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3.146459 | 4.822776 | 2 | Koei unveils new PS3 titles Will support X360, Revolution too.
Koei unveiled two new PlayStation 3 titles at a press conference
in Japan today and showed what it described as "CG concept work"
on another - before pledging support to all three next-
generation formats and saying some nice things about the newly
announced Revolution controller. The new games come from Koei's
Omega Force studio and its new Canadian outpost. Omega Force,
best known for its work on Dynasty Warriors, is working on a
game called Bladestorm: Hundred Years War, which is - yes -
about that rather lengthy medieval conflict. Producer Akihiro
Suzuki said it was "an age that hasn't been covered as much in
games," and that Bladestorm would be "a type of action game that
presents something you've never seen before" - and indeed
haven't seen yet, since Koei declined to show anything other
than the logo. Koei Canada meanwhile is working on a racing
title called Fatal Inertia, of which more a bit later. In short,
it's a combat racing title t |
5.407585 | 0.686406 | 13 | Camel - Mirage CD (album) cover Symphonic Prog 4.37 | 1573
ratings From Progarchives.com, the ultimate progressive rock
music website Lord Anon 4 stars Camel's self-titled debut album
released in 1973 was a huge disappointment. Only 5000 copies
were sold and MCA didn't want to release a second album by the
band but Decca signed them so the band went in 1974 to the
Basing Street Studios in London to record their second studio
album "Mirage". According to guitarist Andrew Latimer the band
made a huge step forward compared to their debut. The band wrote
all the songs as team and also the interaction became better
between him, organist Peter Bardens, bassist Doug Ferguson and
drummer Andy Ward. Producer David Hitchcock convinced them to
record the multi part song "Nimrodel/The Procession/The White
Rider", which was inspired by J.R.R. Tolkiens "Lord of the
Rings. The band liked the songs and decided to record another
epic song, the final "Lady Fantasy". These two songs surely are
the highlights of a really |
0.579723 | 2.557592 | -1 | Psychology Wiki Two-factor models of personality 34,114pages
on this wiki Revision as of 08:03, November 6, 2007 by Dr Joe
Kiff (Talk | contribs) The Two-Factor Model of Personality
is the most widely used psychometric factor analysis measurement
of personality, behavior and temperament. It most often consists
of a matrix measuring the factor of introversion and
extroversion with some form of people versus task orientation.
From the beginning, with Galen's ancient Four Temperaments, it
was observed: • The sanguine temperament showed quick,
impulsive and relatively brief reactions. • The phlegmatic
temperament was characterized by a longer response-delay, but
the response was also short-lived. • The melancholic
temperament (Also called "Melancholy) exhibited a long response
time-delay, and the response was sustained at length, if not,
seemingly, permanently. [1] Therefore, it was evident that the
sanguine and choleric shared a common trait: quickness of
response, while the melancholic and phleg |
-1.067093 | 0.232233 | -1 | Mathematical Malpractice: Spree Killings Again This analysis,
which claims that the US has more school spree killings than 36
nations combined, is getting a lot of play. It shouldn’t. It is
extremely bad mathematical malpractice. The basic reason it is
mathematical malpractice is the same reason the Mother Jones
study was: it is difficult to analyze extremely rare events.
When you narrow your investigation to events that happen maybe
once a decade and are compiled haphazardly, you are simply going
to be dominated by small number statistics and selection bias.
You can therefore use those numbers to say, basically, anything
you want. Let’s break down just how bad the numbers are being
twisted here. 1) The sample ends in 2009. That excludes the
recent spate of knife attacks in Chinese schools that have left
21 dead. If you did this analysis a week ago, you would have had
to drop China from the right column. 2) The sample excludes
acts of terror or war. But if Islamists shoot up a school
because they don’t w |
2.30932 | 3.238719 | -1 | #74 - applescryatnight (04/27/2013) [-] first things first- stop
being ignorant ******** . those two arent implants its a disease
in which they get grossly huge it has to do with a gland going
crazy or something i forgot the name of it, i saw a post before.
and if you did a google search you would see an african lady
with tits that looked like she stole santa's sack of toys twice
and shoved them up her shirt. User avatar #92 to #74 -
lexausaurusrex (04/28/2013) [-] you are an idiot her name is
beshine ... and she has the world record for biggest
implants.... #102 to #92 - applescryatnight (04/28/2013) [-] i
replied to my first comment saying how i was wrong. i did see a
similar post about a year back and i remembered something along
the lines of elephantiasis or something. now after many, many
google searches my browsing history is weird as **** and i
havent actually found anything. so i am sorry that i cant back
up my claims, though i do knowledge that i was initially
incorrect User avatar #103 to #102 - lex |
5.094206 | 1.128302 | 13 | Louis Electric November issue is here! Make Those Standards
Your Own I have a pretty decent record collection. It includes
a lot of singers doing their takes on standard jazz material and
songs from the American Songbook. Flipping through the LP covers
reveals Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Billie Holiday, Tony
Bennett, Betty Carter, the Mills Brothers, Eddie Jefferson,
Blossom Dearie, Anita O’Day, and Lambert, Hendricks, and Ross.
That’s how I learned songs by Cole Porter, George Gershwin,
Rodgers and Hart, Duke Ellington, and Johnny Mercer. When it
came time to play these songs on my guitar, I already had a
clear memory of the melody, the harmony, the form, and the
lyrics. Whether comping for a singer, another instrument playing
the melody, or stating the melody myself, I could easily follow
the unfolding song, having done the listening for years in
advance. The catch is, if I had only heard, say, Betty Carter’s
version of "Something Wonderful" by Rogers and Hammerstein, or
Sarah Vaughan’s rendition of |
-0.657042 | 10.254756 | 20 | Tell me more × I'll start off by saying I've done a lot of
research but I'm still pretty lost. I have a working version,
but it's the most inefficient way you can do this I'm sure. I'm
not super confident about knowing the best way to plan out a DB,
I've become to dependent on ActiveRecord, clearly. Anyways, I'm
simply trying to figure out these things: 1. Find out the
best way to plan the db (how I should separate documents) 2.
Find the most efficient to deal with relations 3. Find good
method to query from the server Ok, so some things I've
noticed: One, you can't pass I client variable into views so
using a method like that won't work. Two, I think there might be
away to get all posts and then check if the type is post and
then return the matching documents, but that seems like a lot of
data moving around. Some code: So I'm using Node.js, CouchDB,
and nano as middleware. Post Document: "_id": "post-slug",
"title": "Post Slug", "user": "film42", "date": 1343451412,
"type": "post" User Documen |
2.447237 | 2.315484 | -1 | Monday, February 28, 2011 Some questions to ask about the
particular virtues In prepping for class tomorrow I jotted down
a list of 12 questions that we can ask about any particular
virtue. I imagine others have made better lists of questions and
systematically answered them, but still, I thought the list
might be useful to teachers of virtue ethics. What is it? 1.
Can you give a pithy definition of it? 2. Is it a form of self
control with regard to an emotion? 3. Is it a mean between two
extremes? How does it relate to the other virtues? 4. Is it a
special case of another virtue? 5. Does it need to be
distinguished from another virtue that it is often confused
with? 6. Is there a general class of virtue that it falls under?
What can we learn about this virtue from others? 7. Are there
relevant findings in empirical psychology? 8. Do different
cultures regard this virtue differently? 9. How have people
symbolized or represented this virtue artistically? How do I
cultivate this virtue in my own life? 10. |
2.360526 | 2.634317 | 37 | Ex Asian college girlfriend cutie from UCLA had no idea that
there was a hidden camera placed in her dorm room. He started
by taking off his pants, initiating kino, kissing her, teasing
her, and next thing you know they are both naked and having
missionary sex in bed. This dude is good at seducing women! |
-0.483867 | 1.416439 | -1 | "Are you boys lost?" asked a 40-something woman after pulling up
alongside us at a stoplight and rolling down the driver's window
of her silver Honda Sonata. It was a fair question, since my
23-year-old brother and I were driving a $302,000 Aston Martin
Vanquish (color: Volcano Red) through the rather neglected Frog
Hollow section of Hartford, Connecticut, on the eve of his
graduation from college. We said that we were heading back to
the Trinity campus after dinner downtown. "Is that a Jag?" she
asked. My brother complimented her recognizing the car's style
nods to the U.K. and explained that it was actually produced by
a different British auto brand, Aston Martin. "Oh, Aston Martin!
Okay—be careful!" In the weekend I spent with the Vanquish,
situations like the previous one presented themselves over and
over again. Driving north on the West Side Highway in stop-
and-go traffic, the driver of an air conditioning service
company's blue van rolled down his window and popped his head
out to look down in |
3.90021 | 1.905808 | 5 | Press Tour: Kathy Griffin promises Cher in her bathroom and more
on 'Kathy' The second season will 'mix real people and
celebrities' Credit: Bravo Last year one of the most
unexpected TV talk shows on the circuit was "Kathy," and it
speaks to Kathy Griffin's engaging presence that the unusual
formula worked. Instead of featuring the usual spate of
celebrities plugging their latest projects, Griffin instead
found real people (and her own celebrity friends like Anderson
Cooper and Lance Bass) to sit on the couch to discuss what she
found most interesting in the news (or in the reality TV
programming) of the day, sometimes finishing the show with a
group of sexy firefighters, strippers or cops. This year the
show, which returns for its second season Jan. 10 at 10:00 p.m.,
will have some big changes -- more celebrities and a live
format, which will be an interesting challenge for the potty-
mouthed performer. I spoke to Griffin one-on-one at press tour
about the changes, why she's "hungry and bitter," and wh |
-2.241134 | 3.232408 | 76 | math home math poems math videos math lessons math stories math
songs fun poems Cactus Poem Never kiss a cactus, It might just
hurt your lips, Never kiss a cactus, Was one of Momma’s tips!
Never hug a cactus, It’ll hurt too much, Those spiny little
cacti, Aren’t good to touch! Today I kissed the cactus, It
wasn’t good to do, Now my lips are aching, And I couldn’t go to
school! Cacti are plants that have adaptations to survive in
dry, hot environments. Instead of broad leaves, they have spines
that prevent the evaporation of water into the atmosphere (Due
to the lack of leaves, photosynthesis is usually performed by
the stem of the plant). The spines also help protect cacti from
herbivores and other animals. Cacti are succulents and can
store water inside of their bodies. mr. r.'s science videos!
copyright Mr. R. 2012 cacti- link to Mr. R.'s plant poems |
1.854614 | 3.527158 | -1 | 10 Deep Plus Brooklyn, N.Y. User Stats Profile Images User
Bio 10.Deep, a cornerstone brand in the men's boutique and
progressive streetwear community for over fifteen years,
communicates the bold power of individuality through its dynamic
collection of apparel and accessories. External Links 1.
Elitaste 2. KidCudi.com 3. FUCT |
-0.518279 | 2.283296 | -1 | Publication Date September 1995 [Excerpt] The first major
prediction of the theory is that an increase in the extrinsic
rewards for learning will cause student effort and achievement
to increase. The primary extrinsic reward for achievement in
high school is a higher probability of completing college. Thus
the extrinsic rewards for learning in high school depend on the
size of the payoff to college and on how contingent college
admissions decisions are on achievement in high school. Time
series data suggests that changes in college selectivity and
payoff may have contributed to the ups and downs of student
achievement during the postwar period. The college payoff and
test scores rose during the 1950s and peaked during the 1960s.
Both series then declined during the 1970s, bottomed out around
1980, and then rose during the 1980s. The doubling of the payoff
to college during the 1980s appears to have contributed to more
homework being assigned and done and a big increase in the
proportion of students taking |
0.767117 | 2.770847 | -1 | Thread: Self Harm View Single Post (#18 (permalink)) noirmali's
Avatar noirmali (Offline) Senior Member Hand Drawn Posts: 1,948
Join Date: Jul 2006 Zodiac Sign: Leo Rating: 3 Votes / 5.00
Average Default 10-26-2009, 06:01 PM Hmm. I'm tan, or at least
we can say that against most people. ^^ And it's really
noticeable if I start waving my arms around, but most of the
time I'm not comfortable wearing T-shirts anyway, seeing as I'm
so fat, although lately since it's been...two years? they're
starting to fade quite a bit, so it's easier to wear them,
although it's cold so there's no reason to wear anything short
anyway. ....I'm not sure whether I'm comfortable admitting
this, but I might as well tell someone <.<' I admit that I don't
like...hurt myself to the extent of drawing blood anymore, but
when I get frustrated with myself I rake my nails across my
skin, just to feel the pain x.x' It paralyzes me for a few
moments, and that's all I need to feel better; after that I just
savour it, and I don't do it twice i |
3.260869 | 4.431908 | 2 | 48 Reviews Uncharted: Drake's Fortune Where there's treasure,
there's trouble Unlike its title, Uncharted is on very familiar
territory, mashing up the thrills, spills and old-fashioned
derring do of Indiana Jones with a dash of Tomb Raider's
acrobatic platforming and puzzles. If it was a movie, the poster
quote would lazily describe it as 'a non-stop rollercoaster
ride, adrenaline rush of a film', which is actually quite apt
for a game that 'grabs you from the beginning and never lets
go'. See, we can do crap poster quotes too. Get that on the back
of the box please, Sony. So if it isn't the most original
premise, at least it's executed beautifully. At times it's like
watching a film, partly due to the brilliant set-pieces and
terrific action, but mainly due to the way Drake moves and
behaves. When he takes a hit or struggles to keep his grip on
ledges, you feel it too (and with rumble already implemented
you'll feel it even more when the DualShock 3 is released early
next year). Like the best action her |
3.062119 | 2.396307 | 25 | Monday, December 9, 2013 The Glom Sadly, or perhaps not quite
sadly, Carolyn and I have both been lost in the glom. It's an
exciting place to be but ultimately scary as you lose sight of
the real world and are navigating through the world of an
author's creation. Carolyn can talk about her glom since she's
been in a few but mine has mostly been KA (yeah, her again). I
discovered the Unfinished Heroes series which were her answer to
50 Shades, I guess, because two of the books, Raid and Knight
were very bondage/discipline. Knight was icky because he liked
to be called Daddy when having sex. That man needed a shrink
more than he needed a woman. **shivers** Raid was an
interesting hero since his woman got the shit beat out of her
and was in the hospital and he took off after the guys who did
it and never saw her in the hospital once. Wait... what's that
I hear? A team of shrinks being called in for these guys. The
third book was Creed but I read that before and its very meh.
Now I'm reading one of her bo |
-0.99482 | 9.930524 | 15 | Take the 2-minute tour × I am rewriting php generated
thumbnails with igly urls into nice ones. instead of
img.php?src=bla.jpg&w=200&h=100 the static filenames IMG-
file_w200_h100.jpg Because the rewrite is so complex and
involves many variations, only urls starting with IMG- should be
listening to the rewrite rule. The conditional first rule
however doesnt seem to work: if i change it into IMF or
something else, it still fires the rewrite rules! Any ideas as
to why the conditional doesnt work? # Rewrite imgcpu?src=
thumbnail maker to nice static urls RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}
^IMG.*$ RewriteRule ^IMG-(.+)_w(.+)_h(.+)_f(.+).jpg$
imgcpu\?src=$1\.jpg&w=$2&h=$3&f=$4 [L] RewriteRule
^IMG-(.+)_w(.+)_q(.+).jpg$ imgcpu\?src=$1\.jpg&w=$2&q=$3 [L]
share|improve this question Because it's lazy! Nyuk nyuk nyuk.
– mfinni Dec 15 '10 at 19:14 2 Answers 2 up vote 1 down vote
accepted The RewriteCond is actually processed after the
RewriteRule matches! Here's a diagram from the Apache docs:
Rewrite Control Flow shar |
-3.265498 | 2.132339 | -1 | 2012 - %3, March How Coca-Cola Squeezes Workers in Italy's
Orange Groves | Fri Mar. 2, 2012 12:15 PM GMT When I think of
southern Italy, a kind of mental postcard comes to mind: a table
laden with seafood, pasta, and wine, with Homer's "wine-dark
sea" sparkling in the sun-drenched background. The reality,
of course, is much more complicated. The food and sights can be
glorious, but amid the region's base of small farms there exist
industrialized, plantation-scale operations. And scale aside,
working conditions on the region's farms are hardly idyllic.
Last year, the UK-based Ecologist published a blistering exposé
of working conditions in the region's tomato fields, which
produce for the nation's vast canned-tomato export industry.
Workers, mainly migrants from Africa, live in slave-like
conditions, with meager pay and awful housing. As is too often
the case in the United States, people who spend their time
harvesting food live in dire poverty, often having to rely on
charity for enough to eat. Now the |
1.216204 | 4.654262 | -1 | Does infinity really exist? Our universe appears to be bound by
a finite set of laws, yet we often talk about things that go on
for an eternity. "Infinity" is a strange idea. But it's crucial
if you want to understand anything from philosophy to
mathematics. Here’s why. There are three broad domains where
infinity can be applied. It’s used as a conceptual tool to help
us describe the properties and values of objects and processes,
it’s an important notion in philosophy, cosmology and
metaphysics, and, of course, it’s crucial to mathematics. Let’s
take a look at each of these in detail. The Totality of
Infinity We often use the word ‘infinity’ when describing
something that goes on forever. But it can also be used to
describe something that doesn’t go on forever, or for which its
value is absolute. Take, for example, the use of infinity in
sports and gaming. As every chess player knows, each piece is
assigned a numerical value according to its tactical importance
and strength. These values range from one |
-0.401469 | -1.839764 | -1 | Yes, it is true that there was no al-Qaida in Iraq when George
W. Bush took office. But it is equally true that there was
essentially no al-Qaida in Iraq remaining when Barack Obama took
office. Which makes Bush responsible for the terrible costs
incurred to defeat the 2003-09 jihadist war engendered by his
invasion. We can debate forever whether those costs were worth
it, but what is not debatable is Obama's responsibility for the
return of the Islamist insurgency that had been routed by the
time he became president. The result? "A sovereign, stable
and self-reliant Iraq." That's not Bush congratulating himself.
That's Obama in December 2011 describing the Iraq we were
leaving behind. He called it "an extraordinary achievement."
Which Obama proceeded to throw away. David Petraeus had won the
war. Obama's one task was to conclude a status-of-forces
agreement (SOFA) to solidify the gains. By Obama's own admission
-- in the case he's now making for a status-of-forces agreement
with Afghanistan -- such agre |
1.36032 | 9.667212 | 22 | Take the 2-minute tour × I have a generic N-ary expression tree
and I want to convert the same to a binary tree. Is there any
well defined algorithms to do the same? I tried going thro'
different algorithms of converting N-ary tree to expression tree
like https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/wncc_iit
b/RrgohUZ-uhw but thats not going to work, as they don't worry
about precedence and all. share|improve this question Can you
expand on your requirements for the binary tree, vs the nary
tree? Anything specific... or is your only requirement that
children of a node, are simply still descendants of the same
node? – ChrisCM Jun 4 '13 at 13:52 add comment 1 Answer
Simple answer. Step 1: Convert N-ary expression tree with
different levels of precedence into an N-ary tree where each
node has only a single level of precedence. Step 2: Convert
that tree into a binary tree. If you're seeking a
straightforward solution rather than an efficient one, it may be
easy to explode each node into levels matc |
1.577235 | 1.745782 | -1 | Wednesday, December 2, 2009 by 13 Stoploss Sergeant So and So
of the United States Army called me this morning. He asked how I
was, very open-endedly. Seizing the moment to shove that trash
back in his face, I told him I was in school and loving it. I
could practically see him reading down a list of approved
responses when he asked me what I was studying and where. I told
him journalism at UC Irvine and that he should look into school
himself. He laughed, and was not controlling the conversation
very well. I could tell he was new to this, and was a little
timid. I asked him if he was local. He laughed, said “yeah,”
and he asked me if I was having any trouble paying for school.
This dude didn’t even know I was a veteran? I thought he was
trying to get me back in, but he was just trying to get me
in—like I was some poor student affected by the recent 32%
tuition increase to the UC. I asked him if he’s heard of
Chapter 33. You know, the Post-9/11 GI Bill? “Nah, I haven’t.”
“Ahh, that’s too bad, bro. I |
-0.306607 | 9.781783 | 16 | Take the 2-minute tour × We have an R Server (R is a
programming language used in statistical analysis) that
basically takes a script and a csv file, processes some data and
returns results as text. I need to write a service on the R
server so that .net clients (could be .Net Windows Forms, or
ASP.Net) can connect to the R server, submit the script and CSV
file, and get the results back. I'm confused by the many
different bindings available to me and information on the web
seems to be sparse/scattered about what one to choose. Also, is
it best to run the service in IIS, or as a separate "command
line" type listener service (the latter seems ugly compared to
IIS and I have no idea why anyone would choose to do this if
they could run it in IIS)? share|improve this question 4
Answers 4 up vote 9 down vote accepted Personally, I'd
recommend the simplest binding that gives what you need. I've
done quite a lot of WCF (some quite complex), and I've never had
to use anything other than BasicHttpBinding; this |
-0.651339 | 2.588175 | -1 | News Radio 94.3 WSC - Charleston's News Talk Station
Lowcountry Headlines IOP warns parents to watch children at
the beach IOP warns parents to watch children at the beach
Holidays are typically busy but the Isle of Palms County Park
Manager, Cynthia Wilson, told News 2 this year continues to
break previous records for number of people at the beach. "Now
that Folly Beach no longer permits alcohol on the beach," Wilson
said more people are heading to the Isle of Palms. She said two
weeks ago there were nearly 1,100 cars in the IOP county park,
meaning there were easily several thousand people on the beach.
In addition to the crowds, they've also had an increase in
riptides this year too, leading to more emergency responses.
"We have seen an increase in water rescues this season due to
the changes of the beach area and those rip currents," she said.
"We've had a lot of emergency calls this season and I would just
advise people, you know, when you're coming out watch your
children! Over Memorial Day wee |
-1.944344 | 0.516511 | -1 | We saw the first argument emerge in December when new Census
figures were released. Texas' population increased substantially
over the past decade, which some writers were all too ready to
attribute to low taxes and regulation. In fact, the dynamics
involved are far more complicated, and revolve in part around
Texas' decision to allow rapid growth in its housing supply.
Paul Krugman offers up an example of the second argument today
in a post aiming to undermine the case for a "Texas miracle"
through this chart: Mr Krugman is a good economist on urban
issues—his Nobel was due, in part, to his pioneering work in
economic geography—and he is capable of making a sophisticated
argument against simplistic, low-tax explanations of Texas'
growth. But rather than do that, he opts to publish this chart,
which I think is highly misleading. You see, Texas really is
different; there's no getting around it: The chart above shows
the change in state labour forces and state unemployment from
the onset of recession until |
-1.140335 | 3.341978 | 71 | Take the 2-minute tour × The title explains it all. Do objects
suspended in ice sink over time? You may remember the story of
World War 2 planes that were found 260 ft under the ice which
would be anachronistic with seasonal ice layering alone. I'm
trying to establish other possible mechanisms. I know that ice
flows up and down in glaciers, but will an object actually sink
in ice over time? Also, in what way would they sink? Would
heavier parts sink faster than the lighter. Does buoyancy play a
role. share|improve this question Isn't the title misleading?
Ice is a solid, how can something sink inside it? – jinawee Feb
27 at 18:59 @MikeDunlavey It seems to be false:
physics.stackexchange.com/q/65740 – jinawee Feb 27 at 19:16
@jinawee I'm not claiming this for ice or glass but some
materials that seem to be solid actually experience viscoelastic
creep. See for example the famous pitch drop experiment. – OSE
Feb 27 at 19:41 @jinawee Under higher pressure, ice has a lower
melting point. Technically if somet |
-2.160377 | 5.70862 | -1 | I hate cash. I’m reminded of this every time I find myself in a
cab where the driver claims he won’t accept my credit card, or
when I’m at a restaurant that demands to be paid exclusively in
paper bills -- incidents that happen far more often than is
reasonable in an ostensibly advanced country. Bloomberg News
reports that paying in cash is normal, however, for people in
Myanmar, although this is gradually starting to change. Now that
sanctions have been eased, companies such as American Express
Co., MasterCard Inc. and Visa Inc. are building the systems
needed for electronic payments. (The biggest challenges are
unreliable power supplies and a telecommunications network from
the 1960s.) This is great news for Myanmar, but it is an
unpleasant reminder that there are still vestiges of a backward
cash-only society in the U.S. that ought to be stamped out.
Physical currency is dirty, it’s inconvenient and it abets
crime. That’s why I stick to electronic payments whenever
possible. Those eliminate the need to f |
1.404415 | -1.029602 | 122 | As the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam awaits its most crucial
election result, Bishwanath Ghosh tracks down the house where
the party was born 62 years ago I have the address in my pocket
— the photocopy of a single-column report from the September 19,
1949 issue of The Hindu — and now I have to search for the
house. As the autorickshaw deposits me outside the Madras High
Court on NSC Bose Road, I pull out the piece of paper to confirm
the house number. The report begins: MADRAS, Sept. 17: The
Working Committee of the Dravidian Federation met this morning
at No. 7, Coral Merchant Street, George Town and passed a no-
confidence resolution in their leader, Mr. E. V. Ramaswami
Naicker. The Committee further resolved to form a new party
called the Dravidian Progressive Federation with Mr. C. N.
Annadurai as General Secretary. Thus the DMK was born, not at
Robinson Park in Royapuram, as widely believed, but in a house
in George Town, where a group of Dravida Kazhagam leaders met on
the morning of September 17, 1949 a |
2.368215 | 2.550156 | -1 | New Campus Slang • swipe 1. to swipe your ID card at
FoCo; FoCo 2. to steal food from FoCo 3. short for
asswipe a. Hungry freshman: “Let’s go swipe.” b.
Kleptomaniac freshman: “Let’s go swipe” c. Angry freshman
waiting in line: “Let’s go, ‘swipe!” • Cheegypt 1. the
grill section in the Swipe that forces its workers to construct
large pyramids of hamburgers, cheeseburgers, and grilled cheeses
every day • the Red Sea 1. the narrow walkway in between
the Kosher and Halal food at the Pavilion and the pyramids of
Cheegypt • broan 1. the mysterious noise made by frat
brothers that bears little semantic value aside from the
periodic emission of testosterone Bro #1: “Hey dude, wanna
go to the Red Sea in the Swipe and swipe one of the pyramids of
Cheegypt?” Bro #2: *broan* Bro #1: *broan* • 15-love
1. a single ’15 • 15-all 1. a ’15 couple • 15-30 1.
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-2.661909 | 5.52394 | 81 | Manhattan Institute for Policy Research. The mission of the
Manhattan Institute is to develop and disseminate new ideas that
foster greater economic choice and individual responsibility.
Subscribe MI on Facebook Find us on Twitter New York Post
'08: More Wall Street Wailing January 02, 2008 By Nicole
Gelinas MORE than two years ago, I wrote: "Invest ment banks
must de pend to a much greater extent on the money generated
from risk-taking ventures" rather than collecting fees for
services performed. Between '02 and the first half of '07, we
saw the fun side of this new world: record Wall Street bonuses,
record profits and tax revenues for New York City that grew at a
pace never seen before. Today, we're seeing the bad side.
Recently, Morgan Stanley announced that $9.4 billion in its
shareholders' assets had vanished during the previous quarter,
in large part due to the firm's poor assessment of the risk one
of its trading desks was taking. The quarterly performance meant
the firm's first loss in it |
-1.371182 | 3.510155 | -1 | Log in Free trial Competing in a Complex World: Brian Easton
Analyses the Economics and Politics of Globalisation Article
excerpt Analysis of globalisation must take the long view,
accepting that it is a process that is almost two centuries old.
The process is driven by the falling costs of distance, which
encompass not only transport costs but also the costs of
storage, security, timeliness, information and intimacy. These
falling costs can have a huge impact on national economies, with
immense political, social and cultural consequences. New Zealand
must accept that globalisation is going dramatically to affect
its economy. Its best course of action is to engage with the
process--for which it needs a sophisticated understanding of its
nature. Old theories must be set aside. The Royal Society of
New Zealand awarded me a Marsden Fund grant to study
globalisation. The study is a continuation of my earlier
research programme, especially that which is summarised in my
book In Stormy Seas with its central me |
3.322547 | -2.878912 | 46 | Feds and trainer's wife had a deal to discuss Bonds. Then they
didn't ESPN names A-Rod's cousin Vijay Singh may want to
rethink his sponsorship deal By Reid Cherner, USA TODAY
1ablogvijaysingh Golfer Vijay Singh is in a bit of a ticklish
situation. Darren Rovell of CNBC Sports reports that he is
under contract to endorse Stanford Financial and wear the
company logo on his shirt and hat. (Photo by Stuart Franklin,
Getty Images) Here is the dicey part. On Tuesday, the
Securities and Exchange Commission charged R. Allen Stanford,
the head of the company, with perpetuating an $8 billion fraud
and froze the assets of several of the companies that Stanford
controls. Writes Rovell: IMG has not had any further comment
on Stanford's deal with Singh, including whether the golfer who
is only second to Tiger Woods on the all-time money list
($60,768,812), had invested any money with the company or
exactly how much he was paid so far. Singh is currently in
Pacific Palisades, Calif., where he will play in the North |
0.292222 | 5.537587 | -1 | Bart from wrote in to share his latest DIY laser cutter
design, the 2.X laser. The mechanical parts are all either off-
the-shelf or lasercut, and it can be controlled using a number
of standard electronics sets. Oh, and did we mention it’s all
available with a Creative Commons license? The second
generation open source laser cutter/engraver design from is
complete. The new machine is called the 2.x Laser. The name
comes from the fact that this is the second generation machine
and it is basically a 2 axis design. The third, vertical axis,
is manually controlled with an optional upgrade to digital
control. The 2.x Laser takes all the optimizations learned from
the first laser and all the other lasers documented on forum.
The usable work envelope is 12” x 20” x 4”. The internal design
has been optimized so the overall size of the machine is much
smaller than the previous design and can easily fit on a small
table. It is designed to work with 40W CO2 lasers sealed gas
lasers. The frame is built from inexpensiv |
0.492886 | 9.438475 | 16 | This figure shows the Eclipse IDE in debug mode, with execution
halted at a breakpoint. In the upper left corner, a Debug tab
displays the thread stack. In the upper right corner, the
Variables list shows the following variables highlighted: event,
symbolProp, and volumeProp. In the middle right, the Outline tab
shows the following method highlighted:
TradeListener.onInsertEvent(Object). In the middle left, the
code editing window for the file shows a breakpoint highlight at
the following line: System.out.println. At the bottom, the
Console tab shows project output concluding with the following
values: IMB:3000. Sun:5000, Oracle:6000, Google:4000. |
-1.612609 | 5.502193 | -1 | 5 Ways Everyone Can Make More Money By David Ning on 23
November 2010 (Updated 8 May 2012) 2 comments If someone asks
you whether you'd like to make more money, I bet most of you
would say yes. The follow-up question would be "Why aren't you
making plans to make more?" When a specific method to make money
is mentioned, people usually make a quick decision as to whether
it's feasible. Some people can quickly adapt to the method and
start making money, but what if you are the type who keeps
saying no? Are you actually ready to make more money? To help
you figure this out, let's look at the handful of ways people
are cashing in, and see if you are willing to do what it takes.
(See also: 25 Ways to Make Money Today) 1. Start a Business
Many people find their riches from a company that they started,
but opening for business doesn't always mean looking for capital
from investors and trying to materialize an idea that may take
years. An entrepreneur who mows his neighbor's grass runs a
business, and the lady who |
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-0.091743 | 7.733139 | -1 | Talk, Rumors, X Versus Y Amid the hype surrounding the release
of Windows Vista, Mac users are taking solace from the fact that
Mac OS X is still a champ on many fronts. Here are some reasons
why reviewer John C. Welch opts for Apple. Permalink for comment
199310 Member since: I think what is meant is that he/she will
not be intentionally upgrading but just because it happens to
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-0.417402 | 0.512125 | 6 | UPDATE: The victim has been identified as Saeed Lateef Majied.
Officers were called to the scene early this morning in
reference to a gun shot victim. Majied was pronounced dead at
the scene. Bryson Andrew Brown, 30 of Roanoke, has been charged
with possession of a fire arm by a convicted fellon, additional
charges are possible, pending results from the investigation.
Brown is currently being held at the Roanoke City Jail. Some
breaking news out of Roanoke, reports of a dead body in the
street of the 300 block of Patton Avenue. Police aren't saying
much, but neighbors say it started around 3 o'clock this
morning. WDBJ Photojournalist, Nick Beaty, is on scene. As
more information comes into our WDBJ 7 newsroom, we'll bring it
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3.996223 | 3.373371 | -1 | Forgot your password? Sci-Fi Movies The Space Command Team
Answers Your Questions 32 Posted by samzenpus from the set-
phasers-to-inform dept. Opinion on the State of Sci-Fi in Film?
by eldavojohn To each of you, what is your opinion on the
current state of science fiction in today's films? Obviously,
there's been an increase in all film categories with more movies
coming out but what do you like and dislike about films in this
era? Care to comment the remake of Total Recall? Or 3D in
blockbusters like Avatar? Marc: I think there are some very
strong directors working in science fiction films, such as
Ridley Scott and James Cameron, and although you can fault some
of their recent films they’re pushing the technological envelope
in ways that make it easier and easier for considerably lower
budgeted filmmakers to provide amazing special effects and
production values. I’m very pleased science fiction is
consistently popular as a genre and happy to learn from my
brother writers, producers, directors and actor |
-0.175865 | -0.177803 | 88 | Marriage Isn’t for Everyone After the Supreme Court decided
U.S. v. Windsor and Perry v. Hollingsworth earlier this year, I
remained optimistic about the fact that I would live in a state
where gay marriage was illegal. I even remember telling one of
my gay law school buddies that Idaho would be the last state to
recognize gay marriage. Little did I know, plans were being laid
to overturn the gay marriage ban in Idaho. Two weeks ago, four
lesbian couples filed a lawsuit in Federal District court in
Boise. The plaintiffs allege that they were denied their right
to marry under the Due Process and Equal Protection clauses of
the 14th Amendment. They also allege that they were
discriminated against because of their sex. Two of these couples
have already been married in other states (New York and
California). The other two couples sought marriage licenses in
Ada County (Boise) and were denied. At its core, the lawsuit is
challenging the constitutionality of both an Idaho statute and
the Idaho Constitution that |
1.510827 | 3.552875 | -1 | Sophiedop1a_1 Ever wonder what happened to Sophie Ellis-Bextor -
she of the "quirky" fashion sense and ultra-posh singing voice?
No, me neither, funnily enough. Wonder no more, though, for
Sophie is to return to the fashion radar as the new face of
Monsoon, following in the stiletto-heeled footsteps of Sophie
Dahl and Jodie Kidd. Sophie is no stranger to the modelling
world, of course: she previously enjoyed a spell as the face of
Rimmel, and has also modelled for PeTA. None of which will have
prepared her for her latest role for Monsoon, presumably, as
SE-B isn't actually be modelling clothes as such, but appears
lying naked on a pile of cushions for the 'Create a Storm'
campaign. |
2.900457 | 1.506154 | 19 | Printer Friendly Version ] [ Report Abuse ] << >> Sparks by
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Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac, Act 2 Lucy was happily ensconced
on one of the chairs outside her front door, in the cozy
courtyard of her building, reading a book. A pot of tea sat on
the small table beside her, the teacup in its saucer stirring
itself lazily. She was so engrossed in her book she'd nearly
forgotten about the Darjeeling waiting for her. The gate to the
courtyard, perpetually in need of oiling, swung open with a mild
screech, and she looked up to see Hilarion coming toward her,
his blonde hair glinting in the sunlight. “Hi,” she said,
suddenly feeling a bit breathless. “Hi Lucy.” He sat down in
the chair next to hers and propped his feet up, leaning back
with a sigh. Lucy set her book down next to the teapot and
turned to face him, sitting sideways in her chair. “Is
everything all right?” “Roxanne chucked me,” Hilarion sa |
0.119466 | 3.747926 | -1 | Is flashing light/photic stimulation with sonic stim. to change
brain waves a legit therapy??? anxiety man saouglubsjb at Fri
Apr 13 01:32:47 EST 2001 I hope I described this therapy
correctly and I hope someone can answer my question..... I
opted to see a practitioner of holistic medicine for my anxiety
problems.... He is a family friend and someone my father trusts
so I decided to try it out. What he does is: a) puts glasses
on me that flash at certain intervals (believe this is called
"photic stimulation") b) I wear headphones and listen to sounds
that are supposed to affect my c) he acts as a hypnotherapist
while this is going on Is this treatment effective??? Is it
safe???? I have a rather intense case of anxiety in which I
manifest physical symptoms, if you wanted to know. The idea of
this was to make me able to control my brainwaves or something
like that, so as to be able to be calm and anxiety free. I was
concerned that #1 - this is "quackery" and doesn't work or #2 -
i could damage myse |
-0.302626 | 3.474184 | -1 | How to Write a Summary of Qualifications for a Resume by Ruth
Mayhew, Demand Media Summarizing your qualifications can
simplify the preliminary screening process, particularly if you
use the summary for an introduction to your resume. Depending on
the type of resume you're constructing, you may also want to
include a summary of your qualifications to present a compact
statement about your work experience and training. This is
especially helpful for resumes in a functional format, where you
showcase professional competencies before you list your
chronological work history. A summary of your qualifications
makes it easy for recruiters and hiring managers to determine,
at a glance, whether you meet the basic requirements for a job.
Step 1 Highlight your qualifications according to academic,
education and training. For example, if you have training for a
specific occupation or an area that requires training and
certification to be considered highly qualified, include that in
your summary of qualifications. Li |
1.772464 | -0.100965 | -1 | Da Taj Trip Start Dec 30, 2005 Trip End Jan 30, 2006 Loading
Map Map your own trip! Map Options Show trip route Hide lines
Flag of India , Thursday, January 12, 2006 The Taj Mahal was
built by Emporer Shah for his wife Mumtaz, to represent his love
for her. Mumtaz died giving birth to their 14th child. The
construction of the Taj consisted of 20,000 people and took over
22 years to complete. The architectural masterpiece commenced
construction in 1631 and wasn't completed until 1653. The tombs
of Mumtaz and Shah are still in the basement of the Taj Mahal
today (in a gated off viewing area below the main floor). The
detailed marble inlaying covering the entire Taj Mahal was
outrageous. All created to perfection by man and his hands. One
of the 7 wonders of the world and described as the most
extravagant monument built for love. The Taj Mahal is India. I'm
not even going to try to find the words to describe this
masterpiece- it just wouldn't do it justice. Being there was
just one of those moments where y |
0.789003 | 6.085279 | -1 | The only one I know where you can make direct enlarged prints
from a small negative is liquid emulsion. Otherwise, making
enlarged negs is not hard. You can use the enlarger to project
the image onto ortho sheet film and tray process - all under red
light. This will give an enlarged film positive which you can
then contact to another piece of sheet film for a negative which
you then use for the alternative process. |
2.854002 | 5.712388 | 2 | Last year, we posted a series of articles that examined the
state of PC gaming and its related culture. Since that time,
even fewer PC exclusives have found their way to market, with PC
gamers widely blaming the rapidly aging hardware in consoles. I
pose a question: will new consoles actually help PC gaming at
all? One of the aforementioned articles examined how, despite
reports to the contrary, PC gaming culture is booming (even if
retail titles are shoddily put together). This article is still
relevant over a year later, with digital downloads and
independently developed games leading the way. Despite this,
the number of hastily thrown together PC ports of retail
games has increased, and companies seem less interested than
ever in using the PC as their lead platform (DICE aside,
naturally.) Many PC gamers cite the hardware gap between a
modern gaming PC and a current-gen console; both the 360 and the
PS3 are horrendously outdated in hardware terms, and with one or
the other console generally being cho |
-1.026035 | 5.048573 | 4 | 8 July 2000 A Lupo 3L TDI passenger car, advertised by
Volkswagen as “the best mileage production car in the world”,
has finished the North American part of it’s quest to establish
a record for the most fuel-efficient trip around the world. The
Volkswagen Lupo’s “Around the World in 80 Days” tour began on 16
May 2000 in Berlin, Germany. From there, the Lupo has been
driven through parts of South Africa, Asia, Australia, and North
America. Its trek is scheduled to end after 80 days on August 3
back in Germany at Volkswagen’s headquarters in Wolfsburg. The
North America stage of the Lupo’s journey started in San
Francisco and continued via Los Angeles and into Mexico City,
Dallas, Washington, DC, and New York, from where the car was
air-lifted back to Europe to restart its road trip in London,
setting its sites in North Africa, Spain, France, North Europe
and finally, Germany. If completed as scheduled, the Lupo’s
expedition will traverse the globe over 20,712 road miles in 80
days, an idea based on the boo |
2.313146 | 2.121155 | -1 | "Two Scotsmen" joke Immediately, Jock says "Open it up and
we'll have a dram." "Naw, ah'm goin' tae save it for a special
occasion." Finally Angus had a heart attack, and was laying on
his deathbed. He motioned for his old friend to come closer.
"Jock, remember that rare bottle of Scotch I won?" "Aye, ah
certainly do, Angus!" "Weell, ah like ye tae do me a favor Jock,
my dear friend." "Aye, anything ye ask Angus." "When ah'm dead,
wid ye take that bottle an' open it up--" "Aye, Angus, then
what?" "Wid ye pour it over ma grave?" "Pour it over yer grave?
My god Angus. It's 40 year old Scotch! But I'll do it for ye."
"Oh, ye're a real pal Jock, and ah'll appreciate that." Jock
says, "There's just one thing Angus, wid ye mind if ah filter it
through my kidneys first?" Not enough votes... Be first to
comment! remember me follow replies |
2.572432 | 5.096891 | -1 | Music To My Thumbs: Transcribing Braid By RPS on June 20th,
2012 at 12:00 pm. Now, we may not need a short form, we’ve
managed to get by without a gaming equivalent so far, but that
is not to say it couldn’t be useful. Notation has advantages for
both musicians and composers that aren’t available to us: the
complexity and the pace of a piece can be judged in a glance;
(it has lots of symbols; then it’s fast and complex). It’s easy
to share ideas, tweak sounds, and write down ideas in brief:,
you don’t need to detail the entire concept of the piece to
communicate what one musician needs to do, a single instrument’s
part can be written in isolation. It’s also possible for someone
to lay out an entire score; (instructions for many musicians
playing different instruments) and see how all the mechanisms
lock together. Also, as I’ll show later, in developing a short
form, we open up possibilities for our games which are difficult
to accomplish currently. The same can be done for games. The
seeds of the idea |
-0.582798 | 7.745165 | -1 | Take the 2-minute tour × We have developed several apps and
published them on Android Market. We are now writing an app that
another company will brand and sell through their own publisher
account. The other company has no experience with Android Market
or with Android development. I'd appreciate any insights from
others who have faced similar situations. I'm specifically
concerned about the following areas: 1. Signing the app
The alternatives we see are: sign with our usual key; create a
signing key pair specific to the other company and sign with
that; or help the other company install a development system,
generate a key pair, and do the signing themselves. The latter
would require us sending them the project sources, which
presents its own problems. Other than our concern about sending
the source, does the choice matter in any way? 2. Licensing
Since the license check will be done against their account, the
code will need to embed their public key for decrypting the
license response. Is the |
-0.316822 | 8.500391 | -1 | RE: BDB recovery after power outage Today at 8:59pm, Tony
Earnshaw wrote: > I'd maintain that there's doco enough. It
needs reading and it needs the > mind of a Unix sysadmin, not an
MCSA. I will have to disagree with you on that point. There
may be documentation enough, but the indexes are all messed up.
I have spent several hours pouring over the web pages at Sleepy
Cat and get lost in the referrals from here to there and back
again. > The problem is, who's to write the splendid doco
that you'd like to see? > I understand that there's a new book
out (O'Reilly), perhaps that would > fill the gap? You know,
from my point of view, the documentation doesn't have to be
splendid. But I wish that just one of the people who keep
saying that the BDB Backend is the way to go and it's so much
better than LDBM/Berkeley would take the 20 to 30 minutes
required to write down the answers to the following questions:
1) What is required to set up the BDB Environment optimally for
OpenLDAP 2) What is the |
0.015729 | 9.218978 | 16 | Take the 2-minute tour × I have a PromoCodeViewController which
is triggered using the following code: @implementation
Demo_WebServiceCallingUsingiOSAppDelegate @synthesize window =
_window,promoCodeController; self.promoCodeController =
[[PromoCodeViewController alloc] init]; [self.window
addSubview:self.promoCodeController.view]; // Override
point for customization after application launch.
self.window.backgroundColor = [UIColor whiteColor];
[self.window makeKeyAndVisible]; return YES; The
PromoCodeViewController contains the UITextField and I implement
the UITextFieldDelegate for the PromoCodeViewController as
shown: @interface PromoCodeViewController :
UIViewController<UITextFieldDelegate> IBOutlet UITextField
*promoCodeTextField; @property (nonatomic,retain) IBOutlet
UITextField *promoCodeTextField; I implement the
textFieldShouldReturn method as shown: -
(BOOL)textFieldShouldReturn:(UITextField *)textField return
TRUE; I have even setup the PromoCodeVi |
-1.210676 | 8.762774 | -1 | Take the 2-minute tour × I've just upgraded from Outlook 2003
to Outlook 2007 and I have a number of (client-side) rules that
categorize and flag emails based on who they've come from
(particular senders, or whether I'm in the to/cc fields, the
only recipient, etc.). These work just fine and while not
exactly as cleanly as in 2003, it'll do. Today, for the first
time since the upgrade, I've switched my BlackBerry on. Now,
when mail arrives, the rules are run properly, but a few seconds
later when the mail is also downloaded onto the BlackBerry, the
category and flag are wiped. Does anyone have any suggestions?
share|improve this question 2 Answers 2 Having opened a
bounty, I actually did some deeper searching and think I've
found the answer. Basically it was the Cached Exchange Mode
being enabled (I run Xobni which recommends that). The issue is
that the BES and the client-side rules are both changing the
message and because of the Cached Exchange Mode this was
resulting in two copies, one of which ( |
-0.171567 | -1.311368 | -1 | Pejman Yousefzadeh: Our "Inordinate Fears" of Communism [Pejman
Yousefzadeh is an attorney in Chicago and a Senior Editor of The
New Ledger. (Courtesy, The New Ledger).] Nearly twenty years
after the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the end–or at least, the
beginning of the end–of the Cold War, it seems that some people
are still having trouble processing the lessons of the epic
struggle. Not surprisingly, perhaps, one of those people, Andrew
O’Hehir, writes for Salon. O’Hehir reviews Archie Brown’s The
Rise and Fall of Communism, and draws conclusions that are
belied by the actual history of the Cold War. He repeats the
trope that Ronald Reagan’s contribution to ending the Cold War
came in his second term, when he decided to engage the communist
world, rather than call it an evil empire, as he did in the
first. And consistent with the behavior of so many on the port
side of politics who are determined to ensure that Reagan’s role
in the downfall of communism is minimized, O’Hehir tells us that
Reagan’s palliat |
-0.802695 | 0.696045 | -1 | WITN | Greenville, NC | News, Weather, Sports Nearly $50,000
In Brown Heroin Seized Nearly $50,000 in brown heroin was
seized and three people arrested after a drug bust in Lenoir
County. Deputies say they got information that Kelvin Nalls and
Takyra Kitchens, both of Kinston, would be transporting the
heroin to Kinston from Newark, New Jersey. Authorities stopped a
vehicle with Kitchens and Lee'Anna Frazier inside. They found
2500 empty glassine packets, used for packaging narcotics.
Authorities then followed Nalls when he got into Kinston and a
search of his motel room found 4.2 ounces of brown heroin. All
three were charged with numerous drug violations. Nalls has a
$2,000,000 secured bond, while Kitchens and Frazier had bonds
set at $250,000 secured. powered by Disqus |
0.298521 | 2.836124 | -1 | FBA's _functional behavioral assessment_ Document Sample FBA's
_functional behavioral assessment_ Powered By Docstoc
FBA’s (functional behavioral assessment) Functional Assessment-
Behavior is a Function of the Environment Allows us to
identify the causes of maladaptive behavior and replace it, as
opposed to suppressing it through punishment. The causes are
sought in the immediate environment. The learning history of
the individual is also considered. The outcome of the
assessment provides an analysis of the way the individual
learned the behavior and how it is presently supported and
maintained in the environment. The purpose of the assessment
is to categorize behavior by its function. Function vs. Form!
Functional (causal) relationships exist between behaviors that
we see and the antecedents and consequences that precede
and follow those behaviors. Problem Behaviors in
“Plain English” What’s the pay off? To get…or to get out o |
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-4.064324 | 2.507263 | 70 | Saturday, January 12, 2008 Anorexia and target weights Doctors
do a lousy job, overall, at setting target weights for people
recovering from anorexia. Most set them way too low, so the
patient never reaches or stays at a weight high enough to heal
from prolonged malnutrition, and relapses. Now a new study
published in the International Journal of Eating Disorders
suggests a different measure of recovery: resumption of
menstruation. As nearly any pediatrician or parent can tell
you, this is a bad idea. Really bad idea. Some girls never lose
their periods no matter how much weight they lose. Some get them
back while they're still significantly underweight. Getting your
period back while you're in recovery is a good sign, but it's no
litmus test of health. In fact there is no single measure of
restored health. Some clinics use body composition analysis,
which takes into account not just a person's weight or BMI but
also the percentage of lean and fat tissue in the body. I think
the best measure is mental h |
0.978212 | 1.906842 | 40 | Hey all, this is a famous letter written by a fictional
character by the name of Ivey-Lee Jones to a fictional
principal, Mr. Ben Sanders. It is part of a story I'm writing;
The Story of Ivey-Lee Jones. Dear Mr. Principal. I would like
you to take this letter as a complaint, or an insult as you
teachers would usually call it. It is about different things I
have noticed, or things that you probably intend to leave alone
and completely ignore. Firstly, I would like to tell you how
upset I am about you kicking out the Nerds from their area. I'm
not quite sure if you wanted them to socialize with the Preps,
or the Greasers, because that's exactly the opposite of what's
happening. Instead of welcoming the Nerds, they steal their
laptops and books. My main concern is that your "staff" is not
doing a single thing about it. In retaliation, the Nerds created
Stink Bombs, of which they put into the Preps bags, and Itching
Powder, of which they put in the Greasers jackets, of which they
leave on their table. Stewart |
4.076749 | 2.761755 | 5 | January 10-16, 2007 'Pan's Labyrinth' Photograph by Teresa
Isasi Magical Pan: Doug Jones' demigod puts young Ofelia (Ivana
Baquero) to work in 'Pan's Labyrinth.' Pagan Triumph In
Guillermo del Toro's fantasy allegory 'Pan's Labyrinth,' meat-
eating fairies meet clockwork fascists By Richard von Busack
HELL SWITCHES places with Earth in the Pyrenees in 1944.
Franco's fascist army is clearing out a band of guerrillas, with
all of the usual brutality of an armed force fighting an
insurgency. That's the outer story. The inner story of Guillermo
del Toro's overwhelming Pan's Labyrinth inverts the myth of
Proserpine. A daydreaming 10-year-old, Ofelia (Ivana Baquero),
may be the reincarnation of the princess of the Underworld, but
she is currently helpless in the realm of her wicked stepfather.
The stepfather, the citified Capt. Vidal (Sergi López), arrives
to meet his troops deep in the forest with his ailing, pregnant
wife, Carmen (Ariadna Gil). Vidal is an emblem of the fascism
that an audience loves to h |
4.004773 | 3.291935 | -1 | History: Kim and I began collecting movies soon after moving to
Italy. San Vito Italy was my first duty station with the Air
Force. Separated from the mainstream American culture, we didn't
have a lot of choices when it came to television. There was only
one t.v. channel broadcast in English: SEB (Southern European
Broadcasting). An AFRTS (Armed Forces Radio and Television
Service) affiliate. Military television programming was rather
austere back in the 80s. Loaded with family oriented
programming, and other 'approved' viewing choices. Needless to
say my wife and I quickly obtained a VCR, and began watching our
own alternate 'channel'. We've been collecting videos ever
since. We made the switch to DVD in the early 90's, and we
pretty much stick exclusively to DVDs now... Well, time never
stands still, does it? and now I own five blu-ray discs... From
the contents of my collection you might be able to learn
something about me. There are some really good movies in there,
with a few lumps of coal scattered abo |
3.559209 | 2.441106 | 5 | A Good Man Is Hard to Find (short story) From Wikipedia, the
free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search "A Good Man Is
Hard to Find" Author Flannery O'Connor Country United States
Language English Genre(s) Short story, Southern Gothic
Publication type Collection Media type Print Publication date
1955 The story was first published in 1953 in the anthology
The Avon Book of Modern Writing.[1] In 1960, it was collected in
the anthology The House of Fiction, published by Charles
Scribner's Sons. "A Good Man Is Hard To Find," because of its
publication in many anthologies, became the most well known of
O'Connor's works.[2] Plot summary[edit] A man named Bailey
intends to take his family from Georgia to Florida for a summer
vacation, but his mother, (referred to as "the grandmother" in
the story) wants him to drive to Tennessee. She argues that his
children, June Star and John Wesley, have never been to
Tennessee and shows him a news article about an escaped murderer
called The Misfit last seen heading to F |
-0.735185 | -0.349236 | -1 | The Who Outranks and Outplays the What You’ve probably all seen
the fake Morgan Freeman quote about the media turning killers
into famous, household names going viral on Facebook and Twitter
and all the other major social media networks out there. It’s so
famous, it caught the attention of Mashable. The story is mainly
about the wrongful attribution, then followed by a close look
into the original source of the message. The hoax talks abut
the Newtown, Conn., school shooting, saying that in most cases
people know the name of the killer, but have no clue about those
of the victims. Labeling a shooting or another as the one with
the highest death toll or the youngest victims would only make
another psychopath want to top it. It then states the
perpetrators should remain anonymous and forgotten when covering
such news. True enough, but then there would be no cool
nicknames for serial killers and other disturbed individuals, no
sensationalism and we all know that sells. Just as we know that
this opinion, no m |
0.12453 | -2.254484 | -1 | Kerry blasts Iranian election maneuvering May 24, 2013 - 9:35
AM US Mideast TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State
John Kerry harshly criticized Iranian authorities on Friday for
eliminating hundreds of presidential candidates, suggesting that
Tehran is standing in the way of legitimate, representative
democracy. Among those disqualified earlier this week by Iran's
Guardian Council was former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.
The purge was seen as a demoralizing blow to pro-reform groups,
and Kerry declared himself "amazed" by a process under which an
unelected body, accountable to no one, picked candidates "based
solely on who represents the regime's interests, rather than who
might represent some different point of view from the Iranian
people." "That is hardly an election by which most people in
most countries judge free, fair and accessible, accountable
elections," Kerry told reporters in Tel Aviv after two days of
talks with Israeli and Palestinian leaders. "The lack of
transparency make |
-1.115967 | 3.490558 | 71 | Friday, June 08, 2007 Myths of global warming dispelled Eric
Berger over at Sciguy Blog has been beating the AGW drum for a
while now. And while I like and respect Eric, I think he is
wrong. I'll tell you why. First off, I'm going to concede that
the Earth would appear to be warming at a rate of about half a
degree centigrade per decade. Now before all you Al Gore fans
start falling all over yourselves writhing in ecstasy that a
conservative agreed with you, you might want to hear me out.
CO2 increases have historically lagged behind temperature
increases. The reason has always been that most CO2 is
sequestered in the oceans. Solubility of CO2 in water is
inversely proportional to the temperature. The higher the temp,
the lower the solubility. That is why a can of Coke left in the
sun will expand and burst. The CO2 is boiling out of solution
and taking up more space in the can. This is not news, this has
been known for a century or more. Current climatologists insist
that the old paradigm of CO2 lagging |
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-0.941951 | 9.891616 | 15 | Tell me more × Some time images take some time to render in the
browser. I want show a busy image while the actual image is
downloading, and when image is downloaded, the busy image is
removed and actual image is be shown there. How can I do this
with JQuery or any javascript? share|improve this question
Possible duplicate:… – Yahel Jan 8 '11 at 18:23 add comment 4
Answers up vote 22 down vote accepted You can do something
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-3.604165 | 2.026208 | -1 | Five handy tips to beat that hangover by Nov 12, 2011 Frank
Sinatra had perhaps hangover-proofed himself when he said, "I
feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the
morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all
day." Perhaps 'Ol Blue Eyes should've said, "I feel sorry for
people who drink stupidly. When they wake up in the morning,
they are as dumb as the night before. And they feel a lot
worse." It's common to regret the night before and vow to drink
only water, as your head pounds and the sunlight appears way too
bright. The fact is hangovers can wreak havoc on your immune
system and create a toxic internal environment. In a bid to
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handy tips: Hangovers can wreak havoc on your immune system and
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-1.519329 | 2.892505 | -1 | Advances in Paleontology New Ways to Study Ancient Life
Integrating Research and Education > Advances in Paleontology >
Taphonomy Author Profile Taphonomy: The Study of Preservation
"The fossil skeletons that we found were not articulated, which
means that the bones had come apart at some point before the
fossilization process began. Otherwise, we would have found
neatly arranged skeletons instead of jumbles of bones.
Furthermore, there were no marks or breaks showing that the
bones had been cracked or chewed by predators prior to
fossilization. These bits of evidence led me to think that after
their deaths the babies must have lain rotting in the nest,
slowly being denuded of flesh, and then, in the second stage of
decay, their skeletons must have come apart as the connecting
tendons and ligaments disintegrated." Jack Horner Digging
Dinosaurs (p.55) Dispersed bones from a hawk aerie in Idaho.
Details What does preservation mean? Preservation is a very
broad category in paleontology. It is the study of t |
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4.453483 | 2.782532 | 5 | 70th Annual Golden Globe Awards - Show Last night Amy Poehler
and Tiny Fey hosted the Golden Globes for the second year in a
row. Per the charming duo’s usual, they killed it. Press are
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at least since last year, when [they] hosted the show.” The
jokes ranged from poking fun at George Clooney (“Gravity is
nominated for Best Film. It’s the story of how George Clooney
would rather float away into space and die then to spend one
more minute with a woman his own age”) to dissing Hollywood (“We
are hosting the Golden Globes for our second time. Because this
is Hollywood, and if something kind of works, they’ll just keep
doing it until everybody hates it!”). But the closing line held
the most relevance for any techies not glued to their TV sets
last night. Amy Poehler joked, “A lot of nominated shows this
year are actually on Netflix. House of Cards. Orange Is the New
Black. Enjoy it while it lasts, Netflix. Because you’re not
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-0.712539 | 3.470776 | -1 | SCIENCE is looking for your opinion… Science is asking for
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The submission deadline is Friday, November 18, 2011. A
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-0.979269 | 6.798329 | 8 | Patent Policy (Read: RAND) From: Troy Muller
<[email protected]> Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2001 09:47:53 -0700
Message-ID: <[email protected]> To: www-
[email protected] Dear Sir(s), W3C quoted: "W3C
defines the Web as the universe of network-accessible
information. One of W3C's primary goals is to make these
benefits available to all people, whatever their hardware,
software, network infrastructure, native language, culture,
geographical location, or physical or mental ability." This
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2.141918 | 1.475561 | -1 | the brightest flame socially awkward, loves wasting time, her
grandmother, ballet, tea, art, history, books, architecture,
ps5, fanfictions, period dramas, fashion, tv and music 30 days
of “A song of Ice and Fire” Day 1: Favourite location King’s
Landing/The Red Keep “What’s that awful stink?” the northman
complied. Death, thought Jaime, but he said, “Smoke, sweat, and
shit. King’s Landing, in short. If you have a good nose you can
smell the treachery too. You’ve never smelled a city before?” |
4.444545 | -4.485693 | 0 | The Tribune's White Sox beat writer answers reader questions
throughout the season. This week, re-signing Mark Buehrle,
trading for Aaron Rowand and whether it's time to can Ozzie.
The first letter writer in your May 15th column went on a rant
about Reinsdorf being cheap. I don't get it. Mr. Reinsdorf has
brought seven championship banners to the city of Chicago, which
is exactly six more than have been produced by the other major
sports teams in the city over the last four decades. This
perception of Reinsdorf being cheap is not only grossly
inaccurate, but it is also detrimental to the reputation of the
White Sox organization. I'd be thrilled to have the opportunity
to shake Mr. Reinsdorf's hand and thank him for all he has for
the Chicago sports scene. --Larry Bristow, Calvert City, Ky.
I'm sure he'd be grateful for your support and appreciation for
his commitment to the Sox. I'll grant that compared to the rest
of the lineup, Darin Erstad has a better batting average, but
your conclusion was that he's |
-0.011916 | 1.417565 | -1 | AES News The Telefunken Radio Station at Sayville, Long
Island Wireless Station, West Sayville, Long Island, ca. 1911,
from Sayville Library From Lee Apgar: "During the United
State's pre World War I neutrality period, a powerful wireless
station at Sayville, Long Island owned by the Germans, was
suspected of sending coded messages regarding ship departures
from the eastern United States. Apgar's wireless recorder which
could record wireless signals onto wax cylinders and his
ampliphone circuit were the two instruments that would be used
to decipher messages being transmitted by the German station
owned by the Atlantic Communications Company. This was a
subordinate to the Telefunken Corporation, a brokerage business
firm in Germany. The station had to renew its license annually.
In 1914 the U.S. only granted it a temporary license; in case
the station violated the U.S.' neutrality the license could be
revoked quickly. The station was still allowed to transmit, but
U.S. Navy radio officials were brought |
-0.377038 | 9.216181 | 16 | Take the 2-minute tour × I'm trying to write an app for my
Samsung Vibrant (running android 2.1). I used the example "Form
Stuff" app available as tutorial on the android developers
website. I basically added a background picture to the
application. the background picture has some text on it towards
the top. I want to display a list of elements (to be selectable
by teh user) but I want this list to start from a certain
position on the screen (say for example - start from the middle
of the screen). tried reading the listview under dev resource
and searched the forums but I could not find a way to do this.
Could anyone please help me out? or if this is not possible,
then suggest me something else which i can place at a certain
position on the screen. share|improve this question 2 Answers
2 You can use following logic,e.g LinearLayout.LayoutParams
lp=new LinearLayout.LayoutParams(100, 200); etc..... this workd
for me share|improve this answer you can try using
setSelection(position) property available o |
3.834392 | 3.674243 | 35 | Wiki Headlines main index Topical Tropes Other Categories
TV Tropes Org Heartwarming: Marvel vs. Capcom 3 • Magneto's
ending, where he uses Galactus's vessel as a new home for all
the mutants on Earth. It's helped by the music being somewhat
melancholic, as he finally fulfills his lifelong dream. And if
you have doubts, remember: Magneto never was a true villain, but
rather a Well-Intentioned Extremist. • Hsien-Ko's ending.
Hsien-Ko and Mei-Ling go to meet Doctor Strange so that he can
put their mother's soul to rest and return them back to normal
humans. He does so without any reluctance... And then the
dialogue reveals that the ending isn't real, but is a comic book
the sisters drew together to deal with their troubles. Despite
all this, they're still happy with life (Or rather, undeath).
• In Ultimate, they actually meet the the good doctor — who is
concerned about them and wants to help. • Storm's ending. She
has doubt over the humans on Earth that she saved because they
still have discri |
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Edit] Current revision << Back to Team Pages MTT Assay
Protocol 1. Determine cell concentration using hemacytometer
1. Take out cell line 2. Remove specified amount from flask
and transfer to 50 mL centrifuge tube 3. Take 10 microliter
sample and put into eppendorf tube 4. Add 10 microliters of
trypan blue to tube and mix 5. Take 10 microliters and add
to hemacytometer 6. Count number of cells in each 4 x 4
grid, and divide by 4. Multiply by 2 (dilution factor) The
number obtained multiplied by 10^4 is the cell concentration
2. Put cells in each well of the plate at a concentration of
2.5*10^5 mL (50,000 per well) 1. Centrifuge specified amount
of cells in media (3 g 5 min 4 deg C) 2. Decant and Wash
with PBS 3. Centrifuge and resuspend in media without serum
4. Dilute conce |
1.85731 | 5.042884 | 90 | New Rifle Mimics Machine Gun's Rapid Fire - and It's Legal
Discussion in 'Off Topic' started by imhungry4444, Sep 12, 2013.
1. imhungry4444 Well-Known Member shaun00 likes this. 2.
Sapper Well-Known Member I am a gun nut, but this is a
pointless waste of money. I would only spend 6 grand on a
Barret. Or a real fully auto weapon. Oldwardog likes this.
3. CopperHeart Well-Known Member I think the point of the
article is the legality of the purchase. Gnarcore likes
this. 4. Ian2D Active Member Bump fire stocks have been
around for a while. Oldwardog likes this. 5. Sapper Well-
Known Member I know, but this is not a new tech. It has
been around for a while. Six grand for a gun like an AK, that
just has this small mod is insane. But, as America has proven
they will buy it when it comes to guns. 6. Brick Administrator
What will surprise most people is that fully auto is not legal
in the US for the general populous. If you listen to many anti-
gunners, including |
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-0.929766 | 1.207428 | -1 | The Economy's Learning Curve SHIFTS in interest rates and
prices spur officials to pull various economic levers. Their
decisions are felt by everyone, right in the family budget.
Decisions to adjust the United States public school system are
no less important to Americans' economic well being. But the
effects are much less immediate, and officials are much less
confident about which levers to pull, or who should pull them.
A report by the Quality Education for Minorities (QEM) Project
should help change that. It solidifies the link between
improved schooling for poorer, non-white Americans and a
stronger US economy. A third of the nation will be Hispanic,
black, native American, or Asian in 20 years. A third of the
public school enrollment already is. Recommended: Could you
pass a US citizenship test? The QEM study represents two years
of work by a network of educators from all parts of the US. Its
recommends 58 ways of making the public classroom a more
engaging place for minority youngsters. These inc |
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Kaspersky Calls For 'Internet Interpol' 136 Posted by Soulskill
from the we'll-get-right-on-that dept. angry tapir writes "With
cybercrime now the second largest criminal activity in the
world, measures such as the creation of an 'Internet Interpol'
and better cooperation between international law enforcement
agencies are needed if criminals are to be curtailed in the
future, Kaspersky Labs founder and security expert Eugene
Kaspersky has argued. He said, 'We were talking about that 10
years ago and almost nothing has happened. Sooner or later we
will have one. I am also talking about Internet passports and
having an online ID. Some countries are introducing this idea,
so maybe in 15 years we will all have it.'" Kaspersky Calls For
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protection would really benefits from having a more secure
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1.40759 | 2.759073 | 107 | Copywriting Tip: How Too Much Jargon Will Ruin Your Message Web
Copywriting JargonHave you ever had a conversation with an
“expert” in some field? At first, you’re impressed with his
knowledge. Within a minute, you haven’t a clue what he’s talking
about. Within two minutes you’re bored to tears and are looking
for an escape. Language is a funny thing. You can speak in the
same tongue as the person to whom you’re conversing, but never
get your point across because what’s in your head isn’t remotely
what’s in her head. And, this goes far beyond one gender coming
from Mars and another Venus. We all suffer from the same fate
simply because it’s how our minds work. Here’s a simple
experiment you can do with a friend that will illustrate my
point: Think about the U.S. national anthem. Find a couple of
friends, and ask the to tell you what song you’re tapping out
with your fingers. Now, without humming or making a sound, tap
out the Star Spangled Banner with one of your fingers. While
you clearly hear the musi |
0.795599 | 4.248278 | -1 | New SF audiobooks Just in for those who like to listen:
Robopocalypse In the near future, humanity's flirtation with
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Childhood's End The Overlords appeared suddenly over every city,
intellectually, technologically, and militarily superior to
humankind. Benevolent, they made few demands: unify earth,
eliminate poverty, and end war. With little rebellion, humankind
agreed, and a golden age began. But what is the cost? Dr. Who:
The Jade Pyramid Two adventures featuring the 11th Doctor and
Amy. The Jade Pyramid is read by Matt Smith. |
0.932469 | 8.214578 | -1 | Math Coprocessor Interface Evolution From Open Watcom Jump to:
navigation, search Unlike many other aspects of the x86
architecture, the interface between the CPU and FPU has changed
quite significantly since the original Intel 8088/86 (and the
IBM PC). Many of these changes are invisible to software, but
not all. Why the Changes? Unlike the CPU, where today's CPUs
retain near-100% compatibility with the original 8088/86
processors and the differences are obscure, the x87 FPU -
originally called NDP, or Numeric Data Processor - has evolved
in incompatible ways that math libraries, and sometimes even
application software, needs to be aware of. There were two
major driving factors of the changes. The 8087 was developed in
parallel with the IEEE 754 standard for binary floating-point
arithmetic (the IEEE 754 standard was in some ways a product of
Intel's work on the 8087). Several changes were made prior to
the final adoption of the IEEE 754, and the 287 and 387
coprocessors reflected the evolving standar |
2.768474 | 1.930831 | -1 | Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 14:03:22 -0600 From: Sarah Murphy-West
Subject: webcam quickie This is a short story involving a girl
watching another girl masturbate on webcam. Emily Chloe Emily
logged onto the net and started surfing as soon as her parents
went out. The 15 year old had just finished a long, hard day and
was in need of some entertainment. She started searching for
random names, until she found a girl who lived in Canada. This
girl was called Chloe, and she was 16. The two introduced
themselves. Chloe was blonde, with large breasts and a nice
figure. Emily had smaller breasts and long brown hair, again
with a nice body. As they chatted, they began to know more and
more about each other. Then Chloe said that she was going for
some dinner, and that she was logging off. By accident, Chloe
had evidently clicked the webcam button, because suddenly a
large image of Chloe appeared on Emily's screen. Emily enlarged
it further, and then watched in amazement, as Chloe removed her
clothes and then sat back on her |
-0.593329 | 6.783097 | 60 | Who Really Benefits From Netflix's Deal to Pay Comcast?
Customers rely on Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX ) for fast and
convenient video streaming. However, the company's ability to
ensure a smooth customer experience has come under pressure
recently amid slowing streaming speeds. As a result, Netflix
inked a deal with Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA ) on Sunday that will
let Netflix servers directly link with Comcast's broadband
network, thus guaranteeing fast, reliable Netflix service for
Comcast customers. The agreement marks a turning point in the
relationship between content distributors such as Netflix and
Internet suppliers. However, the deal could have far-reaching
implications for Netflix. Let's take a closer look at what it
means for the video streaming giant going forward, and who
really benefits from this deal. Cutting out the middleman With
as many as 33 million paying subscribers today, Netflix has
grown into a streaming powerhouse. In fact, the company now
accounts for roughly one-third of all Internet tra |
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Chapter Nineteen Author's Note: And the second half of the
Martha's World section. Would it be clearer if I just always
put a "Martha's World" or "Seo's World" tag at the beginning of
each chapter, even when we don't switch worlds from one chapter
to another? Or is it pretty clear, already, which world we're
in? EDIT: The verdict is in, and the verdict says to put in
tags in every chapter. So... there we go! (I really love Seo
and the Toclafane.) In Happy Endings, Seo does mention that her
dad gave her 'Don't Destroy The World' lessons. Remember that?
Well, it comes up again! Martha's World: The journey to
banish the |
1.461224 | -0.51211 | -1 | Barguna District From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to:
navigation, search Barguna is a district in South-western
Bangladesh. It is a part of the Barisal Division. It has a total
area of 1831.31 km². It is bordered on the north by the
districts of Jhalkathi, Barisal, Pirojpur and Patuakhali. In the
east, it borders Patuakhali District. On the south, Barguna is
bounded by Patuakhali District, the Bay of Bengal. On the
western side, it borders Pirojpur and Bagerhat districts.
Important rivers of Barguna district include the Payra river,
Bishkhali river and the Baleshwar river. Administration[change
| edit source] Barguna is divided into 5 upazilas: 1. Amtali
Upazila 2. Bamna Upazila 3. Barguna Sadar Upazila 4.
Betagi Upazila 5. Patharghata Upazila There are a total of 38
union parishads (union councils), 238 mouzas and 560 villages in
these five upazilas. Barguna also has four municipalities
containing 44 wards and 49 mahallas. The largest city in the
district is Barguna Town. It has a |
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