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-2.106413 | -1.306322 | 10 | Oct. 22 absentee ballot for overseas voters Obama ?
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today: (None) RSS PW logo Quote of the Day Obama Approval Up
Slightly Giffords Vows to Return to Congress Bonus Quote of the
Day McConnell Now Wants Grand Bargain Clinton Says the Country
is a Mess News from the Votemaster Cain First, Romney Real
Winner in NV Straw Poll Permalink The Republicans' problem
is that while a substantial fraction of the party activists
dislike Romney because he is from the Northeast, made a lot of
money on Wall St., and has changed his position on their core
issues so many times, you can't beat someone with no one. Cain
is simply the current placeholder fo |
-2.901052 | 1.051744 | 27 | 73~32~2324~ If pot is medicine, should it be taxed? - News -
DailyTidings.com - Ashland, OR If pot is medicine, should
it be taxed? • email print • Mason D., grower "I
think people have to be careful about leaning on the medical
aspect. Cannabis is a big part of the future of our society. We
should be collecting taxes that... » Read more
Mason D., grower "I think people have to be careful about
leaning on the medical aspect. Cannabis is a big part of the
future of our society. We should be collecting taxes that
further our society. Growers and dispensary operators want to
contribute to the community and make the business more inclusive
for all aspects to integrate into society. If we're arguing that
it's a naturally occurring medicine, an herbal medication, then
it should be taxed like other herbal medications." (Mason D.,
interviewed Wednesday at Puff's Smoke Shop in Ashland, declined
to be photographed or to give his full name.) • What's
happening Ashland is |
-3.968033 | 2.022743 | -1 | Compassion in a Nutshell Once Again Nut Butter Celebrates 35
Years Written By: WholeFoods Magazine Staff View more articles
in: Jeremy Thaler and his wife Constance Potter started the
company in 1976 as a worker-cooperative. The couple’s interest
in nut butters began when a nearby museum asked Thaler to make
an old-fashioned peanut butter for them for an exhibit they were
having. Not long after, Once Again Nut Butter was born. Organic
on a Mission The company got its start when organic
certification was still a fairly new concept, so new that
organic peanut farming wasn’t even fully established in the
United States. That didn’t stop Once Again Nut Butter from
making an organic product. The firm was instrumental in
developing the organic peanut growing standards and in 1989,
became the first company in the United States to produce Organic
Valencia Peanut Butter. Over the next five years, the company
subsidized the growing organic peanut crop, paving the way for
future organic peanut products. Once Again |
-1.214329 | 2.648127 | -1 | | Oct. 11, 2013 at 7:09 PM UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa., Oct. 11
(UPI) -- A study of hand prints on cave walls suggests much of
Paleolithic cave art was created by women, a Penn State
archaeologist says. Taking as his starting point previous
research that found average finger lengths in people vary by
gender, Dean Snow has been studying ancient hand prints in caves
for nearly a decade, National Geographic reported. Looking at
pictures of cave art at one point, Snow noticed the fingers on
the hands stenciled next to depictions of animals and other
objects appeared to conform to research descriptions of female
hands. Hand stencils, found in several cave art sites, where
created by the artist or artists placed their hands against a
cave wall and blowing paint at them (through a straw or directly
from their mouth) to create an outline. Snow said his studies
suggest approximately 75 percent of such hand art samples was
likely the work of women as opposed to the common belief that
cave art was the purview of men. |
-1.758922 | 2.968134 | 54 | Ch. 11 Biodiversity Issues Created by Cenizamente 16 terms
the diversity of genes, species, and ecosystems in a region
genetic diversity the number of different kinds of genes
present in a population or a species species diversity the
number of different species present in an area ecosystem
diversity the number of kinds of ecosystems present in an area
all of the trees in a large area are removed patchwork clear-
cutting smaller areas are clear-cut among patches of un-touched
forest clear-cut sites where natural reseeding or regrowth is
slow may need to be replanted with trees, a process called this
selective harvesting harvest specific individuals - reduces
impact on environment process of converting arid and semi-arid
land to desert because of improper use by humans occurs when
humans harvest organisms faster than the organisms are able to
reproduce bush meat meat from wild animals endangered species
species with such small numbers that they are in immediate
jeopardy of becoming ex |
-2.82346 | 4.157193 | 80 | Sir, that beard isn't hiding anything beard,covering up,face
tattoos,facetoos - - There's very little in terms of face
tattoos that can be considered even remotely acceptable.
Needless to say, this is not in that category. |
-1.810858 | 7.118839 | 32 | Social Media Jobster Relaunches as MySpace for Jobs Jobster
relaunched on Wednesday, adding more social features to the mix.
The site is now an open social network similar to MySpace or
Friendster - it allows you to create a profile page, tag
yourself, list the companies you've worked for and answer
questions on your work-related experiences. You can also add
"faves" (coworkers and collegues you admire or would like to
make contact with) and see who has favorited you in the "fans"
section. Additionally, you can explore the site based on tags
and add tags to describe other users. So how does this
integrate with Jobster's job search? Well, searching for a job
still gives you the standard listings, email alerts and RSS
feeds, but you can also skip across to the social network to see
what the employees of those companies really think about them.
You might even want to get in touch with a few key employees,
just like on LinkedIn. The aim is to give a more human face to
the companies you're researching: what d |
-1.018854 | 3.475106 | 71 | Dr. Velasco Herrara (Source: Reuters) A "little ice age" in
our future? Comments Threshold RE: Another
contrarian - so what? By clovell on 8/20/2008 5:47:36 PM ,
Rating: 2 > I've no inclination to plot anything myself - I'm
not a climate scientist and don't believe that by cherry-picking
a couple of data points, slapping it in to a spreadsheet that I
will then have a greater understanding of a highly complex
multi-faceted scientific discipline than scientists who have
spent decades studying it. To do so would demonstrate massive
arrogance and Dunning Kruger effect. Instead I will accept the
scientific position of every national science academy of every
major industrialised country on the planet, all of whom confirm
recent climate change is due to human activity. That's
ridiculous. Anyone with a fifth grade education can plot raw
values over time and tell if they trend up or down. Arrogance is
not involved, but a modicum of intelligence and objectivity is
requisite. Is it ruly too much to a |
-0.006557 | 0.40519 | -1 | American History Homework Seven Answers - Student Eleven From
Conservapedia Jump to: navigation, search American History
Homework Seven-SarahW 1. The “Gilded Age” was a term coined by
Mark Twain that describes America in the late 1880’s. Mark Twain
wrote a book called “The Gilded Age” about successful business
men in Washington who were actually greedy and deceiving. The
term “gilded” means that on the outside, everything was
prosperous and great, but underneath, it was actually filled
with corruption and hardship. One thing that made the gilded age
gilded were “robber barons”. Robber Barons were people who used
ruthless business tactics to become rich, like Jay Gould.
Superb answer! Might use as a model. 2. I really like how
Thomas Edison learned so much after being told by a teacher he
was an idiot. His work ethic is very admirable too. I mean, how
many teenagers do you know who would work 12 hours a day, 6 days
a week? I believe that if Thomas Edison wasn’t homeschooled, he
wouldn’t have been able to |
3.084476 | 1.793784 | -1 | User Avatar Image How would you have handled the situation?
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All of this back and forth about Ben, Carley, Doug, Lilly,
Kenny, and a partridge in a pear tree has got me thinking. So
let's do a little "what if" exercise... You're with the Macon
survivors; you, not Lee Everett. Poor Lee died in a car wreck
and is a pathetic, handcuffed zombie behind Clem's house. You on
the other hand happened to take his place when you saw a scared
little girl climb into a tree house. Why were you in Atlanta?
Doesn't matter and isn't part of this. Also - because you're
more awesome than Lee (he's just a video game character after
all) you managed to save both Carley and Doug - though Shawn is
still screwed. All situations are more or less the same. Larry
dies at the farm, you may or may not have popped a cap in the St
Johns (it all happened so fast, after all) - but here you are on
the road after someone LET BANDITS into your HOME because of a
BOTCHED DRUG TRAD |
-1.211001 | 3.463926 | 71 | Fri, 2006-06-09 14:52Jim Hoggan Jim Hoggan's picture It
began, in earnest, a month ago with wide release of a letter
from 60 "experts" taking issue with the current consensus on
climate change. That petition was repudiated by a second letter,
signed by 90 of the top climate scientists in the country, but
it didn't stop those in the first group from flooding the
country's opinion pages with "climate skeptic" reports and, most
recently, from hitting the talk circuit. Dr. Tim Ball, for
example, has been working the halls in Ottawa, making speeches,
doing radio and newspaper interviews – his activities paid for
by the counter-intuitively titled "Friends of Science." The
pricy Fleishman-Hillard PR fixer who has been making Dr. Ball's
arrangements is Morten Paulsen, a Conservative party insider.
For example, Mr. Paulsen was the co-chair for the Alberta
Progressive Conservative AGM and convention this year. For
example, Luntz suggested putting the cost of climate change
regulation in human terms and emphas |
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-1.724914 | -0.125633 | 41 | Comments by supersquad Written on Signs recognize those buried
at Ventura park: jeeeeez we should just be happy the park is a
safe place to go - why not worry about Mission Park or Plaza
Park? These places are totally unsavory and unusable. kind of
like Cemetery Memorial was before if became a de facto dog park.
Written on Former President Bush to speak at Reagan Library in
November: fool me once, shame on you. fool me twice can't fool
me again. maybe he'll offer an apology for making all those
nice people who supported him look like total morons. Written
on CSU, disability advocates at odds over memorial for hospital
patients: Woohew- so let's turn the place into a college too
small for the county's needs. Great investment. Written on
CSUCI starts classes amid construction, budget limbo: so like,
what's the cost of building a 21st century campus compared to
the cost of renovating a pre-war hospital? Written on Pride
Festival returns to Ventura after 1-year hiatus: sounds like
the local taliban wan |
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tern Tern leeches like a madman. by fulken January 17, 2004 add
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Becky, he really had a tern. 3. tern a simple word for "western
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0.222204 | 0.070375 | 127 | Pariahs' Progress: On Isolationism | The Nation Pariahs'
Progress: On Isolationism • Share • Decrease text size
Increase text size Bourne’s transnationalist plea “had much in
common with religious dialogue,” Nichols observes. He is
thinking particularly of the jeremiad, the Puritan sermon form
that lamented the moral corruption of the community and recalled
it to righteousness. Bourne was no Puritan, but he was a stern
moralist, especially about the impact of war on the
“intellectual class.” Intellectuals who craved proximity to
power were falling all over themselves in their (mostly
rhetorical) enthusiasm for the cleansing powers of battle, and
when the war came they were little disturbed by the jailing of
its opponents. As Bourne observed, such prowar intellectuals as
Walter Lippmann and Herbert Croly of The New Republic were more
concerned with maintaining a largely fantastical faith in their
own “immediate influence” than addressing any such pedestrian
matters as the protection of free speech. Her |
-4.515333 | 1.166281 | 18 | David Coleman's Last Meal Wild Mexican spinach at the most
peaceful place on Earth Full disclosure: David Coleman—or, as I
know him, Coleman—is an old friend, though one I hadn't seen in
a couple of years before running into him at the farmers' market
recently. I found him much more heavily tattooed than he'd been
before, but otherwise, Tocqueville's chef de cuisine was the
same. He has a certain way of scowling at you like you're a
crazy person (or maybe that's just me). But when he talks about
music or traveling, or especially about food, his enthusiasm
betrays his grimace, which becomes a straight-up grin. Let's do
this. Have you thought about your last meal? Uh, yeah. It'll be
in Mexico, in Tulum. I had this meal at a place called Mike's
Cafe. It's a weird name, not really Mexican. I don't even know
if it's still there, but it was incredible. Oh, Tulum. I want
to go there. What'd you eat? First of all, I had this drink that
was made with something called "wild Mexican spinach." I asked
the guy, and he |
-0.904828 | 1.522912 | 91 | A little street we call Sloan - Rob Felt It makes a winding
approach to the picturesque McDonough Square, just on the other
side of nasty traffic snarls and horn-honking tractor-trailers.
It veers along tree-shaded home lots and past the historic
Hazelhurst House before it crosses a pair of one way streets
that feed in and out of the downtown area. That's when it falls
apart, directly in front of our office here at the Daily Herald.
Sloan Street becomes both a unloading dock for a carpet business
and a dangerous intersection with phantom stop signs in a
section I'll refer to as the "100 Yards of Terror." We'll go
over this in a few parts, although this "100 Yards" combines its
elements into a gauntlet of gridlock gestalt. First is the
loading dock. I'm calling the carpet place out on the carpet!
Somehow these people have used this public road for years as
their private unloading zone at the expense of a smooth commute
for drivers. Cars have been forced to run off the side of the
road and take turns passin |
-0.842208 | 5.193737 | 4 | 2011 BMW 740i Matt Tierney 2011 BMW 740i This is the best
argument for the badge-delete option that's so popular in
Europe. From outside the car, you'd never know this BMW 740i has
such a small displacement and such impressive fuel economy. It
looks just like every other 7 on the road and drives the same,
too. Some potential buyers may be turned off by the meager 315
hp and 330 lb-ft of torque, but I found the car to be perfectly
adequate for shuttling four people around town and down the
highway. If you're driving other people around most of the time,
I'd go so far as to say the six-cylinder 7-series is the best
way to go because it's easier to be smooth off the line; the V-8
and V-12 cars tend to surge forward with even a very light
application of throttle. The six will give you enough thrust to
merge with any traffic, but its throttle is easier to modulate.
The icing on the six-cylinder cake is you save enough money by
opting for the small engine that you can afford to pile on the
luxury options and st |
4.636767 | 1.218795 | -1 | A Gorton's Fisherman kind of party It seems hipster mania has
reached another level of hilarity, though it's one that we're
willing to embrace. Beards & Flannel Night is not just a party
that indulges in the skinny-jean American Apparel hysteria, but
it's also a gathering that panders to our adoration for a man's
man. Yes, as you can probably tell, we're a bit nuts for facial
hair and wool clothing—and, apparently, by the RSVPs we saw on
their Facebook page, we're not alone. This ideally-themed dance
party features DJ performances by MeLo-X (Galax), Krts, Slouch,
Elijah (Lime Green Shirt), and DJ Far East. We're just left with
one question: Can these burly, flannel-wearing men shake their
tushes on the dance floor? There's only one way to find out.
Thu., April 15, 9 p.m., 2010 My Voice Nation Help New York
Concert Tickets |
-1.162382 | 0.440951 | 6 | § 498.114. Collateral estoppel. In a proceeding under section
1129 of the Social Security Act that— (a) Is against a person
who has been convicted (whether upon a verdict after trial or
upon a plea of guilty or nolo contendere) of a Federal or State
crime; and (b) Involves the same transactions as in the
criminal action, the person is estopped from denying the
essential elements of the criminal offense. [61 FR 18080, Apr.
24, 1996, as amended at 71 FR 28581, May 17, 2006] |
2.823582 | 2.508024 | 25 | Wednesday, November 2, 2011 Today's Just Contemporary {Hosted
by Basically Amazing Books and Chick Loves Lit} review is
Looking for Alaska. This was a book I read a few months ago and
was a bit disappointed in because I'd heard SO many amazing
things about it and it just fell a bit flat for me. Read my
review below and hopefully you won't be wanting to stab me. Or
let me know if you could be one of the few that didn't
absolutely love it. Looking for Alaska Author: John Green
Details: Paperback, 221 pgs. Published: March 2005 by Puffin
Reading Level: Young adult Source: Purchased Oh dear. I'm a
bit terrified to review this book. I know that so many people
absolutely adore it. Some of my most favorite authors in the
world say they wish they'd wrote this book. But I'm sorry, I
don't have only good things to say about this book. I have lots
of good things. But I have some bad as well. I'm sorry for
that. I know that John Green is brilliant. Trust me. I love
him. I love his writing and character |
3.021214 | 5.225624 | 2 | What's a current-gen game that you'd like to see as a next-gen
re-release? #1gadragodPosted 11/11/2013 7:33:05 PM Meaning,
enhanced graphics, better physics, possible new ways to play
(control-wise), etc. Essentially, an old game with a next-gen
engine. Personally, I would love to see either a next-gen
Assassin's Creed 2 or a Dragon's Dogma. #2TheBlueStigPosted
11/11/2013 8:06:52 PM Simply because first year development on
new consoles is often clunky and filled with bugs and is not
much of a leap from the last gen to the current one. The AI is
rarely if ever better because the developers are trying to push
the graphics to get systems moving out the door because game
consumers are suckers for "shiny new graphics". As far as "new
methods of control" goes, first year games are often loaded with
gimmicks that don't work well when "new methods of control" are
introduced. The DS handheld proves that beyond any doubts. Games
were developed with forced touchscreen controls that ruined the
gameplay. The PS Vit |
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0.451423 | -1.788393 | 69 | Preacher alarms many in Egypt with calls for Islamist vice
police Photo / 3 Egyptian Muslims and Christians celebrate
Coptic Christmas eve mass at Tahrir Square in Cairo January 6,
2013. With the economic downturn and rising food prices putting
pressure on the government, moderate Muslims, Christians and
others worry their new-found political freedom risks being
exploited by hardline Islamists bent on imposing their values on
a society that has been traditionally moderate. Picture taken
January 6, 2013. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany/Files |
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HTML output 2008-10-24 10:02:32 I was wondering if it possible
to produce a [X]HTML diff using XSLT 1.0. Basically I want as
output an [X]HTML file with strike through in red = for anything
deleted from a file and in red for anything added. Does
anything like this already exist, if not how would I go about =
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0.081729 | 10.303777 | 16 | Take the 2-minute tour × I wrote a simple class: @Table(name =
"battle_log") @SQLInsert(sql = "INSERT INTO battle_log (id,
version, date_created, some_date) VALUES (?,?,?,?)", check =
ResultCheckStyle.NONE) @NamedQueries(value = {
@NamedQuery(name = "BattleLog.findAll", query =
"SELECT a FROM BattleLog a"), @NamedQuery(name =
"BattleLog.findAllBySomeDate", query = "SELECT a
FROM BattleLog a WHERE a.someDate = :someDate") public class
BattleLog implements Serializable { private Long id;
private Integer version; private Date someDate; private
Date created; public BattleLog() { created = new
Date(); public Long getId() { return id;
public void setId(Long id) { this.id = id;
@Column(name = "version") public Integer getVersion() {
return version; public void setVersion(Integer version) {
this.version = version; @Column(name = "date_created",
nullable = false, columnDefinition |
2.107804 | 0.846664 | -1 | previous next O snow-capped Cithaeron, dear to Artemis, holy
vale of leaves, crowded with wild animals, would that you had
never reared the one exposed to die, Oedipus, Jocasta's child,
when as a baby he was cast forth from his home, [805] marked
with a golden brooch; and would that the Sphinx, that winged
maid, monster from the hills, had never come as a grief to our
land with her inharmonious songs, she that once drew near our
walls and snatched the sons of Cadmus away in her taloned feet
to the untrodden light of heaven, [810] sent by Hades from hell
to plague the men of Thebes; once more unhappy strife is coming
into bloom between the sons of Oedipus in home and city. For
never can wrong be right, [815] nor can there be good in
unlawful children, their mother's birth pangs, their father's
pollution; she came to the bed of her son. . . . hide Places
(automatically extracted) Click on a place to search for it in
this document. Thebes (Greece) (1) Visualize the most
frequently mentioned Pleiades ancient |
0.23906 | 9.767428 | 16 | Take the tour × I am writing a VBScript that I would like to be
able to alter the Zone Identifier, and add Extended Attributes
to various files with. Is this possible without the use addons,
or something like the below? objShell.run("type
%windir%\notepad.exe > %windir%\calc.exe:notepad.exe")
share|improve this question add comment 1 Answer up vote 0
down vote accepted You can handle ADS like other files: Set
fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") Set f =
fso.CreateTextFile("file.exe:Zone.Identifier") f.WriteLine
"[ZoneTransfer]" & vbNewLine & "ZoneId=3" Set f =
fso.OpenTextFile("file.exe:Zone.Identifier", 1) WScript.Echo
f.ReadAll share|improve this answer Thanks Ansgar Wiechers,
Couldn't find this on msdn, do you have a reference also? –
user66001 Oct 21 '12 at 19:58 Only this. Since the filesystem
dictates the filename:streamname syntax I figured that there'd
be no reason for it to not work, though, so I ran a quick test,
and found that it does behave as you'd expect. – Ansgar
Wiechers |
2.123686 | 2.017114 | -1 | Not too bad of a job if you find decent kids. Good way to get
some spending money, that's for sure. I just had a fun
experience today, wherein I realized what they're really paying
me for: Now for my favorite conversation of the day: (keep in
mind that I've prepared food for them a number of times before)
4-year-old girl points, "What's that?" I reply, "A zit." "A
pimple. It's just something that teenagers get." "Are you a
teenager?" "Does that mean you can cook?" You are the sun. You
are the moon. You are the sun that looks over the moon. You are
the light that shines in my eyes, tonight. I want to walk with
you among grassy fields and sandy shores. You are love. You are
the epitome of love. And I love you. written by Adrienne
Goldman, age 8 "Look at me! I'm so fat." I watch Adrienne as
she points out her taut, thin stomach, probably a more common
sight in the depths of Somalia then the grease-laden suburbs of
America. She pouts, adjusting her neon orange bikini, pinching
the muscular flesh of her lithe |
3.68929 | -3.991125 | -1 | Become a digitalPLUS subscriber. $13 for 13 weeks. The Masked
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was wearing his handmade Husky dog mask, while they were waiting
in line to get into Gampel Pavilion to watch the NCAA... Richard
Messina, Hartford Courant |
-2.051605 | -1.116405 | 10 | It Takes Tech to Elect a President Many candidates simply ask
supporters for money and a vote. Obama uses social media tools
to ask for even more Technology and an appreciation of how to
use it have always been important to political campaigns.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt used radio to get his message across
effectively to voters. Lyndon Johnson rode a helicopter to get
him around Texas in his famous race for the Senate. John F.
Kennedy understood the power of television better than Richard
Nixon during the race for the Presidency in 1960. And Republican
operatives in the 1970s built direct mail into a fund-raising
behemoth that powered party gains for 20 years. The current
generation of Presidential candidates—and their advisers, such
as James Carville, Karl Rove, and David Axelrod—will likely go
down in history as even more innovative in their ability to use
technology to an advantage. The 1992 Clinton campaign
understood advertising via cable television. Clinton's advisers
realized that instead of expens |
0.683058 | 7.023166 | 68 | Just about a year ago, JVC introduced its first lineup of
quickly refreshing LCD TVs, and now the company is reinstating
its support by offering up adequate replacements. The
forthcoming High Speed 2 series of sets will sport a second-
generation version of its Clear Motion Drive technology, which
enables a 120Hz refresh rate that was "designed specifically for
Full HD (1,920 x 1,080) displays" and is said to "improve motion
detection fivefold compared to the original high speed driver."
Essentially, CMD II will offer up reduced blurring, flickering,
and motion interpolation, and it will work side by side with the
fifth-generation D.I.S.T. (Digital Image Scaling Technology)
engine on the "JVC-exclusive" 32-bit Genessa chip. Additionally,
the trio will sport three HDMI 1.3 ports apiece, a slimmer bezel
around the display, and a whole lot less plastic compared to
previous iterations. While there's no word on price just yet,
the 37-inch LT-37X898, 42-inch LT-42X898, and 47-inch LT-47X898
should hit US shores some |
-2.122139 | -1.319536 | 10 | Gingrich says voters should judge his ability to lead now Now
the American people must decide whether he's the right person to
lead the country at what Gingrich called a crucial moment in its
history. Gingrich, who turns 68 in June, was first elected to
Congress from Georgia in 1978. He rose to the second spot in the
House Republican leadership, and was instrumental in helping to
craft the 1994 Contract with America -- a conservative blueprint
that helped the Republicans take control of the House. He then
became House speaker, but after a disappointing GOP showing in
the 1998 congressional elections, Gingrich retired in 1999. His
push for President Bill Clinton's impeachment for allegedly
lying to a federal grand jury after an affair with a White House
intern got labeled as hypocrisy when news emerged that Gingrich
also had an adulterous affair that broke up a previous marriage.
Now divorced twice, Gingrich conceded Sunday he made decisions
that should be questioned by voters assessing him as a candida |
0.647604 | 3.503201 | -1 | 1 definition by Jestercard A spandex-covered recreational
cyclist. Possibly a cross-over from motor-cyclists. However, in
cyclist terminology, this is a recreational cyclist generally
wearing lots of spandex, lycra, or just all-around racing gear
as well as a multi-thousand dollar bike. Most often middle-aged.
Generally they are happy logging only a few hundred miles per
year on said bike. They are generally OVERLY defensive cyclists
and chastise younger cyclists who choose more aggressive traffic
behaviors to remain safe such as retaining road space in order
to not be pushed off the road by motorists. Wow, this cycling
event has so much spandex it's like a squid orgy! de Jestercard
20 mai 2006 E-mail quotidien gratuit |
-5.271672 | 1.824314 | 79 | Fudgy Peppermint cups a recipe of basic brownie batter 200
grs. Peppermint patties chopped(I used Oreos) 3/4 cups
semisweet chocolate chips or dak chocolate(melted) 3 or 4 candy
canes crushed Brownie batter 6 tablespoons of butter 200
grs. dark chocolate chopped 3/4 cup granulated sugar 1/2 cup
light brown sugar 3 large eggs 1 1/2 teaspoon of vanilla
extract 1/2 teaspoon of salt 1 cup all purpose flour 3
tablespoon of unsweetened cocoa Add chocolate and stir until
melted.Remove bowl from heat and set aside.In a large bowl
lightly beat together sugars, eggs, vanilla, and salt until
combined. Stir in reserve chocolate mixture. Add flour and cocoa
and stir until just combined. Preheat oven at 180°c Combine
the basic brownie batter and Peppermint patties Pour into a a
buttered and floured 12 cup muffins pan. Bake until a skewer
inserted into the center comes out with a few moist crumbes.
Bake about 25 to 28 minutes . Let cool for 30 minutes. Remove
from pan ice top with melted chocol |
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0.431052 | -1.795228 | 69 | Egypt journalist gets 6-month suspended sentence October 5,
2013 Associated Press Ahmed Abu-Draa's lawyer called the
lighter sentence an attempt to defuse criticism over the
38-year-old journalist's detention while still serving as a
warning against challenging the military. Already, there has
been an uptick in violence ahead of the 40th anniversary of the
Egyptian army's Oct. 6 crossing of the Suez Canal during the
1973 war with Israel. The war is celebrated for Egypt's initial
battlefield victories over Israel, and is a national holiday
traditionally celebrated with military parades, airshows and
pro-military rallies. The military-backed interim government is
going forward with the celebrations, including performances
planned in Cairo's Tahrir Square, the symbol of the Egyptians'
uprisings against authorities since mass protests held there led
to the downfall of autocrat Hosni Mubarak in 2011. "Tahrir
Square is not exclusive to those who support the coup," said
Islam Tawfiq, a member of the Broth |
-3.760851 | 3.163901 | 39 | Display options Mobile website Feature Article of Sunday, 17
January 2010 Columnist: Akwele Heart Attack By Akwele Kojo
is visiting with his Uncle Kwame. His Uncle has just finished
preparing fufu and palm-nut soup with smoked herring, kako, cow
foot, wole and salted beef. It is not a secret that Uncle Kwame
is the best cook in town. A lot of people love to eat his food.
This day, Kojo is quite upset with him because he gave him just
a piece of the meal. No sooner had Uncle finished eating than he
started complaining, ”I have chest pain , I have chest pain.” To
which Kojo retorted, “Uncle, if you hadn’t eaten two bowls of
fufu and given me just a piece, you would not be having pain in
your chest. Uncle, you are sweating and it is all from the hot
pepper in the soup. His uncle is now holding on to his chest and
neck. Kojo realizes that his uncle cannot catch his breath and
his lips are turning blue. He is shaken now that he does not get
much response from his uncle. He calls 911. They respond within
minut |
4.233312 | 5.109865 | 66 | Does not take damage from allies' attacks. Type Tier Psychic LC
Level 100 Statistics (see level 5, 50, 100) Min- Min Max Max+ -
251 314 - 131 146 209 229 131 146 209 229 185 206 269 295 131
146 209 229 86 96 159 174 • Little Cup Straight out of Area
51 or some thriller alien movie, you'd better pray that this
little green man comes in peace; with base 85 Special Attack and
Analytic boosting its attacks, Elgyem isn't something you want
to get on the bad side of. Normally such a low Speed stat on an
offensive Pokemon would be awful, but Elgyem somehow manages to
make it work through the use of Analytic, above average 55 / 55
/ 55 defenses, and Recover. Its Psychic typing even manages to
make itself useful, giving Elgyem a nice resistance to Fighting-
type attacks that allows it to switch in on most Fighting-types
without much worry. Analytic really is what makes Elgyem so
impressive though; its Speed is so low that it will almost
always be slower than its opponent, so Elgyem consistently has
the equivalent o |
3.042929 | 5.003701 | 2 | No score yet - based on 1 Critic Critic score distribution:
1. Positive: 0 out of 1 2. Mixed: 0 out of 1 3. Negative: 1
out of 1 1. Feb 8, 2013 It comes without recommendation,
and yet there’s persistence from within to keep this installed.
Toilet paper has never been so charming, though it remains
anything but a source of necessary entertainment. It has
absolutely no reason to exist and for that I salute it. There
are no user reviews yet. |
5.181609 | 0.862556 | 13 | Part of Sublime Frequencies‘ most popular series, Guitars From
Agadez Vol. 3 is being reissued after instantly selling out
during its original release in 2010. Group Inerane is from
Niger’s Tuareg guitar scene, and this LP is a triumph from
guitarist Bibi Ahmed and guitarist Koudede Maman, who is
considered legendary for his Tuareg guitar lineage. Though
Maman’s addition to Group Inerane arose after the death of the
original second guitarist, Adi Mohammed, who was shot during
rebellion fights, the group’s perseverance is a true testament
to the strength of the Tuareg people. This strength clearly
inspires Ahmed and Maman on Vol. 3, taking listeners through a
haze of blues, infectious rock and hollered vocals that cry out
against political oppression and are created from revolution,
with a strong sense of hope and resilience behind the music.
Having been recorded on location in Niger’s capital city of
Niamey, right after the military junta had overthrown President
Mamadou Tandja, the songs have a politically c |
2.157005 | 0.768802 | -1 | Sacred-texts Classical Paganism Legends & Sagas Index
Previous Next MONSTERS, in the language of mythology, were
beings of unnatural proportions or parts, usually regarded with
terror, as possessing immense strength and ferocity, which they
employed for the injury and annoyance of men. Some of them were
supposed to combine the members of different animals; such were
the Sphinx and Chimaera and to these all the terrible qualities
of wild beasts were attributed, together with human sagacity and
faculties. Others, as the giants, differed from men chiefly in
their size; and in this particular we must recognize a wide
distinction among them. The human giants, if so they may be
called, such as the Cyclops, Antaeus, Orion, and others, must be
supposed not to be altogether disproportioned to human beings,
for they mingled in love and strife with them. But the super-
human giants, who warred with the gods, were of vastly larger
dimensions. Tityus, we are told, when stretched on the plain,
covered nine acres, |
2.757797 | 5.646586 | 2 | GTA IV Leaked Online, Piracy Wins AgainS GTA IV, supposedly the
biggest thing in the history of modern electronic entertainment,
has been leaked on the internet. If you're one of the lucky ones
with a modded 360 and a copy of the game, disconnect from Live
before you play it. Rockstar is watching out for people who go
online with these before they're supposed to. [Kotaku] |
3.129672 | -4.321533 | 38 | This post represents an appreciative look from a die-hard Pats
fan. I suspect it will draw the ire of disappointed Pats fans,
and further encourage the trolls to continue rubbing our
collective noses in a disappointing loss. Oh well, such is the
price one pays for stating an opinion: To Mr. Kraft: thanks
for bringing a near-annual playoff caliber team to our region.
Given the opinions often stated on this board by folks who
obviously know alot more about building a team than your staff
does - you'd think our team was the disgrace of the league (er,
well, other than the Raiders). But the truth is, you've enabled
your staff to put consistent winners on the field for about a
decade - something no other team in the NFL has been able to
accomplish. My heartfelt thanks for making this team worthy of
my time and emotional investment. Thanks also for making this
team relavent for a long time and for the three SB trophies
presently sitting in the headquarters building. I'm not just a
Pats fan, I'm a proud one |
3.540044 | 5.048425 | 2 | Take the 2-minute tour × I completed 16% of Silent Hill:
Downpour, and I came across a green locker at the entrance of
the town just after completing Devil's Pit episode. When I try
to use it, it asks for a 6-digit password. What am I supposed to
do? Is there something around to interact with in order to
reveal possible passwords? share|improve this question add
comment 2 Answers up vote 2 down vote accepted The reason you
don't have the password is that you actually can't obtain them
in the game - this locker is actually a sneaky way of unlocking
bonus content. These codes were available with preorders, but
obviously they're universal. You might try any of the following
(I've left the actual weapons you get as a surprise for the
curious): 353479, 171678, 911977. You are likely to run into a
few more of these as well; they'll all use the same set of
codes, I believe. (I am unsure if you can use a code twice but I
expect the answer is 'yes'.) share|improve this answer That's
really helpful. I'll try the |
-0.32877 | 9.04409 | 16 | network- Low-level networking interface The Network
interface is a "higher-level" interface to networking
facilities, and it is recommended unless you need the lower-
level interface in Network.Socket. Basic data types type
HostName = StringSource Either a host name e.g., "" or a
numeric host address string consisting of a dotted decimal IPv4
address or an IPv6 address e.g., "". withSocketsDo :: IO a ->
IO aSource On Windows operating systems, the networking
subsystem has to be initialised using withSocketsDo before any
networking operations can be used. eg. main = withSocketsDo $
do {...} Although this is only strictly necessary on Windows
platforms, it is harmless on other platforms, so for portability
it is good practice to use it all the time. Server-side
connections :: PortID Port Identifier -> IO Socket
Connected Socket Creates the server side socket which has been
bound to the specified port. NOTE: To avoid the "Address
already in use" problems popped up several times on the GHC- |
1.543751 | 9.166408 | -1 | Data Management Displaying money values in currency format in
SQL Arthur Fuller responds to a reader who sent him a question
recently asking how to display currency amounts in currency
format. Check out the solution he offers for the reader's
problem. A reader sent me a question recently in which he
wanted to know how to display currency amounts in the format we
commonly refer to as currency. (I realize how geo-centric this
is, so I will attempt to be world-centric in my response to the
reader's question.) Let's use the Northwind database as our
testbed. Consider the following SQL request: USE Northwind
Quantity * UnitPrice AS Amount FROM [Order Details] This
request results in a set that looks like Listing A (which is an
abbreviated list). This delivers the correct answers yet not in
the desired format. We can alter the look of the money columns,
but there is a cost of sorts. For instance, the statement in
Listing B delivers what we want (i.e., amounts formatted as
currency). The reader also wante |
-0.293813 | -1.885662 | 17 | Iraq's own Arab spring A renewed sense of nationalism is
uniting protesters over delays to US troop withdrawal • The
Guardian, • Jump to comments () iraq united states Followers
of Muqtada al-Sadr burn US flags during a rally marking the
eighth anniversary of the fall of Baghdad on April 9.
Photograph: Karim Kadim/AP Stretched close to the limit by
combat in Afghanistan and determined not to get into a ground
war in Libya, the Pentagon is stepping up the pressure to
maintain a huge US troop presence in today's largely peaceful
Iraq. What might seem at first sight strange and unnecessary is
in fact fully in line with the ambitions of those who planned
the invasion eight years ago. Whether neocons or "realists",
they always wanted to have a long-term political and military
footprint in the northern sector of the Middle East,
strategically placed between Syria and Iran. As with so many
elements of the geopolitical strategy he inherited from George
Bush, Barack Obama has gone along with it. So it shoul |
-0.8035 | 9.913768 | 15 | Slash Boxes All the Perl that's Practical to Extract and Report
use Perl Log In Log In [ Create a new account ] Journal of
LTjake (4001) Thursday March 20, 2003 12:39 PM base + named
hrefs [ #11131 ] Well, since my journal is already a bitch
fest... :) I've been constructing a site. I decided to use the
<base href="..."> to _try_ simplify things in my documents. This
is fine and dandy, except for named hrefs (i.e. links to items
like #top). When using base, named hrefs will only point to
named refs on the base page. I decided to try and solve things
with javascript. Here's what i came up with: function
namedRef(strLink, strText) { var intPosition =
document.location.href.indexOf("#"); if (intPosition < 0) {
intPosition = document.location.href.length; return
"<a href=\"" + document.location.href.substring(0, intPosition)
+ "#" + strLink + "\">" + strText + "<" + "/a>"; somewhere in
the html file: <script type="text/javascript">
document.write(namedRef('top', 'Top')); This |
-1.651536 | 4.064242 | -1 | THE state government and Alcoa have stitched up a secret deal to
trigger more federal compensation to pay for Victoria's
increased costs under the carbon tax, generated by subsidising
the aluminum giant's electricity use. The deal could also
deliver tens of of millions of dollars in extra government
benefits to Alcoa at the expense of Victorian taxpayers.
Details of the deal are shrouded in secrecy, with the two
parties signing a confidentiality agreement. The value of
financial dealings over electricity between the government and
Alcoa have long been undisclosed. Alcoa spokeswoman Nichola
Holgate said a ''mutually beneficial agreement'' had been
reached earlier this year, but would not provide details, citing
confidentiality. The deal follows a federal-state $44 million
bailout of Alcoa's Port Henry smelter at Geelong earlier this
year. Alcoa has also received just under 6 million free carbon
permits as federal compensation for the carbon tax. Alcoa's two
smelters in Victoria - at Point Henry and Portla |
-1.063908 | -0.157665 | -1 | Save Search Download Current HansardDownload Current
Hansard View Or Save XMLView/Save XML Previous
Fragment Next Fragment Wednesday, 15 July 1998 Page: 6103 Mr
NAIRN (11:31 AM) —I support this Regional Forest Agreements Bill
1998 . I support it on behalf of my constituents throughout
Eden-Monaro who are desperately looking forward to some security
when it comes to the native forest hardwood timber industry.
They are desperately seeking security because they have had
nothing but insecurity for the past decade or so, particularly
under the former federal Labor government's disastrous timber
industry policies. I remember visiting the Harris-Daishowa
woodchip mill in the lead-up to the 1996 federal election. They
proudly showed me a document, signed a few years earlier by the
Prime Minister of the day, Bob Hawke, and the Premier of New
South Wales of the day, Nick Greiner. That document was a wood
supply agreement that guaranteed certain wood supplies up to the
year 2009. One would think that a docume |
-4.192901 | 2.702303 | 70 | Skip to content Considering weight loss surgery? As you do your
homework to see if it's a good choice for you, you'll want to
learn about the various types of operations. What's best for
you depends on your goals, your health, your surgeon's
recommendation, and which operations your health insurance
covers. Types of Weight Loss Surgeries Existing surgeries
help with weight loss in different ways.
Malabsorptive/restrictive surgeries change how you take in food.
They give you a smaller stomach and also remove or bypass part
of your digestive tract, which makes it harder for your body to
absorb calories. Doctors don't do purely malabsorptive surgeries
-- also called intestinal bypasses -- anymore because of the
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the three techniques, prompts weight loss by interrupting nerve
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-1.819004 | 0.447407 | -1 | The role of men in contraception Published: May 28, 2011 The
only way to move forward in terms of family planning is to
engage men in it. In a constitutionally Islamic country riddled
with contrasts, far away from the welfare model, perpetually
confused on nearly all critical issues ranging from foreign
policy to population planning, infamous for low status of women
and girls and their social exclusion, and characterised by the
dramatic capture of power elites in politics and development
fields both, one wonders — what does the male role or
involvement in family planning mean to Pakistan? I tried to
come up with a plausible definition of male involvement in
family planning in 1999 after noticing its absence in the
literature. It reads: Male involvement in Family Planning (FP)
includes, an interest of men in FP issues (indicated by their
knowledge about it), a positive attitude towards it (indicated
by their acceptance or approval), willingness to share
responsibility for it (indicated by their actual ado |
-0.529871 | 0.998863 | 6 | Man Escapes Vehicle Before Train Crashes Into It An Appomattox
County man escaped his vehicle just before it was hit by an
oncoming train on Thursday. Authorities say the man was driving
down a private road along Campbell Farm Lane in Spout Spring,
when his truck got caught on snowy tracks. Media outlets report,
the man heard the locomotive approaching, the wheels were
spinning but not moving, so the driver bailed out moments before
the train struck. The truck was demolished but no one was
injured. |
0.096402 | 9.686123 | 16 | Take the 2-minute tour × Does anyone know a good free Json
viewer for mac? I just want to be able to see the data organised
a bit better then one long piece of text share|improve this
question closed as off-topic by slhck May 8 '14 at 17:52 9
Answers 9 up vote 3 down vote accepted You could use this add-
on for Firefox : JSONView Normally when encountering a JSON
document (content type "application/json"), Firefox simply
prompts you to download the file. With the JSONView extension,
JSON documents are shown in the browser similar to how XML
documents are shown. The document is formatted, highlighted, and
arrays and objects can be collapsed. Even if the JSON document
contains errors, JSONView will still show the raw text.
share|improve this answer My favourite way to do this (on the
commandline) is to define a "pretty printing" alias, alias
pp="python -mjson.tool | pygmentize -l js" Then you can just
cat file.json | pp If the file is big, pipe this through less
-R, -R allows colouring sequences t |
-1.083136 | 1.336957 | 91 | Teacher strike over academy row Teachers at a school in
Haringey are going on strike today, in protest against plans to
turn it into an academy. View all 2 updates › Anti-academy
protest outside school Teachers, who have gone on strike in
protest against plans to turn their school into an academy, were
joined by parents as they demonstrated outside the school today.
Up to 40 parents attended the protest at Downhills Primary in
Haringey. Sarah Williams, 40, who has two sons at the school,
said: "There is absolutely no evidence that a change in
structure improves children's educational outcomes. "When the
process first started I thought it was about improving the
school, but as we've got further along I've realised it's all
about [Education Secretary] Micheal Gove's ideologies that the
only way to improve is to introduce profit. "If you look at the
figures, this school was already improving, and there's
absolutely no reason why the school can't continue to improve if
left the way it is." More top news |
-0.534828 | 4.042188 | -1 | Bath in a sentence Example sentences for Bath Bubble bath soap
poisoning occurs when someone swallows bubble bath soap. Use
your small modesty towel to cover up when walking to the bath,
but do not put the modesty towel in the bath water. Bath bombs,
after all, do not actually explode on contact with bath water.
Here is where a professional kitchen trick comes in handy: make
an ice water bath. In fact, you'll need to clear out a pretty
big cupboard to store a water bath canner. Put jars in a water-
bath canner or on a rack set in a deep pot and cover with water.
Cool to room temperature or quick-chill in an ice bath. Here
bathing accessories replace standard bath accents. In the
morning, he took a bath, drawing the wartime five inches of
lukewarm water. She can't use her shower, but won't cooperate in
even getting a bar put into her bath so she can steady herself.
He hoped to corner the market when he bought them, but he's
taken a bath. The plunge bath is stated to be the place where
the earl's spots were fi |
0.107753 | -1.497253 | 17 | Life sentence for Islamic fundamentalist Al-Timimi: an attack on
free speech By John Andrews 27 July 2005 On July 13, Dr. Ali
Al-Timimi, a scientist and Islamic fundamentalist preacher, was
sentenced to life in prison without parole plus 70 years on
charges that he urged Muslim followers in the week following the
September 11 terrorist attacks to leave the United States and
support Islamic military efforts in Afghanistan, Pakistan,
Palestine, Indonesia and Russia. Al-Timimi denied that he made
any such appeal. His defense was that he only counseled Muslims
that it might be wise to leave the United States because
practicing Islam in America would be difficult after September
11, and that they should relocate in an Islamic country where
they could freely practice their religion. US-born Al-Timimi,
42, has been well known for years within certain Islamic circles
for his lectures on the fundamentalist “salafi” form of Sunni
Islam at the Center for Islamic Information and Education—also
known as the Dar al Arq |
0.446558 | 8.519057 | 74 | Can you completely explain the nine permissions bits on UNIX or
Linux files? { 1 comment } Q. My SATA drive is being displayed
as /dev/hda instead of /dev/sda. How do I fix this problem and
make sure I get /dev/sda and speed of SATA under Linux operating
systems? Q. My system comes with pre installed Linux and
XP. Now I would like to delete a partition. How do I delete a
partition? A. Hard disks can be divided into one or more logical
disks called partitions. This division is described in the
partition table found in sector 0 of the disk. You need […] |
0.464365 | -2.260394 | 96 | Wednesday, July 26, 2006 Rabbi Aron Moss on Proportionality in
War From Arutz Sheva: Q: Isn't Israel's response a bit
disproportionate? A: If Israel were merely taking revenge, then
it would need to be proportionate. But Israel is waging a
defensive war. Since when is war proportionate? In war, you
don't measure your response to the enemy by what they have done
to you in the past, but rather by what needs to be done to stop
them attacking in the future. Israel's actions are proportionate
to the threat, not to the damage done. Q: Doesn't Israel
understand that they are just creating more terrorists? The
anger and fury at Israel as a result of bombing Lebanon will
only make more people want to join Hizbullah. A: Feelings of
frustration, anger, fear and rage do not make you into a
terrorist. A culture of death and an education of hate does.
Israel doesn't need to do anything to create terrorists -
Islamic extremism does that - but Israel must act to destroy
those who threaten its people. Q: Hizbullah indee |
1.879573 | 3.465486 | -1 | Jeff “Weirdo” Jacobson Interview Part 2: It’s a beautiful
thing. This week, Seattle Artist Weirdo speaks about the nature
of Art, Commerce and your external Organs! It is a
traditionally rainy night in Seattle, the glass is pounding with
hail and water and I find myself in 619 Western’s favorite bar
the Pioneer Saloon talking with artist, Jeff Jacobson, aka
Weirdo. Who is one of the hardest working artists in Seattle.
I don’t know it yet, but this is not going to be your average
conversation–under the guise of art, Weirdo and I are going to
end up talking about a whole lot more, about art–yes, but also
about life, spirituality, multiple dimensions and what it’s like
to be an artist in an post-post modern age of commerce and
celebrity. I thought I’d start out by asking you how long
you’ve been working and how you got started. You know the
highlights of your early career and the things that have
motivated you, etc. What were some of these things that caused
you to become an artist? What do you want pe |
1.296049 | 9.981664 | -1 | Take the 2-minute tour × In Python you can have multiple
iterators in a list comprehension, like [(x,y) for x in a for y
in b] for some suitable sequences a and b. I'm aware of the
nested loop semantics of Python's list comprehensions. My
question is: Can one iterator in the comprehension refer to the
other? In other words: Could I have something like this: [x for
x in a for a in b] where the current value of the outer loop is
the iterator of the inner? As an example, if I have a nested
list: what would the list comprehension expression be to
achieve this result: ?? (Please only list comprehension
answers, since this is what I want to find out). share|improve
this question 2 Answers 2 To answer your question with your
own suggestion: >>> [x for b in a for x in b] # Works fine
While you asked for list comprehension answers, let me also
point out the excellent itertools.chain(): >>> from itertools
import chain >>> list(chain.from_iterable(a)) >>>
list(chain(*a)) # If you're using python < 2.6 s |
2.839411 | 4.635679 | -1 | Weighed and Measured posted 7/19/2012 by Randy Kalista other
articles by Randy Kalista Platforms: PC Unfolding a camping
chair on my back patio I soaked my feet in a blowup kiddie pool.
It was time to weigh and measure my life like a feudal lord. To
be specific, like a feudal lord from the grand strategy PC game
Crusader Kings II. Its gaming metrics coursed through my brain,
the numbers tinkling in my head like the two or three ice cubes
in my glass of tap water. My video-game-converted-to-real-life
ratings appeared low. WEALTH: does an unemployment check count?
PRESTIGE: 90 percent of my Klout score is from Facebook family
members. PIETY: sure, I hit up Foursquare when I'm checking in
at the church parking lot. REALM SIZE: I don't know, is 0.14
acres a vast tract of land? It's safe to say that my
contribution to the House of Kalista dynasty is minimal.
Trifling, even. But Crusader Kings II is described as a
"character-driven" strategy game, as opposed to the more
tactically-oriented Total War series, or |
-1.285208 | 0.637999 | -1 | Lobato vs. the State of Colorado is a lawsuit that was filed in
2005 by a group of parents from around the state and school
districts from the San Luis Valley. The suit alleges Colorado's
current school-funding system fails to provide a "thorough and
uniform" system of education as outlined in the Colorado
Constitution. The trial began in Denver District Court on Aug. 1
and is expected to last five weeks. Here is the opening
statement of David Hinojosa, an attorney with the Mexican
Americal Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF), which
intervened in the case on the side of the plaintiffs. May it
please the Court. This is a case about lost opportunities. Lost
opportunities for the low-income and the ELL children who want
to achieve their full potential in school, but instead are
denied appropriate programs because of a lack of resources. Lost
opportunities for the school districts serving those students,
who are stretching their dollar as far as it can go, and in the
end are forced to rob Peter to pay Paul |
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8x10 B&W available? |
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side of the world for a while, though, and didn't have internet
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-0.775889 | -1.168218 | 3 | SF Bay Area Indymedia indymedia About Contact Subscribe Calendar
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Jeh Johnson as new DHS chief. He's responsible for endorsing
some of Washington's most lawless policies. His rap sheet
reveals great cause for concern. More on him below. Post-9/11,
police state terror followed. Obama expanded it. It's
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Gestapo. The November 25, 2002 Homeland Security Act established
it. Twenty-two federal agencies were combined under one
authority. They include Immigration and Customs Enforcement
(ICE), Transportation Security, the Secret Service, FEMA,
National Protection and Programs Directorate, and the Coast
Guard among others. DHS concentrates unprecede |
-0.025393 | 5.55187 | 146 | Fog lights Hi To All I know this sounds like a trivial task,
and I've done it before on my previous bmw few years ago(memory
is going - sign of old age!), but I can't figure out the best
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spot for a relay for fog lights, and there are two fuses, one
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best place to attach the lights? If you've done this recently,
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-0.560128 | 7.099899 | 8 | or Connect New Posts All Forums: Posts by tomdri It is
disgusting how much Apple is making in profit for a 16GB to 32GB
to 64GB...It only cost them $10 more to get a 32 GB and then
another $10 for the 64GB...That is a joke. They know how to
market and make $$$ I am sure Jeffries has a ton of Apple Stock
he just unloaded on another troll who is selling to another
troll! Tim is doing the best he knows how. Unfortunately for
Apple its best days are behind them even though they still make
and will continue to make the best phones on the planet It looks
like Judge Cote isn't in Love with Tim Cook and Apple the same
way all the US Senators are. He wasnt about to complain that he
had to update his apps everyday. What a shameful bunch of idiots
we have working for us in the Government. The court was also not
going to apologize like Rand Paul about being here for not
paying your Taxes. Can you imagine... its like being on the
Comedy Channel with these bunch of KooKs... Oh wait, it will
probably go to the Supreme.. |
3.775382 | 1.941052 | 5 | 1. Mediaite 2. Gossip Cop 3. Geekosystem 4. Styleite 5.
SportsGrid 6. The Mary Sue 7. The Jane Dough 8. The
Braiser What's with the name? Allow us to explain. Consider
the Following Constantine and Preacher TV Writers Talk Sticking
to the Source Material, Hair Color There’s also a bit of
casting news for the CW’s iZombie, but I know what you’re here
for: Finding out whether NBC’s version of John Constantine will
be a blonde chain smoker. Your answer lies behind the cut. |
3.224929 | 1.377817 | 123 | Harry Potter Wiki Talk:Rubeus Hagrid's wand 11,510pages on
this wiki Back to page Pure conjecture I removed the line:
"...and its fragments are most likely contained in his pink
umbrella. This is probably why Dudley Dursley received a pig's
tail instead of being transfigured fully into a pig, as Hagrid
had intended to do, after Hagrid pointed it at him on Harry
Potter's eleventh birthday." Since it seems to be pure
conjecture lacking foundation. A) We do not have any indication
that the umbrella-wand is NOT a replacement wand. B) Mere
"fragments" would not work; if it is the same one that was
snapped, it was fully repaired and then "dressed up" to look
like an umbrella. Hagrid is not the only one to "dress" his wand
as something else; Lucius Malfoy conceals his wand in his
walking stick. C) There is absolutely no indication that Hagrid
intended to perform a full-body transfiguration on Dudley.
Indeed, Harry's trace might have detected "higher" magic or the
ministry's reversal squads might have to get |
2.992635 | -3.843272 | 38 | Blog Entry The SEC relative to the rest of FBS football Posted
on: September 19, 2012 10:48 am To "SEC fans", and those who
feel the need to constantly assert that it is the best
conference: First, I would like to mention that the SEC has
great football year in, year out. If I can't watch a B1G game, I
am watching a SEC game, as it is simply great football. I
respect the SEC as a conference and the quality of the top
programs in the conference. That being said, you super homers
need to realize that while yes, the SEC is the "best" conference
in college football in the last 5 years, it can change week to
week, and month to month. In all honesty, the SEC gets an
automatic berth into the National Title game because of the
media coverage of the SEC. Auburn 2010, for example, had a ton
of controversy surrounding the team and Cam Newton, yet they
were allowed to compete for the National Title amidst several
recruiting and benefit allegations. Alabama 2011 is another
prime example of the Media influencing the ou |
1.313214 | 0.190665 | -1 | Main Page Alphabetical Menu Chronological Menu Reviews for
August 9th, 2013 Directed by Dean Matthew Ronalds Number of
times I checked my watch: 3 Released by New Films International.
Opens at the Quad Cinema. Directed by Nick Murphy Number of
times I checked my watch: 3 Released by Image Entertainment.
Opens at AMC Empire 25. Documentary Round-Up The
Gardener, directed by Mohsen Makhmalbaf, sheds light on the
multifaceted Baha'i faith. Mohsen and his son, Maysam, visit the
Baha'i gardens in Israel. Both of them have different views on
the religion. Mohsen argues many points about the strengths and
positive aspects of the faith; his son perceived Baha'i and
other religions in a more negative light because he believes
that religion leads eventually to violence and oppression.
Maysam goes to Jerusalem with a film camera to further comment
about religion. Meanwhile, Mohsen films a gardener going about
his daily work at the garden which may seem boring to Marsam,
but, as Mohsen wisely observes, the |
0.578769 | 6.16676 | -1 | From BlenderWiki Jump to: navigation, search In the BGE, an
object can have different "states". At any time while the game
is playing, the current state of the object defines its
behavior. For instance, a character in your game may have states
representing awake, sleeping or dead. At any moment their
behaviour in response to a loud bang will be dependant on their
current state; they may crouch down (awake); wake up (asleep) or
do nothing (dead). How States Operate States are set up and
used through controllers: note that only controllers, not
actuators and sensors, are directly controlled by the state
system. Each object has a number of states (up to 30; default =
1), and can only be in one state at any particular time. A
controller must always specify the state for which it will
operate - it will only give an output pulse if a) its logic
conditions are met, and b) the object is currently in the
specified State. States are set up and edited in the object's
Controller settings (for details see below). Bl |
-0.620637 | 8.648582 | 78 | From FedoraProject < Tools | NetworkManager Revision as of
12:24, 24 July 2012 by Pavlix (Talk | contribs) Jump to:
navigation, search For debugging NetworkManager in a more or
less clean environment, you can use the following script. It
kills NetworkManager and dhclient instances, sets down eth0 and
eth1, flushes global addresses and starts NetworkManager with
debug saved into ~/nm.debug. #!/bin/bash -x
KILL="NetworkManager dhclient" LINKS="eth0 eth1" for name in
$KILL; do killall $name 2>/dev/null && echo "TERM:
$name" && sleep 1 killall -9 $name 2>/dev/null && echo
"KILL: $name" && sleep 1 ps -ef | grep -iE 'network|dhc' | grep
-v ' grep -iE ' for link in $LINKS; do ip link set
$link down ip address flush scope global sleep 1 $NM --no-
daemon --log-level=debug 2>$DEBUG |
4.160214 | 3.656482 | 35 | That Laughing Young Daredevil, Dick Grayson Kai Axel Jansson
When considering the idea that the comic-book characters, Batman
and Robin, had real-life counterparts on whom their four-color
adventures were loosely based (see Asimov's Northwestward), a
few questions come to mind. What were their real names? Are any
of the later comic-book stories at all based in reality? If Dick
Grayson was Robin the Boy Wonder in the early 1940s, what became
of him after he became an adult? The former questions will be
answered elsewhere, but I'll attempt to explain the fate of the
man we know as Dick Grayson after his career as the "Boy Wonder"
ended. According to Batman #10, in the story entitled, "The
Isle That Time Forgot!", cover-dated April-May 1942, Dick
Grayson was then fourteen years old, as there were fourteen
candles on his birthday cake. And according to the 1976 Super DC
Calendar, Dick Grayson's birthday is on November 11. Therefore,
his date of birth is most likely November 11th, 1927. If Al
Schroeder's theor |
-1.718054 | 6.81138 | -1 | gregory wind view gallery Gregory F. Wind Male, 44 years old
Alternative Names: greg wincor greg wind thomas wind At 10
years old, I took a radio apart to find out how it worked. I
have since learned how the signals turn into sound waves our
brains interpret as music, but my passion for getting to the
heart of things I don't understand has not waned. As I
progressed through school and my early career in the 1990's, I
found I was able to turn complex ideas I learned in pursuit of
understanding into clear messages that preserved what made those
ideas special -- and found sharing those ideas personally
rewarding. A career in communications was born. In recent years
I have become versed in strategies that create profitable
awareness for messages. In addition to traditional PR, I have
seen how social media provides direct relationships with
journalists, customers, partners and prospects. I have also
worked hard to understand PR measurement issues, and have
developed methodologies that show clients the valu |
1.173882 | 8.719496 | -1 | Choropleth Counties Choosing how to display data is often the
most difficult part of the data visualization process. Would a
bar chart be superior to a pie? Perhaps a scatter would tell
more than two bar charts? One of the most difficult of these
choices is between filled maps (choropleth) and shapes.
Choropleth maps have several advantages. First, they avoid
overlap and because of it they are usually very neat and
beautiful. Choropleth maps also tend to make it easy to spot
trends geographically, like the clusters of major cities in the
household income map above. However, shapes also have some
interesting traits. First of all, it can be much easier to spot
small outliers. You may notice how Los Alamos County, NM stands
out in the bottom view, but is nearly invisible in the top view.
Shapes also have the relative advantage of not distorting by
size, because they give equal weight to each mark. This can be
frustrating though, since they can overlap, as in the eastern US
with this map. Regardless of your c |
-0.419059 | 9.394469 | 16 | Take the tour × How do I disable remote root login via ssh? I
want to log into my server (I use keys on my main comp) then su
into root instead of access root directly. I am using Debian. I
follow guides online which say add PermitRootLogin no to the
file and another mention Protocol 2. Then reset ssh.
/etc/init.d/ssh restart. I did this and it did not work. I was
able to log into root using putty. How do I disable remote root
login on Debian? share|improve this question While you're at
it, by the way, I suggest setting PasswordAuthentication no and
ChallengeResponseAuthentication no, so that keys are required.
– mattdm Mar 9 '11 at 0:35 And you can also set AllowUsers
acidzombie, so that only that account can log in. – mattdm Mar
9 '11 at 0:39 @mattdm: Why require keys? I rather not have keys
as if someone grabs my computer or somehow gets access to my
private keys he could log in. I just have keys going into my
account (which really is the same password as root but i type
less) then su into it – aci |
0.918737 | -1.491301 | -1 | Suggest to a friend HOME > Policies and Activities > Communiques
Statement of the Government of the People's Republic of China
At midnight May 7, 1999, the U.S.-led NATO forces brazenly fired
three missiles from different angles on the Embassy of the
People's Republic of China in the Federal Republic of
Yugoslavia. The building of the embassy was seriously damaged
and up to now two persons have been confirmed dead, two missing
and more than twenty others injured. During over 40 days of
wanton bombing against Yugoslavia, the U.S.-led NATO forces have
inflicted great numbers of casualties of innocent civilians. Now
they have gone so far as to bomb the Chinese Embassy. This act
by NATO is a gross violation of China's sovereignty and a
willful trampling on the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic
Relations as well as the basic norms governing international
relations. This is rarely seen in the history of diplomacy. The
Chinese Government and people hereby express their utmost
indignation and stern condemnation and |
-0.157489 | 7.303299 | 8 | Phone Scoop printed December 18, 2013 See this page online at:
Home › Reviews › Review: Sanyo MM-5600 Form Function -
Basics Function - Extras Wrap-up Comments 17 Is It Your Type
Body Three S's Form Factor The MM5600 is a slightly larger
than average sized clamshell phone. At the hinge it's just over
an inch thick and fairly wide, but it tapers in both directions
at the other end. It's weighty, but not heavy - just solid.
That solid feeling is like a theme for this phone. Every aspect
of the phone exudes attention to build quality - the hinge is
solid, the screen is sharp and bright, the buttons all have a
solid feel to them. Unfortunately the 5600 is not the perfect
union of both solid and comfortable. The bottom half of the
phone is more of a rectangle with flat sides than a nice oval
shape, and the rectangle is too wide too sit inside the palm of
your hand. Dialing, texting or doing anything but talking on the
phone is not terribly comfortable. Once you switch your hand
position to talk and p |
-2.969826 | 1.52732 | -1 | Reply to a comment Reply to this comment myth-stake writes:
in response to Meto: I understand that 95 percent of those who
try Meth for the first time are hooked. It gives you an extended
high during which time you feel like you are invincible, with an
insatiable appetite for sex. This is a dangerous combination. We
need an all out war with severe penalties for dealers. The folks
at DSS can tell you what it's doing to families. We are all
paying the cost, and if we don't find a solution, it wll destroy
us. The war on drugs, as presently fought is lost. You either
legalize it like booze and nicotine, or execute the pushers.
Have their trial within 3 days, shot within seven! (the 4 days
allows their families to pay their last respects). Then, and
only then, will the "war" be won. |
0.29099 | 1.538341 | -1 | 21° F Charges mulled for letter to autistic boy's family By By
Kevin Conlon and Greg Botelho CNN Published On: Aug 21 2013
06:41:01 PM CDT Updated On: Aug 22 2013 06:11:17 AM CDT Autism
letter (CNN) - Canadian authorities are considering criminal
charges -- albeit not for a hate crime -- against whomever wrote
a stark letter to an Ontario family urging them to either "move
or euthanize" their autistic son. Prosecutors determined that
"despite the hateful language used," the content of the letter
"falls below the threshold for a hate crime," the Durham
Regional Police Service issued a statement Tuesday. "However,
there are other criminal code issues that are being considered,"
police added. The anonymous letter stirred a far-reaching
outcry, as well as prompting neighbors to rally around the
targeted 13-year-old, Max Begley, since it became public. The
letter -- signed "one pissed off mother" -- castigates Begley's
family for what they describe as the "nuisance" the teen poses.
"That noise he makes wh |
5.214076 | 0.661013 | 13 | '''The band''' * BrokenBase - Every album except the first two
has fans arguing that it's good or bad. It's a good indication
that when 100 fans were surveyed as to which songs should appear
on their GreatestHitsAlbum that there was ''no song that
appeared on everyone's list.'' Yes, that includes the popular,
iconic Oasis songs like "Live Forever", "Wonderwall",
"Acquiesce" and "Don't Look Back in Anger". The base is ''just
that broken.'' * EarWorm - Uncontestably, "Wonderwall." ** A lot
of others too. "Don't Look Back in Anger", "Champagne
Supernova", "D'you Know What I Mean", "Liver Forever", "Slide
Away", "Morning Glory", "Some Might Say", "Cast No Shadow", list
goes on. * FaceOfTheBand - The Gallagher brothers. *
[[FirstInstallmentWins First Two Albums Win]] - All Oasis fans
with very few exceptions like the first two albums, and to the
general public those albums (along with two popular non-album
songs from the same era, "Acquiesce" and "Whatever") ''are''
Oasis. As to the others... see BrokenBase. * Ger |
0.222582 | -0.060749 | 73 | Friday, September 30, 2005 Bartending Blues The Blue
Cosmopolitan 1 1/2 oz. vodka 1/2 oz. Blue Curacao 1/2 oz. lime
juice 2 oz. white cranberry juice 1 cup ice Is Anyone Really
Surprised? Thanks for the Memory to Naked Villainy. There was
a time when I thoroughly bought into a way of thinking that
utterly rejected the idea of a "Slippery Slope". I held the view
that each and every decision was made on its own merit and had
no causal relationship to any prior or subsequent decision. But
I was wrong. I've seen the slippery slope at work far too many
times to cling to that ill-informed belief. Especially when it
comes to moral, ethical, and legal issues. Once an allowance is
made for any type of activity, it becomes easier, more
acceptable, and more likely that we will make allowances for
other activities of that type. A shift in degree is always a
much easier obstacle to hurdle than one of type. Case in point,
the definition of Marriage. My own religious, moral, ethical,
and political views regarding |
1.554979 | 3.808588 | 51 | Using his large format 4x5 camera, 33 year-old Sydney
photographer Samuel Burns hides under a dark cloth to carefully
compose his landscape photography on a ground glass, seeing the
image up-side-down and back-to-front. He utilizes old fashioned
dials and movements such as rise, tilt and shift to adjust and
refine his composure. Everything needs to be painstakingly
perfect, and the wait begins once the film is carefully loaded.
The long exposure captures a series of events. Water flows,
clouds pass by, light dances and their images are slowly painted
onto his film. Samuel Burns has just launched a new website of
over 35 of these contemplative, understated and quietly
beautiful landscape images. Samuel's work is an ode to art
lovers who don't love art gallery prices, with limited-edition
museum quality photographic prints starting from a modest $70. |
-2.488024 | 2.171935 | 26 | What Is the Difference Between a Teacup Yorshire Terrier & a Toy
Yorkshire Terrier? by Sarah Whitman, Demand Media Yorkies
differ in size, but only one breed remains. Yorkies differ
in size, but only one breed remains. Yorkshire terriers are
one of the smallest breeds around, with an average weight of 5
to 7 pounds and an average height of 6 to 7 inches. Although
these tiny but brave terriers range in size, there is no
technical breed difference between a toy Yorkie and a teacup
Yorkie. Yorkie Breed Information Yorkshire terriers,
affectionately known as "Yorkies," are classified as a toy breed
by the American Kennel Club, and the breed standard is no more
than 7 pounds. Although small, they exhibit typical terrier
traits like bravery, determination, protectiveness and hunting
skills. They thrive on regular interaction with their human
families and do well with moderate exercise such as daily walks.
Named after Yorkshire, their English city of origin, their
history includes hunting do |
-1.727431 | 6.435872 | -1 | Beautiful Trade/Intro From WikiContent Revision as of 02:08,
30 June 2009 by Ebellis (Talk | contribs) Jump to: navigation,
search INFORMATION SECURITY HAS ALWAYS BEEN ONE OF THE LARGEST
BARRIERS to e-commerce. Those of us who spend most of our waking
moments thinking of new and different ways to secure these
systems and applications know it starts with the data. After
all, it’s information that we are trying to protect. One of the
primary challenges in e-commerce security is coming up with
practical ways to secure payment transaction data. This term
means a lot of different things to a lot of different
applications, but for the purpose of this writing, let’s focus
on credit card data such as account numbers, security and CV2
codes, PIN numbers, magnetic stripe data, and expiration and
issue dates. We will also include extra data we deem necessary
to make this process more secure, such as to authenticate or
authorize a transaction. Let’s look at the possible points of
failure for credit card information. |
-1.967861 | 3.613313 | -1 | Mozambique: Fiscal Benefits for Megaprojects Being Phased Out
Maputo — The fiscal benefits for megaprojects, regarded by many
as excessive, are reaching their end, according to Mozambique's
Minister of Planning and Development, Aiuba Cuereneia. It was
the early megaprojects, such as the Mozal aluminium smlter on
the outskirts of Maputo, or the natural gas treatment plant and
pipeline operated by the South African petro-chemical giant
Sasol, which received the most generous tax breaks. At the time
it was argued that Mozambique needed to attract the mega-
projects in order to show that it was open to foreign
investment. And without the generous fiscal benefits, investors
might not have put their money into such an ambitious project as
Mozal. But speaking to reporters on Tuesday, after a meeting of
the Council of Ministers (Cabinet), Cuereneia pointed out that
these tax benefits were limited in time to ten years, and that
since 2007 there has been a new law in force "which
significantly reduces the benefits f |
-1.359435 | 2.76818 | 54 | Reply to a comment Reply to this comment goodolecountryboy
writes: in response to secondcreek: My main concern is why are
they are simply capping the site rather than removing the
hazardous chemicals in the soils from its years as Robert
Shaw/Fulton Bottoms? Seems like they can easily leak into
adjacent Third Creek-which they might be doing already-and onto
the Tennessee River. Perhaps a better move would be to once and
for all replace the tainted soils and make the area into a
greenway, an extension of Tyson Park all the way south to the
river. That plant started there during WWI, around 1917 or so
from what I can remember. The amount of hazardous material there
has to be massive. I would already bet a lot of it has already
migrated to Third Creek and beyond. Also, the amount of
contaminated soil there would be mind boggling and sending it
off to be treated and/or incinerated would be prohibitively
expensive. |
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30983428.post5862346424451354291..comments2013-12-
07T18:20:09.145-08:00Comments on The Gluten Doctors: Why is
Gluten Sensitivity Ignored?The HealthNOW Doctorshttp://www.blogg
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64396844805266348862009-03-13T13:41:00.000-07:002009-03-
13T13:41:00.000-07:00I know exactly how you feel. I live it
every day....I know exactly how you feel. I live it every day.
I've had the tests for CD [blood and biopsy], they were
negative. The doctors had no real answers for me. I was lucky,
only 1.5 years of feeling like a zombie and death-warmed-over.
The only thing that gave me my life back was going GF. I'm a
"medical misfit" - not fitting into the current orderly
classification known as celiac disease. There are many, many
more like me and we need to keep "spreading the word".
<BR/><BR/>Thanks and keep up the great work! <BR/><BR/>AlAKLAPht
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search Vodou ceremony, Jacmel, Haiti. The word Voodoo, which
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Voodoo is animist and spiritist, and a lot of Voodoo beliefs
have to do with ancestor spirits. Some of it is based on
Catholic beliefs, but most of Voodoo is from the Fon, Ewe, and
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of family member who have died are especially important. Voodoo
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voucher system, but this is one of the most obvious. I have
taught in both private (religious) and public schools, and I
know that part of what makes a private school education
desirable is small class sizes and the personal attention that
comes as a result. When private schools start reaching maximum
capacity, class sizes go up, reducing the effectiveness of the
private school teacher. Anyone who doesn't believe in the
relevance between class size and quality of education is utterly
clueless. When the private school reaches its maximum, it starts
turning down students. Do we really believe that private schools
will be unbiased in their selection of who gets in and who
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