tide of scandal has swept across Italian football - and now
threatens to overwhelm it In mid-December last year, following
a humiliating cup defeat, an enraged Inter fan threw a Molotov
cocktail outside the San Siro stadium. This was significant for
two reasons. First because it suggested a disturbing level of
preparation. And second because of the incendiary's intended
victims. It hit and damaged the coach carrying the Inter team,
in other words the highly priced players the Inter fans cheer
every week. Marco Tardelli, the coach, was one of many on board
badly shaken by the attack. 'I just cannot accept this type of
violence bursting its way into football,' he said. 'After the
Heysel disaster, this is the worst that's ever happened to me in
football. Next thing they'll be shooting at us from the
grandstand.' The firebomb w |
0.560448 | 8.425834 | 74 | Take the 2-minute tour × I have an Ubuntu 13.04 server. Today I
found the box had crashed. I restarted it, and now every single
hard drive's partition table is missing. (1 SSD for /boot, /,
and 3 2TB drives for RAID). I have the SSD connected to a
laptop VIA USB->SATA cable, and sure enough, the partition table
is missing. This tells me that the Motherboard / SATA controller
/ software actually broke the drives, not that they just can't
be read correctly. Something similar happened to only the SSD a
few months ago, and I was forced to just re-partition it. How
the heck could his have happened? Bad Motherboard or SATA
controller? share|improve this question closed as too broad by
Scott Pack, Ward, mdpc, Jenny D, Tim Brigham Jul 1 '13 at 17:03
Depending on how you're doing the RAID, it's quite possible that
the drives are not supposed to have a partition table. Can you
elaborate more on the type of RAID (hardware/software, etc.)? Be
sure to consider the possibility that the drives are not being
assemble |
0.46089 | -1.855058 | 69 | The emergency law has returned to Egypt less than two years
after Hosni Mubarak was ousted from power, when Mohammed Morsi
reintroduced it to curb unrest which claimed 33 lives over the
weekend. It is a remarkable move given that the law epitomised
much of what was wrong with Mubarak’s administration and fuelled
the anger against him. Provisions in the law allow police to
detain suspects indefinitely, often with little evidence;
subvert constitutional rights; and curb press freedoms. Mubarak
used these laws throughout his thirty year rule. The Muslim
Brotherhood is sensitive to accusations of authoritarianism
despite Morsi frequently revealing his proclivity for
repression. He has already pushed through an Islamist
constitution which leaves minorities exposed and fails to
provide adequate protections for both freedom of expression and
religion. Now, Morsi insists, the emergency law will only
operate for thirty days and only in those cities which
experienced violence over the weekend (Port Said, Suez, and Is |
2.952714 | 2.428012 | 25 | Slate's summer reading. Reading between the lines. July 3 2007
7:24 AM Summer Books What Slate is reading this summer. Slate
has asked a number of its contributors to recommend some recent
books of note. Below is a list of their responses. Pack them up
for the beach or sit down next to the air conditioning, and
enjoy. A Day at the Beach, by Helen Schulman. A Day at the
Beach, by Helen Schulman (Houghton Mifflin). This intense,
disconcerting novel chronicles a single day in the life of a
Manhattan couple: Gerhard Falktopf, a once-sensational
choreographer past his prime, and Suzannah, his former prima
ballerina and now wife and mother to their son, Nikolai. That
day happens to be Sept. 11, and after Suzannah and Nikolai watch
from their window as the first plane crashes into the World
Trade Center, the Falktopfs pack up and head for the Hamptons.
At one point Gerhard expresses admiration for the "hyperrealism"
of Chuck Close's portraits, a term that aptly characterizes
Schulman's technique: Every detail |
0.450796 | 5.026001 | -1 | The quest for extraordinary vision. The quest for extraordinary
vision. The quest to build better people. March 5 2003 6:41 PM
I Spy With My Eagle Eye The quest for super-vision. (Continued
from Page 2) This is when super-vision becomes possible. Thanks
to the camera, there is scarcely any limit on what an implanted
person could see. You could equip the camera with a telephoto or
fisheye lens. The camera could swivel. It could receive infrared
light (the light that you see in night-vision goggles). So an
implantee could see in the dark, or see behind him, or zoom in
on a particularly interesting corner of his visual field. (The
model for all this, I say with embarrassment, is Star Trek: The
Next Generation's Geordi La Forge, the blind character who can
"see" infrared and UV light through his special visor.) Retinal
implants, too, could serve as cyborg eyes, though they wouldn't
be as sophisticated since they depend on normal light. But you
could make a retinal implant in which the sensors respond to a |
0.121164 | 9.183848 | 16 | Take the 2-minute tour × I'm doing some basic stress testing of
a Linux kernel network IWF with netcat. The set-up is fairly
simple. On the target side: nc -l -p 10000 > /dev/null And on
my desktop I was running: cat /dev/urandom | nc 10000 I'm
using urandom for some poor-mans fuzz testing. However I find
that even at this rate I can break something quite quickly. So
I've been playing with trickle to rate limit how fast I'm
generating data: cat /dev/urandom | trickle -u 10 nc 10000 But
it's hard to tell if this is working. What would be really
useful is a the pv equivilent of trickle that can work with
pipes. share|improve this question just search for pv in your
repositories. – EarlGray Oct 30 '12 at 17:02 add comment 1
Answer Straight after posting I came across a tool called "Pipe
Viewer" which seems to be just what I need.
http://www.ivarch.com/programs/pv.shtml share|improve this
answer add comment Your Answer |
1.115609 | 4.694718 | -1 | Permalink for comment 556213 by roblearns on Fri 22nd Mar 2013
15:33 UTC Member since: My understanding was that quantum is
just an adjective - allowing us to refer to the smallest
possible discrete unit of something. So the smallest possible
unit of weight isn't 1 kilogram, because you can divide that
into grams. Any number you define can be subdivided so you have
to just bail on that scene, and just refer to quanta instead.
It's like the old child's game where you state the largest
number, and finally someone says infinity, and then someone says
infinity+1 - no dude, infinity is defined as the largest number,
and quanta as the smallest discrete unit - as the
infinitesimally small. After this things get a bit murky, but
apparently Einsteins theory of relativity and Quantum theory
when taken together, can describe everything we know about
matter and energy. And you have other oddities like, Einsteins
theory of relativity, Quantum Theory, and Selena Gomez, taken
together somehow predicts the popularity o |
3.300128 | 4.940792 | 2 | Allegiance Image Generally favorable reviews - based on 17
Critics What's this? User Score Generally favorable reviews-
based on 11 Ratings Your Score 0 out of 10 Rate this: • 10
• 9 • 8 • 7 • 6 • 5 • 4 • 3 • 2 • 1 • 0 • 0
• Summary: Allegiance, the multiplayer space-combat game from
the minds of Microsoft Research, combines the challenges of
tactical squadron-based combat, intense one-on-one space
dogfights, and amazing graphical and sound effects into a space-
action experience like nothing you've seen before. [Microsoft]
Score distribution: 1. Positive: 14 out of 17 2. Negative: 0
out of 17 1. For the casual gamer, Allegiance finally gives
you a space shooter that's fun to play in multiplayer. It has a
point, it has huge furballs with dozens of fighters flying
around and it can be played at any time. Just fire up the
computer, find a public or premium match, join in and fly. 2.
The only real, but minor, issue I have with Allegiance is the
stiffness of the tech tree. Whi |
-1.413707 | 0.114565 | -1 | Latest letters February 13, 2007 I'm thinking for myself,
thank you To the editor: I have a bit of a tradition with a
close friend of mine from high school. Like most traditions we
have no clue how this started, but whenever we meet for lunch
it's always at the same Chinese buffet. One day during my last
trip home to Maryland, I had reached downtown Hagerstown a
little faster than I'd planned. Knowing that she's always late,
I thought I'd just drive around for a while when I noticed two
men in suits with rosary beads and a sign that read "Abortion
Kills Women and Children." I couldn't help but stop. The men
were stationed outside of an abortion clinic, ambushing patients
and nurses and doctors and anyone else who happened to be
entering or exiting the building. I didn't understand their
motivation or their purpose, so I asked them a few questions.
Very simply I asked them why they felt abortion was wrong. One
of the men immediately pulled a small plastic replica of a fetus
from his jacket pocket and look |
-4.241828 | 1.740224 | 85 | Artisan Roasting Coffee can offer one of the most complex
sensory experiences of all the foods and beverages on the
planet. As green coffee is roasted, amino acids and reducing
sugars combine, turning the coffee brown, carmelizing and
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chance for a hashiversary ribbon for a year. However, when the
coordinates came out, I wasn't so sure any more. They were all
far away and not very interesting. Finally I decided for the
Mannheim graticule, the main reason being that that would also
complete the minesweeper achievement for my home graticule. I
got up hardly after going to sleep, and caught a train at
shortly before 6 am. Unlike the one half an hour earlier, this
one would allow me to get off at Eyach and buy the daypass I
needed without actually leaving the train and waiting for the
next one - while the train waits for a passing one. The closest
station to the hash was the o |
3.884046 | 3.296703 | -1 | Aziz Ansari Calls for IMAX Boycott Due to Screen Size Issue May
12, 2009 Source: Aziz Ansari's Blog AMC Citywalk IMAX Cinemas
If you saw Star Trek in IMAX over the weekend, you helped the
franchise reboot break the record for best opening in IMAX
history. But if you saw the movie in IMAX at a Regal or AMC
theater, you may have also been part of an "alleged scam," at
least according to actor/comedian Aziz Ansari (seen in I Love
You, Man and on NBC's Parks and Recreation). Ansari has posted a
rant against these chains and their deceptive "IMAX" branding on
his own blog, and he's calling for a boycott of all Regal and
AMC cinemas, as well as all other IMAX locations. This is
serious, and there is an internet-wide debate about it, so read
on for more. Boycott them. F*ck them for taking advantage of
people and charging them $5 extra. If you're in LA, go to the
Arclight from now on, and f*ck the IMAX screens (fake and real).
Ansari's complaint is that the digital "IMAX" screens at some
theaters are significan |
-1.008405 | 6.747651 | 8 | Law & Disorder / Civilization & Discontents New short film
asks, “Why Copyright?” Canadian law professor Michael Geist has
interviewed a long list of Canadians … 50 years ago, did anyone
but big rightsholders and lawmakers care about copyright? It
certainly wasn't the tremendous public issue it has become
today, and a new short film from Canadian law professor Michael
Geist takes a look at why copyright matters to people and what
they think copyright should cover. Geist's film has a
particularly Canadian flavor, but most of the arguments made are
applicable in the US and around the world. In it, a collection
of artists, thinkers, musicians, and lawyers—even the Privacy
Commissioner of Canada—weigh in on copyright, anticircumvention
law, and the public domain. What's most interesting isn't
necessarily what they all say, as the general sentiments will be
familiar to anyone who's been paying attention to Ars, Geist,
Lawrence Lessig, etc. over the last few years. What's really
fascinating is just how thought |
-2.043714 | 2.152336 | -1 | What 'natural horsemanship' means to me - Page 2 The
Horse Forum > Training Horses > Natural Horsemanship What
'natural horsemanship' means to me This is a discussion on What
'natural horsemanship' means to me within the Natural
Horsemanship forums, part of the Training Horses category
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11:56 PM Good post, Cherie. Thank you :) Sponsored Links
02-02-2013, 12:14 AM Great post Cherie! I found your
comment about how horses' intelligence levels pertain to the
training process very interesting. 02-02-2013, 07:59 AM
I have often gone into the pasture and just stood beside the
horse facing the same direction as he. I will stand by his
shoulder which now places him in the leadership role. He will
remain like that for a couple of minutes then will back up and
make me the dominant one.He is consistent with this role. He
doesn't want to dominate. 02-02-2013, 08:58 AM Super
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-1.008469 | 6.676793 | -1 | North Carolina Trying to Lure $1B Apple Server Farm | News
North Carolina is hoping to lure Apple and what could amount to
a US$1 billion server farm to the state. The deal state
legislators are working to approve would give Apple a tax break
worth several million dollars, but would also generate new jobs
over the next few years, according to the Associated Press. The
state government isn't saying the tax law changes that would
make the deal possible were targeted at drawing Apple's server
farm to the state, but one official speaking anonymously
confirmed that the Cupertino-based company is exactly who they
are looking at. Apple's server farm would amount to a big win
for North Carolina since the state is facing an unemployment
rate up over ten percent, and the facility would be located in
one of the state's poorest regions. The tax incentives could
save Apple about $46 million over the next ten years should the
company reach its $1 billion investment point within nine years.
Tax savings could reach $300 |
-2.784142 | 3.076956 | -1 | Science has never given much credence to claims that you can
learn Chinese or French by having the instruction CDs play while
you sleep. If any learning happens that way, most scientists
say, the language lesson is probably waking the sleeper up, not
causing nouns and verbs to seep into a sound-asleep mind. In
a study published online Thursday by the journal Science,
researchers taught people to move 50 pictures to their correct
locations on a computer screen. Each picture was accompanied by
a related sound, like a meow for a cat and whirring for a
helicopter. ''We were able to cue people to specific
information they had learned,'' said Ken A. Paller, a cognitive
neuroscientist at Northwestern and co-author of the study. ''The
thinking is that during sleep, memory consolidation is going on
and that rehearsal is a good way to strengthen memories. A
2007 study found that people who were given whiffs of rose scent
as they learned a task remembered the task better when they also
inhaled rose scent while s |
0.61289 | 2.899984 | -1 | After much deliberation, my co-author and I have decided to make
a change in the title of our book. The purpose of this change
is to direct more attention to the larger market for which
Becoming a True Champion was written. Now, the title speaks
loudly about its purpose, just as the book itself speaks
directly to whom it will benefit. Our new title: Becoming a
True Champion: Achieving Athletic Excellence From the Inside Out |
0.5676 | 9.45684 | 16 | A survey of Python IDEs Paul Boddie paul at boddie.net Fri Aug
17 18:37:29 CEST 2001 web.mail at lycos.com (Alan Green) wrote
in message news:<270c68fe.0108162046.15ee55ac at
posting.google.com>... > Despite these IDE's, it seems that most
Python developers use a text > editor to program Python. Here
are three theories about this: > a. Python is the kind of
language that doesn't need a lot of tool > support. > c.
Python programmers are the kind of people that don't use IDEs.
I can't say that I've ever been completely immersed in an IDE
and enjoyed the experience, although there are certain things
about PythonWin (which I started to play with recently) which
are quite nice, such as attribute completion. One thing I don't
like about PythonWin is the "C64-like" editing mode - I much
prefer the readline interface, but there is a multi-line
readline interface which could appeal to me, I suppose. (There
was also a weird bug which came up every now and again while
editing programs - if I were using it now I wou |
0.440435 | 6.346581 | -1 | • By • Juro Osawa From Japan Real Time: From televisions,
video cameras, cellphone displays and videogame consoles, 3-D is
spreading into every category. Juro Osawa/Dow Jones In the
near future, it could become a common feature on all kinds of
electronic devices. So what’s next? NTT DoCoMo Inc. reckons
that the next step is to “feel” 3-D images rather than just look
at them. The Japanese mobile carrier’s booth at the Combined
Exhibition of Advanced Technologies, or Ceatec, has tiny 3-D
screens on display. Each one, about the size of a mobile
handset, shows a chameleon perched on a tree, which you can see
in 3-D without glasses. Then you hold a special pen and slowly
move it toward the animal. When the pen comes close, the
chameleon shoots out its tongue. You can feel the tongue hitting
the tip of the pen in your hand. So how does it work? The
setup: Behind the display, there are electromagnetic coils, and
hidden behind the table is a large power condenser. When you
hold the pen above the display, b |
0.737784 | -0.468087 | -1 | Page last updated at 21:22 GMT, Monday, 29 June 2009 22:22 UK
'UK Schindler' in birthday flight Sir Nicholas Winton and Judy
Leden during the flight (pic: Judy Leden) Sir Nicholas Winton
turned 100 in May and celebrated with the flight A man known as
the "British Schindler" for saving hundreds of Jewish children
has celebrated turning 100 with a microlight flight over
Berkshire. Every year Sir Nicholas Winton, from Maidenhead,
celebrates with a birthday flight over White Waltham Airfield.
Pilot Judy Leden is the daughter of one of the boys he saved.
Sir Nicholas, who turned 100 last month, was 29 when he smuggled
669 boys and girls destined for concentration camps, out of
Czechoslovakia in 1939. He kept quiet about his work for 50
years until his wife found a scrapbook in the attic containing
lists of children and letters from their parents. It was quite
turbulent, but he didn't mind Judy Leden, pilot Ms Leden, a
world champion in hang gliding and paragliding, said if it was
not for "Nicky" she would |
-2.201191 | -1.24046 | 10 | The vanishing act of Dubya Yes, the missing person in the
picture would be George W. Bush, now seemingly under party house
arrest back in Texas as Romney runs as far away as he can get
from Bush and his White House tenure. Memories of the junior
Bush economic hangover haunt not only President Obama, still
struggling to recover from it, but also the Republican who wants
Bush's old job. At a time when his rival Obama plans a closing
campaign swing with former two-term President Bill Clinton,
Romney keeps Dubya on the sidelines and out of mind. He's
obviously fearful voters will be reminded of what the previous
Republican president wrought domestically and abroad in his
eight-year reign. In the second presidential debate, when
Romney was asked by an undecided voter how he differed from the
junior President Bush, he pleaded that they were "different
people and these are different times." He said he would "crack
down on China" and balance the budget but "President Bush
didn't," and he would focus on small bus |
-1.7746 | 6.815632 | -1 | Is Facebook Really Worth $15 Billion? Maybe not. Microsoft's
$240 million investment in the wildly popular social networking
site is turning heads, but some insiders describe the valuation
as "ridiculous." An inside look at the deal -- and what it means
for the tech industry. Is Facebook Really Worth $15 Billion?
The business world is still buzzing about Microsoft's $240
million investment in Facebook -- a 1.6 percent stake which
places the wildly popular social networking site's total value
at around $15 billion. Quite a coup for 23-year-old founder Mark
Zuckerberg, the Harvard dropout who reportedly turned down a $1
billion offer just a year ago. The deal may give Microsoft a
leg up on rival Google, another Facebook suitor, and is no doubt
a stamp of approval for Facebook, which still has a relatively
unproven revenue model. But skeptics say Facebook, in reality,
is worth a whole lot less. So what does the move really mean
for Facebook and other tech upstarts? Will the site
revolutionize the Web, or |
0.311074 | 1.135028 | -1 | Privacy claim: Liz Hurley and Hugh Grant sue over holiday snaps
Liz Hurley, her husband Arun Nayar and Hugh Grant are heading to
the High Court where they are suing picture agencies Big
Pictures and Eliot Press for privacy invasion. Both agencies are
no stranger to legal action - Ewan McGregor having secured a
payout against Eliot Press over photographs taken while he was
holidaying with his family in Mauritius while Big Pictures have
been in the frame for several actions such as the famous David
Beckham 'Golden Balls' picture. The three friends are
complaining about pictures that were taken while they shared a
holiday in the Maldives last October. The rules and laws of
privacy have seen much confusion in the past and inconsistency
in the approach taken by the courts. Much of this centred around
the notion that one only had - in line with the law and self-
regulatory codes - a 'reasonable expectation of privacy' if one
were somewhere truly private, in the sense it was not accessible
(or meant to be) to the o |
-0.424863 | 0.405614 | 6 | Aurora theater shooting hearing, day two: Youngest victim's
story, death of a military man Original post, January 8, 11:47
a.m.: Today's session began with two 911 recordings from inside
the theater that captured the attack's chaos and terror.
According to Aurora police detective Randy Hansen, a screening
of The Dark Knight Rises was scheduled to begin in auditorium
nine of the Aurora Century 16 at 12:05 a.m. on July 20. After
previews and a commercial, the actual move started at 12:20 a.m.
The first 911 call came in shortly thereafter, at 12:38 a.m. It
was 27 seconds long and was placed by Keven Quinonez, who
survived the massacre. The recording is dominated by booming
noises; the detective counted at least thirty of them. Amid the
noise, Quinonez says something about gunshots, after which the
dispatcher asks for the address and then, after a pause, says,
"I'm sorry, I can't hear you." kaylan bailey.jpg Kaylan Bailey.
The second 911 call was made by Kaylan Bailey, thirteen, a
cousin of Ashley Moser, who w |
3.105427 | -4.413793 | 38 | Good For Us, Bad For The Broncos Officially thanking Denver for
Jay Cutler View Comments ( Getty Images Thanks, Josh
McDaniels! We really appreciate it. Sunday, the Chicago
Bears will play the Denver Broncos in a largely meaningless
football game. Little will be affected by the outcome. The score
won't matter. But there'll be a running subplot: Jay Cutler
will meet his former team, the Denver Broncos, where Cutler
might have played out his career, were it not for first-year
head coach Josh McDaniels. For his part, McDaniels is insisting
it won't be weird on Sunday night: "No, it is just another
great opportunity for us to fix things that we haven't done
well," McDaniels said Tuesday, when asked if the game carried
extra significance. "If you try to make too much of the
game or the opponent in the preseason, I think you are kind of
missing the point. The point is it is an opportunity for us to
go out there and improve, and that is what we are going to treat
it as." That's a |
1.092141 | 2.075646 | 40 | Thursday October 4, 2012 So I'm taking Spanish again. I
enrolled in a community college Spanish class on the first day
of classes. It was something of a splitsecond decision, such
that I had to sprint from the registrar's office to my car in
order to make work on time, but I feel good about it. My
reasoning is several fold. Most important, I've always wanted
to speak another language. I have studied a total of five over
the years, not counting fictional languages, but never pursued
any individual tongue enough to maintain fluency. Second, I
think speaking another language makes you a better person; not
just in the sense that it's a résumé builder, but also it
instills a degree of humility to not expect other cultures to
translate themselves for you. Lastly, I've always just enjoyed
being in school. Maybe it's the way it structures the year or
maybe it's because it's like a job which is challenging enough
to feel important, but if I fail at it I won't miss rent. The
great thing about Spanish is that e |
-2.465706 | 2.127914 | 26 | 5 Responses to “James – the very patient beggar” 1. Laurie
I have a black lab who does the same exact thing. She will even
wink at me to get a yummy morsel. 2. LB Chewey is also a
beagkr mix and convinces all visitors he is staving eventough he
is 15 pounds over weight. 3. esther my dog does the same
thing with her “soulful” eyes! eventually she gives up and lies
down at our feet, but any slight movement will cause her to sit
up again and look at us. LOL. it’s so tough to not give her
anything. Leave a Reply! Woof! |
-1.296415 | -0.896024 | -1 | Black People : wow steve coakley is dead Discussion in 'Black
People Open Forum' started by raheem934, Apr 15, 2012. above
content a above content b raheem934 Member MEMBER
Jan 4, 2004 Likes Received: Trophy Points: +14 / -0
Steve Cokely has passed on Staff Writer Steve Cokely
has passed away on April 11, 2012. Although many people did not
know Steve Coakely, he was famous for his social and political
thought. Cokely was best known as a conspiracy theorist.
Steve Cokely is a political researcher and lecturer who has
lectured nationally on political and economic issues especially
as they relate to the Black community. At the time Cokely served
as special assistant to the former mayor of Chicago, [[Eugene
Sawyer.> He was also assistant to the special committee on rules
under the late then Mayor Harold Washington, Steve Cokely is
also a futurologist who has commented extensively on water
conservation, organic farming, and communal living. Cokely has
given over 5,00 |
-1.502053 | 4.463693 | -1 | @article {663, title = {Coordination of Retail Demand Response
with Midwest ISO Wholesale Markets}, year = {2008}, month =
{05/2008}, pages = {39}, institution = {LBNL}, address =
{Berkeley}, abstract = { }, keywords = {electricity markets
and policy group, energy analysis and environmental impacts
department}, attachments =
{http://eetd.lbl.gov/sites/all/files/publications/report-
lbnl-288e.pdf}, author = {Ranjit Bharvirkar and Charles A.
Goldman and Grayson C. Heffner and Richard Sedano} } |
0.755924 | 8.777047 | -1 | time constraint meaning, time constraint definition | English
Cobuild dictionary ( times plural & 3rd person present)
( timing present participle) ( timed past tense & past
participle ) 1 n-uncount Time is what we measure in
minutes, hours, days, and years. ...a two-week period of
time..., Time passed, and still Ma did not appear..., The social
significance of religion has changed over time. 2
n-sing You use time to ask or talk about a specific point in
the day, which can be stated in hours and minutes and is shown
on clocks. wh/the N `What time is it?'<emdash10001`Eight
o'clock.'..., He asked me the time..., What time did he
leave?..., The time is now 19 minutes past the hour. 3
n-count The time when something happens is the point in the
day when it happens or is supposed to happen. Departure times
are 08:15 from St Quay, and 18:15 from St Helier.
opening time 4 n-uncount You use time to refer to
the system of expressing time and |
1.006636 | 1.772575 | -1 | Shipping to United States Illustrations by Mr Nick Hardcastle
The Babylonian pagans worshipped mothers. The Iroquois made them
their moral and political leaders. All we're asking you to do is
phone yours occasionally. As Mr T put it in "Treat Your Mother
Right" from his instructional second album Be Somebody... Or Be
Somebody's Fool!: "She's a queen/ Second to none/ Be right to
your mother/ You only get one". Films never to be watched with
your mother include Harold and Maude, The Graduate and anything
targeted specifically to people older than teenagers. And
whatever you do, don't buy her Mr David Guterson's book Ed King
- it won the bad sex award for reasons we won't go into here.
Do not write a novel about your mother while she is still alive.
As Mr Philip Roth's dictum has it: "when a writer is born a
family dies". You should refer to her as mother, or mum (if
you're American "mom" is just about acceptable). If you can read
this and you're still calling her "mummy" seek help. And what
to wear while d |
0.379239 | 1.545959 | -1 | Nine Children, Nine Mothers, One Father: Why Isn’t He the Novem-
Dad? Post to Twitter The media dubbed Nadya Suleman the
“octo-mom,” but noone calls Travis Henry the “novem-dad.”
The former NFL running back has fathered nine children with nine
different women in six years (see NY Times story here). He is
engaged to a tenth woman. Henry has gone to jail for failing to
pay child support (this year) and after being arrested on
cocaine trafficking charges (last year). Yet Henry has received
far less attention than Suleman. When a man has an “excessive”
number of children, he is considered foolish or potent or maybe
a victim of an opportunistic (read: gold-digging) woman. But a
woman who has an “excessive” number of children? She must be
crazy. In our Multiple Anxieties piece, Lolita Buckner Inniss
and I are critical of the epithet “octo-mom.” It likens Suleman
to an animal or reduces her to a metonymic body part. In their
excellent article Eight is Enough, Naomi Cahn and Jennifer
Collins describe |
-0.640652 | 9.669142 | 15 | Easy editing 10-31-2006, 11:18 PM I have made a website for
someone who doesnt know much about html, so i thought id make a
site that the admin can log into, and change things around with
tables. I understand what is needed.. but I keep missing things.
I have made the password, and the form, does anyone know of a
guide on the net? 11-01-2006, 08:47 AM What you are
essentially talking about is a content management system using
using php and sql. There are lots of tutorials to help you
build a CMS, but if you want to do it in bits then search for
things like "PHP login script tutorial". This was a search for
"PHP content management system tutorial" EZ Archive Ads Plugin
for vBulletin Copyright 2006 Computer Help Forum |
-1.178452 | 0.267348 | -1 | Louisiana Set to Criminalize Publishing That Someone Has a
Concealed Carry Permit The bill is HB8, though there’s a Senate
amendment; apparently, the Legislature plans to enact the bill
as amended. The bill bars the government from releasing
information about who has applied for or gotten a concealed
carry permit, and the Legislature certainly can impose such
restrictions on the government itself. But then it also
criminalizes speech by everyone else (I merge the House Bill and
the adopted Senate amendment): Absent a valid court order
requiring the release of information or unless a recipient of a
concealed handgun permit is charged with a felony offense
involving the use of a handgun, it shall be [a misdemeanor] … to
release, disseminate, or make public in any manner any
information contained in an application for a concealed handgun
permit or any information regarding the identity of any person
who applied for or received a concealed handgun permit issued
pursuant to this Section. So blogging that you ha |
3.38554 | 4.630893 | 2 | Darkest of Days Video Game Review Rating Preview Fun Factor
Single Player Darkest of Days is flat out offensive. This
isn’t on account of the loads of enemies to slaughter; I’m not
Native American, I don’t have any German in me, and I think all
of my ancestors got out of fighting in the Civil War due to flat
feet. No, Darkest of Days is offensive to me as a gamer. That
may seem like strong wording, and it may make it seem that
Darkest of Days is a horrible game, and that isn’t entirely
true. I mean, it is bad, quite bad at times, but that isn’t what
makes it offensive. Plenty of bad games come out and find their
way from store shelves to the back of game collections. What
makes this so incredibly frustrating is the potential contained
in a rushed and unfinished mess. Get the plot – In Darkest of
Days, players control a soldier mortally wounded during the
battle of Little Big Horn (yes that Little Big Horn, one of the
biggest military upsets not named Agincourt). Before the soldier
joins that big |
-1.088381 | 0.449135 | 6 | 422 F3d 1113 Thornburg v. Mullin 422 F.3d 1113 Richard Alford
THORNBURG, Jr., Petitioner-Appellant, Mike MULLIN, Warden of the
Oklahoma State Penitentiary, Respondent-Appellee. No. 04-6086.
United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit. September 7,
2005. Steven M. Presson (Robert W. Jackson with him on the
brief), of Jackson & Presson, P.C., Norman, OK, for Petitioner-
Appellant. Robert Whittaker, Assistant Attorney General (W.A.
Drew Edmonson, Attorney General, with him on the brief),
Oklahoma City, OK, for Respondent-Appellee. Before KELLY,
HARTZ, and McCONNELL, Circuit Judges. HARTZ, Circuit Judge.
Applicant Richard Allen Thornburg was convicted in Oklahoma
state court on three counts of first-degree murder and sentenced
to death. After the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals (OCCA)
affirmed his convictions on direct appeal and denied his
application for state postconviction relief, he filed in the
United States District Court for the Western District of
Oklahoma an application for writ of habeas |
-2.249305 | -0.598899 | 10 | Return to Transcripts main page Wall Street Bailout Approved;
What Comes After the Bailout?; Outrage Over the Bailout; McCain
and Obama On Bailout Legislation; What's Buried in the Bailout?;
Examining the Debate Aired October 3, 2008 - 17:00 ET WOLF
BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR: Happening now, the historic Wall Street
bailout plan approved by the House, signed by the president,
capping a tumultuous week in Washington, as well as on Wall
Street. And we're reading the fine print and uncovering some
controversial surprises inside. Also, one of the most watched
political debates in history -- but did Joe Biden and Sarah
Palin play loose with the facts? We've got a reality fact check
of this vice presidential face- off. Plus, California a casualty
of the credit crisis and locked out of markets. Will the
governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, now turn to the federal
government for billions in emergency loans? I'm Wolf Blitzer.
You're in THE SITUATION ROOM. Rarely have the wheels of
government turned as quickly as they |
4.420019 | -4.333225 | 0 | CINCINNATI -- Pirates left fielder Jose Tabata was removed from
Wednesday's game after making a spectacular catch of Brayan
Pena's fifth-inning line drive an instant before slamming into
the left-field wall of Great American Ball Park. Tabata, who
was replaced by Starling Marte, was diagnosed with mild
concussion-like symptoms. He will be further examined in
Pittsburgh, the club's homebound destination following
Wednesday's conclusion of a nine-game trip. Tabata remained
prone on the field as head athletic trainer Todd Tomczyk,
trailed by manager Clint Hurdle, sprinted out to check on him.
Tabata went into the wall left-shoulder first, but Tomczyk's on-
field examination of him appeared to focus on the outfielder's
jaw. "He hit the wall pretty well," said center fielder Andrew
McCutchen, the first teammate on the scene. "Regular speed, you
don't see a whole lot. I'm sure when you slow it down it looks a
lot worse. It was a heck of a play by him, sacrificing his body
for his team. A very good catch." At th |
-1.25879 | 2.183172 | -1 | potential neighbour dispute - quick advice needed please! (40
Posts) constantreader Sat 26-Oct-13 20:03:43 Hope somebody can
help! We live in a semi-detached property. Our neighbours have
recently started to do some apparently major building work in
their house, part of which involves fitting a new bathroom
suite. They have torn down their bathroom wall (no idea why) and
have exposed some pipes within the party wall - our pipes. They
now want us to have the pipes removed and refitted so that they
can get their new suite fitted, and seem to think that we should
be getting plumbers round to advise us of the work WE need to
undertake. At our expense. Oh, and do this urgently. Our pipes
are apparently on 'their' side of the party wall so therefore we
have an obligation to sort this. The wall needs to be bricked up
again and can't be done properly if our pipes are in the way,
Does anyone know anything about this? Are we under an obligation
to repair the wall they knocked down and remove our pipes -
which wo |
-1.840405 | -0.805565 | 10 | Huffpost Denver The Blog Michele Swenson Headshot Tancredo
Candidacy a Symptom of Degraded Politics, the Race to the Right
and to the Bottom Posted: Updated: In our broken political
system, candidates are propelled by 30-second sound bites funded
by large sums of money from undisclosed corporate and special
interests. Over 30 years there has been a concerted political
right effort to subvert U.S. democracy and redistribute wealth
to corporate and religious right allies. Democrats have been
complicit in their too frequent allegiance to the corporate
bottom line and willingness to short-circuit democratic process.
U.S. politics has devolved into a diversion from, instead of
engagement with, the issues - rather than a choice of the best
of the best, our candidate choices too often range to the least.
The only "choice" perceived by many is a vote for "the other" -
whoever is not in power. In light of party leaders' assertions
of "raising up an army to take back the nation," it is an
understatement to say th |
4.042842 | 3.193239 | 5 | May 2005 Archives A short break I'll probably be taking a
short break from posting for the next week or two. Before I
talk about screenwriting, I want to talk about fractals for a
moment. Fractals are objects where the overall shape resembles
the shape of the component parts. (Yes, yes, I know that's a
vast oversimplification of the proper mathematical definition,
but I don't think I need to get into a discussion of the
Hausdorff-Besicovitch dimension to make my point about the
three-act structure.) The Why of the Three-Act Structure Why
do most mainstream screenplays--and virtually all good
mainstream screenplays--end up fitting into a three-act
structure? Alex Epstein has posted some interesting thoughts on
the three-act structure. This is something I've thought about a
fair amount, so I thought I'd weigh in. First, for those of you
who aren't screenwriters, this post is going to be a brief
overview of the three act structure. I'm going to take my
examples from the original Star Wars (or "Star War |
-0.492829 | 5.320004 | 4 | 1997 Dodge Ram Brakes problem 1997 Dodge Ram V8 Two Wheel Drive
Automatic 90000 miles I had 2 brake lines break and have
replaced them and bleed out lines and have good brakes. My ABS &
brake lights are still on the dash. What's up with that?
December 7, 2009. Most likely a simple fix. When you popped a
brake line, the pressure differential valve shifted which turned
on the red warning light. Now that you have a solid pedal, that
light should go off. The valve is spring-loaded on Chrysler and
GM vehicles, but it can get stuck if there is any corrosion in
the valve body. Usually a good hard jab on the brake pedal will
release the stuck valve. If it doesn't, you will have to open
the hydraulic circuit that did not have the leak, then slowly
push the pedal down until the light turns off, then tighten the
fitting before releasing the pedal or air will be drawn in.
(You'll need a helper for that operation). The same light can
be turned on by the parking brake pedal and the low brake fluid
switch. Be sure the b |
1.282053 | 9.636236 | 22 | Take the 2-minute tour × I'm not a C++ expert, but afaik this
code should fail due to size not being constant: using
namespace std; int main(int argc, char** argv) int size =
*argv[1] - 48; char array [size]; return 0; Why does this
work when I compile that with gcc(better say g++)? ./test 7
/test 2 Thanks in advance share|improve this question add
comment 7 Answers To allocate memory from stack or heap for a
variable, the size of the variable need to be known. C++
compilers can decide themselves how they allocate memory, but
c++ has made it public how they expect c++ compilers to handle
the situation, and thus c++ std requires that compiler vendors
publish their memory handling. This happens via sizeof operator.
This operator is calculated completely in compile-time. The
compile-time restriction for the array sizes comes from this
requirement. int arr[10]; std::cout << sizeof(arr) << std::endl
since every variable and type supports sizeof, their sizes need
to be calculated on compile-time |
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1.465921 | 4.524511 | -1 | View Single Post Old February 18 2013, 03:07 PM #180 Robert
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with the S |
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Fritillaria camschatcensis is sometimes also called "Indian
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Kingdom: Plantae (unranked): Angiosperms (unranked): Monocots
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3.739014 | -4.645688 | 12 | Hopefully HO can help the Raptors as trade bait. With the
Raptors on-court so miserable, I’m turning to the world of
‘what-if’ for my fix. Word out of Miami is that Riley is
interested in trading for Jermaine O’Neal. O’Neal will have to
show him some good stuff to make it happen, which shouldn’t be
that bad considering his production before he decided he needed
a vacation was lost to injury the last couple weeks. Given
Riley’s track record of building a team around a Center (Jabbar
in Los Angeles, Ewing in New York, Traded for Mourning in Miami,
Traded for Shaq), it stands to reason he is looking for a center
since sending Shaq to Phoenix last season. Marion would be a
great running mate for Bosh, and give the Raptors a devastating
front court of Bosh, Bargnani and Marion. Imagine the put-backs
Marion would be getting with all the space he has to move with
the defense focused on Bosh and VL. While I’m dreaming…why not
go after that Nash trade. Send Jose, Kapono and bits for Nash,
Barbosa and bits. In the l |
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