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3.134512 | 3.714376 | 23 | Dungeons and Dragons Wiki 9,546pages on this wiki Revision as
of 16:11, December 10, 2009 by Daranios (Talk | contribs)
Template:Infobox D&D creature This article is based on material
by: TSR, Inc./Wizards of the Coast A Neraph is a fantasy race
of humanoid outsiders originating in the Dungeons & Dragons
fantasy role-playing game. They are originally introduced in the
Planar Handbook, where they are a playable race living in Limbo.
Neraphim physiology is relatively humanoid, but they differ much
from humans in appearance. Their heads are froglike, making them
much like slaadi in appearance. They have red hides with chitin-
like encrustations that work as a natural armor. Their hands are
four-fingered and clawed, but otherwise like human's. They have
darkvision extending to over fifty feet. They age slowly,
reaching adulthood at forty years of age and being capable of
living past four hundred. Neraphim are generally of Chaotic
alignment. However, they generally try to control the chaotic
natures their ho |
2.308871 | 1.345564 | 19 | Forgot your password? Resources for students & teachers
Author ofMist of morning,” “Up the hill and over,” “The shining
ship,” Etc. Professor Spence sat upon an upturned keg—and
shivered. No one had told him that there might be fog and he
had not happened to think of it for himself. Still, fog in a
coast city at that time of the year was not an unreasonable
happening and the professor was a reasonable man. It wasn’t the
fog he blamed so much as the swiftness of its arrival. Fifteen
minutes ago the world had been an ordinary world. He had walked
about in it freely, if somewhat irritably, following certain
vague directions of the hotel clerk as to the finding of
Johnston’s wharf. He had found Johnston’s wharf; extracted it
neatly from a very wilderness of wharves, a feat upon which Mr.
Johnston, making boats in a shed at the end of it, had
complimented him highly. “There’s terrible few as finds me just
off,” said Mr. Johnston. “Hours it takes ’em sometimes,
sometimes days.” It was clear that |
1.052362 | 3.800049 | 29 | Subscribe Feedback English look up any word, like hipster: 1.
Nip Teaser When a male or female exerciser cuts or rips the
sleeves off of their t-shirt. The cut can only expose the arm,
or go as far as being cut to show their nipples (or bra). Often,
when they are "nipteasing" really well you can see the abs of
those wearing them. Nip teasers are not for the light-hearted.
Wearers of nip teasers often want to show off their muscles (or
lack there of) while working out or strutting around the gym. An
alternative to nip teasers in the winter months are "Sneazers"
(sneazers are made of sweatshirts or sweaters cut in a Nip
Teaser fashion.) Hulk Hogan and Dog the Bounty Hunter are often
seen in nip teasers. rss and gcal |
-2.625579 | 4.583486 | -1 | ECONOMY South Korea's GDP expanded by 12.8% in the year to the
first quarter, helped by a surge in exports and strong capital
investment. Over the same period, Malaysia's economy grew by
11.7%, Singapore's by 9.1% and Taiwan's by 7.9%. China's
current-account surplus narrowed to $15.7 billion in 1999, down
from $29.3 billion in 1998. |
-1.291489 | 6.693996 | -1 | Certification Benefits Media and Society Foundation Home Why ?
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3.437053 | 2.494322 | -1 | 1. argleblargle How and why does anyone think he’s hot?!
2. Matty Is it just me, or is he slowly morphing into
Christopher Lloyd? 3. DKNY I see he went back to his
troll pencil eraser hair 4. He always looks like he’s on day
2 of trying to quit drugs cold turkey. The fact that he brushes
his teeth with coffee and styles his hair with bacon grease
doesn’t help either. 5. Yahoo Serious rules. 6.
Ho.Lee.Shit I don’t get it. 7. desabrey is it just
me, or is Tim Burton looking younger? 8. I know teenage girls
don’t have a lot of money, but I’d think he could afford some
Crest Whitestrips by now. 9. MrsPlant Wow.. he really is
British…. 10. Turd Ferguson So that bullshit hair wasn’t
just for the vampire movies? 11. “And then it just gushes out
everywhere! Like a geyser! It’s easy, too, you can do it with
your fingers. Women just lay there and moan. They suck.” 12.
justuhbill Coming up next for Patterson is the lead in “Gay
Wolverine: the Music |
-0.768037 | 2.870193 | -1 | Memory Alpha 36,763pages on this wiki A map of Kansas showing
the city of Topeka and surrounding environs. Topeka was a city
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In an alternate timeline, where Nazi Germany had invaded the
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4.331458 | -4.321477 | 0 | MLBPA Info Sights and Sounds 11/18/2008 10:18 AM ET McDonald
making game accessible Blue Jays shortstop invests in the
community tickets for any Major League Baseball game John
McDonald grew up in Connecticut, about two hours north of Yankee
Stadium and about two hours southwest of Fenway Park. Since his
father was a Yankees fan, McDonald's earliest memories of
watching a Major League game came at Yankee Stadium during the
Don Mattingly Era when he was 5 or 6. He was in attendance for
an Opening Day game and an Old Timer's game, among others. The
trips into New York left a strong impression, but McDonald did
have one regret. "It was hard to get autographs," he said. So
now that McDonald is in the Major Leagues, he tries to make it
possible for regular folks to get up close to the game. He and
several Jays visited wounded American soldiers at the Walter
Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., during a road trip
to Baltimore in 2007. "We talked baseball for awhile," McDonald
said. Later McDonald |
1.523639 | 3.721994 | 51 | Jo De Baerdemaeker Jo De Baerdemaeker, born September 8 1974 in
Brussels, Belgium, is considered one of the two active
typedesigners of Belgium. Frederik Berlaen is the other one. He
is an experienced designer who has a passion for type and
typography. Recently graduated at the University of Reading, Jo
De Baerdemaeker designed and developed Lungta, a Tibetan-Roman
typeface, and is eager to continue to work as a typeface
designer, teacher and consultant. He understands the complete
creative process from concept to final output and keeps himself
up-to-date regarding recent technological developments. De
Baerdemaeker is also ATypI Country Delegate for Belgium.
Syndicate content |
-0.250099 | -0.661313 | 98 | Manuel Amador Guerrero Amador Guerrero, Manuel (mänwĕlˈ ämädōrˈ
gārāˈrō) [key], 1833–1909, first president of Panama (1904–8),
b. Colombia. A physician, he served as medical officer for the
Panama RR and was a leader in the movement for Panamanian
independence from Colombia. As the emissary (1903) for the
revolutionaries to the United States, he helped obtain U.S. aid
for the successful revolution. He was unanimously selected
president of the new republic by the constitutional convention
despite a stipulation in the constitution that the president be
born in Panama. More on Amador Guerrero Manuel from Fact
Monster: See more Encyclopedia articles on: Panama History:
Biographies |
0.527349 | 5.515487 | -1 | Figure 1 APS/Alan Stonebraker Figure 1: Scheme for the
simultaneous vibrational and rotational cooling of a molecule. A
broadband femtosecond pulse, whose spectrum has been cut at the
high-energy side, excites all vibrational states but the ground
state (v=0, which remains “dark”). As the excited state
spontaneously decays, the molecular population relaxes towards
v=0 and, through many pumping cycles, it accumulates there and
the sample cools vibrationally. Rotational cooling is achieved
by pumping with a narrow-band, continuous-wave (CW) laser diode.
The laser frequency is swept to excite in succession the lowest
10 excited rotational states, leaving the rotational ground
state unperturbed. Following laser excitation, the molecules
relax towards J=0 through spontaneous decay. |
0.934807 | 7.762955 | 77 | Sign in with Sign up | Sign in Your question 3 ATI 5970 cards
Last response: in Graphics & Displays I have a question to ask.
Is it possible to put in 3 ATI 5970 cards together in crossfire
mode, thus having a total of 6 GPUs? More about : ati 5970
cards Related resources that would be a waste of money
anyways.... i don't see where someone would need more than a
single 5970 since it is basically more firepower than dual GTX
295's... OvrClkr said: ^^ since when? as far as I know SLI
scales better than CF regardless of the setup... He means
QuadFire Vs QuadSli I think. But seeing the HD 5970 power its no
kidding faster in CF than GTX 295 in SLI. Why 3 cards? I just
got one HD 5970 on th way and plan to keep it 3 years until I
add another one in CrossFire. No you cant put 3 HD 5970 together
and its a big wast of $ and electricity. |
-0.511695 | 9.995372 | 15 | Re: Next steps for the ARIA syntax discussion From: Charles
McCathieNevile <[email protected]> Date: Sun, 01 Jun 2008
03:01:41 +0200 To: [email protected], "Al Gilman"
<[email protected]> Message-ID:
<[email protected]> On Fri, 30 May 2008 16:00:23
+0200, Elliotte Harold <[email protected]> wrote: > Al
Gilman wrote: >> WAI-ARIA could have ridden on namespaces, and
*would have* if >> namespaces were ready for prime time. But
they're not. I disagree strongly with this characterisation of
the issue. In SVG, namespaces are a critical part of the
ecosystem. In HTML, they are simply not there. In XHTML it
seems that people have actually slightly misunderstood the
namespaces spec and the many interoperable implementations of
that spec. Anyway, the aria- approach works as implemented with
both namespace-unaware HTML, and namespace-reliant SVG. That's
the strength of the proposal. The draft is, I hope, going to
be changed to clarify that ARIA attributes should alway |
-0.239372 | 3.83013 | -1 | Claire Morley-Jones GET UPDATES FROM Claire Morley-Jones
Recruiting and Retaining the Next Generation's Talent: How Can
SMEs Create the Right Working Environment for Millennial
Workers? Posted: 16/07/2012 23:46 At the recent launch of new
guidance on mental health at work, Health Minister Earl Howe
said: "A good working environment is crucial for our wellbeing."
But, with three or four generations of people in the workplace -
all with different needs and working styles - how can employers
create the right environment for everyone? The latest research
says that millennial workers don't care about the size of their
office or desk. Mobile technology means that they are much more
adaptable to working 'on the go' and used to just blocking out
distractions with headphones! At big companies like O2, they
can afford to have a mixture of enclosed spaces, open plan
offices and 'coffee shop' style spaces to suit everyone. But
what about SMEs? Recruiting, retaining and getting the most out
of millennial workers i |
0.792527 | 9.98564 | -1 | Take the 2-minute tour × When and how do we use the different
kinds of brackets/parentheses — (){}[] — while writing English
(not code)? share|improve this question closed as not a real
question by Kris, Kristina Lopez, RegDwigнt Jan 19 '13 at 11:23
Closing as too broad and for complete lack of research. Could be
considered general reference as per
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brackets. In fact the accepted answer just
quotes select bits from that page, while leaving lots of things
out. – RegDwigнt Jan 19 '13 at 11:31 ...Except my answer never
did get accepted. Sadface =( – Southpaw Hare Jan 19 '13 at
22:17 4 Answers 4 up vote 4 down vote accepted Curved
brackets, or parentheses (like these), are used to set off
different kinds of interruption to a sentence. Square brackets
[like these] are used in a quotation when the words contained in
them are not part of the quotation, but are necessary for the
sense. Curly brackets, or braces {like these}, are rarely used
in normal writing. They are mostly reserved fo |
-1.880476 | 2.110906 | -1 | This Newborn Przewalski’s Horse Is Rare (And Totally
Adorable)This Newborn Przewalski’s Horse Is Rare (And Totally
Adorable) This Newborn Przewalski’s Horse Is Rare (And Totally
Adorable) Image via Doloros Reed, Smithsonian Conservation
Biology Institute It's not every day that you see a baby horse,
but a newborn foal at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology
Institute is even rarer. The filly born on July 27 is a
Przewalski's horse, a critically endangered subspecies that's
considered the last wild horse left. The filly represents a
scientific breakthrough as well: It's the first of the species
to be born via artificial insemination. According to the SCBI,
the foal and Anne, its first-time mother, are healthy and
bonding. The Przewalski's (cha-VAL-skee) horse ranged from
Germany to Mongolia and northern China as recently as the 18th
century. Since then, the species fell into a horrific decline,
and was declared extinct in the wild in 1969 until 1996, when
the species was re-listed as critically endangered |
0.798985 | 2.507958 | -1 | Thursday, March 1, 2007 Improv Wisdom: Don't Prepare, Just Show
Up Excerpts From Improv Wisdom: Don't Prepare, Just Show Up
Patricia Ryan Madson Improv Maxims: 1. Say Yes 2. Don't Prepare
3. Just Show Up 4. Start anywhere 5. Be average 6. Pay attention
7. Face the facts 8. Stay on course 9. Wake up to the gifts 10.
Make mistakes, please 11. Act now 12. Take care of each other
13. Enjoy the ride "What would you do if you knew you would not
fail? What would you do?" (17) "Life is an improvisation" (15)
"Listen to your inner promptings. Don't make choices to impress
others or to gain status. Listen to your own drum and march to
it" (13) "Learn to listen and trust your own imagination" (13)
"Seize the day, live each precious moment fully and with gusto"
(15) "Take chances and do more of the things that are important
to you" (15) "Make more mistakes, laugh more often, and have
some adventures" (15-6) "Improv is a journey of opening oneself
to possibility" (16) "A life brimming with spontaneity...Feel
yourself |
-0.161694 | -1.250672 | -1 | Check local listings Bomb-Proof My Pick-Up Travis has an
innovative idea to make Humvees more resistant to roadside
bombs, and it involves beer cans
lots and lots of them! As a
defense contractor, Travis knows that the heavy armor used on
Humvees can cause the vehicle to roll over and crush its
occupants when hit by an IED. So he's designed a lightweight and
inexpensive armor made of fiberglass-covered plywood and beer
cans. |
-0.499728 | 5.315376 | 4 | SailNet Community SailNet Community ( - Atomic 4 ( - -
How loud is loud with an A4? ( jaschrumpf 06-11-2007 02:55 PM
How loud is loud with an A4? I am completely new to A4s -- or
inboard boat engines of any type, though I am comfortable
working on gas engines -- and I read that the A4s run smooth,
quiet, etc., and I wonder just how smooth and quiet they should
be. Mine is in a 75 Newport 28, and was rebuilt by Moyer for a
PO back in '93. It starts up and runs fine (though I suspect the
carb is set a bit lean, but that's another thread), but it's not
like you can't tell the engine is running at 1000 rpm.
Everything in the exhaust system seems to be working OK, water
pumps out the exhaust in regular bursts, just a little blue
smoke at startup and then it goes right away. I can't really say
anything is wrong with the "muffler", I just have no A4
experience to compare my engine with. What would you say is a
"quiet" A4? Barely hear it inside the cabin at 1000 rpm? Easy to
talk over? Have to raise your v |
-1.1172 | 6.988911 | 8 | The Social Life: Time to start living in the here and now By
Alison King Add a comment Deleting social media apps from your
smart phone is a good way to ensure you spend more time in the
real world. Did you make any social media New Year's
resolutions? In this day and age where our whole lives are
played out on social media some people are turning their back on
the apps and trying to reclaim some sense of pre-smartphone
normality. While some of us have resolved to get on Instagram,
others are deleting social media apps from their smartphones.
One of my friends has done this so she spends more time in the
real world. Instead of checking her phone multiple times a day
she can now only interact via social networking when she uses
her laptop. This means her undivided attention is given to
whatever she is doing at the time. Do a quick Google search of
"no social media" challenges and there are plenty of examples of
people giving up social media completely for a set time and what
benefits they gained from it |
1.122845 | 0.843435 | -1 | The Newgate Calendar - LAURENCE, EARL FERRERS Executed at
Tyburn, 5th of May, 1760, for the Murder of his Steward, after a
Trial before his Peers Earl Ferrers shooting his steward The
execution of Earl Ferrers LAURENCE, EARL FERRERS, was descended
of an ancient and noble family. The royal blood of the
Plantagenets flowed in his veins, and the Earl gained his title
in the following manner. The second baronet of the family, Sir
Henry Shirley, married a daughter of the celebrated Earl of
Essex, who was beheaded in the reign of Queen Elizabeth; and his
son, Sir Robert Shirley, died in the Tower, where he was
confined during the Protectorate, for his attachment to the
cause of the Stuarts. Upon the Restoration, the second son of
Sir Robert succeeded to the title and estates, and Charles,
anxious to cement the bonds which attached his friends to him,
summoned him to the Upper House of Parliament by the title of
Lord Ferrers of Chartley, as the descendant of one of the co-
heiresses of the Earl of Essex; the tit |
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Design Oversight - Preliminary Review By Brian Kelley,
2001/08/20 Design Oversight - Preliminary Review We all know
what the ideal application design environment is for building a
database back-end: an experienced DBA takes inputs from end
users and developers and creates the database design in order to
support the application being developed. Stored procedures,
tables, views, indexes, the works, are all developed by DBAs
working closely with the programmers writing the application.
Database best practices are the rule, not the exception. But
in reality, we don't get the opportunity to do application
design like this very often. The ideal is quickly shoved aside
and often developers are doing their own design and building
their own stored procedures and making decisions on constraints
and indexing in order to get an application out the door the day
before yesterday. Meanwhile, th |
-0.525179 | -0.808086 | -1 | Controversial Abortion Display stirs heat on U.A. Quad - ABC
33/40 - Birmingham News, Weather, Sports Controversial abortion
display stirs controversy on UA campus Posted: Updated: One
of the most controversial displays to protest abortion was shown
on the University of Alabama quad Wednesday. The 'Genocide
Awareness Project' shows actual bloody-aborted fetuses and in
multiple ways stresses their size and level of development.
Most were to graphic to show on TV and some U.A. students said
the photos had no place on a public campus. "Just think of
the victims who have had abortions and if they're walking by
that -- that could affect them in a way that is past free
speech," Katie Howard expressed with frustration after walking
past the display. Bama Students for Life invited the
Center For Bio-Ethical Reform Abortion to bring the display to
campus. "Abortion supporters get upset when they see our photos
because a lot of times they realize what abortion is," says
Claire Chretien, who is pr |
-1.853281 | 9.02899 | 59 | I posted a question and someone answered. Then, another user
commented on that answer (with a different solution) and I ended
up using this second solution to solve my problem. Should I
mark that answer as accepted (even though I didn't use (or
tested) the solution given in there)? And how do I give credit
to the user who commented and solved my problem? share|improve
this question add comment 2 Answers up vote 16 down vote
accepted The best thing to do is to ask that second responder
-- in a comment on that first answer, using @TheirUserName to
call them out -- to put their comment into an answer, so you can
upvote and accept it. Often people will do this if you ask. As
Martijn Pieters points out, if they don't do it themselves after
a reasonable period of time has passed, you can create the
answer yourself, marking it as community wiki (so you cannot be
accused of reputation pilfering), then upvote and accept it.
share|improve this answer And if they don't, after some time
create the answer as a comm |
-1.290637 | 4.422393 | -1 | The Citizen's Guide to the Future Feb. 7 2013 7:25 PM It's
always sunny in Germany Just another sun-soaked afternoon in
Pillnitz, eastern Germany. Photo by Matthias Hiekel/AFP/Getty
Images Will Oremus Will Oremus [Also on Slate: Read an
exclusive profile of Aaron Swartz] "The industry's future
looks dim," intoned host Gretchen Carlson at the beginning of
the segment, which was preserved for posterity by the liberal
blog Media Matters for America. She and her co-host went on to
ridicule Obama's "failed" solar subsidies, adding, "The United
States simply hasn't figured out how to do solar cheaply and
effectively. You look at the country of Germany, it's working
out great for them." Near the end of the segment, it occurred to
Carlson to ask her expert guest, Fox Business reporter Shibani
Joshi, why it might be that Germany's solar-power sector is
doing so much better. "What was Germany doing correct? Are they
just a smaller country, and that made it more feasible?" Carlson
asked. Joshi's jaw-dropping |
0.724417 | 9.439847 | 16 | Take the 2-minute tour × Is it possible to build an ESRI addin
(.esriaddin) using C++? I see templates for .NET and C# only but
perhaps there is a manual method? share|improve this question
1 Answer 1 up vote 4 down vote accepted Addins are based on
managed code (or Java), so you can develop them in managed
C++/CLI, not in pure C++. share|improve this answer Your
Answer |
3.161496 | 2.957895 | -1 | Disclaimer: Avatar isn't mine. And how cosmically depressing
that is!! SPOILERS!! SPOILERS!! WHOAAAAA!! You've been warned.
MAJOR SPOILERIFIC GOODNESS for Chapter 316, "The Southern
Raiders", that aired on Thursday, July 17th. Yeah, I've got mad,
mad uploading skillz. This story was eating at me when I saw the
preview, so naturally it didn't take much to come into its full
form after I saw the episode. Twice. Hooray for recordings!
A/N: Well, hello, Avatar fandom, long time no see! This week has
been epic so far, and I'm hardly able to contain my giddy
enthusiasm for the series finale! It's intense, and so, so EPIC.
Needless to say, because it's been awhile, I might have tripped
over details; i.e., how old is Zuko in the flashbacks in "Zuko
Alone"? I don't know. I'm pretending he was eight. Pretend along
with me! A/N the second: If you don't understand that
flashbacks are in italics or couldn't figure that out from a)
context clues or b) without FLASHBACK scrawled in bold (and I
deeply loath people who do |
2.32511 | 0.425905 | 44 | Job 24 (Revised Standard Version w/ Apocrypha) View In My Bible
1 "Why are not times of judgment kept by the Almighty, and why
do those who know him never see his days? 2 Men remove
landmarks; they seize flocks and pasture them. 3 They drive away
the ass of the fatherless; they take the widow's ox for a
pledge. 4 They thrust the poor off the road; the poor of the
earth all hide themselves. 5 Behold, like wild asses in the
desert they go forth to their toil, seeking prey in the
wilderness as food for their children. 6 They gather their
fodder in the field and they glean the vineyard of the wicked
man. 7 They lie all night naked, without clothing, and have no
covering in the cold. 8 They are wet with the rain of the
mountains, and cling to the rock for want of shelter. 9 (There
are those who snatch the fatherless child from the breast, and
take in pledge the infant of the poor.) 10 They go about naked,
without clothing; hungry, they carry the sheaves; 11 among the
olive rows of the wicked they make oil; they t |
-4.176667 | 2.645329 | 70 | 25/11/2011 11:16 What to eat to beat fatigue Check out our
guide to the best foods for preventing fatigue. Sleepy woman (©
Sharon Dominick Photography 2009 Getty Images) It's three in
the afternoon and already you're beginning to slide down your
office chair. Your eyes close and you think how you would do
anything, anything, for a lie down. The afternoon slump is a
feeling that is familiar to many of us. But did you know that
one major cause of fatigue is the food we eat? It's not just
about lack of sleep or boredom; we need all the vitamins and
minerals from a healthy, balanced diet to give us enough energy
to make it through the day. Registered dietitian and
nutritionist Katie Peck (pecknutrition.com), says: "The food you
eat is essential in controlling your energy levels and
preventing fatigue. Food produces energy. Glucose, for example,
is the final breakdown product of carbohydrate or starchy foods,
such as potatoes, and glucose is used by our cells to generate
energy. Therefore, we need to listen t |
-0.558531 | 3.367074 | -1 | From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation,
search Halkett boat, an early type of packraft Packraft and
trail boat are colloquial terms for a small, portable inflatable
boat designed for use in all bodies of water, including
technical whitewater and ocean bays and fjords. A packraft is
designed to be light enough to be carried for extended
distances. Along with its propulsion system (collapsable paddles
or lightweight oars) and safety equipment (PFD, clothing) the
entire package is designed to be light and compact enough for an
individual to negotiate rough terrain while carrying the rafting
equipment together with supplies, shelter, and other survival or
backcountry equipment. Modern packrafts vary from inexpensive
vinyl boats lacking durability to sturdy craft costing over US
$1,000. All weigh less than nine pounds (4 kg) and usually carry
a single passenger. The most popular propulsion systems involve
a kayak paddle that breaks down into two to five pieces. Most
often they are paddled from |
1.061673 | 4.724899 | -1 | Welcome Visitor: Login to the siteJoin the site Support a New
Space Program! Article By: Miss Trevize Be proud of your
country, and keep those boosters firing! Submitted:Mar 8, 2012
Reads: 13 Comments: 2 Likes: 1 Countries around the
world are becoming richer. They are becoming smarter. More and
more nations are coming close to us in the sheer weight their
economic power can throw around on the international scene. This
of course, will be followed by social power, which will be
followed by military power. Why is the United States suddenly in
a world full of, well, rising superpowers? Surely, things did
not get this way over night, and surely, there is no one answer.
However, both of these are false, to some degree. Overnight, no,
not literally, but in the grand scheme of history? Yes! China
and India specifically have gone, as the old adage goes "from
rags to riches" in an astoundingly short amount of time. While
they still have a long way to go, just as mankind as a whole
does, for our natio |
-0.980286 | 2.70823 | -1 | Saturday, August 28, 2010 Why EO Wilson’s Latest Eusociality
Paper Fails Martin Nowak, Corina Tarnita and E.O. Wilson made
the cover of Nature this week with their article “The evolution
of eusociality.” The argument presented in the paper is that
inclusive fitness theory is an extraneous, unnecessary concept
that has failed to provide insights into the evolution of
eusociality. Here are a few of the reasons why I think that
their argument fails: Failure 1: In the first couple of
paragraphs, the paper guides unwary readers into accepting two
false premises; the first is that kin selection and inclusive
fitness are alternatives to “standard natural selection theory,”
and the second false premise is that altruism is synonymous with
eusociality. Explanation: The authors confuse altruism (one
type of cooperative behavior) with eusociality. Eusociality is a
type of social organization seen in bees, ants, termites, naked
mole rats, and a variety of other critters. The sophisticated
level of cooperation exhibit |
3.140009 | 3.706614 | 23 | Tolkien Gateway Revision as of 05:29, 1 July 2006 by Ebakunin
(Talk | contribs) Elfstone, also known as the Elessar or the
Stone of Eärendil, is a famous green jewel that Galadriel gives
as a gift to Aragorn just before the Fellowship of the Ring
leaves the wood of Lothlórien. This stone, worn by Aragorn,
later causes him to also be given the name of Elessar by the
people of Minas Tirith. There are a variety of stories about
the jewel's origin in the Unfinished Tales: "There was in
Gondolin a jewel-smith named Enerdhil, and he was the greatest
of that craft among the Noldor after the death of Fëanor... it
came into his heart to make a jewel which the clear light of the
sun should be imprisoned, but the jewel should be green as
leaves. And he made this thing, and even the Noldor marvelled at
it. For it is said that those who looked through this stone saw
things that were withered or burned healed again or as they were
in the grace of their youth, and that the hands of one who held
it brought to all that t |
-0.821637 | 4.982662 | 4 | Take the 2-minute tour × A friend of mine has a blender with 6
control selections: One off position, and five power settings in
order of less to more power. Example below: 6 control options
A discussion has erupted over whether or not the middle power
option (3) ought to represent: A) 50% power (The middle is
surely 50%): enter image description here B) 60% power (There
are 6 positions if 0% is included, there is no middle position
as such, and so assuming a linear scale): enter image
description here While this isn't exactly a life and death
situation, I would be interested in seeking more opinions. We
are roughly split 50/50 on what it ought to be (yes, we could
verify what it is by dismantling the blender and examining the
circuity, but no one is interested in that minor detail) :)
share|improve this question Who says that power increase is
uniformly distributed over all the settings? – Marjan Venema
Jan 31 '13 at 7:27 Could you add a picture of what the dial
looks like? Is the 3 in the middle or |
1.066582 | 0.583911 | -1 | Person:Johann Lohmeier (1) Johann Lohmeier b.8. Februar 1728
Frille m. 16. Februar 1756 1. Hermann Lohmeier1750 - Facts and
Events Name Johann Lohmeier Gender Male Birth? 8. Februar 1728
Frille Marriage 16. Februar 1756 Frilleto Anna Rösener Death? 5.
Februar 1786 Frille, Westfalen, Preußen, Germany FRILLE is a
village located about 5 miles northeast of the city of Minden,
in modern Germany. It lies east of the Weser River. It is a
small community; perhaps a mile across. Human artifacts have
been found in the area that date back as far as 5,000 years!
Saxons probably from what is now southern Denmark, began to
occupy the area in circa 400 AD. It was not long and the whole
area became completely Saxon. Frille was the seat of an old
Saxon independent "Peoples Council"! In 1168 AD, Frille was
mentioned for the first time in an official document. --White
Creek 01:19, 7 December 2013 (UTC) |
0.736691 | -0.633198 | 50 | Stop Blaming Facebook For Murders Let’s get one thing clear –
you and ONLY you are responsible for your actions. If you see
something on Facebook, get offended and kill someone, don’t
blame the social network for what you did. I’m shocked and
astounded at the way the media and many bloggers are talking
about the killing of a man by a mob in Pune. While they all say
it’s a bad thing, the common thread is “It was due to an abusive
post on Facebook talking about Shivaji”. No, no, no. This is the
wrong way to think about it. When deciding on cause and effect,
what do you prioritize? When someone gives an excuse for a
rapist saying that the woman was wearing “provocative clothing”
or “she was drunk” or whatever, do reasonable people view that
as a cause? No! The cause is the rapist is a dangerous criminal
– a person who doesn’t deserve to be walking around freely
amongst decent individuals. Such a person needs an excuse – any
excuse. The fact that the police don’t register FIRs properly
and that court cases take |
0.002371 | 1.878188 | -1 | Syndicate content gender power doesn't come cheap Markus
Goldstein's picture coauthored with Alaka Holla Some of these
interactions will not be statistically significant (i.e.
different from zero) simply because there aren’t enough
observations to detect meaningful differences. Say you find a
difference between men and women of 30 percentage points, with a
standard error of 20 percentage points. Would you be
comfortable saying there is no difference? Statistically, this
is not different from zero at a standard level of confidence. At
this point, though, you may want to ask what was the smallest
difference I could have detected, given the variance in the
data? The answer to this question is pretty easy to calculate
(with just standard errors) – this paper by Don Andrews (ungated
version here) shows you how. If the smallest detectable
difference is quite high (i.e. this would have been a result
worthy of publication had it been statistically significant),
then this is a zero that doesn’t tell us |
2.729805 | 1.52983 | 19 | Tuesday, July 15, 2008 Promises, Promises - Chapter 1
Promises, Promises (Heartsong Presents - July, 2008) Book 1 of
Delaware Brides Chapter One New Castle County present-day
Delaware Christina River Valley, 1740 It wasn't the one she
expected. This one belonged to her neighbors, not her mother and
father. One man drove it at a dirge-like pace as another walked
alongside, both with heads down. But what made Raelene run even
harder were the two workhorses tied behind it. Her family's
workhorses! That could only mean. . . A sob tore through her
body. Mama! Papa! Her pounding heart beat her voice dead in
her throat, but not the furtive prayers for this not to be what
it seemed, what she feared. As she reached the wagon, her mouth
as parched as the dirt beneath her feet, the driver halted the
horses. "Whoa, Braedon." Raelene couldn't recall her
neighbors' names, not with the panic racing through her mind.
"I am sorry, miss," the larger of the two said, stepping between
her and the wagon. The cocky |
-1.742697 | 0.847708 | -1 | Atlanta wants people to stop peeing in its elevators
Sources: WSBTV, Wired Comments Threshold RE: You're
Sh*tting Me! By Nfarce on 12/29/2013 8:05:08 PM , Rating: 2
Since you are obviously not familiar with how politics works in
the greater Atlanta area (or anything else for that matter),
allow me to educate you a little... If the transit system in
Atlanta is so bad and you are being forced to use it, why are
you not complaining to your city council to fix it? Because I
don't live inside the city limits of Atlanta and they aren't a
part of my district elections. And nobody is FORCED to use it.
If anything, the further OUT of Atlanta you get, the more the
people OPPOSE it (MARTA has both bus and train routes 20+ miles
outside of downtown ATL). Further, the further north you go, the
emptier both the trains and the buses are. if your view is
common for most of the people that live in Atlanta, why not run
for council yourself As a white Conservative Republican male, I
have about as much chance of r |
-2.620451 | 3.202002 | -1 | Developing wheat varieties with resistance to the feared leaf
blotch disease may be very difficult, but recent studies carried
out at Wageningen UR have brought it closer than ever. This is
clear from research of the Dutch-Tunisian Sarrah Ben M’Barek-Ben
Romdhane who obtained her doctorate on this subject at
Wageningen University, part of Wageningen UR, on Oct. 17. Ben
M’Barek and her colleagues mapped the complete DNA of the
pathogen that causes septoria leaf blotch - the fungus
Mycosphaerella graminicola. They showed that the fungus can lose
entire chromosomes during sexual reproduction without any
visible effect. Ben M’Barek also found that the fungus can
attack wheat plants in various ways. These findings explain why
it has been so difficult thus far to develop resistant wheat
varieties. The new knowledge provides clues that will stimulate
the development of those varieties, increasing the security and
sustainability of food production. Wheat is the main food crop
for regions such as North Africa and the |
-0.303989 | 9.683468 | 16 | From Wikibooks, open books for an open world < LaTeX Jump to:
navigation, search LaTeX logo.svg Getting Started 1.
Introduction 2. Installation 3. Installing Extra Packages
4. Basics Common Elements 1. Document Structure 2. Text
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creation 12. Page Layout 13. Importing Graphics 14.
Floats, Figures and Captions 15. Footnotes and Margin Notes
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Bibliographies Special Documents 1. Letters 2.
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I've gotta ask... What's wrong with America?! How is it that so
many debilitating ideas can be spewed from the mouths of
politicians and the majority of the populous will sit back and
let it happen?! Gone are the days when a government worked for
the better of the country and it's people. Every day I log into
Reddit I seem to find another story on the front page which
lowers my faith in man kind. I'm so sick of seeing corporate
money dominate politics, shit needs to change. |
0.359294 | 3.234543 | 136 | Why Creation Science is Pseudoscience With No Ifs Ands or Buts
About It I had previously argued that science assumes there is
a natural explanation for everything it investigates precisely
because this is the only way it can work. If natural
explanations for events were not possible because God regularly
intervened in the world, then science would not be possible at
all. To be more precise, I argued that to the degree God
intervenes in the universe then to that same degree science is
not possible. But given the massive amount of knowledge acquired
by science it's crystal clear God doesn't intervene at all. The
very basis of science is predicated on a non-miraculous world
order. So we must choose between God or science. We cannot have
both. Undeterred, Vincent Torley at Uncommon Descent has written
a couple of rebuttals to my continued defense of this. Since I
usually try to keep my posts to a minimum I won't be responding
to everything he wrote. But I do want to respond with what I
consider to be a tour de f |
-1.135512 | 5.21605 | 4 | There are many reasons to buy a new car, but, there are also
many reasons to buy a used car. It used to be that buying a used
car was going to result in a car that would just get you from
point A to point B. The radio probably did not work and the
handles were loose if not falling off. You may want to know why
it is better to buy a used car vs a new car. This is not the
case anymore. Buying a used car can be a more than satisfactory
experience. Used cars in these days are much better than they
used to be with improved performance, and there are much better
selections than ever before. But the main reason that people
still get them is because of their price. They are just so much
less expensive that new ones. Price is a huge factor in buying
a used car. Of course, whenever you decide to buy a car, the
price is going to be the biggest factor. Will you be able to
afford it without too much strain on the bank account or not is
the question you will face. Used cars are typically thousands of
dollars less than ne |
2.944064 | 0.817353 | -1 | (31/08/90 / Melbourne, VIC) What do you think this poem is
about? While Humanity Sleeps While humanity sleeps The animal
creeps Stealthily in the night Searching for a fight Savage
beasts howl Hungry for a soul Blood-curdling screams Infiltrate
man's dreams The animal is weeping Humanity is still sleeping
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3.888232 | 3.072256 | -1 | Also in theatres this week: - Movies default avatar Welcome to
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size Posted: Thursday, December 1, 2011 12:01 am OK for 10 and
older (Comedy, PG, 130 minutes) Revered as a master for
decades and functioning at the top of his game as he approaches
70, Martin Scorsese would seem to have nothing else to prove. So
it's thrilling to see him make a bold, creative leap with
"Hugo," which is not only an unusual family film from him but
also his first movie in 3-D. Scorsese doesn't just tinker with
this newfangled technology, he embraces it fully. Based on the
Brian Selznick children's book "The Invention of Hugo Cabret,"
''Hugo" takes place at a train station in 1930s Paris, where the
title character, a wide-eyed orphan played by Asa Butterfield,
secretly lives in the walls and keeps all the clocks running on
time. Chloe Grace Moretz is radiant as the inquisitive girl who
helps him unlock th |
1.140553 | -1.72297 | 97 | Kim Jong-un’s New Year Speech: What It Really Means North
Korea's former poet laureate takes a look at the new leader's
shifting tone of voice. January 2nd, 2013 Kim Jong Un’s new
year speech has broken a silence held for 19 years, for during
this time, there was no new year speech in North Korea. Under
Kim Il-sung, the new year’s speech was that occasion in the year
when the leader provided guidance to his people. As all power is
concentrated under the leader, the new year speech provided a
framework and sets the tone for the coming year. Kim Il-sung
made the speeches himself. After his death however, Kim Jong Il
did not continue in his father’s footsteps. Instead, he chose to
convey his message through editorials published by the important
state mouthpieces such as Rodong Sinmun, the Korean People’s
Army and the Youth Vanguard. As the new year’s speech was by
then perceived to be an inseparable limb of the leader, these
state editorials assumed absolute legitimacy as if they had been
uttered in a speech |
0.096212 | 3.053586 | -1 | RSS 2.0 Feed » Welcome Guest Log In :: Register Posts: 2
Joined: Nov. 2005 (Permalink) Posted: Nov. 14 2005,17:20
The recent debates and attacks on evolution are worrying. Not
so much for scientists as I'm sure they can handle themselves
just fine. What worries me is that much of the unneccessary
debate is fuelled by the public's ignorance of science. Face
facts the average Joe in the street couldn't care less about
Physics, Chemistry, or the Scientific Method for that matter.
Science is boring , and often taught in a boring and
disinterested manner by grey faceless high school science
teachers. So what happens when passionate scammers with the
gift of the gab come along and try to peddle their moral
friendly science . Well Joe Bloggs falls for it hook line and
sinker. It amazes me the number of times otherwise intellegent
and reasonable people repeat some of the pointless creationist
drivel, such as "If we came from apes why are apes still here?"
and "Evolution is just a theory". Fact is You l |
-3.94589 | 1.356536 | 21 | HOME > Chowhound > Food Media & News > No Reservations:
Obsessions I didn't think this was one of the better episodes.
Seemed like another obligatory NYC-centric-going through the
motions-episode. I did like the feature of the pizza maker
though. 1. Click to Upload a photo (10 MB limit) 1. The
piece on bloggers was depressing. Perlow and the eGullet crew
get a lot of attention for essentially confiming the worst
stereotypes of food bloggers, that we are all obese obsessives
who spend our lives taking pictures of hamburgers and flaming
people we disagree with about the best hot dog in town until we
keel over at age 42 from fatty liver disease. I understand that
the episode was about obssessives and those guys certainly are
that, but I know lots of well-rounded, easy going food bloggers
who are passionate and even obsessive about food but manage to
lead normal, balanced lives. 2 Replies 1. re: sku
I happened to stumble on to the second half of the show and
yeah...depressing as all hell. |
1.392462 | 5.074315 | 82 | Watch Comet ISON hurtle toward the sun Comet ISON Comet ISON
poses for a telescopic photo by the Marshall Space Flight
Center. (Credit: NASA/MSFC/MEO/Cameron McCarty) Comet ISON is
already a celebrity in the cosmos. The huge chunk of rock and
primordial ice is on course to make a journey around the sun,
and it's lighting up the heavens along the way. NASA released a
short movie showing the comet's trajectory over the course of
five days as it aims for the blazing beast that keeps us all
warm down here on Earth. The movie shows Mercury and Earth for
perspective. The sun is off screen to the right. The movie was
captured by the Stereo-A spacecraft's Heliospheric Imager. As
you watch the video, a second, smaller moving object comes into
view. That speck is Comet Encke. Encke orbits the sun every few
years. It really highlights the size of Comet ISON in
comparison. The comet's fate is still undecided, but it will
spend Thanksgiving even closer to the sun as it closes in on its
intended U-turn around the s |
1.754949 | 3.053584 | -1 | Reply to a comment Reply to this comment kenny#221680 writes:
in response to katvonkitty: Why are the photos so important to
you people? Are you going to go out and look for the suspects?
Are you really that clueless? No, Einstein, folks are not going
to "go out and look" for the bad guys. But, read slowly now if
you must, putting their pictures out might lead to someone
recognizing them. You know, like "that guy comes into my
restaurant all the time" or "that guy lives in my apartment
complex." |
3.587519 | 5.01717 | 2 | So how's everyone's K/D? abel13111Posted 11/20/2012 4:48:05 PM
Used to be 2.0, but had a bad string and dropped to 1.5. Luckily
I'm only 1500 kills, so still time to get it up. Sent from my
iPhone via PowerFAQs 1.9 bd0g5Posted 11/20/2012 4:57:58 PM It's
around 1.90. It has been dropping a bit, but I could probably
get it back to 2. I like turtles creasy_bearPosted 11/20/2012
5:00:29 PM 1.57, which is the highest I've had in any Halo game
(and I've played them all) HighOnPhazonPosted 11/20/2012
5:05:00 PM Creasy Bear...what movie is that from....cant think
of it GT: AncientToaster Speak of the devil...and he shall
appear DuwstaiPosted 11/20/2012 5:11:26 PM Started out very high
but has started to level off around 2.2 It will eventually drop
farther Im sure. Im a very aggressive player, so the better
players I get matched up against, the lower my K/D will be
(obvious). I am big on team work, but unfortunately I dont have
many friends who play Halo anymore, so I go in solo a lot.
Spider5800Posted 11/20/2012 |
-1.616654 | -1.161032 | 63 | Top Stories Michelle Obama Reads Top 10 List on 'David
Letterman' Michelle Obama Reads Top 10 List on 'David
Letterman' The 48-year-old First Lady of the United States, in
a Thom Browne dress, sat with her brother Craig Robinson in the
box seats and was later joined by Vice President Joe Biden and
his wife Dr. Jill Biden. PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of
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-2.670772 | 0.801358 | -1 | Letters to the Editor Collapse coming February 28, 2010 To
the editor: Maybe health care reform is not dead after all,
thanks to Wellpoint. Wellpoint is a major nationwide health care
insurer which recently announced a 39 percent increase in
premiums in California and similar massive increases in many
other states, providing us an instructive preview of a future
without health care reform. The people of California did not
suddenly use 39 percent more services, and the health care
providers did not increase their fees by 39 percent. Nor did
Wellpoint just decide to quadruple their profits. What really
happened is much more scary for those opponents of reform who
are not interested in the uninsured because “I’ve got mine.” It
relates to a phenomenon called risk pool concentration. When
health insurance premiums become unaffordable, the first
individuals and businesses to drop coverage are the healthy, who
perceive little need for coverage. (Their unexpected, uninsured
catastrophes continue to be covered |
-0.410439 | 8.452535 | -1 | Take the 2-minute tour × While sharing a file/folder with
another Dropbox user, will that file/folder appear in the other
user's Dropbox and sync automatically to the Dropbox folder on
his computer? share|improve this question add comment 2
Answers up vote 8 down vote accepted If that user has set the
shared file/folder to sync to their computer then yes, it will
stay updated when their dropbox syncs. Keep in mind, though,
that there are many ways that the file/folder could be out of
sync: • Other person hasn't turned on their computer •
Other person hasn't turned on syncing for that file/folder •
Other person has Dropbox setup to not auto-sync • Other person
has that file open and Dropbox can't update the file because
it's in use. share|improve this answer add comment Yes! As long
as both the users are connected to the internet, it would work.
The sync may not occur if automatically synchronization is
disabled on any of the computers. share|improve this answer add
comment Your Answer |
1.467788 | 6.526153 | -1 | Take the tour × How do I set a "dead zone" for my Xbox 360
wired controller (reference image). Clarification: I meant for
use with my PC. Additional information: The reason I want to do
this is because the joystick is beaten up from a lot of usage
and now it suffers from "ghosting" which basically means it
moves slightly and it can easily screw things up while in-game.
For those of you who don't know what a "dead zone" is it is
basically a small area (from the center of the joystick) that is
dead so it will stop moving and stop ghosting. Google will
probably yield more information on the specifics though.
share|improve this question It's not possible from your xbox
itself. It could be possible with hardware modifications, but
that would be really out of scope for this site. – Kevin Apr 14
at 18:57 I should clarify I meant for use with my PC. –
user47129 Apr 14 at 18:58 add comment 2 Answers up vote 0 down
vote accepted According to this guide this is possible with
pinnacle game profiler. I haven't te |
-1.661189 | 4.205795 | 120 | Could the proposed standards lead to automakers vacating
smaller platforms? Source: AutoNews Comments Threshold
Another government regulation backfiring? By lightfoot on
12/14/2011 1:28:43 PM , Rating: 3 Kind of reminds me of the
whole SUV craze that was driven in part by the previous CAFE
standards. Truck platforms were simply more profitable because
they were held to a lower standard. Is anyone truly suprised by
this? I'm not. RE: Another government regulation backfiring? By
sigmatau on 12/14/2011 2:41:41 PM , Rating: 2 Or another way to
look at it: It's like the government told Company A to stop
dumping styrofoam into the landfills because it doesn't
decompose quickly and should be recycled. So, instead of dumping
the styrofoam into the landfill, Company A decides to burn it
and release all the lovely chemicals into our atmosphere. I
really wish people would think more like this. The government
can make the most carefully thought out law/regulation, but
there will be always someone that wil |
0.054911 | -2.107013 | 102 | You are here: HomeWorld NewsAsia Since Malaysia Airlines
Flight MH370 left Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, shortly after midnight
on March 8, and lost all contact with air traffic control an
hour later while flying over the Gulf of Thailand, the world has
waited anxiously for any information that might explain how and
why the huge aircraft vanished. The Israeli Navy intercepted
and boarded a cargo ship in international waters in the Red Sea
on March 5, seizing a shipment that included Syrian-made M-302
rockets that the ship picked up in Iran. The ship was destined
for Sudan, from which the rockets would presumably be moved by
land across Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula to Gaza. Iran has signed a
deal to sell $195 million dollars’ worth of arms and ammunition
to Iraq, according to documents seen by Reuters news agency,
which broke the story. Page 1 of 58 Sign up for The New
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4.857109 | 0.831475 | 13 | Playground magazine Breakfast | PlayGround | Music Albums
Chiddy Bang Artist: Chiddy Bang Record Label: Regal
Recording Genre: hip-hop, rap, indie-pop, Pop Rap Chiddy
Bang's debut album, after an acclaimed mixtape and a somewhat
less well-received EP, “The Preview”, arrives with the complex
mission of abandoning precisely what made this Philadelphia duo
the flavour of the week a few years ago: a sound based on
bright, explicit samples from indie-rock bands, from MGMT to
Passion Pit and Sufjan Stevens, put in a musical context
somewhere between hipster rap and post-Kanye West hip-hop. It
sounded fresh and surprising at first, but it was a formula
doomed to self-destruct, not only for legal reasons (the
licenses would cost zillions) but also because of the creative
aspect: the first time it's funny, the second time it becomes a
bit stale, and the third time around, war committees are formed.
So it is a major challenge: to get rid of the one thing that
brought you fame and start over again almost from |
2.33158 | 8.666699 | 24 | Sign up × Given a measure space $X$ with its measure $\mu$, it
can be shown (I'll provide a proof if asked for) that
$\displaystyle \forall f \in L^\infty(X,\mu),~\textrm{if }
\exists p_0:\forall q \geq p_0, f\in L^q\cap L^\infty, \textrm{
then } \lim_{p \to \infty}\|f\|_p = \|f\|_\infty$ (whih by the
way justify this notation) This convergence implies the
following: $\forall f, \forall \epsilon > 0, \exists q:=
q(f,\epsilon),\textrm{ such that } \forall p\geq q,
|\|f\|_p-\|f\|_\infty| < \epsilon$ This means that given an
approximation error of the infinity norm bounded by $\epsilon$,
I should be able to compute an (let's call it) index so that, I
don't need to go any further, but I have a priori knowledge of
the potential error. The idea is, I am working on some pattern
recognition problems and I am using the infinity norm somewhere
there. However, as it is quite unreliable against outliers,
using a p-norm approximation allows to "average out" the local
outliers and get a more robust result. The higher t |
3.729592 | 4.95576 | 2 | Question from faijai Boulder Galaxy (World 2) First Green Star
problem? How do you get the first green star in the Boulder
Galaxy (World 2); I can see it's above the bridge you have to
knock down as a's too far to get by either wall jumping on the
sides of the bridge or by trying to roll up it? Anybody got any
other ideas? Accepted Answer ConsummateGamer answered:
Actually, it's not too far to wall jump up the railings of the
bridge. You just have to spin at the peak of each wall jump.
Once you get to the top, stand on the middle of the bridge (the
section you would walk on when it's knocked down as opposed to
the railings), do a back flip, and spin at the peak of the back
flip. It will probably take a lot of tries to work correctly. 2
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-0.021015 | 7.090032 | 8 | Wireless intercom From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump
to: navigation, search A wireless intercom is a
telecommunications device that enables voice communication
without the need to run copper wires between intercom stations.
A wired intercom system may incorporate wireless elements.
There are many types of wireless intercom systems on the market.
Most wireless intercom systems communicate by radio waves using
one of the frequencies allotted by various government agencies.
Some wireless intercom systems communicate using the 802.11
standard.[1] There are also systems that advertise themselves as
wireless, but communicate over existing building AC electrical
wiring. Basic terms[edit] • Station - A wireless intercom
unit. • Outdoor Intercom - This is an intercom that can be
placed by a building's doors and it operates like a doorbell,
but people inside can talk to the visitor. • Channels - Some
wireless intercom systems have more than one channel so private
conversations can occur between group |
-0.560064 | 7.951844 | -1 | Growth in Open Platforms By Rick Treese | Posted 2010-07-14
How Customized Software Development Is Transforming the
Financial Industry Growth in Open Platforms Growth in open
platforms Additionally, there has been significant growth in
open platforms, allowing for greater interoperability and better
access to data for use in custom software implementations. With
data readily available, the dream of commingled content in a
single interface is actually achievable. APIs have
revolutionized the way data can be delivered to an enterprise's
user audience. For example, we know of a company that offers an
API that pulls broker research from hundreds of sources and
easily integrates it into a firm's internal applications. In a
space where content has historically been limited to
proprietary, closed, Web-based or downloadable software, users
can now customize the software. At the same time, there's a
confluence of economic factors that will lend to this push in
custom software development. Because base tech |
3.139138 | -1.972508 | -1 | Take the 2-minute tour × My wife and I recently rented a tandem
for a day. I found that, because everything needs to be
communicated -- starting, stopping, changes in cadence, shifting
(which might cause changes in cadence), etc. -- we were talking
continuously. This was good. What I would like to have is a
simple, efficient vocabulary for communicating the essential
information. Does this already exist in the same way that riders
communicate on group rides? While I realize that we could just
make up our own shorthand, if someone has already figured it
out, that would be better. share|improve this question 2
Answers 2 up vote 4 down vote accepted I posted a link to this
question to the Bike Friday Yak list - tandem riding is popular
there - and got back a few responses, this one in particular.
I'm posting this here simply because nobody else seems to have
an answer; If this isn't typical, please feel free to edit this
answer. A standard signalling vocabulary seems to not exist.
Teams need to ride toge |
3.518577 | -2.230508 | 87 | Crash.Net F1 News Alonso: Kimi was too fast for us 18 March
2013 Fernando Alonso has admitted that the combination of Kimi
Raikkonen and Lotus appeared unbeatable in the Australian Grand
Prix, but refused to blame Ferrari's strategy for his defeat.
The Spaniard, who acknowledged that beating Sebastian Vettel's
pole-winning Red Bull into third place had felt like victory in
itself [ see separate story], conceded that, without the
intervention of the safety car, he was unlikely to have been
able to dice with Raikkonen, who made one stop fewer for tyres
than his main rivals. “I think we were closer to victory in Abu
Dhabi [last season] or closer than what we were here today,” he
claimed, “We didn't have the pace to fight with Kimi today - he
was too fast for us and he did a fantastic job. I think, in Abu
Dhabi, it was different with the safety car. I think, with 15 or
20 laps to the end of the race, we really had the opportunity to
fight for victory there, [but] today they were too fast.” Asked
whether he |
3.916464 | -3.952126 | 55 | Phoenix Coyotes @ Los Angeles Kings Game 2 Recap: Coyotes
Lose 3-2 Stephen Dunn The Coyotes won the battle but lost the
war. Despite finally breaking the scoring drought, the Desert
Dogs lose 3-2 to the Kings. They scored! They scored! The
Coyotes scored! Oh, and they lost the game. But still! After
setting an ignominious franchise record for consecutive minutes
without a goal, the Coyotes captain finally got around to
scoring a pair of goals to give the team a chance at winning.
This game featured a ton of chippy play on both sides, and a lot
of questionable or flat-out missed calls by the officiating
crew. Regardless, Los Angeles got the two points after
withstanding a furious Coyotes charge late in the third period.
[Complete Coverage] - [Los Angeles Reaction] [Event Summary] -
[Full Play-by-Play] - [TOI Report] - [Faceoff Report] Phoenix
came out to play tonight; for the beginning of the first period
they did a solid job establishing an offensive presence and
getting pucks on Jonathan Bernier. But |
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1.146111 | 0.580349 | -1 | The topic Saint-Front is discussed in the following articles:
• TITLE: Périgueux (France) A chief point of cultural
interest in Périgueux is the cathedral of Saint-Front, built in
the 12th century on the ruins of the abbey, which burned in
1120. One of the largest in southwestern France, it is built in
the shape of a Greek cross, topped by five lofty domes and
numerous colonnaded turrets. A Romanesque bell tower and
cloisters of the 12th, 13th, and 16th centuries adjoin it on...
• TITLE: building construction SECTION: Stone construction |
0.911244 | -0.846609 | -1 | India Gang Rape Accused Plead Not Guilty Five men accused of
the brutal murder and gang rape of a 23-year-old medical student
on a Delhi bus have denied the allegations. They pleaded not
guilty after being indicted on 13 charges in a special fast-
track court in the capital. The defendants are due back in
court on February 5, when the prosecution will call three
witnesses to the formal start of the trial. The accused, aged
between 19 and 35 and who have been named as Ram Singh, Mukesh
Singh, Vinay Sharma, Akshay Thakur and Pawan Gupta, could face
the death penalty if convicted. They reportedly filed into the
courtroom with their faces concealed with scarves amid heavy
security. A sixth 17-year-old suspect will be tried separately
in a juvenile court where the maximum sentence is three years in
a reform facility. The victim was repeatedly raped and
assaulted with a metal bar during the attack on December 16.
Her male companion was beaten up, before they were both thrown
off a moving bus and dumped naked |
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Joe Just another Perl shrine Re^5: Performance problem with
Clone Method by dcmertens (Beadle) on Jul 27, 2011 at 20:41 UTC
( #917129=note: print w/ replies, xml ) Need Help?? in reply to
Re^4: Performance problem with Clone Method in thread
Performance problem with Clone Method Unfortunately I don't
know anything about the OP's problem and an internet search has
not proved forthcoming with a simple explanation, in matrix
terms, of the Ullmann algorithm. If Commandosupremo could spell
out his implementation of the algorithm, giving a list of the
operations needed, I could say PDL is the right tool or not. As
to your specific points, PDL may be able to handle the
operations you pose, depending on what you mean. PDL supports a
whole slew of operations including bitwise boolean operations,
as mentioned here: For counting the set bits, that's just a sum;
you can perform that and many other row or whole-piddle
operations as discussed here: The imp |
-0.272469 | 9.21227 | 16 | Take the 2-minute tour × I'm in the process of automate one of
my apps. First I tap on a tabBar =>ok Tap on a 'Add' button of
a navigation bar => ok Fill some data of my textFields of my
tableView => ok Tap on some cell and open a new ViewController
=> ok Tap on a 'Add' button in this new controller => nothing
happens ... The button is the same as the first view:
UIBarButtonSystemItemAdd So, now I want to show all the buttons
that automation can find, and iterate and get their names, just
to check that all is going well, but I can't find the name of
the buttons, see: var arr = UIATarget.localTarget().frontMostAp
p().navigationBar().buttons(); var value = arr[i]; And I'm
tapping both buttons the same way:
UIATarget.localTarget().frontMostApp()
.navigationBar().buttons()["Add"].tap(); Ok, the button tap
has been solved using a delay of 1 But I can't get the button
names in the loop, but at least I can continue auomating my app
share|improve this question 1 Answer 1 up vote 0 down vote
accept |
3.266678 | 5.015774 | 2 | Universal acclaim - based on 55 Critics What's this? User Score
Generally favorable reviews- based on 637 Ratings Your Score 0
out of 10 Rate this: • 10 • 9 • 8 • 7 • 6 • 5 • 4
• 3 • 2 • 1 • 0 • 0 Score distribution: 1. Positive:
54 out of 55 2. Negative: 0 out of 55 1. With incredible
communication tools, top-notch visuals, and a fantastic balance
of vehicles and classes, EA has won the battle and the war of
online team-based shooters. 2. Much like the real military,
Battlefield 2 is not just a game, it’s a way of life. 3. It's
finely tuned maps and balanced gameplay prove that you CAN
improve on perfection. [Sept 2005, p.56] 4. The available maps
are enormous, and the player is overwhelmed by the feel of
modern warfare as jets race across the sky, choppers hover
overhead, and tanks roll across the roads. 5. Team play
innovations, graphical supremacy and the thundering roar of
enemy jets combined with persistent stats all work together to
really put you There. There b |
-0.459209 | 10.141171 | -1 | Take the 2-minute tour × I have a string which contain a DIV
tag to remove. I can recognize the DIV to remove by its
parameters (the specific style in this case) that is unique.
This DIV contains a lot of HTML inside including other DIVs.
<div style="padding-top: 10px; clear: both; width: 100%;"> {
a lot other divs here} How remove it from the string? EDIT:
(Any useful technique is welcome) EDIT 2: I know about the
inconvenience of using ergualr expressions. If you have a
solution using regexs is welcome too because is a one-stop
parsing process ans the text is very small and the HTML is well-
construted (Indeed is XHTML). EDIT 3: If possible please show
an example using a HTML/DOM parser or Xpath or whatever. The
problem here is not select data else remove data. Can be done
with HTML/DOM parser or Xpath? share|improve this question Are
you wanting the code to physically be deleted or just the divs
just hidden? – anjunatl Jan 27 '12 at 15:23 It is much better
to do with using DOMDocument and XPath, |
-1.836638 | 2.945585 | 54 | The ecology and social systems of Red Sea butterflyfish were
studied along the Sinai coast. Distribution, population density
and sociography indicate a preponderance of monogamy in all
species, independent of reef zonation and seasonal or long-term
changes of the reef environment. The social and mating systems
are mutual monogamy; partners remain together for up to 6 years.
Links between the monogamy and benthic habits of these fish are
indicated by their feeding ecology and by a comparison with
Indopacific plankton-feeding species, which usually occur in
groups. Territories are defended pairwise. Pair partners nearly
always remain within visual contact, but a species-typical
distance apart. Pair swimming is independent of season or time
of day. Experimental partner removals led to speedy replacement
of mates. Possible causes of high partner permanency with little
partner fidelity are discussed. In good habitats, single
territorial adults do not occur. They would be unable to defend
and maintain a territory o |
1.04696 | 2.239422 | 40 | New Research Shows Benefits of Bilingualism b_250_0_16777215_00
_images_obgrabber_2013-09_d336735447.jpgAltrendo Images / Getty
(UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa.) -- Researchers from Penn State have found
that fluent bilinguals probably have greater levels of mental
flexibility than people who speak just one language. The
researchers found that fluent bilinguals have both languages
active at all times, regardless of whether they’re consciously
using both. That holds true even if they speak just one of the
languages for days on end. The other still remains active. And
people rarely say anything in an unintended language, meaning
they are able to control the parallel activity of both languages
and select which one they want to use without actually
consciously thinking about it, hence the mental flexibility.
"In the past, bilinguals were looked down upon," Judith F.
Kroll, distinguished professor of Psychology, Linguistics and
Women’s Studies, said in a statement. "Not only is bilingualism
not bad for you, it may be reall |
-2.734519 | 0.802376 | -1 | President Obama and most congressional Democrats say they want
to preserve private health insurance. They also want to add a
"public plan" to compete with private insurance plans. Their
basic argument is that a public plan would offer needed
competition, save money through low administrative costs and
zero profits, realize greater economies of scale, and be a
superior negotiator of the prices of medical services and
technology. David Klein The first three arguments are bogus.
The fourth argument is only half-bogus -- but the half that
isn't reveals a great danger: If a public plan is inserted into
private insurance markets, the American health-care system could
rapidly evolve into a single-payer system, which would have
devastating effects on R&D for new medical technology. The
first argument, that we need a public plan to spur competition,
just isn't plausible. Hundreds of health insurance plans already
exist, and employer benefit managers can choose among numerous
alternatives. There is no lack of firms |
-1.312188 | 0.601573 | -1 | Text Us: #30930 Phone: (800) 616 WBEN Business: (716) 843-0600
"Dyster: Might Not Respond To Casino Fire" Is Not Available At
This Time. 09/12/2012 9:11AM Dyster: Might Not Respond To Casino
Fire Please enter your comments below. 09/12/2012 1:06PM Must
want to get sued First time someone is injured or dies due to
the FD not responding there would be lawsuits left and right
09/12/2012 4:09PM What an idiot! Dyster needs to read the
Nation-State Gaming Compact(available online) before he opens
his mouth. First of all the Senecas owe nothing to the city and
never did. Under the terms of the compact the Senecas pay the
STATE a specified % of their Class III gaming gross. The state
in turn pays out a % of that revenue to the Falls, Buffalo and
Salamanca; the Senecas have nothing to do with how much each
location receives. There is no "direct pay" (to the cities)
provision in the compact as far as I can see. The "quid pro quo"
in the compact was that the state turned over its Class III
gaming rights EXCLUSIVELY to t |
-1.395945 | 3.29992 | -1 | Reply to a comment Reply to this comment Porter_Osborne
writes: What about landowners who sell their trees to lumber
companies who come in and clear cut to remove the trees? I hope
they are covered under some of these storm water regulations.
They will clear cut an area and it becomes a sea of mud after it
rains, as there is no ground cover left. Do they have to keep
their distance from creeks and streams too? Do they have to
leave buffer zones? Stands of large trees take up a lot of water
out of the ground. Where's all that water going to go? Down the
slopes and into creeks and streams carrying dirt with it. If
it's so environmentally important for developers to manage storm
water, it ought to be important for others disturbing large
areas of the landscape as well. |
-2.779186 | 2.379152 | -1 | Seven financial steps top managers enact Seven financial steps
top managers enact by Gary Sipiorski milking in a parlor
Getting a firm handle on farm financials will be critical to
long-term business success. If your operation needs to get up to
speed, now would be a good time as milk prices are favorable by
historic standards and feed prices are moderating. Here we are
in yet another year with continual changes and uncertainty. Have
you figured that this is a never-ending occurrence on the
business side of agriculture? One of the biggest common unknowns
is the weather. Regardless if you raise all of your forage and
grain or you buy it, everyone is affected one way or another by
weather. We still cannot cover the fields and dairy with a
protective tent or greenhouse. Just like the weather is always
with you, the farm financials will always be with you. Even
with unpredictable weather and markets, there are dairy
producers who not only survive but continue to make constant
progress. Maybe not so much in |
1.69089 | 3.68171 | 51 | Just in Time, a Lebanese Artist's Work Is Shown at Tate Modern
Share with others: Print Email Read Later Saloua Raouda
Choucair did everything in her life early, or late. Her first
exhibition in Beirut in 1947 is thought to be the first-ever
show of abstract art in the Arab world. She had her only child
at age 40 -- rare in the 1950s. Now, at age 97, she is having
her first major museum retrospective, at the Tate Modern in
London. "All the timings were wrong with my mother so I'm not
surprised this happened so late," said her daughter, Hala
Schoukair, now 56. "She started with abstraction when people in
Beirut were just discovering Impressionism. In the '60s, no one
was paying attention to her and then when they started paying
attention, the war started. Even if there was some good
attention, something always went a little wrong." Over the
years, though, Ms. Choucair kept at it, working in the studio
that filled the top floor of her home in Beirut, while
canvasses, sculptures, jewelry and other bits and |
2.667177 | 2.757416 | -1 | Tuesday, July 12, 2005 Writing the Novel AND Why I Hate The
Historian I started my attempt at National Novel Writing Month
(known as NaNoWriMo). On the first day the word count goal is
1,667 words (or something). I wrote 2, 450. I think it's the
only day I will be ahead, so I'm bragging. Don't ask me next
week when I'm behind by 5,000 or so words. Shall I share one
line from my new version of the novel I've been working on?
Okay, I just looked at what I wrote and I can't bear to reveal
any of it here. Which must mean I am taking NaNoWriMo to heart
and have kenneled my Inner Editor. So you'll just have to wait
until August 12 (the day after I finish my novel!) to see if I
can bear to reveal any of it here, to you, my faithful readers.
In other news, I am incredibly irritated by the release and
instant Best Seller status of The Historian by Elizabeth
Kostova. First, Random House paid two million dollars for the
book, so of course they are going to promote the hell out of it
(articles in Time and Newsweek; fu |
1.260713 | 6.08173 | -1 | Take the 2-minute tour × I was having problems with my bass
guitars, fender JB and P bass and an epiphone viola. After
several trips to my local music store, the instruments were
checked and I was told they were in tune. They all checked out
on the electronic tuning meter. However when playing along with
cd's, the instruments still didn't sound right. After a good
part of the day experienting, I changed the reference pitch to
445hz. They all sound perfect, no problems with intonation. Why
are the guitars in tune at 445hz and not at 440hz?
share|improve this question Could you give some example songs
that you're playing along with that sound in tune with 445? –
jadarnel27 Oct 14 '11 at 4:10 add comment 4 Answers Post-
production often raises the pitch (and increases the tempo) of a
recording. Plus, there is no guarantee that the recording was
made at A440 in the first place. Further, even in classical
music, pitch standards vary regionally. So, it is not surprising
that you would find yourself to be out of |
0.236378 | 10.194156 | 16 | Sign up × I have a table that stores a unix timestamp. To query
this as a date, I'm attempting to convert this timestamp to a
datetime type in a view. Unfortunately, I can only seem to get
the DATE portion out. This link describes how to do the
conversion, but requires changing the nls_date_format to include
the time portion. The default currently only shows the date
portion. I need the date and time. Unfortunately, that solution
only works at a session level. As a developer, I'd rather not
have to go running off to our managed service provider to ask
them to change the value at a database level - especially since
it may impact other applications. Is there a way I can convert
the timestamp, in sql, to a datetime without modifying the
system? share|improve this question 4 Answers 4 up vote 8
down vote accepted the result of the expression
to_date('1970-01-01','YYYY-MM-DD') +
numtodsinterval(1244108886,'SECOND') is a value of the oracle
datatype DATE. This type contains date and time. If you want to
d |
-0.121558 | 4.745707 | -1 | Winter Cycling - Snapped a bolt this morning View Full Version
: Snapped a bolt this morning 01-25-07, 09:37 AM After several
years of winter commuting, I've had my first in-commute "break-
down," although I didn't stop so it wasn't really a break-down.
I heard a funny "ping" and looked down to see my right, front
fender stay sticking out. The head had snapped off the allen
bolt. I'm attributing it to the cold we're having here in the
middle of the mitten. Luckily, there's still enough of the bolt
sticking out of the eyelet that I should be able to grip it with
the vise-grips when I get home and replace it. I feel like I've
passed some sort of initiation, even though, like I said, it
wasn't anything to make me stop on the side of the road.
01-25-07, 10:36 AM Sounds like you made it home ok! Its a good
thing to carry a few strap locks in the bag,don't know that it
would have helped you, but they are nice to have,just in case!
01-26-07, 09:55 AM I actually do carry zip ties and cotter pins
for just such a |
1.589315 | 3.759198 | 51 | Mental Floss 2014-03-10T22:40:29+00:00 2010-04-09T18:07:17+00:00
2010-04-09T04:09:52+00:00 Artistic Imagery by Mother Earth Jill
Harness It takes the average artist years of intense practice
and some level of natural skills to be able to create artwork
that attracts interest, but with millions of years of practice
and a bit of blind luck, Mother Nature's artwork still steals
the show. This man wearing a headdress is a stunning example of
the brilliance of the Earth at work. While a recent WebEcoist
post includes this photo with many other birds-eye view images
of man-made artworks, it seems to fall into its own special
category because it wasn't planned and concocted, it just came
to be. Have you ever seen a piece of art made by the Earth
itself? And if you saw it from the air, tell us where so we
might try to find it on Google Maps. April 9, 2010 - 10:07am |
4.868741 | 0.783888 | 13 | Complex Simplicity August 10, 2004 Rhythm & Blues, Contemporary
R&B, Urban Album Review The knock against neo-soul is that it
looks desperately to the past instead of the present or future,
having disconnected somewhere in the late '70s, just before the
wicked drum machines and synthesizers came around to siphon the
soul out of R&B. Pop-oriented R&B is routinely faulted for being
insincere and inauthentic, full of flash and bleating-goat
ululations. New R&B artists in 2004 tended to be slotted into
one of the two categories, either next to Jill Scott and "the
next D'Angelo," or next to Usher and "the next Beyoncé." Singer
and songwriter Teedra Moses sees the good in both sides,
realizing that there must be some people out there who are
thrilled by modern-day hip-hop-minded productions but crave
lyrical content that goes deeper than memorable hooks and
identikit platitudes about desire, romantic drama, and soul-
searching. Just as importantly, Moses and primary collaborator
Paul Poli -- who also teamed up to |
-4.360579 | 1.453749 | 18 | 31 August, 2010 Liederkranz Cheese. About a week ago, blog
reader Alan mentioned in a comment that Liederkranz cheese had
been rescued from the brink of extinction by DCI Cheese
Company. I decided I would try to find some - the only thing I
knew about it was that it was an American variation of
Limburger, and that the last batch had been made by the Fisher
Cheese Company in 1985. Because of a bacterial contamination of
the cheese culture that year, Fisher recalled all of that year's
Liederkranz production, later selling the factory and remaining
cultures to Beatrice Foods (which was later purchased by
ConAgra.) I was surprised to hear that the cheese was back in
production, because for at least ten years, the Liederkranz
culture was thought to have been allowed to go extinct. I was
pleased and surprised to find small 6-ounce squares of
Liederkranz for sale in my local ShopRite supermarket. I picked
one up and gave it a sniff. I was half expecting to get knocked
out of my shoes, having grown up watching |
3.876236 | 2.198972 | 5 | From Inside the Box: TV News and Buzz Follow Zap2it: 'Who Do
You Think You Are?': Celebs discover their roots who-do-you-
think-you-are-320.jpg"Who Do You Think You Are?" is first and
foremost a TV show, and thus it requires the presence of stars
and a story arc punctuated with dramatic moments, and it has all
those things. But the series, which premieres at 8 p.m. ET
Friday (March 5) on NBC, doesn't necessarily need all those
things. In tracing their own roots, the celebrities who take
part in the show get to tell larger American stories, and that's
pretty cool even without voiceover narration and music cues.
"Who Do You Think You Are?" is executive produced by "Friends"
star Lisa Kudrow (who will be the subject of the March 19
episode) and based on a British series of the same name.
Friday's premiere features "Sex and the City" star Sarah Jessica
Parker, who had assumed that she was primarily of German descent
and that her family had only been in the United States since the
mid-19th century. She discove |
-0.828347 | 9.662004 | 15 | Take the 2-minute tour × I have an mu install with the typical
blogs.dir folder storing files for each blog. When loading these
images however they take forever to appear, but they eventually
do. It seems that wpmu uses php to serve each image which is
ludicrous. When using images from the same domain but in a root
folder, the images are displayed quickly. Is there a workaround
the blogs.php for rendering files? Could there be something else
wrong in the settings of my install? share|improve this
question add comment 1 Answer up vote 0 down vote accepted
Hard coding the Rewrite Rule instead of using blogs.php is a
temporary workaround with huge speed differences. This can only
work if you already know the blog ID's. share|improve this
answer add comment Your Answer |
-0.515269 | 6.404462 | -1 | RFID windshield tag drives cashless parking system Parking
technology has finally caught up to our on-the-go culture: pay
without paying attention. Researchers have built a device that
does for parking lots what radio transponders do for highway
tolls. You park, it keeps track. The near field communications
(NFC) system, dubbed Viatag, consists of 0.5 inch by 4-inch RFID
windshield tags, parking lot transceivers that read tags, and a
central database. The windshield tag signals the parking
transceiver as you're entering and exiting a parking lot. A
central database tallies your time in the lot and debits your
account accordingly. The tag is unobtrusive compared with bulky
highway toll transponders. This is because it's a passive RFID
tag--no batteries. Instead it draws power through the air--from
radio waves sent by the transceivers.… Read more |
-4.626816 | 1.279387 | -1 | Tribute to Mary Kitchen Happiness can be found -- in a can of
corned beef hash By Bill Daley Tribune Newspapers January 27,
2010 Like many divine personalities, Mary Kitchen has a past
shrouded in mystery. No one really knows if the goddess of
corned beef hash is based on a real person or not, and why the
name was chosen. Though Hormel Foods is marking the 61st
anniversary of the brand in 2010, it's likely we'll never know
for sure. Still, I have unabashedly adored Mary Kitchen with a
passion many reserve for real flesh and blood cooks. That's
because her hash makes me happy.Yes, happy. I know, I should be
in the kitchen making my own from leftovers rather than wielding
a can opener. But understand, Mary Kitchen and I go way, way
back. I was introduced to Ms. Kitchen while a student at
Manhattanville College. Dinner, what there was of it, was served
at 5 p.m., and by 9, I was always starving. Mary Kitchen hash
was great for dorm cooking because it came in a tidy can, didn't
need refrigeration and coul |
-0.323539 | -1.441032 | -1 | Outsourcing Private Ryan Peter Singer is the author of
Corporate Warriors: The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry
and the director of the Project on U.S. Policy Toward the
Islamic World at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C.
Prospect writing fellow Ayelish McGarvey spoke with him last
week to discuss the rise of private military contractors in
modern warfare. Tell me about this trend, using private
contractors to perform military duties. Haven't mercenary forces
been used throughout history? This is something completely new:
Private companies providing military services? This is something
that you didn't see until the end of the Cold War. It's quite
distinct from past civilian roles in the realm of warfare. What
we've seen happen over the last decade has been a surprise in
both size and scope, and you can see it very clearly play out in
Iraq right now. So today in Iraq, there are somewhere around
20,000 private military contractors, i.e., those that are
providing military functions but work |
0.248485 | 10.185799 | 16 | RE: please, locks are at block or row level.? TX locks take
locks against rows, not blocks. When you execute DML against a
table, a TX enqueue (or lock) is implicitly allocated for the
duration of your transaction. That transaction points to a
rollback segment header, which in turn will point to space in
the rollback segment where=20 the before images of the data
affected by your transaction will be recorded. Now, as
particular data blocks are affected, an ITL xlot in the data
block's transaction layer is allocated and pointed to that
rollback segment slot. So, now we know that this transaction is
"showing an interest" in this data block. Finally, as a
particular row in the data block is updated, the entry in the
block's row table is updated to point to that particular ITL
slot. So, in this way, locks can be enforced at the row-level.
Note some important points about this model: 1.) There is no
"master list" of locked rows. This is good, because it's a key
Oracle's ability to scale, and to not have to |
-0.163646 | 7.427436 | 8 | Lenovo considering purchase Palm may also simply choose
to continue as an independent company. Comments
Threshold Palm hardware sucks - this is why it doesn't sell By
jameskatt on 4/23/2010 11:39:17 AM , Rating: 2 Palm hardware
sucks. This is why it doesn't sell. I think Palm has to do some
things: 1. Recruit HTC to make Palm hardware for it -
essentially rebrand HTC's cell phones like Google and Microsoft
do. This way, Palm doesn't have to do its own hardware. This
way, Palm can keep up with Microsoft and Google. 2. Install the
WebOS on these phones. 3. Create a developer SDK that can do
native apps. The lack of apps is killing Palm. Get Adobe to
create app creation tools for it. Sure, Flash apps suck and are
generic. But having no apps is worse of all. This may give Palm
a chance in the world. Of course, I'll upgrade to an iPhone 4G.
By retrospooty on 4/23/2010 12:51:49 PM , Rating: 2 HTC has been
making Palms products for well over 5 years. I know for a fact
all Treo's since the 6 |
-0.844037 | 2.786672 | -1 | Wednesday, June 15, 2011 | Edited by Daniel Moores Handy Advice
When Disaster Strikes What Media People Can Expect When Markets
Are Disrupted If there's one thing that defines this spring
across America, it's what seems to be an unending series of
natural disasters, from floods to tornadoes to most recently
fires. And for media people, all those natural disasters come
with the territory, so to speak. As their hearts are going out
to families whose lives are being uprooted, they're also working
to adjust schedules and advise clients when the disaster strikes
a market where those clients are active. And as Michelle Abdow
recently learned, there's always an element of surprise no
matter how prepared you might be. Abdow is president of Market
Mentors of West Springfield, Mass., where a tornado ripped
through on June 1, killing three people in its path of
destruction. Tornadoes are as rare in Springfield as ice storms
in Miami, if not more so. "It was completely unexpected," Abdow
says. "We keep a radio on |
-0.823887 | 8.234344 | -1 | Forgot your password? Firefox Open Source News TACO Extension
for Firefox Forked After Proprietary Update 139 Posted by
Soulskill from the way-to-commandeer-taco dept. rtfa-troll
writes "Beef Taco is a Firefox extension that allows a mass opt-
out from tracking and targeted advertising by many ad networks.
The Register reports that the original system, TACO, has become
proprietary, and has added new 'features' best described as
bloatware. I guess this should serve as a warning for users to
always prefer software under a copyleft license where possible.
If Google had chosen a license with better protection, such as
the GPL, when it released its own opt-out tool, this problem
would have been much less likely. This also shows why forks are
so important when software development begins to get messy."
TACO Extension for Firefox Forked After Proprietary Update
Comments Filter: • by fotbr (855184) on Friday June 18, 2010
@04:36PM (#32619472) Journal Google released theirs with
the Apache 2.0 license. Some |
-0.159943 | 7.423112 | 8 | Yesterday we gave you the lowdown on Fusion Garage's second
foray into tablet computing, the Grid 10. While its tablet world
topping pixel density, Tegra 2 silicon, and fresh to death OS
certainly sound awesome, we had to get our grubby mitts on one
to see if it's as good as its spec sheet would have us believe.
So, is the JooJoo's successor a superior slate, or is it
destined to disappoint like its elder sibling? Read on past the
break to find out. Fusion Garage Grid 10 and Grid 4 hands on
See all photos 18 Photos Similar to its much maligned
predecessor, the Grid 10 had a svelte profile (though it's not
as thin as the Galaxy Tab 10.1) and is relatively lightweight.
It's pixel packed display is, of course, quite the fingerprint
magnet, but the tablet's backside is coated in a matte finish
with a chromed logo in the middle. It doesn't quite have the
high end look of the JooJoo, but the Grid 10 is a handsome
slate, nonetheless. On one side there's a 3.5mm headphone jack,
microSD card slot, and proprietary |
-1.988254 | 4.219575 | 61 | Sunday, March 16, 2014 Inquirer Daily News Oh, one more
thing...the world is still running out of oil -- have a nice day
Remenber all the talk a couple of years ago about "peak oil"?
Remember you how forgot all about it the minute that gasoline
dipped back below $ 3 a gallon? Remember how you used to believe
in the Easter Bunny and that the 2003-04 Red Sox weren't on
steroids? Well. now a top official of the world's most credible
energy authority is here to tell you that Santa Claus doesn't
exist: Make fun of "Cash for Clunkers" (sure it could be run
a lot better -- just like most new ventures in the free market,
like the launch of Kentucky Grilled Chicken) and the need for
more serious energy conservation measures now, because you won't
be laughing in a few years. Meanwhile, we sit back in a daze
because it's true that speculators manipulated the oil markets
in 2008, creating an artificial price spike. There's an old
saying that just because you're paranoid doesn't mean that
someone's not out to get y |
-2.088425 | -1.230985 | 10 | Former President Bill Clinton claims Mitt Romney will ‘come
after Irish next’ Says Mitt’s comments on Italians owning
Chrysler was attempt to create conspiracy theory Bill Clinton
speaking on the Obama / Biden campaign trail Bill Clinton
speaking on the Obama / Biden campaign trail Photo by Getty
Guinness PubFinder Ad Bill Clintonhas claimed that Republican
Mitt Romney will “come after the Irish next” after recent
disparaging comments about Italians owning the car company
Chrysler. After Clinton made the Irish comment he added, “which
means I’m in trouble” pointing to his Irish ancestry during a
speech in St.Cloud Minnesota. Clinton was referring to Romney’s
recent statements that Barack Obama had sold the Chrysler Car
Company to Italians and that the “Italians” had then sent
American jobs to China. The allegations that the company would
ship Jeep jobs to China were part of an advertising campaign
which was unusually refuted by both Chrysler and GM car
executives. Clinton explained that Chrysler had b |
-1.281088 | -0.094591 | 48 | Reply to a comment Reply to this comment Gus writes: "why
don't you check out the NRA-ILA website and go to the link for
Armed Citizen. Hope you have a lot of time when you do.... tons
of documents from newspapers around the entire USA where guns
saved lives." And conversely, why don't you compare that number
to the number of lives guns ended around the entire USA during
the same time period? Seems to be a fair comparison, don't you
think? Just information. And BTW...this whole "Obama's gonna
git yer gun" an entirely made up issue by people who stand to
make money off of your paranoia. Obama has been crystal clear
about this from the beginning. All you have to do is listen and
read his position statements on this, not a version that has
been filtered through the NRA or Fox News or some other radical
anti_Obama website. Good grief. |
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