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3.217862 | 3.155534 | 99 | The Aht wiki last edited by Mento on 11/01/13 02:28PM View full
history Role in Radiant Historia's Story Aht is a young,
rambunctious Satyros that Stocke rescues from a wild monster
encounter on the Gran Plains, along with her troupe of
travelling Satyros performers. Instantly smitten with the
reticent agent, Aht becomes very curious about Stocke and asks
him all sorts of questions. As they travel together to Granorg,
Aht's true nature as a shaman-in-training becomes apparent, as
do her prestigious magical skills in combat. Due to her age,
Stocke often tries to convince her to stay behind where she can
be safe before setting out on a dangerous journey, but she
usually finds a way to force herself into Stocke's group
regardless. In the Alternate Timeline, Aht is already in shaman
training in the Satyros village of Celestia and is referred to
respectfully as Lady Aht. When Stocke meets her for the first
time in this timeline, her affection for Stocke carries over
from the Standard Timeline and she decides to |
2.829265 | 1.677394 | 19 | the ambassador of awesome (neversince) wrote in prisonbreak_fic,
FIC: Broken (Michael/Sara PG-13 - Sequel to Drowned) Title:
Broken Author: neversince [archive] Pairing: Michael/Sara Word
Count: 813 Rating: PG-13 Spoilers: None Summary: She met him
after the escape because she needed to escape too. Sequel to
Drowned. Notes: This is the sequel to Drowned and picks up
where that one left off. If you haven't read it, you'll be
confuzzled. He sleeps spread out, practically diagonal across
the bed. At 1:30 in the morning, Sara's too tired to wonder
whether it's some sort of psychological rebellion to being
relegated to a four foot by six foot bunk in his cell. After an
hour of gentle nudging that turns into desperate pushing in
attempt to get him back over to his side of the bed, Sara gives
up completely and swings her legs over the side of the mattress.
Bare feet hit the plush carpet with no sound and when her slight
weight lifts off the mattress, Michael doesn't move. His
breathing deep and even, Sara stan |
-3.301304 | 3.824023 | -1 | Sponsored by The Moisture Myth: Telling Dry Winter Skin to
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0.20286 | 8.933613 | -1 | How to Find a Deleted File on Your Computer Level of
difficulty: Intermediate In majority of computer systems, the
deletion of stored files does not necessarily translate to its
physical removal from the storage device. What really happens is
that when a computer file is saved, markers are created to allow
programs to read its contents in relation to the location of its
components in the storage tracks. When a user issues a delete
command either from the command prompt or by emptying the
Recycle Bin for Microsoft Windows Operating System users, these
markers are removed but the actual contents of the files remain
in their storage tracks. By scanning the contents of the storage
tracks of the hard drive, it is possible to recover files that
are still physically present but no longer have their associated
markers. Materials Needed: - Computer (Windows-based) -
additional storage device (when necessary) - and Internet
connection Step 1 In order to locate accidentally or even
intentionally erased files, double |
0.266724 | 2.729895 | -1 | Living With ADD/ADHD As a teen with ADHD, how can I get
motivated to succeed? A Answers (1) • ALara Honos-Webb, PhD,
Psychology, answered Teens with attention deficit
hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) can get overwhelmed when they want
something but don't know how to make it happen. For example, you
might think, "I want to get good grades, but I don't know how."
Understanding how to achieve a goal is important, but it is also
important to understand why a particular goal is worthwhile.
When you understand why, you can use that goal to motivate you.
More Answers from Lara Honos-Webb, PhD Did You See? Close As a
teen with ADHD, how can I deal with obstacles? |
0.73206 | 7.958064 | -1 | Computer Engineer Job Description Design integrated computer
chip and circuit board for new low cost super computer and
design compatible easy to use software language using open
source linux Proposed project could utilize the blue cell
processor motherboard and chipset design as basic leap to new
engineered design. For instance, design cluster of Sony Play
Station 3 consoles into nodes with 2000 PS3 consoles, 500 GPUs
(general purpose graphic processing units) and 250 Intel core i7
processors with dedicated DRAM. Objective of Job Posting:
Design new computer chip and motherboard for faster super
computer that costs 1% of what a traditional super computer
would cost. At least 1500 trillion floating operations per
second is required, which can connect to the Cloud, need easy to
use software that utilizes linux. Skills: design, linux |
-2.767352 | 2.25182 | -1 | Comments about ‘Dick Harmon: Medical miracles in sports never
cease to amaze’ Return to article » Published: Saturday, May
24 2014 6:25 p.m. MDT • Oldest first • Newest first •
Most recommended Holladay, UT It looked like questionable play
to me that gave Chuckie the injury in the first place. Henry
Drummond San Jose, CA I have a friend with a similar story. He
has two new knees, a new right hip, and a rebuilt angle - all
old football injuries. I was just amazed at how quickly he
recovered from each surgery and the elevation in his quality of
life. He doesn't even need a cane anymore. Simply amazing. Paul
Anderson Medical marvels are great. I had an older brother who
died young of a brain aneurysm. (bulging weak blood vessel) One
day my medical GP was asking me some family medical history
questions and when I told him about my brother, he sent me right
over to the hospital for an MRI. He said that aneurysm's tend to
run in families. I had the test and found that I had an aneurysm
too! Fortunatel |
4.238221 | 1.275556 | -1 | Britney Spears Actress, Executive producer and Producer Birth
Name: Britney Spears Date of Birth: 02/12/1981 Height: 5' 4"
(1.63 m) Britney Jean Spears is an American pop singer, dancer,
actress, and occasional author. Born in McComb, Mississippi, and
raised in Kentwood, Louisiana, she performed acting roles in
stage productions and television shows as a child before signing
with Jive Records in 1997. During her first decade in the music
industry, she became a prominent figure in mainstream popular
music and popular culture, followed by a much-publicized
personal life. Spears's first and second studio albums ...Baby
One More Time and Oops!... I Did It Again became international
successes, with the former becoming the best-selling album by a
teenage solo artist. Title tracks "...Baby One More Time" and
"Oops!... I Did It Again" broke international sales records. In
2001, Spears released her third album Britney and played the
starring role in the film Crossroads. She assumed creative
control of her fourth alb |
0.077328 | 4.984005 | -1 | Gallery: Cute and Colorful Lamp Shades... Kulla Design
Studio’s eco-friendly lamps are an adorable set that appear to
the eye like a blend of bold and colorful pressed potpourri. The
collection, called “50% Sawdust”, feature collaged shades that
are made from upcycled plastic bags and sawdust. Lightweight and
stylish, these lovely lamps mix a pop of plastic bag color with
the natural wood aesthetic of the saw dust. Shreds of used
plastic bags with different colors and prints are fused with the
wooden sawdust using heat. The pulpy mixture is pressed into an
aluminum mold and baked at a high temperature, without the
addition of any adhesives. The heat melts the plastic, fusing
the elements together in shape of the mold. Kulla wanted to
accentuate the simple two-ingredient process, therefore the
shade shape is kept minimal and clean. Each lamp is either a
set with sustainable wooden base, or hung as a pendant. An eco-
friendly 40V light bulb illuminates each shade and the semi-
translucent plastic and sawdust |
3.733963 | 4.12058 | -1 | All Features PlayStation 2 PlayStation 3 PlayStation
Portable Xbox 360 Marvel Heroes: Breakout DVD Game Score:
80% ESRB: Not Rated Publisher: Brighter Minds Developer: Giant
Interactive Media: DVD/1 Players: 1 - 4 Genre: Board Games/
Themed Graphics & Sound: Marvel Heroes: Breakout DVD Game uses
2D stills that fly across the screen to give a very comic-book
feel to the game. When you capture a villain, some pre-rendered
clip of that villain being found and thrown behind bars is
played, but the villain's stance never actually changes. Since
the developers could obviously have gone with a whole lot of
pre-rendered cut-scenes, the fact that they stuck to this style
means that they were trying to go for the comic-book feel, and
they succeeded. The game's narrator, though never actually
claiming which superhero he is, sounds like he should be Peter
Parker/Spider Man, but maybe that is just a personal prejudice
since, like I just said, they never actually say who he is.
Anyway, he does a good job of |
-2.083276 | 6.0639 | -1 | Mon, Mar 17, 2014, 6:05 AM EDT - U.S. Markets open in 3 hrs 25
mins BlackBerry Limited Message Board • beavertailcanada
beavertailcanada Nov 15, 2012 3:20 PM Flag US market will
go higher It is the same political trick like in Canada.
They scare you with tax increase. Now, CNBC is talking about
dividend tax might go from 15% to 45% or will it? Some small
guys got scare and sell their portfolio. In the mean time
moneyed funds are buying. Then the tax increase comes out
at 20% (say) and everyone think it is GREAT (because they were
conditioned to think 45%). Market jumps subsequently. In
the end, tax will go up but you will be (very) happy that it
goes up less than you If I were RIM, I would encourage
manufacturers to start to look into making phones and tablets in
Canada with robots. Apparently, robot costs about $20K each. Get
this, robots can work in the dark and around the clock, How
green is that. SortNewest | Oldest | Most Replied
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4.733314 | -3.193486 | 1 | thumbnail Hello, Tottenham goalkeeper Hugo Lloris has admitted
that he is finding it "difficult" not being the club's first-
choice shot-stopper. revealed on Tuesday that Lloris has
demanded clarification on his status within the squad from boss
Andre Villas-Boas after being rotated with Brad Friedel since
his arrival. When asked whether that meant he would be
seeking a move away from the club at the end of the season if
things don't improve and Lloris remained elusive. The ex-
Olympique Lyonnais keeper said: "I'm just a player." Tottenham
will play against north London rivals Arsenal this weekend, with
manager Villas-Boas hoping to increase the club's lead in the
league over Arsene Wenger's stuttering outfit. From the web |
-0.026581 | 2.859812 | -1 | PK-12 Outreach School Partnership Projects Faculty engage in
projects with students and teachers throughout Middlesex and
Essex counties. Currently, much work is focused on science,
technology, math and engineering education (STEM). The UTeach
Undergraduate STEM Teacher Preparation program partners with
Lowell, Dracut, Chelmsford, Billerica, Greater Lowell Regional
Technical High School, and Methuen. Associate Professor
Michaela Colombo, through a grant funded by the US DOE, (PETALLs
- Preparing Educators to Teach All Language Learners) works with
the Lawrence Public Schools preparing administrators, teachers
and para professionals to effectively work with second language
learners. The Principal Preparation program engages with school
districts to ensure that new principals are ready to assume the
demands of the role. A group of Leadership Fellows from
Lawrence, Billerica, Boxborough and Methuen meets regularly with
faculty to ensure that our program is current. Our Elementary
Teacher Preparation program |
-0.840183 | 4.62623 | -1 | Another Solution To Oversized Systems January 20, 2004 / Print
/ Reprints / / Text Size+ SHELTON, Conn. - John Staber used to
work in HVAC contracting. Now he is in sales at EDC
International Inc. The company manufactures and markets HVAC
electronic measurement and control devices. "I dove headfirst
into the new position by trying to understand the products this
company manufactures," he recalled. Having come from the
contracting side of the HVAC world, mostly residential and light
commercial, Staber had a good understanding of condensate pumps,
condensate overflow switches, temperature sensors, and most of
the products in the line. "I tried to educate myself by reading
the cut sheets and the brochures - pretty dry reading, but this
was new, challenging, and held my interest," he said. "The head
pressure controller (HPC) brochure totally confused me." Sure
there were claims of energy savings, but how exactly was the
energy saved? According to Staber, "I had a rough idea what the
control was designed to |
0.487601 | 1.341604 | -1 | Next Stop: The Twilight Zone August 21, 2013 - 3:35 PM In an
era defined by bad ideas whose time has come, this one ranks
right up (or should I say, "down") there. Come November,
parents in Germany will now be given a third option for defining
their child's gender on his/her birth certificate. No, I didn't
just make that up. Yes, you read that right. Come November,
parents in Germany will be given a third option for defining
their child's gender on his/her birth certificate. But there
aren't three genders you say? There are only boys and girls you
claim? Well, that's because you're still living in the dark ages
with the rest of history's losers, bitterly clinging to your
guns and your Bibles. See, you're still holding on to those
antiquated traditions of Western Civilization-the very moral
value system that made liberty and prosperity possible. As a
progressive bureaucrat in Oregon recently said, you need to be
rehabilitated. Once rehabilitated, you will come to learn what
all the idiots progressives cur |
-1.324912 | 1.582579 | 92 | Crack down on taxi troublemakers • Article by: EDITORIAL
BOARD , Star Tribune • Updated: July 2, 2014 - 6:41 PM Some
cabdrivers are breaking the law in Minneapolis. Cabs lined the
streets at taxi waiting areas in downtown Minneapolis. Photo:
RENÉE JONES SCHNEIDER • Star Tribune file, CameraStar Tribune
photo galleries Cameraview larger President Obama visited the
Twin Cities amid all the fanfare and security that any
presidential visit brings. Yet, there’s a chance that as an
African-American, he might have had a hard time getting a cab in
downtown Minneapolis at night. If he had ditched his security
force and tried to hail a taxi, he might have been out of luck.
And even if a cab had stopped for him, it may have driven off if
his destination was too close by or if he wanted to pay with a
credit card. All of those things are illegal in Minneapolis.
City ordinances say taxi drivers can’t refuse to pick up
customers or deny rides due to payment method or the length of
the ride. But as a recent Sta |
3.359143 | -2.137677 | 87 | Friday, August 10, 2012 Friday INDYCAR: Roger's Whiz-Kid, Hats,
Sponsors -By now, it seems like everyone and their cousin has
weighed in on the Jay Penske arrest. Now, I'm not saying
urinating on a woman's shoes is anything to be proud of, but
when you've grown up on stories on the drug culture and arrests
that permeated the racing scene throughout the 80s (the
Whittingtons or John Paul, anyone?), stuff like this does tend
to pale by comparison. If anything, it shows our crimes in
IndyCar are much more highbrow. Getting arrested for breaking
and entering or public urination outside the Gulp n' Go is one
thing--being busted outside a yacht club clearly shows some
refinement. What will the impact on Penske's team be?
Negligible, I imagine. It's embarrassing, yes, but I sincerely
doubt we see any on-track ramifications. Additionally, I'm
happy to see TMZ continued the national media's proud ineptitude
when it comes to racing knowledge and identified Roger Penske as
a NASCAR legend. For this story, I think we |
2.479191 | 2.359531 | -1 | Zia Haider Rahman & Eric Chinski Authors & Editors in
Conversation Zia Haider Rahman’s In the Light of What We
Know tells the story of a friendship—and the betrayal of that
friendship—set against the backdrop of economic crisis and the
war in Afghanistan. Editor Eric Chinski talked with Rahman
recently about his debut novel, the power fiction has to explore
human psychology, Rahman’s use of epigraphs, and the crucial
role that Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem plays in the narrative.
Eric Chinski: You have a background in advanced mathematics,
finance, and law. What compelled you to turn to writing fiction?
Zia Haider Rahman: I’ve always been in love with literature. I
was always reading novels. And I was always keeping notebooks
and writing pieces in them, short and long. But until I came
into my thirties, I had a belief that writing books was
something people of another social class did, a higher social
class, some would describe them. I wouldn’t have expressed the
belief in those terms—it would have been |
-3.2246 | 1.613018 | -1 | Free fried chicken for everyone! Well, not quite, but it does
appear that Joel Madden and Soundwave promoter AJ Maddah have
settled their 10-year-old beef*. After enduring one too many
daggy chicken sponsored Madden Brothers get culturally educated
- Aussie bogan style TVC's, Maddah threw his weight behind a
Music Feeds campaign to rid the country of the Madden's. Maddah
continued his Twitter assault, accusing the brothers of being
insincere, chicken baron fellating, money grubbing c**ts. Ouch!
Maddah also revealed that Joel had a penchant for making fat
jokes at the expense of his teen fans. Double ouch! Wary of
protecting his potato and gravy train, Madden remained largely
silent on the issue before reaching out to the Twitter-rage
prone festival organiser and patching things up. Head to Music
Feeds for the entire tirade. The Madden bros seem like nice
enough dudes I guess, but Maddah's questioning of their
credibility i.e. PETA spokesmen to KFC ambassadors, has prompted
us to take a speculative dive |
3.053248 | -4.530684 | 38 | The 49ers defeated the Dolphins 27-13 at Candlestick Park The
San Francisco 49ers moved to 9-3-1 today, knocking off the
visiting Miami Dolphins at Candlestick Park. And despite the
win, this afternoon's showdown in the Bay Area was not a pretty
one for the 49ers. It's fair to say that the Niners have some
work to do. Like the Dolphins, they too are a work-in-progress.
With Colin Kaepernick behind center for a 4th-straight game, the
49ers were able to manufacture enough points to put this one
away. But the passing game was out of sync for much of the
contest. On the 49ers behalf, most of the plays were made on
the ground or defensively. However, both Miami and San
Francisco showed a great deal of potential for the future. The
Niners are seeing that even though it's not fully developed,
Kaepernick's presence in the offense adds a new dimension and
opens an array of opportunities. It's hard to not to see his
potential to be an impact player at the QB position for the
49ers long-term. |
1.423416 | 8.951761 | -1 | [Bioperl-l] reroot looses branch information Robson de Souza
robfsouza at gmail.com Fri Jul 23 19:04:38 EDT 2010 I'm
playing with some tree methods from Bio::Tree::TreeFunctionI and
I found that Bio::Tree::TreeFunctionI::reroot looses the
bootstrap support for the branch leading to the ancestor of the
new root. Therefore, when calling reroot, I'm using code like
my $ancestor = $newroot->ancestor; my $support =
$newroot->bootstrap if (defined $ancestor);
$ancestor->bootstrap($support) if (defined $support && defined
$ancestor); There seems to be some code in reroot() to prevent
that but I don't know why this is happening... Could you please
check and fix that? More information about the Bioperl-l
mailing list |
5.173896 | 1.545811 | 93 | Concert band From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to:
navigation, search A concert band In the 18th century,
military ensembles were doing double duty as entertainment at
the royal courts, either alone or combined with orchestral
strings. Composers such as Mozart were writing chamber music for
these groups, called Harmonie bands, which evolved to a standard
instrumentation of two oboes, two clarinets, two horns, and two
bassoons. In addition to original compositions, these groups
also played transcriptions of opera music.[citation needed]
Contact with the music of the Turkish Janissaries contributed to
the expansion of the Western European wind band. The splendor
and dramatic effect of their percussion prompted the adoption of
bass drum, cymbals, and triangle, as well as piccolo to balance
the increased weight of the percussion section; see Turkish
music (style). More clarinets were gradually added and brass
instruments were further developed. The wind band eventually
reached its current size, tho |
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4.025869 | -4.325871 | -1 | Reply to a comment Reply to this comment dmat7777#468982
writes: in response to baseballJJ: The calibur of competion
does not compute in statistical figures. So -- let's say MAHS
plays a bunch of 1A or small private schools and does not give
up a point all year or yardage....the MAHS stats would be #1
ahead of such teams as Whitehaven, MUS, White Station, etc. just
saying. That's my point...being the areas best defense (whoever
that may be) isn't always revealed by looking at the stats. |
-2.876433 | 5.195553 | 30 | Farr: Is the Mardi Gras on Wall Street Over? At 6:00 most
mornings, I check business headlines, futures, overnight trading
in Asia, the 10 year Treasury, and the dollar. This morning I
was greeted by this headline, “Birinyi Buys as Biggest Bull
Rally Since ’55 Hits Third Year.” What followed was one of the
most bullish series of arguments I’ve read in a few years. As my
regular readersknow, while we are always nearly fully invested,
we have been cautious and suspicious of this recovery. This
Birinyi article made me rethink my caution again. Trillions of
dollars have been swept into the US Economy over the past two
and a half years by the Federal Reserve, Congress, and the
administration. The immediate result of the aggressive actions
was that a collapse of the financial markets, especially the
overnight liquidity markets, was averted. A longer-term
consequence was that those trillions of dollars caused the
economy to swell. While this swelling was heralded as
resilience, it was not. It was the direct effec |
-1.779434 | 7.108038 | 32 | physics - 5:28 pm on Sep 23, 2009 (gmt 0) Do they need opt-in
polls to tell them "measure consumer attitudes and purchase
intent from display advertising that has appeared on the site."?
Is it not true that people say one thing on a poll but then go
do another? Seems like they could get this information in a more
direct way based on actual user interactions with the ads. A
better approach might be to offer advertisers a JavaScript
tracking code they could place on their page (similar to Google
Analytics) to help them measure the actual effectiveness and
conversion rate of ads. Then they could study that data in
aggregate to gain a "better undertanding of how Web content and
advertising affect consumer behavior." Thread source:
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3.121179 | 2.057172 | -1 | Let It Go Add to Cart Categories: Gay Fiction/Romance
Publisher: Atlantic Bridge/Liquid Silver Books | Date published:
09/24/2012 When alcohol and fierce tempers land two cowboys
from the rodeo circuit under house arrest, it may be time to Let
It Go. Can hidden secrets and a common enemy hold the key to
happiness or . . . will they destroy them both? Creed was the
main focus of Eli's fierce temper. For ten years the two men
left a trail of destruction in their wake, with rodeo, beer, and
fists all they had in common. Until a judge had enough and
sentenced them to house arrest--in the same house. They'd either
learn to get along or they'd kill each other. Trapped on Eli's
rundown Florida ranch, Creed discovers Eli's secret, one that he
shares. But he didn't count on Eli learning all of his secrets,
especially the one that would shatter their newfound truce.
Scarred to his bones, Eli avoided relationships like the plague.
Yet something about the quiet Creed had always pushed his
buttons. Falling in love wit |
2.352816 | 0.373738 | 44 | Joel 1 (New Century Version) View In My Bible 1 2 Older
leaders, listen to this message. Listen to me, all you who live
in the land. Nothing like this has ever happened during your
lifetime or during your ancestors' lifetimes. 3 Tell your
children about these things, let your children tell their
children, and let your grandchildren tell their children. 4 What
the cutting locusts have left, the swarming locusts have eaten;
what the swarming locusts have left, the hopping locusts have
eaten, and what the hopping locusts have left, the destroying
locustsn have eaten. 5 Drunks, wake up and cry! All you people
who drink wine, cry! Cry because your wine has been taken away
from your mouths. 6 A powerful nation has come into my land with
too many soldiers to count. It has teeth like a lion, jaws like
a female lion. 7 It has made my grapevine a waste and made my
fig tree a stump. It has stripped all the bark off my trees and
left the branches white. 8 Cry as a young woman cries when the
man she was going to marry ha |
3.465641 | 1.976074 | -1 | Skip over navigation Winesburg, Ohio Sherwood Anderson
"Loneliness," "An Awakening" "Death," "Sophistication,"
"Departure" "Queer" is concerned with Elmer Cowley, a newcomer
to Winesburg, whose father has opened a store selling various
curiosities. The business is unsuccessful, and Elmer is
convinced that the whole town thinks that the Cowleys are
strange and that everyone is secretly laughing at them. He
becomes belligerent and slightly unhinged, and shouts at his
father and a traveling salesman in the shop. After this
incident, he takes a long walk into the country, all the way out
to what used to be the Cowley farm, to tell his troubles to a
retarded man who used to work for his family. Still
dissatisfied, Elmer stalks back to town, where he singles out
George Willard as representative of Winesburg's scorn for the
Cowleys. Additionally, he doesn't believe that George has ever
been unhappy in the way that he himself constantly is, and thus
feels alienated. Elmer attempts to harass George, and then ro |
1.090749 | 4.060819 | -1 | Comment: They are lying. What we (See in situ) In reply to
comment: Ever heard of "sun gazing?" (see in situ) They are
lying. What we They are lying. What we absorb from the sun
gives us vitamin D, it doesn't supply us the energy we need to
live. Stuff like the sun light directly affecting the pineal
gland is horse shit. The sun light does not leave the eye,
anything that happens to the eye is merely an electrical signal
relayed to the brain. The only thing that lends any credence to
this is that it's relaxing and spiritual. For me, listening to
the rain is relaxing. I won't ever try to claim that rain
falling outside physically does something for me. It's all
psychological. It's a placebo. Don't stare at the sun even if it
seems dim on the horizon. |
-1.208375 | 3.632525 | 71 | Two cesspools. I think the plumber messed this on up??
Discussion in 'UPC Plumbing Code Questions' started by Robert
Gravel, Jul 22, 2011. 1. Robert Gravel Robert Gravel New
Member New York Hi all, I have a friend that just
had a basement remodel done. There is 2 full baths on the main
level along with a kitchen sink and dishwasher. These are
connected to the older precast cesspool (no septic tank).
The basement had an existing 2 pc bathroom, second kitchen sink,
and washing machine all connected to a second newer precast
cesspool. It had a "low line" so no ejector pump was needed.
The Plumbing subcontractor was called in during the remodel and
removed everything from the second cesspool and installed a
ejector pump and re-piped all the fixtures into the first
cesspool. My friend was unaware of the changes that were
made :) until she complained about the loud noise from the
ejector pump while the shower was running or the toilet was
flushed. The company told her that it was |
0.793942 | 9.725619 | -1 | Dave Johnson Brown University Computer Science ddj%brown@csnet-
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format as I understand it: ----- The first and last characters
are each a ':'. After the first ':', the rest of the file is
just string of 6 bit encoded characters. All newlines and
carriage returns are to be ignored. The tricky part is that
there are holes in the translation string so you have to look up
each file character to get its binary 6 bit value. I found the
string by looking at a hex dump of BinHex:
!"#$%&'()*+,-012345689@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNPQRSTUVXYZ[`abcdefhijklmpqr
I can't see how this aids or abets any kind of error recovery,
but if you ran into a char not in the list, you would know
something's wrong and give up. There is some run length
encoding, where the character to be repeated is followed by a
0x90 byte then the repeat count. For example, ff9004 means
repeat 0xff 4 times. The special case of a repeat count of zero |
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Scientific Method ( Read ) | Earth Science | CK-12 Foundation
Skip Navigation Scientific Method Practice Scientific Method
Practice Now Scientific Method How many angels can dance on the
head of a pin? This is a question that has been pondered over
the centuries. Can it be answered using the scientific method?
Is it a scientific question? The Goal of Science The goal of
science is to answer questions about the natural world. Asking
(and answering) questions is integral to the process of science.
Scientific questions must be testable. Which of these two
questions is a good scientific question and which is not? •
What is the age of our planet Earth? The first is a good
scientific question. It can be answered by age-dating rocks and
by using other techniques. The second question cannot be
answered using data. It is not a scientific question.
Scientific Method Scientists use the scientific method to
answer questions. The scientific method is |
0.847022 | 7.892224 | 77 | Review Index: Gigabyte 8I955X Royal Intel 955X Motherboard
Review Subject: Motherboards Manufacturer: Gigabyte
Introduction and Specificaions Along with the new Intel
Pentium D and Pentium Extreme Edition processors there came a
requirement for a new chipset to go along with them. From
Intel, this came in the form of the 955X core logic. We have
initially previewed the 955X chipset and compared it to other
Intel and AMD-based chipsets in terms of performance and
features. The 955X chipset doesn't have much more to offer from
a technical point of view over the features of the 925X or 925XE
chipsets previous to it. The 955X simply brings support for
dual core processors to the Intel chipset line up and was
obviously a requirement from Intel if they were to start selling
Pentium D CPUs. In this review we are going to compare the
performance features of the reference board from Intel to this
first retail sample we received from Gigabyte based on the same
chipset. Specifications (from Gigabyte website |
-0.774163 | 8.456074 | -1 | Skip to definition. Abbreviation: Cdn. 1. Canadian Noun: CDN
1. A system of computers containing copies of data at multiple
location on a network, e.g. for providing fast high-volume
download to users - content distribution network, content
delivery network Encyclopedia: CDN |
-1.430428 | -0.512078 | -1 | June 24, 2003 GEPHARDT RESPONDS -- well, via a spokesman quoted
in ABC's The Note: Yeah. But that's certainly not what
Gephardt was talking about. I don't think I can improve on
Eugene Volokh's comments on this: Harry Truman's executive
order was very important -- but it had nothing to do with an
attempt to overcome a contrary Supreme Court decision. It's hard
to see how it's evidence that a President can successfully
"overcome" Supreme Court decisions that prohibit things that he
thinks are good. (The Court had ruled, 50 years earlier, that
segregation was permissible, but it certainly didn't say it was
mandated, and Truman's court order wasn't remotely a response to
that decision. In fact, by the date of Truman's order, the Court
had begun its path towards desegregation, see, e.g., Missouri ex
rel. Gaines v. Canada (1938) and Sipuel v. Oklahoma (1948), so
Truman's decision was actually quite consistent with the trend
of Supreme Court decisions.) Furthermore, Gephardt was speaking
about the University o |
-2.77471 | 2.260303 | -1 | We milked two does our second year, and in order to keep the
weight gain to a minimum for us humans, we learned to make
goat's milk soap! We also started making yogurt, kefir, ice
cream, more varieties of cheeses, including both soft and hard
varieties. Today we make 17 different dairy products, including
all of our own mozzarella, chevre, queso blanco, cheddar,
parmesan, buttermilk, and yogurt. In 2004, we attended our
first goat shows, and our daughters became completely addicted
-- so much that they both wanted to have their very own goats.
We showed our goats from 2004 to 2008, and we were on DHI
305-day milk testing for 2006 to 2008. As our daughters grew
older, their interests broadened, and our oldest went off to the
University of Illinois and became an electrical engineer and now
works in Ft. Worth, TX. The youngest is now at the University of
Illinois majoring in chemistry. Although it was fun meeting
other breeders and bringing home plenty of rosettes -- and even
finishing two does as permanent c |
0.295123 | -0.030163 | 73 | The gay community has backed an advert by the Gay Police
Association (GPA) which attributed recent homophobic attacks to
religious belief. Scotland Yard is considering an investigation
into the group after it placed an advertisement in The
Independent’s diversity supplement which coincided with the
EuroPride rally, displaying a pool of blood next to a Bible.
Scotland Yard is considering whether the ad “constitutes a faith
crime,” after a member of the public launched a complaint.
However, gay campaigners say the information is based on facts,
Ben Summerskill chief executive of gay charity Stonewall said:
“The advert is based on robust evidence, we currently know of a
number of cases where the motivation is clearly based on
someone’s beliefs from the Bible. “I would rather Scotland Yard
spent more time investigating homophobic incidents, The GPA
wouldn’t be saying these things if they weren’t valid.” Peter
Tatchell of gay rights group Outrage said: “The advert was
simply reporting the facts, it cannot be |
-4.44068 | 2.943782 | -1 | Taking Medication Learn how to get the most out of your
diabetes drugs By Theresa Garnero Medication therapy is
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-2.004797 | 3.923104 | -1 | LeeannStrenke779 - JazzTimes Community Articles
http://www.jazztimes.com/ The world's leading jazz publication.
en-us Pool Chemicals - Community Articles Every swimming pool is
made up of a mix of chemicals - any person that has ever been in
a swimming pool will know this. In simple fact, any person who
has ever before been near a swimming pool will recognise the
peculiar odour that wafts by way of the air! This scent is
brought on by swimming pool chemicals that are extra to every
community and non-public swimming pool as a make a difference of
training course. Swimming pool chemicals are usually chlorine
based mostly and come into a assortment of kinds. Chlorine has
distinctive attributes that assault germs and germs that may
possibly build up in a pool. Concentrated chlorine can really
harm human cells, specifically mucus membrane like the eyes
nonetheless in its dilute sort it does not show to be as
dangerous. The chlorine is carried about the pool by way of the
drinking water molecules and can protect pa |
-4.207366 | 2.902336 | -1 | Meghan Casserly Meghan Casserly, Forbes Staff
Entrepreneurship. By women, of women, for women. 5/23/2011 @
12:49PM |83,947 views Oat grains in their husks Oat grain
husks are a source of gluten Elisabeth Hasselbeck has
promoted gluten-free living and penned a cookbook Post Your
Comment Please or sign up to comment. • Meghan Casserly;
Celiac disease is serious and you suggested absolutely nothing
to the contrary. You did not imply anything to the contrary.
Nothing should be inferred in any shade of gray that Celiac
disease is anything but serious. Celiac disease is rare
whereas this “G-free” lifestyle is inappropriate as a lifestyle
for the medically unnecessary. When medically appropriate it is
a requirement however your point was some people are using false
claims of gluten intolerance as a means self-destructive dietary
behaviors. The “G-free” is a fad like high carb (Adkins
style) modified diets for non-diabetics. There is no gain in
rotting oneself from the inside out. P |
1.68019 | 3.703439 | 51 | Leonardo da Vinci Art Leonardo da Vinci Art Leonardo da Vinci
(1452, Vinci, Florence, Italy - May 2, 1519, Cloux, France),
Italian High Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, engineer,
scientist and inventor whose genius, perhaps more than that of
any other figure, epitomized the Renaissance humanist ideal. His
Last Supper (1497) and Mona Lisa (1506) are among the most
widely popular and influential paintings of the Renaissance. His
notebooks reveal a spirit of scientific inquiry and a mechanical
inventiveness that were centuries ahead of his time. Leonardo
da Vinci was an amazing painter. His paintings contained
incredible detail, which made them seem almost real. This detail
included things like various shadow effects and textures which
gave the works lifelike appearances. Although Leonardo produced
a relatively small number of paintings, many of which remained
unfinished, he was nevertheless an extraordinarily innovative
and influential artist. Leonardo's stylistic innovations are
most apparent in T |
-1.929357 | 2.360494 | 54 | New Delhi runway turns into a zoo The mix of animals, traffic
and people in New Delhi is fascinating any day of the week. When
I lived there, pulling up alongside an elephant at a traffic
light did happen. Avoiding hitting the cows that meandered at
the sides of the roads was a daily venture. Once, our car
grazed a cow just as it twitched its hind end towards traffic.
When the side-view mirror was snapped off, my husband quipped,
“It must have been in a reflective mood.” There was one section
where fruit bats the size of dogs hung upside down from trees,
and another part where monkeys gathered in large groups. Camels
also meandered through the neighborhood. Hiring one for a kid’s
birthday party was standard. Recently, New Delhi has become
more zoo-like with the heavy rains. As animals are getting
flooded out of their natural habitat homes, they’ve looked for
higher ground and have found it at the New Delhi airport on the
runways. Lizards, jackals and birds have shown up in large
enough numbers that they’v |
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Episode Poll: 5.07 Fool for Love Fool for Love! I'm so excited!
William! If some of these look familiar, it's because I've kinda
done polls for this episode in the past. I'm a fan of
recycling...but there's new people and maybe your opinion's
changed! Also, new questions! Have at it! Seriously, I had to
stop myself. I was coming up with far too many questions. It's
not fair to the other episodes. Let's do this! Poll #1817396
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants:
150 1. After Buffy is stabbed by a vampire, Riley offers to
patrol. Buffy insists that he take the Scoobies along with him.
Reasonable? View Answers Yes. Buffy just got almost-killed by a
regular vamp. Strength in numbers is smart. 121 (81.8%) No.
Riley can handle himself. 13 (8.8%) I have another answer. 5
(3.4%) Not sure. 9 (6.1%) 2. So...Cecily? View Answers
Unreasonably rude to William. 86 (58.1%) Eh, William was
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0.520742 | 9.771469 | 16 | Take the 2-minute tour × Right now, I'm using LDA topic
modelling tool from the MALLET package to do some topic
detection on my documents. Everything's fine initially, I got 20
topics from it. However, when I try to infer new document using
the model, the result is kinda baffling. For instance I
deliberately run my model over a document that I manually
created which contains nothing but keywords from one of the
topics "FLU", but the topic distributions I got was <0.1 for
every topic. I then try the same thing on one of the already
sampled document which has a high score of 0.7 for one of the
topics. Again the same thing happened. Can someone give some
clue on the reason? Tried asking on MALLET mailing list but
apparently no one has replied. share|improve this question When
you say that you run your model over the document you created,
what exactly are you doing? Are you attempting to re-run the
inference portion of the LDA algorithm on the new document? If
so, your result would be expected behavior. It s |
2.051738 | 8.744826 | -1 | The Universe of Discourse Tue, 20 Jun 2006 484848 is excellent
First let's define the items we're talking about: • It's
obvious, or even if not, • it follows from an easy inductive
proof, which • is left as an exercise for the reader. 4bi+1
- 7ai+1= 400bi + 192 - 700ai - 588= 400bi + 700ai + 192 - 588=
100(4bi - 7ai) - 396= 100·4 - 396= And we are done. bn2 - an2
= cn bi+12 - ai+12 = 10000bi2 + 9600bi + 2304 - 10000ai2 -
16800ai - 7056 = 10000ci + 2400(4bi - 7ai) - 4752 = 10000ci +
2400·4 - 4752 = 10000ci + 4848 = 10000ci + 2400(4bi -
7ai) - 4752 10000ci + 4848 2400(4bi - 7ai) - 4752 = 4848
or equivalently: 2400(4bi - 7ai) = 9600 which is equivalent
to: 4bi - 7ai = 4. [Other articles in category /math]
permanent link Sun, 18 Jun 2006 Principia Mathematica
(through section 56) Principia Mathematica (through section 56)
with kickback no kickback Whitehead and Russell's Principia
Mathematica is famous for taking a thousand pages to prove that
1+1=2. Of course, it pro |
-1.454919 | 8.69177 | -1 | Ready to get started?Download WordPress Plugin Directory WP
Order Cart Create an online catalogue with products that can be
ordered via shopping cart with checkout, details of orders are
sent to specified email address. 1. Upload wpordercart folder
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Widgets and add 'WPOCShoppingCartWidget' to 'WPOrderCart
Shopping Cart Area', enter title e.g. 'Shopping Cart' and save
4. Optionally add 'WPOrderCartSearchWidget' (Product search) and
'WPOrderCartPriceSliderWidget' (Price slider search) to any
available widget areas 5. Create a new page or decide on a
current page to use as your checkout page - this will be set in
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setup default settings 7. Start adding product categories and
products from 'WP Order Cart' sub menu items 8. To add product
categories to your website navigation menu go to 'Appearance -
Menus', ensure 'Products' and 'Product Categories' are checked
under 'Screen Op |
-1.401692 | -0.308651 | -1 | The Cresset A Review of Literature, Fine Arts, and Current
Affairs Current Issue books poetry archive main site
Cinema Gripes Fredrick Barton i. Let me tell you how bored I am
with contemporary conventional Hollywood. I'm so bored that I
yawned all the way through Tony Scott's Enemy of the State, and
actually, as brainless, formula fare goes, Enemy of the State
isn't half bad. Will Smith stars as Robert Clayton Dean, a high-
powered Washington labor lawyer who is currently trying to get
the mob out of a union election. (And don't forget this set-up
because it becomes important later). Bobby is a Georgetown law
grad whose wife Carla (Regina King) is an ACLU lawyer very much
concerned about Fourth Amendment privacy rights. And wouldn't
you know it, Bobby gets right in the middle of a big
Congressional struggle over domestic intelligence powers for the
National Security Agency's anti-terrorism unit. A big cheese
Republican Congressman (Jason Robards) is assassinated when he
won't cooperate with spy worl |
-1.235953 | 4.097235 | 139 | Feds move closer to approving nuclear reactor — Federal
regulators are leaning toward approving the reactor design for
what would be the first new U.S. nuclear plant in a generation.
As of Wednesday, three of the five members of the U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission have said they will approve the AP1000
reactor design from Westinghouse Electric Co. But those
preliminary votes do not become official until the NRC holds a
final vote during a public meeting. And commissioners must still
decide if the approval will then take effect immediately or only
after a 30-day waiting period. Utility companies want to use
the reactors for potential nuclear plants in Georgia, Florida
and the Carolinas. Atlanta-based Southern Co. has asked the NRC
to speed up the approval process for its planned plant in
Georgia. The Associated Press |
1.121704 | 3.790019 | 29 | How They Make Those Thanksgiving Day Floats • Share • Read
Later The new ZhuZhu Pet float for the 2011 Macy's Thanksgiving
Day Parade With 27 floats set to roll down the Macy’s
Thanksgiving Day Parade route in New York City, getting the
festive contraptions ready for the big day proves a yearlong job
for a team of sculptors, woodworkers, painters and designers.
Each year, the Macy’s parade sends 27 to 29 floats down the
parade route, each with an entertainment theme of some sort. But
these floats don’t get tossed together mere weeks ahead of the
big day by a smattering of volunteers. For a three-hour telecast
highlighted by big-name entertainment contracts, Macy’s does
things a bit different. They have a team of 24 working year-
round on floats that take between three and six months to
complete. Each float can stretch as long as 60 feet, reach up
to four stories tall and get as wide as 30 feet when in full
splendor. But before they reach mammoth proportions, the float
starts as a pencil sketch and the |
0.482643 | 8.588633 | 74 | Take the 2-minute tour × Is there a way to share 1 hard drive
between multiple motherboards (they will be old ones). I don't
need to be able to write, just boot all of them from it.
share|improve this question This is a bad idea... Do you plan on
booting all the of the machines from the drive at the same time
(or having them on at the same time)? – soandos Jan 15 '12 at
2:01 Yes... I need some way to do it (note: I do have a spare
CD-ROM drive and a spare floppy disk drive...) – Linuxios Jan
15 '12 at 2:02 If you can add a bit more detail about why you
are considering doing this, we might be able to provide
alternatives. PXE boot for example. – Paul Jan 15 '12 at 2:21
4 Answers 4 up vote 7 down vote accepted This will not work.
What you are trying to do has a few problems with it. 1. Have
multiple machines controlling the same piece of hardware. While
this is possible, it does mean that while OS #1 is using the
drive OS #2 may have to wait 2. Generally this is not a big
deal, and this is why CD |
0.608799 | 9.482564 | 16 | Take the 2-minute tour × My program flow is like this: I need
to sequential processing per user's request In C++ I will use
boost asio and one strand per user but I had to code in java So
I intend to create one SingleThreadExecutor per user and post
user's task into it's executor But if user num get big I think
this approach will slow because of the big number of thread So I
looking for alternative solution, the other approach in my head
is one queue per user and some how tosh that queue to a fixed
thread pool, need advise here, thanks. share|improve this
question 1 Answer 1 up vote 0 down vote accepted Found
solution just 5 minute after I post question T_T It's here,
CallbackTask approach look promising. share|improve this answer
you can accept your own answer :) – SiGanteng Jun 25 '12 at
2:51 Your Answer |
3.027431 | 2.071592 | -1 | Categories > Anime/Manga > Pokemon > Don't Give Me Diamonds
Diamond 79 by Mikari 0 reviews Diamond 79: Give me Curiosity
Category: Pokemon - Rating: PG-13 - Genres: Drama,Humor,Romance
- Characters: Ash,Misty - Published: 2011-06-15 -
Updated: 2011-06-15 - 4148 words - Complete Don't Give Me
Diamonds Diamond 79: Give me Curiosity Giovanni glared at
Jessie and James. He had built the impression over the years
that there mere presence was enough to cause trouble. Jessie and
James stood straight and silent as if awaiting orders in a line
of soldiers. He decided not to say anything to them for being
there. Apparently their connection with the Waterflowers was
better than he thought. If anything he could use that to get
information from them in case anyone slipped up. Seeing Ash
standing up for Jessie and James, offering to share the blame
for the Viridian gym incident years ago, made Giovanni's
thoughts about having a battle resurfaced. "I'll overlook that
incident if you put up a good fight in a pokemon |
-2.551367 | 0.370622 | -1 | Opinion: Unchain debate on Social Security benefits social-
security.jpg Social Security cards are shown in a file photo.
By Steven Pressman A heated debate is raging under the public
radar. It involves Social Security benefits (on average, $1,230
is paid each month to nearly 54 million Americans) and how much
they should be increased annually. The debate is about whether
we should cut benefits to Social Security recipients.
Originally, Social Security benefits were a fixed dollar amount,
determined at the time people retired (although Congress
periodically gave retirees a benefit hike). Since 1973, Social
Security recipients began receiving cost-of-living adjustments
every January. Benefits rise automatically to compensate for
inflation over the previous year. The job of measuring
inflation falls to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which uses a
two-step process. It finds out what a typical family buys during
the course of a month, and then determines its cost. Inflation
is the percentage change in the c |
1.350796 | 3.975791 | -1 | 13 April 2008 Blue and White Blue and white. Most of the
time, our world is blue and white. During the day, the piercing
sun brightens the sea to sapphire, and the sky gleams a
brilliant topaz. Frothy caps of cresting waves mottle the
seascape, and puffy cotton pillars of mounting thunderheads
punctuate the gentle curve of the horizon. After twilight the
universe darkens in every direction to varying shades of
midnight, and as the air dries and the sky clears, it sparkles
with a blanket of stars most civilized men see but in dreams.
Only in the middles, in this shifting spectrum of the sea, as
the sun sweeps the darkness from the sky or settles down for his
daily rest, do the edges of the earth and the clouds conspire to
produce a bold palette of colors, and oppose the tyranny of
blues. Mike's America said... Was that the sunrise or the
sunset? Stunning photograph by LCDR Chris van Avery. cat
said... I need to get my friend to read this... He's going
USAFA and I'm going USNA, so of course he think |
-4.280121 | 1.024446 | 18 | Cassis has closed The patio at Cassis during the first
Restaurant Week. Cassis, one of downtown Charlottesville's
poshest eateries and one of the original participants in
Charlottesville Restaurant Week, has closed. According to owner
and chef Sean Lawford, who opened Cassis in 2004 after stints as
a chef at Tim Burgess and Vincent Derquennes-owned Bizou and
Metropolitain, the restaurant's last night was Saturday, April
3. He declined comment on the reason for the closure. Read more
on: Sean Lawford ...and we see daily reports of the state
government refusing to reduce any spending of our money - as
they spend it on themselves. A most repulsive situation. Does
the word reality enter the minds of these tax-vampires? Unlike
OXO, whose former building is owned by out-of-town investor Alan
Cadgene, Cassis' building is owned by Tim and Vincent of Bang,
Bizou so its unlikely to sit vacant for too long. I don't forsee
two chefs/restaurant owners letting a space like that go to
waste (assuming they can't find |
-1.274026 | -0.172101 | 48 | Not a terribly persuasive article Your Editor is in some
disagreement with this article from The Victory Girls: The
Cowardice of Conservatives Kit+Lange+kitlangeby KIT
LANGE on DECEMBER 14, 2013 I know a lot of passionate
conservatives, and this article is going to anger most of you.
I’m okay with that. George Orwell wrote that “If liberty means
anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do
not want to hear.” We all have what I call “pet issues.” Some
of you are anti-abortion to the point that it’s all you talk
about politically. Every political issue in the nation is
abortion related. Every blog post you write is about abortion.
All your resources, all your energy, all your passion goes into
fighting abortion. I have other friends who want to abolish
the Federal Reserve. You can (and do) rail all day about taxes
and representation and economics. You talk fair tax, flat tax,
no tax. To you, the greatest evil in this country is the
government taking your hard earned money. Others |
-0.951288 | 4.963995 | -1 | SANANTONIO -- There are 88 keys on a piano, and for one San
Antonio family, those keys are attached to a priceless musical
instrument. One that's now for sale. Piano owner Harold
Krueger plays in the present, but the key is definitely in the
past. We had no idea we were sitting on something this
valuable, unique and so historically important, he said. In a
contest seven years ago, his piano was certified as the oldest
Grand Steinway in the world. It's like if you walk out in your
backyard (and) you found a hole there and you reach down and
there was a big piece of gold down there... and you found out
you're sitting on a gold mine, he said. His wife's family
bought the piano before the Civil War. It has traveled across
the country. But for years this treasure has been in San
Antonio. People will say it's old and it's dusty, Krueger said.
Well, the family never thought of it like that. That's why they
became musical encyclopedias about every single detail of it,
such as its action, which is the equivale |
-3.910069 | 1.504124 | 21 | Take the tour × Does anyone know of a company that sells
canning equipment that's not outrageously expensive? I'd love to
be able to can my homebrew share|improve this question add
comment 1 Answer up vote 3 down vote accepted Everything I've
found is pretty expensive. Cask.com advertises small-scale
manual beer-canning equipment that's presumably pretty cheap,
but I can't find their on-line store. Your local U-Brew might
have a canning machine that they'll let you use. share|improve
this answer add comment Your Answer |
4.104619 | 2.629668 | 5 | 21 and Over Dares You to Get Offended It's hard to know what
to laugh at anymore -- the only guideline, maybe, is that we'll
know it when we see it. And Jon Lucas and Scott Moore's guy-
humor extravaganza 21 & Over isn't quite it. 21 & Over, in which
three college guys set out for a night of drinking and, they
hope, debauchery, is filled with crude gags that almost tip into
the red on the bad-taste-ometer: One of its characters, in a
drunken stupor, eats a tampon -- unused, thank God, as this
isn't a Catherine Breillat movie. The trio crash a sorority
house filled with tough, angry Latinas -- stereotype alert! One
of the guys tosses his cookies while riding a mechanical bull;
his puke spins into the air in slow motion, a visual symphony of
pearlescent beige droplets. There's even an uptight Asian girl
who plays field hockey -- stereotype alert number two! You can
almost see the minds of the filmmakers working: Someone out
there has just got to take umbrage at 21 & Over -- please.
Starring Miles Teller, Ju |
-0.954379 | 10.02839 | 15 | Take the 2-minute tour × So I've got a header image that upon
being clicked animates with transit, fades out, and fades back
in with a new image. I'm then able to click on the new image and
it will also animate and fade out to blank space. How can I
continuously animate/fade through a series of ordered images -
one new image per click ad infinitum? Here's what I've got so
far... $("#headimg").transition({ skewY: '30deg'
},1000); $("#headimg").fadeOut(function() {
$(this).transition({ skewY: '00deg' }) .load(function() {
$(this).fadeIn(); }); $(this).attr("src",
"/imgurl.jpg"); share|improve this question add comment 2
Answers You can use the javascript function called
setInterval(); like this: //this code will keep on executing
on every 2 seconds. share|improve this answer add comment The
following snippet doesn't solve your problem exactly, but it
might put you on the right track, as it randomly cycles through
a set of 28 images with fading in and out. You can |
-1.68211 | 0.397365 | -1 | AFT - American Federation of Teachers Shortcut Navigation:
Email ShareThis AFT Resolutions WHEREAS, it is the
responsibility of a democratic government to ensure that free
and fair elections upon which a democracy depends are beyond
reproach; and WHEREAS, private corporations are unsuited for
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terms of protecting citizens personal data; and WHEREAS, the
administration of voter registration and of elections by
corporations increases the opportunity for electoral fraud and
reduces peoples confidence in elections: RESOLVED, that the
American Federation of Teachers support a re |
2.534255 | 1.799903 | 19 | Chapter 1: You Don't Know Me It was another Saturday morning,
and Stephanie woke up with the sun shining through the window.
She cringed, and shoved a pillow over her head, to block the
sun. She didn't have a good sleep, since she had cramps and
forgot to take a pain pill. Sometimes Steph wondered how stupid
she could be for forgetting to do such a simple thing. Oh
freaking well. She removed the pillow over her head, and looked
at her alarm clock, and it read 8:45 A.M. In just 15 minutes,
her happy go lucky dad would come swooping through her door, and
say in a happy yet annoying voice: "Honey, it's time for
breakfast!" Steph wasn't a little girl anymore, and the way
Danny talked to her made it seem she was. It constantly annoyed
her, and started to ever since she turned 13. "Dad, I'm not a
little girl anymore, will you please stop talking to me like I
am one?" Stephanie said politely and with persuasion. Danny
looked slightly stubborn "As long as you live under my house, I
can talk to you in any tone |
3.159557 | 1.942445 | -1 | Submission Guidlines / Contact Us / Sitemap Film Review: “My
Perestroika” (2010) by Jamie Bushell May 10, 2011 History
constantly rewrites itself, mythologizing and idealizing
specific aspects and events that occur. But the rewriting
process for Russia’s history seems more complex and
unpredictable than that of other countries (by no means am I a
history guru or Russian history expert, nor does this film act
as a history lesson. In fact, the film focuses on personal
stories, giving only moderate amounts of historical context).
Present day Russia may seem drastically different than the
narrow-minded regime of the Soviet Union. In the 1970s and 80s,
there was great emphasis on communism, community, collectivity
and a clear rejection of individualism. Today, more than twenty
years after the fall of the Soviet Union, when this history may
be fading more into the depths of the history books, we see
certain apparent changes, both for better and for worse. Modern
day Russian society has begun embracing more |
0.078878 | 0.835279 | -1 | legal system I snapped, and I punched him in the arm. I kept
punching him until we were struggling on the floor. native
americans I’m proud of her for standing up, for advocating for
other women, and for smashing rape myths in the face. crimes
against women I feel strangely indifferent to my attacker. It's
the system that let him get away with it that I'm most angry
with. |
-4.71132 | 1.191787 | -1 | chopsticks, Chopsticks on a plate.maqs (from Chinese kuai-tzu,
“quick ones,” by way of Pidgin chop, “quick”), eating utensils,
consisting of a pair of slender sticks held between the thumb
and fingers of one hand, that predominate in much of East Asia
and are used in conjunction with East Asian-style cuisine
worldwide. Modern mass-produced chopsticks are commonly made
of unadorned wood, bamboo, or plastic, although exquisite
lacquerwork, inlay, and engraving are still used in the
decoration of finer examples. As a general rule, the chopsticks
of China are longer and more blunt than those of Japan, which
are usually tapered. |
-4.39483 | 1.869449 | 85 | Thousand Year Egg: Is it Edible? Alex Rushmer of Just Cook It!
Blog wrote an eye-popping account on eating the Asian delicacy
(read: gross!) thousand year egg or century egg for breakfast:
What we know as the white is not white at all. It is a
translucent brown colour reminiscent of recycled glass. The
yolk, far from being an appetising yellow, is grey. And hard.
Depending on how old the egg in question is, the smell can be no
more than a tickle of ammonia to an eye-wateringly sulphurous
tang. Century eggs tend to be milder whereas the millennial
counterparts really are a force to be reckoned with. Governments
in need of an alternative fuel source need look no further than
these potent little ova. They are made by wrapping regular eggs
(that taste so very good fried or poached or boiled or
scrambled) in a mixture of salt, lime, mud, clay and straw and
then leaving them. For ages. Occasionally they are even buried
in the ground for several months before they are deemed edible.
And here they were staring me |
3.935682 | 1.770115 | -1 | [an error occurred while processing this directive] BBC News
watch One-Minute World News Last Updated: Wednesday, 26 July
2006, 12:36 GMT 13:36 UK E4 show for Big Brother's Nikki Big
Brother contestant Nikki Nikki was cheered by crowds on her
eviction Big Brother 2006 contestant Nikki Grahame is to have
her own TV show, Princess Nikki, on digital channel E4. The
model, 24, of Watford, Herts, gained a reputation for throwing
temper tantrums on the Channel 4 reality show before she was
evicted on 14 July. The programme will follow her attempts to
hold down an everyday job - referencing her stroppy turn as a PA
in a Big Brother task. It will be shown on E4 after Big Brother
ends later this summer. "They won't tell me what jobs I'll be
doing, but they've told me they'll be tough," said Ms Grahame in
a statement. "As long as they don't make me a bin woman or put
me on a fishing boat in the middle of the North Sea, I'll be
okay." A producer for the programme said: "Bin woman and deep
sea trawler fisher-person |
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money attributes or data elements which comprises of a + or -
sign and a £ sign. AMOUNT STERLING is an amount of money where
the CURRENCY TYPE equals 'GBP Pound Sterling'. This
was e-GIF approved for use in NHS England. e-GIF and the
Government Data Standards Catalogue have been archived and
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-3.145323 | 1.285493 | -1 | Hayek goes barcrawling In the coming months, Washington, D.C.,
will decide whether to join California, New York, and a host of
other towns and municipalities in banning the combustion and
inhalation of tobacco products in its bars and restaurants. To
the delight of the self-appointed guardians of public health, my
local watering hole may soon have the freewheeling ambiance of a
dentist's waiting room. The putative logic of these laws is to
protect bar and restaurant workers. In reality, this is
something of a fig leaf: The primary support for smoking bans
seems to come from folks who don't like having to dry clean
their clothes after a night out, and who are therefore asserting
their God-given right to visit any bar or restaurant they like
on their own terms, owners and other customers be damned. But
the anti-smoking movement's official spokespeople still seem to
have the minimal decency required to be ashamed of such a naked
appeal to self-interest. Instead, they've been forced to resort
to the argument t |
3.334052 | 4.755183 | 2 | Report Review Reason for reporting this review: Review
Content Thanks to a series of terrible policies and decisions,
Ubisoft's PC ports of their big-budget titles have been
something to avoid for quite a while now. Thankfully, FarCry 3
manages to break this trend by being the best version of the
game available on any platform. That said, is FarCry 3 a game
worth buying at all? Unlike most big-budget releases this year,
the aspect of the game that UbiSoft pushed the most before its
release was the story. To be sure, the story is very unique,
particularly for a first person shooter. You play a rich young
playboy who is on a vacation in the tropics when he parachutes
into an island that turns out to be inhabited with pirates. From
there, he joins a tribe of natives and goes on a quest to rescue
his friends. The part of this plot that Ubisoft spent so much
time playing up was the head of the pirates, Vaas Montenegro,
and his insanity. Vaas is certainly the best villain of the
year, but FarCry 3 doesn't u |
-2.729541 | 5.158463 | 30 | Well, I am back at my desk and no worse for the wear and tear.
These are what I started my work week with: • The Housing
Recovery In One Index (Pragmatic Capitalism) What actually
happens at Davos? (New Yorker) Krugman: What Ails Europe? (NYT)
• Berkshire Selects Manager to Eventually Replace Buffett as CEO
(Bloomberg) see also A Buffett Heir, but Who? (WSJ) •
Investigators Scrutinize MF Global Wire Transfers (DealBook) •
The Rise of the Super-Rich (NYT) see also China’s Billionaire
Congress Makes Its U.S. Peer Look Poor (Businessweek) • Builders
Feel Bite in China (WSJ) • Bankers escape big penalties in FDIC
failed bank cases (Reuters) • That Greek debt sustainability
analysis in full (FT Alphavillesee also G-20 Snubs Germany on
IMF Funding (Bloomberg) • The new hipster cities of America:
Who’s emerging as the “next Austin”? (Austin CultureMap) What
are you reading? Buyers Take a Shine to ‘Junk’ Source: WSJ
Category: Financial Press 15 Responses to “10 Monday AM Reads”
1. Robespierre says: Th |
-0.776432 | 3.003113 | -1 | Hurricane Harbor Friday, June 29, 2007 Wet Weekend Possible
Because of the Tropical Wave Or... just summer in general.
Either way the infamous wave that is now on Invest ..meaning the
Navy site is monitoring it in infinite detail. A wave being on
an invest is like getting on the Best Dressed List at the
Oscars.. it gives the messy little wave a bit more press and
hyped media interest. Even being on the worst dressed list still
gets you attention. Look and see below: Meanwhile if you look
you will see what basically looks like half a storm. The lowest
pressures are to the west and the bad weather is to the east.
So... what does it mean? If it sits there and doesn't move a
lot than maybe something will happen. I know not as exciting as
the I Phone thing but... for trackers it's exciting. Some
discussion on how strong that trough (cold front) is and
possibly it will stall out which could affect steering currents
and current models. Some discussion on it catching the front and
moving fast out to sea... |
0.269496 | 4.278643 | -1 | We are living in a society which is called "technologically
civilized" society. Every small work we do is technology
dependent. Today every other person is recognized with the
device or gadget, he carries; which is technically advanced.
Ultimately, we can say that,"living without technology is like
living without air" in this technical world of today.Therefore,
we are much dependent on technology. Starting with the simple
example of food storage. Today the shelf life of the food
products is increased with help of modern technology and even
preparation time of food is reduced with the help of new
machines and equipment. Thus ,making the consumer to have an
ease at its consumption and also in saving a lot of productive
time. Ultimately, making the person dependent on it for his own
benefits. This is unlike to the times of traditional cooking
where people had to spare time and even do physical labor
compared to the modern technically advanced time of today.
Technology made our lives simple but much dependent o |
3.015351 | 5.151917 | 2 | Video: Minecraft creator teases 0x10c space sim Posted by Shane
McGlaun At first I found Minecraft intriguing because the
graphics are so blocky and it reminded me of some titles I used
to play back in the 80s. However, after spending enough time in
the world of Minecraft you realize that graphics aside, the game
is intensely fun and thought provoking. And millions of gamers
seem to agree, as Minecraft racked up over 7 million copies on
the PC alone by August 2012. So what's next from the developers
of Minecraft? A space sim. Althought the game will be a space
simulation with classic shooter aspects, Markus Persson and his
dev team really don't know where the project is headed. The
space simulation game that Persson and his team are working on
is currently titled 0x10c. We're not sure what that name means
either, so we're likely just as puzzled as you are. We do know
that 0x10c is set on some sort of spaceship orbiting a planet
that bears a striking resemblance to Saturn. The graphics in
this game are |
5.012791 | 0.91624 | 13 | hide menu #1 - fukkendragonite (05/23/2012) [-] Plenty to eat
there. Plenty to eat there. User avatar #4 to #1 - kannon
(05/24/2012) [-] what song is this from, because it looks like
it's from a little peice of heaven or something like that, just
not to sure User avatar #5 to #4 - fukkendragonite (05/24/2012)
[-] Yeah, A little piece of heaven. User avatar #6 to #5 -
kannon (05/24/2012) [-] thought so thanks for clearing it up for
me, it's one of my fav. songs by them Friends (0) |
2.591144 | 2.081056 | -1 | Book Review: Neil Gaiman Neverwhere By | Tuesday, October
24, 2006 Filed under: Book Reviews Tags: , , , In North America
we take pride in our cities that date back to our original days
of settlement and think of them as old and historic. So it's a
little bit of a blow to the ego when you discover that a city
like London England has sewer systems that predate even our
oldest European settlements. In other parts of the world cities
older then our oldest have grown up on top of the ruins of even
older settlements that exist entirely below the sub-basement
levels of the newer structures. Ancient houses stand empty,
vainly awaiting the return of inhabitants and streets and
avenues are equally devoid of the traffic that once filled them.
Forever cut off from the sun, rain, and other elements, they are
the empty shells of lost civilizations. But are they really as
empty as we believe? Could it be possible that beneath our feet
as we go about our daily business a whole other city carries out
its affairs wit |
3.107863 | -4.447459 | 38 | Quick links: Latest Team Rankings Free Text Alerts Member
Services ShopMobileRadio RSSRivals.com Yahoo! Sports January
28, 2013 I'll be the first one to tell you that I don't know
how to predict what in the world is going to happen with the
Longhorn football program in 2013. Whatever happens, we all
know that David Ash's fingerprints will be all over it. His
development will either take the Longhorns over the next bridge
in their return to national prominence or the complete opposite.
What we know is that the Longhorns have been their absolute best
under Mack Brown when they've had elite, not good, but elite
quarterback play. Therefore, I thought we'd lead things off
this week with some perspective on the quarterback position in
the last 20 years of the program. The results are a little
surprising, so let's get right to it. David Ash (Through his
sophomore season: 25 games, 18 starts) 313 completions/492
attempts/3,778 yards/23 TD/16 INT (1.35 TD-INT ratio) 137.043
quarterback rating 244 yards rushin |
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3.83653 | -3.906327 | 55 | Monday, August 2, 2010 My Letter to Tom Golisano (Plus, it has
some of my thoughts on the Sabres summer) Dear Tom, I'm sure
you must be reading this letter atop your million dollar
penthouse balcony in Florida; overlooking the ocean and loving
the fact that you don't have to pay outrageous NYS taxes. Maybe
the sun or Monica Seles have been frying your brain as of late,
but I'd like to remind you that you still own a hockey team. You
remember them. You bought the team for the inexpensive price of
60-80 million bucks. Hell, for that rate, Jim Kelly and his
former teammates could have actually achieved their dream of
owning a team in Buffalo. Of course, people thought the
purchase was nothing more than you saving a hockey team.
However, after seven years of running the franchise, I think we
can all assume that you were in it for the money. Your motives
had nothing to do with helping out WNY or winning a Stanley Cup.
I'm sure your homeboy, Larry Quinn, mentioned how the money that
the NHL was asking for the t |
0.867271 | 7.634305 | 77 | I've ben searching around, looking for information leading to a
chip for my Vulcan (Ford's lower level 3.0 L V6 they put in the
Sable/Taurus line). It's not SLOOOOOW, but a lot slower than the
200HP Duratec. (If anyone knows what that is lol) Any
suggestions or ideas would be greatly appreciated Right now, I
have this little "SpeedSeeker" which is supposed to do the same
thing as a "Chip" (it's just 2 wires into my IAT, Intake Air
Temp. Sensor plug) and it's supposed to confuse the car computer
into thinking it's getting cold air when it's not, but I think I
was ripped off lol I got it off ebay for ~20.00 US$. Anyway,
thanks again. ^^^Thats my baby!! |
-1.163977 | 3.598969 | 71 | « Hackers, Griefers, and Futurists | Main | Call for Papers: The
Ethics of Geoengineering » The CIA Wants To Control the
Climate!!!!11! No, not really. But that's the conclusion
people are getting from a story published initially at Mother
Jones, and picked up around the web. The CIA -- along with NASA,
NOAA, and the National Academies of Sciences (NAS) -- is funding
a $630,000 NAS project to study geoengineering. Not how to do
it, but what the broader ramifications are for global politics.
The announcement at the NAS gives the details: An ad hoc
committee will conduct a technical evaluation of a limited
number of proposed geoengineering techniques, including examples
of both solar radiation management (SRM) and carbon dioxide
removal (CDR) techniques, and comment generally on the potential
impacts of deploying these technologies, including possible
environmental, economic, and national security concerns. The
study will: 1. Evaluate what is currently known about the
science of several (3-4) selected exam |
-4.164857 | 1.475266 | 21 | Q: I recently flew first class with my wife and two kids on
Alaska Airlines from Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, to Los Angeles. We
paid more than $1,000 for each ticket. During the flight, the
attendant announced a variety of entrees over the loudspeaker.
When it came time to serve food in first class, we were told we
could receive only chicken sandwiches. When my wife asked for
one of the selections offered coach passengers, the flight
attendant said it would cost $6 to eat what the others were
eating. My wife protested, noting that we were in first class,
but to no avail. We coughed up the $6. What gives? A: Not
Alaska Airlines. It can't give you a $6 meal for free because
it's a matter of inventory control, the airline confirmed to me.
At the end of a flight, personnel must say, "We served 50 meals;
here's $300." Not, "We served 54 meals, but we're $24 short."
Airline food, said to be a $40-billion-a-year proposition, is
fraught with frustration for the customer (absence, quality) and
the airline (cost, inconve |
-0.945175 | 8.113466 | -1 | BullGuard Security Centre Essential virus information - how
a virus works Your guide to how a virus works to compromise
your computers safety The word “virus” is often used as a
common term for all malicious programs, but technically a virus
is a program or code that attaches itself to a legitimate,
executable piece of software, and then reproduces itself when
that program is run. Viruses spread by reproducing and inserting
themselves into programs, documents, or e-mail attachments. They
can be transmitted through e-mails or downloaded files and they
can be present on CDs, DVDs, USB-drives and any other sort of
digital media. A virus normally requires an action to infect a
victim. For instance, the malicious programs inside e-mail
attachments usually only strike if you open them. The effect of
a virus can be anything from a simple prank that pops up
messages to the complete destruction of programs and data.
Viruses before and now Almost one third of internet users in
the European Union caught a |
-1.551038 | 5.542616 | -1 | The Power of Single-Mindedness | Wed Feb. 9, 2011 11:03 AM GMT
Via Tyler Cowen, Inc. magazine has a piece in its current issue
about how entrepreneurs think. It's based on research from Saras
Sarasvathy, a professor at the University of Virginia's Darden
School of Business, and here's one bit: This reminds me of a
study that I read about years ago. (No link, unfortunately,
since I don't remember where I saw it.) The gist of it was that
a team of researchers tried to figure out what made
entrepreneurs different from ordinary corporate executives. Were
they less risk averse? It turned out they weren't. Did they have
different kinds of social and/or analytic skills? Not really.
Were they more energetic? More visionary? Better able to
understand new markets? No, no, and no. So what was it? They
discovered there was one metric on which entrepreneurs scored
far higher than other executives: self confidence.
Entrepreneurs, it turned out, weren't right about things any
more often than other executives. But they |
-0.594156 | 3.73522 | -1 | Guides to Help You Deal with Relocation Difficulty Published on
Saturday, 29 August 2009 Guides to Help You Deal with
Relocation Difficulty Guides to Help You Deal with Relocation
Difficulty Relocating to another place is not an easy task.
Obviously, this activity will require you a lot of adjustments
such as looking for a suitable house for you and your family.
You will also need to make careful planning and organizations to
smoothly move your things to your new location. And as you
arrive to your new home, you will start the process of getting
to know your neighborhoods. So, it isn't surprising why moving
is causing a person to experience different emotions. However,
you should not be overwhelmed by the things you need to
accomplish when you are about to relocate. If you are meeting
any difficulty with the idea of relocating, you can think and
list of the good things that you will have when you relocate to
a new place. Once you have new goals in mind, relocating will
surely not become too difficult for yo |
2.793418 | 1.824569 | 19 | Summary: Her son had coached her and her friend had offered
moral support. Now she was wondering why she'd agreed to this
blind date. Disclaimer: Paramount ain't gonna, so I might as
well. Chapter 1 4:00, Friday afternoon, her hair wrapped in a
towel, Beverly consulted her full-length mirror. She'd never
been more terrified in her whole life; even after all she'd seen
and done on the Enterprise. She rushed over to the link and
called her son. Wesley answered on the second ring. "Mom? Are
you okay?" "No." He saw her complexion was pale and her eyes
were wide. "I have a date." "You what?" "I'm going on a date…a
blind date." Wesley smiled. "So you finally took some of
Deanna's advice. Did she give you a name?" "No. What am I going
to do? Maybe I should've said no to the whole dating scene."
"No! No…mom, this is great. Let me put Charlie on the line." A
perky, feminine face suddenly appeared. "Hi Beverly. What's this
I hear you have a date?" Beverly visibly relaxed at the female
presence. Charlotte w |
-0.983906 | 1.750107 | -1 | Careers That Are Built To Last Careers Built To Last See how
the right education could prepare you to pursue a stable career.
By Jennifer Berry Your career doesn't need to be as unstable as
the economy. It's true...long-term security is not a pipe
dream. At least not according to Carolyn Hughes, head of HR at,
which has about five million online job postings users can
search. Hughes says there are plenty long-term careers out
there...but some of them might look a little different than they
did a decade ago. "These days you might have a 30-year career
in a specialized firm (like an accounting firm) rather than a
big corporation that has all departments in house," she points
out as an example. Want to learn more about stable career
options? Keep reading to see seven careers with staying power.
Career #1 - Paralegals Average Earning Potential: $50,080* As a
paralegal, you may help prepare for trials, draft contracts,
establish trust funds, or even investigate the facts of cases
and take affidavits. Wh |
-2.062633 | 0.907318 | -1 | • Search • All content • Business listings Amendment Could
Give Elderly Break On Property Taxes October 16, 1998|By Jeff
Kunerth of The Sentinel Staff Seventy-two-year-old Dudley Boger
recently took a $6-an-hour job as a security guard to supplement
his meager retirement income. Boger, a retired construction
superintendent, and his wife, Harriet, live on less than $20,000
a year in Social Security and pensions. Under Amendment 3, the
Bogers could be eligible for an additional $25,000 homestead
exemption that would cut the $960 property tax bill in half on
their Osceola County home. ``Boy, that would be great because
our taxes have gone nothing but up in Osceola,'' said Harriet
Boger, 68. The amendment, one of the proposed changes to the
Florida Constitution placed on the Nov. 3 ballot, leaves it up
to counties and cities whether to offer the additional homestead
exemption. Local governments also would have the option of
lowering the amount of the tax break or changing the income
requirement of $20,0 |
2.270848 | 1.457595 | -1 | Kirkus Reviews QR Code WAR by Sebastian Junger By Sebastian
Junger Pub Date: May 11th, 2010 ISBN: 978-0-446-55624-8
Publisher: Twelve The latest flexing of journalistic muscle
from Vanity Fair contributor Junger (A Death in Belmont, 2006,
etc.). The author dives into the most perilous form of
immersion journalism, attempting to create an unflinching
account of frontline combat. The prototype of this approach is
Michael Herr’s peerless Dispatches (1977), a thoroughly
unsentimental, grunt-level view of the Vietnam War’s bloodiest
years. Yet if Junger’s dispatches from the fighting in
Afghanistan solidify anything, it’s that war American-style
hasn’t evolved much in the decades since Herr’s book. It seems
that neither advanced tactics nor postmillennial weapons
technology have negated the all-too-human imperfections of face-
to-face ground combat. From June 2007 to June 2008, Junger was
embedded—“entirely dependent on the U.S. military for food,
shelter, security, and transportation”—with the 173rd Airborne, |
0.019512 | 2.287465 | -1 | The Hancock-Henderson Quill, Inc. Take "The Quill" Along In
August of '09, Jacob Dance took the Quill along to the
University of Notre Dame. He is standing in front of the
legendary football stadium. In 2017, Jacob hopes to enter Notre
Dame as a freshman to study engineering and he is in great hopes
by that time the school will be winning more "games for the
Gipper. Also on his trip, Jacob, along with Isabel, his Mom and
Grandma visited the Henry Ford Museum and Greenwood Village in
Detroit and the historic home of The Ford's in Grosse Pointe,
Michigan. When you go on a trip, take "The Quill" along and have
your picture taken with it, then send it to us. Let's see where
all "The Quill" can travel. |
-0.036504 | 4.857351 | 143 | Foresight Nanotech Institute Logo Image of nano Message from
Iran: why Drexler/Smalley debate matters Sam Ghandchi,
Editor/Publisher of Iranscope, explains why he finds Drexler &
Kurzweil's views more persuasive than Smalley's, and why this
matters to the developing world: "The same way, the
nanotechnology can be the most important technology that may
replicate fuel cells, to put an end to the age of oil, and not
only it would impact the economy of oil producing countries like
Iran, but it can change the whole economy of energy production
in the world, which is the basis of all industrial production
worldwide, and can make a huge impact on poverty and wealth
worldwide." Leave a Reply |
3.499293 | -4.611192 | -1 | Could we have a top 10 draft pick? We'll need a little help, but
I think #10 is the highest we could possibly get. Worst case,
we're picking #19. The sad part is, does it really matter? Will
we get any player who's worth drafting this high? More
importantly, picking close to 10 might help in rounds 2-4 more
than round 1 imho. But the way Tomlin/Colbert draft, does it
even matter? Given the current state of the team, I have no
idea what direction we'll go in the draft? Who will the best
player available be? |
0.438679 | -1.133647 | 86 | The Turkish economy The economy is not a big election issue,
but it badly needs cooling down See article Readers' comments
Fahrettin Tahir Greece is ahomogenous country with a stagnant
population and economy. She is subsidised to the tune of
hundreds of billion dollars by the European Union. Under those
conditions she has been stable since 1974. Do not forget the
civil war of the 1940ies and the dictatorship of the 1970ies.
Turkey has a highly heterogenous population, who come not only
from all countries of the Ottoman empire on three continents but
also refugees from many countries beginning with Spain in the
West and Manchuria in the east. Some live in the 21st century
other are barely out of the stone age. The population has
tripled in 50 years. She is undergoing a dramatic and rapid
industrialisation process. Her allies have supported a thousand
billion expensive dollar civil war in an attempt to stop her
economy. Now they support the AKP which American diplomats
(wikileaks) think does not und |
4.241035 | 2.652229 | 5 | Nadia Hironaka and Matthew Suib's 1967 (2011), a multichannel
video installation, is a colorful and synesthetic tour-de-force
work that combines borrowed and original moving images,
including scenes from Godard's film La Chinoise (1967), footage
of the Montreal Expo from the same year, Chinese film from the
Cultural Revolution and YouTube videos of recent Arab Spring
protests. Through the complex layering of images and
superimposed subtitle-like text written by the artists, the
piece underscores both the mechanical activities of
revolutionaries and the politicized nature of mass media,
conflating real and imagined events and highlighting how we see
through multiple cinematic lenses. The installation comprised
six projections that wrapped around the large gallery, and three
strategically placed flat-screen monitors that rested against
them. All nine channels are looped and run simultaneously, but
the narrative sequence moves clockwise. In addition, the
projections filled the walls from floor to ceiling, incor |
-0.577032 | 0.145913 | 6 | Sunday, March 30, 2008 Don't know much about ... Quick, name
the news organi- zation at which a 180-word AP pickup from a
newspaper six time zones away is the third most super-important
story of the day!!! Aw, you peeked. Anyway, if you find the
syntax of the Fox reefer a little confusing, here's how the AP
quotes the chap in question: Wait, wait, wait. "First time in
history." You mean you guys were in charge back when the locals
had that little Passover dispute in Jerusalem, before we even
knew whether we were supposed to call it AD or CE, and you still
can't figure out who's entitled to be standing on which part of
the steps up to Golgotha in the Church of the Holy Sep? Some Dan
Brown-encircling conspiracy you are. Anyway, that's between the
AP and L'Osservatore. Why is this story, with its telling
deictic pronoun, such a big deal at Fox? That's a bit of a
longer story, to which we now return in hopes of having it in
shape by the Tuesday night deadline (some of y'all may be
looking at the same witchi |
3.732828 | -2.797325 | 72 | Handing Off the Tasuki How Japan's marathon traditions are
changing July 1, 2010 Compared to Hakone and the New Year
Ekiden, women's university and corporate ekiden teams receive
moderate attention, but despite a considerably shorter history,
Japan's most famous and respected runners these days are its
female marathoners. The Asahi Kasei company funded one of the
first women's corporate teams way back in 1951. In the mid-'70s,
expat Miki Gorman scored Boston and New York wins to become the
first great female Japanese-born marathoner, but it wasn't until
the late '70s that domestic women began to appear in overseas
marathons and not until 1983 that one, Akemi Masuda, made the
top 10 worldwide. When the Tokyo International Women's Marathon
(pictured below) was founded in 1979 as the world's first elite
women-only marathon, Japanese women were nowhere near able to
compete with the invited foreign competition. But like the
early days of Hakone, Tokyo Women's, along with later elite
women's races in Nagoya an |
-2.674924 | 5.779508 | 81 | Wednesday, June 23, 2010 Dividend Investing Myths Many
investors ignore dividend investing, because they associate them
with boring unexciting investments which are destined to fall
into oblivion. Some investors believe that rather than wait for
a whole year to collect a 3%-4% dividend, you could make 3-4 %
per day in the market trading volatile technology stocks. The
fact of the matter is that few if any investors could accurately
forecast stock market moves in order to profit from large daily
swings in some of the most volatile stocks in the market today.
Dividend payments on the other hand are much less volatile than
stock prices, which is what makes them ideal for investors who
plan to live off their investments. The stability of the
payments makes them a reliable source of income in virtually any
market, without having to sell a portion of one’s portfolios and
exposing yourself to market fluctuations. Companies such as
Clorox (CLX) are a good example of dividend payers which have
raised distributions |
-3.359329 | 5.203869 | 115 | Support Marketplace Explainer: Greece's 'selective default'
Yesterday, Standard & Poor's downgraded Greece's credit rating
to "selective default." Adriene Hill: In Greece today,
lawmakers are voting today on another round of budget cuts. Just
yesterday, Standard & Poor's downgraded the country's credit
rating to "selective default." It's a move that everyone
expected. But it got us talking about the difference between
that and the messy default Greece has been trying to avoid.
We've got Marketplace's Stephen Beard with us to help sort it
out. Stephen Beard:Good morning, Adriene. Hill: So let's start
with the basics. What does it mean when we say a country
defaults? Beard: A government has borrowed money, usually by
selling bonds. But it gets into trouble, can't pay the money
back -- the government defaults. And the bondholders lose their
cash. Hill: Now, Standard & Poor's has downgraded Greece's
credit rating to "selective default." What does that mean?
Beard: This means that in S&P's view, Greece h |
3.416475 | -4.232596 | -1 | Freshman forward Tyler Honeycutt has experienced the feeling and
wants no part of it ever again. The feeling of having your back
against the wall, of not living up to the expectations of fans
and boosters, and then having to explain why. Those are the
feelings of a team in the midst of a five-game losing streak,
and Honeycutt is relieved that his team is not the one going
through it. |
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