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-0.435913 | 2.861276 | -1 | Revistes Catalanes amb Accés Obert (RACO) Sostenibilidad
ambiental y complejidad social: ¿dos caras de la misma moneda?
Josep Antequera In this article, the author begins by
analysing global connectivity as a force that increases global
complexity and, consequently, the difficulty of predicting the
future of society. He also demonstrates that world hegemony has
been a variable factor throughout the history of the human race
and analyses the causes of the rise and fall of empires. In a
parallel analysis, he compares the dynamics of ecosystems with
that of cultures, discusses the effects of society’s activities
on ecosystems and planetary regulation, and identifies
humanity’s impact on the planet as a factor that makes
predicting society’s future all the more complex. He presents a
hypothesis on how to transform the entropy generated by the
current development model into social complexity and describes
several future scenarios proposed by authors such as Robert
Costanza. Finally, he concludes by suggesting |
4.578594 | -3.219223 | 1 | The Breakdown: Dortmund vs Real Madrid A physically fitter and
sharper Borussia Dortmund played their gameplan to perfection in
Wednesday's 2-1 win over Real Madrid in the UEFA Champions
League. Football News: Mesut Oezil of Madird Borussia Dort By
Suhas Bhat Having left their league woes to the wayside, Jurgen
Klopp's side were excited to welcome the La Liga champions and
produce a good result in front of a raucous home support. In
fact, the German side did just that as their quick attacks and
determined runs ran the Real defence ragged. Impressively, most
of their attacks were based on one-touch passing making it seem
like the players possessed a telepathetic understanding of one
another's intentions. But they were also helped by
uncharacteristic mistakes by the Real backline as Robert
Lewandowski carved out a goalscoring opportunity after Pepe's
stray pass allowed him to race clear and catch Iker Casillas
unawares. Marcel Schmelzer, similarly, benefitted from a mistake
by the usually-focused goalkeep |
0.753776 | 2.13926 | 75 | North America South America Flavors of Meditation It could
be licking your favorite ice cream on a hot Sunday afternoon or
watching the sunset on a white sand beach. Your meditation
experience can be compared to anything, absolutely anything
random on this planet! We spoke to a few meditators who drew
some very interesting analogies between their meditation
experiences and things you could not even distantly relate to
meditation! Let’s take a look. 1) Meditation in having a drink
Before I started to meditate, I would take alcohol to relax.
Even though it can give you instant enjoyment, it can be harmful
to your health if it becomes a habit. In meditation, there is
not just instant relaxation but you also gain the ability to
make better choices and connect with yourself, with regular
practice. The feeling is much better. I’m glad I found a
positive and healthy way to celebrate life – Anonymous (name
withheld on request) 2) Meditation in dancing When you become
so relaxed and still in meditation, it |
-1.376324 | 4.713756 | -1 | TED Conversations Jimena Duque This conversation is closed.
Start a new conversation or join one » Stimulate the switch
from oil consuming cars to electric vehicles. The switch from
oil consuming cars into electric vehicles (EV) requires work at
many levels and a sense of urgency by governments, corporations
and every single individual. I have no idea if the following
concepts exist so I would love to hear from you. 1. When buying
your EV you should get rebates and/or tax incentives. I know
this varies across the US, but it should be a standard
everywhere. 2. In order to start diminishing the number of
cars, ALL dealerships should start buying your car at a
competitive price which in turn can be discounted from the tag
price of the EV. (This could be considered a rebate) 3. Junk
yards should get assistance so they can properly up-cycle,
recycle or efficiently dispose of cars without creating more
pollution. progress indicator • thumb Mar 10 2011: Good
trying. But Iam afraid its not good for some |
-0.54515 | 2.233661 | -1 | Alabama Theater Birmingham early 1980s Your Chances for College
Theater Scholarships One of my best friends is a senior in high
school this year. She wants to go to Syracuse for a degree in
music but isn’t quite sure about being able to fund her
education. As a Texan who is coming from a middle class, white
family, her qualms are not only justified but substantiated by
past horror stories. Students who worked so hard in high school
to get into prestigious colleges and universities that then
aren’t able to pay the steep tuition prices for the brilliant
schools that offered them admission is not an uncommon tale.
Especially when pursuing a degree in the arts, scholarship
opportunities are rare, and actually getting the money is even
rarer. So to answer the big question: What are my chances of
getting a college theater scholarship? The answer is, quite
simply, pretty frikin’ low. The chance of even getting a
scholarship is pretty low, so I've compiled a list of some tips
to boosting your chances of getting some |
2.77012 | 2.487549 | 25 | "As you can tell from looking at my career, there was no
plan!" the 64-year-old said with a hearty laugh. "It's never
setting out with a goal in mind or project or whatever. It's
what kind of captures my imagination in the moment." Lange's
gut feeling recently led her to a new path as a children's book
author. "It's About a Little Bird" follows two young sisters who
discover an antique birdcage at their grandmothers' farm. "It
felt natural and organic and simple and kind of charmed," Lange
said of creating the picture book based on her real-life
experiences and featuring photographs she took and tinted by
hand. In an interview Monday, the two-time Academy Award winner
discussed the book, which began as a handmade Christmas gift for
her granddaughters, and the new season of her not-so-kid-
friendly FX series "American Horror Story: Coven," premiering
Wednesday. AP: How did you go about writing "It's About a
Little Bird?" Jessica Lange: I didn't do it in that kind of
deliberate way. It wasn't something th |
-0.490358 | -1.304598 | -1 | Instapun*** Archive Listing Archive Listing April 14, 2007 -
April 7, 2007 Wednesday, December 28, 2005 Looking Back The
apocalyptic prognosticators had their usual great year. SEERS.
It's been an exciting and traumatic 12 months. So many things
happened that it's doubtful any of us remembers them all. That's
why we thought it would be a public service to review the more
spectacular predictions of psychics and seers that came true in
2005 (h/t aspie,, and other dogged futurists on the web.) For
example, do you remember: 1. How sad it was that the shuttle
was unable to land safely last summer? ("Colonel" Ed Dames) 2.
The outbreak of a U.S. civil war so violent that it became like
a continuous series of Waco/Ruby Ridge incidents? (time
traveller John Titor and Brando Cano) 3. The long dreaded
reestablishment of the draft by the war mongers in the Bush
administration? (Sean David Morton and Hans King) 4. The deaths
of Saddam Hussein (just before his trial) and Osama bin Laden?
(Sylvia Browne and Hans K |
2.04868 | 2.782666 | 37 | Subscribe Feedback English look up any word, like english
breakfast: 1. DoucheFuckMcGee When somebody is such a douche
they feel the need to fuck a bag of McDonalds while screaming at
the top of their lungs "GEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!" Jim: Look
at that guy he's such a DoucheFuckMcGee. Bob: I know! It's also
a huge waste of the ten piece chicken McNugget meal. rss and
gcal |
2.781675 | 4.876925 | -1 | Glitch City From Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia
Revision as of 19:30, March 10, 2013 by (talk) Jump to:
navigation, search Glitch cityscrnshot An overhead view of
Glitch City in the film Pokemon 230: The Power of Real Estate
Glitch City is the newly-built hotel resort to be found in
Florida, USA. It can be found if you drive off a cliff at Dover,
if you fly to Cinnabar Island or if you piss around in the
Safari Zone. The History Commissioned by President George
Bush, Glitch City was thought to be the greatest achievement of
the modern age. It was considered the next type of 'Las Vegas
meets New York' by some pompous critics. It was said to sport
amazing facilities and other tourist stuff that will attract
many people from around the world. The original idea for Glitch
City was conceived during the filming of the Pokemon film,
Pokemon 230: The Power of Real Estate. In one of the scenes, the
main protagonist enters a dream world, in which the buildings
look oddly glitched and the people stra |
3.132546 | 1.828643 | -1 | The Twilight Saga This is a Renesmee story! What if Jacob left
Renesmee and she got over him, falling back on Liam, a new half
vampire? Will Jacob return? Will Edward and Bella approve?
Preface: I See You LIAM POV I sat with Renesmee, in the
sunlight of our favorite meadow. I stroked a curly tress out of
her face. "Let me see you," she asked. I blinked my eyes once
and she smiled a dazzling smile that sparkled almost as much as
my skin at the moment. She bit down on her bottom lip. For some
reason, Renesmee was more human than myself. I don't know why,
but her blood appealed to me so much, I could hardly bare it.
I kissed her forehead. "I love you, Renesmee," I promised. I've
always loved her, and she's always known. She opened her mouth
to return the gesture, but her mother called for her from a
distance. "I must leave," she said, rising from the ground. I
blinked my eyes once and became "human" again. That was my
special power. I could blink my eyes and become a human, or
blink them again and bec |
-0.032087 | -1.27631 | -1 | Page last updated at 14:42 GMT, Saturday, 12 April 2008 15:42 UK
'World peace' hitcher is murdered Pippa Bacca (left) and Silvia
Moro hitchike in Lubiana (14 March 2008) (Photo: Pippa
Bacca/FotoUp) Ms di Marineo (L) was hitch-hiking to the Middle
East with a fellow artist Reports say the man led the
police to the body. They had separated in Istanbul, planning
to reunite in Beirut. Ms di Marineo was last seen on 31 March
in Gebze. An Italian embassy official told the Associated Press
news agency police tracked the man when he put a new SIM card
into Ms di Marineo's mobile phone. Ms di Marineo's sister, who
had gone to Turkey to look for her, identified the body. An
autopsy is being conducted in Istanbul. "Her travels were for
an artistic performance and to give a message of peace and of
trust, but not everyone deserves trust," another sister, Maria,
told the Italian news agency, Ansa. The BBC is not responsible
for the content of external internet sites Has China's housing
bubble burst? How |
0.816644 | 10.315331 | -1 | Take the 2-minute tour × I need to do something in regex but
I'm really not good at it, long time didn't do that . I need
to change it to Please trying to do it by using regular
expression in Python. share|improve this question Why do you
need to change this? Python can do just fine with / as a path
separator. – JoshD Oct 22 '10 at 3:34 add comment 5 Answers
I'm entirely in favor of helping user483144 distinguish
"solution" from "regular expression", as the previous two
answerers have already done. It occurs to me, moreover, that
os.path.normpath() http://docs.python.org/library/os.path.html
might be what he's really after. share|improve this answer add
comment why do you think you every solution to your problem
needs regular expression?? >>> s="/a/c/a.doc" >>>
'\\'.join(s.split("/")) By the way, if you are going to change
path separators, you may just as well use os.path.join mypath
= os.path.join("C:\\","dir","dir1") Python will choose the
correct slash for you. Also, check out os.sep if you |
0.393991 | 8.617231 | 103 | Difference between pages "Matriux" and
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security distribution consisting of a bunch of powerful, open
source and free tools that can be used in Forensics
investigations and much more '''Matriux''' is a
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based on [http://www.debian.org/ Debain] has many tools for
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response]. == About Matriux == == Arsenal ==
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3.008922 | -4.461698 | 38 | Going into the Patriots' season, we knew that there were very
few household names at wide out. We knew that it would probably
be mid-season or week 3 at best before we saw Gronk on the
field. We knew Brady is one of the best and that he has high
expectations for all of the players including himself. Coach
Belichick does as well. We knew the defense has been injured or
under-producing in the last couple years but still makes plays
when they need to. But over the course of the first two games,
we've learned a lot. Some good and some bad. We've learned that
the Patriots rush attack is something that teams need to look at
now. Even with Shane Vereen out, there is still a plethora of
solid RBs (Ridley, Bolden, Blount, Washington) that can get the
job done. The backfield is set for a great rushing attack this
entire season. Let us not forget, when the Patriots won all of
those super bowls back in the 2000s, Brady wasn't throwing for
300 and 400 yards a game. They had a fairly balanced offense and
a solid defense. T |
-1.188807 | 6.731962 | -1 | Intel's consent decree: Intel will be changed Posted by Rob
Enderle In reading through the Intel Consent Decree I’m reminded
of both the years I spent interpreting and writing documents
like this and how glad I am they are past me. Legal agreements,
as an unfortunate side effect of what they need to accomplish,
are virtually impossible to interpret with a high degree of
accuracy and this one is no exception. Intel’s Consent Decree:
Intel Will Be ChangedHowever, we can make some reasonably
reliable guesses about how it will work. Let’s cover both why
agreements of this type are misleading and the likely results
that will come out of this one. Why Contracts like Consent
Decrees Are Misleading The problem resides in the nature of this
being a complex agreement between two parties with vastly
different backgrounds and goals coupled with a third enforcement
element that typically had no part in the creation process and
yet must interpret the result. In this case you have a contract
that defines Intel behavi |
0.179605 | 9.445144 | 16 | Take the 2-minute tour × I'm looking for a program that can
remotely show me (From a server counsel) all the patch info and
programs of the computers on my network. And whether it shows it
to me via GUI or through a report, either would be helpful for
me to see that all machines are running the same java patches,
ect. I tried googling around but couldn't find much.
share|improve this question add comment closed as not
constructive by SvW, dunxd, Michael Hampton, mdpc, Ward Jan 19
'13 at 3:20 5 Answers Microsoft Intune is easy and free to
try: share|improve this answer add comment I like to use
Spiceworks, Ninite, and WSUS together to manage things.
Spiceworks can give you the information you want while Ninite
and WSUS can manage the updates. These are really nice when your
budget is minimal. When you've got the budget for it the System
Center Suite from Microsoft is what I prefer. share|improve
this answer add comment You can query installed software and
their version using Powershell (which isn |
-0.920797 | 2.85014 | 84 | Tsunami destruction in Thailand A tsunami, sometimes referred
to as a tidal wave, is a series of ocean waves created when an
earthquake or other major disturbance displaces a large volume
of water. Powerful tsunamis such as the 2004 Indian Ocean event
can devastate coastal regions as the waves sweep far inland.
Following a quake, tsunamis can travel for thousands of miles.
For example, after the 2011 Sendai earthquake in Japan, a
tsunami alert was issued for almost the entire Pacific region.
Places as far away as Chile were affected by the alert. A
tsunami is often barely noticeable in deep ocean water, but as
it approaches land and enters shallow water, the waves slow and
increase in height. Use the BBC News step-by-step tsunami
animated guide to learn more. Image: Thailand's coastline
before (left) and after (right) the 26 December 2004 tsunami
(credit: Geoeye/SPL) Tsunami destruction in Thailand Tsunamis
TV clips (7) Read more at Wikipedia Other related BBC
topics |
-5.010757 | 1.63905 | 79 | Rhubarb pie From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to:
navigation, search Rhubarb pie A slice of rhubarb pie Type Pie
Place of origin UK Variations butter, flour, rhubarb, sugar
Rhubarb pie is a pie with a rhubarb filling. Besides diced
rhubarb, it almost always contains a large amount of sugar to
balance the intense tartness of the plant. Rhubarb pie is
particularly popular in those areas where the rhubarb plant is
commonly cultivated, including Finland, Sweden, the United
Kingdom, Ireland and the New England and Upper Midwestern
regions of the United States. In Canada and the United States,
strawberry rhubarb pie is a popular late-spring pie, generally
combining the first strawberries of the season with the last of
the rhubarb. See also[edit] |
0.178715 | 8.839792 | -1 | Take the 2-minute tour × Possible Duplicates: How to find the
original content when the folder is already “replaced”? Is there
any free undelete software for the Mac? I thought that all
operating systems would merge folder content when being moved to
the same location. Imagine my surprise when that didn't happen
and I have hundreds, if not thousands of files that have gone
missing and are nowhere to be found. Because they were not
"deleted" they are not in the trash bin. I've tried to do some
recovery using a program called stellarPheonix but after about a
24hour scan, it didn't recognize any of the raw files
(.dng,.arw) as image files and so I couldn't see if they could
be recovered. It also didn't show the directory structure, which
would be handy. I tried a quick scan, but all it showed was
files that were still on the HD, not sure what the point of that
is. I've used recover 2000 on Win and it does a good job, does
anyone know of anything that works quickly and reliably for this
kind of file recover |
-0.30993 | 7.566494 | -1 | Microsoft demos "FonePlus" OLPC killer Proving that corporate
agendas sometimes can't be put aside long enough to create a
unified computing platform for the world's poor, Microsoft has
unveiled "FonePlus," a concept device making good on its
proposal to use smartphones as the basis for sending computers
deep into emerging markets. Unfortunately we've been unable to
dig up any eye candy, but FonePlus looks to follow Gates'
formula pretty closely: you get a CE-based smartphone (likely
watered down from the full Windows Mobile package) with TV out
and an external keyboard connection. The logic behind FonePlus
suggests that phones and televisions are pervasive even in some
of the world's poorest regions, making the product an easy sell
-- plus, Internet access is part and parcel with the phone,
something OLPC doesn't provide out of the box. Whether FonePlus
will see production remains to be seen, but Microsoft's studying
the idea closely -- and when you get snubbed by OLPC in favor of
Linux, well, it's no surpr |
3.434857 | 4.415834 | -1 | Crafting Nightmares: Why Amnesia's Dark Descent terrifies
audiences Mike Bracken's picture Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Screenshot When it comes to horror, I'm genuinely jaded. After
spending most of my adult life writing about countless films in
the genre and reading everything from H.P. Lovecraft to Richard
Laymon, I'm largely desensitized to jump scares and gross outs.
That doesn't mean I don't appreciate the efforts of those
creating scares, though. In fact, I find the opposite to be
true. I think I appreciate a well done film, book or game even
more now because I have such an intimate understanding of how
fear is created. Much like a good joke, scaring people appears
deceptively simple—the truth is, it's not. What scares us is
arguably as broad and subjective as what makes us laugh. What
one person finds terrifying or hilarious may not faze me at all,
and vice versa. Trying to discover universal fears and keep them
fresh and frightening is a huge challenge. The brainchild of
Swedish indie developers |
4.222993 | 3.020043 | 5 | Pocahontas: 2 Movie Collection Other // G // $39.99 // August
21, 2012 Review by Neil Lumbard | posted August 30, 2012 Highly
Recommended E - M A I L this review to a friend Graphical
Version Pocahontas Blu-ray Review Disney's Pocahontas may not
be the most faithful telling of the story imaginable (for some
that follow history "to the books" and expect filmmakers to
entirely follow suite that might even seem a gigantic
understatement) but it is a creative, visionary, and beautiful
film about the discovery of the "new world" in America by
Spanish explorers and the emotional unity of Pocahontas and John
Smith. Like many Disney productions, there is a cast of
acclaimed actors portraying these characters, represented
through this version of the Pocahontas legend. Irene Bedard
voices Pocahontas magnificently by providing adequate warmth and
compassion, as one would hope to find in Pocahontas's genuinely
peaceful and compassionate character. The songs are performed
by Broadway actress Judy Kuhn. John Smith was |
3.052241 | -3.908129 | 38 | King: Coaches Get It Right In The USA Today Poll? Now that the
62 college football coaches who participate in the USA Today
College Football Poll have shared their insight, what team will
embarrass the men perceived to be experts? A given in college
football, some team considered a solid choice for a Bowl
Championship Series game and a possible contender for the
national championship will disappoint. Some slip to a secondary
bowl; others fall farther. Personally, Arkansas was pegged at
9-3 and there is an argument that third-ranked Southern
California was a bigger bust than the Razorbacks.
Disappointments in 2010 included preseason No. 1 Alabama, No. 3
Florida and No. 4 Texas. The Crimson Tide lost conference games
to South Carolina, LSU and Auburn. Florida managed only a 4-4
record in the Southeastern Conference and Texas was a woeful 5-7
on the season. Despite the coaches’ recent history of being
wrong half the time, it is difficult to find a likely loser of
more than two games in the preseaso |
-2.141191 | 0.11512 | -1 | Mar 17, 2014 Home| Tools| Events| Blogs| Discussions| Sign
UpLogin Economic Sense RSS By: Matt Bogard, AgWeb.com Matt's
primary interest is in the biotech industry and ag policy.
Occupy Wall Street: Hitching a Ride on the Tea Party Express?
Oct 08, 2011 By Matt Bogard The #occupywallstreet movement
seems to be a pretty diverse group. From ‘trolling’ the
occupywallstreet forums , there seems to be a big concern with
corporatism, what economists would consider rent seeking- which
is using the political apparatus to gain special favors (in
terms of taxes, subsidies, or regulations) . There are also many
concerned about the role of the Federal Reserve, which through
the social planning of money and interest played a significant
role in the financial crisis . And of course, many are
rightfully upset over the bailouts. On most of these issues, if
they are serious about their concerns, they find themselves
practically standing hand-to-hand with the Tea Party. Then, on
occasion you will find some listing deman |
3.281356 | 4.282376 | -1 | Dungeons and Dragons Wiki Quantumboost/Campaigning on the Inner
Planes 9,546pages on this wiki < User:Quantumboost Revision
as of 02:51, July 21, 2010 by IGTN (Talk | contribs) High
Adventure on the Inner PlanesEdit High Adventure in... The
Plane of Air!Edit Campaign Seed: Edit Campaign Seed: Edit Ten
Low Level Adventures in The Plane of AirEdit Ten Mid Level
Adventures in The Plane of AirEdit Ten High Level Adventures in
The Plane of AirEdit High Adventure in... The Plane of
Earth!Edit The Elemental Plane of Earth is a lot like
Pandemonium, except quieter and with heavier, monodirectional
gravity. There are a number of portals between the two, in fact,
due to their similar environments, which provide a needed
respite to people on both sides escaping the gravity on the
Plane of Earth or the screaming on Pandemonium. If you look at
the entire plane as a group of dungeons that never open to the
surface except for through portals, you wouldn’t be wrong. One
important thing to remember on the Plane |
0.350676 | 5.403287 | -1 | Bilayer Graphene Gets a Bandgap Print Graphene is the two-
dimensional crystalline form of carbon whose extraordinary
electron mobility and other unique features hold great promise
for nanoscale electronics and photonics. But without a bandgap,
graphene's promise can't be realized. As with monolayer
graphene, bilayer graphene also has a zero bandgap and thus
behaves like a metal. But a bandgap can be introduced if an
electric displacement field is applied to the two layers; the
material then behaves like a semiconductor. A team of
researchers from Berkeley has engineered a bandgap in bilayer
graphene that can be precisely controlled from 0 to 250 meV.
With precision control of its bandgap over a wide range, plus
independent manipulation of its electronic states through
electrical doping, dual-gated bilayer graphene becomes a
remarkably flexible tool for nanoscale electronic devices.
Directing Traffic on the Electron Superhighway Schematic
depictions of graphene crystal structure (lattices), conduction
ban |
-0.622907 | 6.918722 | 8 | Holiday Gift Guide » This is the dude who found and sold the
next-gen iPhone Categories: Apple, iPhone, Legal By: ,
IntoMobile Thursday, April 29th, 2010 at 4:38 PM That guy with
the douche-bag beard is reportedly the person who found the
next-generation iPhone in a bar and sold it to an online
publication. The 21-year-old Brian J. Hogan, of Redwood City,
California, said he was paid by Gizmodo but didn’t think he was
doing anything wrong because he thought he was just selling the
rights to review the unit before returning it to Apple. The
publication told him there was nothing illegal with this
process. “He regrets his mistake in not doing more to return
the phone,” said Jeffrey Bornstein, Hogan’s legal
representation, in a prepared statement. “Even though he did
obtain some compensation from Gizmodo, Brian thought that it was
so that they could review the phone.” According to his lawyer,
Hogan was handed the phone at a bar and asked if it belonged to
him. Like a jerk, he immediately started monkeyed w |
1.098333 | -1.08524 | -1 | Monday, November 14, 2011 Pavlovian Prescription Atanu Dey
suggests a simple technique to bolster national security: Is
there a way out? An economist would respond, “Yes, get the
incentives right.” My proposal is to create the mechanism which
would transmit the pain of terrorism to the leaders. In a sense,
I advance the creation of a nervous system that carries the pain
signals to the brain. The incentive mechanism I propose involves
public flogging but is not limited to that. san said... I
don't think any Indian leader will subject themselves to any
sort of punishment. We need to grow the middle class, in order
to hold the politicians accountable. It's the middle class which
is not so elite as to be removed from hardship, and yet not so
weak so as to be intimidated by the establishment. When the
problem is dysfunctional democracy, the answer is to make it
functional by creating the basic architecture for democratic
accountability, and the middle class is the basis for that. |
6.908899 | -1.55556 | 53 | Game To Nominate: Can you name the players to score 100 career
goals for the New York Islanders? Why? (optional): You must be
logged in to nominate a quiz. |
0.413378 | 9.722367 | 16 | writeDefaultPrefs :: IO ()Source .[^/] ^_ ~$ (^|)CVS($|)
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file that includes many common source control, backup,
temporary, and compiled files. You may want to have the boring
file under version control. To do this you can use darcs setpref
to set the value `boringfile' to the name of your desired boring
file (e.g. verb-darcs setpref boringfile .boring-, where
verb-.boring- is the repository path of a file that has been
darcs added to your repository). The boringfile preference
overrides verb!_darcsprefsboring!, so be sure to copy that file
to the boringfile. You can also set up a `boring' regexps file
in your home directory, named verb!~.darcsboring!, on MS
Windows~ref{ms_win}, which will be used with all of your darcs
repositories. Any file not already managed by darcs and whose
repository path (such as verb!manual/index.html!) matches any of
the boring regular expressions is considered boring. The boring
file is used to filter the files p |
2.904079 | 1.956655 | 142 | Tuesday, June 17, 2008 Hard day , Sunday Boo hoo hoo.....
9.30am - Get ready to go Bakuteh at Teluk Pulai. Weekly
routine....my duty as the daughter of BKT addict Daddy. Which
explains the why the fat content in our body will never
reduce!!! After Saturday's fiesta at IDG, my body aches like
there's no tomorrow.....even using the chopstick is a
challenge...ouch! Need to kick JJ's ass....should not have
promised to go for IDG....ugh!! 11.30am - Got home. Feed Rocky
with BIG BIG BONE salvaged from the BKT claypot.....play bone
snatching with Rocky ENJOY --> my Rocky with his handsome face
: "Rocky : Come to papa, slurp....." 1.00pm : Walk around One
Utama like a lost puppy with sista. Bought a soppy looking
korean movie.....I'm in the mood for soppy stuff.....sniff,
sniff....... Sista and mua is getting bored.....what happened
to One Utama? Why isn't there any thing interesting????? Maybe
coz we go there every weekend??? 2.30pm : Face and Eyebrow
threading.....ouch!!! Face felt much smoother...as promi |
-0.69741 | 10.364719 | 20 | Take the 2-minute tour × I've got my routing setup like this:
angular.module('MyApp', ['MyApp.controllers']).
$routeProvider.when('/foo', { templateUrl:
'/fooTemplate', controller: 'FooCtrl' What I'd like to
do is prefix a path to '/foo' at runtime, so depending on how my
app is configured, the route might be /foo, might be
/some/arbitrary/path/foo, etc. Ideally I could write something
like: $routeProvider.when(prefix + '/foo', { templateUrl:
'/fooTemplate', But cannot figure out how to inject that prefix
into my config method. share|improve this question 1 Answer 1
up vote 3 down vote accepted It should be something like:
.when('/:prefix/foo', {templateUrl: 'details.html', controller:
DetailsCtrl}) The prefix will then be available in the
controller through $routeParams. If you would like it to handle
the option foo without a prefix just simply place it in the
routing and make sure it is before the example above.
.when('/foo', {templateUrl: 'details.html', controller: Det |
1.162867 | -0.298755 | -1 | Those Americans who feel compelled to rewrite our collective
history as the emergence of an avowedly Christian nation are
fond of quoting scripture. Take the seemingly noble sentiment in
John 15:13, where Jesus said, “Greater love hath no man than
this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.” I say
“seemingly noble” because even the Devil is good at quoting
scripture. Consider the fringe Christian apocalyptic group
called the Hutaree; there this motto blazes their website just
above the image shown above. Yesterday, the U.S. Attorney
General announced the arrests of nine individuals accused of
“plotting to kill law enforcement officers in hopes of inciting
an antigovernment uprising, the latest in a recent surge in
right-wing militia activity,” as the New York Times reports. The
plan is right out of what is often called the Al-Qaeda playbook,
one played out in Pakistan, Iraq and Afghanistan on almost a
daily basis: kill a police officer and then when there is a
funeral procession, set off an i.e.d. Wer |
0.662942 | 6.684239 | 68 | GIMME SHELTER- Stereo woes: When the music stops Sinisa "Z"
Maricic, Crutchfield Corp. Q: How can I get the most out of an
old stereo system? What are the options I have to replace my old
stereo equipment? A: To improve old equipment, make sure to
use high quality cables, so that they send the full sound
quality from the receiver to the speakers. A 100 percent copper
cable will improve sound quality. If you have two speakers,
make sure the length of wires between them is the same. Keep
wire lengths as short as possible, since longer lengths cause
more signal loss. For example, if you have one two-foot wire,
and one 15-foot wire, the two-foot wire will allow the speaker
to sound better. Positioning is also important. You want
speakers to be at ear level. This means if they are in a
hallway, you want them up high, but if you are sitting down,
you'll want them set lower. Make sure to position the speakers
an equal distance away from you, and keep them at the same
height. If you set up the correct posit |
-3.144664 | 3.803492 | -1 | 1. Travel Top 10 Massages To Try Massages To Get When You're
Ready For A Change Most people want a Swedish massage or deep
tissue massage when they go to the spa. They're the hamburger
and cheeseburger of the spa industry. But sometimes it's good to
break out of your rut and try something new. Here are my top ten
massages to try when you're feeling more adventuresome. 1. Thai
Massage Thai massage takes place fully clothed, on a thick
cotton mat on the floor. The therapist uses passive stretching
and pressure along the body's energy lines to increase
flexibility and relieve muscle and joint tension. The therapist
literally uses his/her whole body during the massage, so you
have to be comfortable with the contact. Best for experienced
spa-goers! 2. Aromatherapy Massage Aromatherapy is a Swedish
massage with essential oils added to the massage oil. The
essential oils smell good and have a therapeutic effect on body
and mind. Massage therapists usually put the oil in their hands,
cup them under your nose |
-0.103484 | -0.374694 | -1 | José Gabriel Túpac Amaru Facts Search Biography The Inca and
Peruvian nobleman José Gabriel Túpac Amaru (1742-1781) was the
leader of the largest Native American revolt in the Americas. He
was a man of sufficient learning, had a passion for reform, and
hated injustice. Túpac Amaru was born in Tinta south of Cuzco.
He was young when his father died, but two uncles became his
guardians and gave him the best possible education. At the age
of ten he went to Cuzco to study in the Jesuit College of San
Francisco de Borja, built for Native American boys of noble
birth. He read Latin readily and spoke Spanish correctly and
Quechua with grace. He married Michaela Bastidas Puyuahua, a
pure-blooded Spaniard from Abancay. From this marriage he had
three sons— Hipólito, Mariano, and Fernando. When Túpac Amaru's
oldest brother, Clemente, died, he inherited the caciqueship of
Tungasuca, Pampamarca, and other places. He governed the
descendants of the Incan nation and collected tribute for the
Spanish corregidor (governo |
1.664662 | 2.121811 | 62 | Take the 2-minute tour × So the age old question of 的-地-得, when
do you use which? When spoken, it all sounds the same, but on
paper it depends on if it's a verb, noun, adjective. But I don't
quite remember if that is all that matters or which applies to
which. Can someone refresh my memory? share|improve this
question learn a bit of classical and you'll never get them
confused, if only because constructions involving the same 得 are
ubiquitous – magnetar Dec 25 '11 at 20:10 A grammar book I read
recently suggests that it's not so important which is which and
that you can use 的 in all the cases (maybe not in an important
exam but in everyday use). That was confirmed by a Chinese
friend who told me to use 的 where it should have been 得. To be
confirmed though, but check out recent grammar books. –
this.lau_ Mar 19 '12 at 13:52 Forget it, even a native speaker
get confused sometimes. – user1060 Sep 11 '12 at 16:32 I don't
agree with @Laurent's grammar book. The difference among 的-地-得
is not difficult to lear |
-1.733424 | 7.830846 | -1 | deeper - 11:59 pm on Jun 25, 2013 (gmt 0) pinguin surely does
not like a lot of anchors with keywords and furthermore same or
similar keywords. The 3-word-anchor of my DMOZ-backlink
includes a keyword. Hundreds of DMOZ-clones repeat this anchor
again and again. Google probably devaluates backlinks of DMOZ-
clones but when they still count their anchors, this could help
being hit by pinguin? So, does Google still count the anchor of
devaluated DMOZ-clones, anybody knows? If yes, better disavow
them? Thread source:
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-0.71095 | 6.737247 | -1 | Sell Coinstar, It Can't Beat Netflix Tickers in this article:
AMZN CMCSA CSTR GOOG MSFT NFLX SNE T VZ NEW YORK ( TheStreet) --
In Las Vegas this week, they're wasting more money and time than
usual: The Consumer Electronics Show is ongoing. The four
companies that matter most -- Apple (AAPL) , (AMZN) , Google
(GOOG) and Microsoft (MSFT) -- aren't even there, though Steve
Ballmer made an appearance last night. Beyond sex, drugs,
strippers and rock-n-roll, what's the point of even putting this
thing on? Save cash and hold CES at your Southern Nevada Best
Buy (BBY) . People can just as easily browse items most
consumers will never buy in more familiar surroundings. The CES
spectacle highlights a problem happening across broad and often-
intersecting spaces such as tech and media. There's very little
innovation or, forget innovation, just game-changing news
happening where it matters -- on the ground. Consider Verizon
(VZ) , one of the companies that actually matters. Verizon is
at CES showing off stuff larg |
2.078518 | 2.739704 | 37 | Suscríbete Spanish buscar cualquier palabra, como bae: To
overturn another in verbal sparring, particularly in front of a
group. Often said upon the occurrence of such an event. Person
1: "Your penis is of insubstantiate length and/or size." Person
2: "In accordance with the events transpired last night, your
mother would disagree." Person 1: "Joust." Por Yossarian8 12 de
mayo de 2004 8 14 Using ones erect penis against another person
or friend with an erect penis and running at full speed at each
other and whoever gets stabbed by the erect penis loses. "Oh man
my stomach has an enormous bruise from when your dick hit me at
our last jousting session" "Fuck dude my black eye isn't
getting much better from jousting last friday" Por Negro Flakes
03 de marzo de 2009 2 10 to take a long "stick" a put it in some
one's face Many people want to joust me Por chunx 03 de
noviembre de 2005 5 13 pain to another organism i will joust
you! Por drew 02 de mayo de 2003 2 21 |
-0.333931 | 2.076923 | -1 | Monday, April 14, 2008 #16 University of California Davis,
Berkeley, UCLA, San Diego, Santa Barbara, Irvine; the Big 6 is
what I like to call these Universities that Asians absolutely
like. How do we know? Well on the horizon of graduating high
school, Asians have the aspiration to attend one of these
colleges. The clear cut evidence can be seen in plain
statistics: pretty much a majority of the student bodies of the
UC system are of Asian descent. No disrespect intended to other
colleges such as California State Universities and other private
colleges, the drive for any upcoming Asian graduating student is
to be a part of the system. Why? Well similar to why Asians like
Medical school or engineering, it’s because their parents like
these schools. For Asian parents to parade their children in
front of other Asian parents is to compare or see which UC’s
their children attend, on top of what they’re actually majoring
in. Though some may argue that well in general, Asians like all
college, there however exis |
-4.227641 | 1.703215 | 85 | Photo courtesy of Rocko Billy, Upwind Productions Even in
Portland, with it's caffeine-addled food scene, a great meal is
often followed by bad coffee. New-world restaurateur and
ChefStable founder Kurt Huffman is bent on changing that. “The
coffee bar is high in Portland with Stumptown Coffee,” says
Huffman, “so if you do your own program in a restaurant, it had
better be perfect.” His secret weapon? Micro-roasting veteran
Marty Lopes, who spent years roasting coffee at Extracto and
later curating coffee at Barista before starting up his own
super small-batch roastery, Roseline Coffee. Lopes has been
tapped to roast the coffee, fine-tune the equipment, and
transform the staff into fully-fledged baristas at ChefStable’s
Francophile-focused St. Jack, with possible coffee expansions
planned for the future. We sat down with ChefStable’s new coffee
arm to get the scoop on Portland’s ever-changing mud scene.
Here, boiled down, is what we extracted. 1. Portland is such a
saturated coffee town. What does Roseline |
-1.282517 | 2.526136 | -1 | 1. Glyn Smyth (Source: necromantiquenun, via vagabond-
cacophony) 2. the-science-llama: Nature being artistic.
What you see on these fences are the result of water evaporating
on the surface and, during slower evaporation periods, the
dissolved minerals were deposited in rings. Via reddit 1 2
(via filthy-hippie-vibes) 3. (Source: uvre, via otakugangsta)
4. (Source: theyvcreation, via dntty) 5. Here’s my new EP.
6. grind-core: lol me nd visceris Lucalyptis sporting
BlackXBlues (Source: matthewgrantanson) 7. becausebirds:
Mandarin Duck - the first time I saw this duck it was magical.
more stuff on becausebirds.com Such a good duck. Keep it
up. (Source: flickr.com, via dickwizard) 8. Hand-Painted
Bleached T-shirts for dat torso. 9. (Source: grind-core)
10. (Source: bitchcoven, via whoreofabaddon) 11. Made with my
right hand, bleach, a paintbrush, and 45 minutes of my time on
this rock. For the pickers and choosers. For |
1.412181 | 4.440794 | -1 | I've tried everything I can think of to identify this script
font so any help would be greatly appreciated. I apologize for
the roughness as I needed to isolated it from a background in ps
when I tried other identification options. Thank you so much. :)
I had recently gotten in the mail from Aerie (one of the
American Eagle brands) one of the brochures filled with pictures
of their latest products and their 20% off gift cards. I had
seen throughout the brochure this font they used inside and
wanted to know what is this mystery font? Syndicate content
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2.340558 | 0.429287 | 44 | 1Then Zophar the Naamathite replied: 2“Are all these words to
go unanswered? Is this talker to be vindicated? 3Will your idle
talk reduce others to silence? Will no one rebuke you when you
mock? 4You say to God, ‘My beliefs are flawless and I am pure in
your sight.’ 5Oh, how I wish that God would speak, that he would
open his lips against you 6and disclose to you the secrets of
wisdom, for true wisdom has two sides. Know this: God has even
forgotten some of your sin. 7“Can you fathom the mysteries of
God? Can you probe the limits of the Almighty? 8They are higher
than the heavens above—what can you do? 9Their measure is longer
than the earth and wider than the sea. 10“If he comes along and
confines you in prison and convenes a court, who can oppose him?
11Surely he recognizes deceivers; and when he sees evil, does he
not take note? 12But the witless can no more become wise than a
wild donkey’s colt can be born human.#11:12Or wild donkey can be
born tame 13“Yet if you devote your heart to him and stretch out |
0.322203 | 9.390532 | 16 | xterm -- DECRQSS remote command execution vulnerability
Affected packages xterm < 238 VuXML ID d5e1aac8-db0b-11dd-
ae30-001cc0377035 Discovery 2008-12-28 Entry 2009-01-05 Modified
2009-01-06 SecurityFocus reports: The xterm program is prone
to a remote command-execution vulnerability because it fails to
sufficiently validate user input. Bugtraq ID 33060 CVE Name
CVE-2008-2383 |
0.322964 | -1.500728 | 7 | Friday, February 24, 2006 Boom Oopsy "Peshawar, right?" The
pleasant man--in sandals and shalwar kameez--who had just plowed
his Nissan pickup truck into the back of our rental car nodded
with delight at the Professor's guess. The Professor has some
secret method of divining a person's home region just by looking
at the person. Okay, I thought, maybe it's the fact that nearly
every Pakistani in Bahrain (prounouned Bah-hrain with a mild
break between the syllables) is from Peshawar. And if someone is
in a shalwar kameez, it's a safe guess is that they are from
Pakistan. I have one myself from when I visited Pakistan, and
use it as pajamas at home. The flight from Kuwait to Bahrain
had taken only an hour. It would have taken me the same amount
of time to commute from downtown Jersey City to The Professor's
Columbia area digs in the mid-90s. The Professor was waiting for
me outside Customs. Bahrain seemed so mild compared to Kuwait,
which has to be because it has a quarter the population and is
tiny—only 3 |
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-2.075332 | 2.885751 | -1 | Skip to definition. Noun: Pieris 1. Type genus of the
Pieridae - genus Pieris 2. Decorative evergreen shrubs of
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-2.889313 | 5.17314 | 30 | Special report Credit crisis - how it all began Suddenly, one
August day last year shook the world, turning an Edwardian
summer of prosperity into a grim financial crisis On the face
of it, there was nothing especially memorable about August 9
2007. With the holiday season in full swing, Britain was in
relaxed, even soporific mood. House prices were rising,
unemployment was falling, the economy was growing at an annual
pace in excess of 3%. Gordon Brown, prime minister for six
weeks, was enjoying a honeymoon with the voters and Labour had a
10-point lead over the Conservatives. The sports pages were full
of cricket and the build-up to the new football season. It was,
however, the day the world changed. As far as the financial
markets are concerned, August 9 2007 has all the resonance of
August 4 1914. It marks the cut-off point between "an Edwardian
summer" of prosperity and tranquillity and the trench warfare of
the credit crunch - the failed banks, the petrified markets, the
property markets blown to pi |
-2.231204 | 4.97404 | -1 | Authors Research centers Disciplines Research axes Projects
English Français Type: Article Title: The territorial
dynamics of innovation: a Europe–United States comparative
analysis Author(s): Rodriguez-Pose, Andres (Author) Crescenzi,
Riccardo (Author) Storper, Michael - Centre de sociologie des
organisations (Author) In: Journal of Economic Geography Date
issued: 2007-11 Volume: 7 Issue: 6 Pages: 673-709 p.
ISSN: 14682702 Abstract: The United States and European
Union differ significantly in terms of their innovative
capacity: the former have been able to gain and maintain world
leadership in innovation and technology while the latter
continues to lag. Notwithstanding the magnitude of this
innovation gap and the political emphasis placed upon it on both
sides of the Atlantic, very little systematic comparative
analysis has been carried out on its causes. The empirical
literature has emphasized the structural differences between the
two continents in the quantity and quality of the m |
4.006597 | 5.101674 | 2 | Take the 2-minute tour × In a game of Small World we were
playing recently, we were facing Seafaring Sorcerers in a
5-player game, and they managed to expand very well, to the
point where they were rapidly converting over most of the map.
At one point, the player ran out of tokens to play. What
Happens in This Case? Does their expansion halt completely? And
if a sorcerer is killed, can they then re-use that token for
conversion? share|improve this question 1 Answer 1 up vote 6
down vote accepted The rules address that specific case in the
section on picking a race (page 3) If, on the other hand, a
Special Power (or Race power) lets you take additional Race
tokens from the storage tray during the course of the game, you
are still limited by the total number of tokens physically
available. So a player with 18 Sorcerer tokens on the board
won't be able to use his Sorcerer power again until some of his
tokens become available. share|improve this answer Your Answer |
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that Carmel had prepared to offer.” This is exactly the
problem. Why do we feel the need to subsidize businesses to move
into the ADD? How is it this information on tax dollars can be
kept from the Public. Is it Mr. Carter’s money? He acts like it.
If it was I could understand and give a care less but when it’s
tax dollars it should be disclosed. How many other subsidies are
out there and how much do we pay in total? Why the ‘veil of
secrecy’? “Every thing secret degenerates, even the
administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not
show it can bear discussion and • wolfpack08 Art
galleries are nice but who is buying this stuff? The art gallery
on the corner of Rangeline and Main closed, likely because no
one was buying enough to k |
1.656164 | -0.336822 | -1 | Brahmapur, formerly Berhampurcity, town, southeastern Orissa
state, eastern India, 9 miles (14 km) from the Bay of Bengal. It
lies on the Calcutta-Madras national highway between Kolkata
(Calcutta) and Chennai (Madras) and on the South-Eastern Railway
line; it . It is a trade centre for rice, sugarcane, and other
agricultural products of the region. Industries include rice
milling, distilling, and silk weaving. Khallikote College
(established 1878), the University of Berhampur (established
1967), a law school, a medical college, a teachers’ training
school, and a women’s college are located there. The city serves
as a tourist base for southern Orissa state. Pop. (19812001)
162307,550792. |
-0.436981 | 0.976558 | 6 | Wednesday, August 20, 2008 The Elephant in the Room I suppose
that, as a female computer science blogger, I should have
realized I'd have to address the elephant in the room
eventually. What elephant? The elephant from an interview with
Sally Ride in 2006: Affirmative action is used to slay the
elephant, and so affirmative action is the real elephant in the
room. And with that, I'm done with the elephant metaphors.
Sadly, affirmative action is one of those issues about which
people tend to have strong opinions that are unlikely to change.
My unlikely to change opinion is that affirmative action is
fair. Note that I don't say equal. Affirmative action is not
equal because it is trying to correct previous situations which
were not equal. But it is fair to try to correct previous
wrongs. I'm not talking about previous wrongs that were
committed hundreds of years ago (though that's when these
systematic wrongs started), I'm talking about the every day
continuous wrongs that, through racism*, classism, and |
3.43032 | 4.612787 | 2 | Dead Island Review- A Bloody Mess - User Reviews - Switch Lights
The lights are on What's Happening Dead Island Review- A
Bloody Mess What can I say about Dead Island? Well first off,
this game is a bloody mess. No pun intended. When this game was
first announced I rolled my eyes thought to myself, "Do we
really need another zombie game?" Months later I saw the trailer
with everything in reverse and thought it had a really cool tone
and perhaps maybe an emotional story. Maybe it would in a sense
redefine zombie games. Well I was obviously wrong. For
starters, the story and emotional depth I was expecting is
completely non existant. I usually listen to all dialogue to
flesh out the story and understand the plot. Nope. Not here.
After the first hour I knew right away that story was not the
intent I have a love, hate relationship to the combat. On one
hand it is extremely satisfying to cut limbs off of your undead
foes and make the ground red with their blood. On the other hand
it got repetitive real fast. |
2.5917 | 1.23215 | -1 | Part 1. Introduction During our English class back in high
school (that was ages ago), our teacher taught our class the
importance of communication. She told us a story which I can
still remember until now. I will try to retell the story and
make it as interesting as possible. Part 2. Background of the
Story This story happened during the times when the only mode
of communication was speech. Sign languages and the other forms
of communications were not yet invented (don’t ask why because
it has to be that way for the sake of the story). Part 3. The
Story There was a prince who was cursed by an evil witch for a
reason unknown. He could only speak one word in a year so he
must carefully choose what he would say. After many years, the
prince met a beautiful princess and he was really astonished by
her beauty and kindness. He could not do anything though;
because he could not talk (he’s literally speechless, haha).
After three years, he wanted to tell the princess the words ‘I
love you’ but he chose n |
4.087842 | 3.74746 | 35 | Review of Iron Man 2 Movie Description(Click Here To Hide)
Movie Review: "Iron Man 2" -- Rating: PG-13 Length: 124 minutes
Release Date: May 7, 2010 Directed by: Jon Favreau Genre:
Action/Adventure "Iron Man 2" is a superhero film featuring
Iron Man, a character from the Marvel Comics universe. It stars
Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark and is the sequel to "Iron Man."
A third film in this series is expected to follow. The director
of "Iron Man 2" is Jon Favreau, who also directed the first
film. Favreau also plays the role of Happy Hogan in both "Iron
Man" films. Hogan is Stark's chauffer and bodyguard. Stan Lee,
creator of the Marvel Comics universe, has a cameo. Lee
typically has a cameo in films based on Marvel Comics. Real-life
news anchor Christiane Amanpour plays herself in "Iron Man 2" as
does commentator Bill O'Reilly. Additional cameos include Larry
Ellison, CEO of Oracle, and Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla Motors.
"Iron Man 2" has a specific chronological position with other
films in the Marvel Comics |
-1.081051 | 7.434823 | -1 | Search I,Cringely: The Pulpit The Pulpit << [ Skyped ]
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the 1980s, we called them "corporate raiders." In the 1880s, we
called them "robber barons" -- guys like Daniel Drew, Jay Gould,
and Jim Fisk, who were the Ivan Boeskys and Michael Milkens of
their era. No matter what the century, their game was the same,
using other people's money to take control of businesses and
build empires. Sometimes it was legal, often it wasn't, but on
the whole they got away with it, though at some cost to society.
We'll get ready to go through it all again as a new era of
robber barons begins, this time based primarily on the
aggressive use of Information Technology. We can argue whether
IT has been good or bad for the world, whether it even shows a
return on investment, but there is no doubt that it has changed
the way things work. Part o |
2.579502 | 5.11565 | -1 | 1. Hobbies & Games Discuss in my forum Card Magic Tricks: The
Basic Effects Card Magic Tricks: The Basic Effects Beyond
merely stating that "card magic tricks" are magic tricks or
effects that employ playing cards, the genre, thanks to
generations of clever and innovative magicians, has a multitude
of plots and effects that I will attempt to identify and define
in this article. Just as magic has its basic effects that
include: animation, destruction and restoration, escape,
levitation, penetration, transformation and vanish, card magic
has it’s own basic effects that fall into the following
categories. Card Magic Tricks: Identification and Location
Perhaps the best known genre and type of card magic trick is
that where a spectator randomly selects a card that is returned
to the deck. And seemingly, there’s no way for the magician to
know the spectator’s card. However, in the end, the magician
either identifies the card or locates it. Perhaps the best known
beginners’ magic trick that follows this plot is |
3.362406 | 5.048677 | 2 | As a guy who's played his share of Games Workshop's Blood Bowl,
it has been a continual source of frustration that there hasn't
been a good video-game representation of sports in a fantasy
milieu since the old Mutant League games on the Sega Genesis.
However, all that will change with Chaos League. While it lacks
the official Games Workshop stamp of approval, everything you
liked about Blood Bowl is here. In case you're not familiar
with the genre, Chaos League's closest real-world comparison
would be rugby. Two teams face each other on a long, rectangular
pitch and attempt to carry a ball into the opposing team's
endzone. The main difference is the inclusion of several fantasy
races, including Dark and Wood Elves, Orcs, Goblins, Barbarians,
Undead, and other species. It's a brutal sport, as befits the
setting. The only real rule of the Chaos League is that you
can't hit a player when he's knocked down, and even that's not
enforced vigorously. You can opt for a quick game with a pre-
generated team, or you c |
0.028826 | 7.186474 | 8 | Could these be shots of iPhone HD/iPhone 4G iChat video call
settings screens taken off field test units? Who knows, they
don't look 960x640 to our pixel peepers but with WWDC 2010 and
the supposed unveiling only a few weeks away, anything is
possible. So let us know, real, fake, or really fake? |
0.224836 | 7.200626 | -1 | [mythtv-users] DVD ripping questions (not CSS related) Jason H
scorp1us at yahoo.com Sun Jun 19 18:13:15 UTC 2005 Why don't
ripped DVDs (vobs) show up in "watch videos" until *after* I
visit the Video Manager? shouldn't they show up immediately?
How does one eject the DVD after ripping it? I have to switch
consoles and type eject to get the disk out, else, I guess the
automounter mounts it and won't auto unmount it? (So the eject
button on the drive won't Could we get an eject button on the
rip screen? Do You Yahoo!? More information about the mythtv-
users mailing list |
2.962048 | 1.227027 | -1 | la vie est belle the most emotional post on tumblr (via
hopelessly-flawed) Source: pizzaland "Please, just let me fall
apart and break in peace." - "10 Word Poem" series - #21 (via
lettersto-savemyself) Source: lettersto-savemyself This post
has been featured on a blog! (via hopelessly-flawed) Source:
octopussoir- "I’ve been giving up on people too easily. If they
don’t call, if they don’t try - then I don’t. It’s not fair to
lay the blame on them when I’m not calling either. I’m just as
much at fault. I’ve got a lot of resentment for old friends -
for letting me go without a fight. I just want someone to call
and say, ‘I miss you, how are you?’ I just want to call someone
and say, ‘I miss you, I’m sorry.’ I want to be brave enough to
stay in one place." Source: thelovewhisperer (via hopelessly-
flawed) |
3.10946 | 5.36148 | -1 | <![CDATA[achild's Journal]]>
http://www.gamedev.net/blog/1562-achilds-journal/ Sun, 15 Sep
2013 09:14:29 +0000 [email protected] (GameDev.net) IP.Blog 60
Slow progress
http://www.gamedev.net/blog/1562/entry-2258709-slow-progress/
Basis released! First and foremost, Basis, our (completely free)
2d skeletal animation tool was released for public feedback and
testing. We've produced an SDK for a few frameworks, with many
more to come, and though there is still a ton of work to do, it
is quite usable. It can be found at
http://achild.wikidot.com/basis. Basis themed! Second of all,
we themed nearly every aspect of the software. I think it makes
quite a difference - it never looked bad before, but it caught
me off guard when my wife saw the newly themed version one night
and said "Oh okay, now it looks professional!". I really didn't
have any words for that at the time, but it was definitely
helpful feedback outside of my own biased opinion. See: I
mean she's right - yes it's just a cosmetic change and doesn |
1.487679 | -0.479957 | -1 | Islam: A Glossary Answers to your questions about the news.
Sept. 24 2001 6:40 PM Islam: A Glossary (Continued from Page
1) Medina: Also located in western Saudi Arabia, Medina is
Islam's second-holiest place. Muhammad migrated to Medina with
70 Muslim families in 622 after being persecuted by the Meccan
establishment. It is also the site of Muhammad's tomb. Mosque:
The Arabic word is masjid, meaning "place of prostration" before
God. Muhammad built the first mosque in Medina. A mosque should
be oriented toward Mecca. In many Islamic societies, mosques
serve social and political functions in addition to religious
ones. Muslim: In Arabic, "one who surrenders to God"; a
follower of Islam. There are 1 billion Muslims in the world and
6 million in the United States. Shii: The "partisans" of Ali,
the fourth caliph, the Shiis eventually became a distinct Muslim
sect. The largest Shii Muslim sect is the "Twelver Shii," named
after the first 12 leaders (or imams) of Shii Muslims. Twelver
Shii believe that the |
-1.888566 | 0.872718 | -1 | NanoCollege, LA company launch $10 million partnership APIC
Corp., a Los Angeles photonics company has forged a $10 million
partnership for the joint development and commercialization of
“green” technology to make computer chips run faster. The
technology will use optical connections using light versus metal
wiring that conduct electrons in computer chips, allowing
components to be faster and smaller. The new chips could
increase speed in chips by 60 percent while reducing power
consumption by 90 percent, the college said. The deal is
expected to create 20 new jobs, many of which would be located
at the Albany NanoTech complex. Categories: Nanotechnology
Larry Rulison 5 Responses 1. Bamster says: The TU needs
to monitor this partnership and see how many of the 20 jobs go
to local people. I’m betting somehwere between 0 and 2
secretarial or janitorial jobs go local due the crummy education
system and high taxes we have here in NY. I’m also willing to
bet that this comapny pays zero taxes. 2. |
-0.643672 | -1.743101 | -1 | Has a U-turn on Iraq begun? Morning conference: Why are attacks
on White House policy by allies of George Bush senior taking
place now? • theguardian.com, • Jump to comments ()
James Baker, a man described by the Washington Post as "the
former secretary of state with a long-standing reputation of
service to Republican presidents and the Bush family in
particular", is co-chairman of the bi-partisan Iraq Study Group,
a body partly financed by the US Congress to review policy and
strategy in Iraq. He was interviewed on the Today programme at
7.12 this morning and he confirmed a leak in yesterday's Los
Angeles Times, which reported: "Two options under consideration
would represent reversals of US policy: withdrawing American
troops in phases, and bringing neighbouring Iran and Syria into
a joint effort to stop the fighting." He had hinted in the
Washington Post a week ago today that it is "time for the
administration to consider other alternatives in Iraq," but gave
no details of the options then. In |
-0.695725 | 7.154449 | 8 | Satellite cell phones are being pushed again in North America
using a combination of AT&T and the TerraStar satellite network.
Today AT&T began selling the TerraStar Genus to professional
customers through businesses channels and should hit retail
stores by the end of the year. Initial costs of the TerraStar
Genus satellite cell phone is $799 and needs the AT&T voice and
data service plans to connect with no contract. The AT&T network
is used when it is available, and switches to satellite when
there is no service. There is an additional charge of $25 per
month to use the satellite service and 65 cent per minute of
calling. Text messages can also be sent over through the
satellite network at a cost of 40 cents per message. If you
need to use the internet when there is no 2G or 3G network
available, then an additional $5 per megabyte is added to your
cell phone charges. Of course these charges can add up quickly,
but if you have a clear view of the southern sky, you should be
able to easily get satellite ce |
4.431036 | -3.085898 | 1 | Brent Stanton has made a few mistakes, but who hasn’t? Brent
Stanton has made a few mistakes, but who hasn’t? Photo: Mal
Fairclough It's time Essendon fans cut Brent Stanton some
slack. BRENT Stanton will muck a few things up today. He might
fumble a ball, miss a tackle or kick to an opposition player.
The Essendon midfielder has the unfortunate habit of making his
few mistakes glaring ones, but there's a key word in this
sentence — few. Stanton — Stants to his teammates — will win a
lot of the ball today, and use it well. He'll block for others
at stoppages. He'll lay about five tackles. He might kick a goal
and he'll almost certainly set up a few shots. He'll do all
sorts of things to give Essendon a chance to win its fourth game
for the year, yet some in the crowd will still scream out for
him to be sent back to Bendigo. Whipping boys are hardly a new
phenomenon. Every group of supporters has its golden boys, and
the player who can't seem to do a single thing right. But the
difference between how Stan |
-4.728171 | 0.915093 | 18 | HOME > Chowhound > Ontario (inc. Toronto) > Sushi Help • 7
It is my anniversary tradition to go for Sushi. I think this
started organically when our kids were small. It could be picked
up and eaten after they went to bed. Looking for suggestions
for Friday night sushi, reasonably intimate :) Downtown or west
end locale. Let's focus on sushi or japanese-related only, so we
dont drift. Hiro - a bit too fussy Kaji - been there - too hard
to get in, too challenging, too expensive My quick answer would
be to go to OMI - its generally pretty good for us but looking
for alternatives...thx 1. Click to Upload a photo (10 MB
limit) 1. Hmm - working the search feature - maybe i should
drive out Zen. Its less about 'authentic' its more about tasty
and interesting - hence OMI. Good to know OMI has moved too :-)
5 Replies 1. re: marcharry How do you know Omi is
more tasty than Zen without even try out Zen first ? For me, Zen
is superior in taste and quality than Omi, and I have tried
both. |
-0.892906 | 0.370732 | 6 | New sentence due for garlic importer Paul Begley A new sentence
is due to be imposed on Dublin businessman Paul Begley, whose
six-year jail term for a €1.6m tax scam on garlic was overturned
on appeal. The Court of Criminal Appeal ruled last month that
the original penalty was "excessive". The six-year term was the
longest ever in a Revenue matter. It noted that while these
were very serious Revenue offences carried out with
premeditation for personal gain, there were striking mitigating
circumstances such as Paul Begley's remorse and co-operation
with customs officials. He is also making payments on a €1.6m
Revenue settlement. The court will today hear submissions from
the DPP and Mr Begley's lawyers before considering a new
sentence. • Click to stay connected with more stories like
this Most Read in Ireland |
-1.012292 | 5.226517 | 4 | The top 100 of best selling cars in the netherlands AutoWeek
published once again the top 100 of best selling cars in the
Netherlands. In total 510.744 cars were sold this year. The top
five brands are Opel, Renault, Peugeot, Ford and Volkswagen ( in
that order) which have sold around 50.000 cars each. All the
other brands play a less important role on the dutch market.
Citroen (6), Toyota (7) and Suzuki (8) sold between 20.000 and
25.000 cars. The report mentions 46 brands ( On 46 :
Bentley/Rolls-Royce with 7 cars sold …) but also 341 ‘other’
brands…i wonder what those brands are. Of the 100 best selling
cartypes there is only one type that sold more than 20.000 and
that’s the Peugeot 206. In the netherlands most cars sold are
European and that is clear to see in top 30 : only 3 japanese
cars ( the Suzuki Alto (15), Toyota Yaris (17) and Toyota Corola
(29). Although their numbers are rising. German cars lay under
pressure, but French cars like Renault and Peugeot are more and
more succesful. Lancia is do |
5.080586 | 0.886896 | 13 | Brooklyn’s Finest: Dirty Projectors To Tour, Book Your
European Vacation Now! Peep the style and the way the cops
sweat Dirty Projectors. The number one question is can the Feds
get them. They've got vendettas in dice games against ass-
betters and those who pump wheels and drive Jettas. Take that
with ya. They've got mob ties like Sinatra. Peruvians tried to
do them in (they ain't paid them yet). Tryin to push 700s (they
ain't made them yet). Rolex and bracelets is frostbit. Rings,
too, people round the way call them Igloo Stick. Who?
Motherfuckers. I don't know how much more blunt things could
get, but if you didn't catch that, Dirty Projectors, the
Brooklyn-based brainchild of eclectic indie composer/deranged
racket-causing mastermind David Longstreth, are bringing their
tortured pop music to the masses. After recently sharing the
stage with such acclaimed acts as Grizzly Bear, Hella (a quintet
now, WTF!?), Battles, and Deerhunter, Projectors will
participate in the David Bowie-curated High Line Fesi |
3.316014 | 2.331238 | -1 | User Avatar Image Do you think Clementine's mother could still
be alive? posted by TrickyD on - last edited - Viewed by 699
users I say "mother" rather than "parents" because it's implied
that her father was infected. What do you think? Could lead to
a rather awkward/interesting situation if they ever find her.
59 Comments - Linear Discussion: Classic Style • I would
expect so. I suppose by then we'll start getting numb to losing
favorite (and judging from some of the Carley threads, beloved
characters), the writers will have a task on their hands in
coming up with characters in unique ways to make us care about
them. It's probably going to become like it is for some who
are caught up in a war. You don't want to get to know somebody
too much or care too much about them because they're probably
going to get killed and that repeated trauma of losing them
won't be very good for you psychologically in the long run.
Like physical trauma, there's only so much psychological trauma
a person can take |
2.653617 | 1.487756 | 19 | "What do you think?" Justin asked anxiously as Carl studied the
letters Justin had given him. "Is it enough to squash the
suicide verdict on Jesse?" "Damned if I know, son, but it
certainly seems to cast doubt on it." "What do you mean?"
Debbie glared at him, wiping a tear away with the back of her
hand. "Why, it's perfectly obvious that this poor kid was
fucking murdered by the man who should've been looking out for
him, all because he was too much of a fucking coward to admit …"
"Debbie," Carl said, laying a placating hand on her arm, "You've
got to understand this happened a long time ago and all of the
principal witnesses are dead. Apart from these letters, the only
incriminating evidence is the memory of a 98 year-old man. Now
I'm not going to deny that back then law enforcement was looked
at a lot differently, and that it might have been considered
better for society in general to preserve the reputation of the
great and good rather than expose a murder … but proving it
might be another matter. After |
-0.28532 | 9.656667 | 16 | Take the 2-minute tour × I have proftpd running under user
proftpd. I have a new virtual server in ProFTP called
"example.com" pointing to /var/www/example.com. I have chowned
the /var/www/example.com folder with user "example_com" and
group "www-data". I have set the directory as SGID (2775). This
permits the FTP user "example_com" to login and upload files and
folders, while permitting the Apache process user "www-data" to
run the website and read/write to files. In my proftpd.conf, I
have set umask like so: Umask 2664 2775 How do I turn on
Group Write in ProFTPD globally? share|improve this question 2
Answers 2 up vote 2 down vote accepted share|improve this
answer I had to use Umask 002 002 make it work with both files
and directories. – ciastek Jul 8 at 14:59 You are mixing up
the actual permissions on a file and the umask. See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umask for an introduction.
share|improve this answer Your Answer |
2.412345 | 0.879661 | -1 | Sonnet LXXIX Whilst I alone did call upon thy aid, My verse
alone had all thy gentle grace, But now my gracious numbers are
decay'd And my sick Muse doth give another place. I grant, sweet
love, thy lovely argument Deserves the travail of a worthier
pen, Yet what of thee thy poet doth invent He robs thee of and
pays it thee again. He lends thee virtue and he stole that word
From thy behavior; beauty doth he give And found it in thy
cheek; he can afford No praise to thee but what in thee doth
live. Then thank him not for that which he doth say, Since what
he owes thee thou thyself dost pay. |
-0.51216 | 5.209267 | 4 | Gear trick? #1koivulaPosted 10/13/2012 9:45:08 PM Is there some
sort of trick to get the gears lower/higher than they should be?
I was looking on a site called gtvault and I could not get the
same gear ratios as they had. #2LimbrookePosted 11/3/2012
9:20:31 AM I know of a shifting trick, which doesn't involve
adjustment or ratios. When using automatic transmission, hold
the R2 button when accelerating. The gear won't change until you
release R2. Same for down shifting, with L2 instead. It's been a
while since I played but I'm confident about the R2 issue. |
1.990702 | 0.189936 | 44 | Why does the Supreme God given vedas praise the devas ? Why
does the Supreme God given vedas praise the devas ? It is said
that the vedas are given by the God. But the vedas contain hymns
which appear to praise the various devas agni, indra, varuNa and
others. Why should the Supreme God say hailing hymns of the
other devas ? A very important thing to do is to understand the
high level picture of the vedas before getting in to the
details. It is worth quoting the part of introduction to vedas
in the book Rgveda samhita by Veda pratishthana. "God, verily,
is one, though variously described since the functions are
manifold and His divine attributes many. Compareed to Him, we,
the tiny little selves, are infinitesimals whilst He is Infinity
in all positive parameters. To this divine one, ....., in the
words of the Vedic texts, offers invocations in various
adjectivals and adveribials, according to His attributes and
functions. So often, we prefer to call Him agni, the foremost
adorable, sometimes indra, the |
-1.099145 | 0.341399 | 6 | Careful interview revealed client’s strong case to prove he
was a U.S. citizen George P. Mann Case Conclusion Date:January
1, 2011 Practice Area:Immigration Description:Client’s
father came to our office regarding his son who was incarcerated
in federal penitentiary in Texas. The son was serving a sentence
for an aggravated felony of selling drugs. An aggravated felony
is a very serious felony which typically involves drugs, loss of
human life or crimes that are violent. The son was in removal
proceedings in Texas based on his residence in the penitentiary
in Texas, so we entered an appearance in the Texas Immigration
Court. As an aggravated felon, there was no relief that the son
qualified for, because he did not have a clear probability of
persecution on account of the protected ground such as race,
religion, political opinion, ethnicity or social group. The
client’s only defense was if we could prove that the client
was a U.S. citizen and, therefore, not removable. In carefully
interviewing the |
2.44496 | 1.945416 | -1 | Sunday, June 16, 2013 Bookworm, Interrupted There was a bitch
in the BEL (Busan English Library) yesterday, and it was me.
I'm usually mindful of the fact that when I am out in public,
I'm not just me. I represent all Americans. It's up to me to
make a good impression on the Koreans. It comes with living and
working in another country, and I usually step up and try to be
pleasant and helpful if someone wants to practice chatting in
English or needs help with English homework. Yesterday though,
I didn't quite meet my standards. The Bookworm Inside Me
refused to yield. There I was, sitting in my proper section of
the library (the Orange Corner), reading a book. I was pretty
caught up in it when I felt someone plop down next to me and say
"Excuse me". I reluctantly dragged my eyes off the page and my
brain out of 1910s Deep Valley (okay, I confess: I was reading a
Betsy-Tacy book) and the woman launched into a grammar question
about when it's appropriate to use a colon and when it's
appropriate to use |
-2.792971 | 0.961577 | -1 | View Mobile Site Text Size: Smaller Larger Normal Drugs
violate my pursuit of happiness POSTED December 24, 2009 2:27
p.m. On Jan. 12, 2010, Assemblyman Tom Ammiano’s bill AB-390
will be voted on by the Public Safety Committee. If it passes,
it’s scheduled to move on to the Public Heath Committee the very
same day. I believe that Assemblyman Ammiano is violating the
Constitutional rights of millions of Californians, and his own
oath of office by introducing legislation to legalize marijuana.
The 5th amendment to the United States Constitution states: “no
person shall be deprived of life, liberty or property, without
due process.” Procedural due process guarantees the Government
can not deprive one of their right to Life, Liberty, or
Property, without adequate notice. Your Liberty can not be taken
without procedural due process. Substantive due process places
substantial limits on Governmental infringement of fundamental,
constitutionally protected rights. In fact, it is illegal to
deprive a citizen of this |
-3.818114 | 3.305887 | 39 | Shortcut Navigation: Cardioversion is a corrective procedure
where an electrical shock is delivered to the heart to convert,
or change, an abnormal heart rhythm back to normal sinus rhythm.
Most elective or "non-emergency" cardioversions are performed to
treat atrial fibrillation (A Fib) or atrial flutter (AFL), non-
life threatening abnormal rhythms in the top of the heart.
Cardioversion is also used in emergency situations to correct an
abnormal rhythm when it is accompanied by faintness, low blood
pressure, chest pain, difficulty breathing, or loss of
consciousness. What is Cardioversion? Cardioversion in action
Each normal heartbeat starts in an area of the heart known as
the sinus node, located in the upper right chamber of the heart
(right atrium). The sinus node sends organized electrical
signals through the heart resulting in a perfectly timed,
rhythmic heartbeat. In people with atrial fibrillation however,
this electrical signal is chaotic, causing the atria to
fibrillate (or "quiver"). This typi |
-1.517452 | 6.268533 | -1 | • Report: #950129 Complaint Review: eKash Thank You Read how
Ripoff Report saves consumers millions. • Submitted: Wed,
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ads on Kijiji (that is how I found them). They do not pay and
they owe pretty much every comp |
-0.630831 | 5.065525 | 4 | Businessweek Archives Who Says Safety Isn't Sexy? BusinessWeek
Lifestyle: Automobiles Who Says Safety Isn't Sexy? Cool gizmos
check your tires, watch your back, and more Despite all the
scary news about Ford Explorers (F) with exploding tires, cars
are definitely safer than they used to be. You can find air
bags, antilock brakes, and side collision rails inside most
late-model cars. And you can be pretty sure that each new model
year will bring further safety improvements. Next year's
offerings, for example, due out this fall, will have an
emergency escape latch with a fluorescent handle inside the
trunk, mostly so kids don't lock themselves in by mistake. By
2004, the government will require that tires automatically
display an alert on the dashboard if they are under- or over-
inflated. But all those whiz-bang new features won't help the
cars already on the road. So for those of us who don't buy a new
automobile every year, I've rounded up a few simple fixes that
can keep you and your family a little sa |
0.194648 | 2.979316 | -1 | Response to Student Feedback HSTY1044 - Twentieth Century
Politics and Culture (2008) Unit Coordinator: Associate
Professor Judith Keene In the course evaluation, 122 students
completed the evaluation out of the 371 students who were
enrolled. Of these, 73% found the course satisfying and felt
that the outcomes had been what they expected. 70% further
agreed that the course encouraged their thinking. The
individual comments were largely favourable and constructive in
their response to the course; the tutors were commended for
their efforts in tutorial groups to manage effective and
stimulating discussions. Emma Dortins, Sandra Kostner, Margaret
Poulos and Emma Bonham were all mentioned individually and
overall the students were very happy with the quality of
teaching. Students enjoyed Judith Keene’s lectures. There were
several requests that the lecture overheads should be put on Web
CT BEFORE the lecture. Some students enjoyed the two lectures in
close proximity while others found the scheduling a stretc |
2.548516 | 1.724384 | 19 | Saturday December 2, 2006 Book 8: The Sharp End of the Stick
Part III: Out of the Frying Pan... Narrator:Breaks set,
Commander Kevyn Andreyasn drops into the warm, sleepy embrace of
endorphins. Narrator:The nanomachines in Kevyn's body are
already knitting bone and sinew. restoring full functionality to
his battered limbs. Nannie:You know, with a little titanium, my
boys and I could make it so this won't break again. Nannie
Conductor:"And with the surplus phosphates, we could make him
pee fire. The answer is still no. |
-2.077941 | -1.178429 | 10 | Decision 2012 Romney to Reid: 'Put up or shut up' Romney to
Reid: 'Put up or shut up' POSTED: Friday, August 3, 2012 -
8:30am UPDATED: Saturday, August 18, 2012 - 8:30pm
"I've known Sen. Reid for many, many years, and occasionally he
displays some rather erratic behavior," McCain said on CNN's
"Anderson Cooper 360." "To accuse someone of doing something
without a shred of proof--that the allegation has any substance
--is really something I, frankly, don't understand." Photo
by: Matthew Hoye Comments News Comments I heard from an
extremely credible unnamed reliable source that Harry Reid has
Dementia. That could be a the reason he can't say who his
"extremely credible source" is concerning Romney's taxes and why
he continually refuses to allow Bills passed by Congress to even
come up for a vote in the Senate. ...would also suggest you
check your facts a little closer...from day one of Obama's
presidency, your party made its one and only goal to make his a
one-term that end, the |
-0.69702 | 4.465377 | -1 | Rainwater Systems Polypipe offer PVC rainwater systems with a
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-1.575551 | 3.562664 | -1 | I live in Selangor state, where people here enjoy free water for
the first 20 cubic meters. My monthly water bills have been
reading negative (yes, negative) RM21 because I had continued to
pay about RM7 every month for three months, without realizing
that when the opposition parties gained control of Selangor,
they had proclaimed free water for all Selangor citizens. In
other words, I had overpaid my (free) water for three months.
Silly me. Should water really be free? (photo from
airuntukrakyat.net) I have also seen billboards around, setup
by the opposition parties, that essentially screamed, “Water
should be free because water is our right”. While I agree that
water is our right, I am uncomfortable with the idea that water
should thus be free (even if it is free up to 20 cubic meters).
The problem when water is given free or heavily subsidized is it
makes people wasteful in water use and oblivious to the scarcity
and importance of water. No one would disagree that water is
absolutely crucial to life. |
0.04346 | -2.073114 | 102 | Friday, January 25, 2013 The revolutionary mentor of the Syrian
"revolution" "A senior member of Saudi Arabia's monarchy called
on Friday for Syrian rebels to be given anti-tank and anti-
aircraft weapons to "level the playing field" in their battle
against President Bashar al-Assad. "What is needed are
sophisticated, high-level weapons that can bring down planes,
can take out tanks at a distance. This is not getting through,"
said Prince Turki al-Faisal, a former intelligence chief and
brother of the Saudi foreign minister." (thanks Karim) |
-4.244863 | 3.043594 | -1 | Figure 2. Correlations between modules in subcutaneous adipose
tissue and metabolic traits. -Log p-values for Spearman rank
correlation coefficients between the values of the modules and
the different metabolic traits are shown for subcutaneous
adipose tissue. Modules are ordered on the X-axis in the same
way as in Additional file 7, Table S6A and S6B; thus with the
largest module - containing the largest number of probes - on
the left. The dashed line represents a highly stringent
Bonferroni corrected p-value of 0.05. Download authors'
original image |
1.846423 | 1.005144 | -1 | Last Wednesday I did a 45-minute interview with Randy
Featherstone on KBJS radio in Jacksonville, TX. Our topic was
"Discovering God's Will for Your Life." In the course of our
interview, Randy mentioned a song by country music star Martina
McBride called God's Will. It's all about a little boy wearing
braces who comes to her door on Halloween night. His father was
gone, his mother worked all the time, and the little boy
struggles to find his way in the world. They begin to spend time
together, and slowly her life begins to change: I've been
searchin', wonderin', thinkin' Lost and lookin' all my life I've
been wounded, jaded, loved and hated I've wrestled wrong and
right He was a boy without a father And his mother's miracle I
guess I would be still Yeah, that was until I knew God's Will
The little boy's name was Will. When she met him, she found
"God's Will" for her life. The song contains an enormous truth.
Here is a woman who has been searching for meaning and purpose.
Then one Halloween night, as if by |
-0.661966 | 9.461155 | 15 | How to use the open source XOWA interface for Wikipedia Enter
XOWA To start XOWA you must run this command: java -Xmx256m
-jar XOWA_DIR/XOWA_JAR Click to enlarge. The XOWA
interface and its gotchas Figure B Figure E
Alternatively, you may tell XOWA to directly open some Wiki with
the --url option: java -Xmx256m -jar XOWA_DIR/XOWA_JAR --url '
Page' Of course, the command line! java -Xmx256m -jar
~/xowa/xowa_linux_64.jar --app_mode cmd --show_license n
--show_args n --cmd_text "'' 'html');" > linux.html I'm the
developer for XOWA. I'm hoping it's not bad form for me to
comment, but I read your article, and really do appreciate the
review. I also wanted to provide some additional info, in case
you're curious. [quote]The README file explicitly says to unzip
to /xowa/... (which is) bad advice[/quote] Sorry, this was
definitely a mistake on my part, and I'll correct it for the
next release. I was aiming for simplicity, but I shouldn't have
sacrificed correctness. [quote]I found n |
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5.337591 | 0.742265 | 13 | Release Details LABEL Pivotal Rockordings RELEASED ON
10/13/2009 GENRES Death,Melodic posted on 10/2009 By: Chris
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Usually that word comes with some negative connotations but with
three albums in their collective belt Skyfire have learned to
meld melodic death and prog metal in a way that sounds natural.
Not every song will click. Some parts will raise eyebrows, and
not in a good, this is an awesome riff kind of way, either.
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released prior to this one and can appreciate the mish-mash
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5.157339 | 0.979743 | 13 | June 2011 Bonjour Minnesota Archives 6/7/2011 Bonjour Minnesota
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Minnesota Tonight, there is an all-music program. First, some
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we’ll hear a mixture of old and new from artists from France and
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Original Date: September 1, 1993 CE Renewal Date:
October 1, 2000 CE Expiration Date: October 18, 2006 Download
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Section The following is about biological fate. Data on the
toxicokinetics and pathophysiology of Stoddard solvent are
limited and largely extrapolated from what is known about the
fate and effects of other related petroleum products such as
white spirits. Inhalation is the principal route of significant
exposure for most petroleum distillates. Dermal absorption is
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however, dermal absorption is enhanced through nonintact skin or
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0.093875 | 6.930514 | 117 | How do I create ringtones using the Ringtone Maker app on my
Lumia device? Start the Ringtone Maker application. 1.
Select Pick a song (or make another) 2. Select one of the
songs from your music library 3. Select length and position of
the ringtone (for example, 1 second for notifications). 4.
Select Save and type the name of the new tone. Optionally, you
can also select Make this my ringtone. Ringtones you make are
saved in Settings > ringtone+sounds. Use them to personalize
your notification alerts, whether it's calls, SMS, emails,
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