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4.224146 | 1.078487 | -1 | Thursday, January 17, 2013 Book Soundtrack: Kelly Hogan Meets
Gone Girl Kelly Hogan's We Can't Have Nice Things is this
week's book soundtrack choice for Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl. The
song is about love gone awry. Two lovers can't sustain a loving
relationship. The passion they once had has melted into a toxic
acid that destroys everything it touches. Welcome to our humble
home, we can't invite you in/Cause someone's gone and made a
wreck of everything again. They keep their mess hidden behind
closed doors. They suffer in silence. In Gone Girl, Nick and
Amy can barely tolerate each other. They've learned that the
person they married five years ago is different from the person
they wake up to every morning. They hurt each other. The acid is
eating them alive, yet they're addicted to the toxicity. This is
piqued by the lyric: A teardrop on each pillow here, a hole in
every wall/Still I'd rather have these things than have nothing.
They don't know how to live without each other. They don't know
how to live w |
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0.420761 | -1.371928 | 7 | 'We Shouldn't Overrate Facebook' 'We Shouldn't Overrate
Facebook' Noha Atef « You cannot give the credits to Facebook
and Twitter… it helped to some extent but it was not a factor of
success » Egyptian blogger and Global Voices Online contributor
Noha Atef was in Armenia recently upon the invitation of the
Yerevan-based Public Journalism Club. Noha was at one point the
editor of the blog Torture in Egypt, but now she's a junior
researcher at the University of Birmingham. Noha describes how
during the 2011 Egyptian revolution, every activist had a sms
ready in her phone that said "I've been arrested." How did
social media develop in Egypt in recent years? The first wave
of protests began in 2005. Back then, there were a small number
of blogs and the common person would not know what is a blog.
Internet was there, but wasn't that common. And the word "blog"
was really weird. When the opposition movements began to stage
protests on the streets against the president, these weren't
covered by the mainstream m |
-1.096989 | 9.018897 | -1 | Common Mistakes When Translating From Chinese To English Demand
for translation service providers online is increasing more than
ever. Demand for translation service providers online is
increasing more than ever. The reason behind this popularity is
that many Chinese businesses have an international presence and
have a need to localize their website for their English speaking
audience. Therefore, they seek localization assistance from best
Chinese to English translation online providers. It has been
established by industry experts that it is better to seek
assistance from professional translation service providers
online, rather than using internal resources or the free online
translation tools such as Google Translate or Bing Translator.
Reason being that translating formal text with the free online
tools will result in quite a few different critical and damaging
types of mistakes. Using internal resources for translating
content is just as damaging because they are generally not
trained as translators an |
-3.687654 | 3.019442 | 39 | Albany Medical Center College Phone Directory Maps & Directions
Milt Teitler , Ph.D. 1978 - Ph.D. from University of Toronto
1976 - University of Buffalo Current Research Many drugs that
effect human mood and/or thought act by mimicking or inhibiting
the actions of neurons in the brain. Nerves function by
releasing chemicals (neurotransmitters) that interact with sites
(receptors) on other neurons in the brain. An important type of
neuron in the brain produces and releases the substance
serotonin; serotonin interacts with "serotonin receptors"
located on other neurons adjacent to the serotonin-producing
neuron. Dr. Teitler has established the role of serotonergic
systems in control of mood and cognition as well as the
serotonergic mechanisms of anti-migraine, anti-nausea, anti-
psychotic, and hallucinogenic drugs. Dr. Teitler is currently
pursuing the discovery of novel drugs directed at serotonin
receptors and their functions in the brain and periphery.
Underlying Dr. Teitler's research program is a bel |
-5.401041 | 1.408766 | 33 | Tested and Perfected by Food and Wine Corn Pilaf • FAST
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<![CDATA[Can't stick it on Korea]]>
http://www.april16archive.org/items/show/777 Can't stick it on
Korea By Zhang Xin [ 2007-04-24 15:42 ] Last week, in the
immediate aftermath of the Virginia Tech shootings, some people
apparently tried to stick it on Korea, or China, or Asia in
general, all on the strength of such weak arguments that Cho
Seung-Hui was an immigrant from Korea, that he was sometimes
(mis)taken as Chinese, or that he's Asian-looking. I read
somewhere that a Korean retorted, quite correctly, that Cho left
South Korea at the age of eight and spent most of his f |
-2.219529 | 0.991174 | -1 | Medical Malpractice Law Lawyers In Thatcher Idaho Thatcher is
an unincorporated community in Franklin County, Idaho, United
States. Its elevation is 4,902 feet (1,494 m), and it is located
at 42°24′32″N 111°43′37″W / 42.40889°N
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83283 had a population of 123 at the 2000 census. What is
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-1.401552 | -0.135644 | 48 | Lambeth talk A horse! A horse! Jonathan Myerson waves a spear
in a tragicomical power play My youngest son is studying
Richard III at school. So we've been talking a lot about power -
what people will do to get it and keep it. But, to be fair,
Richard only murdered children in order to secure absolute
power. Here in Clapham, it is surprising the lengths people will
go to just to guarantee themselves a year as chair of a
committee. Most evenings, my diary offers a clash of meetings.
I choose one, grateful for a clean excuse not to attend the
other. But tonight is a rare occasion when I need to be at both:
a general meeting of an estate that governs itself as a tenants'
management organisation (TMO); and the first meeting of the
Metropolitan police safer neighbourhoods panel. I decide to show
my face for the first 20 minutes of the community safety
meeting, cycle up Lavender Hill, answer crucial questions at the
estate meeting, and shoot back down in time for the panel to
reach some conclusions. I'm a fan o |
-0.374008 | 10.672973 | 132 | Topic: Unable to build Rails App in Jenkins using Maven, unable
to package ge I have been working on a rails app for a few
months. The company I am working uses some internal platform to
package the Rails app for deployment. It uses apache maven to do
the packaging, and the building is done on Jenkins. Each build
is to package the app into an rpm (with a tarball as well). Then
the rpm is unpacked and installed on a cloud instance for
deployment. The platform uses jruby and i used ruby for dev,
but my app works on both which it had been for the past 3
months. I have been building my applications successfully for a
long time, until last friday. Originally, I made some code
change, I was working on investigating the easiest way to handle
background process, i came across using the spawn plugin (i know
it is old) to start a new thread. I tried it on my local
machine, did a mvn install locally, unpack the tar ball, to run
locally and it worked. However, when I did a git push and
perform a build on Jenkins, it |
-4.688479 | 0.883697 | 18 | Este Pizzeria Salt Lake City, Utah rating star New York
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2.250793 | 8.527811 | -1 | Take the tour × Definition 1: The notion of independent
systems has a precise meaning in probabilities. It states that
the (joint) probability or finding the system ($S_1S_2$) in the
configuration ($C_1C_2$) is equal to the probability of finding
the system ($S_1$) in the configuration ($C_1$) times the
probability of finding the system ($S_2$) in the configuration
($C_2$). Definition 2: However, in we consider fields systems,
the practical tool is Lagrangians. So I should say that 2
systems are independent if : $$ Lagrangian (S_1S_2) =
Lagrangian (S_1) + Lagrangian (S_2)$$ The question: Now, what
is the relationship between these 2 definitions? They could be
only compatible, or they could be equivalent in the field
domain. Is there a way to "demonstrate" the latter from the
former ? share|improve this question You might be interested in
this question and its answer by David Bar Moshe. (It doesn't
answer your question exactly, but seems related.) – Nathaniel
May 4 at 9:59 Yes, It is very interesting, |
-0.874234 | 7.318894 | 8 | Share this Page URL Social Engineering Scenarios for
Awarene... > Please Help Me Save My Job! - Pg. 104 104
Chapter5·SSHShortcomings Pick two people, better if they are
friends. Caller: Hi Friend, I'm stuck, can you leave your
company car keys at the desk for me? I'll be careful! Staff:
Well, it's against policy Caller: Hey, it's okay, we're friends!
Ask the participants how easy it would be for someone they know
to "borrow" something for a few hours. Help them realize that
the resources are for company usage and that your policies and
procedures reflect that. We'd Like to Check Your Connections
"Hi, I'm with the phone company and we're testing your lines for
the next few hours so don't pick up the phone if it rings
because the lineman will get electrocuted. Thank you now!" Now
ring the phone non-stop for three hours! This high school prank
is profitable if you add this twist: ask the staff to provide
passwords so that the service person from
phone/network/electrical can check the line. Caller: Hi, I'm th |
-1.179185 | -1.200724 | -1 | Return to Transcripts main page IRS Loses Lois Lerner's
E-mails; Cantor Defends Immigration Support; Team USA Takes
World Cup Stage; Whooping Cough Epidemic Hits California; Five
Hundred Fifty More Marines Heading To Persian Gulf Aired June
16, 2014 - 07:30 ET JOHN KING, CNN HOST, "INSIDE POLITICS":
Lois Lerner, if you followed the IRS story, she is the key
official at the Treasury Department, the IRS, that the
Republicans want to know if she was unfairly targeting tea party
groups, challenging their tax- exempt status. Well,
investigations have been going on for long. You see that graphic
there. Her e-mails from January 2009 to 2011 have, poof,
disappeared. The administration saying she put them on a hard
drive. That hard drive has crashed. They have recovered some of
them by searching the computer for the people she sent those
e-mails to. Republicans are very skeptical because they want to
know if outside people, people outside the government were
influencing her to go after tea party groups. Here |
-0.125753 | -1.739537 | 17 | ANST 113 - Intro to Int'l Politics (4) This course provides an
introduction to the field of international relations. Students
will critically assess the competing conceptual/theoretical
issues and debates in the field, analyze the origins and
evolution of the post-war global order, the legacy of the cold
war on the international system, and the challenges for global
peace and security in the emerging new world order. Offered
every year. |
-0.829847 | 1.964063 | -1 | This Dropout Economy comes at a huge cost in lost wages and lost
revenue.]]>"> This Dropout Economy comes at a huge cost in lost
wages and lost revenue.]]>"> Terrance Heath The Real 'Dropout
Economy' Filed By Terrance Heath | August 24, 2011 8:00 AM |
comments Filed in: Living, Politics Tags: college guys, lost
revenue, lost wages We’re living in a “Dropout Economy,” and
it’s not the post-apocalyptic, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
fantasy that seems to fuel conservative dreams of a government-
free utopia. This Dropout Economy comes at a huge cost in lost
wages and lost revenue. Some Dropouts Do AlrightA new study
provided to Whispers from the American Institutes for Research
finds that for just one year—2002—some 40 percent didn’t
graduate, costing the federal income $566 million in potential
taxes, state governments another $164 million and the students
themselves $3.8 billion in lost income over their life. Just
multiply that by the average dropout rate of many more college
classes and the cost of not g |
-2.366347 | 1.997544 | 26 | Practical Issues > Pets Index > Shelters "Controversy" between
PeTA and Winograd ed. note: from our perspective, both Winograd
and PeTA make good points and yet in presenting their cases they
resort to hyperbole and create misleading perceptions*. While it
appears that they both are wasting energy, perhaps the
"controversy" keeps the issues in front of the minds' of
activists. The jury is still out on the value of this debate. *
PeTA creates the impression that no-kill shelters are no better
than kill shelters because no-kill shelters simply turn away
animals that are not adoptable. In fact, most no-kill shelters
DO spend more time and energy looking to find homes for animals
than do most kill-shelters (especially city-run kill-shelters).
* Winograd creates the impression that there are currently
enough homes for all the unwanted pets and that to kill any
animal is unnecessary. He infers that activists in shelters are
not doing enough and he implies blame. In my opinion he is
referring to what SHOULD BE (w |
-1.784835 | -0.291227 | 112 | or Login to see your representatives. Public Statements
Smith Column -- Immigration Enforcement First Location:
Washington, DC As Congress continues conversations about
immigration reform, border security and interior enforcement are
two issues at the center of the debate. Everyone understands
that any proposal without real border security and robust
interior enforcement is unacceptable to the American people.
That's because a lack of enforcement is the primary reason we're
in this mess to begin with. In 1986, Congress gave amnesty to
three million illegal immigrants. Like now, that amnesty was
agreed to with the promise of increased immigration enforcement
and enhanced border security. Though amnesty was enacted, the
enforcement never came. Now, more than 25 years later, there
are 11 million illegal immigrants in the U.S. According to
estimates, seven million illegal immigrants hold jobs. Clearly,
the 1986 amnesty didn't solve the problem of illegal
immigration. If anything, it made matters worse. |
0.223133 | 10.095263 | 16 | Take the tour × Hello all Since ArcGIS 10 comes with ArcPy
package, i'm wondering it is possible to use ArcPy functions to
get Symbology (i.e color, width...) of a layer? Thanks in
advance share|improve this question add comment 3 Answers For
ArcGIS 10.0, if you can make use of a read-only approach, the
following code sample reveals the field (and joined table) that
forms the basis for the symbology of a layer. It exports a
temporary msd(a zip containing xml files) and loads the specific
attributes into an object. These classes might be extended to
gain access to additional layer attributes. import zipfile from
arcpy import mapping import os from xml.dom.minidom import parse
class LayerExtras(object): """ An object to hold attributes
loaded from xml inside the msd.""" name = ""
symbologyFieldName = "" class MxdExtras(dict): """ Exposes
extra MXD details by raiding an exported msd Treat this
object as a dictionary with layer name as the key and a custom
object with des |
0.587138 | 0.449325 | -1 | New-York Historical Society Tag Archives: exile “However, be
you Scotch or Irish”: Thomas Addis Emmet’s letter to his
daughter Jane For many significant figures, the historical
spotlight is focused on their public accomplishments but being
able to appreciate the aspect of their lives outside the public
sphere often presents an important context for those
accomplishments. An excellent example is a cache of letters by
famed early nineteenth century Irish-American revolutionary and
lawyer Thomas Addis Emmet [...] Bookmark and Share Support
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-1.629433 | 6.678155 | -1 | Back in 2009, AOL CEO Tim Armstrong was, like Yahoo CEO Marissa
Mayer is now, a hot shot ex-Google executive who had already
banked fame and fortune, ready to take on a riskier, higher-
profile job for the sake of legacy. When he took the job,
Armstrong hired a lot of rising industry stars he'd met at
Google. Three years later, a few of those people are still at
AOL. Many are gone. All have deep, firsthand experience of what
it's like trying to turn around a company that had — still has —
many of the same challenges Yahoo and Marissa Mayer face now.
So, naturally, these people are paying close attention to the
moves she is making. Like most people in the industry, they all
pretty much agree that so far, Mayer is making all the right
moves. Except for one. Mayer has put a great deal of her
efforts so far into improving Yahoo's culture. She's given
employees free meals and free iPhones. She's keeping the lights
on later. She's throwing a fancier Christmas party. Veterans of
Armstrong's attempted turnaroun |
-3.337638 | 2.300858 | -1 | Govt: Compulsory food labelling 'would take far longer' The
Government has unveiled a new standard food labelling system,
but it remains voluntary and firms that do not use it will not
be named and shamed. So why doesn't the Government make it
compulsory? Health minister Anna Soubry told me: "If we were to
legislate, it would take far longer and it would get tied up".
Read: 60% of all food sold in UK will carry new labels New
food labelling system A new front-of-pack food labelling scheme
is to be introduced. The voluntary system,, which will cover
just over 60% of foods, will involve traffic light colour coding
and nutritional information on each product. |
3.926484 | 5.100503 | 2 | Skip to Content WoW Insider has the latest on the Mists of
Pandaria! • Torlaz • Member Since Feb 6th, 2009 Are you
Torlaz? If So, Login Here. WoW100 Comments Recent Comments:
Amazon Deal of the Day: Cataclysm for $20 {WoW} Jun 28th 2011
12:04PM Time for a gold box edition - create a consolidated
installer/account key for Vanilla/BC/Wrath/Cata.. stuff a mount
like the sparkle pony/winged guardian in there. $55-60.. watch
the numbers jump Apr 4th 2011 6:39PM It's just providing a
stronger pet system for the caster equivalent of a hunter (which
warlocks are - on a very base level) and they are currently only
being given DK or Mage pet mechanics. There are many varieties
of Imps, Voidwalkers, and Felguards (etc.) which could be
enslaved. Why not let the warlock keep them to diversify the
lock's appearance. It'd be a better option than eating up glyphs
to modify their appearance. It'd actually give warlocks the
feeling they are actually dominating the demons to their will
rather than just being given |
-0.813881 | 8.60765 | -1 | As part of making communication between Mozilla contributors
better, we're talking about adding a instance of OSQA to have a
stackoverflow-like environment for Mozilla-specific Q&A. But now
we're wondering whether we should instead use SO proper with the
tag 'Mozilla', or similar. My intuition is that we're too
specialized, and that our valid questions will be closed quite
often as a result. I know R does this and it works, but they're
a programming language, not a product/set-of-technologies/set-
of-libraries. Have this come up before? If yes, what was the
result. If no, what do people think? Example questions: •
How do I break cycles across XPCOM boundaries (in Mozilla code)?
• How do I make gcc use -Werror (in Mozilla code)? share|improve
this question add comment 5 Answers up vote 8 down vote
accepted For the questions you show, it seems like creating a
community of your own is absolutely necessary. Every question,
though a programming question, will have a Mozilla-specific
focus. While they al |
-0.367542 | 8.917195 | 16 | Handshaking protocol is a series of steps used to coordinate
asynchronous bus transfers in which the sender and receiver
proceed to the next step only when both parties agree that the
current step has been completed. At a more detail level
handshaking is when data is transferred from the hardware port
to the receive buffer. When a character of data arrives at the
serial port, the communications device has to move it into the
receive buffer so that your application can read it. If there is
no receive buffer and your application is expected to read every
character directly from the hardware, you will probably lose
data because the characters can arrive very quickly. A
handshaking protocol ensures that data is not lost due to a
buffer overrun, where data arrives at the port too quickly for
the communications device to move the data into the receive
buffer. |
3.182931 | -4.368568 | 38 | Greatness not in the Cards? Undefeated prior to playing the
Rams, the Cardinals' first loss exposed flaws Originally
Published: October 5, 2012 By Jeffri Chadiha | ST. LOUIS -- One
loss in the NFL isn't normally a cause for major concern. The
Arizona Cardinals might be thinking differently after their 17-3
loss to the St. Louis Rams on Thursday night. The Cardinals
came into that game as the league's hottest feel-good story, an
undefeated team riding a wave of unforeseeable momentum. They
left with all sorts of questions, the most pressing being how
they'll protect their quarterback going forward. The Rams
didn't just beat up Kevin Kolb on Thursday. They swarmed him
every chance they got. They pounced on him nearly every time he
dropped back. The final statistics said St. Louis defenders
sacked the Cardinals quarterback nine times in this Arizona
defeat. If not for some nifty footwork by Kolb, that number
easily would've stretched deep into the double-digits. This
wasn't the same Arizona team that surpr |
-3.820855 | 3.03173 | 39 | Logo IMG Why We Develop Food Allergies Coached by breast milk
and good bacteria, the immune system strives to learn the
difference between food and pathogens before the first morsel
crosses our lips Per Brandtzaeg No peanuts. No dairy. No eggs
or shellfish or soy. No wheat or corn, no tree nuts or fin fish,
no sesame seeds or spices of any kind. Few people have a diet
this restrictive, but allergies to foods affect at least 1 in 20
young children and about 1 in 50 adults in industrialized
countries. The numbers are rising: According to a recent study,
the prevalence of peanut allergy—which accounts for the majority
of emergency-room visits and deaths related to food allergies
each year—doubled between 1997 and 2002. Figure 1. Only minutes
after being born...Click to Enlarge Image The story of food
allergy is a story about how the development of the immune
system is tightly linked to the development of our digestive
tract or, as scientists and physicians usually refer to it, our
gut. A human being is b |
2.243248 | 1.500853 | -1 | The Sandbox GWOT hot wash, straight from the wire December
01, 2006 Name: Adam Tiffen Posting date: 12/1/06 Returned from:
Iraq Milblog url: The morning sun has brought with it an
unusually cloying heat, and I find myself dosing off in the
relative quiet of the Alamo CP. Outside, soldiers pull security
on the rooftop and on the front gate, and fight to stay awake
after a long night of running missions. Inside the Alamo,
soldiers that have just come off of a guard shift lay fully
clothed on green, sweat-stained cots. Two small rooms have been
outfitted with air conditioning, and a dozen cots have been
crammed into each. Other soldiers lay sprawled on the uneven
tile floor, their noses buried in month-old copies of well-worn
magazines and tattered paperback books. Coming off of my
rounds, I can’t seem to find the energy to get up and find a
spare cot, so I sit in a chair in the CP to doze. Yawning, I
cover my mouth and glance at my watch. 1300. The hottest part of
the day. Leaning back in the chair, I s |
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Why are people still talking in a tone like this is whats
happening and they are charging for overages, from what telus
has told me they still have no plans to enforce it. Vancouver,
BC Then why reduce the amounts in the first place? 'There is no
smoke without fire' as the expression goes. At least Shaw and
Telus customers using Internet/TV cannot threaten to switch
because it no advantage for either side to change now. Burnaby,
BC said by Kruisey: Not so. I could easily add Teksavvy cable
internet, replacing my 25 Mbps Optik, and will if the usage
limit gets annoying. reply to Anon12 Forgive me Anon12, but
if I have to choose between you and pfak, I'll go with pfak, who
has stated that Telus will begin gouging in the fall. Personally
I have no doubt that Telus will enforce their ridiculous caps
and the first additional charge I receive will be that last as I
will be gon |
-3.420697 | 5.176231 | -1 | nourielroubini talking tbiGreece's private creditors should
really stop complaining about an upcoming bond swap, argues
economist Nouriel Roubini in a column published today in the FT.
Greece's creditors have been miffed about swapping their old
bonds for new ones with a lower face value and longer maturity
as part of a selective default meant to reduce the country's
debt burden. But Roubini suggests that such thinking is narrow-
minded. Not only do the sweeteners actually increase the value
of creditors' current debt holdings, but the official sector
will be forced to bear the burden of inevitable future
restructurings. Therefore, they should really see that they "are
the lucky ones" in this economic tragedy. Roubini details a
handful of reasons why Greek bondholders should really count
their lucky stars: • The plan will include €30 billion ($39
billion) for upfront cash sweeteners on the new bonds, a
guarantee that they will still be valuable. • New bonds will
be issued under English law, not Greek |
-2.507584 | 5.04473 | -1 | Home » For Teachers » Curriculum » Visual Learning: Gauze for
Concern Visual Learning: Gauze for Concern pdf iconDownload
this lesson plan as a PDF Gauze for Concern Detroit
Foreclosure Quilt After you’ve heard what your students are
noticing, you may hear a peppering of questions: Is this
clothing? Why are there holes? Does the pattern mean anything?
Why did someone make this? This is a good time to reveal the
photo’s caption and other information about the photo. Watch how
the conversation shifts from what they believe to be true to
discerning the facts about the photo.
• Photo caption:
“Detroit Foreclosure Quilt,” 2011. 22" x 44" Cheesecloth, linen,
cotton and quilting thread. Photo and quilt by Kathryn Clark.
• Photo facts: This photo is a section of Kathryn Clark’s
“Detroit Foreclosure” quilt, which is part of her “Foreclosure
Quilt Series.” It is hand-stitched and constructed of
cheesecloth, linen, cotton, and quilting thread, and represents
the MorningSide neighborhood in D |
4.065142 | 2.566902 | 5 | 'The Eye Has to Travel': Fashion icon/editor Diana Vreeland
remembered fondly for her self-made life ★★★ 'Dana Vreeland:
The Eye Has to Travel' 'Dana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel'
(September 27, 2012) For an improbable number of years across
the 20th Century, Harper's Bazaar fashion editor and Vogue
editor-in-chief Diana Vreeland turned every bauble, bangle and
bright shiny bead she personally approved on her publishers'
expense accounts into something faaaaabulous and photographable,
bringing the world Twiggy and other exotic creatures, operating
(as she told at least one writer) under the assumption that an
editor isn't "supposed to give the people what they want.
They're supposed to give them what they don't know they want
yet." "Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel" is a fond
documentary directed by Vreeland's granddaughter-in-law, Lisa
Immordino Vreeland. The two never met, and you wouldn't call
this film a hard-hitting, ruthlessly honest examination of a
highly public and wondrously self-made li |
-1.516256 | 9.197546 | -1 | Is there a way for you to tag a question on my StackExchange
site, and it suggest another SE site? For example, I am on
Stack Overflow, and I tag one of my questions as Windows Server
2008. Can the StackExchange network fire up, search for tags on
other SE sites and suggest sites were that tag is used more. In
the example, it would suggest ServerFault (I think). I guess my
question is more along the lines of ... can the SE sites
communicate with each other? share|improve this question
Hmmm... this could, in theory, be covered by this feature
request. – Jon Seigel Oct 7 '10 at 17:12 add comment 1 Answer
Generally this is what question migration is for: You may also
be interested in: share|improve this answer I guess so ... but
that isn't very cool. It would be cooler if you made it look
like SE had some AI, and interrupted the user with a clippy
telling them, "I think you want to ask this question on Server
Fault". – Martin Oct 7 '10 at 17:43 @Martin not sure whether
you mean this as a joke or a serio |
3.280815 | 3.612194 | -1 | Then there's a bunch of Lord of the Rings-sounding names, but
not being a Tolkien expert, I'm not sure if they are actually
references: Elf Stone, Evenstar, Gil-Galad, Rhun. I am
currently reading LotR, and I could have sworn recent mention of
Gil-Galad. yea, yea, "Gil-galad was an Elven-king. Of him the
harpers sadly sing: the last whose realm was fair and free
between the Mountains and the Sea." From The Fall of Gil-Galad,
as translated by Bilbo Baggins in The Fellowship of the Ring I
11 A Knife in the Dark (found on The Encyclopedia of Arda , or
just google Gil-Galad.) Man, is the book different from the
movies. Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. |
-0.251668 | 9.082192 | 16 | openSUSE Small Office Setup Desktop - OpenSUSE You may be using
Linux at home or in a office environment, but often we still
need to provide access to Windows desktops. Using SAMBA on our
Linux Servers provides easy access to centralized user log-on
accounts, files shares and printers. Additionally, being a back-
end solution it provides transparency to the users so there is
no time or cost involved in user training (or fights with the
kids). In this tutorial we will step you through, using openSUSE
11.4, the preparation, installation and configuration of the
SAMBA Server as a Domain Controller and File Server.
Configuring a SAMBA Domain Controller and File Shares on
openSUSE 11.4 Day 1. What is SAMBA Day 2. Preparing the Linux
Server for SAMBA Day 3. SAMBA and Share Configuration through
YaST Day 4. Command Line Configuration of Shares (Tomorrow)
Day 5. Adding Standard Windows Domain Groups Day 1: What is
SAMBA Installing SAMBA on to a Linux Server can enable the
Linux Server at act as a File and P |
-0.999686 | 10.057355 | 15 | Tell me more × If a user is not logged into my site, I am
disabling all the form functionality. I do however, want an
alert to remind the user to log in or register. I'm using the
following code, which can also be found on jsfiddle
$(":radio").attr("disabled", true); The problem is, is that
the log is not happening. It is like adding the "disabled"
attribute is stopping it. If I remove the line that disables the
input, then the console log works. Is there a way to get both
working? share|improve this question I tried adding a span
around it and using a Jquery selector on that span instead but
no luck sorry! This has got me stumped - interesting question
though... – WheretheresaWill Apr 15 at 11:06 add comment Your
Answer Browse other questions tagged or ask your own
question. |
0.507463 | 9.696304 | 16 | One of the features missing from Visual Basic 2005 was support
for what is known as friend assemblies. We are currently working
on enabling Friend Assemblies for the next version of Visual
Basic (code named Orcas). I wanted to share with you some of the
nice things about friend assemblies and some of the gotchas.
Much of the discussion applies equally well to C#, which
supported friend assemblies in Visual C# 2005. Declaring
another Assembly as your friend To declare another assembly A
as your friend, simply insert the attribute
InternalsVisibleTo("A"). I recommend that you put this in
assemblyinfo.vb, where the rest of the assembly attributes go.
One of the rules regarding friend assemblies is that if the
declaring assembly is a strong name assembly (that is, that it
specifies a key file/container), then you can only declare
friends that are also strong name assemblies. This means that
you must specify the entire 128 bit public key in the
InternalsVisibleTo attribute: InternalsVisibleTo("A,
PublicKey=<128 |
-1.439193 | 2.906939 | -1 | Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event From Wikipedia, the free
encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search Artist's rendering of a
bolide impact A Wyoming (U.S.) rock with an intermediate
claystone layer that contains 1000 times more iridium than the
upper and lower layers. Picture taken at the San Diego Natural
History Museum Complex Cretaceous–Paleogene clay layer (gray) in
the Geulhemmergroeve tunnels near Geulhem, The Netherlands.
Finger is on the actual Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary. The
Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) extinction event,[a] formerly known
as the Cretaceous–Tertiary (K–T) extinction,[b] was a mass
extinction of some three-quarters of plant and animal species on
Earth—including all non-avian dinosaurs—that occurred over a
geologically short period of time 66 million years (Ma)
ago.[2][3] It marked the end of the Cretaceous period and with
it, the entire Mesozoic Era, opening the Cenozoic Era which
continues today. As originally proposed by a team of
scientists led by Luis Alvarez, it is now ge |
-0.552463 | -3.230625 | -1 | Thursday, May 09, 2013 It's Okay. Writers should be strange.
Write about the strange. ~ Kells 1 comment: Mary Stebbins
Taitt said... What is the difference between strange and weird
and totally over the top? I wrote a poem, but it's more weird
and maybe over the top than strange. Related Posts with
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-1.249913 | 8.778533 | -1 | Forward your CC email There are a couple of common ways to
forward your email to another account. Either directly from
Office365, or from within Gmail. From Office 365 1. Use
single sign-in to log into your CC webmail (click the "Email"
button once signed in). 2. If it didn't go there
automatically, click the "Mail" icon in Office 365. 3. Click
the gear icon to access settings and select "options" 4. Find
the option on the left for forwarding. It's in Mail > Accounts.
5. Select the radio button for "start forwarding." Make sure to
include the address, decide whether you want to keep a copy of
forwarded messages, and then click save. From Gmail 1. In
Gmail: Go to settings > Accounts and import > Check mail from
other accounts > Add a POP3 account you own 2. Enter your email
address, and then the fields as you see them below (of course,
use your own information). NOTE when it asks for username, you
need to enter it as "" which is different than your email
address. See the example below. |
-1.572638 | 3.842807 | 11 | Our Friend CO2 Wed, 2009-04-01 12:46Mitchell Anderson Mitchell
Anderson's picture Our Friend CO2 One of the stupider
arguments making the rounds in the media is that “carbon-
dioxide-is-not-pollution– it’s life”. In fact, the Competitive
Enterprise Institute (CEI) produced a hilarious commercial
saying just that. Friendly footage shows how CO2 comes from
little girls blowing dandelion seeds, and prancing gazelles.
Then cue the ominous music: “now some politicians want to label
carbon dioxide a pollutant – imagine if they succeed. What would
our lives be like then? Perhaps a bit of back-story is in
order. The CEI has received a whopping $2,005,000 from
ExxonMobil since 1998. Their point person on climate change is
the notorious Myron Ebell who is so pathologically pro-oil he
once claimed that good gas mileage is a mass killer. So what
are the CEI (and their funders in the fossil fuel industry) so
worried about? After decades of the atmosphere being used as a
free dumping ground for astronomical amounts o |
4.350586 | 2.362703 | -1 | Review: Musical of ’A Christmas Story’ is joyous Updated at:
11/19/2012 9:05 PM (AP) NEW YORK - We’ve all seen the scene in
"A Christmas Story" when the kid gets his tongue stuck on a
frozen flagpole. Now on Broadway is that very same scene _ plus
the kid actually singing through it, or at least trying to sing.
"Sthlun luv a...," he mumbles at the end. It’s just one great
touch in a musical that dares to mess with one of the most
popular Christmas-time movies of all time and yet manages to not
only do the film justice, but top it. The show that opened
Monday at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre is a charming triumph of
imagination that director John Rando has infused with utter joy.
It’s also a snappy piece of mature songwriting from a pair of
guys barely as old as the original 1983 film. The duo, Benj
Pasek and Justin Paul, are making their Broadway debuts with a
score that is funny, nostalgic, warm and tender. Among the best
tunes are "Somewhere Hovering Over Indiana," "Red Ryder Carbine
Action BB Gun" and "R |
-0.683436 | 9.976681 | 15 | Is there some way to prevent my text to be automatically parsed
as a link? For example - this results in a broken
link.^(-1)[1.32934039] I dont want it to be parsed as a link at
all. Is there some way? share|improve this question Sadly,
Google Clickable Links was the culprit. – Lazer Jun 21 '10 at
14:11 add comment 2 Answers up vote 2 down vote accepted You
can surround it with grave accent characters "`" or wrap it in
a pre tag share|improve this answer Bravo for using each method
to demonstrate the syntax of the other method. – Grace Note Jun
21 '10 at 13:57 add comment You could put it in a code block
(highlight and click the binary icon):^(-1)[1.32934039] Or
remove the http:^(-1)[1.32934039] share|improve this answer add
comment You must log in to answer this question. Not the
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0.668732 | 4.821568 | -1 | So here’s what gets me about Spider-man 2… They invented the
robot octopus arms as an AFTERTHOUGHT! Like they were trying to
think of how to possibly create a perpetual energy sun or
whatever right?! And that took all the science and thoughts to
put together but at one point they were like Well how do we
control it and it’s fluxes?! Ah just make some robot arms. Well
they’ll require FAR more prescion then normal robot arms. Ju-
just fucking SCREW into my spine, I don’t fucking now man
C’MON!! GET WITH IT!!! So they show off these arms which seem
like they’d be AN AMAZING INVENTION IN THEIR OWN RIGHT THAT YOU
COULD TOTALLY MARKET AND SELL, and nobody is blown away or
cares?! The lady asks some STUPID question about how to make
sure the arms don’t control his brain? WHAT?!?!? How is that
possible?! Arms don’t have brains, and why would you think to
ask that lady?! WHY WOULD YOU THINK TO ASK THAT?!??! Think of
all the potential uses of those robot arms! Helping disabled
people, construction work, police force w |
1.001478 | 6.4346 | 14 | Forum ate my post! Gah! Second try: Even ones in the 80s never
had 1:1 zoom. They have at best 0.97x zoom or something close.
The only way to get full 1:1 zoom would be to have no viewfinder
at all -- like one of those glass plate cameras from the 1800s.
Otherwise, any diversion of the light stream is going to cost
some small margin of viewing area just because of the framework
of the mirrors and the reflexive prisms in the viewfinder. |
-1.207763 | 3.983781 | 141 | You are here Management of nuclear materials and non-HLW GC-52
provides legal advice to DOE regarding the consolidation and
disposition of nuclear materials, including plutonium, uranium,
and nuclear waste in accordance with applicable statutes, DOE
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-0.164276 | 7.78006 | -1 | User Agent Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 31 July 2001 4.
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a link is activated, the user agent generally retrieves the
linked Web resource. When a form element is activated, it may
change state (e.g., check boxes) or may take user input (e.g., a
text entry field). In this document, "to alert" means to make
the user aware of some event, without requiring acknowledgement.
For example, the user agent ma |
4.980206 | 0.934025 | 13 | MCMAF: The Dilettantes Taking love to the streets Meeting up
for an interview anywhere in the Haight in the middle of a
Sunday afternoon is a bit of a dodgy prospect. With every easily
distracted tourist and bumbling acid casualty in the city making
random zigzags through the neighborhood, finding a clear path on
the sidewalk is enough of a challenge, never mind finding a
quiet place to talk. But there I am, in a booth at Magnolia's,
with the three songwriters of the Dilettantes, chatting away
over beers without so much as a glance in the direction of all
the scattershot energy reigning outside. Lesson? Miracles do
happen, even in the Haight. I'm mentioning the neighborhood
because the Dilettantes identify so closely with it. Not only do
most of the band members work and spend time here, but they also
draw deeply from the Haight's '60s musical legacy. Sure, their
music is filtered through four decades' worth of post-
psychedelic comedown, but the songs of Joel Gion, Jefferson
Parker, and Brock Galland - acc |
-0.502021 | 6.677842 | 60 | The following is Starz's statement: The following is
Netflix's response to Starz's statement: Comments
Threshold RE: Doesn't make much of a difference. By talozin on
9/1/2011 11:16:18 PM , Rating: 5 Netflix streaming is great for
people who often find themselves saying, "Man, I'd like to watch
a movie." It is a constant frustration for people who find
themselves saying, "Man, I'd like to watch that movie." Their
selection of movies is good enough that I can almost always find
something that looks like it'd be fun to watch. But it has a
long way to go. RE: Doesn't make much of a difference. By
mcnabney on 9/2/2011 9:37:44 AM , Rating: 2 Dead on. There is
always something worth streaming, but if you are looking for
something in particular it is unlikely that they will have it.
/I have 23 items in my queue now. Only one is available to
stream RE: Doesn't make much of a difference. By FITCamaro on
9/2/2011 9:48:31 AM , Rating: 4 The only that annoys me is how
some extremely old movies |
-1.603692 | 6.550514 | -1 | Question from goznock Asked: 2 years ago How can I buy
MineCraft? Yesterday my brother bought MineCraft and then we
tried to buy MineCraft for myself. When we used his credit card
it didn't work. So with the cash I saved up to buy it I went
ahead and bought a Visa Gift Card only to come to the same
problem of it not being accepted. We got the "Must wait 48 hours
for purchasing too many times from the website" even though we
never bought anything for my account. I tried using Moneybookers
to buy it and cannot make a PayPal account. So my question is:
HOW DO I BUY THE GAME!?! Submitted Answers Problem? *Troll
Face* This may not work, but it did for me. Do you remember when
it asked for an email? Go to signin menu. Click forgot password.
Type your username and it will go to your email. Click given
link and reset your password. Sorry if it doesn't work but I
tried at least. Rated: +0 / -0 did you go to ? Rated: +0 / -0
yes goto then you'll see a downloads there (free NO CASH
NEEDED!) but if you were us |
-0.766518 | 0.544641 | 6 | Judge: No searches allowed at Puerto Rico festival SAN JUAN,
Puerto Rico (AP) — A judge in Puerto Rico has issued a temporary
injunction blocking police from searching everyone who attends a
popular street festival in the island's capital that attracts
hundreds of thousands of people every year. Thursday's ruling
comes a day after the American Civil Liberties Union filed suit
challenging the new security measures approved by San Juan Mayor
Carmen Yulin. It would have been the first time that police set
up checkpoints and searched all people attending the four-day
San Sebastian festival that began Thursday in historic Old San
Juan. The judge ruled that security cameras and police dogs are
still allowed. A final decision in the lawsuit is expected in
the coming days. The festival features music, art and food. |
5.194953 | 0.794802 | 13 | British Sea Power/’Man Of Aran’ British Sea Power play
soundtrack to ‘Man Of Aran’ This is seriously powerful, emotive
stuff. I’m sat in the cavernous main cinema of Sheffield’s
Showroom complex for the final event in the city’s fantastic
music/film/arts Sensoria festival. Live on stage, in front of
the screen, with their backs to the audience are one of the best
and most inventive modern British bands- British Sea Power.
They are playing their live sound track to ‘Man Of Aran’ the
1934 semi fictional, semi documentary film by Robert J.
Flaherty. The film is a stark black and white depiction of the
tough lives of the Aran islanders whose stubborn self-
sufficiency and toughness, set against the backdrop of the
fierce Atlantic Ocean makes for powerful viewing. It’s a
perfect combination- a salty sea stained film about the tough
life on a lump of rock in the Atlantic (most recently the
setting for Craggy Island in Father Ted) and a band that have
made their name in the past decade with three great, highly o |
2.430485 | 1.82664 | 19 | Huffpost Books Lev Raphael Headshot Does A Christmas Carol
Really Need to be Rescued? Posted: Updated: No, the real
danger is poor, dead Dickens himself. Journalist Jesse Kornbluth
has published a version of Dickens' novella that's been cut by
half. Why? He claims Dickens' writing is dated, clotted,
overwrought. That last label is the funniest of the three
because a story about a notorious miser visited by four ghosts
who scare the hell out of him to make him change his life is by
definition overwrought. Kornbluth thinks classics like this
Dickens tale won't survive in our short attention span age, and
that his version is an improvement. Well, the proof is in the
Christmas pudding, right? Let's compare part of the bravura
description of Scrooge's cheapness and lack of humanity from the
opening pages to what Kornbluth has boiled it down to. Here's
the original: And now the rewrite: For Scrooge was the
cheapest of the cheap, so tight-fisted that if the coins in his
hand could talk, they would scream |
-2.103824 | -1.27607 | 10 | Narrowing down the possibilities in Republican field Dick
Morris's picture So there are several distinct groupings
within the Republican Party merged together by shared ideals but
with sharply different priorities and perspectives. Imagine that
each sector of the party is like a division in the NFL or in
baseball, with its own separate pennant race and its own
separate champion. Then the winners of the divisions meet in the
primaries. We are still in the pre-runoff phase. Start with the
economic conservative division. These folks are deeply committed
to free-market economics. Often from big companies and
corporations, they tend to be well-off, to believe in capitalism
and to oppose redistribution of wealth. In their division, the
candidates were Mitt Romney, Donald Trump, Tim Pawlenty, Chris
Christie and Mitch Daniels. Mitt is the only one left. He is the
champ of that division, which guarantees him a berth in the
runoffs. Closely allied to them is the establishment Republican
division. This was the grou |
-0.374383 | 7.761365 | -1 | Take the 2-minute tour × I was changing the OS of my Motorola
A853 milestone, and the IMEI turned invalid; it just shows
"00000000". I found this answer here about something similar
How to fix "Invalid IMEI " after Factory reset? but the link
with the files is invalid. share|improve this question That's a
different phone so it won't work. However a similar process
might work if you find the correct modem for your device -- have
you looked on XDA? – Matthew Read Dec 10 '12 at 18:48 add
comment Your Answer Browse other questions tagged or ask
your own question. |
1.157841 | 4.952536 | 57 | Joshua Bandfield [EMAIL] Research Associate Professor, Earth &
Space Sciences Office: JHN 347 Box Number: 351510 Astrobiology
Areas of Interest: Habitability & Life on Mars, Space
Exploration C.V. : My research has focused on the
investigation of the processes that have formed the crust and
regolith of the Moon, Mars, and Earth analogs. This has been
primarily through the use of infrared and visible spectral and
imaging data returned from orbiting spacecraft and landers. I
have worked directly with the Mars Global Surveyor Thermal
Emission Spectrometer, 2001 Mars Odyssey Thermal Emission
Imaging System, Mars Exploration Rovers Miniature Thermal
Emission Spectrometers, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Mars Climate
Sounder, and the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Diviner Radiometer
instrument investigations. Determining present and past
environments on planetary surfaces is often relevent to
astrobiology. With increasingly sophisticated measurements being
returned from spacecraft, we've been able to move beyond |
1.438187 | 9.496601 | -1 | Take the 2-minute tour × I have allocated a chunk of double in
a C library and I would like to create a numpy 1D array based on
that data; ideally I would like two versions one which only
wraps the c_ptr readonly - letting the C layer retain ownership
of the data, and one which copies the data. So simplified code
would be like this: double * init_and_alloc( size_t size ) {
double * ptr = malloc( size * sizeof * ptr ); // initialize
ptr return ptr; Python code size = 1000 c_ptr =
ctypes_func_ptr_init_and_alloc( size ) numpy_array =
numpy.xxxx( c_ptr , size , dtype.float64) <--- ????? So does
the function I have labelled xxxx exist? Best Regards Joakim
Hove share|improve this question add comment 1 Answer Yes,
numpy.ctypeslib.as_array To get a given dtype, as_array(ptr,
shape).view(dtype). This should work, at least in theory (don't
have time to test it now). share|improve this answer add
comment Your Answer |
2.22629 | 1.758026 | 19 | OCR Interpretation The Day book. (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917,
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moon?" "Naw- He takes-yo' foh dat Board ob Health man who come
to tell us to clean up pur -back yard' "Huh, your "dog" ought to
be used to dat man t |
-1.731804 | 2.707253 | 54 | Latest Issue of Science News Wild Things The weird and
wonderful in the natural world Wild Things Eight ways that
animals survive the winter Japanese Macaques at the Jigokudani
Monkey Park in Japan’s Nagano prefecture keep warm through the
winter by taking dips in the hot springs. Sponsor Message A
dip in the polar vortex brought sub-freezing temperatures to
much of the United States again this week. And although this
type of weather can be deadly, modern humans have largely
figured out how to survive the cold, snow and dark that come
with winter. We’ve got heated homes filled with bright lights.
We bulk up with thick sweaters and down-filled coats. And if all
that isn’t enough, we can jet off to warm, sunny locations.
Animals may not have access to Gore-Tex, but they’ve got lots of
lessons for dealing with the wintery conditions. Here are eight
methods for keeping warm and surviving winter used by the animal
world (and many of us): Take a warm soak At Jigokudani Monkey
Park in the Nagano prefecture |
1.049939 | 2.325283 | 40 | Trick or TreatI grew up in a very Jewish area, I have lived here
my whole life. On Christmas, we don't see many lights or
ornaments on the homes. During Halloween, we don't see many
pumpkins, and such. My whole life, I cannot recall ever having
someone walk up to my parents house or my previous house, ring
the door bell and say, "Trick or Treat" while being dressed up
in a costume. Sounds crazy, but it is true. The area I live in,
at least the immediate area, is 99% Jewish. And Halloween is
just one of those holidays, we typically do not celebrate. In
any event. As you know, I moved to a new house a few weeks ago,
it is basically on the outskirts of the original community I
lived in. Last night, I heard the door bell ring and it was two
girls that said, "Trick or Treat." I was like, um, what do I
do. I then think back to TV, my main source of education, and
say, "hold on." I yell up to my wife and ask if we have any
candy. She says, "um, no..." I look at them, and they say,
"Don't worry about it," and then |
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-0.334169 | 5.656736 | -1 | WakeWorld (http://www.wakeworld.com/forum/index.php) - -
Fuse behind WS 420
(http://www.wakeworld.com/forum/showthread.php?t=798853)
tn_rider 06-29-2013 8:02 AM Fuse behind WS 420 Was out on the
water last night. Just floating listening to music. It was at
low volume when all of the sudden the 420 shut off. Which killed
all the music. The amps still turn on. I got under the dash and
the fuse on the back of the 420 was blown. So I got another to
put in. It blew it as soon as I turned the stereo on. Did this
on two bigger fuses as well. Any idea what's causing this? And
why all of the sudden it wants to start blowing fuses? EthanLT
06-29-2013 9:31 AM You are shorting out. it could be on the
fused lead side or internally. david_e_m 06-29-2013 10:08 AM
If any electronics unit has ever been exposed to water then it
is very important to turn it off and not turn it back on until
you have taken steps to inspect it and re-condition it. I would
say that when an EQ blows a fuse for any other reason the same
wo |
0.599681 | 9.422145 | 16 | Take the 2-minute tour × If I don't specify the number of
mappers, how would the number be determined? Is there a default
setting read from a configuration file (such as mapred-
site.xml)? share|improve this question add comment 2 Answers
up vote 3 down vote accepted Adding more to what Chris added
above: 1. The number of maps is usually driven by the number
of DFS blocks in the input files. Although that causes people to
adjust their DFS block size to adjust the number of maps. 2.
The right level of parallelism for maps seems to be around
10-100 maps/node, although this can go upto 300 or so for very
cpu-light map tasks. Task setup takes awhile, so it is best if
the maps take at least a minute to execute. 3. You can
increased number of Map task by modifying JobConf's
conf.setNumMapTasks(int num). Note: This could increase the
number of map tasks, but will not set the number below that
which Hadoop determines via splitting the input data. Finally
controlling the number of maps is subtle. The map |
-1.232915 | 0.981161 | -1 | As a Step dad, what rights do i have to my step children, in
case my wife dies? Asked over 5 years ago - Santa Ana, CA I
am a step dad to one son and one daughter, aged 4 and 5 I would
like to find out what rights do i have to my step children, in
case my wife dies? My wife and her ex-husband both have joint
legal custody of the kids. This stemmed from a divorce 3 years
ago. We live in california and the ex-husband lives out of
state. The kids have not seen their biological father for 3
years. The kids live with my wife and I, and we pay for all of
their expenses. My wife and i make a very good income and we own
our own home. In contrast, the kids bio dad has never made any
court ordered payments to my wife in order to support the
children, even though the government has been after him for
years to do so. My wife and her ex have an amicable
relationship. he will call on occasion to talk to the kids.
finally, for what it is worth, the kids bio dad has been in and
out of prison many times for non-violen |
-4.167407 | 3.27697 | 39 | Vaccine court From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to:
navigation, search Cases before the Vaccine Court are heard in
the U.S. Court of Federal Claims. Some parents of children
with autism spectrum disorders have attributed the disorders'
onset to vaccines, often citing the mercury-based preservative
thiomersal as the cause, and some have filed suit for
compensation from vaccine makers. The medical and scientific
communities near unanimously deny a link between routine
childhood vaccines and autism, as no evidence has been found to
support this.[2] National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act[edit]
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services set up the
National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (NVICP) in 1988 to
compensate individuals and families of individuals injured by
covered childhood vaccines.[3] The VICP was adopted in response
to a scare over the pertussis portion of the DPT vaccine.[1]
These claims were later generally discredited, but some U.S.
lawsuits against vaccine makers won substa |
-0.851185 | -0.191316 | -1 | MEXICO CITY (AP) - Mexican President Felipe Calderon says U.S.
cooperation in the fight against drug cartels has been
"insufficient." Calderon says the United States should help by
reducing drug use and stemming the flow of automatic rifles to
Mexican drug cartels. Calderon tells the Mexican newspaper El
Universal that relations with the United States were strained
when secret U.S. diplomatic cables criticizing Mexico's anti-
drug strategy were leaked to the public. Calderon said in the
interview published Tuesday that some of the leaked cables show
U.S. diplomats' ignorance about Mexico's security situation and
that that's why some reports distort or exaggerate. |
-0.218018 | 8.026423 | 42 | /* * NOTE This license applies only to CEXP itself and _NOT_ to
the * libraries (found in the binutils, libtecla and regexp *
subdirectories) which are distributed with CEXP for *
convenience. If you decide to use one of those libraries * you
must read and agree to their respective licensing * conditions)
* * Authorship * ---------- * This software (CEXP - C-expression
interpreter and runtime * object loader/linker) was created by *
* Till Straumann , 2002-2008, * Stanford Linear Accelerator
Center, Stanford University. * * Note that the "software" refers
exclusively to CEXP itself * and NONE of the third party
libraries that may be distributed * along with CEXP.
Specifically, "GNU-binutils", "libtecla", * "libspencer_regexp"
are NOT covered by this license. * * Acknowledgement of
sponsorship * ------------------------------ * This software was
produced by * the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Stanford
University, * under Contract DE-AC03-76SFO0515 with the
Department of Energy. * * Government disclaimer |
-0.980616 | 1.658842 | 129 | « Whistleblower reveals structural faults in Keystone XL
Pipeline | Main | Flying while brown » Obama has an interesting
plan for making college affordable again The third bit is the
most interesting: Only giving loans for good schools and not for
scammy schools. Obama college affordability plan. Taking the
last first since it'll have the most immediate impact on
people's lives, he wants to bring debt relief to people
currently burdened by student loans. That means making all
borrowers eligible for income-based loan repayments that will
allow people to cap their payments at 10 percent of their
monthly income. More importantly it means trying to spearhead an
interagency process to publicize the existence of this option,
since even under current eligibility rules it looks like there's
a relatively low level of uptake. Coordination and publicity
don't require congressional action, so if the White House can do
this in an effective way it's a nice simple way to provide some
help to people. Second, he wants to |
1.043434 | 4.2594 | -1 | Some people's love for designer labels is astounding. Perhaps
this is why these high fashion logo lollipops were created. To
satisfy the label-lovers out there who can now literally consume
their way through Chanel, YSL, Louis Vuitton and Gucci. Designed
by fashion photographer Massimo Gammacurta, they come in
different flavours including watermelon, pomegranate, wild
cherry, apple and caramel. Finally, there is some designer
fashion I can afford! |
2.240032 | 2.205351 | -1 | « Previous | Main | Next » May 24, 2010 Man sucked into
sausage seasoning machine (Thanks to Don Faber, queensbee and
Jonathan) That HAS to be a euphemism for SOMETHING. Homeland
Security is investigating whether he has Al Qaeda links. Wurst
things have happened. Is that a bratwurst in your pocket? I'm
an Oscar Meyer ... "So we season our sausage with black pepper
(not black people), sage, rosemary, thyme, oregaNOOOOOOOOO . .
." When I was much younger, I worked at a tire manufacturing
plant. The raw rubber was mixed between two huge, heavy rollers
that operated like an old washer ringer. The rubber was rolled
around these rollers and squeezed through the, maybe, 4 inch gap
between the rollers. This happened again and again, mixing the
rubber. One guy reached in during his shift one night to do
something unknown. There was no body to retrieve, just a red-
tint to the rubber. We heard they went ahead and made the tires
with the rubber but that seems cold even for that company. I
think I'd rather be |
-0.662938 | 6.617006 | 60 | where the writers are Verizon News Flash Verizon has Netflixed
itself, reversing a previously announced decision to charge
customers $2 to pay their bills online. We could also say
Verizon BoFad itself. Netflix and Bank of America were two
larger companies which attracted publicity, petition and outrage
about new plans and then said, "Oh, sorry, my bad. We've changed
our minds." The public - their customers - were the agents of
change for them. The public has seen what speaks -- action --
and are now getting fast, aggressive, and organized about it.
The response to Verizon was much faster than either BoA or
Netflix. Online petitions. Facebook wall postings on the
companies' social media page. Verizon spun its course
correction must faster than the other two, perhaps with good
reason. Maybe they saw that Netflix, which had been battling
with Amazon for the number one spot for 'happy customers' among
online retailers, fell out of that battle, losing 7 percentage
points and falling to 79, according to ForeSe |
-4.020328 | 4.008968 | 94 | The Protein Wrangler Exploring science in the Texas Medical
Center with Carl Carruthers Chain, Chain, Chain…. Continuing
from the last entry, I am discussing what a protein is and how
it is structured. A brief recap: the building blocks of a
protein are amino acids. There are four layers of structure:
primary, secondary, tertiary and quaternary. Primary Structure:
Individual amino acids hold hands and make a chain and it’s the
specific order of the amino acids in the chain that gives each
protein its identity. Now on to Secondary Structure! Secondary
Structure: The first figure below shows a four amino acid chain
named CARL. This is because it consists of the following amino
acids: Cysteine, Alanine, aRginine, and Leucine. For clarity,
the second figure below is (hide the children!!) a bare naked
CARL without all the fancy side chain decorations. Looking at
the naked CARL, you can see that between each side chain (i.e.
the green part of Alanine and the magenta part of Arginine) are
the letters O and NH i |
-2.014317 | -0.160348 | -1 | Search Form First, enter a politician or zip code Now, choose a
category Public Statements SEC Regulatory Accountability Act
Floor Speech Location: Washington, DC Mr. FINCHER. Mr.
Chairman, I rise today in support of the SEC Regulatory
Accountability Act. Title I of the JOBS Act was so important
for smaller companies in trying to go public, because a lot of
regulations come with the IPO process. If more and more of a
company's resources have to be dedicated to government
regulations, the company can't expand and create jobs. That's
why we need a balanced approach to regulations. Before I make
any major decision, like every hardworking taxpayer, I use
common sense. I evaluate the effect that decision will have on
me, on my bank account, on my family, and so on. Why shouldn't
the Federal Government ask itself those same questions?
Shouldn't the SEC question if a regulation is good for business?
Does it help capital formation? Will it do more harm than good
or vice versa? All we are asking the SEC to do |
-0.803659 | 6.389127 | 134 | [sword-devel] letter writing campaigns... Chris Little sword-
[email protected] Tue, 7 Dec 1999 02:40:16 -0800 I'm curious
to know who has been contacted regarding use of copyrighted
translations so far because I'm feeling inspired to write some
letters. I know the NIV people have been contacted, but who
else? I'm probably also going to drop lines to Harry Plantinga
from CCEL and Kevin Knight of New Advent (which has a great PD
text of the Catholic Encyclopedia available) just to get their
okays on using their sites' respective texts, though they appear
to be entirely PD. --Chris Little |
0.340967 | 1.087644 | -1 | Not a member? Existing members login below: A Young Folks'
History of the Church settlement was called Garden Grove. Soon
it was as lively as a hive of bees. Hundreds of men were busy
making fence rails and fences, building houses, digging wells,
clearing land, and plowing. Meetings were held often and the
people were instructed and encouraged. Parley P. Pratt and a
small company were sent ahead to find another location for a
settlement. They found a beautiful place about thirty miles from
Garden Grove, which they called Mount Pisgah. Here houses were
also built, and farms and gardens planted. As many of the Saints
were poor and sick they rested at these two settlements while
the main body went on. From Mount Pisgah the country was wild
Indian lands, there being no white settlements or roads. The
spring rains had now moderated so that the roads were better. On
June 14th President Young and the leading companies arrived at
the Missouri river, where a stop was made. Most of the companies
came up in July. |
0.8218 | -0.620335 | 50 | Frames Version Nonframes Version Grodno Students Continue Their
Research This article is a continuation of research sent to the
Holocaust/Genocide Project over the past year from teacher
Valentina Suvorina and her students -- Kate Suvorina, Kate Brib,
and Svetlana Tolkach -- of School-gimnazia No. 30, Belarus.
Their material has been translated from the Grodno Archives and
their first article "Belarus Students Research Grodno Ghetto,"
can be read in AN END TO INTOLERANCE, Volume 5, 1997, on the HGP
Web site. [ HGP Group in Belarus ] HGP Group in Belarus The
Germans tried to make a show of the people condemned to death.
They gathered -- Chief of the Gestapo, Erlis Streblev -- in
charge of the camps, Rintsner. There were different opinions
about the liquidation of the ghetto. In December 1942, Streblev
wrote to the Oberpresident of Bialystok (now in Poland) that:
Today there are 12,418 Jews in Grodno's ghetto and they are good
workers. So, I think that it is not necessary to take them out
from the ghetto s |
-0.965883 | 9.706572 | 15 | Take the 2-minute tour × I have a web page containing am entry
form. HTTPS is enabled via an Apache redirect for all requests
matching that page. Unfortunately, because the CSS pulls in
external images using 'background-image: url(/images/...)', the
browser will generate a warning message that the page contains
mixed content. What's the best way to resolve this issue?
share|improve this question 3 Answers 3 Here is a very popular
solution: <img src="//domain.com/img/logo.png">
div{background: url(//path/to/image.png);} See more information
here http://paulirish.com/2010/the-protocol-relative-url/
share|improve this answer @Kifin, Did this answer your question,
Let me know if not, Thanks – adardesign Apr 18 '12 at 18:57
You should also enable HTTPS for your static resources, and then
make sure that the <link> refers explicitly to the HTTPS url for
the CSS resource (whose relative urls will then be interpreted
relative to the HTTPS base of the CSS file). share|improve this
answer You should use |
0.477019 | 2.690917 | -1 | June 16, 2011 Off Beat: Feel at ohm on the water? Try SUP yoga
By Shannon Bryan [email protected] Staff Writer People
can't just go around falling off of things. They can't
continually tip over mid-stride or careen backwards from the top
of an "up" escalator. click image to enlarge Jill Newel and
Brenda Cyr practice SUP "stand-up paddelboard" yoga. Shannon
Bryan photo WHEN: 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. Tuesday (rain date June
23) WHERE: Kettle Cove, Cape Elizabeth INFO: soposup.com; or
stop into SOPO SUP, 382 Cottage Road, South Portland
Registration for July sessions is open and classes will be
weekly, 9:30 to 10:45 a.m. Tuesday or Thursday. Sessions will
consist of three classes, and will cost $120 with board and
paddle rental or $60 if you have your own equipment. Private
evening classes are also available. TUNE IN to Good Day Maine
(WPFO FOX 23) at 7:40 a.m. today to watch Shannon Bryan talk up
the weekend's events and other digressions with Doug Ray and
Diana Ichton. Hence all those self-help b |
-0.043509 | 0.737494 | -1 | Mother Tries To Sell Baby So She Can Go To Disney World A
Newark mother has been arrested and ordered to never contact her
infant son after several bad decisions culminating in a Facebook
announcement that she was planning on selling him. Her reason?
She didn't want to have another kid, because she wanted to go to
Disney World. Most fucked up Disney-related maternal absence
ever? The woman, 33 year old mother-of-three Bridget Wismer,
gave birth to an infant son on August 31. Shortly thereafter,
she attempted to sell him to a 54 year old Philadelphia bookie
named John Gavaghan, who agreed to list himself as the child's
father on the birth certificate even though he and Wismer had
never had sex (Gavaghan is gay and lives with his long-time
partner). Police became aware of the arrangement when Wismer's
grandmother told authorities that she was planning on selling
the baby so that she could go kick it with Mickey Mouse and
company. Wismer's infant son was born addicted to opiates and
had to remain in the hospi |
-0.527233 | 8.902137 | -1 | Document Sample DoS-attacks-prevention-checklist Powered By
Docstoc DoS attacks
prevention checklist No Area
Status Notes 1 Installing server content on a different
hard drive or logical partition than the OS and server
software. 2 Placing a limit on the amount of hard drive
space that is dedicated for uploads, if uploads to the
server are allowed. Ideally, uploads should be placed on
a separate partition to provide stronger assurance that
the hard drive limit cannot be exceeded. 3 If
uploads are allowed to the server, ensuring that these
files are not readable by the server until after some
automated or manual review process is used to screen
them. This measure prevents the server from being used to
propagate malware or traffic pirated software, attack
tools, pornography, etc. It is also possible to limit the size
of each uploaded file, which could l |
-1.507611 | 5.183312 | -1 | 6 Articles 1 / 1 A California-based Hyundai dealership has
filed a lawsuit against Hyundai Motor America claiming that the
automaker did not provide help to the struggling dealership
despite contractual agreements and assurances that Hyundai would
do everything necessary to help out the dealership during the
economic downturn. In 2007 Hyundai had a US sales target of
555,000. That number was set by HQ in Korea, and when it was
clear they weren't going to make it, they revised it downward to
just over 500,000. By the time the bell rung, even that number
proved a little beyond Hyundai's reach: they sold 467,009 cars
last year. That still represented a 2.5-percent gain over 2006
sales. Shape up or ship out seems to be the message that
Hyundai is sending to 50 of its worst performing dealers.
Automotive News is reporting that Hyundai Motor America COO
Steve Wilhite sent a "strongly worded" letter to 50 'chronic
underachievers.' Poor sales and customer service is at the heart
of Wilhite's threats: "We're |
3.000906 | 2.417691 | 25 | Ivan Doig’s Book Bag: Five Favorite Books on the American West
Ivan Doig, the great chronicler of the Montana landscape whose
new novel is Sweet Thunder, picks his favorite books on the
American West. The American West as Living Space By Wallace
Stegner Once when I asked a prominent historian what he thought
of the many writings by Stegner, novelist and English-department
star at Harvard and Stanford, about the background and the West,
he didn’t hesitate: “He hits the nail on the head every time,
damn him.” This trio of essays, a mere 86 pages of text
delivered as a set of university lectures, is a marvel—composed
nearly 30 years before fracking, pine-beetle kill of forests
from Colorado to British Columbia, and unprecedented fire
seasons with suburbs on the front line—of exploring his great
theme of the country West of the rain-halting 98th meridian, the
clash of its ecologies, and its cultures. Monte Walsh By Jack
Schaefer Not Shane? Why? Schaefer’s lesser-known but more valid
Western novel is big, lon |
-1.354467 | 9.335339 | -1 | What is meta? × Has any thought been given on code that is
version-specific or that is getting slightly outdated ? As an
example I'm thinking of the Facebook API where there have been
quite a few changes with the introduction of the graph API and
where some code isn't always the best example of how to do
something. However, I am against deletion as this information
could still be used for reference. I'd be more in favour of the
equivalent of the Wayback Machine. What solutions do you see ?
How you sort what's relevant and up-to-date ? share|improve
this question 2 Answers 2 Well, for starters, there are often
version specific tags for major languages. As an example, there
is , and then there is also: . When there is a question that is
specific to that tag you can tag it as both C# and also the
version specific tag. If a question is so outdated that the
information is really not particularly relevant at all then it
would be appropriate to close the question as Too Localized.
This won't delete it, so th |
-0.536704 | 8.755527 | 78 | Take the 2-minute tour × I am trying to understand how firewall
works in linux... I have read documentation but i am not sure
about some things.... Netfilters is included in the modern
kernels which allows you using hooks to monitor packages without
changing their content. Iptables they say that it is a software
that uses netfilter and ip_tables module maybe.. My questions
are.... • Does IPTables userspace software register any hook
? • What does ip_table module do? • Who does the processing
iptables or the module ? • What things IPtable do ?(Just
manages the rules in memory?? or it has hooks and proccesses the
traffic?)? share|improve this question add comment 3 Answers
up vote 3 down vote accepted netfilter is a set of hooks
sprawled throughout the networking code in the kernel. This
means that if a piece of code is about to do something
significant (we'll call it X), it calls a function that says
"I'm about to do X". That function would then notify any other
interested parties via a registe |
-1.017881 | 7.869233 | -1 | Forgot your password? Comment: Re:In their defence. (Score 1)
417 by Luke has no name (#46442795) Attached to: School Tricks
Pupils Into Installing a Root CA >Got that? No filtering, no
internet. That's just the way it is. No internet. It's not
their fucking computer, and they didn't tell people they were
going to intercept any traffic the students believed would be
secure. I work in financial services, and the internal, company
owned equipment has big "WE CAN SEE EVERYTHING YOU DO ON THIS
MACHINE" labels on the login. Want to look at porn? Hop on the
guest network. Comment: First sentence needs questioned. (Score
1) 2219 by Luke has no name (#46186209) Attached to: Slashdot
Tries Something New; Audience Responds! (My first comment on
this got deleted, I think... kind of suspicious) There's the
issue. Why does it need a redesign? What valid reasons can you
provide us as to why the site needs a new layout? Show us the
stats and the emails and the UI needs that demand this. To make
it more handicap-fri |
2.634612 | 8.954473 | 24 | Take the 2-minute tour × Eilenberg and Mac Lane showed that
given a group $G$ there exists a pointed topological space $X_G$
such that $\pi(X_G,\bullet)\cong G$. It is obviously a way to
"invert direction" to the functor $\pi_1\colon
\mathbf{Top}^\bullet\to \mathbf{Grp}$ to a functor $\mathcal
K\colon \mathbf{Grp}\to \mathbf{Top}^\bullet$ such that
$\pi_1(\mathcal K(G),\bullet)\cong G$ (almost by definition).
This is equivalent to say that there exists a natural
transformation (equivalence, in this case) between
$\pi_1\circ\mathcal K$ and $\mathbf{1}_{\mathbf{Grp}}$, which
turns out to resemble some sort of counity. It would be
wonderful if I could define an adjunction between the two
categories in exam, given by the two functors. Everytime I try
to think about some sort of unity to this hypotetical adjunction
I poorly fail: considering the vast literature in the field of
algebraic topology, I believe in only two possible cases. The
first, nothing interesting arises from this adjunction. The
second, there i |
0.509344 | -2.090294 | 96 | Israel: 'Key terror figure' killed in Gaza; father-of-five
settler stabbed to death Hatem Moussa / AP Relatives of a man
killed by an Israeli airstrike mourn during his funeral Tuesday
in the Shati Refugee Camp in Gaza City. Israel said the man,
Hithem Masshal, was a "key terror figure." TEL AVIV, Israel --
An Israeli air strike killed a "key terror figure" responsible
for firing rockets from the Gaza Strip into Israel, the Israel
Defense Forces said on Tuesday. Also on Tuesday, a Palestinian
stabbed to death an Israeli settler in the occupied West Bank,
police said. It was the first time an Israeli had been killed
by a Palestinian in the West Bank since 2011, according to
Reuters. The Israeli strike on Gaza, which is ruled by
Islamist militant group Hamas, appeared to be the first such
attack since a ceasefire ended an eight-day war in November. It
came just days after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned of
a military response to rocket fire into Israel from the strip.
"The terrorist that was |
-2.057009 | 2.465287 | 54 | Take the 2-minute tour × Are you allowed to kill flies and
other pests (mice, mosquitoes, etc.) or would that go under the
prohibition of Tzar Balay Chaim? share|improve this question
How does a dead fly feel pain? – YDK Jun 23 '10 at 23:30 Later
partial duplicate: mi.yodeya.com/questions/5530/is-it-ok-to-
kill-bugs – msh210 Jan 26 '11 at 17:16 2 Answers 2 up vote 4
down vote accepted Reb Moshe in Iggras Moshe (חושן משפט חלק ב'
סימן מ''ז) says if it is disgusting and or the creature ruins
food,or mosquitoes who bother the person the answer is YES. Reb
Moshe in an Illustration of his Tzidkus (righteousness) adds of
course you should try not do it by hand instead with fly traps
and the like because killing by hand desensitizes you and ruins
your character. He brings the Ohr Hachaim Hakodsh (דברים י"ג
י"ח) who says that even the person who kills for the Beis Din
and a Shochet needs a special protection against this provided
by the Torah because he is directly involved in doing a Mitzvah
but here where he i |
-0.792109 | 2.393294 | -1 | Scientists Find Lost Continent (or, at the Very Least, Some
Weird Sand) Photo: iStockphoto Scientists believe they've
found a lost continent in the Indian Ocean*, one that was wedged
between Madagascar and India about 85 million years ago. The
discovery is based on an analysis of the sand on the island of
Mauritius, but, long story short, the lost continent is far
beneath the ocean and is way too old to have any cool ancient
ruins like the ones in the adjacent stock photo, so it doesn't
really do any of us any good. *Indian, not Pacific. |
-3.434596 | 3.285689 | 39 | Pesticide exposure may trigger food allergies By Helen Albert,
Senior medwireNews Reporter Results from the US National Health
and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) suggest that high
exposure to dichlorophenols, chemicals found in pesticides and
used for chlorinating water, may increase a person's risk for
developing food allergies. Elina Jerschow (Albert Einstein
School of Medicine, Bronx, New York, USA) and colleagues tested
links between dichlorophenol exposure and allergic sensitization
in 2211 people included in the US NHANES 2005-2006 aged 6 years
and older. Exposure to dichlorophenols was assessed by
measuring urine levels and was defined as high if concentrations
were greater than the 75th percentile of the population or
above. Allergen-specific serum immunoglobulin E levels were use
to measure the prevalence of food (eg, peanut, egg, milk, and
shrimp) and environmental (eg, white oak, birch, mouse, and rat)
allergies, with levels above 0.35 kU/L or higher deemed to
indicate positive allergi |
1.202749 | 1.525987 | -1 | Thu, 2011-11-10 05:23Chris Mooney Chris Mooney's picture
This would be sad, if it weren’t also so telling. So much for
that! Beginning with Roger Pielke, Jr. (not technically a
conservative, but, well…), and then spreading to climate
"skeptic" blogs like Watts Up With That and Marc Morano’s
Climate Depot, conservatives are claiming that the book is a
form of “new eugenics” and that it describes them as
“genetically/mentally/psychologically inferior,” and so on.
If this is not committing the "same dumb mistake," it is
definitely pretty close. I won’t do any more to defend a book
that isn’t even out yet, except to say two things: 1) It is
based on solid science from psychology, political science, and
other fields; 2) the sort of behavior we’re seeing here—jumping
to conclusions based on heuristics ("judging a book by its
cover"), misrepresenting opponents' views based on no
evidence…well, it turns out that these are precisely the kinds
of things I’m criticizing. For a tiny taste, see this study, |
-0.588361 | 4.79075 | 4 | U.S. patents available from 1976 to present. U.S. patent
applications available from 2005 to present. Method and
apparatus for the destruction of volatile organic compounds
Patent RE39596 Issued on May 1, 2007.
Abstract Claims Description Full Text Patent References
Method and apparatus for combusting carbonaceous fuel Patent #:
4197701 Issued on: 04/15/1980 Inventor: Boyum Incineration of
noxious materials Patent #: 4236464 Issued on: 12/02/1980
Inventor: Anderson , et al. Method for destroying hazardous
organics Patent #: 4864811 Issued on: 09/12/1989 Inventor:
Pfefferle Apparatus for the catalytic conversion of waste gases
Patent #: 5108717 Issued on: 04/28/1992 Inventor: Deller, et al.
Reduced thermal stress turbine starting strategy Patent #:
5212943 Issued on: 05/25/1993 Inventor: Harris Method for
reducing nitrogen oxide emissions from gas turbines Patent #:
5216876 Issued on: 06/08/1993 Inventor: Gabrielson, et al.
Fuzzy logic air/fuel controller Patent #: 5524599 Issued on:
06/11/1996 I |
-0.205059 | 6.920634 | 113 | 4 Jul 2012 Humax YouView set-top box Follow
on Twitter Join on Facebook • Digg So, talktalk has
revealed its own proposition for youview today. As explained on
this thread, talktalk will be offering a huawei box which is
different to the humax which is already available for purchase
today. Talktalk will be giving this box free to its plus
broadband customers, and will provide the tv service at no
additional monthly charge. The huawei has a smaller hard drive
than humax, but has a superior Internet capability in being able
to stream live broadcast channels over the Internet connection.
Moreover, the talktalk box has tr69 capability, whic provides
remote diagnostics and fault resolution capability. In addition
to the core youview service, talktalk customers will be able to
purchase subscriptions to premium content, including sky, a
month at a time, with flexibility to purchase only the bundles
desired, such as sky sports, without needing to buy basic
bundles first. Pre registratio |
1.103158 | 3.938777 | 29 | Whitley Strieber's Dreamland Saturday December 18, 2010 Remote
Viewing Unbound As the first person to be recruited into the US
Army's remote viewing program, Joe McMoneagle is designated as
Psychic Spy 001. He is also one of the most successful remote
viewers in history, with a long record of success both in the
remote viewing program and in private practice. Here, he tells
Dreamland's psychic expert Marla Frees his gripping personal
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-0.848571 | 2.333898 | -1 | Clipperton Island: The Only Coral Island in the Eastern Pacific
A stereotype of the Pacific Ocean is the South Pacific coral
atoll, decked out in palm trees and filled with crystalline
aqua-blue lagoons teeming with exotic marine life. The region of
atolls and islands, however, is largely confined to the centre
and the west of the ocean. With the exception of Hawaii, the
Aleutians and a few other specks of land (e.g., Easter Island;
the Galapagos; Pitcairn), vast regions of the north and east
Pacific are vast and empty. In the entire east Pacific, there is
just one coral atoll, sitting completely alone 965 km off the
southern Mexican coast: France’s Clipperton Island. View Larger
Map Clipperton is a 9 km2 atoll with an island rim 12 km in
circumference and between 45 and 400 metres wide (averaging
about 150 metres wide). Other than a volcanic rock outcrop at
the southeast corner rising 29 metres out of the sand (the
remnant of the original volcano around which the atoll formed),
the elevation of the island |
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question ReSharper can do this. Not sure if you want to hear
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-1.80457 | 2.18769 | 125 | For the Deer Hunters / Lovers Discussion in 'The Coffee Shop ~
Chit Chat' started by Poor Man, Sep 7, 2009. 1. Poor Man
Poor Man Member A friend of mine just sent this to me in an
email. Truly Beautiful. 2. Mean_Green_95 Mean_Green_95
Epic Member 5+ Years 1000 Posts wow, just simply wow.
Seeing that is like seeing an albino gator... 3. CarpenterGuy
CarpenterGuy Epic Member 5+ Years 500 Posts thats really
beautiful. ive never seen albino deer before. 4. Poor Man
Poor Man Member They are not common in Ohio, but there are
some around. VERY rare here. I love to watch them and enjoy
hunting also. Glad to see that they are protected, also. 5.
TRPLXL2 TRPLXL2 Epic Member 5+ Years 1000 Posts Platinum
Contributor We had one just like that behind our Powertrain
plant a few years back, and some idiot from the plant shot it
with a bow and arrow and left it behind the plant with an arrow
straight through it's head. I was so upset about it I almost
cryed, why |
-3.273717 | 2.097433 | -1 | iconimg Friday, December 13, 2013 HT Correspondent Faidkot,
December 31, 2012 More dangerous than cancer is the malignant
fleecing of patients. Cancer patients are being forced to pay
double to 10 times the market price of medicines. Members of the
Bhai Kanhaiya Cancer Roko Sewa Society, who made the allegation
on Monday at a press conference here, brought drugs on the
market and retained bills to prove the allegations. "If so much
is charged over and above the market price," said Gurpreet Singh
Chandbaja, president of the society, "you can imagine the
chemists' profit over the wholesale price." 'Bought over' It
seems that drug companies have bought not only doctors but also
political parties and leaders who might have interests in the
pharmaceutical business, the society has said. "It seems to be a
strategy to prevent the government from controlling the price of
drugs," said Kultar Singh, an office-bearer of the society.
Buying some cancer medicines to give away to patients, the
society was shocked at th |
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2.881377 | 5.659233 | 2 | Whether you're still lugging around that old Dreamcast, or you
have a new-fangled mod or an emulator of some sort handy, have
heart: you're not the only one keeping the dream alive! If the
kids at Redspotgames have their way, they'll keep publishing
games for the venerable (and defunct) console -- that is,
according to marketing and sales director Adrian Loudero, who
spent some time chatting with Joystiq at Gamescon last week. "We
have seen some stuff on the PC, and we [are] talking to the
companies to see if they will agree to release on the
Dreamcast," he said. "We also have plans for 2011, maybe a new
release, but this is really all I can say right now." Attention
to the beloved platform is a labor of love, obviously -- the
company sells "a few thousand copies" of titles it releases, and
has recently started developing games for WiiWare and Xbox Live
Arcade to stay afloat. Whatever it takes, right? |
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