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-1.604668 | 5.470595 | -1 | Subscribe Feedback English look up any word, like wcw: 1.
Quality Vs. Quantity I had this conversation at lunch whether to
go to McDonalds or Subway, Subway you get quality and McDonalds
you get Quantity. We used whether you would want to screw an
ugly fat girl a lot, or a really hot girl once... we went to
Subway Subway is good... McDonalds just isn't by Dan December
02, 2003 add a video add an image 2. Quality vs. Quantity The
practice of selecting one female in which you have genuine
interest, rather than persueing sexual intercourse with numerous
women. Dude, I'm going for quality vs. quantity. by JWooden271
December 06, 2003 add a video add an image 3. quality vs.
quantity Choosing a better quality product/service vs. choosing
more of that product/service with less quality I would rather
buy one diamond ring than 1000 cheap metal rings by Tania
December 09, 2003 add a video add an image 4. quality vs.
quantity The never ending struggle between a lot of cheap crap
or a smaller amount of expensive crap. "W |
-1.982127 | -0.943748 | 10 | Kansas Sen. Pat Roberts thought it would be a good — again,
that's good — idea yesterday to ramble for 10+ minutes yesterday
on the Senate floor about his fantasy game of basketball with
President Obama, during which they would discuss policy. This is
the only way to get the president's attention, he larfed. Hehe,
yesiree. What? Here's an excerpt, via The Hill: "Perhaps he
could actually invite me," Roberts said on the Senate floor.
"[E]verybody knows the president is a very good basketball
player." Roberts, who said he also plays basketball, then laid
out lengthy narrative of how the game that might ensue. "I'd
like to emphasize while we were playing that basically he
shouldn't be more concerned with increasing the debt ceiling
past the 2012 elections and working on a long-term solution for
solving the crisis," said Roberts. "He would probably go to the
left corner and sink a three about that time, and I would want
to emphasize…that he…seems to be fixated on one specific
industry," said Roberts, adding |
-1.050021 | 1.64085 | 129 | Skip Top Navigation College Hill Arterial Reconstruction
Resurfacing 1760 l.f. of collector arterial: Whitman St from
Kamiaken to Maple, Maiden Lane from Whitman to Opal, and Opal
from Maiden Lane to Campus. This is State Route #7418. Why are
we Building This Project? Repair method will be full depth
section replacement in select areas followed by grind and mix
existing and base and surfacing with new pavement. This
arterial route provides a major connection between downtown
Pullman and the WSU campus core. It is the primary emergency
response route to Greek Row and a heavily used transit bus
route. How can I get more information? Mark D. Workman, P.E.
509 338 3222 |
0.06724 | 2.270529 | -1 | The Lioness has pulled up the roots and her furniture and hit
the road. The winds of change have taken me back to
Florida once again. I lived here 71-82 and back from 86-2005.
It was then that I caught a zephyr to Richmond VA for nine
years…..and now I am back where the palm trees dance in the wind
and blue skies are the norm, except around 2:00-3:00 p.m. when
torrential rains and wind visit each day, it seems. This
morning the sky and clouds are again strong, puffy and blue. I
am not exactly a stranger in a strange land, but in some ways I
have had that feeling. Miami is a very busy metropolis compared
to RVA (Richmond, Virginia), as the locals call it. My guess is
the population of RVA is about 250K whereas Miami I think is
over 2 million. I am re-learning my way, in more ways than one,
and I definitely see a Garmin in my future. Old friends have
offered warm support and detailed directions to aid in my latest
crusade. I embrace these New Beginnings with optimism and joy.
It is a new day and a p |
-1.16612 | -1.214076 | -1 | Saying the name "Bob Woodward" should be enough to make any
journalist, regardless of medium, stop, at least for a moment,
and say thanks. And that's why we're rather wild about the
attitude he's being served by none other than his fellows within
the Washington, D.C., press corps. Woodward, who has a bit of a
history with questioning government (see Watergate), showed some
equal-opportunity skepticism recently, questioning the
(Democratic) White House's details of the whole sequester story.
This sequester issue is something about which the majority of
American people don't give a whole lot of a damn. Important.
Boring. Made-for-TV political theater. And we're still not sure
what the hullabaloo is about making the government reconsider
vast budgets in light of what are blatantly apparent (to anyone
else) financial constraints. People have been doing it at
kitchen tables and in home offices for a long time; government
is fat, lazy and happy with its unlimited supply of cash. Long
past time for change. Woodw |
2.714649 | 4.284933 | -1 | The body shield (or kite shield), is the largest of all medieval
shields. This massive protection device stands nearly 6 feet
tall, and is capable of covering the users entire body from
assault if needed. The most common type of body shield was
wooden or metal, and was firmly strapped to the forearm. This
type made for great protection against arrows, but the sheer
bulk made it uncommon at best. One very effective trick was to
duck down behind an angled body shield to avoid a flurry of
arrows fired by enemy troops, (take a look at the movie
Braveheart to see how many arrows a group of longbowmen can fire
at once). The second more uncommon type of body shield was
often called the "tower shield". This one is even larger. The
tower shield stands over 6 feet tall, and is over 3 feet wide.
They usually have a curve to them and will have several spikes
mounted in front. The tower shield was too bulky to even carry,
so it was mounted on wheels and could stand up without anyone
holding on to it. This shield was use |
0.715866 | 10.590611 | 116 | BrandTweet Statistics Loading data for troboybb3 Network of
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1.118123 | 9.925502 | 22 | [Top][All Lists] Re: Worrying development From: Tom Lord
Subject: Re: Worrying development Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004
14:18:25 -0800 (PST) > From: Marius Vollmer
<address@hidden> > Tom Lord <address@hidden> writes: > >
Mutation-sharing shared substrings are an upwards compatible
extension > > to the Scheme standard. They break no correct
programs. They enable > > new kinds of programs. > I'd
say that the real 'trouble' is that strings are mutable at >
all. Worried mostly about variable-length character encodings
in string? Or you'd just rather be programming in an ML-family
language? :-) If it's variable-length encodings that irk you:
if strings were read-only you'd want to optimize the heck out of
STRING-APPEND and SUBSTRING and, once you did that, you'd have
essentially enough machinery to do mutations efficiently. >
Also, I still like the idea of using mutation-sharing substrings
as > markers that allow O(1) access into variable-width
encoded strings. Interesting |
-0.224269 | -0.59079 | 98 | MADRID—A well-known Cuban dissident urged support from Europe on
Tuesday for her group advocating democracy in Cuba, and wasn't
fazed when protesters disrupted her first appearance abroad by
unfurling a pro-government banner and yelling that she was lying
about harsh conditions for citizens of the island nation. Berta
Soler, the most prominent member of the Ladies in White group,
told a crowd of about 100 in Madrid that she was basking in her
first opportunity to say what she wants without fearing
retribution. She had never been allowed to leave Cuba before.
Soler alleged that Cuba keeps about 80 dissidents locked up in
miserable jails alongside convicted murderers and rapists and
said the communist-run government led by Raul Castro only offers
Cubans "repression, misery and lots of hunger." Most of those
inmates are not recognized as prisoners of conscience by
international human rights groups, however. Some were locked up
for nonpolitical crimes and became activists behind bars; others
are in jail for po |
0.68924 | -1.040375 | -1 | When the poor, central Asian nation of Kyrgyzstan descended into
ethnic bloodshed in early June - resulting in carnage that
caused the deaths of some 400 people and the displacement of
400,000 - many of those familiar with the country expressed
surprise. Kyrgyzstan, though still far from being a liberal
democracy, has always been the least despotic of the former
Soviet republics in the region, and the most auspicious
candidate for some form of decent government. Relations between
the country's Kyrgyz majority and the Uzbek ethnic minority (who
suffered the brunt of the violence ) had been peaceful, barring
riots in 1990 that had less to do with ethnic grievances than
controversy over post-Soviet land distribution. And Kyrgyzstan
has long had an active civil society, open media and raucous
political culture. But looking back on the turbulent events
that this country - which I have visited twice in the past five
months - has experienced, I realize that a foretaste of the June
disturbances was already evident i |
-1.890905 | 2.282954 | 125 | Damaging a Perfectly Good Fence Is Not Funny As a novice
columnist for the SF Metropolitan, I found Mr. Jon Carroll's
writing advice very illuminating ("We Take Jon Carroll's
Learning Annex Class So You Won't Have To," Dog Bites, Feb. 17).
First, I realized that I've been writing about the wrong thing
-- me. No one likes me, but everyone likes cats. Thank you, Mr.
Carroll, for steering me in the right direction. So instead of
chronicling my horrendously slutty/alcoholic escapades, I will
devote my future columns to the fascinating entity that is THE
CAT. I will chase it around my house, and hopefully it will be
raining, so that way I can run that damn cat outside, where I
will encounter a very funny substance called "mud." Then I will
tip over a pot of flowers, which, if you know anything about
humor, is a very funny thing to do. And then I'll just cut to
another scene -- fuck transition -- I'll grab that little son-
of-a-bitch cat and bash it over my funny little backyard fence a
few times, so that my cat's |
1.608127 | 3.588441 | 51 | Thursday, December 15, 2011 Choices Create a Believeable and
Consistent World As artists, when we create stories in a visual
medium, we control the look of everything. Every character,
every background, every prop and every detail has to be
designed. We have to make a choice about how each and every
thing will look, and why. It can seem overwhelming, So how do
you know which way to make those decisions? For me, everything
always seems to go back to the story and what will tell it in
the best possible way. Each and every detail you draw can
contribute to the story you're telling, if you put enough
thought into your work and design it right. And if you don't
think ahead and don't put much thought into what you're doing,
you can undermine what you're trying to say. Here's an example:
our story (be it an animated film, comic book, whatever) opens
on our main character's house, before we even see him. Our
character's house has walls that seem to be falling in and a
roof that appears to be sagging. Most of the |
-0.522676 | 0.554913 | 6 | Sisters admit scheme to burn down house for insurance money;
arsonist died after blaze COURT icon.jpgView full size MOBILE,
Ala. — A Semmes woman pleaded guilty in Mobile last week to
allegations that she hired her nephew to burn down her house for
insurance money last year in an incident that badly burned the
arsonist, who died the next day. Sarah Juanita Comstock and her
sister, Donna Kirkland Venerable, both pleaded guilty to aiding
and abetting Michael Venerable in traveling across state lines
to commit a crime of violence. Prosecutors agreed to recommend
the shortest sentence called for under advisory guidelines. For
Comstock, that would be three years and 10 months, under an
estimate provided by the U.S. Probation Office. According to
the women’s written plea agreements, Comstock in November called
Donna Venerable, who lives in Florida, and asked her to recruit
Michael Venerable to burn down the house. Comstock offered to
pay Michael Venerable $5,000 once she collected the insurance
payout. Comsto |
-0.398146 | 4.553483 | -1 | View Single Post Old 10-24-2005, 01:04 AM #13 Dysco OP caddis
muncher Dysco's Avatar Joined: Jan 2004 Location: Salida, CO
Oddometer: 15,519 Originally Posted by snowrider I've found most
of what you said to be true, except for the knobbies. I get a
lot of mixed surfaces, and I find full on thick snow cover is
the least common surface for street riding in winter. This may
depend on how often it's plowed where you are. I rode on street
tires, not even dual sport tires every winter but the last one,
where I had the stock trailwings on the DR. I was always opposed
to knobbies because of the mixed surfaces and the fact that
usually I was riding on a slippery road surface which is not
like dirt at all. Now I'm very interested in what dual sport
tires can do and will be trying TKC80s this winter though I
think Anakees would be better. I've always just wanted a little
more grip in snow, not a lot, because I want something that
breaks loose evenly and predictably, no matter how early. This
is a great point. Snow is |
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0.310422 | 1.377497 | -1 | Loisel Village Home ] Up ] Introduction ] Timelines ] IL Coal ]
Ainad Temple ] Cyclone ] Insiders ] Race Riot ] ESL Police ]
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ESL Businesses ] 1956 in Loisel Village by John Frey of
Chicago On a fine spring day in 1956, from the yard of our
house in Loisel Village, we watched the parish church, St.
Philip, bum to the ground. The church's steeple, which rose
serenely above the roofs in the neighborhood, was enveloped by
flames and huge billows of black smoke. My mother, at the
suggestion of our neighbor, Mary Ellen Osland, got out an 8 mm
movie camera and began filming. Although we were three blocks
away, strange black ashes, the size of sycamore leaves, came
floating down from the sky. We children jumped and scrambled to
catch them. All at once the entire steeple was hidden by the
smoke, but we could tell where it was from the bright fl |
5.091438 | 0.705655 | 13 | If New Order are the lovelorn elders of the British synth-rock
hierarchy and Depeche Mode are their politically inclined
fraternal twins, then Nitzer Ebb is the angry younger sibling,
the one with black combat boots and an inclination to set things
on fire. A viciousness is built into the genetic code of their
lockstep drum-machine workouts that has been passed down through
generations; when Nine Inch Nails was born, it had... More >>> |
3.189603 | 2.630084 | -1 | Tuesday, December 14, 2010 Cleaning Up Some Odds and Ends
Tuesday! I really haven't properly mentioned that while Gabe
and I are working on Hero Action Persons, we've also been
putting out an online comic just for fun. You see, Gabe drew
this thing years ago, but he wasn't happy with his dialog, so he
foolishly suggested I once again ruin his excellent inks with my
terrible scripts. But, there you go. He's sending it to me one
page at a time, so I'm writing things without knowing what the
future holds. It should be fun. So, check it out 'chere.
We'll be posting a new page every Wednesday! So, yesterday I
was talking about the disturbing situation that arises when one
gets all romantic and what-not with someone who is the exact
duplicate of one's cousin. I asked that we not see it again.
So naturally, long-time reader MarvelX42 ignored my wishes
thusly: Yup. Guess who it really is. It gets worse. Here's
a little blurb from Action Comics #289: I'm sorry, but some
things are better left unsaid. |
-0.518821 | 0.413408 | 6 | I'm from N E W Jers' Where plenty of murders occurs Kadafi
was indeed born in New Jersey, a state, although not really
notorious for its gang activity like Cali, has a high crime
rate. |
2.229582 | 0.898173 | -1 | Translations on this page from the books, The Essential Rumi by
Coleman Barks with John Moyne, and The Glance and The Soul of
Rumi by Coleman Barks. The Self We Share Thirst is angry with
water. Hunger bitter with bread.The cave wants nothing to do
with the sun. This is dumb, the self- defeating way we've
been. A gold mine is calling us into its temple. Instead, we
bend and keep picking up rocks from the ground. Every thing has
a shine like gold, but we should turn to the source! The origin
is what we truly are. I add a little vinegar to the honey I
give. The bite of scolding makes ecstasy more familiar. But
look, fish, you're already in the ocean: just swimming there
makes you friends with glory. What are these grudges about? You
are Benjamin. Joseph has put a gold cup in your grain sack and
accused you of being a thief. Now he draws you aside and says,
"You are my brother. I am a prayer. You're the amen." We move
in eternal regions, yet worry about property here. This is the
prayer of each: |
1.231966 | 8.460773 | -1 | Take the 2-minute tour × I'm developing an Android application.
I have a 3D model drawn with Blender. Do you know if there is a
way to export that model into a OpenGL geometry? I'm going to
use C++ code to load model and draw it with OpenGL. But if you
know a better choice, please tell me. share|improve this
question add comment 2 Answers up vote 2 down vote accepted
There is no such format defined as OpenGL geometry. You will
have to create your own structures to store and manage your
vertices and triangles. If you don't want to use any third
party loader, the probably the easiest thing would be using the
Wavefront OBJ format. It's really simple to parse, and you can
export models from blender can export to obj natively. If you
don't feel like starting from scratch, you can use my very basic
OBJ loader for OpenGL. Download from here. share|improve this
answer add comment Here's a doc on the .blend format:
http://www.atmind.nl/blender/mystery_ot_blend.html Although,
you'd probably be better off exp |
3.281386 | 4.494161 | 2 | Review by HM Master "An Amazing Sequel to Final Fantasy X" The
first one was incredible. Was I skeptical with this one? Not at
all. I just knew it was going to be as great as the first one,
if not better. For those of you who do not know, this is the
first real sequel to any kind of Final Fantasy game (Meaning
same characters and places, etc). It takes place two years after
Yuna defeated Sin, and the Eternal Calm started. Now Yuna,
Rikku, and Paine are The Gullwings, a group of sphere hunters.
They watch a sphere with a mysterious person who looks like it
could be Tidus. So, they go in search of him. That's the basic
story. My review is below, but remember the Final Score is NOT
an average. Gameplay (10/10) - Alright, so Final Fantasy games
have always been very linear. In most, you get an airship at the
end, and that is when you do all the sidequests, and other
things you want to do. FFX-2 takes that formula and throws it in
the trash. This game is totally different from other FF games,
but still has simi |
0.531412 | -1.067696 | -1 | Bosnia Showdown Brings West to War's Brink One option: beef up
UN in fewer areas By , Staff writers of The Christian Science
Monitor BY taking scores of United Nations peacekeeping troops
hostage in recent days, Bosnian Serb leaders have shown that the
UN must be ready to back up isolated airstrikes on Serb targets
with more muscle. This aggressive response appears to have
caught the US and its ''contact group'' allies off-guard.
Western diplomats are now scrambling to decide what, if
anything, can be done to strengthen peacekeepers' positions
without turning them into full combatants. Withdrawal of
peacekeeping units -- itself a risky operation -- remains an
option, though an unlikely one. ''Somebody will have to tell us
what's our next step,'' said Alexander Ivanko, a UN Protection
Force (UNPROFOR) spokesman. Recommended: Could you pass a US
citizenship test? The initial reaction of the United States,
Britain, and France has been to rattle swords and send more
force toward the region. A three-ship U |
-0.746423 | 9.369348 | 15 | JISC TechDis Toolbar Adds Convenient Accessibility Tools to Any
BrowserS All browsers: The free JISC TechDis bookmarklet and
user script does something long overdue for web users. It
creates a toolbar that makes text bigger, changes its font,
reads it out loud, spell checks it, and even pulls its
references. Crafted by the University of Southampton's
electronics and computer science school, the toolbar is offered
in one of three ways: as an instant toolbar bookmarklet that can
be used on pretty much any browser, a Greasemonkey-style user
script that can be installed just as universally, and a Windows-
only installer that does the installing for you. What the
toolbar itself does is provide a whole lot of neat tools—text-
to-speech reading, font fixing and magnification, spell
checking, and reference searching—that exist in a lot of
different places in the browser, and in other browser add-ons,
but make more sense as a click-to-activate toolbar. Seems like
a great tool for students, those who have trouble with |
-0.2978 | 8.09615 | 42 | Organic vs. Non-Organic Open Source, Revisited There’s been
some controversy generated over my use of the terminology of
“Organic” and “Non-Organic” Open Source. Asa Dotzler noted that
it wasn’t Mozilla’s original intent to “make a distinction
between how Mozilla does open source and how others do open
source”. Nessance complained that he didn’t like the term “Non-
Organic”, because it was “raw and vague – is it alien, poison,
silicon-based?” and suggested instead the term “Synthetic Open
Source”, referencing a paper by Siobhán O’Mahony, ” What makes a
project open source? Migrating from organic to synthetic
communities”. Nessance referenced a series of questions and
answers by Stephen O’ Grady from Red Monk, where he claimed the
distinction between the two doesn’t matter. (Although given that
Sun is a paying customer of Red Monk, Stephen admits that this
might have influenced his thinking and so he might be
“brainwashed” :-) . So let’s take some of these issues in
reverse order. Does the distinction matter? |
-0.352416 | -1.339909 | -1 | Latest Terror Threat - More Government Foreknowledge By Joel
Skousen World Affairs Brief This week's cross-Atlantic terror
alert has all the markings of an orchestrated incident to
maintain public support for the ongoing US-British war on
terror. White House spokesman Tony Snow admitted that President
Bush had not been awakened by the dramatic news of Britain's air
traffic shutdown because "Bush had been getting regular
briefings on the developments for days." If they knew so far in
advance, why the dramatic shut-down of trans-Atlantic air
traffic inconveniencing thousands, as if they intervened just in
time? The British press admitted that it was a Scotland Yard
"covert operation" that disrupted the alleged plot. Another
newspaper admitted that it was a "pre-planned, intelligence-led
operation by the Metropolitan Police anti-terrorist branch and
security services." What we always find out later is that the
government anti-terrorism forces had covert agents within these
groups, monitoring their activities at |
3.060359 | 1.427019 | -1 | We, In Faith By King Chapter One: Uncertainty "How much
longer already?" James complained obnoxiously. It was freezing
cold on this October evening and these blasted foreigners still
had yet to show hide or hair of themselves. He was not often
prone to bouts of childlike impatience but being back at his old
school after so long and the fervent excitement of the students
milling, crowded about him had infected James with an
overwhelming sense of euphoria and glad anticipation. Still,
despite all of this, he was extremely glad for once to have the
chance to act like the right idiot he was. Lily glanced, amused
at her husband. She knew when he had insisted on not taking a
cloak that this would happen. Really, whatever convinced some
men that standing out in the chill practically naked was so
strong and… manly was beyond her. But some testosterone-driven
tendencies were inevitable for some people. Sidling closer, a
handsomely aged man with his dark hair pulled back in what he
considered a right dashing pon |
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0.997906 | 4.624418 | -1 | Take the 2-minute tour × I bet the automatic response to my
question would be "Bell's theorem" and of course I am not
disputing Bell's proof. I am however uncertain of one of his
assumptions. The so called "no conspiracy" assumption states
that we somehow posses this magical thing called free will which
makes us able to break free from the causal chain of events that
make us measure the $y$-axis instead of the $x$-axis and so on
in experiments. Obviously this makes little sense once reviewed
under the light of logic. What this naturally implies is that,
if a theory is fully deterministic, it is instantly super-
deterministic. Simon Kochen and John Conway published a theorem
in 2009, "The Strong Free Will Theorem", which simply-put
states: either everything is deterministic (super-deterministic)
or every particle has free will. Among the few who accept this
to the fullest extent is Gerard 't Hooft. He has proposed that
what we call sub-atomic particles are really just templates and
that there is a realm ben |
-1.680752 | -0.876242 | -1 | Rep. Gene Green embraces Sen. Menendez WASHINGTON- Rep. Gene
Green, D-Houston, gave a very public hug to Sen. Bob Menendez,
D-N.J. as senators filled the House floor for tonight’s State of
the Union address. Menendez is in the midst of a scandal
involving a South Florida eye doctor, possible financial
misconduct and prostitutes. |
-0.815501 | 10.220199 | 20 | Take the 2-minute tour × I dislike the Html->link() method. I
appreciate it, but it uglies up the code and I don't believe
that something so basic should require a method. However, in my
project, I find I must use it if I want to have proper URLs.
I'll accept that, but I want to know that I have to before
continuing making links in this (large) project. I've attempted
to find some ways to get the cakeURL in a view. Nothing worked
out. My goal is to go from this: <?=$this->Html->link('quality
view', array('controller' => 'quals', 'action' => 'show')); ?>
To this: <a href="<?=URL.'quals/show'?>"> But I cannot write
or find a way to get such a constant working if I change the
page's URL. (even something such as visiting /quals/ and /quals
will show different URLs) share|improve this question add
comment 2 Answers up vote 2 down vote accepted I also dislike
the link method, I find it overkill for adding attributes like
class, id and target="_blank" to my links. I do this for links:
<a class="myclass" |
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-1.21184 | 1.172913 | -1 | Tuesday, August 19, 2008 Gay Metropolitans in America. There's
been this myth circulated that Columbus is one of the highest
gay-populated cities in The United States. I've heard it so many
times at the bar, "Columbus has the highest gay population per
capita in the country! It's the San Fran of The Midwest!" While
it is true that Columbus is a very liberal city with a great and
booming gay population, the numbers don't really support that
"Top 3" number I've heard so many people throw around.
According to research at UCLA -- Law, San Francisco remains the
gay mecca it's generally been heralded. Here is the list of the
largest gay populations in America per capita: (% of total
population/estimated total GLBT population) 1. San Francisco :
• 8.2% / 256,311 2. Seattle : • 6.5% / 154,835 3.
Boston: • 6.2% / 201,344 4. Portland: • 6.1% / 94,027
5. Tampa • 5.9% / 119,044 6. Austin • 5.9% / 61,732
7. Denver • 5.8% / 99,626 8. Minneapolis • 5.7% /
130,472 9. Orla |
-1.180249 | 0.514355 | 6 | Petition statement to be delivered to UPS UPS Drivers Fired
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Background In Maspeth, NY, two weeks ago, UPS fired a driver
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job to stand in solidarity with their fellow worker. In
retaliation, UPS has now notified all 250 drivers who
participated in the protest that they are on notice of
termination. In other words, "You're fired." The well-being of
these drivers and their families hangs in the balance becau |
-0.027322 | 3.942989 | -1 | Tell me more × My son's back is ~35cm. As I understand, the
backpack should have the same height, but we have found one that
is 32cm wide x 37cm tall x 17cm deep, 900 grams. Those extra
2cm height are okay, but there is another option: 32 x 38 x 22
cm, 980 grams. Is 38cm too tall? He will grow soon, so maybe
that's fine. But what about 22 cm depth, isn't that too much for
a 1st grader? They don't have so many books, I suppose.
share|improve this question As light and small as possible. I
would go for a little safe on location to store the heavier
stuff. – Barfieldmv Jul 19 '11 at 12:55 add comment 3 Answers
up vote 3 down vote accepted I would choose the one that is
flatter because it would not pull backward so much even when
it's heavy. It's not so much the size of the bag that matters,
but what you put in it. If you're worried that he'll be carrying
too much weight, then choose a wide but flat bag, to keep the
weight close to his back and not pull him backward too much. It
can even be wider than his |
3.275222 | 4.618859 | 2 | Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Grimoire of the Rift Posted: 07/03/08
With Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Grimoire of the Rift, the DS
sequel to 2003's Final Fantasy Tactics Advance for the Game Boy
Advance, Square Enix wages turn-based battle on handhelds once
more. The punishing laws of the first game have been loosened
up, but does A2 do justice to its fans? Square-Enix and epic
storyline are often synonymous with one another, but the story
takes a backseat in this Grimoire. Like the last game, things
begin in a school where a kid named Luso stumbles across a magic
book with an incomplete story. The curious young boy decides to
make his mark on one of the page, and is whisked away into the
midst of a battle in another world. The remainder of the game
takes place in the land of Ivalice, where Luso searches for a
way to return home with the help of the Gully clan. Except for a
few select points, the story never develops into anything truly
meaningful. For a series that started off with a bang in the
story departmen |
3.65962 | -2.694766 | 72 | Mikaela Shiffrin competing in the giant slalom in Colorado on
Sunday. European Pressphoto Agency If a bum knee keeps Lindsey
Vonn sidelined, the face of Team USA almost certainly will be
Shiffrin, a rosy-cheeked 18-year-old from Colorado. Her star
rose in February, when she won the slalom title at the world
championships in Schladming, Austria. At 17, she became skiing's
youngest female world champion since 1985. Behind her meteoric
rise is a strategy that might surprise those parents who schlep
their children from mountain to mountain every weekend in search
of glory on the junior ski-racing circuit: As a kid, Shiffrin
didn't race much. While other junior skiers were playing
videogames in the back of the family Subaru, Shiffrin was
playing outside, zigzagging five hours a day on her home
mountain, mastering the near-perfect balance with which she
blasts through five dozen sets of slalom gates down icy hills.
Olympic alpine skier Mikaela Shiffrin Reuters "I think it's
misguided, particularly for young |
-1.849731 | 5.238524 | -1 | Weather | Traffic | Surf | Maps | Webcam »Next Story» Local
News Sunday Currents The Last Week Weekly Sections Subscribe
to the UT The San Diego Union-Tribune Small change could add
up to big savings January 2, 2005 Pennies for a rainy day are
nice, but there are easy ways to save much more that that for a
sunny future. Glinda Bridgforth and Gail Perry-Mason, authors
of the new book "Girl, Make Your Money Grow!" recommend starting
small. Putting aside even a dollar or two a day will help your
savings grow over time. They recommend that you consider the
following: Serial savings. Decide that you'll save every $1
bill with a serial number that begins with one of your initials
or has a certain combination of numbers, such as the year in
which were born. Check the serial numbers every time you break a
large bill or receive change. Windfall collection. Earmark for
savings any financial windfalls you receive – gifts, refunds,
prizes and even change you find on the street. Since you weren't
expecting |
-2.208026 | -0.545163 | -1 | Return to Transcripts main page No Guarantee on Social
Security Checks; New Alternative to a Grand Bargain; Rep. Ron
Paul Interview; News by Bribes and Hacking Aired July 12, 2011
- 19:00 ET JOHN KING, HOST: Thanks Wolf and good evening
everyone. Tonight fascinating CNN reporting from Libya where
army troops now being held by anti-Gadhafi rebels (INAUDIBLE)
crisis and say they were told to shoot to kill any comrades who
tried to flee the fighting. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: If you saw any
Libyan running away from the forward positions, you would shoot
him. I ask again to make sure we understand one another. That
was our job, he answers. KING: Plus live pictures here. A
moving farewell to Betty Ford whose public battles with breast
cancer and alcohol addiction were cultural turning points.
You're seeing there live pictures of people leaving a very
moving memorial service today in Palm Desert, California. But
up first tonight, President Obama raises the ante in his
showdown with Republicans over giving the |
-4.150117 | 1.220319 | -1 | Gwyneth Paltrow faced a real fast food challenge during a recent
taping of celebrity chef Jamie Oliver's new U.K. TV show - she
had to eat a burger on a rollercoaster. He tells Britain's
The Mirror newspaper, "It's quite a frightening rollercoaster,
and for me it was horrific - there was food flying everywhere.
"Gwyneth told me she trusted me, so I probably pushed our
friendship about as far as it could go.I think she had a really
good time... "She was very graceful, an amazing foodie and a
good, good cook". |
0.440697 | 4.269134 | -1 | Office of Public Affairs (315) 312-2265 June 19, 2002 OSWEGO --
Dr. Helen Zakin compares decades of research on centuries of
stained-glass masterpieces to solving "an enormous jigsaw
puzzle." All the pieces came into place, as the SUNY Oswego
professor and art department chair teamed with Dr. Virginia
Raguin at the College of Holy Cross to produce the two-volume
"Stained Glass Before 1700 in the Midwest States." The 600-page
work is the result of nearly 20 years of research on stained-
glass panels in museums and private collections in Illinois,
Indiana, Michigan and Ohio. Corpus Vitrearum USA, part of an
international organization dedicated to cataloguing works of
Renaissance and medieval stained glass, organized and published
the project, Zakin said. Corpus Vitrearum's cataloguing process
began in the 1950s and 1960s, "but it really started in earnest
around 20 years ago," she added. That's when Zakin and Raguin
took up the project. "We both wrote dissertations on medieval
stained glass," Zakin explained. "I |
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3.257912 | 5.222252 | -1 | Artix Entertainment 14603 Players Online 201100 Players during
last 24 Hours Hero Smash About HeroSmash Alpha testing is all
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-2.022881 | -1.417491 | 10 | Rick Santelli Takes on the Establishment 6 Responses to “Rick
Santelli Takes on the Establishment” 1. Corruption.gov Says:
Check out our support for Ron Paul via the silver screen!
http://www.youtube.com/user/CorruptionGov 2. amber Says:
Ron paul in 2012!! some of the proceeds go to local
business. heres the link thank you and help keep this
country strong god bless 3. Alphonse Ponzillo Says: The
three most aggressive opponents to our American Civil Society
are military, economical and political. Barack Obama and Mitt
Romney will pursue the present dialogue concerning these three
most aggressive opponents of our civilian American disasters.
Ron Paul will not pursue the present dialogue concerning our
three most American aggressive civilian disasters and Ron Paul
will not pursue the dialogue of Mitt Romney or Barack Obama. The
vote of the American Civilian Society is the only shelter the
American Civilian Society will offer to itself the ‘ American
Civilian Society’, to repl |
-1.165881 | 6.380608 | -1 | New Jersey | Intellectual Property Legal Question Asked on:
9/19/13, 12:33 pm Can I use a pun on a brand name in a song
title? For example, saying "Taco Belle" or something like that.
1 Answer Answered on: 9/19/13, 12:47 pm by Frank Natoli You
are free to use the names of businesses, people or companies in
your songs. In this context, you are not using those brands to
identify yourself in any way so they are not being employed as
trademarks. Of course, anytime you mention a famous brand or
person, etc. you need to make sure there is nothing you are
saying that can be construed as defamatory leaving them room for
that kind of claim; an opinion however is perfectly fine. So you
can sing about how Walmart exploits workers, if that is your
opinion, but you cannot say that they engage in violations of
child labor laws because that is a fact that if untrue they can
come after you for saying publically. Of course, if you have
reason to believe that it is in fact true then you can claim it.
But you better ha |
0.515399 | 3.971835 | -1 | New Posts All Forums: Posts by Lynne3 I need to find the
cutter that makes the tall twisted cuts (painted in gold) on
this cake. The circles are also in question. Is that a cutter
or just a circle with a pressed in design? It really depends on
your budget and her desires. Does she want one huge (Lifesize)
Barbie like Tori Spelling did? Or does she want a regular size
Barbie princess cake incorporated into a larger cake? Did the
client have her own idea? airbrush for sure Change "Sweet
Inspirations" to "Gallery" And make it a part of your main menu.
Also, add some cake pics on the other pages. It's great but
no pics. Also, City and State and areas you service should
jump out at people who find your site. Google search " gumpaste
boots". There are a ton of pics I would treat it as a tier, and
set it on a cake round. BUT I would adhere it with Museum
Putty. The groom can approve it. It is used on valuable pieces,
holds great, and causes absolutely no damage. Yes, fill the
cauldron with a ball of f |
2.643915 | 5.711213 | 2 | Permalink for comment 515556 RE[2]: What about... by galvanash
on Tue 24th Apr 2012 18:35 UTC in reply to "RE: What about..."
Member since: The more I think about it the more it makes sense
to me. Its perfect for OSS - because you could have one team of
developers concentrate on the device software and the APIs
exclusively. Each "client" (Linux, Windows, OSX, Android, iOS,
etc.) could be a separate dev team - its all very orthagonal and
clean, everyone could work fairly independently of each other
and optimize for the target platform extensively. Some (or all)
of the money generated by hardware sales could be used to fund
bounties or reward top contributors or whatever. The point is
that instead of developers seeing their work pilfered by a
hardware manufacturer they could actually get into the game
themselves and make at least a little money. I also found this:
I think it is just a concept housing, but it sure looks nice...
Someone is bound to start making and selling these kinds of
things soon. Reply |
-3.869949 | 4.065907 | -1 | BISC209: Lab6 From OpenWetWare Revision as of 12:47, 15 March
2010 by Tucker Crum (Talk | contribs) Jump to: navigation,
search Wellesley College-BISC 209 Microbiology -Spring 2010
LAB 6: Start the Characterization of Cultured Bacteria by
16srDNA Sequencing and Analysis & Continue Traditional ID
Techniques In addition to isolating genomic DNA from a soil
sample, amplifying the 16S rDNA by pcr, inserting the different
DNA fragments from the pcr product into a cloning vector,
transforming E. coli with your clones, and sending the
transformed E. coli off to have the 16s rDNA inserts sequenced
in an automatic sequencer so that you can identify a large and,
we hope, representative sample of the bacterial flora in the
soil community from your habitat, you also have been working,
simultaneously, through traditional microbiological culturing
techniques, to isolate and characterize a few of the culturable
bacteria through morphology, physical, and metabolism
differentiation. Look how much you have accomplished in |
4.381295 | 2.661625 | 5 | Y and R Bold and Beautiful General Hospital Other Soaps More
Sites Coltin Scott (Nikolas Cassadine) Smart, sensitive, and
charming, Coltin Scott embodies the attributes that make Nikolas
Cassadine a beloved character on "General Hospital." Coltin took
over the already established role in July of 1999, with seamless
grace. Coltin's story is a true Hollywood fairytale. After a
knee injury prevented him from pursuing a professional career in
soccer, Coltin packed up his car and headed for Los Angeles to
pursue another passion -- acting. With only two hundred dollars
and nowhere to live, Coltin slept in his car and showered at the
gym. Within three weeks, he met his agent in a restaurant in Los
Angeles. In less than one year, Coltin landed the coveted role
of Nikolas on "General Hospital." Prior to that, Coltin guest-
starred on "Pacific Blue" and was a series regular on "Planet
Patrol." His film credits include co-starring roles in "Justice"
and "Kraa! The Seamonster." He recently finished filming the
lead rol |
5.140022 | 1.289646 | -1 | 4. Buying Advice If you are reading this there is at least a
possibility that you are interested in buying a concertina, so I
shall proceed on that assumption. Since the first version of
this FAQ was written in 1995 the landscape for buyers of
concertinas has changed radically. Back then if you wanted to
buy new then either there was a handful of makers making
expensive but superlative instruments at a rate of a few a year
or there was Bastari (now Stagi) making fairly cheap but not so
nice accordion-reed based concertinas. Most people bought an old
instrument that had been renovated. Such concertinas varied
between just about passible and superb, with prices to match.
For old instruments not much has changed except the price, which
has always increased. It's in the area of new instruments that
things are so different. Now there is a whole raft of new makers
on the scene, serving every level of the market place from
beginner to accomplished professional. It is said that 1900 -
1930 was a "golden age" of co |
3.00952 | 4.377125 | -1 | [FUN] TreeOctopus v1.1 - Summon The Great Pacific Northwest Tree
Octopus! [Permissions] [1317] Discussion in
'Inactive/Unsupported Plugins' started by insanj, Aug 3, 2011.
1. Offline TreeOctopus - Summon the great Pacific
Northwest Tree Octopus at will! Version: 1.1 CraftBukkit
Version: #1000 This plugin was created by insanj, brought to
his attention by Camcade, who was part of the design team along
with Carlthealpaca, and Gonjigas. :) According to the
"tree octopus" website, this kind of octopus is an extremely
endangered species that lives in the tress in a very small
portion of the world. The website instructed people to help save
the tree octopus by putting money up in the trees so that the
tree octopuses could make nests out of the bills. Of course,
this was a scam just to get people to put money in trees for
other people to take. (http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/)
With this plugin, relive the tale! Place a gold block on a leaf,
or hit a leaf with a gold ingot, and a mes |
-1.843331 | 2.294129 | 125 | After Marius the giraffe, Copenhagen Zoo kills whole lion family
(including 2 cubs) Copenhagen Zoo lions CC BY-SA 2.0 Flickr
Something strange is going on at the Copenhagen Zoo in Denmark.
I'm no expert on how to run a zoo, and I'm not trying to attack
them, as I'm sure they have the best of intentions, but it seems
like there must be a better way to do things than to kill
healthy animals just to make room. Flickr/CC BY 2.0 But let me
backtrack a bit: This all started a few weeks ago when the zoo
announced that it would kill a giraffe named Marius because it
was a "surplus to requirements" and they couldn't find another
zoo to take it because of European laws on inbreeding. This
decision was quite controversial, with protests and petitions
against it, the whole nine yards. Despite this, the zoo ended up
killing Marius and dissected it in public before feeding part of
the carcass to lions. You can see some photos here (warning:
graphic). There are also some much more gory photos of the
autopsy on Flickr, |
-2.376328 | 5.850282 | -1 | Why Companies Are Always Dying and Cities Are Hard to Kill
timessquare 0 Why Companies Are Always Dying and Cities Are Hard
to KillThis is from a New York Times article on Geoffrey West, a
theoretical physicist who has applied his theorizing to further
our understanding of how cities work. Although the entire
article is compelling, in the final section Mr. West offers a
theory about the life span of the corporation: Under this
framework, at what stage is Netflix, shares of which have
tripled in 2010? Check out the Biggest Wall Street Stars of
2010.>> (via Tim O’Reilly Twitter) mtaylor [at] observer.com |
@mbrookstaylor |
-0.926149 | 2.775465 | 84 | Violent tornado strikes steel factory in Italy A violent
tornado has hit one of Europe's biggest steel plants in southern
Italy, injuring around 20 workers and leaving one person
missing. The storm drifted in off the Mediterranean coastline
and struck the port city of Taranto, bringing down a chimney
stack and damaging a warehouse and lighthouse at the factory's
docks, the steel company ILVA confirmed. |
-0.181402 | 8.193352 | 42 | Aperi Architecture Document From Eclipsepedia Revision as of
17:39, 7 September 2006 by Slupesky.us.ibm.com (Talk | contribs)
Jump to: navigation, search Ted Slupesky and Todd Singleton
Latest Update: August 2006 Architecture of Aperi Storage
Manager This document describes the architecture of the Aperi
Storage Manager, an open source storage management platform
owned by a community of storage vendors. The Aperi Storage
Manager is based on an initial contribution from IBM of a large
portion of the IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center 3.1 product.
Leveraging the Eclipse Platform, the Aperi project intends to
develop an extensible storage management application framework
and an initial set of exemplary, exploiting applications. The
framework will include standards-based services for control,
discovery, and monitoring of storage resources. Initial
candidate exploiters include file system, fabric, tape, and disk
management applications. The platform should be extensible, so
that community members can eas |
-4.156859 | 0.954852 | 18 | HOME > Chowhound > Manhattan > need restaurant recommendation
with good food and atmosphere as well • b • 1 out of
towners are asking that I reserve for saturday night before new
years. They want good food and good atmosphere kind of dressy
etc. I think 100 per person would be the max-anything under
would be better. Any cuisine or neighborhood would work. Keep in
mind I need somewhere that a 2 week notice would be enough to
reserve. Thank you, 1. Click to Upload a photo (10 MB limit)
1. It seems to me that you're being too general to get well-
tailored responses. They really don't have any preferences for
cuisine or location at all? Lots and lots of places match your
search criteria. May I suggest that you check these Opentable
search results for Manhattan, and click on "price" if you'd like
to sort them in descending order by price? The price
legend is as follows: $$ = $16 to $30 $$$ = $31 to $50
$$$$ = $51 or more The Price reflects the estimated price
of a dinner for on |
-0.771251 | 3.989872 | -1 | How Long Does it Take for Water to Evaporate? On June 12 at
noon, I filled a wine glass with 8 oz. of water. Then I put the
glass outside, where it would be in the sun for a few hours
every day. How long do you think it took for all the water to
evaporate? I'll post the answer, but I'd like to hear your
guess right now. Closest answer wins! It was pretty hot. Check
out the whole weather calendar for June if you think the daily
temperatures and humidity will help you figure it out. Guesses
are no longer being recorded. Please memorize your own answer.
Continue to the answer. How long does water take to evaporate?
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Rob | July 24th, 2006 Photographic Height/Weight Chart | The
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3.084244 | 5.214262 | 2 | i hope metroid zero mission will be one of the 10 gba games
#11EoinPosted 8/1/2011 10:52:28 AM Pokefilm posted... actually
there only 3 spots left nintendo life already confirmed 2 more
games Just checked the Nintendo Life article. It specifically
states those games are rumours. #12VyersPosted 8/1/2011
10:52:45 AM I'm hoping that Superstar Saga, Advance Wars, and
The Minish Cap are the remaining three. Playing: Shin Megami
Tensei: Strange Journey, The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening,
Stacking, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D, inFamous
#13Pokefilm(Topic Creator)Posted 8/1/2011 11:44:32 AM if they
are rumors atleast now theres more space but, metroid is a real
cool guy and he doesnt afraid of anythings |
-0.994995 | 9.972714 | 15 | Take the 2-minute tour × Is is possible to both define an
anchor to scroll to a URL and set a variable in the frament? I
tried with code the below, but this does not work in Chrome. Can
I make it work using another delimiter than the ampersand?
<!doctype html> <title>Scroll to anchor test</title>
<p><a href="#bottom">Scroll to bottom</a> (works)</p> <p><a
href="#bottom&test=testing">Scroll to bottom and include
variable in the frament</a> (doesn't work)</p> <p
style="margin-top: 2000px">Bottom of page</p> <p><a
name="bottom">#bottom</a></p> JSFiddle with the code above:
http://jsfiddle.net/janaagaard/FHdQr/ share|improve this
question how about handling the fragment by JS ? – Raptor Jun
24 '13 at 7:44 Hello John, this does not really scrolls down..
it just teleports to there. I have some javascript if you would
like? it's some smooth scroller :) – Ryan de Vries Jun 24 '13
at 7:44 No, that's not possible. #bottom&test=testing would
refer to an element with that exact id. GET par |
0.191619 | 8.466565 | 103 | Your computer problems solved with Jay Lee Indexing is slowing
me down Q. I only use my computer for things like surfing the
Web and reading email message. Somehow an icon for “Indexing”
has appeared on my PC. It really slows down my machine and seem
to take a lot of time doing whatever it is doing. Is there a way
to turn off indexing and speed up my computer? A. Indexing is a
feature of the Windows operating system that is designed to
speed up the ability to search your hard drive. By default,
Windows indexing caches this information from your hard drive to
memory to speed up the built-in search utility. If you have a
slower computer and you don’t really need this feature, turning
it off will free up system resources and may well significantly
improve the performance of your PC. The process for disabling
Indexing is somewhat involved, so rather than spell out the
steps here I will simply point you to an indepth article at that
outlines the process for Windows 7, Windows Vista and even
Windows XP. Keep |
1.833188 | 3.198668 | -1 | Forgot your password? Comment: They don't care about real
dangerous things (Score 4, Interesting) 289 Story: I walked
into the Detroit airport a couple years ago while wearing the
Video Coat. The nice TSA people marked my entire family's
boarding passes SSSS. They inspected us thoroughly, including
the eight 5 AH Chinese LiPo battery packs used to power the
coat. These are the no-protection-board version with the factory
connectors that let you plug two batteries together like BIG 9V
batteries. They will happily put out 100 amps. Had we been 'the
type', we could have started four fires in the cabin that day.
Comment: Re:Year 15 here (Score 1) 177 by NixieBunny
(#46159701) Attached to: At my current workplace, I've outlasted
... I am in a similar situation, but only 12 years. The people
above me are getting near retirement age, but lots of folks
stick around until their seventies around here. I have a side
business and work part-time, to keep the interest level up and
reduce unreasonable demands on my tim |
-1.036112 | 0.519171 | 6 | Pot-smoking detective's sentence cut Last updated 05:00
24/11/2013 TROPICAL BARS: Former detective inspector Mark
Franklin is serving a jail term in the Cook Islands for cannabis
dealing. Relevant offers South Pacific A former leading
detective who confessed to using dope to deal with the stress of
some of the country's grisliest murders has had his jail
sentence for cannabis offences in the Cook Islands reduced.
Former Detective Inspector Mark Franklin was jailed for 12
months in Rarotonga in August after pleading guilty to selling
cannabis to an undercover officer in 2010. The charges arose
out of Operation Eagle, a joint investigation between New
Zealand and Cook Islands police, which resulted in 13 people
facing charges. Sentences handed down by New Zealand judge Colin
Doherty under the Cook Islands' draconian drug laws - Franklin
faced up to 10 years in prison - were derided in Rarotonga as
excessive. Franklin appealed his sentence on the grounds that
the amounts involved were small and did not a |
-0.847856 | 9.267882 | 15 | Howdy folks! I'm trying to create a page that would be printable
direct from IE/Netscape and would fit on a standard page of A4
paper (or possibly the American standard, not sure what that
is.). I'm setting out the page in a set of tables. How wide
should the main table be before it runs off the paper page?
Also, how tall should it be (pixel measurements please)? Thanks
folks, |
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YMMV: Warrior Cats open/close all folders • Ass Pull:
The deaths of Sagewhisker and Cedarstar in Yellowfang's Secret
were very sudden and unexplained, and were only there to move
the plot forward by making Yellowfang ShadowClan's medicine cat
and Raggedpelt the leader. • Badass Decay: The Tribe of
Rushing Water. When they first appear in Moonrise, the Cave-
Guards are protrayed as large, muscular, capable bodyguards who
are able to restrain the main characters. When they show up
again in Outcast, the entire Tribe seems to lack knowledge of
any basic fighting techniques, and are continually getting their
asses kicked by a bunch of untrained rogues, who are able to
kill several Tribe cats without suffering any casualties
themselves. • Complete Monster: Brokenstar, Tigerstar, and
Scourge from the original series. Brokenstar killed his father
and forces kits into battle long before they're ready, Tigerstar
is an ambitious fascist obsessed w |
2.200217 | 8.644428 | -1 | Sign up × Some ETs follow a positional number system, with the
same base as the number of fingers on their hand. The following
inscription is all the evidence we have: $$(\Box @)+(\Box @) =
\Box\bigstar\Box $$ Find the number of fingers. Attempt:
$(xy)_b + (xy)_b = (xzx)_b$ Can be written as $2y+2bx=x+bz+b^2
x$ so I need to solve for $b$ the equation $b^2x+bz-2bx+x-y=0$
with $b\geq 2$ and $0\leq x,y,z<b $. share|cite|improve this
question Regarding Source, M Gardner's mathematical games was
mentioned in the book, but I havent been able to locate it.
Please post an online link if you know it. – kuch nahi Jun 26
'11 at 9:41 my interpretation of $(\Box @)+(\Box @) =
(\Box\bigstar\Box)$ is $(xy)_b+(xy)_b=(xzx)_b$ and therefore
$(bx+y)+(bx+y)=b^2x+zb+x$, which can be transformed into
$2y+2xb=(b^2+1)x+bz$ – miracle173 Jun 26 '11 at 9:42 Hint: When
adding two double 'digit' integers together, the maximum carry
you can get to the third position is equal to ... – Jyrki
Lahtonen Jun 26 '11 at 9:43 @miracle173 mad |
-4.847904 | 1.941727 | -1 | Sign up × I have read that one shouldn't compost nuts or peanut
butter because of their high oil and fat content. I am wondering
if the same thing goes for peanut shells? I have a lot of peanut
shells and I hope I can compost with them rather than throw them
away. enter image description here share|improve this question
3 Answers 3 up vote 13 down vote accepted Yes, peanut shells
are a fine high-carbon addition to your compost pile. Adding
peanut shells to your compost will probably tend to dry it out,
so make sure you either add water or use enough high-moisture
ingredients (e.g. most kitchen scraps or coffee grounds). Also,
if you're lacking in high-nitrogen ingredients, then they will
take longer to compost. share|improve this answer Yes, peanut
shells can be compostable, but be sure that there is no salt on
them. Often peanut shells have been salted, and these should not
be added to compost because the salt will stay in the soil and
damage plants. share|improve this answer +1 Like most things, a |
-0.205006 | 8.884169 | -1 | Take the 2-minute tour × I'm writing a simple application which
will remove any trace that I was ever at a PC. (Not for
nefarious reasons before anyone asks - I do a lot of temporary
work at client sites and when I leave, I want an easy way of
uninstalling all my applications and software licenses) Coding
is the easy part but what to call it... that has me stumped.
Don't laugh, names are important! I could just go with
something boring like "AppCleaner" but I was hoping to find
something a little more interesting. It's probably getting into
the realms of philosophy but are there any words (in any
language) to express the concept of "remove from existence"?
edit the original wording was "never existed" but, as pointed
out in the comment, that's not quite the same thing as removing
from existence which is what I'm actually after. share|improve
this question closed as too localized by simchona, kiamlaluno,
Jasper Loy, RegDwigнt Nov 28 '11 at 19:30 I was originally
going for never existed but changed the |
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0.411972 | -0.484934 | -1 | The Calvin and Hobbes Wiki Calvin as a Fighter Pilot 398pages
on this wiki Calvin the Fighter Pilot is a minor recurring
alter ego of Calvin's. He appeared in two Sunday strips. Model
fantasy Calvin the Fighter Pilot In his first appearance,
Calvin the Fighter Pilot was in control of an F-4 Phantom in a
combat situation over a populated rural area (possibly his
hometown). Calvin's plane had grossly malfunctioned; its canopy
was fused and smeared, the landing gear stuck, and the controls
broken, preventing any control whatsoever. the fighter
persumably crashed. This appearance was analogous to Calvin
imagining how his poorly built model F-4 would have performed in
the sky. Razing the school Calvin the Fighter Pilot 2 In his
second appearance, Calvin the Fighter Pilot may have been more
of his own boss. Here, he piloted an F-15 over his hometown and
destroyed his elementary school (in a mildly controversial
strip). Although he referred to it as a "mission", he seemed to
take pleasure in the destruction |
-1.760592 | -0.151106 | 41 | What the Anti-Birth Control Movement is Really About 99 percent
of American women who have ever been sexually active have used
birth control. 65 percent of Americans think that insurance
plans should have to cover contraception. Yet the leaders of
the GOP, in an effort to make it harder for women to obtain
birth control, have sided with a splinter faction of the Right
that wants to allow any employer to prevent any employee from
privately obtaining contraception coverage from their insurance
provider. Why are they so out of touch? Why have the leaders of
a major party staked out a position on contraception to the
right of 57 percent of American Catholics and an even greater
percentage of the population as a whole? Here’s a picture of a
panel gathered by the House GOP for a hearing about the issue:
And here’s major Rick Santorum supporter Foster Friess
explaining today why he just doesn’t understand why women need
birth control: In Virginia yesterday, the state House GOP
pushed through a bill mandating |
0.865074 | 2.306469 | -1 | Wednesday, April 15, 2009 The bagger at the grocery store
unbeknownst to you, puts your chicken breast in the same bag as
your baby formula and when you get home, you find your can of
Similac covered in E.Coli slime. You leave the doctor's office
with a sick kid in tow and head for the Pharmacy. Your kiddo is
whiny, fussy and quite frankly miserable as you wait in a line
longer than the Mississippi River. The woman in front of you
gets annoyed and offers her parenting advice, "Maybe if
you...your child would behave." No matter what the cause, we
would all be lying if we said we lived an annoyance-free life!
Whether it's a road-rager, a slow check-out lane or miscounted
money at the bank - it's out there and periodically I like to
give my readers and my new visitors a place to vent. So, here
you go! Tell me what annoys you. Be frank. Be honest. Be real.
I will then have follow-up posts with advice and fun anecdotes
for your biggest gripes! (btw Mommy Blogger Monday will return
next week!) The Red |
0.116211 | 10.347921 | 16 | Take the 2-minute tour × A purchase order can be stored in
Commerce Server 2007 in the purchaseorders table, which comes
with a limited default storage columns. What if you want to add
new columns to this table that would be used to store additional
order information? Pls Note that I am a beginner in Commerce
server 2007 Thanks in Advance share|improve this question add
comment 1 Answer up vote 1 down vote accepted You can extend
the PurchaseOrders table in two ways. Both involve adding
additional data to the PurchaseOrder class and mapping that to a
new column in the database: 1. Map a weakly typed
PurchaseOrder class property to a new database column. How to
Map a Weakly Typed Indexer Property to an Explicit Database
Column documents this and explicitly mentions the PurchaseOrder
scenario. There is also relevant material in the blog post
Mapping Weakly Typed Properties to Storage. 2. Derive a new
class from PurchaseOrder and add a property. Read How to Derive
a New Orders Class and How to Modi |
-2.090928 | 5.605888 | 56 | Operating Income Dictionary Says Definition of 'Operating
Income' The amount of profit realized from a business's
operations after taking out operating expenses - such as cost of
goods sold (COGS) or wages - and depreciation. Operating income
takes the gross income (revenue minus COGS) and subtracts other
operating expenses and then removes depreciation. These
operating expenses are costs which are incurred from operating
activities and include things such as office supplies and heat
and power. Operating Income is typically a synonym for earnings
before interest and taxes (EBIT) and is also commonly referred
to as "operating profit" or "recurring profit." Calculated as:
Operating Income = Gross Income - Operating Expenses -
Depreciation & Amortization Investopedia Says Investopedia
explains 'Operating Income' Operating income would not include
items such as investments in other firms, taxes or interest
expenses. In addition, nonrecurring items such as cash paid for
a lawsuit settlement are often not i |
3.971105 | 3.754451 | 35 | Harrison FordThe rumor that Harrison Ford was considering
reprising Han Solo in the new Stars Wars Trilogy has been
floating around for a while, but today comes news that it's a
"done deal." We all know Hollywood gossip is as reliable as the
weather forecast, but the source confirming it is so odd and
unlikely that it has to be true! It was not People or
Entertainment Weekly but El Mayimbe of the entertainment news
site Latino Review who broke the news this morning on
FoxNewsLatino. He actually used the words "done deal" to
describe Ford signing on. And because of the good track record
he and his site have had in breaking these kinds of stories,
everyone in the biz is really optimistic. I thought I was 25
years done with Star Wars until I heard this. The newer movies
just didn't have the same edge or appeal. That's all changed
now. I can't wait to see what Ford does with this role! So
yeah, Ford is getting up there. He's 70, wears glasses and has a
big bald spot on the back of his head. Not very rougish. Eve |
0.881765 | 6.278697 | -1 | In response to your questions: Are the zones on the negative?
Are they on the paper? Are they in the scene? The answer is yes
to all three. The 'zones' in the subject represent the subject's
luminance range, in the negative they are represented by the
varying densities from somewhere above Film Base + Fog to the
maximum density of the film (D-Max), and same for the paper. The
goal is to carry the subject luminance through to the paper,
allowing of course for artistic interpretation. |
4.428042 | 3.294468 | -1 | Alex Rocco Talks Carmine Falcone in 'Batman: Year One' The
latest original DC Universe animated movie is set to hit Blu-ray
and DVD October 18th. Alex Rocco voices Carmine Falcone in
Batman: Year One Alex Rocco voices Carmine Falcone in Batman:
Year One The appearance in a Dark Knight-related project brings
Alex Rocco's 44-year career full circle. The Massachusetts-born
actor, who was once an adjunct member of Boston's Winter Hill
Gang, got his first on-screen role in the 1960s Batman
television series. Alex Rocco appeared as the thug Block in the
back-to-back episodes "A Piece of the Action" and "Batman's
Satisfaction," which premiered on March 1 and 2, 1967. The
episodes also featured the first true crossover appearance The
Green Hornet and Kato on the Batman series (aside from a cameo
popping out a window in the first season). In feature films,
Rocco's most notable roles include Moe Greene (and his gruesome
demise) in The Godfather, the comically curious police chief in
The Stunt Man, and as over-the- |
-0.500282 | 9.922718 | 15 | [whatwg] Make radio button group suffering from being missing
Mikko Rantalainen mikko.rantalainen at peda.net Wed Jan 12
01:55:05 PST 2011 2011-01-08 00:06 EEST: Ian Hickson: > The
basic idea behind this design is that type=radio seems to have
been > designed to keep each control as independent as possible
-- before we > started fiddling with it in WF2, the only way
type=radio controls had any > relationship to other type=radio
controls was with their behaviour when > they were clicked.
Now, for required="", we needed a little more than > that,
because otherwise required="" was essentially useless for radio
> buttons, but I tried to be faithful to the original design and
kept it as > independent as possible. > [...] > In the end I'll
spec whatever gets implemented. What do other browser > vendors
feel about this? Should we make required="" on any one
type=radio > control affect the validity of all the other
controls? Or should we stick > to the independent basis of this
API? I'm not a browser ven |
-1.101988 | 6.587708 | -1 | Arthur Frommer reportedly takes back brand from Google, will
keep guidebooks going The tale of Google and Frommer's famed
travel guides has taken another twist this evening. Associated
Press writer Beth Harpaz reports Arthur Frommer confirmed over
the phone that he has retaken control of the brand from Google,
and plans to continue publishing them in e-book and print
formats, as well as maintaining the website. This comes after
Google acquired the brand from publisher Wiley in 2012, followed
by's revelation last month that it apparently intended to shut
production of the books down. We're told by a Google
spokesperson (check after the break for the full statement) that
it has integrated the content acquired from Frommer's and Wiley
into its products including Google+ Local, but returned the
brand to the founder and will continue licensing "certain
content" to him. Why things took this circuitous route right
back to the man who started it all back in 1957 is unknown and
terms of the agreement were not disclo |
2.455958 | 1.162599 | 19 | ANST-Announce - Ansteorra's Crown Tournament Ulf Gunnarsson
ulfie at Sun Mar 4 16:34:33 PST 2001 The day was dark and
dreary. Rain drizzled off and on, and the wind bit cold through
damp tunics and cloaks. The best fighters in Ansteorra gathered
to determine the Heirs to the Lion Throne. Dukes and counts,
knights and squires, all men of might and honor, met on a muddy
field to match swords with one another. Before the list
started, Earl Barn Silveraxe, already a Peer, was made a member
of the Order of the Pelican. That noble water fowl was a
perfect omen for the weather. The rain continued. The number
of combatants dwindled as even the best were laid low to a
faster or cleaner shot. Finally three stood to do battle: Earl
Daffydd, Jarl Timo, and Sir Duncan. Earl Daffydd twisted a knee
in the clinging mud of the water-slicked field, and regretfully
withdrew, leaving a jarl facing a thane, round shield against
heater. Blows were thrown and one fell. The combatants rose.
Again a flurry of blows, and |
2.730448 | 1.686534 | 19 | The First Grimoire: Final Fantasy Tactics A2 Prologue: "The
Beginning of Summer" It's summer, isn't it? The sun's burning
hot, the sky is bright blue. And even night feels shorter. So...
"Why am I still here?!" A young boy leaned back on his chair
and glared at the ceiling. He took his hand back and brushed it
through his messy brown hair, messy due to him constantly
scratching his head or shaking his head as he tried to think of
things to write in his notebook. In the end, he just slapped it
closed angrily. "Mr. Blaiiiir, why do I have to do this again?"
He directed his anger at his teacher. Mr. Blair raised his head
from the book he was reading and replied, "Luso," He said, "If
you need to know the reason, think back to how many times you
have been late to school." "Um..." Luso grabbed his hair again,
trying to think. "T-two times?" Mr. Blair shook his head,
"You've been late to class for six times consecutively. Each
time, you've interrupted class to yell out 'Sorry Mr. Blair! I'm
late again!'" "S |
-5.183724 | 1.391378 | 33 | My Backyard Evolution About the Deck Chef Kent's Famous
Barbecue Cornbread Recipe by Kent Whitaker This famous recipe
won the Emeril Live barbecue contest on the Food Network
channel. It's dang good eating! I created this recipe when I
couldn't decide between pulled pork or Mexican cornbread for
dinner. The trick to making Kent's BBQ Cornbread is barbecue. I
use leftover barbecue beef or pork that has been finely shredded
and re-smoked on a smoker for an hour using hickory wood. This
adds a deep barbecue flavor that you can sink your teeth into.
1/2 pound leftover barbecue pork or beef 1 cup butter, melted
1/4 cup milk 1 cup sugar 4 eggs 1 (15 oz.) can cream-style corn
1/2 (4 oz.) can chopped green chile peppers, drained 1/2 cup
shredded Monterrey jack cheese 1/4 cup shredded cheddar cheese 1
cup all-purpose flour 1 cup yellow cornmeal 4 teaspoons baking
powder 1/4 teaspoon salt Preheat oven to 325°. Lightly grease a
9x13 glass-baking dish. Shred leftover barbecue into fine
pieces. In a large bowl, beat t |
3.526366 | 2.112245 | -1 | very own Butters' Very Own Episode "Butters' Very Own Episode"
is episode 79 of the Comedy Central series South Park and the
season finale for the show's fifth season, making it the first
season not to have a Christmas special. It originally aired on
December 12, 2001. Butters' Very Own Episode begins with his
own theme, and Butters is excited because his parents'
anniversary is coming up, and the whole family is going to
Bennigan's to celebrate. A few days before this event, Butters'
mom asks him to go and spy on his father, to find out what gift
he was buying her. However, Butters (without understanding what
he was seeing) finds his father going into a gay movie theater
and bath house to have casual sex with men. He blithely reports
back what he finds (complete with photographic evidence) to his
mother, who goes completely insane. Butters follows his dad the
next night to the bath house, only to find him lying on a bed
masturbating, and also sees Mr. Garrison have sex with an
unknown man. At home that n |
1.568467 | 8.100453 | -1 | Take the 2-minute tour × I'm casting a ray in Box2D using
b2World.rayCast how can I get the normal of the wall which was
hit? Or better yet - the line start and end points? The
information returned is: Fixture (fixture hit, and parent body)
Point ( Location of hit ) Normal (Normal pointing at new
direction of ray - not the normal of the edge hit) Fraction (0.0
- 1.0) of the point location along the array However lets say I
wanted to place something along the edge hit, previously I just
iterated through the segments and did a line intersection test.
However if the body is rotated this does not work. How can I
retrieve the line/edge information for the edge the ray hits
with. For example, if i wanted to place texture along the wall
or some kind of decal. share|improve this question add comment
2 Answers up vote 3 down vote accepted Here's what I ended up
doing incase anyone else stumbled onto this. This implementation
will only work on rectangular shapes. Since those are stored in
the same order in the |
3.190258 | -4.121148 | 38 | Today, Leavitt's past looms in distance USF's coach learned a
lot not far from where the Bulls play today. Published
September 23, 2006 The visiting sideline at Kansas' Memorial
Stadium is a familiar place for Jim Leavitt. As a defensive
back at Missouri, he played his final college game at Kansas in
1977, losing 24-22. He returned to Lawrence four times as an
assistant, and he'll be there as a head coach tonight for USF's
kickoff at 7 with the Jayhawks. But for Leavitt to truly come
back to Kansas, he would have to drive 85 miles west on
Interstate 70 to Manhattan, home of Kansas State, where Leavitt
coached from 1990-95. If there's a model for what Leavitt has
built in a decade at USF, it's there, and many see a lot of
longtime Wildcats coach Bill Snyder in Leavitt. "Jim really has
tried to emulate Coach Snyder, as much as anybody that came out
of that tree," said former Houston and Wyoming coach Dana Dimel,
who coached under Snyder from 1987-96. "We were a bunch of
young guys that just fed off each |
2.316522 | 0.190339 | 44 | Try out the new Click here! Esther 3:10-15 (Holman Christian
Standard) View In My Bible 10 The king removed his signet ringa
from his finger and gave it to Haman son of Hammedatha the
Agagite, the enemy of the Jewish people. 11 Then the king told
Haman, "The money and people are given to you to do with as you
see fit." 12 The royal scribes were summonedb on the thirteenth
day of the first month, and the order was written exactly as
Haman commanded. [It was intended for] the royal satraps, the
governors of each of the provinces, and the officials of each
ethnic group and written for each province in its own script and
to each ethnic group in its own language. It was written in the
name of King Ahasuerus and sealed with the royal signet ring. 13
Letters were sent by couriers to each of the royal provinces
[telling the officials] to destroy, kill, and annihilate all the
Jewish people-young and old, women and children-and plunder
their possessionsc on a single day, the thirteenth day of Adar,
the twelfth month. |
3.199284 | -4.206864 | 38 | Well, this one sure came out of nowhere. Eric Oertel, a
6-foot-2/195-pound athlete out of Racine, Wis., became the 16th
known verbal commitment to the WSU class of 2010 last night, as
first reported by his local paper. Oertel was so under the radar
that it appeared had to hastily create a profile page for him
when news of his commitment broke, and only Rivals appeared to
even have him on WSU's radar. One reason he probably flew under
the radar is that he's from Wisconsin; every other current
commit is from Washington or California. (The connection,
apparently, is linebackers coach Travis Niekamp, a Wisconsin
native.) Additionally, he's from a tiny private Lutheran school
-- basically the equivalent to an A or B school in Washington,
although he's in a fairly good sized town (about the size of
Tacoma or Spokane). Another reason he probably eluded notice is
because despite some of his gaudy rushing numbers -- he
reportedly is the leading rusher in the state -- he's not very
highly thought of as a running back |
0.932596 | 2.715331 | -1 | Thursday, December 12, 2013 Holiday Hurdle In addition to the
aforementioned sickness, whose lingering effects are evident
from the bottle of pepto bismol safely tucked in my desk drawer
just in cases, this was THE week I've been dreading for several
weeks. My mind has looked at every event and related it back to
this week. I remember hearing about the Sound of Music live on
NBC being on December 5th, and my stomach tying itself in knots
thinking of it as my deadline to submit some documents to our
outside counsel. Everything related back to this week, December
9th, 10th, and 11th. I realize I'm being cryptic on what was
going on, but I assure you that it is only to do with work, and
completely beside the point. Things did suck, for those three
days, culminating in less suck on the 11th, where I managed to
play my own role very well. I was proud of myself and felt very
well prepared for the 11th (date of hearing), so going into the
morning, I wasn't too anxiety ridden. Anyway, things weren't as
fine as the |
-0.557128 | 9.283887 | -1 | Take the 2-minute tour × For Highlighting and the Note's icon,
I can click on it, and choose to view the Property bar and
change its color, icon image, etc, and then say, "Use as Default
Property", so now all the highlighting and Note icon will have
that style. I can even change the default font size by going to
Perferences -> Commenting, and use Verdana 18px. But I can't
make the Note Icon bigger, so that it is really obvious,
possibly about twice as wide and twice as tall... weird. Is
there actually a way? share|improve this question add comment
Your Answer Browse other questions tagged or ask your own
question. |
3.156536 | -4.337509 | 38 | Turns out Bryce Petty isn't perfect Originally Published:
August 3, 2014 By Max Olson | ESPN.com DALLAS -- Baylor
quarterback Bryce Petty is the best offensive player in the Big
12, a prototypical 6-foot-3, 230-pound wizard with a cannon arm
and quick feet who added 4,200 passing yards, 46 total TDs and
one conference title to his résumé last season. He's also
beloved by his community in Waco, where he volunteers regularly
and runs a Bible study. He will finish his master's in December.
It's impossible for Baylor fans to love their humble, friendly
golden boy any more than they already do. Yet they will exceed
those limits this fall. "He has every attribute you want in a
quarterback and a leader of your football team," Baylor athletic
director Ian McCaw said. [+] EnlargeBryce Petty Eric Lars
Bakke/ESPN ImagesDespite his coach's pleas, Bryce Petty
continues to be a "pretty boy" by not growing a beard. "That's
Zeus himself," Baylor defensive end Shawn Oakman said. "That's
the man. I want to be like Petty |
-4.763162 | 1.3029 | -1 | Buffet Menu 06-Apr-2011 by Buffet Menu Having a good buffet
menu in place will ease out all your worries about your
party.But this needs a little bit of hard work as you need to
satisfy the taste buds of the choosiest among the group. The
basic concept of a buffet menu is to prepare a mix and match
menu with your favorite dishes that gels well with the
situation. So what are you waiting for? Read an know more about
the various buffet menu ideas. Buffet menu ideas First you
should plan the theme whether it is a baby shower buffet,
holiday buffet or birthday party. The food selection should
match the theme, like if you plan for a thanksgiving buffet then
serve turkey and sweet potatoes which is considered traditional
feast for thanksgiving. Also consider who will be your guests,
if more children are expected to attend the party, include lot
of kid friendly foods like chicken fingers, hot dogs and tasty
desserts. Breakfast Buffet Menu As breakfast is considered
important food of the day, try to includ |
-0.73287 | 9.2563 | 15 | Prevent cross-site scripting attacks by encoding HTML responses
Uncover the basics of cross-site scripting attacks and learn how
you can prevent them using a Java™-based approach to encode HTML
output from a server. Usha Ladkani (, Senior Staff Software
Engineer, IBM Photo of Usha LadkaniUsha Ladkani has extensive
experience in application development, with a focus on Java/J2EE
and middleware technologies. She has worked with the B2B
development and maintenance team since 2005. Usha developed a
framework preventing cross-site scripting issues in WebSphere
Partner Gateway to make products more secure. Her contributions
to other IBM products include autonomic computing, enabling
WebSphere Application Server update installer to be used for
WPG, build engineering, and static code analysis. Usha is the
focal point for application and static scan analysis for WPG and
Sterling Integrator. She has an electronics and
telecommunication engineering degree. 30 July 2013 Also
available in Russian Cross-site scripti |
1.56477 | 2.417561 | 62 | Take the tour × Some words or phrases have 'special' meaning
beyond the combination of constituent parts. For example: •
'White House' is the white house where the US president lives.
• 'black board' is where you draw on with chalk at school
[actually more recently a green board and in the past 20 years a
'white board' (which is white)]. Negative examples (phrases or
constructions that are not examples of the concept): •
'quasi-' anything: (I find) is -not- a 'special thing' for me,
it is not a new word with a meaning all its own, 'quasi' is just
a productive modifier that doesn't mean anything more than
itself and the new word it makes can be judged simply as 'almost
like an X' • colors usually (with some example exceptions
above) don't make anything 'new' - a 'red door' is just a door
colored red. If it took on some cultural connection, then it
might need an additional dictionary specification for that term
'red door'. I'm not talking about the figurative (non-literal,
metaphorical) uses of su |
-3.787827 | 1.308575 | -1 | Friday 26 December 2014 Forget the Guinness publicity shots,
drinks giant Diageo doesn't need us Published 17/06/2013 |
17:00 Iconic: the Guinness brewery at St James’s Gate, Dublin.
But our relationship with the brand is more complicated than
many realise. Iconic: the Guinness brewery at St James’s Gate,
Dublin. But our relationship with the brand is more complicated
than many realise. OTHER countries do state dinners and 21-gun
salutes but it often seems that no visit to Ireland by a foreign
leader is complete without a visit to a pub and a pint of
Guinness. We all know the pictures of grinning presidents,
monarchs and prime ministers holding up a pint of the black
stuff and then gulping it back. Even the 85-year-old Queen
Elizabeth was offered an early morning pint during her visit to
Ireland last year – an offer that, like most non-problem
drinkers, she felt it was too early to accept. All these photo
opportunities convey a simple message that nothing is more Irish
than Guinness. In truth, the rela |
-4.586003 | 1.411709 | 18 | GirlRancher's Profile Title Last Reply Danforth news - Von
Donuts Hmm. Can't really answer that really without eating them
side by side. It's always fun and surprising to do that kind of
tasting. And I probably have a higher tolerance for sugar than
others thanks to my "dessert with every meal" husband. But I
find VON the same in the pretty/artful/restrained visual way of
Jelly -- not thick gobs of icing or sky-high toppings or gaudy
concoctions (yet?). Nobody who ate them yesterday remarked on
them being sickly sweet, so I'd lean towards saying no, but
sweetness is so personal. And like I said, my fave was salt +
pepper so I gravitate to savoury anyway. The only negative
comment was that the bacon donut was probably best fresh from
the oven b/c my friend didn't like cold bacon. I've eaten a lot
of bacon donuts (including maple leaf gardens loblaws) and liked
VON's the best. ((To be completist on my last answer: I also
lined up at Beast once for Rachelle's donuts. Remember the apple
fritter strongly. But n |
1.216869 | 3.824948 | 29 | Italian muralist Blu often paints brilliantly detailed,
politically driven works. However, his current stint in Spain is
revealing a lighter side. Here he's got some dancing fruits and
vegetables and a solid array of bright, bold colors. As always,
his style of packing figures tightly in the wall remains. Yet,
in this piece we can celebrate style over substance a little.
Which, frankly, isn't a bad thing. [via Blu] |
-0.84878 | 8.58781 | -1 | Take the 2-minute tour × Ok. So, I have a saved map of my plans
for Saturday on it. It's in "My Maps" on Google maps. Is there
a way to link that map (as in attach it to the calendar event,
not just paste a link in the details) to the calendar event I
have for Saturday in my Google Calendar? I don't think it's
possible, but I figured I'd ask before requesting a feature from
Google. I have found this Link on the Google help forums.
From the looks of the date and response on that thread, my
outlook is not looking good... share|improve this question I
just don't think there's enough use cases. It's like Gmail and
the selection checkbox. – digitxp Oct 16 '10 at 3:02 Really? I
feel like I would use this feature all the time, but I guess
Google needs more than just me to use a feature for them to
write it. :) – EJC Oct 19 '10 at 14:27 add comment 2 Answers
Per this Google Calendar help link there is at least a way to
link a map location to an event, though it is not exactly what
you want to do, it's clos |
-0.026354 | 7.168085 | 8 | (Late) 2012 iPad product line Just when you thought Apple
had already introduced the new iPad this year, they went and
introduced a newer one! If you haven't taken the iPad plunge
yet, or if you're looking to upgrade from another tablet or a
first generation iPad, that just means you have even better
value for your money. If we map out Apple's product line
completely, you can start with the iPod touch or iPhone, which
are the most portable but arguably the least productive (small
screen, most difficult input). They're great for on-the-go. The
iPad mini bridges the gap between iPod touch and iPad, with a
bigger screen and the ability to run iPad apps, but lighter and
easier to hold up. It's for lying down and traveling around. The
iPad has a bigger screen and is the most productive of the iOS
devices. It's for feet up, literally on the lap, light
productivity and more immersive content. The MacBook rounds
things out. It's OS X not iOS, and while bigger and heavier than
any iOS device, it has a full keyb |
-0.07101 | 4.961698 | -1 | Mobility aid From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to:
navigation, search A special lift raises a wheelchair and its
occupant to the platform of a bus stop Wheelchair user entering
a raised bus stop in Curitiba, Brazil A mobility aid is a
device designed to assist walking or otherwise improve the
mobility of people with a mobility impairment. Traditionally
the phrase "mobility aid" has applied mainly to low technology
mechanical devices. The term also appears in government
documents, for example dealing with tax concessions of various
kinds.[1] It refers to those devices whose use enables a freedom
of movement similar to that of unassisted walking or standing up
from a chair. Technical advances can be expected to increase
the scope of these devices considerably, for example by use of
sensors and audio or tactile feedback.[2][3] Walking aids[edit]
a length adjustable forearm crutch with handgrip and forearm
support forearm crutch Walking aids include assistive canes
(commonly referred to as walkin |
5.024913 | 0.687565 | 13 | Spinal Tap Alumni Reunite For Anniversary Tour Hear The Music
Songs in the medley: "Celtic Blues" "Hell Hole" "Old Joe's
Place" "Funky Sex Farm" "Celtic Blues" Spinal Tap 300 hide
captionChristopher Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer are
hitting the road. Courtesy of the artist Twenty-five years ago
this week, a little film came out about three guys — David,
Derek and Nigel — and their intense desire to rock. That film,
of course, was This Is Spinal Tap. Much has changed since 1984,
when the movie was first released, but, as they say in the music
business, the song remains the same. This week in Southern
California, Spinal Tap reunited and held a press conference
announcing a new 30-city tour. Actors and real-life musicians
Michael McKean, Christopher Guest and Harry Shearer took to the
stage at the House of Blues, where they played a few songs from
the movie, including "Hell Hole." Afterward, the band was
interviewed by Kurt Loder, of MTV Music News fame. In classic
Spinal Tap fashion, the |
1.91451 | 5.096761 | 90 | View Single Post Old 02-28-2013, 04:09 PM #49 Ring of Famer
Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 5,123 As for other differences
between typical pistols (including the .22) and more powerful
rounds like the .223 you have to understand an important fact
about high powered weapons: What kills you isn't necessarily
the hole in your body or the shredding of your insides, it's
that parts of your cardiovascular system explode, particularly
in the brain. Basically as the round enters your body, it
creates a pulse of pressure in your bloodstream, which causes
hemorrhaging. You die from massive brain bleeding before the
damage from the primary would kills you. It's called
hydrostatic shock. Hunters know this very well, it's what
results in "blood shot" meat near the wound that you have to
avoid when harvesting the meat. Bloodshot meat is a more
localized effect, but it's the same thing (hemorrhaging caused
by induced static hydraulic pressure in the cardiovascular
system). A .22 doesn't produce anywhere near enough ener |
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