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1.006965 | -1.527578 | -1 | A powerful typhoon has hit South Korea with strong winds and
heavy rain, killing nine and churning up rough seas that smashed
two Chinese fishing ships into rocks and forced the coast guard
to perform a daring rescue of survivors. Separately, at least
four other people died as Typhoon Bolaven knocked out power to
hundreds of thousands of South Koreans, cancelled flights and
temporarily halted joint war games by U.S. and South Korean
military forces. North Korea, which is still struggling to
rebuild from massive floods and a devastating drought before
that, was next in the typhoon's path. State media reported the
country was being lashed by heavy rain and strong wind on
Tuesday. Typhoon Bolaven brought heavy downpours to the
southern port city of Busan (Yonhap Kim Sun-ho, Associated
Press) Off Jeju island, dangerous waves kept rescue vessels
from approaching the Chinese fishing ships. The coast guard used
a special gun to shoot rope to one ship so officers could pull
themselves over and bring the fisherm |
2.130721 | 2.01731 | -1 | Monday, February 20, 2012 Not really a big believer. Kinda,
but not really. I mean, I'll do things so as to not expedite my
demise (no walking under ladders, trying really hard not to
break mirrors or open umbrellas indoors, etc...), but usually I
don't get caught up in "that sort of thing". Gotta admit
tho...flying on Friday the 13th creeped me out. Turns out, it
was nothing to worry about! Yay! So, mom and I went shopping
for the Pal last week. We were working on a deadline, so we ate
quickly at the Food Court (STOP!! I do NOT want to hear about
how disgusting and dirty food courts are...I can't imagine the
filth, and I'd like to remain naive to food court nastiness.
Thankyouverymuch.). We decided on some Asian food, snarfed it
down, slurped our pops dry and burped. Then I noticed my fortune
cookie resting in front of me..."Hmmmm...let's see what kind of
fortune I have today." (Side note: Since when did fortunes
become less "you'll win a million dollars" and more "you are a
beautiful person"? Very much |
3.754022 | 1.300388 | -1 | Wednesday, August 24, 2011 Hamster Charged In Brutal
Murder/Over-rated Musicians BY JEFF KONKLE Hamster Charged In
Brutal Murder A 2-year-old mother Hamster has been charged with
filial cannibalism after partial remains her baby's body was
found buried in the woodchips near the water-bottle in August.
Sunshine the Hamster will appear to defend the charges in
District Court tomorrow. Last month the baby's father, Balthazar
the Hamster, pleaded guilty to concealing the digested remains.
Balthazar's lawyer said he accepted his role, but had no
knowledge of anything Sunshine had allegedly done to the child
because he too busy spinning on the red wheel and storing seeds
as is typical during breeding season. "She had like eight babies
in that litter," Balthazar said during proceedings. "I had no
idea she ate one of them until it was too late." Police believe
the baby was born on July 26 - a week before his body was
discovered. They said they found the grave after being tipped
off by Bertram, the goldfish on the ni |
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-0.631698 | -0.624559 | -1 | Young J. Edgar by Kenneth D. Ackerman by Michael Patrick Brady
5 June 2008 In the days after the close of the First World
War, there was a room in Washington D.C. where communists and
anarchists dwelled with Harvard professors, union organizers,
lawyers, politicians, and government bureaucrats. It wasn’t a
seedy, back-alley speakeasy or elite underworld salon where
these presumed leftist agitators plotted bloody rebellion
against the United States government. No, all these
personalities were brought together in an archive at the
Department of Justice, neatly filed into a card catalog system
of substantial depth, complexity, and organization, by a
24-year-old assistant to the attorney general named John Edgar
Hoover. It was the genesis of a system of surveillance and
observation, of information mining, that would hang like
Damocles’ sword over the city for nearly half a century. In
Young J. Edgar, author and lawyer Kenneth J. Ackerman explores
the beginnings of Hoover’s public career and how the attitudes |
-0.473425 | 9.380116 | -1 | Take the 2-minute tour × I have created a temporary
certificate. I am trying to import this certificate.I am
importing Certificate to Personnel store of Local Computer and
then using FindPrivateKey solution to find privatekey file. Th
problem is after going to the private key file I am unable to
set security permission for the ASP.NET process. I tried using
cacls.exe, but it threw exception - "It can be used only on NTFS
drive". I tried changing use Simple File sharing from Tools -
options - FileType , but still I am not able to set permission.
Following command I am running: cacls.exe "C:\Documents and
Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\Crypto\RSA\Machine
Keys533857c8564c40d87fe9c8bcef94827b_e74230a4-859f-4b07-9ece-
dd19ba319af7" /E /G "MYPC\ASPNET":R and getting following
error: The Cacls command can be run only on disk that use the
NTFS file system My Os is Windows xp and FileSystem is FAT.
share|improve this question migrated from stackoverflow.com Aug
30 '12 at 7:15 This question came |
0.760169 | -0.39352 | -1 | Luo tribe From Conservapedia Jump to: navigation, search The
Luo tribe is a major ethnic group in Kenya. Politically they are
opposed to the larger Kikuyu tribe. While a small minority are
Christians, most of them are Muslims; they regularly practice
polygamy. Barack Obama, Sr., the father of Barack Obama, was a
Muslim member of the Luo tribe and had multiple wives. Further
reading Personal tools |
-1.976897 | -1.062139 | 10 | Governor Dannel Malloy Governor Dannel Malloy (July 30, 2013)
Last year, Barack Obama won reelection in spite of — not because
of — his first term as president, and he had Republican hard-
liners to thank for the victory. Connecticut's Dannel Malloy has
to be hoping that same formula will rescue him. So far, the
Connecticut GOP seems to be working its increasingly
conservative ass off to make Malloy's "My-First-Term-Really-
Wasn't-That-Awful" Democratic reelection campaign actually look
feasible. Let's see: -Republicans just reanointed as their
state party chairman a conservative named Jerry Labriola Jr. His
initial term in office wasn't what you'd call successful.
Cluster-flop would be more appropriate: Democrats took every
congressional and statewide office imaginable and retained their
iron-fisted domination of the General Assembly. (One can only
imagine Malloy's private reaction to the reinstatement of
Labriola. How about a fist-pumping "Yesssssss!") -As one of his
most "trusted advisers," Labriola h |
-1.661847 | 2.725768 | 54 | « April 2008 Table of Contents Pin It Point of View: Spread the
word: Seafood is good for you Property of SeaFood Business
magazine By Peter Flournoy April 01, 2008 Almost anything that
concerns ocean fisheries today has been so politicized and
distorted by huge globs of money from well meaning foundations
and organizations concerned with the ocean environment that the
voice of the fisherman, who depends on the ocean's resources, is
very hard to hear. So what do you do when your healthy,
flavorful, omega-3-rich seafood product is the best, but
everyone from the federal government to your local doctor is
slamming it? First, with the advent of the Internet, almost
every media outlet has a "blog" Web site or a place where you
can post comments. You don't even need a stamp. If you're a
fisherman, you can even do it from your boat. When you see
something outlandish in a
local newspaper or hear something
nuts on a radio or TV news show, politely call it to their
attention and give them the right information b |
0.963881 | 5.460992 | -1 | Take the tour × My understanding is, within quantum mechanics,
in a pure vacuum, all known fields have a lowest energy state of
zero. The Higgs field is the only exception -- it's lowest
energy state is not zero. Hence, the uniform field permeating
all of space, through which other particles couple with and thus
are endowed mass. My question is whether this "non-zero lowest
energy state" attribute of the field is an inherent lower bound;
or if it just happens to describe the status quo of the Higgs
field today. i.e. could one theoretically do something to
cancel out the Higgs field? If so, what would happen to mass
that was passed into this "Faraday cage" of sorts? Would it
immediately explode into radiated energy? share|improve this
question You could cancel out the Higgs field by raising the
temperature so the thermal energy was above the electro-weak
transition energy. However what you and I know as matter
wouldn't survive this much heating. – John Rennie Oct 9 '12 at
9:16 add comment Your Answer |
-0.086225 | 3.122777 | -1 | Wednesday, November 24, 2010 Notes From the Other Side of the
Job Market In my first 3 years at my current position, I served
on 2 tenure-track search committees, a process that literally
took up every spare moment of my time (and many non-spare
moments) for the 4 or 5 months that it lasted. Although I
certainly learned a lot in my time on SLAC Search Committees--
including, among other things, that "SLAC" stands for "Small
Liberal Arts College"-- I am well aware that the last couple of
years were a very strange time to be doing this for the first
time. A tanked economy, a new President, a panicked
constituency, an inflated applicant pool and a
discipline/profession under siege are certainly not the standard
job-market fare as I had been led to understand it. As someone
who was on the market herself not that long ago, I feel like I
can say with some confidence that it is just as time-consuming
and labor-intensive on the "other" (i.e., hiring) side of the
job market. And, arguably, it's very close to being j |
-0.247688 | -0.239359 | 88 | The Obama administration proposed a weird (and kind of clever)
argument for legalizing gay marriage that would effectively
legalize it in eight more states. But not one justice seemed to
buy that argument when the high court was hearing arguments
Wednesday on California's gay marriage ban Proposition 8,
SCOTUSBlog reports. "It is an understatement to say that the
justices were less than enamoured with the government's
argument," SCOTUSBlog's John Bursch writes. To be sure, the
government's argument is a little weird. It says states that
allow civil unions or domestic partnerships for gays should have
to allow gay marriage too. The denial of marriage to same-sex
couples, particularly when a state "grants same-sex partners all
the substantive rights of marriage, violates equal protection,"
the Obama administration wrote in its "friend of court brief" in
the Prop 8 case. However, states that don't even give gays the
right to a civil union would not have to grant them marriage
rights. John Roberts, Anthony |
-1.877251 | 2.263975 | 125 | Waterfowl poisoning halved by lead shot prohibition January
16th, 2014 in Earth / Environment This shows X-ray of ducks with
lead shot in their gizzards (ingested) and in the rest of the
body (fired). Credit: IREC "The most important part of our
work is that it shows that, despite it's still covering a
partial area, the change of material from lead to steel shot has
reduced waterfowl poisoning and the contamination of hunted
meat," Rafael Mateo Soria of the Hunting Resources Research
Institute (IREC) and co-author of the study, told SINC. Lead
shot accumulating in wetlands, with over 100 per square metre in
many areas, remains in the sediments for decades. Its main
damage is to the health of waterfowl. When the shot is eaten it
is retained in the gizzard and is worn down in the stomach,
freeing lead that reaches the animal's tissues. "The birds
start to develop , they cannot move and they also suffer from
anaemia. Normally, if they ingest lead, they die with notable
emaciation after days or even weeks |
-1.539692 | -1.126645 | 63 | Tucker Carlson and Ana Marie Cox: Sarah Palin, Marion Barry,
More Network News X Profile View More Activity Tucker Carlson
and Ana Marie Cox Political Journalists Monday, July 6, 2009;
12:00 PM Tucker Carlson. Ana Marie Cox. He's conservative.
She's liberal. They both write for The Daily Beast, he's a
contributor to Fox News and she's a national correspondent for
Air America Radio. They were online Monday, July 6 at noon ET to
offer their analysis of Sarah Palin's resignation, Marion
Barry's latest legal problems and other goings-on in the world
of politics. "No One Could Have Predicted": The Bushies used
this lie repeatedly to defend themselves against things that
many people predicted (9/11, Iraq fiasco, Katrina, etc.)
Yesterday, Biden used it to defend themselves against the too
small stimulus that was widely predicted (most vociferously by
the omnipresent Paul Krugman). Any chance that when someone in
power uses that lame defense the reporter could quickly point
out the countless predictions of same |
0.009485 | 4.953653 | -1 | Researchers say that 32-year-old, Zac Vawter, successfully
controlled movements of a motorized artificial leg using only
his own thoughts. Video: Rehab Institute of Chicago. Aided by
sensors receiving impulses from nerves and muscles that once
carried signals to his missing knee and ankle, the patient was
able to climb and descend stairs and walk up and down inclines
much as he could with a natural leg, based on directions that
came from his brain. Importantly, he was able to flex the
device's ankle, enabling a near-normal gait, something not
possible with current prosthetics. Zac Vawter walked down
stairs with his bionic leg. Andrew A. Nelles for The Wall Street
Journal For Mr. Vawter, Dr. Hargrove said, "it's all
intuitive. He can walk up or descend stairs in stride." Dr.
Hargrove is lead author of a report on the technology, published
Wednesday by the New England Journal of Medicine. More than a
million Americans are living with amputations, including some
1,600 soldiers who returned from wars in |
-7.331494 | 3.205995 | 49 | People with Last Name of Fairall PeopleFinders > People
Directory > F > Fairall If you are attempting to track down
someone with the last name Fairall, this is the place. In the
results above, you will find many people with the last name
Fairall to quickly glance through. To make your search quicker,
you can click the link with the first name of the person you are
trying to find- this will eliminate a number of names from your
search. A list of people with the last name Fairall and the
first name you chose will then be awarded to you. In addition,
the search results will include other forms of data such as date
of birth, known locations, and possible relatives that may aid
you in identifying the particular person you have been searching
for. If you are looking for additional information for this
person such as last known address or phone number, you can
further moderate your results by imputing those terms into the
search box above. If you happen to have more information about
the Fairall you are looking |
-1.011057 | 1.350303 | 91 | Presidential Candidates Have Little Opportunity to Talk About
Education How each candidate would attempt to improve the
American school system is difficult to ascertain. The next
president will face pressure on college prices. The next
president will face pressure on college prices. "Education is
a big issue, but I don't hear much about it, because everyone is
going after the 'gotcha' of the day," says former Secretary of
State Colin Powell, founder of America's Promise, which is
working to draw attention to high school dropout rates. The
organization recently released a study that found that the
graduation rate in 17 of the nation's largest cities is less
than 50 percent, a discouraging statistic in the face of
increased global competition. "We need to be educating our
youngsters to compete with China, India, eastern Europe, Russia,
and Latin America," Powell says. How each of the presidential
candidates would attempt to improve the American school system
is difficult to ascertain, given the limited d |
-0.574902 | 2.300697 | -1 | Does an Online Degree Measure Up? Ask Dr. Lomax: It can be a
viable option for those needing a nontraditional route to an
education. (Continued from Page 1) * Don't borrow more than
you can afford to pay back if you get the kind of job for which
you're preparing. Remember that the money you borrow for any
kind of education has to be paid back whether or not you finish
and whether or not you find a job. * Scrutinize placement
promises very carefully. Ask for evidence of claims that an
online-education company has really found jobs for its
graduates. Michael Lomax is president and CEO of United Negro
College Fund. He is a contributing editor for The Root. If you
have any questions about the college experience, whether you are
a student or a parent, please send them to Dr. Lomax at
Like The Root on Facebook. Follow us on Twitter. |
3.083233 | 4.714642 | 2 | Thunderbolt logo Biology Battle Science is complicated, and
for those of us who barely eked out a passing grade in high
school biology the human body in itself is a frightening
machine, especially when it breaks down. With somewhere around
50-100 trillion cells making up our fleshy temples, it’s
overwhelming trying to grasp how our bodily machinations
maintain each of these microscopic building blocks. I always
imagined it had something to do with tiny ships massacring
incessant throngs of marauding viruses, I just never knew how
right I was until playing Biology Battle. Another addition to
the ever-growing shoot ‘em up, or shmup, genre, Biology Battle
is developer Novaleaf Game Studios’ entry into Microsoft’s
expanding Community Games roster. While sticking fairly close to
the tried-and-true code of the modern-day shmup, there’s enough
personality and humor in this independent title to warrant a
run-through. As its name suggest, Biology Battle chronicles
the ongoing war between science and the army of |
-3.418454 | 3.23078 | 39 | Rotator Cuff Surgery Cost Rotator cuff surgery is a procedure
that repairs torn or severely inflamed rotator cuff tendons of
the shoulder. Surgery is performed if the rotator cuff does not
respond positively to medication or physical therapy. In the
United States, the average rotator cuff surgery cost can vary
from $300 to $15,000 towards hospital expenses and from $225 to
$4,750 towards doctor’s fee. Again, these average rotator cuff
surgery costs depend on the type of surgery that is performed.
Rotator Cuff Surgery Type 1: Arthroscopic Surgery If the
rotator cuff tear is of partial thickness, that is, if the
tendon is not torn through, then arthroscopic surgery is
recommended. In this type of surgery, small tubes with miniscule
cameras at the end are inserted via multiple tiny incisions into
the cuff. This type of minimum invasion surgery can be performed
without an overnight stay, which cuts down the cost, which
averages $7,000. Open Shoulder Surgery A full thickness tear
where the tendon is torn th |
-0.030017 | 8.859709 | -1 | OLE clipping Mike Hearn m.hearn at signal.qinetiq.com Tue May
20 10:25:04 CDT 2003 > It would interfere with the order in
which the controls are painted. It > looks like Alexandre
committed some z-order and painting related > patches. Could you
give the latest CVS tip a try? Random thoughts... * Java
appears to create two child windows of the main window in this
case, one for rendering Swing (the canvas) and the other is the
shell embedding window for IE * Spy++ in Windows shows two
differences with Wine: 1) WS_CLIPSIBLINGS is set on the top
level window in Windows, but not Wine. However, forcing
WS_CLIPSIBLINGS in CreateWindowEx doesn't appear to make any
difference. Presumably as it's a top level window, this flag
makes no difference either way. 2) The windows appear in a
different order in the windows tree that Spy++ gives you. In
Wine, the IE embedding window appears as the first child, in
Windows it appears as the last (I'm running Spy++ under Wine to
see this). The positions of the AWT/Swing rend |
2.546965 | 1.722439 | 19 | Here is where we meet Reviewer Barry Hill June 18, 2005 Here
is where we meet By John Berger Bloomsbury, $45 John Berger,
now 80, a venerable olive tree, has been abundantly fruitful,
producing novels, stories, essays and poems for the past 50
years. His fans love his open heart, his metaphysical leaps, his
enduring, original intelligence, especially when he writes about
painting - as he did unsurpassably as a critic in London during
the 1950s and 1960s. Later he went to live in rural Savoy, from
where he wrote Into Their Labours, those classic novels of
French rural life in the shadow of corporate Europe. Even in
exile, Berger has never failed his commitment to the ideas of
freedom and dignity in work. He no longer writes quite like a
Red but behind everything he writes is an insistence on hope, on
what might be if we talk with each other in a certain way, and
meet with each other at the right time in the right place. Which
is to say, hope also depends, to some extent, on a little luck,
in a world where |
1.568278 | 2.615884 | 62 | Definitions for breakdown Overview of noun breakdown The noun
breakdown has 4 senses? (first 1 from tagged texts) 1. (5)
dislocation, breakdown 2. breakdown, crack-up (a mental or
physical breakdown) 3. breakdown, equipment failure (a
cessation of normal operation; "there was a power breakdown")
4. breakdown, partitioning (an analysis into mutually exclusive
categories) © 2001-2013, Demand Media, all rights reserved. The
database is based on Word Net a lexical database for the English
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3.814652 | 2.395647 | 5 | Killing Torchwood By Noah Michelson On the other hand,
there's something lacking: the spirit of the original series
which seems to have been spruced up for its BBC1 debut with a
dose of seriousness and accessibility. There's no room for
silliness in this Torchwood universe where the worst culprits
are not the aliens, but the governments of the world, ruled by
fear and a sense of self-preservation. Torchwood, no matter its
agenda, never struck us as a realistic portrayal of human life,
no matter the fantastic situations and creatures and the campy
fun has been all but drained from the three lone survivors of
Torchwood 3 -- Jack, Ianto (Gareth David-Lloyd), Gwen (Eve
Myles) and Rhys (Kai Owen) -- Gwen's hubby don't even stick
around Cardiff long as all the action is in London. Death and
destruction are the order of the week as children are used as
456 mouthpieces and other, more sinister, purposes, Jack gets
tortured physically and emotionally to the breaking point, and
the team takes another casualty and ro |
3.606733 | 4.81791 | 2 | up | Inhaltsverzeichniss | Kommentar Manual page for CROCK(1)
crock - X window system one or two player interactive fighting
game crock [-toolkit options] [ -v|-h|-f configfile|-debug
n|-disney ] [ secondXdisplay ] Crock is a one or two player
fighting game that runs with the X Window System. You control
your fighter by making offensive and defensive moves. The
characters fight until one player's strength runs out. After
describing the options, this man pages describes the attacks,
defenses, and finishing moves, as well as some strategy. For
information on how to configure the game, refer to
player.config.5 and config.crock.5 which describe the formats of
the general and player-specific configuration files. -debug n
Add n to debugging level. Default level is 0 (no debug
information). Make game rated-G (no blood, gore, etc). -f
configfile Use configfile for the master config file instead of
the compiled in default. Refer to config.crock.5 for details on
the file format. Print a help/usage message (not |
-2.953317 | 4.92128 | 30 | Global Economic Outlook Looks Gloomy Finance ministers and
central bankers are on their way to Tokyo for their annual get-
together sponsored by the International Monetary Fund and the
World Bank. Renee Montagne talks to David Wessel, economics
editor of The Wall Street Journal, about whether the financial
crisis is behind us. Finance ministers and central bankers
from around the world are on their way to Tokyo for their annual
get-together, sponsored by the International Monetary Fund and
World Bank. The mood, at the moment, about the global economy,
is worried. In fact, the IMF has just called the risk of a
worldwide slowdown alarmingly high. To find out more, we turn,
as we often do, to David Wessel. He's economics editor of The
Wall Street Journal. Good morning. DAVID WESSEL: Good morning,
Renee. MONTAGNE: Now that's rather unsettling, David, those
words. What is it that's caused the IMF to sound the alarm and
isn't - I mean isn't the financial crisis behind us now?
WESSEL: Well, we hope so. The w |
3.698977 | -3.338033 | -1 | The Future Of Sports In The USA Use your ← → (arrow) keys to
browse more stories The Future Of Sports In The USA We’ve all
done it before. On a Sunday morning we get up especially late,
take in the sunshine, and get out of bed to make ourselves a cup
of coffee. Then, like clockwork, the TV is turned on and we
proceed to watch the staple of sports news in television:
SportsCenter. Either that, or we watch a sports game while
sipping from our mugs, be it football, tennis, baseball,
basketball, or something else. This is the ideal Sunday for many
people around the United States. Sports have had a long and
illustrious history, dating back to some of the earliest
civilizations. But what is to become of sports in the future?
How and why will it change, and what will remain the same? While
it is certain that sports will continue to have high place in
society, there will most certainly be aspects of the sports
themselves and the way we watch sports that will change. The
reason that sports will still have a high b |
0.650287 | 6.333353 | -1 | A FORMANT SPEECH SPEECH SYNTHESIZER WHICH ACCEPTS PHONEMIC INPUT
================================================================
Donald FISK, Associate Consultant, Electronic Services Division,
45 Hoi Yuen Road, Kwun Tong, Hong Kong. Abstract ======== A
prototype of a serial formant speech synthesizer, with a side
branch for fricative noise, has been developed. Vowels,
nasalized vowels, nasals, plosives, fricatives, approximants,
laterals and trills are handled and so the synthesizer can be
used for most of the world's major languages. It produces
intelligible and natural sounding speech from input based on the
International Phonetic Alphabet. Spectra of natural and
synthesized speech are given for comparison (Appendix IV).
Introduction ============ For many computer speech applications,
the words to be spoken are sufficiently few, all of which are
known in advance, so that they can simply be recorded and played
back when needed. Depending on the number of words, different
degrees of compression are appropri |
-1.112803 | -0.013269 | 48 | Mexico's Drug War Death Toll: 8,463 and Counting A record-
breaking 5,612 people were executed in Mexico’s drug war in
2008, making the drug war more deadly than the drugs Mexico's
daily El Universal, which began counting drug war executions
four years ago, reports that 5,612 people were executed in
Mexico’s drug war in 2008. This year’s deaths more than doubled
2007’s total of over 2,700 executions. By El Universal's
estimates, about 8,463 drug executions have occurred during the
first two years of Mexican President Felipe Calderon’s six-year
term in office. Calderon deployed the army and federal police
to combat drug cartels almost immediately upon assuming office
in December 2006. The 2008 death toll means that the drug war
in Mexico alone (that is, not including the copious number of
drug war deaths in Colombia) is more deadly than illicit drugs
in the United States, which is the biggest drug market in the
world and the destination for the overwhelming majority of the
American continent’s drugs. In |
-1.018476 | 4.981071 | 4 | Question Of The Day: What's A Hairdresser's Car? You might be
suffering from auto show fatigue, so let's take a break from all
the Detroit hubbub and discuss a matter of great import. What
the heck is a hairdresser's car, anyway? The mysterious, Stig-
like entity known around these parts as The Auto Insider
declared that the 2009 BMW Z4 is the perfect hairdressers' car,
which got some of us wondering what the heck that even means.
Was it an insult? A compliment? Is there something wrong with
being a hairdresser? Heck, some of us have dated hairdressers
follicular engineers who drove Toyota Echos. Surely, the dream
car of the neighborhood barber is different than the dream car
of a celebrity stylist, right? We're counting on our trusty
commenters to explain what it all means, and how to feel about
it. |
0.040597 | 9.206568 | 16 | Take the 2-minute tour × I'm using ssmtp, and I would like to
not make my /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf world-readable, because it has
my gateway password in cleartext. But if it is mode 600, then
ssmtp run as an unprivileged user errors out with "ssmtp: Cannot
open mailhub:25", because it cannot read the config file. This
article recommend creating a special ssmtp user and making it
SUID, but before I add that kind of complexity to my deployment
script, I want to ask: Is it safe (barring security holes in
ssmtp) to just make the ssmtp binary SUID root, so it can read
the config file? (I'm aware of the dangers of SUID in general
-- no general answers please! My question is about ssmtp in
particular, because I'm wondering if it has been written with
being safe for SUID-root in mind.) share|improve this question
1 Answer 1 up vote 2 down vote accepted Read the article
again. It does not recommend running ssmtp as root. It says to
chown the file to a special ssmtp user and use SUID to run the
program as that use |
-2.39774 | 1.782789 | -1 | Not falling for that old trick - pg.3 | allnurses Not falling
for that old trick - page 3 You know when they beg you to come
in sick making all kinds of promises. You can leave if it is too
much, we won't give you a big assignment, the charge nurse will
help you. Just for a few hours, or... Read More 1. Visit
Inori profile page oh heck no if i'm calling in i'm gonna
rest and sleep etc anything but go to work. Whats the point of
me going in especiallyif i'm just as sick as the patients if not
worst. I need to be at my sharpest to protect that license. AND
when it comes down to it the charge nurse IS an RN too so let
her work, shoot if there is no other nurse on the floor guess
what? as the RN she is now legally bound to stay hah take that!
so yea you called out followign rules, so stay out. wheover's
there can deal with the rest of it. The way i see if when
someone else calls out my workload increasescuz i'm sharing
thier job functions and i work later well cuz there's no
coverage. So why would i fee |
3.646757 | -4.63056 | 12 | Draft Scenarios I was just thinking over all the options that
we have in this draft, and there are many different ways it can
take shape for our team. We can move up or down within the top
2-7 picks. We can move around the middle of the draft with our
16 and 23 picks, and we can use players as well as cap space as
well as our numerous draft picks to try and make a team to be
excited about next season. So with all that has been said and
done during the last few weeks, what do you feel is the ideal
outcome for the draft? It seems that there are a few general
ways that the draft can take shape, generally dependent on how
we decide to use our #4 pick. There are many trades we can
utilize to make these moves, but to save everyone from too many
more trade rumors, I will just try to think about the draft and
the trades in general terms. Here are three general ways that I
can see the draft unfolding. 1. Trade up to get Turner. I have
heard the different rumors and possible deals, and the actual
trade could go a |
-2.980234 | 3.690644 | 45 | Take the 2-minute tour × In Aikido it is known that repeated
suwariwaza techniques (seated techniques) are very hard on your
knees. Most of the older masters have knee issues where they
struggle to transition from seated to standing positions. Are
there any knee exercises that can be done to help prevent this?
share|improve this question Please consider choosing an answer.
– Trevoke Feb 7 '12 at 22:03 add comment 3 Answers up vote 6
down vote accepted Squats are your friend, as well as leg
presses. You want to strengthen all the muscles around your knee
so if/when the tendons and ligaments start to wear out, the
muscles can compensate. When your doing your squats, make sure
to keep your back straight, your heals on the floor, and try to
keep your knees from going to far forward (they shouldn't pass
your toes). Avoid doing leg extensions if you have any patella
or meniscus injuries. If body weight squats are easy, progress
to single leg squats :) share|improve this answer Squats,
squats, squats! Yes |
2.291735 | 0.330604 | 44 | Revelation 12:13 WBT/NIV - Online Parallel Bible The Webster
Bible (WBT) New International Version (NIV) 13 And when the
dragon saw that he was cast to the earth, he persecuted the
woman who brought forth the male-[child]. 13 When the dragon saw
that he had been hurled to the earth, he pursued the woman who
had given birth to the male child. |
1.729911 | 3.524215 | 51 | Skip to Content Arts of Europe Dutch, 1606 - 1669 Jupiter and
Antiope Etching with burin and drypoint 5 x 8 inches The
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Museum purchase with funds
provided by the Brown Foundation Accessions Endowment Fund Arts
of Europe Seventeenth-century connoisseurs prized Rembrandt's
etchings as much as they did his oil paintings. Jupiter and
Antiope is the most powerfully erotic etching of his late
period. Rembrandt created approximately 290 etchings, many
postcard-size or smaller, depicting landscapes, portraits, and
biblical, mythological, and genre scenes. Jupiter and Antiope is
one of only a handful of his prints illustrating explicitly
sexual content. According to Roman legend, the god Jupiter was
so entranced by the beauty of the princess Antiope that he
disguised himself as a satyr and took her by force. Here,
Rembrandt illustrates the moment before Jupiter wakes the
princess, who reclines in a highly artificial pose. The satyr
conforms to the conventional appearance of the cre |
-0.012434 | 7.146379 | 8 | I love using Miracast to wirelessly push my Microsoft Surface
Pro screen to my 60 inch television. It comes in extremely handy
streaming TV shows and movies from web sites that don't offer
their own Windows 8 apps like Netflix does. Amazon Prime
streaming is a big offender, but there are others. And, while
it's a phenomenal experience there is one small annoyance: you
have to keep the Surface device within finger reach for
navigation and also to hit the pause and play video buttons. The
cool factor definitely outweighs the annoyance, but what if that
irritation could be eliminated completely? What if you could
remotely manage those functions? I've looked for a good remote
control app for a long while, and have never been able to settle
one, until I recently found and started using Unified Remote.
Unified Remote is an app for that is currently available Windows
Phone and Android (Linux, iOS, Mac, and Windows is coming) that
installs on your mobile phone and provides a huge number (about
50) of remote control |
-3.337111 | 3.226686 | 39 | MAKING IT FIT: The start of a new year inspires many of us to
commit to get fit and live healthier. What isn't required is
emptying out one's wallet just to break a sweat and shed a few
pounds. FREESTYLE: Best way to save money on exercise? Don't
spend any. Grab a friend and go for a hike. Walk or bike to
work. |
0.41869 | -1.728061 | 69 | Egypt military chief urges end to violent protests, warns nation
threatened McClatchy NewspapersJanuary 29, 2013 Mideast Egypt
Smoke rises after Egyptian protesters clash with police, unseen,
in Port Said, Egypt. on January 27. — Declaring that ongoing
street protests could lead to the “collapse of the state,”
Egypt’s top military general warned Tuesday that if opponents of
President Mohammed Morsi continue to paralyze the country
through demonstrations, the military might have to intervene to
defend the government. It was the first time that Gen. Abdel-
Fattah el-Sissi, the commander of Egypt’s military forces and
the country’s defense minister, had commented publicly on the
unrest that in six days has left at least 60 dead across the
country. He did not specify what might trigger wider military
intervention, what that intervention might look like, or whom he
blamed for the unrest. But he defended Morsi’s imposition over
the weekend of emergency rule in three provinces after rioting
broke out over a c |
-2.693083 | 5.608307 | 81 | Risk assessment From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
(Redirected from Risk Assessment) Jump to: navigation, search
Risk assessment consists of an objective evaluation of risk in
which assumptions and uncertainties are clearly considered and
presented. Part of the difficulty in risk management is that
measurement of both of the quantities in which risk assessment
is concerned - potential loss and probability of occurrence -
can be very difficult to measure. The chance of error in
measuring these two concepts is large. Risk with a large
potential loss and a low probability of occurring is often
treated differently from one with a low potential loss and a
high likelihood of occurring. In theory, both are of nearly
equal priority, but in practice it can be very difficult to
manage when faced with the scarcity of resources, especially
time, in which to conduct the risk management process. Expressed
mathematically, R_i=L_i p(L_i)\,\! R_{total}=\sum_i L_i
p(L_i)\,\! Risk assessment from a financial point of |
0.152736 | 9.384975 | 16 | Platform-releng/conventions for releng wiki pages From
Eclipsepedia Jump to: navigation, search Conventions used to
add wiki pages for Eclipse Platform Releng The following are
some rough suggestions or guidelines. To add a page to the
Eclipse Platform Releng category, add the following to the
bottom of that page: [[Category:Eclipse_Platform_Releng| ]]
Or, when appropriate, you can add to multiple categories to one
page, such as the following. [[Category:Eclipse_Project|
]][[Category:Eclipse_Platform_Releng| ]] or
[[Category:Git]][[Category:Eclipse_Platform_Releng| ]] When
creating new documents directly related to Eclipse Platform
Releng, they should also be created "under" the Platform-releng
URL, to provide "bread crumb" navigation". For
example,<yourNewPageName> Other releng categories Finally, to
emphasize, this Eclipse Platform Releng is meant to be very
specific to Platform release engineering. If a page of general
release engineering information, meant for many projects at the
Eclipse Fo |
0.637319 | 7.748117 | -1 | Take the tour × There is something I don't understand. I have a
macbook pro 15' retina display. The information says it has a
2880 x 1800 display but when I open a 1080p video it covers the
whole screen. How come? share|improve this question What
program are you using to play the video? – robmathers Dec 6 '12
at 23:01 @robmathers: VLC – Macarse Dec 6 '12 at 23:02 add
comment 2 Answers up vote 1 down vote accepted This was
probably done so that videos, especially those that are lower
resolution than 1080p, don't look absurdly small. If you want to
play your video at the native resolution on your screen, (and
you've selected "best for retina" as your display resolution),
you could always tell VLC to play it back at half the size.
share|improve this answer add comment Make sure that you're
using an up-to-date version of VLC. Retina support was only
introduced in version 2.0.2. If you're running a prior version,
it may end up pixel-doubled. If you do have an up-to-date
version, make sure that the video |
-0.182529 | 7.263707 | 8 | 15 reasons the HTC Droid DNA keeps my SIM out of the Apple
iPhone 5 | Page 9 | ZDNet Summary: I still have an unlimited
data plan on Verizon and am enjoying unfettered LTE. There are
many reasons that my Verizon SIM lives in the Droid DNA instead
of my iPhone 5 and this gallery shows the top 15 reasons. |
Image 9 of 15 • Reason 8: Widgets provide value One
thing I cannot stand about using my iPhone is the fact that I
have to open each application to see what is going on or use the
new notification slider up top. With Android and the Droid DNA,
I can use handy widgets to check on things without ever having
to open anything up. • Reason 9: Full 5 inch display is
awesome for reading Apps such as the YouVersion Bible are
amazing on the large screen Droid DNA because you can read in
full screen mode and see a large amount of text without the need
for constant tapping or scrolling. • Reason 10: Share, share,
share iOS 6 did add a few more share options, but you can't
beat the power of |
1.224539 | 5.18923 | 82 | Skip to navigation | Skip to content How death gave birth to
our solar system Supernova 7112011W49b_475x356 New computer
simulations indicate the death of a star in a supernova may have
triggered the birth of our Sun and solar system (Source:
NASA/GSFC/Chandra X-Ray Observatory) Solar system birth Our
solar system was born thanks to the death of a nearby star in a
spectacular supernova event, say researchers. The findings are
based on new computer simulations developed by Dr Matthias
Gritschneder, from Beijing's Peking University, and colleagues,
and published on the pre-press website Gritschneder and
colleagues found shock waves generated by a supernova could have
caused the collapse of a molecular gas and dust cloud,
eventually leading to the formation of the Sun and planets. The
model also explains unusual isotope readings in some of the
oldest bodies of the solar system. Stars and solar systems are
created in the collapse of molecular gas and dust clouds.
Scientists say this is what happened to o |
-2.440838 | -0.22926 | 36 | Levin: What If 'The 57 Million' ‘Decide Not To Produce Or
Provide Anymore?’ November 8, 2012 - 10:19 AM Last night,
radio host Mark Levin asked, "What if we [the taxpayers] decide
not to produce or provide anymore?" Levin was discussing this
hypothetical scenario while talking about attacks on capitalism
during the election season: "Meanwhile, the producers in this
country, the providers in this country, the taxpayers - we're
all targets of the left. Well what if we decide not to produce
or provide anymore? What are they gonna do without their
precious taxes then? "What if we say one day, enough is enough?
What are they gonna do they? Fifty-seven million of us voted
yesterday against them. "You realize we, the 57 million, we
produce more income, we provide more value, more services, more
products for this country than the 59 million. "Well what if we
say we don't choose to do that anymore? Screw you. "We may have
to think about this." See more "Right Views, Right Now" blogs. |
3.44522 | -3.773566 | -1 | Creighton adds 3 to Hall of Fame OMAHA, Neb. (AP) _ The
Creighton University Athletic Hall of Fame has added three more
members. Christy Neneman, Nate Funk and Dan Smith were inducted
Monday night during a ceremony in downtown Omaha. Neneman was a
women's basketball player who graduated in 2004, Funk played on
the men's basketball team and graduated in 2007, and Smith was a
pitcher for the baseball team and a first-round draft pick of
the Texas Rangers in 1990. Volleyball player Megan Bober and
men's basketball player Ethan Wragge were named Carl M. Reinert
Scholar-Athletes of the Year. Bober and men's basketball player
Doug McDermott were named the school's Athletes of the Year. |
-0.461789 | 7.628612 | -1 | ERCIM News No.40 - January 2000 Software Certification: Myths
and Reality by Fabrizio Fabbrini, Mario Fusani, Vinicio Lami
Certification is treacherous stuff. People tend to have
contradictory attitudes. Some want to have a full guaranty that
a given product or service is reliable, others consider the term
and all that it concerns as deceptive and used only for
marketing purposes. And when it comes to software, professionals
may be found near to hysteria, insisting that the concept should
be excluded from the technological, if not the commercial,
realm. Despite all this, practitioners, scientists, and even
users, can coexist happily with software certification, if only
they take a positive view of the concepts, actions and entities
involved. The problem is that many people talk and assert their
opinions on certification without really knowing what it’s all
about. Our aim here is to define the area of interest and show
that nothing dramatic happens when software is involved.
Certification can be described |
2.456495 | 1.117042 | 19 | Submit a Poem Get Your Premium Membership A Calendar of
Sonnets: September Written by: Helen Hunt Jackson | Biography
| Quotes (3) | O golden month! How high thy gold is heaped!
The yellow birch-leaves shine like bright coins strung On
wands; the chestnut's yellow pennons tongue To every wind its
harvest challenge. Steeped In yellow, still lie fields where
wheat was reaped; And yellow still the corn sheaves, stacked
among The yellow gourds, which from the earth have wrung Her
utmost gold. To highest boughs have leaped The purple grape,--
last thing to ripen, late By very reason of its precious cost.
O Heart, remember, vintages are lost If grapes do not for
freezing night-dews wait. Think, while thou sunnest thyself in
Joy's estate, Mayhap thou canst not ripen without frost! |
-0.700282 | 5.071465 | 4 | photo IMG_2230.jpg We've been selling the Brackets filters
since 1975. Challenger claimed better breathing and more HP for
the Cheetah with their new air filter. I was skeptical that the
Brackett could be improved upon so I tested them against each
other myself. I took a Cheetah airbox and sealed it up so that
we could install each filter and suck air thru them with two
shop Vacuums. I connected an airspeed indicator static port to
the airbox so that it would read negative pressure. The lower
the airspeed the less the pressure on the Carburetor side of the
filter. We removed and installed the filters several times to
check for consistent readings. The results were Challenger 39
MPH, Brackett 53 MPH. Challenger won. I don't know what that
translates to in MAP, probably a very small fraction of 1"
Mercury. A standard MAP gage showed no difference. We used a
airspeed indicator because that's the only instrument I had that
was sensenstive enough to indicate a change. I wanted to see if
there claim of less resist |
4.440653 | -3.092308 | 1 | You are browsing the archive for 2011 September. So how about a
dream RWC 2011 final? September 19, 2011 in Uncategorized Is
it just me or do anyone else feel that the boks needs to lose a
pool game to get in the other half in the draw? Now Ireland
totally out played Aus on Sa and deserved to win! But I still
think for the Boks it will be a lot easier to beat Ireland than
Aus. Aus has a weak spot against NH teams esp. Eng. and Ireland
who have really strong scrums. The Boks on the other hand can
match those teams easily up front and the controle the game.
The added benifit from this is that a dream final between the
two best teams in history can be realised! But then again if
the All Blacks lose against France?? The team I think PdV will
field. September 13, 2011 in Uncategorized Here goes: 1. G
Steenkamp 2. J Smit 3. J du Plessis 4. D Rossouw 5. J Muller
6. H Brussow 7. S Burger 8. P Spies 9. F du Preez 10. M
Steyn 11. B Habana 12. J de Jongh 13. J Fourie 14. JP
Pietersen 15. F Stey |
-0.182198 | 7.210104 | 8 | Seems like Helsinki's always got something interesting to show
in its Nokia Research Center (NRC). Today's conceptual adventure
involves radar, or RADAR (RAdio Detection And Ranging) if you
prefer. Without going into too much technical detail, Nokia
demonstrates a handset that uses electromagnetic waves to
measure the speed of an impressively stoic Finn as he walks
towards and away from a prototype handset that can identify the
direction of movement. It also works through fabric to help turn
typically mundane tasks such as volume adjustment into an
aerobic art form. No really, see for yourselves in the video
after the break. Nokia's mobile radar handset responds to
movement, not emotion (video) |
0.320934 | 7.58667 | -1 | or Connect New Posts All Forums: Posts by lesamourai Finally
got a hold of my side zips. I was worried they wouldn't properly
fit due to everyone else complaining about it, but turns out
that they fit just fine. One boot was missing the stud for the
strap though and I couldn't find it in the box Congrats on the
dub hon I wish I got a collar on my moto. Now I'll live with
this regret for the rest of my life. Well uh...the game isn't
out until 2014. Sorry to hear man. Is it something that's less
pronounced when the jacket isn't zipped up? Can't you just
decline to fulfill the order? Might get neg rep though, but
really, the rep system on ebay is shit anyways. can't hurt to go
to a mac store, try some out and be brain washed probably a mba,
even though the screen is mediocre i'm just a big proponent for
lenovo because i find the nub way better to use (for me) than
any trackpad, and i used to own a mbp I like using foobar2000.
it's a simple, light, customization program. if you don't need
to sync anything (whi |
-3.089558 | 1.134626 | -1 | As tobacco experience shows, tax increases affect peoples'
behavior The Oklahoman Editorial Published: October 2, 2012
PRESIDENT Barack Obama and other liberals believe tax increases
won't change citizens' behavior and harm the national economy.
Consumer response to cigarette taxes proves them wrong.
Oklahoma's cigarette tax was increased by 80 cents to $1.03 per
pack in 2004, but compacts allowed nearly one in five tribal
smoke shops to collect only 6 cents per pack in tax. This
translated into a price advantage of as much as $10 per carton
over nontribal retailers and led to a massive shift in buying
habits. Although there were fewer than 200 tribal smoke shops
and roughly 4,500 nontribal outlets selling tobacco, American
Indian smoke shops soon accounted for nearly 50 percent of
cigarette sales in Oklahoma (and as much as 70 percent of the
Tulsa market). By 2006, it was estimated Oklahoma government was
losing roughly $48 million per year in tobacco tax collections
because of the shift. Such glaring pr |
4.035303 | 2.007754 | -1 | Conan O'Brien returned to NBC, and the studio he occupied for 16
years as host of Late Night, on Wednesday when he paid Jimmy
Fallon an on-air visit. But as you'll see in this clip, O'Brien
wasn't there for nostalgia's sake. He'd come to take back
Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, even though his settlement with
NBC prevents him from using the character anywhere else. |
3.983488 | 3.662275 | 35 | Thursday, January 6, 2011 Keep Yourself Away from My Manhole
Shaft if You Know What's Good For You Thursday! I admit this
one got past me. We've spent a time talking about the utter
confusion everyone in the Marvel Bullpen seemed to have about
the use of Peter's "Spider-Sense" back in the day. I missed
this one, at the end of #149: Ruh-roh! Peter's Spider-Sense is
going off! There must be danger in his apartment! Why did
Mary Jane set off Peter's "spider-sense"? Now, before you go
nuts in the comments, let me tell you a little
somethin'-somethin': In issue #153, the letters page (for those
of you under the age of thirty, the "letters page" is what we
used to exchange comments about a comic before the Internet came
along) was scrapped and Assistant Editor Roger Slifer gamely
tried to fill in alleged plot gaps of the original Clone Saga.
The only event that stumped him? The one above. Funny thing
is, I readily explained that away as Pete's Spider-Sense warning
him someone was in his apartment, whic |
-0.49123 | 7.435084 | 8 | Microsoft announced its new Security Software Advisor (SSA)
program that is aimed at incenting Microsoft partners to help
the company sell more of its ISA Server and Antigen line of
security solutions. Under the SSA program the company will pay
partners up to 20% of the customer's net sales prices when
partners assist companies with security solution acquisition and
deployment. As an added incentive to participate Microsoft said
that until February 1, 2007 it will pay partners an additional
10% for a total possible commission of 30%. Partners that want
to participate in the program must meet the minimum requirements
, which include obtaining Microsoft product certification and
providing Microsoft with relevant customer references. |
-0.930862 | 0.26912 | 6 | 604 F2d 1184 United States v. Martinez-Navarro 604 F.2d 1184
UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, Juan MARTINEZ-
NAVARRO, Defendant-Appellant. UNITED STATES of America,
Plaintiff-Appellee, Martin ENRIQUES-SANCHEZ, Defendant-
Appellant. Nos. 78-3445, 78-3446. United States Court of
Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Aug. 17, 1979. Rehearing Denied Oct.
15, 1979. Michael J. McCabe, Glorene Franco (argued), Michael
S. Sideman, San Diego, Cal., for defendants-appellants. Appeal
from the United States District Court For the Southern District
of California. Before CHAMBERS, WALLACE and TANG, Circuit
Judges. Martinez-Navarro and Enriques-Sanchez assert that the
district court impermissibly considered their testimony in a
companion trial when fixing their sentences. We conclude that
the trial judge, believing they lied while testifying under the
grant of immunity, did not err when he considered that fact in
determining, within the statutory limits, appropriate sentences.
Martinez-Navarro and Enriques-Sanche |
-1.76365 | 2.390298 | 54 | Skip to main content Part of complete coverage from Hey Disney:
Make a pangolin movie! By John D. Sutter, CNN April 7, 2014 --
Updated 1717 GMT (0117 HKT) • More than 1,400 people sign a
petition asking Disney to make a pangolin movie • John Sutter
recently featured the pangolin as part of his Change the List
project • The relatively unknown creature is thought to be the
most trafficked mammal in the world • Sutter says celebrity
could help save the pangolin; few care about the illegal trade
(CNN) -- Kit Skogsbergh can see it now. "He would be a
sidekick," she told me. "He would have a soft and soothing
voice. ... He would kind of be like Piglet in the Pooh movies
because he would be a little cautious and scared of things, but
once he knew the plan and how things worked he would warm up to
it and maybe by the end of the movie he might not have to roll
up into a ball (and hide). He'd be able to face things head on."
John D. Sutter John D. Sutter The 32-year-old from Pasadena,
California, recentl |
-1.94043 | 6.194852 | -1 | 6 things Apple could do with its $100 billion in cash The total
amount of cash on the tech giant's books is at absurdly high
levels. It's well past time for Tim Cook to take action. By The
Fiscal Times Feb 27, 2012 12:51PM Apple moneyBy Suzanne McGee,
The Fiscal TimesThe Fiscal Times Apple (AAPL) has a problem.
It's actually not the kind of problem most businesses
experience. There is no lack of buyers eager to snap up its
iPhones, iPads and other gizmos. It's a problem other companies
(like Kodak, to name only one) would love to have, and it flows
directly from Apple's success: It has a lot of cash on its
books. More cash than the GDP of several small nations -- rolled
together. And CEO Tim Cook and Co. are just sitting on it.
Apple shareholders have been patiently, or not so patiently,
waiting for Cook to announce just what he plans to do with the
hoard, since burying it under the sand on a deserted island
really isn't practical, or a very good way to discharge his
fiduciary duty. It has been reasonab |
4.245762 | 3.1074 | 5 | You Made Horror Movies Boring, or Why You Are Wrong About The
Blair Witch Project By Adam Lippe blair-witch-project_lThe
Blair Witch Project is a perfect example of a movie that’s been
blown up into a love it or hate it film, because of its enormous
hype and box office. The same can be said for Forrest Gump,
Gladiator, Monster’s Ball, Slumdog Millionaire, Titanic, Crash,
etc. People think it’s cool to say how much they hate the
popular movie that got all the awards and attention, as if this
was their way of “sticking it to the man.” A real way to “stick
it to the man” would be not to talk about it at all. The more
people mention it in either a good or a bad light, the more
people see it. And claiming something like this is the worst
movie you’ve ever seen, is ridiculous, because a) everyone wants
to see the worst movie ever made, and b) it suggests that you
may have only seen 2 or 3 movies in your life. Face it, if The
Blair Witch Project made $2 million, nobody would give a shit
about it, and those who kn |
-4.849034 | 1.95221 | -1 | Chocolate Tasting: Snap It! TEXTURE is enormously important
to the chocolate experience. A smooth and creamy melt-in-your-
mouth texture is so seductive, that many people are more
influenced by texture than by flavor. Begin by listening for
the snap! It's the first clue to texture. Snap is the feel and
sound of a piece of chocolate when you first break it or bite
into it. Snap is easier to appreciate in a thin bar than a thick
chunk of chocolate. Snap is a function of the amount and quality
of the cocoa butter in the chocolate, how finely ground the
chocolate particles are, and how well the chocolate was
tempered. White and milk chocolate bars have a gentler snap
than dark or semi-sweet chocolate because their milk and butter
fat content make them naturally softer. < Previous Next > |
0.836343 | 8.742676 | -1 | GAMGI uses the file extension to automatically determine the
file format. To export a standard .tiff file of the whole
graphic area of a top window, just give the filename the
extension .tiff or .tif. The command line application
pnmtotiff, widely available and usually installed by default in
most Linux distributions, must be installed, otherwise GAMGI
will be unable to export a .tiff file. This a large-size, high-
quality, widespread format, which is particularly suitable to
distribute among systems that might not support .png files very
well. |
-1.192533 | 5.66783 | -1 | Inventory Reduction: Effectively Turning Excess Into Cash •
Written By: R. Michael Donovan • Published On: May 16 2002
In virtually all manufacturing companies, there is a direct
correlation between inventory levels and overall business
performance. According to Harold Geneen, the legendary financial
genius and former chairman of ITT, "all the problems of business
end up in inventory." Most knowledgeable executives would agree
with Geneen. In fact, CEO's and CFO's believe that their
companies consistently carry 25 to 40 percent or more inventory
than is needed. Assess Your Capabilities Ask your material
planning and operations team to answer the following four
questions. 1. Do you have effective, fact-based decision-
support for identifying and prioritizing actions to stop
unnecessary material inflow to inventory by dollar impact? 2.
Does your decision-support system pinpoint undesirable inventory
dollar movement by item? 3. Do you have decision-support
capability that continuously assess specific it |
3.095486 | -4.007813 | 38 | Dont Overlook Smaller College Football Programs! Use your ← →
(arrow) keys to browse more stories Dont Overlook Smaller
College Football Programs! Year after year, in every aspect of
the game, smaller football programs are often overlooked.
Memories of a great Boise State team walking all over a highly
ranked Oklahoma in the 2007 Fiesta Bowl, Larry Fitzgerald (PITT)
losing the 2003 Heisman race to Jason White (OKLA) supposedly
based on team record not player performance as the Heisman
should be. Not to take away from White who was a great player,
but he finished ranked 8th in passing yards, 26th in completion
percentage, and 8th in QB rating. Fitzgerald, on the other
hand, finished first in almost every receiving category, but
since his school was a lower profile (and ranked lower) many
voters chose White instead, Basing there votes on team
performance instead of individual stats. If the Heisman was
based on team performance then every year, the National
Champions should pick one of there players to win |
1.045092 | 6.412634 | 14 | Korg Wavedrum Mini Can't stop banging out Rebecca Black's oh-so-
infectious jams on your knickerbockers? Korg's Wavedrum Mini
won't make Friday any less awful, but it could make your
inexcusable actions a wee bit less annoying. The Q3-bound Mini
crams the company's digital drum pad tech into a portable
package with a built in speaker, and its myriad buttons let you
choose from 100 different sounds including strings, synth tones,
and a gaggle of percussion instruments. You'll also get 100
preset rhythms for those who prefer their instruments play
themselves, but surely that's not you... right? Heck, there's
even a loop function so you can build layer upon layer (upon
layer!) of cacophonous noise. The best part, however, is the
included sensor, which can be clipped to almost anything,
turning your ceaseless toe tapping into bass hits. If you can't
wait to see it in action, take a gander at the exceedingly long
demo video after the break. Korg Wavedrum Mini 2 Korg
Wavedrum Mini makes music from your nervous ti |
3.98558 | 3.723295 | 35 | Wiki User Tools: Help draft source Marvel Universe Lizard
(Curtis Connors) Revision as of 15:08, 21 June 2009 by Holo78
(Talk | contribs) Marvel Universe Real Name Dr Curtis Connors
Known to legal authorities Place of Birth Coral Gables,
Florida First Appearance Amazing Spider-Man v1 #6 (1963)
Spider-Man learned about this and travelled to Florida, helping
the doctor by using Connors' notes to invent a serum to cure
him. Later, Connors was able to repay Spider-Man by developing a
formula to save May Parker's life after Peter Parker gave his
aunt his radioactive blood during a transfusion that had put May
in mortal peril. For a time, Peter Parker worked as a teaching
assistant to Connors. The success of Connors apparent cure from
the Lizard personae was short-lived. A repeating pattern
occurred: stress or a chemical reaction turned Connors into the
Lizard, Spider-Man would fight him, form some kind of temporary
cure to revert the transformation, until the next transformation
would begin the cyc |
1.286292 | 0.061211 | -1 | Enter your email address to receive our daily LGBT news roundup
You're free to unsubscribe at any time. US: Catholic Church
denies teenager confirmation until he publicly denounces
gay equality Post your comment Reader comments 1. Dave
North 16 Nov 2012, 3:45pm This must be one of the sickest
things I’ve ever read. That “cult” is truly vile. 1.
Mumbo Jumbo 16 Nov 2012, 7:43pm At least they didn’t rape
him. We should welcome this as progress. 1.
billywingartenson 17 Nov 2012, 1:15am but in 2009 th3e
german pope UNexcommuncated a holocaust denier Bishop
Williamson. Read the book by Sam Harris – The end of
faith its a compendium of all the horror stories of the
catholic and extremist xtians as well as the Muslim beliefs.
The sooner right wing relgious groups are destroyed, the better.
2. Why. No one is forcing him to belong to it. He has to choose
one or the other. 1. True, but until he is out from under
the control of his parent |
0.756217 | 10.425207 | -1 | Beefy Boxes and Bandwidth Generously Provided by pair Networks
good chemistry is complicated, and a little bit messy -LW Re:
Re: "Intelligent" array joining by ngomong (Sexton) on Feb 05,
2004 at 22:22 UTC ( #326912=note: print w/ replies, xml ) Need
Help?? in reply to Re: "Intelligent" array joining in thread
"Intelligent" array joining Hmmm... this appears to be a step
in the right direction, though I don't need that "sort" in
there. You see, numerical order is of no importance... only the
order in which it appears in the array. It's like this: my
@array1 = (1, 3, 4, 6); my @array2 = (1, 2, 4, 6); my @array3 =
(1, 2, 3, 5); So, the program looks as the first array, and
notes its order. Then, it looks at the second array, and notices
that "2" hasn't been seen before. It notes that it goes after
"1" and before "4". At this point, the logical order could be
either (1, 2, 3, 4, 6) or (1, 3, 2, 4, 6) It doesn't matter
which it chooses. Then, it examines the third array and realizes
that "2" comes before " |
-2.737211 | 3.090725 | -1 | rhus vernicifera From The Collaborative International
Dictionary of English v.0.48: is capable of producing a
morbid, noxious, or deadly poison of pestilential
diseases. [1913 Webster] the poison of evil
example; the poison of sin. [1913 Webster] Poison ash.
(Bot.) found in the West Indies, from the trunk of
which a black liquor distills, supposed to have
poisonous Poison dogwood (Bot.), poison sumac. some
species of serpents, which, besides having the cavity for
the pulp, is either perforated or grooved by a
longitudinal canal, at the lower end of which the duct of
the poison gland terminates. See Illust. under Fang.
secretes an acrid or venomous matter, that is conveyed
along an organ capable of inflicting a wound. Poison hemlock
(Bot.), a poisonous umbelliferous plant (Conium
maculatum). See Hemlock. Rhus Toxicodendron, or Rhus
radicans, now classified as Toxicodendron radicans) of
Nort |
3.403178 | 1.981529 | -1 | There's so much to love about this clip from Janice Dickinson's
reality show, The Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency. There's the
sheer stupidity of the would-be model; Dickinson's famously
bitchy feedback, the awkward, absurd dancing...and Dickinson's
subsequent tumble that sends the "world's first supermodel" to
the ground. Funny, but not surprising: it was only a matter of
time before her plastic, drug-ravaged limbs gave out on her. |
0.51567 | 9.429963 | 16 | Observable.Generate Memory leak, or somethin I'm doing wrong.
• Hi, I'm having an issue with Observable.Generate The
following is my code: Observable.Generate<double,
double>(0, //initial condition
sampleNo => !EndNow, //when To stop
sampleNo => (sampleNo >= SampleRate) ? 0 : sampleNo + 1,
//increment sampleNo
sampleNo => GenerateSample(sampleNo), //Generate Sample
//sampleNo => new TimeSpan((long)(100000 / SampleRate)),
.Subscribe(data => //subscribe subject Working Version
(Long Running Task instead of Observable.Generate)
Task.Factory.StartNew(() => int sampleNo
= 0; while (!EndNow)
sampleNo= (sampleNo >= SampleRate) ? 0 : sampleNo + 1;
if (dataevnt!=null) |
-0.100782 | 7.088356 | 8 | Gaze at the stars and play the arcade classics: iPhone apps of
the week This week's apps include an app for star gazing that
uses augmented-reality technology and an app that lets you play
classic arcade and console games from the golden age of gaming.
iPhone (Credit: CNET) In a CNET News story yesterday, our very
own Josh Lowensohn explored Apple's recent patent application
for an interesting touch-screen concept. The patent details
separate smaller displays outside of the regular iPhone touch
screen. According to the patent filing, these separate displays
could be used in tandem with the main iPhone touch screen or
used by developers to show added information in apps and games.
Josh is careful to point out that patent applications don't
necessarily mean a company will use an idea in a future product,
but they are nonetheless interesting to consider. Obviously,
adding separate screens would open up all kinds of options for
apps, but I wonder if these areas would be used by Apple for
showing things like b |
-1.618645 | -0.903958 | 63 | Kennedy's Son Reflects On Dad's Legacy Ted Kennedy Jr. Speaks
to 60 Minutes About His Late Father's Life and Forthcoming
Biography After his death last month, it seemed everyone had a
story to tell about Senator Ted Kennedy: the president, his
Senate colleagues, his family and even the Hyannis Port post
master. But Senator Kennedy was determined to tell his own
story in his own words before he died. So over the last two
years, through his illness, he wrote the only memoir ever
written by anyone in the Kennedy family. The result is a
revealing, emotional account of "Big Teddy," as he called
himself, and the life he led. The book, called "True Compass,"
starts with a harsh diagnosis of his brain tumor, and the doctor
telling him somberly that he was about to die. More from Photo
Gallery: Kennedy Remembered Photo Gallery: Funeral Honors
Kennedy's Legacy Blockbuster Week For Publishing Senator
Kennedy went on camera to talk about the book five months before
he passed away. It was an interview he gave for h |
0.560891 | 9.43327 | 16 | I have written a small process lister that is meant to gather
some specific information I want for debugging on a user's
machine. It basically gets me anything I want by now except the
parent process of a specific process (i.e. the one that started
it). Despite the wealth of information offered by the
System::Diagnostics::Process and ...::ProcessModule classes I
didn't find a way to find that out. (Maybe there's a way to do
that using Windows API?) I know there are apps that are able to
do that, like for instance Sysinternals' Process Explorer or my
AV. What I don't know is: Do they rely on some service being
started earier that monitors process starts (which I would
consider overkill in my scenario)? Or do they need to enumerate
the entire process tree (which Process Explorer obviously does
anyway and might be an effort I'm willing to take)? |
0.41908 | 3.158284 | 136 | Re: paleoanthropology Glenn Morton ( Wed, 16 Jul 1997 21:19:09
-0500 At 11:12 AM 7/16/97 -0500, Paul Arveson wrote: >My dear
friend Glenn is trying to make me defend my somewhat tongue-in-
cheek >appeal for restraint in paleoanthropological theorizing
by turning my own >guns around. OK, I'll try. As someone,
somewhere, sometime said, "The best defence is a good offense."
:-) Hope this didn't bother you, but I didn't think it would.
>I can't say things like that for the other sciences. I think
biology >is just a teenager. Psychology and sociology are in
diapers. Chemistry, >in the sense of materials science, is a
youth. Earth crustal geology is >perhaps middle-aged.
Paleoanthropology is a little kid trying to answer big
>questions. We need to be patient and let the kid grow. Overall,
I probably couldn't disagree with your assessment of the various
fields. I work in geophysics doing structural geology. Middle
Age is probably about right for crustal geology. I doubt that
anyone will ever be able to catch up to |
0.404714 | 0.163804 | -1 | Clash of Iron Edward Gordon Clash of Iron is an interactive
presentation of the1862 Battle of Hampton Roads using ship
models and videos clips triggered by the augmented reality tool
Junaio. The Battle of Hampton Roads, fought on March 8-9, 1862
between the C.S.S. Virginia and the U.S.S. Monitor, was the
first clash of ironclad warships in the history of mankind. I
have long been fascinated with this engagement because of the
hopes each ship carried into it—for the Virginia, that her
armored might could overcome the overwhelming numerical
superiority of the Union navy and shatter the blockade that was
strangling the South, for the Monitor, that her controversial
design would prove the genius of her inventor and provide him
some measure of redemption for an earlier failure. My project
will be a diorama of the two vessels that will invite viewers to
use their mobile devices to trigger videos that tell the stories
of the two ships and their momentous encounter. |
1.119714 | 6.354414 | 14 | A Mysterious Shot A Mysterious Shot by Paul Cezanne submit
your photo Hall of Fame View past winners from this year
Please participate in Meta and help us grow. Take the tour ×
We recently acquired specifications for all DSLR lenses by Carl
Zeiss and almost always the Canon EF-mount version is larger and
heavier than the Nikon F-mount version. The difference ranges
from small (20g / 1mm) to large (120g / 8mm) or up to 20%
difference by weight and 12% by dimension. Is there a technical
reason why there should be a difference in size? Both always
cover the same full-frame imaging circle and have the same
optical design, number of elements, etc. Would image quality be
affected by such differences? share|improve this question Which
lenses have the largest difference in weight? – Matt Grum Apr
27 at 10:28 I would like to know the same thing Matt asked.
Could help a lot in offering a valid answer. – jrista Apr 28 at
4:45 By weight, it is the Zeiss Distagon T* 2.8/21. By volume
the Zeiss Distagon T* 2/35 |
-4.463543 | 1.773806 | -1 | Most people have had PEZ candy at one time or another as kids,
and a surprising number of adults are hooked on the stuff! As it
turns out, PEZ was originally intended to adults and didn't move
into the kids market until 25 years after its creation. PEZ
candy was invented in 1927 by an Austrian food company executive
named Edward Haas III. The original candy, basically a
compressed sugar tablet flavored with peppermint oil, was
marketed as an alternative to smoking. The name came from the
first, middle and last letters of the German word for
peppermint: Originally, PEZ came in small tins, but in 1948,
Haas' company introduced the first PEZ dispenser. The original
dispenser was designed to resemble a cigarette lighter, to make
it appeal to the intended market of adult smokers. The company
introduced the character heads and fruit-flavored candy in 1952,
when it brought PEZ to the United States. The appeal to kids was
obvious: candy that's also a toy. Over the years, hundreds of
different character dispense |
-2.048548 | 1.048422 | 101 | Car Tax Break Posted March 25, 2009, at 7:31 p.m. The state’s
automobile excise tax is one of the most reviled levies in
Maine. That’s why a citizen’s initiative that lawmakers will
consider this week is deceptively simple. Cut the tax in half,
it proposes, and Maine taxpayers will save lots of money. For
those who believe that government should shrivel up and go away,
less revenue simply furthers their goal. For those who believe
that government, at all levels, does important work that no one
else will do, the answer isn’t so simple. On Thursday, the
Legislature’s Taxation Committee will hold a public hearing on
LD 974, the first of two tax-and-spending related bills that, if
not passed by lawmakers, will appear on the November ballot. The
other measure, which has yet to be scheduled for a hearing,
would restrict government spending and require voter approval
for tax increases. LD 974 would roughly cut the automobile
excise tax rate in half for the first six years that a car was
owned. It also would eli |
3.182476 | -4.025699 | 38 | Notes From The 2010 NFL Combine, Part 2 Continuing with notes
on individuals from my three days in Indianapolis at the NFL
Combine. Part 1 can be read here. Trent Williams, OT Oklahoma:
I was on the other side of the room when Williams' name was
announced over the speakers, and as I began the walk over to
where he was speaking, I actually had to mentally pause for a
moment and calibrate myself. You're not in a stadium. You cannot
boo this man. You cannot ask him where Bob Stoops keeps his
trident on game day. Having been inside the Combine all of
about two hours, when I arrived at his stage I decided the best
thing to do would just be to stand there silently and record his
session. No need to get myself de-credentialed before lunch on
the first day. Like most everyone else, up close and personal
Williams was difficult to loathe. He didn't come across as a
Rhodes Scholar, but neither was he brain dead or obnoxious.
Asked what he'd measured, Williams relayed his stats: 6'4.5",
315 lbs, 34.5" reach, 9 3/4" h |
-0.264926 | -0.224438 | 88 | Same-sex marriage at court: 5 things learned Comment by Justice
Kagan causes gasp in court By Bill Mears CNN Supreme Court
Producer UPDATED 7:47 AM EDT Mar 28, 2013 Support for same-sex
marriage growing The question of same-sex marriage went again
before the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday in the last of two
oral arguments this week in separate appeals. This session
dealt with the Defense of Marriage Act, passed by Congress in
1996. It said, in part, that legally married same-sex couples
cannot enjoy the range of financial and other benefits enjoyed
by heterosexual married couples. Here are five things we
learned from arguments in this case: 1. Opening the gateways A
Supreme Court justice is sometimes like a fussy 8-year-old. She
must eat her peas before any dessert. The dessert, of course, in
the same sex-marriage cases are the constitutional "equal
protection questions" -- the ones that get to the heart of
defining what marriage is all about, the ones the entire nation
wants answered. But Wednesday |
-0.032561 | 8.606366 | -1 | Take the 2-minute tour × On my work computer I have upgraded
10.04 to 10.10 and now to 11.04. Upgrades have mostly worked
well and the dual screen setup is almost working. There are
however a couple of annoying bugs which I tried to report but
the bug reporting tool told me to ask about the bugs here.
Here's what I have found: 1. Auto-hide stops working. It
doesn't seem to matter which application is maximised/covering
the dock, it just stays on top. I have tested changing the
autohide settings with no result. 2. Scenario: One maximised
window on each screen. If I now try to drag the window that
doesn't have focus by dragging the top of the window nothing
happens. I can also not give the window focus by clicking the
top bar, I have to click inside the window and then I can drag
the window. If I unmaximise the window with focus it does work
and I can both change focus and drag the window directly by
clicking the top of the maximised window. Any bug fixes coming
for these issues? Any work-arounds? share |
-0.435319 | 9.69513 | -1 | Take the 2-minute tour × The bottom line is to create a custom
FTP Authentication Provider. In order to do this one must
inherit from IFtpAuthenticationProvider interface and then
register that assembly in GAC. After that the assembly needs to
be registered in IIS's FTP settings. In order for this to be
accomplished I have to use the database which holds my user
information in the database from the custom Membership and Role
providers we have developed previously. So, that means I have to
use a local class library app.config file and read it with
ConfigurationManager.OpenMappedExeConfiguration(). I read the
connection strings from there and I'm even able to provide it to
Linq-To-Sql classes dynamically. No problem there. Next, I try
to create a class that inherits from SqlMembershipProvider so
that I can use it's own system to decrypt the password for a
user. But, the problem is that it has to read machineKey values
from configuration. The only way you can provide custom
configuration to a SqlMembershipPro |
-1.601991 | 5.644081 | -1 | During the past year, I’ve spent a lot of time with startups.
It’s always an amazing view of the world, to see things through
the eyes of a small company or individual who is so focused on
their product or service, that everything else is secondary.
These folks are focused. Like a laser! They have an idea they
believe in 100%. Every waking minute is spent in pursuit of
achieving their goal. Spent in pursuit of supporting and moving
forward the product or service. Often heard around business
incubators is the phrase “fail fast”. It means to fail early in
a cycle, so you can learn, apply the knowledge and move forward.
So as you look at your own investments, whether it be in SEO,
social, paid search, etc., try to fail fast. Draw lines to
determine success, set shorter time-lines and change direction
as results show the path. Another common thread with startups?
What they end up as is often not what they started out as.
www.Fab.com is a great example here. Originally a gay dating
website, it transformed itse |
1.951505 | 0.204466 | 44 | LEGAL MAXIMS, concise statements of the law as it is or, often,
succinct statements embodying a guiding principle established in
law. The word kelal, in one of its varied meanings, is the
Hebrew equivalent of a legal maxim. "The burden of proof is on
the plaintiff " (BK 3:11), for example, is referred to as "a
great maxim of jurisprudence" (kelal gadol ba-din; BK 46a; see
also *Evidence). Historical Periods The wealth of Jewish legal
maxims is essentially talmudic. The great corpus of tannaitic
and amoraic literature contains hundreds of maxims, i.e., legal
rules and principles of jurisprudence stated in brief form and
summary fashion. Even maxims which can be traced back to the
Bible owe their epigrammatic popularity to the Talmud. These
"biblical" maxims are of three types: a literal quotation of a
verse or of a part thereof, "At the mouth of two witnesses…
shall a matter be established" (Deut. 19:15, cited very
frequently in talmudic literature); a condensation of a biblical
verse: "Do not place a wick |
-0.318751 | 1.692797 | -1 | Effective October 1, 2008, concepts of primary residence,
secondary residence, and visitation were abolished in Florida
law. Currently, parents who are either divorced/divorcing or
never married must have a “parenting plan.” Florida law
requires, at a minimum, each parenting plan to describe in
adequate detail how the parents will share and be responsible
for the daily tasks associated with the upbringing of the child;
the time-sharing schedule arrangements that specify the time
that the minor child will spend with each parent; a designation
of who will be responsible for any and all forms of health care,
school-related matters, and other activities; and the methods
and technologies that the parents will use to communicate with
the each other and with the child. A “time-sharing schedule” is
a timetable that specifies the time, including overnights and
holidays, that a minor child will spend with each parent. Time-
sharing is for the primary benefit of the child or children and
not the parent. Children should n |
2.113032 | 0.039456 | 44 | , , , Pop quiz: 1) How old was Jesus in Matt. 2? 2)
Why did Jesus go to Egypt? You will be surprised to learn the
answers to the above questions. I continue to talk about
Matthew in this installment. Many have seen the entire Matt. 2
as the birth narrative. Most certainly, Matt. 1.18-25 was the
birth narrative. Matt. 2.1 clearly states that “after” Jesus was
born, the magi came from the East. This is why the extended
holiday after Christmas is called Epiphany (Jan. 6), celebrating
the arrival of the magi. Church traditional feast day of
Epiphahy recognizes that Matt. 2 is the post-Christmas
narrative. Careless readers have been trying to figure out how
Matt. 2 and Luke 2 harmonize. There is NO harmonization because
there is no such need. In fact, the events following the first
Christmas were nothing short of chaotic. The story of the Magi
clearly shows that Jesus was already slightly older because it
must have taken a while for the Magi to come to Bethlehem from
the East. Anyone with or wi |
3.099405 | 2.716349 | -1 | After Dark - Haruki Murakami A snapshot of the night - After
Dark - Haruki Murakami Fiction Book Newest Review: ...
unidentified condition that causes her to sleep almost
continuously, waking very occasionally to eat or to use the
toilet. Eerily, the t... more A snapshot of the night After
Dark - Haruki Murakami Member Name: helenc72 After Dark -
Haruki Murakami Date: 24/03/12, updated on 19/07/12 (63 review
reads) Advantages: Description and atmosphere, an intriguing
snapshot of the night Disadvantages: Shorter and less developed
than his others I am a big fan of Haruki Murakami's books and
have read all of them at least once. I recently read After Dark
for the second time. For fans it is definitely worth reading and
a casual reader might also enjoy it but in some ways it is not
really representative of his usual style. It is good, but not
his best. After Dark is much shorter than many of Murakami's
other novels, which means that it doesn't contain as many
twists, turns, flashes into other times |
-4.373089 | 0.954604 | 18 | Monday, December 9, 2013 End's Meet East End Grille leads the
East Somerville revival Finally, a reason to go to East
Somerville that doesn't involve your car being towed. Because we
know it's been a while since you went voluntarily. Before, if
your car was towed here, you considered letting the thing rot.
But then, Sullivan Square wasn't rocking burgers, beers, and
Bloody Marys at a place nearby called East End Grille The
neighborhood hadn't yet been reclaimed by a reclaimed bar
layered in Virginia barn lumber and wasabi Bloody Marys. It
didn't have an open kitchen where chef Roberto Coreia would
offer up classic American bistro fare. Until now, it simply
wasn't worth the detour. Here's what is: Prince Edward Island
mussels served in an insanely aromatic tomato broth with grilled
focaccia, and lemon-and-garlicky pan-seared scallops. By the
time you get to the main course — salmon wrapped in sweet potato
or the juicy East End burger with Irish cheddar, bacon, and
housemade chili-mayo — you may be so in |
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know what cIOS was used? No USB after update how to fix? I
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-4.000337 | 3.599228 | -1 | Mononuclear phagocyte system From Wikipedia, the free
encyclopedia (Redirected from Reticuloendothelial system) Jump
to: navigation, search The mononuclear phagocyte system (MPS)
is a part of the immune system that consists of the phagocytic
cells[1] located in reticular connective tissue. The cells are
primarily monocytes and macrophages, and they accumulate in
lymph nodes and the spleen. The Kupffer cells of the liver and
tissue histiocytes are also part of the MPS.
"Reticuloendothelial system" is an older term for the
mononuclear phagocyte system, but it is used less commonly now,
as it is understood that most endothelial cells are not
macrophages.[2] Cell Types and Locations[edit] The spleen is
the largest unit of the mononuclear phagocyte system. The
monocyte is formed in the bone marrow and transported by the
blood; it migrates into the tissues, where it transforms into a
histiocyte or a macrophage. Macrophages are diffusely scattered
in the connective tissue and in liver (Kupffer cells), spleen |
3.495902 | 4.850409 | 2 | Review by Talonfire "The master thief returns..." Thief: The
Dark Project and Thief II: The Metal Age were arguably the
greatest stealth games of all time. When Looking Glass Studios
went out of business, a lot of fans worried there would be no
follow up to Thief, especially since they never sold well. Eidos
decided to give Thief another chance and gave Ion Storm the
rights to develop Thief III. Now that Deadly Shadows is here,
does it live up to the Thief legacy set by Looking Glass?
Gameplay 8/10: Thief III follows the same ideas as it's
predecessors. You must hide within the shadows and avoid being
seen to prevent you also want to avoid making too much noise.
Like the previous two games, you have a "light gem" which gets
brighter the more visible you are. Your weapon and item
inventory are for the most part, the same as it's predecessors.
You have multiple types of arrows, like water which is good for
putting out torches and small fires, as well as moss which is
useful for quieting metal surfaces (This |
-0.460714 | 4.361397 | -1 | Learn more »» Article | Evergreen Packaging: Paperboard
cartons with a window The new Fresh-Look cartons from Evergreen
Packaging allows consumers to see packaging contents and to know
when they’re running low while maintaining branding, freshness
and environmental benefits. Print Reprint The Fresh-Look carton
offers customizable packaging that successfully showcases key
brand elements. The Fresh-Look carton window can be seamlessly
integrated into a brand’s existing graphic features, allowing
processors to keep their product in the distinctive carton
package that loyal customers look for. The side panels on the
Fresh-Look cartons are an excellent platform to reach consumers
through environmental messaging, nutritional labeling and brand
messaging. Evergreen Packaging can provide full-color
lithographic printing on milk cartons, including the Fresh-Look
carton, which can produce photographic-quality imagery, and
accurate color reproduction. As with all Evergreen Packaging
cartons, Fresh-Look cartons ar |
-2.585669 | 2.739484 | -1 | The waste, pollution, disease and other risks of animal farming.
- 9 Feb 2011 email to friend E-mail this to a Friend Print
Recent bird flu outbreaks across Asian poultry farms and
increasing government concern over the massive fecal discharges
from livestock factory farms reveal just some of the problems
inherent in factory farming. In the case of pig farming alone,
researchers have found that these animals on average produce at
least three times as much fecal matter as humans, with harmful
pathogens that are at least 10 times more concentrated.
Canadian investigative environmental journalist Ms. Denise
Proulx, author of the book, “Pig Farms!” described several
crises of these factory farming operations, among which is the
widespread practice of spraying millions of liters of untreated
waste into the air after being stored sometimes for years in
toxic liquid holding lagoons. Denise Proulx – Canadian
journalist, author (Porcheries!) (F): For the sake of profit,
they have allowed less space between th |
-4.517161 | 1.38981 | 18 | Monday, January 22, 2007 A Brooklyn Moment NV Chateau
du Hureau Saumur Brut, $11. Next time, really - a couple of
2001 Pinots. Marcus g58 said... Hey, why force a Pinot? I
too went out this weekend and bought bagels, which rarely
happens (though winter does seem to bring it on) and I actually
got two pump bagels at that! They are Fairmount bagels and
someday us two are going to have to have a bagel throwdown
because I just don't have a clue -- what is going on with those
New York bagels? Every Montrealer will tell you that they are
legendary imposters. But before I say anything I oughtn't...
Terrace Bagels sounds worth checking out. I think it Murray's
I've tried. I also buy sesame, blueberry, poppy seed and
cinnamon and raisin bagels, but the flavour doesn't really
matter. It's all in the texture. Brooklynguy said... Hey
Marcus - If I'm not mistaken, I think I have enjoyed Fairmont
bagels before during my one and only trip to Montreal a few
years ago. Is it in that neighborhood with some n |
-0.02723 | 10.178488 | 16 | An Android Java, JSON, and Twitter REST API example I don't get
to parse too much JSON code with Java because the biggest JSON
source I work with is Twitter, and I always use the Twitter4J
project to interact with their web services. But a few days ago
while working on an Android project, I just wanted to access
their "Twitter Trends" REST service, and I used Java and the
Java library that comes with Android to parse the Twitter Trends
JSON feed like this: Java SimpleDateFormat example - Convert a
Date to a formatted String Summary: This tutorial demonstrates
how to use the Java SimpleDateFormat class to convert a Java
Date to a formatted String. The Java SimpleDateFormat class
provides lets you easily convert (a) between a Java String to a
Date or (b) perform the opposite conversion, from a Java Date to
a String. In this article we'll at several different ways to
convert a Java Date object to a nicely formatted String object,
and in another article we'll look at a couple of nice ways for
converting in th |
0.831184 | 9.160012 | -1 | Messages in this thread Subject[PATCH 0/6] vmtrunc: lowlat
vmtruncate drop i_mmap_lock Here's a set of patches against
2.6.9-rc3-mm1, or Ingo's -S7 VP tree: allow lower latency in
vmtruncate (more generally, unmap_mapping_range) by dropping the
i_mmap_lock when required. Though I've been focussing on
correctness rather than latency myself: do these work for you,
Ingo? 1/6 undoes something of Andrea's, 2/6 undoes something of
Ingo's: I thought I might as well provide patches as ask the
questions, please let us know why if you disagree with them. 3/6
is cosmetic, 4/6 is the real work, 5/6 corrects some loose ends,
6/6 is for testing. Worth the effort, and ~700 bytes bloat, and
additional int in each vma? If only root could run-bash-shared-
mappings, I'd say not worth it; but it seems a little like
prio_tree itself, we're not sure we need it, but feel more
secure to have the solution. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <>
drivers/mtd/devices/blkmtd.c | 1 fs/inode.c | 1
include/linux/fs.h | 2 include/linux/mm.h | 8 + |
-1.688454 | 2.952767 | 54 | How much would it cost to put up 60 feet of privacy fence? If
you use vinyl for your privacy fence you can expect to pay
around $20 to $30 per linear feet. This can also be the price
for wrought iron. The materials you use will affect the price of
the fence. You can find more information here: |
-1.664239 | 6.558139 | -1 | Direct Mail Marketing Job Description I am a real estate
agent in Atlanta, Georgia and need someone to target potential
sellers and send out direct marketing information to them. I
will need a letter and pamphlet designed as well. Please let me
know if this is something you would be interested in doing.
Thank you Skills: marketing |
-1.402546 | 1.685552 | 92 | Letter: Give us the facts Last updated 11:39 08/11/2013
Relevant offers OPINION: Given the strong support in
principle for the Haast-Hollyford road expressed by most of
those present at Monday night's presentation by Durham Havill, I
wonder how many will head off to their bank managers or
investment advisors saying they want to invest in this proposal?
If they were to, I am sure their banker and financial advisor
would see the situation somewhat differently to the impassioned
deliverance of Mr Havill and the way in which it was soaked up
by the majority. Instead they would most likely say: • At $20
per head it would require just shy of 370,000 people to travel
the road each year for 30 years just to repay the $220 million
construction cost. (That's more than 1000 people a day, every
day, for 30 years.) • What about road closures? (Mr Havill
conveniently ignored the fact the Hollyford Road has been closed
for around eight weeks this year at the same time as the Haast
Pass road has been closed by a s |
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