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-3.988602 | 2.454208 | -1 | Answer a question Ask a question What if all my baby is
craving is cookies and sweets? and I'm only two months pregnant?
Everytime I'm hungry I get feeling sick but when I think of
anything healthy I could munch on, none of it sounds appealing,
but when I see a box of chips a hoy cookies, that sounds
spectacular? I obviously can't live on this diet for the next
nine months. Anybody have any suggestions? Posted: 04/18/2013
by megzhadley428 Mom Answers Agreed, your body is really
telling you that you need energy, AKA protein. My midwife tells
me craving sweets may be a sign of anemia, so if you have any
other symptoms of anemia, ask your doctor to check your blood so
you can start taking iron supplements if needed. posted
04/23/2013 by lllevin Was this answer helpful? 0 out of 0 found
this helpful When your body is craving sweets you actually need
protein. Your blood sugar level will even out after eating
protein regularly for a while, and the sweets cravings will go
away. posted 04/18/2013 by a BabyCe |
3.055328 | 3.625702 | 23 | Tolkien Gateway High King of the Noldor High King of the
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held by Elf-lords of the Noldor who held rulership over all the
Noldorin realms of Arda, mainly in Beleriand. The overlordship
was mostly titular; the Sons of Fëanor, in particular, while
they acknowledged the Kingship, paid its bearer little heed;
they preferred to follow their own policies under the general
leadership of Maedhros. 1. Finwë (ruled c. 9,000 years of the
First Age before the Years of the Sun) The first lord of the
Tatyar who led his people in the Great March from Cuiviénen into
the West to dwell in Valinor. He was slain by Morgoth at
Formenos,[1] and succeeded by his eldest son. 2. Fëanor (ruled
briefly during First Age 1) He led the host of the Noldor
back to Middle-earth to avenge his father's death and recover
the Silmarils from Morgoth. He was slain in his assault on
Angband.[2] After his death, the Kingship by right belonged to
his eldest son Maedhros, bu |
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their milk, I think that it is an attitude that will soon prove
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10:00 PM Emily Rosewood sighed as she made her way to school.
Great, I just LOVE being the new kid halfway through the school
year, she thought sarcastically to herself. She shoved her way
in to the old, half-decrepit high school and made her way toward
the principle's office, following the signs hanging from the
ceiling. Gym... no... caffeteria... no... Emily was an
extremely curvy sort of girl with a large chest. Her hair was a
mess of black ringlets tumbling down her back. That day she wore
a red long-sleeved tee-shirt and a pair of dark-wash skinny
jeans, and she knew she looked great. The jeans hugged every
curve, but the fabric was stiff enough that it didn't exaggerate
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1.431283 | 5.330631 | 82 | Double Star Systems May Be Hiding a Third Companion Pairs of
stars with separations five hundred times the size of the solar
system could be triplets in disguise. New research indicates
that many of the known wide binaries (double star systems) may
have once contained three stars, and many could still harbor a
third. Bound together by gravity, binary stars make a large
percentage of the universe. While most are close, some pairs can
orbit with separations thousands of times larger than the
distance between the Earth and the sun, known as an astronomical
unit. But the wide spread between the two stars means that they
couldn't have formed in the same cloud of dust and gas, leaving
astronomers to puzzle over how they formed. "This has been a
long-time mystery about these very wide binaries," Bo Reipurth,
of the University of Hawaii at Manoa, told When a binary
becomes a triple Scientists estimate that as many as 10 percent
of stars in the universe are part of wide binaries. Close
examination of many of thes |
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organisms strongly influence the behavior and ecology of
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beneficial, harmful or neutral. Mutualistic relationships are
interactions which invokes both plant and animal are benefiting.
Mutualism is very common in pollination. Antagonistic
interactions are usually harmful Life on the earth is limited
to a very narrow zone called the biosphere. Organisms live
within the biosphere. The part of the biosphere that surrounds
an organism is called its environment.Organisms interact and
form complete relationships within an environment. The study of
the interactions between organisms and their environments is
called ecology. Living organisms interacting with each other and
their nonliving environment make up an ecosys |
2.658892 | 1.39299 | 19 | Something cold and dark stretched itself across the hallway as
Christine waited for the lamps to be lit. It was harder now than
she had anticipated, her gaze drawn to the flame which wavered
as the glass shade was put back in place. Months had past since
she had left; left behind the horror which had haunted her for
so long…yet now, in the warmth and comfort of Raoul's home she
felt lost…more lost than she had ever felt in the winding
backstage passages at the Opera Populaire. She was weak; she
knew this and cursed herself for being so. She had always needed
someone stronger than herself to guide her, to take her father's
place and now it was Raoul that led her from the darkness of her
memories…and out into the light. And he loved her, more than he
did when they were both children, when neither of them knew what
love truly was. She loved him too; the tenderness and
understanding he showed her was unlike any she had ever known.
He never once asked her about what had happened; accepting that
it was something t |
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4.389361 | 2.124556 | -1 | Sing Sing To Broadway -A +A “I'm hoping that there will be
people out there in the audience who are willing to say, ‘I
want to be involved in some way – how can I help?’� added
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women on the inside to come home and be successful on their own.
They need help.� It was a truly historic evening. For the
first time ever, a show was presented on Broadway that was based
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performance outside prison walls for Rehabilitation Through the
Arts (RTA) – the breakthrough theater program at Sing Sing and
five other New York State prisons. Playwright, director, and
actor Brent Buell, who has been a volunteer with RTA for five
years, told what motivated him to do the script. “It was the
repeated cal |
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1.626067 | 0.656921 | 111 | Karma reasons for concrete message Posts: 5834 •
Darwins +349/-4 The place to knock is inside of you. Where else
would a God live? Mount Olympus? Of course, the answer to this
question entirely depends on how you define "god". Most
definitions there have been of god throughout history have been
external to the human body (albeit able to store aspects of
themself within those bodies). Looking inside oneself to find
god seems like an impossibility. Looking deep inside myself, I
will ultimately find.....me. And while I am indeed shockingly
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0.593484 | 10.141825 | 16 | perlquestion Anonymous Monk These days everything has modules.
Mountains of modules. Oceans of modules. I have so many
installed here that i can hardly keep track of them, however
this one infolves a seemingly widely used one, which shall
remain nameless for the time being due to the fact that it has
no bearing on the situation. Runtime error on a perl src
requiring the module. <br> --- Begin auctual error message
---<br> Can't modify subroutine entry in scalar assignment at
D:\Path\to\another\ line 3, near ");"<br> --- End auctual error
message ---<br> Now, line 3 in the program states the
following:<br> our(@ISA, %EXPORT_TAGS, @EXPORT_OK, $AUTOLOAD) =
();<br> Now, is line 3 the problem? or is this a problem
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2.385749 | 1.842966 | 19 | Broken Open I was so glad to be coming home from touring. I
had not seen my family in nearly 3 years and I hadn't been home
in almost 11 years. I left out shortly after high school
graduation for college and majored in music, minored in
business, so I could look after myself and my band in the music
world and not rely on crooked people and it has served us quite
well. I was coming home to stay with my parents for a while
until I decided where I wanted to put down some roots. I'd
already told my band we were taking an extended vacation, they
were free to do whatever for the next year or so, between albums
and a couple of movies I'd been in, I was fried and just wanted
to relax and unwind, not to mention, Edward my brother had
called and told me our school was having a combined reunion next
week for years 10-15, so I was pretty excited, I would be able
to see some people I hadn't seen for years and really who I
thought I'd never see again, but was now curious to see. When
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1.35789 | 5.386801 | 82 | Physics for the 21st Century logo Section 2: Initial Evidence
of Dark Matter Fritz Zwicky, an astronomer at the California
Institute of Technology, stumbled across the gravitational
effects of dark matter in the early 1930s while studying how
galaxies move within the Coma Cluster. The Coma Cluster consists
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the sky—roughly the size of your thumb held at arm's length, and
four times the size of the Sun and the Moon seen from Earth.
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To carry out his observations, Zwicky persuaded Caltech to build
an 18-inch Schmidt telescope that could capture large numbers of
galaxies in a single wide-angle photograph. He used the
instrument to make a survey of all the galaxies in the cluster
and used measuremen |
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0.42644 | 9.586375 | 16 | Take the 2-minute tour × Let's say your team is working on 10
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you handle this? Using subversion, what would be the best
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4.391417 | 3.056424 | 5 | Generally unfavorable reviews - based on 15 Critics Critic
score distribution: 1. Positive: 2 out of 15 2. Negative: 6
out of 15 1. 75 One of the things I like best about
Poolhall Junkies is its lack of grim desperation. 2. 50
For all his skill with a cue, the charisma-challenged Callahan
is no Nia Vardalos in the acting department -- let alone a Paul
Newman or Tom Cruise. 3. 60 Brassy and energetic, first-
time director Mars Callahan's vividly photographed ode to the
seductive allure of professional sharking succeeds in making the
game seem genuinely kinetic and thrilling. 4. Plays out like a
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-1.781042 | -0.843915 | -1 | Thursday, September 27, 2007 John Edwards, Idiot Killing time,
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students in New Hampshire. It's amazing that anyone can get away
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online, and there is a little "feedback" window where the
viewers can offer "real-time" reaction to the "spontaneous"
questions by the students. For the first question, the feedback
box popped up with "What do you think about Senator Edwards
responses to the questions about education?" a full twenty
seconds before anyone asked any questions at all... a bit
scripted, perhaps? Edwards is now going on about his plan for
"College for everyone." Her plan is that everyone in American
should be able to go to four years of college, "paid for by
America" if they agree to work ten hours a week while in
college. Then, She goes on to say that when She was governor of
South Carolina, She tried the program and it |
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-1.222241 | -0.091019 | 48 | Reply to a comment Reply to this comment rjlebeck writes: in
response to Chilibreath: Darn (the other word I can't us), is
there no limit to the self-serving hypocritical of you lefties
when it comes to social issues? At the present tine you don't
have you way with firearms, so now you want a re-write of the
Constitution! Incredible and very telling about the way you guys
think and operate ... I would also add dangerous as well. What
is more practically evident and dangerous is the growing number
of gun deaths (32,000 per year and rising) that correlate with
the ever increasing amount of guns and firepower in our homes
and on our streets. The Second Amendment isn't working out the
way it was intended. The Founding Fathers would have been
shocked at the violence and the fear instilled in our
communities at the hands of unsavory or unstable gun-owners. The
United States has to be compared with countries in states of
civil unrest or war to generate an equivalent social comparison.
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-0.084145 | 2.530501 | -1 | Why Elementary School Counselors "Toward a Blueprint for
Youth: Making Positive Youth Development a National Priority" -
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services) Elementary School
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when students begin to develop their academic self-concept and
their feelings of competence and confidence as learners. They
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2.685174 | 3.870213 | -1 | Bookmark and Share Tuesday, Sep 8, 2009 A closer look at a
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avatars. From Mass Effect From Mass Effect Several surveys
over the past year have pointed out the glaring discrepancy
between the treatment of men and women in video games. Although
most games show men that have bodies that are just as physically
absurd as women, the difference is that women are almost all
sexualized and objectified in video games. This often does not
vary even if I am actually playing as the character myself.
Considering that this a video game, one has to wonder if a
player is relating to their avatar in the game the same way that
they do an NPC. The logic behind having me play as a woman in a
skimpy outfit with large breasts goes back to a fairly simple
discovery in advertising: heterosexual men will pay attention to
you if you have one in your commercial. There are basic rules
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2.888703 | 4.456293 | -1 | Niko Bellic From Grand Theft Wiki Revision as of 05:40, 23
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-1.74334 | -1.192293 | 63 | Hillary Clinton, Green Queen of Wal-Mart? The Times
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thought of it as an "antidote to Republican efforts" to define
her as a liberal...and then they touted where she was one. The
New York Times explored Hillary Clinton's service on the Wal-
Mart Board of Directors in the Sunday newspaper. Reporter
Michael Barbaro employed a typical focus on inoculating liberals
against conservative attack: "Her years on the Wal-Mart board,
from 1986 to 1992, gave her an unusual tutorial in the ways of
American business - a credential that could serve as an antidote
to Republican efforts to portray her as an enemy of free markets
and an advocate for big government." Citing a board of
directors credential is hardly proof you're not an advocate of
big government. Just think of all the major corporations -
including NBC-owning General Electric - that eagerly allied
themselves with the Clinton tax and health plans in 1993. Major
corporations and big government are of |
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bloodthirsty politicking to chronicle the wars of rebellion and
counter-rebellion that end in the death of the emperor and the
rise of the first Japanese shogun. Two rival clans, the Taira
and the Minamoto, clash numerous times over a period of 30
years, with each clan calling on the aid of demons or gods to
gain superiority and power. Did demons and gods play a part in
the brutal wars of competing emperors and the rise of the
Japanese shogunate? Dalkey dramatizes the tantalizing
possibilities of what might have been if they |
4.367808 | -4.468578 | 0 | Cubs News That's all the news that's fit to print.
We're in a bit of lull here until spring training or at least
until the new owner is chosen. Luckily, The reporters found
Hendry yesterday and we have some soundbites and speculation to
dissect. When the Cubs traded Mark DeRosa to Cleveland the same
day they signed free agent Aaron Miles, conventional wisdom
suggested Miles would be DeRosa's replacement. I question this
conventional wisdom...I thought everyone assumed it would be
Fontenot? If Miles gets regular playing time versus righties
over Fontenot, I'm predicting he'll be the new Neifi! whipping
boy. 1. Josh Vitters 2. Jeff Samardzija 3. Andrew
Cashner 4. Dae-Eun Rhee 5. Welington Castillo 6. Kevin
Hart 7. Starlin Castro 8. Ryan Flaherty 9. Jay Jackson
10. Hak-Ju Lee My votes: - Crane Kenney says the
Cubs will increase payroll next year regardless of an ownership
change. ''And when it all works, this is what it looks like,''
he said, referring to back- |
-1.562141 | -0.105412 | -1 | x dallas ( more ) English 77 Set Clip Length: her
accident on securing the worlder, john lewis on excise tax when
it comes to the telephones. so i have a long list, a long career
and history of working with both sides of the aisle because i
believe at the end of the day if we're going to solve the
problems facing this nation, facing the state of nevada -- high
unemployment, high foreclosures, businesses going bankrupt -- if
you're going to solve those problems, republicans and democrats
are going to have to come together to solve those problems. >>
moderator: congressman berkeley, you have a minute. berkeley: i
think it's important we do work together, and on many issues we
co. do. one of the things i recall working across party lines
was for the elimination of the estate tax. i worked with mr.
brady who sits on the ways and means committee with me. that's
also crossing party lines and breaking with my own party to make
sure that we do what i think is right for the american people.
um, b one of the iss |
0.11779 | 1.126243 | -1 | # 2 Settling Hurry Hill Take time to orient yourself. Fry Road
runs north and south. If you face the woods and put Fry Road to
your back, you are facing west. Charles Billings settled the
Hurry Hill area and bought 100 acres of wooded land for $2/acre.
To the south, you can see one of the fields he cleared and a
woods – a maple sugarbush (a large number of maple trees).
Imagine the fields being covered with a huge maple, hemlock, and
beech forest. Imagine the work it took in 1846 for Charles,
armed with axe and saws to clear the land by cutting off the
trees, removing the tree stumps and rocks from the field to make
a farm from a woodlot. The settlement of Franklin Township took
place between 1820 and 1850. Near the Fry Road bridge north of
the creek, there is small mound which housed a sawmill. You can
faintly see the “run” where water flowed around the uphill side
of the mound to power the sawmill. When the fields were cleared
of trees, sawmills were built nearby and subsequently, log
cabins and barns. A b |
-1.746922 | 3.567512 | -1 | Be informed before you pick your water There is something in
the water here at Yale. It is not that intangible essence of
power that makes so many alumni leaders in politics and
business. It is not the spirit of elitism that so many people
think possesses the University and its students. Nor is it
magical love juice that will enable you to hook up at Toad’s.
(That’s grain alcohol.) Instead, it is waste. Before you start
boiling your tap water and taking showers in Evian, let me
clarify: The problem is not with New Haven’s public water, which
has received high quality ratings. Instead, I take issue with
all the bottled water I see students and faculty drinking. Prior
to the 20th century, clean, fresh drinking water was a luxury
available to very few people. Beer and liquor were the beverages
of choice because their alcohol content ensured that the drink
was purified. Today, however, millions of dollars have been
spent to ensure that everyone in America has access to clean,
potable water, and yet I look arou |
0.742718 | 2.780698 | -1 | Thursday, May 04, 2006 ~profgrrrrl~ said... OMG, I love
love love it! Pink Cupcake said... Sounds promising..enjoy
Saturday! :) Anastasia said... i can't wait to hear what the
greek is like in person. i think the run down ancestral home
with squatters sounds infinitely more interesting than a
shipping heir anyway. at least to me. i'm partial to ruined
buildings. USJogger said... Is it just me, or is there
something weird about bragging (complaining?) about your
workaholism in the same post where you are complaining
(bragging?) about not getting your grading done? D.B. said...
Until you mentioned this ancestral home in Greece, I thought
"The Greek" was a fratboy. Dr. Crazy said... Oh, Jogger, but
don't you realize that workaholism isn't only about constantly
working, just as alcoholism isn't about constantly drinking?
It's about the fact that the work (or the drink) is consuming in
a way that is unhealthy? Thus, when I'm not working I can't
fully enjoy what I'm doing because work is still o |
-0.919748 | 2.931771 | 84 | My Puzzles Report bug Collected Puzzles User listed puzzles
Random Puzzle Log In/Out Unit 1: Geography Study Guide J.
Bullock No description Climate The condition of the atmosphere
at a given place and time. Migration The imaginary line that
circles the globe halfway between the north and south poles.
Literacy Rate The land, water, climate, plants, and animals of
an area Limited Government The average number of people living
in a given area. Urban Explains what the symbols on a map
represent Constitutional Monarchy A learned system of shared
beliefs and ways of doing things that guide a person's daily
behavior. Nonrenewable The number of deaths per 1000 in a
country within a year. Free Enterprise The study of the making
buying and selling of goods and services. Longitude A government
in which leaders are held accountable by citizens through their
constitutions and democractic processess Environment Lines of
Geography that run north to south but have degrees of east and
west Map The movement of ideas or be |
4.937596 | 0.796893 | 13 | look up any word, like the eiffel tower: A genre' of music as
well as a 'fashion' and part of an individuals personality. Most
'Indie' people consider themselves the gurus of music and that
their genre' of music is the only one able to be appreciated as
'real' music. Indie's give off a very elitist asshole attitude
which is unbelievably annoying. They claim to only listen to
'underground' music that isn't widely popular or common, which
is contradicted by bands like Radiohead or artists like Adam
Young from Owl City. According to Indie kids, Adam Young is a
sell-out? Basically, if you're an artist who makes money, you
are no longer considered popular amongst Indie kids. Also,
Indie people like to put themselves above the other social
status of 'Emo' although they appear to be insanely similar,
besides attitude. Also, 'Scene' kids seem to differ from Indie.
Basically, you have to be a total douche bag to be an Indie kid
who likes to put themselves above everyone else because they
have a depressing home / |
-0.430456 | 10.292709 | -1 | Take the 2-minute tour × Is there a way to make django-
haystack's {% highlight %} template tag show the full variable
passed in, rather than removing everything before the first
match? I'm using it like this: {% highlight thread.title with
request.GET.q %} share|improve this question add comment 1
Answer i've never used haystack, but from a quick look in the
docs and the source it looks like you can make your own custom
highlighter and tell haystack to use that instead from
haystack.utils import Highlighter from django.utils.html import
strip_tags class MyHighlighter(Highlighter): def
highlight(self, text_block): self.text_block =
strip_tags(text_block) highlight_locations =
self.find_highlightable_words() start_offset, end_offset
= self.find_window(highlight_locations) # this is my
only edit here, but you'll have to experiment
start_offset = 0 return
self.render_html(highlight_locations, start_offset, end_offset)
and then set HAYSTACK_CUSTOM_HIGHL |
0.672585 | 7.162993 | -1 | Tell me more × I have no sound since installing Ubuntu 11.10 on
my Dell Vostro 3400. It looks like the HDMI sound card is found,
but not the card that would make sound come out of my speakers.
This is what appears to be the relevant output from lshw:
*-multimedia UNCLAIMED description: Audio device
product: 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset High Definition Audio
vendor: Intel Corporation physical id: 1b
bus info: pci@0000:00:1b.0 version: 06
width: 64 bits clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress cap_list
configuration: latency=0 resources:
memory:fbe00000-fbe03fff It is funny as the sound "just worked"
with Fedora 13-15, but not with Ubuntu 11.10 out of the box.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. share|improve this
question add comment 1 Answer It seems that your kernel does
not recognise your soundcard Try the following command and
reboot sudo apt-get i |
0.586811 | 8.511863 | 74 | /home partition showing up as swap instead of ext4 view full
story https://bbs.archlinux.org – Hi,I just installed Arch and
tried to use an existing partition (/dev/sda2) as my /home but
now arch is seeing that partition as swap space. I swear I
clicked no during the installation when it was asking me about
setting the format of each partition but it is possible that I
made a mistake. Could someone help me by looking at the
following output from fdisk and fstab?fdisk -l: $ sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes 255 heads, 63
sectors/track, 4865 cylinders, total 78165360 sectors Units =
sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical):
512 bytes (HowTos) |
2.248035 | 1.276835 | -1 | Chapter 22 And when the solemn deep church-bell Entreats the
soul to pray, The midnight phantoms feel the spell, The shadows
sweep away. Down the broad Vale of Tears afar, The spectral
camp is fled; Faith shineth as a morning star, Our ghastly fears
are dead.--LONGFELLOW Mr. Ashford was a connection of Lady
Thorndale's, and it was about a year since the living of
Redclyffe had been presented to him. Mr. and Mrs. Ashford were
of course anxious to learn all they could about their young
squire, on whom the welfare of the parish depended, even more
than in most cases, as the whole was his property. Their
expectations were not raised by Mr. Markham's strenuous
opposition to all their projects, and his constant appeals to
the name of 'Sir Guy'; but, on the other hand, they were pleased
by the strong feeling of affection that all the villagers
manifested for their landlord. The inhabitants of Redclyffe
were a primitive race, almost all related to each other, rough
and ignorant, and with a very strong feudal feel |
-0.995595 | 6.963199 | 8 | FCC Chairman Wants Computer Apps to Function as Net Neutrality
Watchdogs Sure, the FCC got some net neutrality standards in
place, but the majority of people probably wouldn't know if
their bandwidth was artificially throttled. That's why chairman
Julius Genachowski wants computer apps to alert users of any
such funny business. Dubbed the "Open Internet Challenge," the
FCC wants software makers to help fight net neutrality violators
by including code in their apps that would detect all instances
of ISPs gone rogue. Here's what Genachowski had to say,
according to Reuters: I, for one, am all for it. But you'd
think they'd at least include a prize for completing the
challenge, amiright? [Reuters] |
4.124758 | 0.535087 | 31 | Back to the previous page Album: The Odd Future Tape Song:
Odd Toddlers Typed by: OHHLA Webmaster DJ Flash Uhh, yeah, how
you doin the dead{?} Uhh, yeah, uh-huh, yeah Ace, the Creator
motherfuh', look Casey Veggies, uh-huh Odd Future look [Tyler,
the Creator] Hello, the hype is so mellow Bitch I'm dope but my
pipe is so yellow with blue polka dots, pink stripes and it's
pink on the title Nigga fuck your role model bitch, I'm my own
idol and If you can't face it my nigga you can ass it Might
accessorize accessories bring out my assets Nigga this sound on
acid, tablets Stussys G-Shock with my custom pair of 3D glasses
I suffer from ADHD I should win a fucking award for being me
Beat bangin the tom-toms My producer selection is fresh nigga,
fuck Vons Ace the Underdog, thrown them on the back bender cause
I change my outfit more than transsexuals change gender Eatin
Belgian waffles with Italian biscotts I sold my soul to the
devil for thirty percent off And to you emo kids who walk around
pissed off Step 1: |
-1.758082 | 6.562253 | -1 | This article was originally published in The Denver Post on
December 15, 2002 Qwest executives could see their company on
the edge of a sinkhole. They could see it as clearly as chief
executive Joe Nacchio's glare across the conference table. It
was October 2000, and the leaders of the phone-book division
were frantically explaining to Nacchio that they couldn't meet
his lofty new revenue targets. They couldn't do it, the
QwestDex team explained, without crippling their business. And
they couldn't use an accounting maneuver he ordered to boost
immediate revenues - shifting a directory's shipping date from
January 2001 back to December 2000 - without falling short $30
million the next year. On the other side of the room, Nacchio's
face showed strain, annoyance. "Listen, this is your problem,"
he said, elbows planted firmly in his armrests. "Be creative.
I'm looking to you people to see what it takes to get this done.
What can you do to get it done?" A chill went through some of
the QwestDex officials. Th |
-1.937806 | 4.210733 | 61 | Local auto expert shares fuel-saving tips Middle East unrest
has driven up local gas prices. (March 8, 2011 / WRDW-TV) News
12 First at Five / Tuesday, March 8, 2011 AIKEN, S.C.---Gregory
Mallory feels that pain that most Americans feel right now. It's
the pain that comes from rising gas prices. As the prices
continue to climb each day, Mallory feels that his life is
changing too. "I don't know what we're going to do for the
summer," he told News 12 "Guess we're going to cut out vacations
or something like that." The fighting in Libya and the unrest
in the Middle East seem to be the culprits, and the results can
be felt by the average American at the fuel pump. "I think that
our government should do whatever it takes to help ease the
crisis some to help America first, and everything else would
have to come second," said Vernon Summer, owner of United
Automotive & Performance in Aiken. He hopes President Obama will
open up America's oil reserves, but in the meantime, he's
reducing fuel prices through ot |
3.17036 | -4.210105 | 38 | Jaxon Uhles comes from a football family, and his coach calls
him “the ultimate football player.” Uhles and the T-Wolves'
other linebackers face a tough task this week in slowing down
Jenks running back Trey'Vonne Barr'e. By Ryan Aber Published:
November 28, 2012 To say Norman North's Jaxon Uhles comes from
a football family is an understatement. His dad and two uncles
played high school football. One uncle, Ric, played for
Oklahoma's 1985 national championship team. One cousin, Lance,
starred at Norman North and this season helped Emporia State to
a 10-2 season. Another cousin, Zac, was a key to Norman's
offensive line this season and is committed to Tulsa. So the
praise that Timberwolves coach Wade Standley heaps on his senior
linebacker is no surprise. “He's the ultimate football player,”
Standley said. Uhles leads the Timberwolves into the Class 6A
state title game against Jenks at 7:30 p.m. Friday at Boone
Pickens Stadium in Stillwater. Jordan Evans, who committed to
Oklahoma on Tuesday night, |
3.227676 | -2.807789 | -1 | Photos: Intuit uses downtown Seattle street as driving range
Some people had visions of duffers driving golf balls against
the sides of skyscrapers after hearing about Intuit’s plans to
take over a portion of Seattle’s Second Avenue with a temporary
driving range. But the reality was far more tame. The entire
range was fully enclosed in nets, eliminating the possibility of
any broken windows. Still, it was not an everyday sight. To
create the driving range, the company shut down multiple lanes
of Second Avenue, between University and Seneca streets, laid
down a large swath of artificial turf and let amateur golfers
take their hacks at one end, under the supervision of golf pros.
The stunt was a promotion for the Intuit GoPayment service. Golf
pro Jeff Coston charged $3 for a bucket or $5 for a 10-minute
lesson, and accepted payments using the Intuit solution. •
Christopher Budd So this is what that was. I heard about
the closure on KOMO as I was headed into town and was wondering
what was up. |
4.59944 | -3.235238 | 1 | Ben Dewison Ben Dewison Generating profile stats... I am
a 16 year old boy, who is currently studying in year 11. I have
an opinion on most topics, but am most knowledgeable on
football. Aside from school and family, football is my main
passion and any formidable career relating to it would would be
my hypothetical dream. I spend some of my spare time writing
articles, which can be found here: Feel free to contact me
regarding any pressing issues or questions, or just a general
chat. I am always open. Short List • Favorite Athletes
Andres Iniesta, Vincent Kompany, Sami Khedira, Philipp Lahm,
Juan Mata, Lionel Messi, Fernando Llorente, Romelu Lukaku ,
Youssouf Mulumbu, Gerard Pique • Favorite Sports Teams
Barcelona, Borussia Dortmund, Crystal Palace, Real Betis, West
Bromwich Albion • Favorite Coaches Frank de Boer, Steve
Clarke, Edgar Davids, Sir Alex Ferguson, Pep Guardiola, Warren
Joyce, Martin Keown, Jurgen Klopp, Roberto Martinez, Pepe Mel,
Mauricio Pochettino, Arsene We |
-0.3613 | 2.711423 | -1 | Dean of Enrollment Management DATE: 4/3/2013 JOB TITLE:
Dean of Enrollment Management DEPARTMENT: Enrollment
Management Under general supervision, the Dean of Enrollment
Management provides leadership in the development and
coordination of enrollment management activities across the
institution including systems development and analysis,
recruitment programs, undergraduate and graduate admissions,
targeted financial aid, and retention programs as well as
providing direction regarding specific types of marketing and
recruitment materials. Provide administrative leadership for
the offices of Undergraduate and Graduate Admissions, Financial
Aid, Records and Retention; Co-Chair of Student Success
and Retention Committee; Plan, organize and execute a
recruitment and admissions plan, and marketing materials for the
university; Serve as liaison to internal and external
constituencies including faculty, staff, alumni, high school
counselors, prospective students and parents in matters pertaini |
-0.708968 | 2.159156 | -1 | The Ti’an – An exploration of true Darwinian Communism by
Gregory Sperling Introduction — When I was invited to become a
permanent resident of ward 8 in Valafor colony I was initially
somewhat nervous. Though I have dedicated my life to the study
of alien cultures the Ti’an have always seemed to present the
largest challenge of study because of the demands it places on
the observer. To actually participate in their society not as a
tourist but an actual part of their community involves adopting
an almost monastic lifestyle in which one must give up all of
one’s personal possessions. Other alien species have a very
defined and familiar way of looking at property. I admit even
the most worldly human being has a hard time not actually owning
anything. We attach sentimental value onto our stuff, pass it
down through the generations, fight and occasionally die
protecting it. The Ti’an however look at everything they use as
property of the greater group. Their wisdom trends toward the
needs of the many outweighin |
-0.416616 | 1.934713 | -1 | Thursday, November 17, 2011 Pros/Cons Living in Ecuador vs
Canada We are trying to decide whether to stay in Ecuador long
term or return to Canada. Please have a read and email me ANY
thoughts, comments, critiques, ideas etc... Hopefully you'll
have a laugh or two and scratch your heads at the same time :)
Ecuador Positive -Our children in the same school I teach at
-Walk to work -Use of school library/pool/playground/internet
after hours and a seemingly endless supply of avacados! -Year
round spring like climate -Ease of growing food -Can actually
afford a decent house with some land -Semi-rural area, outside
of Quito -Bus to Quito every 15 minutes -Geo diversity/Amazon
and Pacific coast within a 1/2 a days drive -Volcanos to climb
-No need for vehicle at the moment -Fantastic vegan lunch at
school -Reasonable work commitments -Fewer teaching hours than
Canada/more time off -More time for family -Close to
Pasto/grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins -Better/faster health
care 4 kms from house -Cheap/profes |
4.151257 | 3.354545 | 5 | 7 Films that Data Management Would Change Forever Not a movie
buff but still have data management as part of your upcoming
entertainment plans? For a quick-hit slide show of summer data
strategy and MDM films, click here. 3 of 8 Superman III Gus
Gorman, played by Richard Pryor, embezzles money by
electronically skimming from the company´s accounts. Gorman
engages in "penny shaving" - that is, rounding figures down to
the nearest cent and moving the fractions-of-a-cent into a
separate slush fund. Gorman´s acts get the attention of the evil
CEO, who attempts to use Gorman and his computer savvy to
control the world´s coffee and oil supplies while providing
Superman with an unhealthy dose of Kryptonite. But with good
data management ... A little data governance and a few
comprehensive business rules would have prevented the initial
embezzlement (which is also known as "Salami Slicing"),
destroying the plot of this underwhelming movie rather than
Superman´s mojo. |
0.80446 | -0.429877 | -1 | “Unlike the landscape, the people living in the Sahel are
anything but homogenous. In every town is another language,
culture, tradition, a demonstration of vastness of human
complexity… so it goes with the guitar.” The Sahel is the
region in Africa where desert becomes savanna—a scrubby, harsh
blur of land that stretches across the entire continent and
includes parts of Senegal, Mauritania, Mali, Nigeria, and to the
East, areas in Chad and Sudan. Formal political borders are
overwhelmed by the monotonous landscape and, by contrast, the
diverse peoples who live in the Sahel, many of whom are nomadic.
In the Western part, there is a long history of conflict among
the Taureg people, the desert countries’ governments (Mali, in
particular), and severe Islamist regimes. This means a history
of displacement and uncertainty, diasporas created and then
dispersed. In fact, due to a recent outbreak of violence in
Northern Mali, the region’s most famous musical event, the
Festival Au Desert, has been exiled, reconfigur |
-1.130417 | 6.654066 | -1 | How Apple legally avoids billions in corporate taxes each year
Each year Apple -- an many, many other tech companies -- manages
to avoid billions in corporate taxes around the world and across
the U.S. They do this by setting up offices and funneling money
to tax-friendly places like Ireland and Reno, Nevada. Even
though Apple's corporate headquarters is in Cupertino,
California, having offices to collect profits and invest money
in countries and state with little or no corporate tax, they
legally hang on to vast amounts of profit each year. The New
York Times, in another one of their Apple headlined exposés,
points out that Apple's office in Reno, Nevada, only consists of
a handful of employees. Nevada's corporate tax rate is 0%.
California's is 8.33%. You can see where the savings add up
rather quickly. And this office is one of many that Apple has
established across the globe in order to legally cut back on
taxes owed. A treasury economist, Martin A. Sullivan,
estimated that if Apple wouldn't have used |
0.548055 | 10.062969 | 16 | Agile Zone is brought to you in partnership with: Listening to
your tests: An example • submit to reddit I was recently
reading a blog post by Esko Luontola where he talks about the
direct and indirect effects of TDD and one particularly
interesting point he makes is that driving our code with a TDD
approach helps to amplify the problems caused by writing bad
code. This is something Steve Freeman and Nat Pryce talk about
in their book and we recently had an example of this which
really stemmed from a failure to drive this particular piece of
code from the outside in. We'd reached the stage where one
object was taking in 8 different parameters in the constructor
and then only used 2 of them in any one path through the code.
The code was pretty bad but it was even more noticeable how much
of a mess we'd made when we had to write a new test. This is a
rough example of what the test fixture had begun to look like:
public class BadObjectTests private double parameter1 =
0.10; private double parameter |
0.371357 | -0.642171 | -1 | Mandela leads tributes to Adelaide Tambo The former South
African president Nelson Mandela today paid tribute to his
friend and fellow anti-apartheid campaigner Adelaide Tambo, who
died yesterday. Ms Tambo, the widow of the African National
Congress hero Oliver Tambo, died at her home in Johannesburg, an
ANC statement said. She was 77. Like her husband, Ms Tambo -
who was affectionately known as Ma Tambo or Mama Adelaide - was
a lifelong political activist. Mr Mandela, who shared her
birthday, said he mourned the "passing away of a close personal
friend, a comrade and one of the great heroines of our nation".
"She was a mother to the liberation movement in exile, and a
nationally revered figure in our new nation," he said in a
statement released by the Nelson Mandela Foundation. "We pay
tribute to a life dedicated to freedom and service." The
foundation said Mr Mandela was in Mozambique but would return to
Johannesburg to offer his condolences and support to the Tambo
family. As family and friends gath |
0.176421 | 6.51084 | -1 | Could you manage to corral more than 30 different wires
connected to 22 different devices, all on top of one open-sided
IKEA desk? Oh, and you have to lay out your office so the back
of your workspace is the first thing people see. Well one Flickr
member did just that, leaving behind tons of pictures and ideas
for us to use in our own (far less complicated) workspace
setups. Yep. That's 4 monitors, a gaggle of peripheral goodies
and a big ol' tower to wire 'em all up to. For most people, this
would be a cord control nightmare. But not for Flickr member
masuidrive76. He's got the guts to expose the back of his
workspace to the rest of the house! Using a clever combination
of wire wraps, drilled holes and an IKEA-hacked desk mod, he's
turned this cord conundrum into a presentable piece of workspace
inspiration. If you're dealing with your own cable spaghetti
mess, check out these pics (and more in Flickr photo album) for
some great ideas. Our favorites? By attaching a horizontal
shelf to the IKEA MIKAEL de |
2.840636 | 5.604562 | 2 | Shared publicly - PS4 is Sony’s last stand, and it’s wasting
it on a tired strategy that ignores how the gamer is changing -
What do you think? Joey Numbers's profile photoJames D's
profile photoLars M. Hansen's profile photoHumberto Adan Isla's
profile photo Apparently you lot watched a different
presentation than I did. As a gamer, I liked what I just saw;
I'm excited about the 8th generation. RIP OFF, no real time
games that even looked/played NEXTGEN! Anyone can pre render
these days! I want real time tech demos. Also real specs. This
post just proves that +TechCrunch doesn't know jack squat about
gaming. As a gamer, the PS4 looks really promising for the
future of gaming. Gamers focus on a controller a, wicked
graphics, and a good system. Not jumping around a room. Your
core demographic wants to come home at the end of a long day at
work kill something awesome looking. Party games are cool but
your core focus is still dudes/girls on their couch by
themselves or online. Wasn't too exciting to me, |
3.599021 | -3.281985 | -1 | The Hippo Drill to Improve Passing Fundamentals You have to
keep score. As with almost all of our drills, we want to step up
the intensity here by adding a real element of competition. The
reward for winning might be cheering the others as they do
sprints or shuttle runs. But the winning prize I have had the
most success with is which team has to collect the balls after
practice, and they need to collect all the balls in three
minutes or run two sprints before collecting the balance of the
balls. Variations can also be added. For example, if the team
in white pennies loses possession by failing to make a pass in
five seconds, the offensive player rolls the ball out of bounds,
and the coach rolls a ball to a player on the other team at some
other location anywhere on the field. Now we have ground ball
and field recognition scenarios added to the Hippo Drill.
Another variation that can help game situations is that once the
ball is in the box, it always needs to stay in the box, or the
offensive team loses |
0.512231 | 9.273977 | 16 | Subject: Win'95 attributes support To: None <netbsd-
[email protected]> From: Wolfgang Solfrank <> List: netbsd-
announce Date: 11/29/1995 16:13:27 NetBSD-current now has
support for Win'95 long filenames and Win'95 separate
creation/modification/access timestamps. If used, the behaviour
is similar to the way Win'95 handles them. I.e., the names are
written with mixed case, but case is ignored on lookup.
Timestamps are written into previously reserved areas. There
are three possible ways now to mount your DOS filesystem: 1.
"mount -t msdos -o -l /dev/xxx /dir" will force support of
Win'95 long filenames. I.e., files on the filesystem with long
names will be displayed with this long name, and new files will
be written with long names (as if created under Win'95). 2.
"mount -t msdos -o -s /dev/xxx /dir" will not display any long
filenames on files from the filesystem, and will not generate
entries having long names. Note, that contrary to the old
behaviour, this includes a translation from/to DOS-850 code |
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-3.937917 | 4.099253 | 94 | Protocol Online logo How long did you treat DNA with bisulfite?
- (Aug/26/2005 ) I do my experiment by follow this method I
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treatment? 3. glycogen is necessary or not? Thanks for you
help. i treat my DNA overnight for 12-16 hours. there are
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of four hours which means you can effectively complete the
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0.375054 | 7.491091 | -1 | Take the tour × We are using redhat linux ver5.4.I kept
printing job and how to stop it.The job was given from another
remote system.I am unable to stop it. I have given cancel -a 4
times , but it was not stopped.Please guide me.-HARI
share|improve this question Using.. CUPS? How did you attempt to
cancel it? – jordanm Mar 7 at 4:21 add comment 1 Answer RHEL
uses CUPS, you should be able to navigate to localhost:631 (the
control page for local CUPS), go to the Jobs tab and kill it
from there. If it isn't yours, you'll most probably get asked
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2.219426 | 2.510782 | 37 | Saturday, December 20, 2008 Sayings at My House.. Ok here are
a few sayings you might here around my house and generally they
would probably get you a lot of strange looks in public. At my
house however, they are commonplace. 1. "Your in some serious
Kimchi". This one was brought home courtesy of "The Man". Yes we
both know that Kimchi is a Korean food. However around our place
it means you are about to be in some serious shit. Example of
how this would be used is. "LaLa, you better get in bed or you
are gonna be in some serious Kimchi." 2. "Shit the bed" This
means something broke. When my washing machine broke. Yeah it
shit the bed. 3. "Sneriously" Not a proper word ("The Man"
stole it from a work buddy) is a substitute for seriously, but
it sounds cooler. Generally means "what the hell!!!". 4. "I
hate your face!" Not to be taken literally, this usually is a
joke or a substitute for "Sneriously" or "dammit", or a thousand
different things. Ex....the remote broke, and "The Man" was
holding the remote a |
-1.8508 | 2.956213 | 54 | Share This article It started like any other morning, and
then we all learned that we would soon be riding cloned
dinosaurs to work. All it took was a single benevolent
billionaire to pay for the science stuff to get done, and boom —
dinosaurs are no longer extinct. Of course, it was a pipe dream
from the beginning, but these stories of cloning prehistoric
creatures come up from time to time, and most people (reporters
especially) don’t want to tell you how impossible it is. It’s
been years since cloned animals first appeared, so why aren’t we
able to reach back to the Cretaceous yet? Well, this isn’t just
a question of improving our current cloning methods. We lack the
fundamental materials to clone anything from 65 million years
ago. Taking into account the influence of Hollywood, you could
be forgiven for thinking that dinosaur blood is flowing like
rivers in labs all over the world. The fact is, we don’t have
dino DNA. CloningIn the late ’80s and early ’90s there were a
wave of scientists claiming s |
-1.006316 | 2.396221 | -1 | Last updated: December 29, 2014 National Breaking News Couple
won't leave flood threatened home JOHN and Judith Pullinger
have lived on the banks of the Clarence River in Grafton for
more than 30 years and despite flood evacuation warnings, they
have decided to stay put. "I'm sitting looking at the flood,"
Mr Pullinger told AAP on Tuesday. "It hasn't moved much since
this morning - it's running about four inches below the levee
and we've got an hour to go before it's supposed to peak." The
river was expected to peak around midday (AEDT) at 8.1 metres,
the same height as the levee bank, leaving the northern NSW city
bracing for its worst flood on record. When the Pullingers
built their new house last August they constructed the floors
300mm above the levee height. If the waters break the levee,
they will still have a sizeable margin. "This is the biggest
flood I've seen, certainly up higher on the levee than others
have been," Mr Pullinger said. "Out in the middle, the Clarence
is scooting by, hootin |
0.80373 | 5.412924 | -1 | Inquiring Minds All About Light All About Light Main Page |
Classical | Relativistic | Quantum Classical - What is
Light? What is Light? | Wave's Family Members |
Electromagnetic Waves How Do We Create Electromagnetic Waves?
| Description of EM Waves Spectrum of Electromagnetic Waves
| Visible Spectrum When Paul Dirac, the physicist who
predicted the existence of antimatter, was asked what an
electron is, he said: "Electron, hmmm, Here, this is an
electron," and he wrote on the blackboard . "This function ,
this is an electron," Dirac added. I answer the question of
what light is in the same fashion, In a non-quantum world,
light is In a quantum world, light is What do these equations
mean? Please proceed to the next stop on your light tour. back
next last modified 1/5/2001 email Fermilab |
0.408493 | 8.706363 | -1 | user leocharre <p>Born in Mar del Plata, Bs As, Argentina. My
dad was working two jobs- teaching grad physics and chemistry -
and working for Dupont in a third world country when he brought
home a TI86 and then a C64- I don't know how he did it. Maybe
the 14hr+ work days.<br> We lived around- moved to Brasil, then
when I was 10 we moved to Virginia.</p> <p>College in Richmond
VA, Boston MA- pursuing fine arts. Helped teach some graphic
design etc courses at Tufts and the SMFA.</p> <p>Worked doing
websites for myself, friends, art people, musicians.. and then I
realized what I could do with computers had some use.</p>
<p>Today I work in Maryland for a small accouting firm, only.. I
don't do accounting. I do some document archiving and access
control stuff. <p>My dream is to develop an open source
forensics grade document sniffing system. I have some demos
running.. I keep trying to rework a propper one. This is hard..
How do you do ocr on 30 gigs of documents when they keep
changing content, filename, etc ??? |
-1.761153 | 9.043908 | 59 | Comments on a question are often a good indication of whether
the question is well written (a badly written question usually
gets a 'Please include some code/please expand your question'
comment almost immediately). It would be useful (to me at
least!) to see which questions without answers have comments
(and hence are likely to be too vague to bother reading).
share|improve this question I've found that's it's the other way
around sometimes. Interesting questions that require some
clarification before answering have long comment threads. –
JohnP May 12 '11 at 11:06 @JohnP: The maybe the number of
comments would be useful for both of us? – Jackson Pope May 12
'11 at 11:21 I just noticed that I didn't add 'but yes, an
indicator would be useful' :) I'd actually prefer if the
indicator showed the rate of activity rather than just whether
there was activity/no activity. Maybe a color coded icon. or a
number – JohnP May 12 '11 at 11:29 I disagree with this;
comments are and should be incidental, not essential |
4.391798 | 3.692721 | -1 | Did Chris Nolan clean up Bane's mumble mix for The Dark Knight
Rises? A few weeks ago, there was a bat-rumor that Warner Bros.
was freaking out over the public's reaction to Bane's muffled
voice. Getting Chris Nolan to bend to studio will is a pretty
difficult task, but this time it seems the studio has won. Bane
apparently got a voice job. Collider is reporting that all new
soundtracks have been sent out for The Dark Knight Rises IMAX
sneak preview. From their unnamed source: "A friend of mine who
is an IMAX projectionist told me they received a new soundtrack
for the Dark Knight Rises prologue. He said it's now a combo
soundtrack with Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, but the
cool thing about this is that they've cleaned up the dialogue.
They've gone in and lowered the background noise of the plane
and other things, thus making Bane's dialogue clearer and more
understandable. He asked some people after they left the movie
if they could understand Bane and they all said they had no
issue understanding |
0.229746 | 7.033062 | -1 | Welcome! Log in or Register Hama Bluetrek G2 • image 1
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31.12.2008 14:38 Very helpful But overall a good
cheap and cheerful solution. I have owned two of these
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They are a good economy product. Both headsets lasted around a
year to two years. The first just stopped working and the second
fell apart. However for the price they did a fair
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fully charged. Though a number of people have said it is not
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stone,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc,focuses
14290,register_new_user() can't handle WP_Error result from
wp_create_user(),coffee2code,nacin,"register_new_user() in wp-
login.php does not properly handle a WP_Error object, which is
the potential return value from its call to wp_create_user().
wp_create_user() is basically a pass-through to
wp_insert_user(). As a result of [12778], the commit of a patch
that was part of #11644 (the MU-merge ticket), new checks were
added to wp_insert_user() which changed the potential behavior
of the function to return a WP_Error object. register_new_user()
can thus fail with a FATAL error: {{{ Notice: Object of class
WP_Error could not be converted to int in
/Users/scott/Sites/wp30.dev/wp-includes/functions.php on line
3150 Catchable fatal error: Object of class WP_Error could not
be converted to string in /Users/scott/Sites/wp30.dev/wp-
includes/formatting.php on line 2782 }}} Currently it is not |
0.319726 | -0.171472 | 73 | NTSB Identification: NYC06CA118. Accident occurred Wednesday,
May 24, 2006 in Millbrook, NY Probable Cause Approval Date:
10/03/2006 Aircraft: Espinal Velocity Jet 900, registration:
N289AE Injuries: 1 Minor. The pilot/owner/builder departed on
his first solo flight in the homebuilt, jet-powered, Velocity
Jet 900 airplane with no jet airplane experience or training.
After takeoff, the airplane climbed above traffic pattern
altitude at "4 to 5 thousand feet-per-minute" and accelerated
above 200 knots on the downwind leg of the traffic pattern. The
pilot reduced power to flight idle to descend and complete the
traffic pattern for landing. The airplane was "low" on the base
leg of the pattern, the pilot advanced the throttle, the engine
did not accelerate, but continued to run at the flight idle
setting. As the airplane approached the runway, "I got too slow,
lost control, and crashed 100 feet short of the runway."
Examination of the wreckage revealed the fuel tank vent was
clogged with dirt and insect remains |
-2.10981 | 5.737319 | -1 | • Teller Services Q: Are there any fees for teller
transactions? A: The Bank does not charge any special or
additional fees for a teller transaction. Q: How does a
customer transfer funds? A: A customer can transfer funds
by completing the necessary forms, and presenting them to a
teller. For example, for a transfer from savings to checking a
savings withdrawal form and checking deposit ticket would be
completed. A customer may also transfer funds by telephone,
provided the account titles are the same. Q: What is a
night drop? A: A night drop, also known as a night
depository, is a service that allows customers to bring
transactions to the Bank after hours. The transactions are
placed in a special bag, and then dropped into a special drawer.
This night depository area is opened each morning. At that time,
the transactions are verified by two (2) employees, and then
processed. Q: What is MoneyGram®? A: MoneyGram® is a
service that allows customers to wire or send f |
3.894425 | 2.185321 | 5 | Top Three Parties: Glam Garden, Cause Celebs, Brits on a Boat
1. Narciso Rodriguez and Jessica Alba. 2. Santigold and Milla
Jovovich. 3. Kate Moss and Sir Philip Green at the April 2,
2009, opening of Topshop, in New York City. From Glam Garden
What: Nur Khan and Harry Josh’s Spring Fling. Where: The
Gramercy Park Hotel’s private roof deck and garden, New York
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of the Costume Institute’s punch minus the costume factor.
Talking Point: The Met gala. It was an unavoidable topic of
conversation given the guest list.Cause Celebs What: Friday
night’s Manhattan benefit circuit, which included parties for
the Art of Elysium and the Nest Foundation. Where: The Jane and
the Bowery hotels, New York City. Who: Anna Wintour and
daughter Bee Shaffer, Mary-Kate Olsen and boyfriend Nate Lowman,
Ashley Olsen, model Agyness Deyn, Santigold, Milla Jovovich, Joy
Bryant, Eva Mendes, Vogues Stephanie LaCava and Sara Moonves,
photographer Mick Rock, designer Th |
0.23666 | 9.346386 | 16 | Take the 2-minute tour × Looking at the opened UNIX sockets
using lsof -U command shows: haproxy 1205 haproxy 7u
unix 0xc21aac00 0t0 62286604
/var/lib/haproxy/stats.1204.tmp I want to know what is this
stats.1204.tmp refers to ? There is no file with this name in
this location. Except there is a file named stats. srwxr-xr-x 1
root root 0 Oct 17 09:10 stats And checking the file type using
file command show: $ file stats stats: socket Can someone
explain me how this works? share|improve this question That "s"
is not the setuid bit, it's telling you that it's a socket. –
nickgrim Oct 29 '12 at 11:21 @nickgrim: ohh ya..sorry for that.
– pradeepchhetri Oct 29 '12 at 11:26 add comment Your Answer
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-1.868446 | 2.799759 | 54 | Forgot your password? Comment: Speaking of Finntroll (Score 0)
78 by G3ckoG33k (#45647999) Attached to: EU Warns Nokia Not To
Become a Patent Troll Comment: Is it any good to know (Score
1) 97 by G3ckoG33k (#45625363) Attached to: Need Directions?
Might Not Want To Ask a Transit Rider the street names above
your head, on the street level? Or the distances between them?
People may well just like to doze off, ignoring seriously
irrelevant pieces of information. Did these "cognitively active
travelers" also know the telephones of those lived along their
sublime subway line? Is the distance in miles or kilometers even
a useful metric for distance in L.A.? In my mind minutes would
be more useful. If these "cognitively active travelers" had been
travelling these roads by car or bicycle before, yes. Of course
they know them better than those who hadn't. What a flawed
analysis to begin with. Why didn't the compare with people from
Tokya and Ghana to see what their impressions were... These
"cognitively act |
-0.46931 | 0.823147 | 6 | School’s VHS tapes tempt three Operator Michael Young Police
apprehended two juveniles and one adult suspected of breaking
into a Puget Sound area school to take a couple VHS tapes after
Sonitrol Pacific’s audio security system detected them October
24. Monitoring Operator Michael Young received the impact-
activated audio alert from the school around 10:30 p.m. He
heard faint bangs followed by sounds of movement and called
police. When police arrived, they found where someone had
broken into the school and a car in the parking lot with the
engine still warm. However, no intruders were located during a
search of the school. When leaving the school, officers saw the
windows of the car were now fogged up. They detained the person
hiding inside. A police dog was used to track down two more
suspects. Upon being caught, the two admitted to breaking into
the school. All three were taken into custody. The suspects
got inside the school by tearing off fiber board and breaking a
window. Once inside the sch |
1.592072 | 0.375444 | -1 | From A Wiki of Ice and Fire Jump to: navigation, search
Tyrion Lannister, enslaved - by Marc Fishman © Slavery is a
system under which people are treated as property to be bought
and sold, and are forced to work. Though slavery is outlawed in
Westeros, it is widespread throughout many parts of Essos.
Slavery is mentioned in the earlier novels but it is given more
prominence in A Storm of Swords and later becomes a main plot
consideration in A Dance with Dragons. Slavery is abhorred
and strictly forbidden on the Westerosi mainland. It is likely
due to the Faith of the Seven, which was brought by the Andal
Invaders 6,000 years ago, that it is so. The faith is the
dominant religion in the Seven Kingdoms and it forbids the
practice of slavery.[1] The Ironborn also keep thralls and salt
wives. Neither are slaves in the literal sense, but are subject
to forced labor and low status, and are not too far removed from
enslavement. Their children, however, are considered free if
they are drowned to the Drowned |
2.00358 | 8.932297 | -1 | Take the 2-minute tour × I was tooling around over on
stackoverflow and happened upon this question. To summarise,
given the set of digits $\{1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9\}$ and a set of
basic arithmetic (binary) operators $\{+,-,\times,/\}$, what is
the least number of operations you need to construct a given
integer? For example $239 = 8\times6\times5-1$, requires 3
operations. My conjecture is that division doesn't help you.
There is no number that can be constructed using division, that
can't be constructed without division using the same number
operations (or fewer). Can anyone prove or disprove this?
share|improve this question I have a feeling that you do need
division sometimes. For instance, take numbers like
1+9+81+729+...+9^k. These are easy to make with division:
(9*9*9*...*9-1)/8. But I'm not sure how to prove this works;
that is, that at least some of these numbers are "rough" enough
that there's no more efficient way to make them. – Lopsy Feb 10
'12 at 2:48 Lopsy: You can calculate with a computer the |
-1.803086 | -0.658781 | -1 | Comment: I am overwhelmed by how awesome this post is. (See in
situ) In post: Free House I am overwhelmed by how awesome this
post is. I think we could should have a "usefulness rating" on
posts... instead of just up or down-vote... I believe it would
be a much better system to allow me for example rate each post
on it's "usefulness" in the mission statement of the Daily Paul
which is to "restore constitutional government." That would be
an interesting rating to see how people use it and if we can
actually weed out a lot of the "fluff" that is a complete waste
of our time to be paying attention to. When I say "paying" -
It's not a metaphor. You know how you feel about someone who
(some need to remember back when you did) refuses to vote
because they are "all corrupt" and won't even watch a Ron Paul
youtube. This is the same frustration I have when trying to
explain the FUNDAMENTAL importance with respect to being a FREE
American who knows the law. In a truly FREE country you do NOT
have the right to be |
-1.416167 | -1.099089 | 63 | Thursday, July 22, 2010 Another country heard from . . . "The
American people are turned off by all the agitation to violence.
It isn't part of our heritage." -- "Steve of IL." The Sons of
Liberty sack the Boston mansion of the Royal Governor of
Massachusetts. So, my name came up in the comments to this
story. "Steve of IL" wrote: That's it guys. Keep blaming
unions and government for all the problems when in fact both
those institutions have been in retreat for thirty years. I
never understood people so in love with their own ideas that
they lack a basic curiosity about other sources of information
and views. In my opinion, it is the height of ignorance to sit
in front of FOX all day and then listen to Rush Limbaugh or some
other hater/name caller and think one is "educating" ones self.
I have always availed myself of conservative ideas, albeit those
expressed intelligently by scholars who have produced respected,
peer reviewed research. I have as much contempt for sloppy,
inaccurate left wing smear |
-1.466665 | 5.701966 | -1 | Survey Says... SOA Governance is Happening Part of the SOA
Governance @ Work Series Late last year, at an SOA-oriented IT
industry event held in Las Vegas, visitors to the BEA booth were
asked to fill out a short survey on how their respective
companies address SOA governance. While thoroughly
unscientific, this informal survey offered a glimpse into: •
What's happening with SOA Governance out in the real world,
and... • What happens to the already horrible handwriting of
IT people when they are in a city that, by law, requires every
adult human to be within three feet of an alcoholic beverage at
all times. Anyway, let's look at the data. On the road to SOA
Governance Question #1: At what stage is your SOA governance
program? 1. Planning/research: 64% 2. Up and running: 15%
3. Ready in 6 months: 14% 4. No plans for governance: 7% No
real surprises here. More than 90% of the companies represented
in the survey are somewhere along the path the SOA governance.
But what's the deal with th |
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1.929119 | 7.770532 | -1 | Take the tour × I know that the Earth isn't a sphere, not even
an ellipsoid, but for my measurements, its an acceptable
approximation. Assuming I have a coordinate(lat,lon) and a
distance( e.g.: 1000km ), what is the surface area on the earth
with that distance radius? share|improve this question add
comment 2 Answers up vote 1 down vote accepted Just a small
amplification of the answer by Ross Millikan. Use the same
notation as the article he linked to. I take it that your $1000$
km is the surface of the Earth distance from the center $C$ of
your circle to the furthest points $P$ from the center. In the
picture linked to, $C$ is the top of the sphere, and $P$ is any
point on outer edge of the bottom of the cap. Assume that this
surface of the Earth distance is $d$, and that is is $\le$ $1/4$
of the circumference of the Earth (that's not necessary, but it
makes visualization easier). Let the radius of the Earth be $r$.
Then the angle $\theta$ subtended by the arc $CP$ at the centre
of the Earth is give |
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joke ST. PETERSBURG — The convenience store was eerily quiet.
It was only 30 minutes until closing, so Tien Tran suggested to
his boss that they lock up early. Thanh Hoang agreed. Six
minutes later, three men with bandanas covering their faces
walked in, laughing. "This is a robbery," they said. Hoang,
43, was standing by the front door of Joy Food Mart in Gulfport.
He told them to stop joking. That's when one of the masked men
shot him. Hoang's three boys — ages 8, 10 and 11 — were behind
the counter with Tran. As their injured father fell, they didn't
speak. They just stood in stunned silence as the robbers turned
their attention to the cash drawer. As Tran frantically scooped
the money out of the register, all he could think about was
protecting the boys, the ones who referred to him affectionately
as uncle. Tran handed over all the cash, he said. They shot him
anyway. The 25-year-old clerk recalled the brazen Dec. 22
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-3.986908 | 1.467933 | 21 | Log In / Join Now Ask Dr. Vinny Dear Dr. Vinny, When
decanting wine, other than stopping before the sediment runs in,
are there other rules of thumb? Specifically, should the wine
run slowly down the side of the decanter to maximize air
exposure, or is it better to let it just splash to the bottom?
—Fred C., Vancouver Dear Fred, If you're decanting an aged
wine in order to remove sediment from it, you should handle the
wine very gently, and pour slowly. Depending on the shape of the
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1.307888 | 9.208367 | -1 | Take the 2-minute tour × This is going to be a long story, but
maybe some of you would like to study this case. I am working
on parallel graph algorithm development. I've chosen a cutting-
edge, HPC parallel graph data structure named STINGER. STINGER's
mission statement reads: "STINGER should provide a common
abstract data structure such that the large graph community can
quickly leverage each others' research developments.
[...] Algorithms written for STINGER can easily be
translated/ported between multiple languages and frameworks
[...] It is recognized that no single data structure is optimal
for every graph algorithm. The objective of STINGER is to
configure a sensible data structure that can run most algorithms
well. There should be no significant performance reduction for
using STINGER when compared with another general data structure
across a broad set of typical graph algorithms." STINGER is
probably rather efficient and suitable for shared-memory
parallelism. On the other hand, it is not very abs |
4.233993 | -4.209321 | 0 | View Full Version : What Are Advanced Scouts? 06-08-2008, 07:32
PM What are advanced scouts? What are their responsibilities?
Do the Reds have very good advanced scouts? Who uses the
advanced scouts information? Who makes the decisions on what to
use from the information from advanced scouts? Who calles the
pitches for the Reds, are they good at it? 06-08-2008, 08:09 PM
The term is actually "Advance Scouts," and they, very simply,
scout out in advance the teams you will play in the near future
for the purposes of developing a strategy. They are
distinguished from "Talent Scouts" or "Minor League Scouts" who
prepare reports on players to possibly acquire. 06-08-2008,
09:19 PM Are advance scouts kind of fading away? I mean they
were important say 10+ years ago when the video fotage of every
game wasn't available. Now every team will have access to every
opponent's video. They will have access to pretty much an entier
season worth of games. It seems to me that the days of advance
scouts traveling to each |
5.205221 | 0.827757 | 13 | Portal 2 Will Feature New Jonathan Coulton Song Jonathan
Coulton had been writing geek-hip songs before Portal, but his
pop number during the end credits vaulted him into a nerd icon.
Today the songwriter confirmed that he will be contributing a
new song to Portal 2. "If this plane goes down, the Portal 2
song goes with it," he tweeted. "It is in my pocket." nope We
can count on more of his signature wit, but the song won't
recycle jokes from the first game. Valve writer Erik Wolpaw
mentioned last year that he's sick of Portal memes and has no
desire to revive them. That means no cake jokes, but maybe
Coulton will surprise us with daring new material on pie. |
0.720678 | -0.931504 | -1 | Skip to main content About your Search KRON (MyNetworkTV) 3 (
more ) English 111 Search Results 0 to 49 of about 111 (some
duplicates have been removed) . >> richard ruth was interviewed
about his book "in buddha's company" at the u.s. naval academy.
this is part of book tv's college series and it's a little under
15 minutes. >> host: book tvs on location at the u.s. naval
academy in a aanapolis. professor ruth, what do you teach? >>
guest: i teach southeast asian history. i concentrate on tie lan
and vietnam. >> host: why is it important for students to know
southeast asian history. >> guest: united states is still very
much engaged in that corner of the worldment we have many alis
and partners we're working with, and many students, midshipman,
are going to be officers who are going to go to southeast asia
and represent our interests there. so i think it's important for
them to know southeast asian history to be comfortable with the
culture and have some knowledge of their history. >> host: well,
professor |
-1.54645 | 2.764989 | 54 | Status: Rare (Polyodon spathula) Paddlefish are one of the
largest, native freshwater fishes in North America, attaining
lengths of more than six feet (1.8 m) and weights of more than
100 pounds (45.5 kg). In South Dakota, a paddlefish weighing
more than 140 pounds (63.6 kg) was caught and released by South
Dakota Game, Fish and Parks fisheries research biologists.
Paddlefish (also called spoonbill) are an ancient creature
getting their name from the paddle-shaped rostrum or bill, that
is often up to one-third their entire body length. Paddlefish
have a large, toothless mouth on the underside of their head and
skin without scales, except for a patch near the tail fin. The
tail is deeply forked with the upper lobe longer than the lower.
Their skeleton is mostly cartilage, with the most bone-like
material found in the head. Adult paddlefish have extremely
small eyes in proportion to their body size. Paddlefish color
varies from bluish-gray to almost black on their dorsal surface
to white on their ventral s |
1.772767 | 6.741234 | -1 | Physics Questions To see the questions click on the category
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Questions High School Physics Questions Problem # 1 Do
heavier objects fall more slowly than lighter objects? See
solution Problem # 2 Why do objects float in liquids denser
than themselves? See solution Problem # 3 A particle is
moving around in a circle and its position is given in polar
coordinates as x = Rcosθ, and y = Rsinθ, where R is the radius
of the circle, and θ is in radians. From these equations derive
the equation for centripetal acceleration. See solution
Problem # 4 How come in free fall you feel weightless even
though gravity is pulling down on you? (ignore air resistance
when answering this question). See solution Problem # 5 What
is the difference between centripetal acceleration and
centrifugal force? See solution Problem # 6 What is the
difference between energy and power? See solution Pro |
-0.705342 | 7.102712 | 8 | John Drescher drescherjm at gmail.com Sun Sep 9 05:43:20 UTC
2007 > Myth was promoted from day 1 as being a "free" solution,
and many of us > actively contributed to support it for that
reason. Now some myth devs want > to take our contributions and
make it a for-profit venture that benefits > only a few, There
is no profit with SD at all. The goal is to be financially
stable enough to reduce the price to less than $2 per month on a
yearly subscription. > ban any discussions that might lead to
it again being a "free > solution" The ban is on discussing
piracy and other knowingly illegal activities. I am not sure
about how many net cops are out there but I surely would avoid
discussing illegal activity with any email account I own
especially on a list that has permanent archives. > and saying
"If you don't like the product [now that it's not > free], DON'T
USE IT." You miss the whole point of the FOSS movement. It's >
about a mutual commitment. We all make a pledge to contribute
to keep it > free, and |
5.1881 | 0.739548 | 13 | platters (2007-09) We Got It All Neil Young fetishes, simple
garage rock, mall emo, industrial mythology, metalcore shtick,
and the potential of sound More so than Dolorean's previous
efforts (2003's Not Exotic and 2005's Violence in the Snowy
Fields ), You Can't Win sounds like the realization of a full
band coming together, rather than a somewhat glorified solo
project. Al James is still in control, but his cohorts make
their presence felt, especially new guitarist Emil Amos
(borrowed from the band Grails), who provides a looser, somewhat
flashier complement to James' acoustic strumming.
Stylistically, James' songs still dwell in a melancholy
landscape reminiscent of the darker corners of R.E.M.'s
Automatic For the People , with drifting piano and organ,
ghostly harmonies, and complex, reflective lyrics. The opening
track, "You Can't Win," sets the tone beautifully, as an ominous
percussive lead-in gives way to church-worthy keyboards and
James' somehow uplifting repetition of the song and album's defe |
1.106038 | 6.26063 | 14 | Animation, Computer Animation, Character Design 1st year
animation from NFTS • 1min, DV PAL, 2008, Sketch voice
artist: Scott Handy editor: Michael Aaglund
scriptwriter: Jeremie Dubois 3d modelling: Kassiani Koufaki
Produced at the NFTS This was made for a workshop, where we
got two characters, and had to direct a film where the story
leads to a hug between them. it was made in a month with
altogether There was a soundtrack intended to be for this
film, which was never made actually, so what you hear is some
sounds recorded by a sounddesigner and edited by my editor |
-4.561597 | 1.730559 | 34 | Bacon Candy Everyone knows that Bacon is Meat Candy™, but how
about candy that tastes like bacon? Or candy that looks like
bacon? These bacon candies are sure to delight any bacon fan and
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