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4.37042 | -4.512108 | 0 | The three-day General Managers Meetings have kicked off in
Orlando, Fla. And while this may only be a warmup to the
grander, more-eventful Winter Meetings that are still a month
away, it's nonetheless an important avenue for face-to-face
dialogue among teams and, naturally, an environment that tends
to foster some juicy Hot Stove gossip. Jerry Dipoto and crew
enter the GM Meetings hopeful of re-signing Jason Vargas,
determined to acquire cost-controlled starting pitching, mindful
of potential buy-low options -- they've already signed Chris
Volstad and agreed to a deal with Wade LeBlanc -- and cognizant
of holes in their bullpen and third base. This seems like a
good time to answer some questions … Have a question about the
Angels? First Name, Last Initial: Email Address: Why are the
Angels interested in trading Mark Trumbo when he is the first
baseman of the future? Can we realistically expect Albert Pujols
to be at first base for the next eight years? -- Paul T.,
Saskatchewan, Canada It's a legitimat |
1.026243 | 3.548123 | -1 | William Gibson Long Fiction Analysis William Gibson had little
knowledge of or interest in science when he began writing
science fiction, but he was keenly interested in the
counterculture (including protests against the Vietnam War) that
opposed dominant trends in American politics. Significantly, he
also was interested in the potential impact of new
communications technologies on its associated subcultures. He
not only recognized the possibilities but also relished the
thought that the rapid development of information networks
facilitated by computer technology would become a metaphorical
frontier. He believed that within this frontier’s shifting
margins, nonconformists could flourish and then carry forward a
subversive crusade against the would-be monopolists of the
military-industrial complex and its political puppets. In
actual space—most of which has decayed into a postindustrial
wasteland—such nonconformists are permanently on the run, and
there is no hope for them to live a rewarding life, even if t |
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DiBona Keep It Simple, Stupid Re: Avoiding silly programming
mistakes by Mutant (Priest) on Aug 20, 2008 at 18:10 UTC
( #705575=note: print w/ replies, xml ) Need Help?? in reply to
Avoiding silly programming mistakes Lots of good advice
already, but I had a couple of things to add. First, it's likely
programming will always allow you to make stupid errors
relatively easily. Programmers design and build systems so that
other people (or computers) won't be able to make stupid
mistakes. In order to do that, a language has to give us lots of
flexibilty, which equates to lots of rope to hang ourselves.
It's just part of the job. Secondly, I find Eclipse with EPIC
really useful (there are other tools that give you similar
functionality. That's just what I use). A lot of stupid errors
are detected right away. Maybe not *everything*, but small
errors like typos are highlighted as you type, so you don't have
to run anything to find your compilation p |
0.540413 | 6.4931 | -1 | DVE Officially Launches Holographic Immersive Podium Previewed
at Infocomm Irvine, California. Digital Video Enterprises, Inc.
(DVE) expands it's award winning product line with the official
launch of the DVE Immersive Podium. Unlike traditional
videoconferencing / Telepresence, the DVE Immersive Podium
creates the jaw-dropping effect of a conferenced person actually
standing at a podium. The borders of the TV screen disappear and
people appear to stand holographically in the middle of the
room. The podium was briefly unveiled to packed audiences at
Infocomm 2010. DVE demonstrated live HD holographic telepresence
images of people transmitted live from Irvine California and
combined with 3-D animation. What is Augmented Reality? DVE has
patented an effect known as "Augmented Reality" when used for
videoconferencing / telepresence. To compare, "virtual reality"
pushes people into an unrealistic virtual world while DVE's
"augmented reality" brings ultra-realistic images from a virtual
world into the real wor |
1.069899 | -1.669002 | 97 | calendar>>February 19. 2014 Juche 103 Chinese Delegation Pays
Homage to Kim Il Sung, Kim Jong Il Pyongyang, February 19 (KCNA)
-- The delegation of the Chinese Foreign Ministry led by its
Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs Liu Zhenmin Wednesday visited
the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun. The delegation paid high
tribute to the statues of President Kim Il Sung and leader Kim
Jong Il who made immortal contributions to the cause of global
independence and the development of the DPRK-China friendly
relations. At the halls where they lie in state, the delegation
made a bow to them. The delegation went round the halls where
the orders they received are on display and the halls which
house cars, electric car, boat and train coaches they used for
field guidance and foreign trips till the last moments of their
lives. The head of the delegation made entry in the visitor's
book that he remembers with profound respect President Kim Il
Sung and General Secretary Kim Jong Il. |
-1.92024 | 6.361037 | -1 | Report Abuse Report this review to the Review Centre Team
Why are you reporting this review? “Worst customer service
experience ever” Written on: 05/07/2013 by CT33 It was easy
enough to purchase and pay for the tickets - over priced but
understood as its a market place. However when I received the
Rolling stones tickets for the wrong date I imediately followed
there procedures (email and call) and was assured it would be
corrected and I would be updated reguarly. This was on Monday.
It is now Friday, one day before the concert (that cost £353 for
2 tickets) and I dont have tickets or any update. I have sent
feedback / query via the website (promising a 12 hour
response)... 24 hours later nothing. I have sent several more
demanding a full refund. I am currently trying to speak to a
human (not that it has helped over this week) and I have been on
hold for 25 minutes. Unacceptable custome service - zero
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-2.966441 | 1.182601 | 27 | Inmates puffing for profit? Local sheriffs say don't expect
e-cigs here Posted at: 01/24/2014 5:00 PM Updated at:
01/24/2014 5:47 PM By: Mark Mulholland QUEENSBURY - It's
expensive to run a jail. It's typically the costliest part of a
county sheriff's budget. So any time something new comes along
to offset those costs, sheriffs are all ears. County sheriffs
in the South and Midwest have reportedly found a jail money
maker: electronic cigarettes. They buy them for less than three
dollars and sell them to inmates for about 10 dollars. But
local sheriffs say that mark-up wouldn't be allowed in New York
where the law says inmates are supposed to get items at a
reasonable cost. Sheriffs where the cigarettes are being sold
say they also help control the behavior of the inmates, by
calming them down. Warren County Sheriff Bud York doesn't
believe that inmates need rewards to behave. "Don't give them
privileges to make them behave themselves. Make them abide by
the rules," he said. York says the electronic |
0.701917 | 0.015049 | -1 | Saturday, 15 June 2013 The Republic is dead, Excommunicate An
Taoiseach Enda Kenny Enda Kenny has officially introduced the
thin edge of the wedge into Ireland that will inevitably lead
the way to greater abortion and the industrialization thereof.
Followed immediately by Gay Marriage, euthanasia, embryonic stem
cell research and the death of the nation. He has betrayed the
people of Ireland and our uncounted progeny to come by
sacrificing them upon the altars of the false gods of
secularism, convenience, modernism and liberalism. I curse his
name and swear enmity to him and those who he calls friends.
The Republic is dead, is constitution torn, its proclamation
dust upon the air, its heroes and martyrs dead in vain and
slavery, degradation, and a final destruction of our identity
and culture is to be our inheritence and that of our children.
Those children who survive the vetting process of the modern
world and/or the world of commercial genetics in designer
babies. (Its already coming in other countries, |
-0.05617 | 10.151443 | 16 | Comments on RDFa Core 1.1 (CURIE only) From: Gavin Carothers
<[email protected]> Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 10:50:35 -0800
Message-ID: <CAPqY83yQmxZOW8AozCLHhLzFN5S+C2jLVeOLP+V1XJPWxFQ5Hg
@mail.gmail.com> I'm not sure if this should go to the RDFa WG
as a personal comment, or as part of the RDF WG's feed back.
Alignment with SPARQL and Turtle Both Turtle and SPARQL provide
a mechanism for writing shortened IRIs. The stated design goals
of CURIEs are: CURIEs are designed from the ground up to be
used in attribute values. QNames are designed for unambiguously
naming elements and CURIEs expand to IRIs, and any IRI can
be represented by such an expansion. QNames are treated as value
pairs, but even if those pairs are combined into a string, only
a subset of IRIs can be represented. CURIEs can be used in
non-XML grammars, and can even be used in XML languages that do
not support XML Namespaces. QNames are limited to XML Namespace-
aware XML Applications. These exact same goals are met in
Turtle and |
0.686888 | 4.10445 | 29 | PUMA Creative Factory in Ukraine: Meet with Liliya Pidkopayeva!
What kind of street fashion shoes can be designed by Olympic
Champion? Absolute Olympic Champion Liliya Pidkopayeva knows the
answer. Victory is the name of the Basket shoes, designed by
Liliya. Looking at the gold of these sneakers get inspired for
your future victories! Start your glorious carrier as a designer
with the PUMA Creative Factory and your "only 2 are alike" First
Rounds or Buskets! You can also create your own sneakers at the
PUMA Store in the Caravan mall, Kyiv. |
-0.12307 | 9.195297 | 16 | Take the 2-minute tour × First post and first iPhone app in the
making here, so please excuse the any n00b mistakes. I'm having
trouble activating the alarm. I have a Datepicker and a button
as the crux of the code. Here's the .h file @interface Alarm :
UIViewController @property (retain, nonatomic) NSDate *alarm;
@property (retain, nonatomic) IBOutlet UIButton *sleepButton;
@property (retain, nonatomic) NSTimer *timer; @property (retain,
nonatomic) IBOutlet UIDatePicker *timePicker; -
(IBAction)startAlarm:(id)sender; - (void)checkAlarm; And here
is the .m file. - (IBAction)startAlarm:(id)sender
self.alarm = [self.timePicker date]; self.timer = [NSTimer
scheduledTimerWithTimeInterval:(1.0) target:self
selector:@selector(checkAlarm) userInfo:nil repeats:YES]; -
(void)checkAlarm // alarm is reached if ([NSDate date]
== self.alarm) // rest of code goes here I also have
no idea how to make sound and make it repeat itself, so if I can
get some guidance on how to do that, that would b |
0.461939 | 7.510134 | -1 | 3M's USB 3.0 Monitor Wastes Two Ports While Saving EnergyS This
18.5-inch screen doesn't exactly look exciting with its 1366 x
768 resolution, but it has a secret: It draws about half the
power of a standard monitor and it does it through two USB 3.0
ports. The reason the monitor requires two USB 3.0 ports is
that "a single USB 3.0 port can only deliver 7W" and the display
requires 8W. That slight annoyance aside, it's actually rather
nice to see an eco-frindly USB-powered monitor. [Pocket Lint via
CrunchGear] |
-1.787394 | -0.809301 | -1 | Reply to a comment Reply to this comment black1914 writes: in
response to hectorspector: I don't think so amigo. Watch, mi
hombre! Why support a party that openly tries to strip Hispanics
and Blacks of the few rights they have? Healthcare is wrong,
why? Because the Republicans said so. Obama has failed the
economy, why? Because the Republicans said so. Why was raising
the debt ceiling a problem for Obama when Reagan and the Bush
administrations raised them several times. Stop drinking the
Kool-aid. Hispanics are the new blacks. Being blamed for all the
country's ills. Get used to it. If anything, Blacks and
Hispanics should vote independent. |
2.908375 | 4.557428 | -1 | Are you one of these group-play headaches? Multiplayer Monsters
• Boards • Print Author Image The letter T!wo things led to
today's topic. First, my recent adventures on Magic Online have
led me to a wider pool than ever of players and playing styles.
Second, Brian David-Marshall asked me to describe an annoying
multiplayer Magic personality for his April 1st column last
week. The two factors converged when I was halfway through a
two-page diatribe to Brian about all the things that were
getting on my nerves about certain players – and I realized I've
been derelict in my duty with the Serious Fun column. Yes, the
primary purpose of this column is to explore alternative
(generally non-sanctioned) formats for playing Magic. And yes, I
like stressing the positive and creative things you can do for
fun; that's where the emphasis should be from week to week. But
part of having "serious fun" is getting the dorks to stop being,
well, so dorky. And we're all dorks. Thus, this week's column.
I'm going to co |
-0.567017 | 0.359002 | 6 | Wednesday 11 December 2013 Officers guilty over Katrina deaths
Demonstrators react as they receive word that five officers were
convicted over the deadly shootings in New Orlean after
Hurricane Katrina (AP) A US jury has convicted five current or
former police officers in deadly shootings on a New Orleans
bridge after Hurricane Katrina, a high-profile victory for the
Justice Department in its push to clean up the city's troubled
police department. The case was a high-stakes test of the
effort to rid the police department of corruption and brutality.
A total of 20 current or former New Orleans police officers were
charged last year in a series of federal probes. Most of the
cases centre on actions during the aftermath of the August 29,
2005, storm, which plunged the flooded city into a state of
lawlessness and desperation. Shaun Clarke, a defence attorney
and former federal prosecutor who moved from New Orleans to
Houston after Katrina, said the verdicts are "critically
important" to the Justice Depart |
3.184982 | 5.075005 | 2 | VERSION 1.1011 11 October, 1999 *11 Days to Go!* Updates
available at Best viewed at 800x600 in Notepad with Word Wrap on
1. Introduction 1.1 What's New? 1.2 What have you done
before? 1.4 Versions 1.5 Disclaimer/Copyright 1.6
Contact Information 1.7 Contributors 2. Game Information
2.1 What is Grand Theft Auto 2? 2.2 What type of game is
GTA2? 2.3 What systems will GTA2 be available on? 2.4 Who
are DMA Design? 2.5 Who are Rockstar Games? 2.6 Who are
Take 2 Games? 2.7 Who are Gathering of Developers? 2.8
What are the minimum requirements? 2.9 Which 3D accelerators
are supported? 2.10 I don't have a 3D card. Is there a
software mode? 2.11 What other peripherals are supported?
2.12 What's so special about the new game engine? 2.13 Will I
be able to play multiplayer? 3. Gameplay 3.1 What is the
general story behind GTA2? 3.2 What are the names of the
seven gangs? 3.3 How many vehicles will there be? 3.4 Will
the police return? 3.5 Wh |
2.93726 | 3.687331 | -1 | Master Seiko Higa Master Seiko Higa In My Memories by Saburo
Higa Translated by Sanzinsoo Remarks: The original Japanese
title "Omoide No Higa Seiko Sensei" written by Mr. Saburo Higa,
an acupuncturist. This article appeared in the book, "Karate
Denshinroku" (= True History of Karate) by Akio Kinjo, as a
supplementary article. Pages 326-331 (Okinawa Tosho Center,
1999) I joined Itoman Dojo, a karate academy of Master Seiko
Higa, in October 1952. At that time, the Dojo was located in
front of Itoman Elementary School and faced a bus road. At the
corner of the Dojo, there was a carpenter’s workshop. I met with
Mr. Akio Kinjo for the first time in November 1955 when he was
waiting for Master Seiko Higa at the Dojo. He was a student of
Ryukyu University and devoted himself to practicing karate.
Although in the chaotic times after World War Two in Okinawa,
there were a lot of excellent students in Itoman Dojo such as
Juei Tamaki, Seikichi Toguchi, Seiko Kina, Soko Yamakawa and
Choshin Ishimine who was a promi |
-0.850667 | -0.669908 | 28 | Cancer of bent and twisted journalism What communications took
place between Andy Coulson's office when he was editor of the
News of the World and Conservative party HQ or Tory politicians,
and was any hacked material communicated to the party? As most
of the Labour cabinet at the time appears to have been hacked,
could this be another Watergate – perhaps Wapping-gate? Martin
Quinn Tavistock, Devon The Italian government is widely
perceived to be corrupt because much of the media is controlled
by its prime minister. In Britain governments go in fear of a
media mogul who manipulates them and influences their policies.
The difference between Cameron and Berlusconi? At least
Berlusconi pulls his own strings. Denis O'Connor Otley, West
Yorkshire Whether or not certain individuals are found to have
known about the disgraceful practices of those working under
them, many in decisive positions in the media encourage this
type of action by insisting on news as equating with voyeuristic
salaciousness and treatin |
0.951798 | 1.9822 | 40 | Forgot your password? Resources for students & teachers
“But this educability of the higher mammals and birds is, after
all, quite limited. Conservatism still continues in fashion.
One generation is much like another. It would be easy for foxes
to learn to climb trees, and many a fox might have saved his
life by so doing; yet quick-witted as he is, this obvious device
has never occurred to him.” The vital problem with parents is
how to fill this period of plasticity, how to provide an
educative environment of the right kind. Luther Burbank, in
“The Training of the Human Plant,” expresses complete confidence
in the power of the environment through appropriate training to
fashion the normal child, just as he could a plant, into a most
delightful and beautiful specimen of its kind. He says: “Pick
out any trait you want in your child, granted that he is a
normal child, be it honesty, fairness, purity, lovableness,
industry, thrift, what not. By surrounding this child with
sunshine from the sky and yo |
4.694815 | -3.208737 | 1 | shortcuts badge Can money buy success? Never mind fossil-fuel
oligarchs or US food magnates. The big money has finally arrived
in English football. And it's arrived, oddly enough, at
Manchester City. On Monday the club announced it had been bought
by a United Arab Emirates consortium fronted by Sulaiman al-
Fahim, friend of Leonardo DiCaprio and a man who is apparently
10 times richer than Roman Abramovich. Afroth with ambition,
the new owners have already promised to win the Premier League,
the Champions League and probably the Glenrothes by-election
too. City, without a major trophy since 1976, now appear poised
on the verge of unceasing global domination. Can this really be
right? History suggests it might be. This is football, where
the rule that you don't solve a problem by throwing money at it
simply doesn't apply. This hasn't always been the case.
Famously, Celtic became European champions in 1967 with a team
of players all born within 30 miles of Glasgow. In the years
since, the professional game |
1.852633 | 0.076186 | -1 | Smriti : definition of Smriti and synonyms of Smriti (English)
definition - Smriti definition of Wikipedia Advertizing ▼
Smriti (Sanskritस्मृति, SmṛtiIPA: [s̪mr̩.t̪i] ?) literally "that
which is remembered," refers to a specific body of Hindu
religious scripture, and is a codified component of Hindu
customary law. Smṛti also denotes non-Śruti texts[1] and is
generally seen as secondary in authority to Śruti. The
literature which comprises the Smrti was composed after the
Vedas around 500 BCE. Smrti also denotes tradition in the sense
that it portrays the traditions of the rules on dharma,
especially those of lawful virtuous persons. This is understood
by looking at traditional texts, such as the Ramayana, in which
the traditions of the main characters portray a strict adherence
to or observance of dharma (the same however need to be
understood as experiences rather than binary haves or have-
nots).[2] Role of Smriti within Hindu law Smriti is the
second source of authority for dharma. The fi |
-1.127065 | -0.547136 | 28 | Cameron’s cavalier style has the Tory infantry feeling like
lions led by a donkey Labour cherishes serial Tory backbench
disloyalty because it chips away at Cameron’s credentials as a
man in command. Cameron "comes across as a bit Melchett", said
one of his MPs, referring to Stephen Fry's aristocratic general
character in "Blackadder Goes Forth". Illustration: Dan
Murrell/New Statesman It is not most people’s idea of a race.
The competitors are either standing still or shuffling backwards
away from the finish line. Such is the state of play in David
Cameron and Ed Miliband’s pursuit of a parliamentary majority at
the next election. The Labour leader, after a phase of
incremental advance, is stationary again. Miliband’s MPs are
getting used to his ponderous, halting rhythm but it doesn’t
make them comfortable. None believes Labour’s lead in the
opinion polls is what it could be against a divided Conservative
Party presiding over economic failure. The source of Labour’s
greatest comfort has nothing to do w |
-0.551293 | -0.2193 | -1 | US to free Russian e-book “hacker” Russian
programmer Dmitry Sklyarov - held in the US since July on
charges of violating the terms of the 1998 Digital Millennium
Copyright Act - has reached a deal with prosecutors under which
he will be free to leave the country in exchange for testifying
against his employer. The US Attorney's Office for the Northern
District of California has agreed to defer prosecution of
Sklyarov until the conclusion of its case against ElcomSoft,
Sklyarov's employer, or for one year, whichever is longer.
During that period, Sklyarov will be free to return to Russia
but will remain under the court's supervision. If Sklyarov
abides by the terms of the agreement - testifying for the
prosecution and complying with all US federal, state and local
laws - charges against him will be dropped at the end of the
period, said the US attorney's office. Sklyarov also plans to
testify on ElcomSoft's behalf as a defence witness, according to
a spokeswoman for the legal team representing |
-4.565983 | 0.965711 | 18 | LGBTI global news 24-7 Barilla pasta boss meets Italian gays to
simmer down boycott Guido Barilla, who said 'We will never have
gay people in our ads', meets the main Italian LGBT associations
and promises some pro-gay policies The Barilla headquarters
close to Parma, Italy. The company has apologized with the LGBT
community. Owner of the Barilla pasta company Guido Barilla has
met the Italian LGBT associations this morning (7 October) in
Bologna, northern Italy. The man who made the headlines for his
anti-gay remarks apologized once again to the LGBT community and
proposed ‘some pro-gay policies in the future’. His remark the
firm would never feature gay people in its advertising led to
boycotts which are hitting particularly hard in the US where
Barilla is a top brand. Grillini told Gay Star News: ‘We spoke
about the company’s policies and about the impact on the LGBT
community worldwide. According to Grillini, ‘we could say
Barilla is going to do a pro-gay campaign in the future, but
it’s not sure |
-1.199502 | 4.471445 | -1 | Are current day rechargeables the restriction for future power-
grids? Several countries have been researching future
development to convert their fossil fuel based power grids to a
more environmentally friendly solution. However, the greatest
obstacle to overcome is not how to make the power – but how to
store the excess power for use during times when the winds slow
down and the sun goes down. Currently we can’t control the
weather, (well not yet, at least) so we are reliant upon Mother
Nature’s random cycles for energy. Therefore the requirement of
how to store this excess and off-hour power for when it’s really
needed comes into play. As noted from Wired UK: ” That power
needs to be stored somewhere so that it can be used, otherwise
renewable energy can’t ever replace coal, oil, nuclear or
similar plants that can output a reliable level of power
whenever needed. For that reliability, there are three main
options: pumped hydroelectric storage (PHS), where water is
pumped upwards into a reservoir wh |
0.022795 | 1.130587 | -1 | Frequently Asked Questions Why should I consider granting
permission for an autopsy? Many people believe that autopsies
should only be performed when there is uncertainty as to the
cause of death. Although this is certainly a good reason for an
autopsy, it is not the only reason. An autopsy can be reassuring
for the family, verifying that there was nothing unknown going
on. If unexpected findings are uncovered, this can be of great
benefit to the continuing education of our doctors and nurses.
Autopsy examination allows us to fully evaluate the extent of
the disease process and the effectiveness of therapy, giving us
more information about how diseases behave in the human body and
how we might better help other patients with similar diseases.
What will the autopsy cost me? Who may give permission for an
autopsy? In Connecticut, the permission of the family member
who is assuming responsibility for the burial of the patient is
required for a hospital autopsy. Permission may be given in
person by signing th |
3.735198 | -4.308905 | -1 | Over the past decade, the New York Knicks fan base (God bless
'em) have withstood Abrahamian tests of faith—nine losing
seasons, Isiah Thomas, a lifetime's worth of entitled,
dispiriting athletes. Through it all, Clyde Frazier, the
legendary Knicks guard-turned-rhyming TV color man, has had a
headset and a courtside seat. He's had to watch the parade of
misery, and it's hard not to wonder if his mind ever drifts back
to a time not so long ago when he ruled the hardwood, then
showered, dressed and lit up NYC's social scene. In 1967, upon
entering the NBA, Walt quickly earned his nickname, thanks to a
new release, Bonnie and Clyde, and his affection for wide-
brimmed fedoras. Soon after that, the nickname became a full-
fledged persona: the 6-foot-4 fella with the muttonchops, mink
coat, and the Rolls. Frazier was the epitome of cool. He
endorsed a non-basketball shoe and partied with Broadway Joe.
And while Willis Reed limped around the court, Clyde led New
York to its last basketball title. "When I played I was |
5.008242 | 0.81879 | 13 | Foster The People at First Avenue, 12/4/11 Categories: Last
Night Photo by Nick Wosika Foster The People might be the
biggest band in America right now. There's no better marker of
the evident crossover between indie and pop than the massive
popularity garnered by the young band, whose platinum-plated
hooks and disco leanings have caused a buzz across the entire
radio dial. Their rescheduled appearance in Minneapolis marks
the first time that a band has appeared at KDWB's annual Jingle
Ball and followed up with a sold-out club appearance the same
night, but FTP's rise hasn't been halted by questions about
genre or "cred"--they're aiming at danceable, feel-good music
for the masses, and they've nailed that target with debut album
Torches. But do the good times on record translate to a great
live show? Everyone in the huge lines wrapping around both
sides of First Avenue were banking that FTP would come through
in a live setting, but there was a sizable portion of the crowd
that turned up early to catch lo |
0.646706 | 6.585536 | 68 | * Value Rating (worth your money) * Overall Rating (money
doesn't matter) * What is the product model year? * Review
Summary Characters Left Product Image AKG Acoustics K 172 HD
0 Reviews rating 0 of 5 Description: Designed specifically for
monitoring audio sources in noisy environments, K 172 HD
headphone combine all the sound-attenuating characteristics of a
closed-back configuration with the comfort of an on-ear design.
Lightweight and extremely rugged, with an self-adjusting band
that can be worn over or behind the head, K 172 HD headphone is
engineered to play loud and long with no sound leakage. AKG has
been delivering the equipment movie and broadcasting
professionals rely on for more than 60 years. K 172 HD continues
the tradition. <ul> <li>On-ear, closed-back design</li>
<li>Ultra-soft velvet earpads</li> <li>Loud and rugged, ideal
for single-ear DJ use</li> <li>High-efficiency output</li>
<li>Single-sided, 99.99% oxygen-free cable</li> </ul> No
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-1.576492 | 5.839149 | -1 | Dabbawalas in Mumbai Document Sample scope of work template
From this, I deduced that dabbawallas are a prime example of
management guru Michael Porter's Five Forces Theory at work.
According to Manav Malik, a first year student of NITIE,
"Porter's theories, which are the basis for classical management
principles, define the scope and nature of competition a company
faces to attain leadership. Surprisingly, the dabbawalas are
following these very principles in spite of their ignorance of
the same." These are as follows: i. Threat of new entrants:
According to Porter, the threat new entrants is dangerous to any
organisation as it can take away the market share the
organisation enjoys. Started in 1880, the experience curve of
the 125-year-old dabbawalla service serves as a huge entry
barrier for potential competitors. Besides, it would be
difficult to replicate this supply chain network that uses
Mumbai's jam-packed local trains as its backbone. ii. Current
competition: Porter's five forces theory |
-0.791135 | 0.54069 | 6 | Thursday, December 19, 2013 Current Weather Loading Current
Weather.... Published: 2/28/2008 Charter school volunteer is
sent to prison DiCianni DiCianni William DiCianni served time
in prison twice before in different states for money-related
convictions before he was given access to money at the now-
closed Performing Arts School of Metropolitan Toledo. Yesterday
he was sentenced in Lucas County Common Pleas Court to a prison
encore. DiCianni, 49, was sentenced to five years and four
months for four convictions. Originally charged with 28 counts
of criminal activity involving money, he pleaded no contest and
was found guilty Feb. 12 on one count each of passing bad
checks, forgery, grand theft, and money laundering. He also must
pay back the $90,857.50 stolen from the charter school. "I know
I did wrong and I know I deserve to be punished," DiCianni told
Judge Linda Jennings before sentencing. Authorities said
DiCianni was never employed by the school, but was an unpaid
volunteer. He worked there after |
-0.415156 | 9.886606 | 15 | Tell me more × I'm trying to get started with WP development.
So far I've been using it with other's people plugins and themes
so I'm kind'a stuck. I've read many many many things about, but
I can't find simple answer when to use what. e.g. I'd like to
create order page (webshop without payments, just simple order
that resides on system and administrator then have a chance to
check, confirm, set status to that order to "products sent" and
so on). So now, I should have - users, articles (distributed in
some categories, with some brand tags) and orders and my plan
was to create wp_MyArticles table, with menu in wp dashboard,
where admin could do certain things with it. But then, 50% of
people told me NOT TO mess with WP database, and create my own
table, but to rather use custom post types, with custom fields.
I've read again tons of blogs / pages but still, I'm not sure,
what do I get with custom "post" (Article), when I need to list
it, select few of articles, add them to orders. Where to put
orders ? H |
-0.143914 | 8.362103 | -1 | Aim higher, reach farther. Techies to Grapple With Big Changes
SAN FRANCISCO—VMware Inc. isn't exactly a household word, at
least outside of Silicon Valley. But the software maker's annual
conference has become a key meeting place for those who help
manage computer rooms—a techie tribe grappling with major
changes. The event it started, called VMworld, is kicking off
in a convention center here this week. It comes as a technology
approach that the company pushed—to change how servers are
used—is... Popular on WSJ Editors’ Picks |
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Maria Tallchief Maria Tallchief Maria Tallchief (dancer and
teacher; born January 24, 1925, Fairfax, Oklahoma-April 11,
2013) "A ballerina takes steps given to her and makes them her
own. Each individual brings something different to the same
role," Maria Tallchief once said. "As an American, I believe in
great individualism. That's the way I was brought up." Tallchief
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0.225806 | 1.879229 | -1 | Trends vs. Traditions by Jill Cohen The trend is to plan for
children. To create and follow through on every detail from
conception until graduation. To pick schools, college, degree
and profession. The child is not even in utero yet! The
tradition is to be in love, to create children to be loved,
adored and nurtured as people. To help them become their own
beings and good people. To provide support and aid in their
development, instilling great confidence to go forth and be
productive individuals in the family and community. The trend
is to do every test available. To find out if the baby has
anomalies or other things considered “a problem.” To know the
sex of the child. To see inside our sacred wombs and view
everything possible. The tradition is to accept and love what
we have made. To honor the unknowing with excitement and
anticipation. To wonder but not disturb the natural course of
creation. To let nature take its course. The trend is to take
classes that teach how to parent, breastfeed and care |
-0.060408 | -0.13185 | 88 | Tuesday, July 28, 2009 Presidntial Wreath Do you think
President Obama should not have sent a wreath to the Confederate
Memorial? Did he avoid controversy by sending a wreath to the
African American Civil War Memorial? 1. I think the
President was ill advised in sending a wreath to the Confederate
Soldier Memorial. I know he's the president of all the people
but I still think it's wrong 2. Oh, what a difficult
situation. Truthfully, he's "darned if you do, darned if you
don't". As president Mr. Obama needs to maintain unity.
He's soothing ruffled feathers at every turn. Stopping the
Confederate wreath tradition would have ignited a huge
controversy. My personal feeling is "no": there should not
be a wreath. Individual soldiers have been recognized with
pensions and government-issued headstones, speeches and poetry,
oral legends and novels. Movies. There are literally thousands
of groups in America which honor the individual Confederate
soldiers for their tremendous personal sacrifices, thei |
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-2.606575 | 4.609503 | -1 | A Partnership of Equals How Washington Should Respond to
China's Economic Challenge To be an economic superpower, a
country must be sufficiently large, dynamic, and globally
integrated to have a major impact on the world economy. Three
political entities currently qualify: the United States, the
European Union, and China. Inducing China to become a
responsible pillar of the global economic system (as the other
two are) will be one of the great challenges of coming decades
-- particularly since at the moment China seems uninterested in
playing such a role. The United States remains the world's
largest national economy, the issuer of its key currency, and in
most years the leading source and recipient of foreign
investment. The EU now has an even larger economy and even
greater trade flows with the outside world, and the euro
increasingly competes with the dollar as a global currency.
China, the newest member of the club, is smaller than the other
two but is growing more quickly and is more deeply integrated |
-0.616404 | 0.238307 | 6 | Reply to a comment Reply to this comment angleiron63 writes:
in response to sallymorgan#446429: I don't know this young man.
What I do know is that if you watch the "clip" on television. He
was not the aggresor. Erik Schwirtlich was on the phone texting
and not looking at where he was going. Fine, all of us have done
that before. Did Erik go back to apologize, I don't think so.
Erik went back to start a fight with Mr. Perez. He went to start
a fight and he was punched. He was the aggressor. Mr. Perez
punched him once (did not kick him while he was down). If you
lived downtown and look out the windows you see these type of
fights every night. Sadly Erik was definitly hurt, but he has
some responsibility in this whole fight. He did the bumping and
he went back looking for a fight. Wish I could say that race
doesn't have anything to do with the whole ordeal, but it does.
Do you know Mr. Perez? You are calling him a thug? Really? He
has never been in trouble with the police and he defended
himself, look at th |
-0.017317 | 2.877686 | -1 | twin, Twin boys.iStockphoto/ either of two young who are
simultaneously born from one mother. Twinning, common in many
animals, is of two biological kinds: the one-egg (monozygotic),
or identical, type and the two-egg (dizygotic), or fraternal,
type. The latter type is more usual and can be thought of simply
as a litter of two. In humans, psychological studies of sets of
identical twins, since they are genetically identical, have
provided much otherwise unobtainable information on the relative
effects of genetic endowment and environment. See also multiple
birth. |
0.444543 | 0.595979 | -1 | EWTN Catholic Q&A Loretta Young not a saint Question from sue
scott on 01-10-2013: Loretta Young had a child out of wedlock,
with Clark Gable. She put the child in an orphanage and then
adopted her and pretended to her dying day that she was not the
girl's biological mother. According to the daughter all her
friends knew that Clark Gable and Loretta Young were her
biological parents. Of course Loretta spent the rest of her life
pretending to be a holier than thou Catholic. Why would you want
to honor such a despicable person? Answer by Judie Brown on
01-14-2013: Dear Sue I know nothing of this story that you
have shared with us but thanks for the information. Who among
us is really a saint? Judie Brown |
3.047255 | 5.229239 | 2 | Hasbro Lawyers Stable My Little Pony: Fighting is Magic Fan
Project Since the summer of 2011 a small group of fans calling
themselves Mane6 have been toiling away at a fighting game based
on the cartoon My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. Working from
a rudimentary knowledge of 2D Fighter Maker 2002, they built the
fan project into a phenomenon unto itself. They scouted sound-
alike voice actresses, had composers create original music, and
painstakingly balanced and polished the fighting engine to a
professional shine. Last month My Little Pony: Fighting is Magic
was in the running to be featured at the 2013 Evo fighting game
tournament. Today Mane6 announced that they had received a
cease and desist letter from Hasbro. They've pulled all content
from their website, stripped their YouTube and Twitch.Tv
accounts, and closed up shop. From the message on Mane6's front
page (heartbreakingly titled "Not All Wonder is Endless": We
have attempted negotiating with Hasbro for the continued use of
the property in o |
0.804302 | -1.431163 | -1 | Rethinking Air/Sea Battle Before It Is Too Late Initially,
several of my colleagues and I speculated the Air/Sea Battle
concept was simply an avenue for the US Navy and Air Force to
gain budgetary primacy in an increasingly tight budgetary
environment. As the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan wind down and
as the American economic travails continue, increasing pressure
to downsize the US military force mounts. I am going to
simplify the Air/Sea Battle claim for the sake of brevity here
but it runs along these lines. China is increasing not only its
military capabilities but also its military reach. China has
become increasingly belligerent in Asia and outright
antagonistic toward US foreign policy goals. For example,
China’s threatened armed takeover of the Spratley Islands,
largely fueled by the speculation of large oil reserves in that
area, has provoked condemnation from neighbors with claims to
the Island chain (Vietnam and the Philippines in particular).
However, no one in the region or in the internationa |
4.252727 | 2.769164 | 5 | The 7 Most Ridiculous Movie Character Overreactions
Blockbuster movies need action. We don't tend to spend $200
million worth of tickets on a film full of subtly delivered wry
wit. We need characters to do outrageous stunts, to make drastic
decisions and to scream things while flying slowly through the
air. As a result, people in movies often wind up making grossly
illogical and often utterly insane choices purely to spice
things up. These are the characters who probably should have
taken a moment to think things over: Johnny Utah, Point Break
Point Break is about some bank robbing surfers led by Patrick
Swayze and the crime-fighting team of Keanu Reeves and Gary
Busey trying to bring them down. The word "team" has many
definitions. The Overreaction: The moment we said Point Break
we're guessing you pictured one scene in your mind, and one
scene only: the one where Patrick Swayze jumps out of an
airplane with a parachute and Keanu Reeves, in the ultimate act
of reckless badassery, jumps out after him |
-1.397718 | 0.29849 | -1 | 1920s & 1930s Created by GridironKing10 64 terms Warren G.
Harding a return to "normal" life after the war. Restricted
Rights conservatives keep control of suthern governments ->
african americans still have limited rights Teapot Dome Scandal
Calvin Coolidge elected Vice President and succeeded as 30th
President of the United States when Harding died in 1923
(1872-1933) Karl Marx founder of modern communism The
Communist Manifesto Vladimir Lenin Red Scare a period of
general fear of communists A. Mitchell Palmer attorney
general, used red scare to deport 100s of foreigners Palmer
Raids a series a government attacks on suspected radicals in
the United States led by the U.S. attorney general A. Mitchell
Palmer Immigration Act of 1924 Also known as the "National
Origins Act," this law established quotas for immigration to the
United States. Immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe were
sharply curtailed, while immigrants from Asia were shut out
altogether. (774) Sacco and Vanzetti |
1.189563 | 8.272696 | -1 | Saturday, April 16, 2011 How to remove an object from a scene
and create background content to fill the hole using PSE9? Is
there a tool in PSE which can help you remove an object or a
person from foreground of an image by filling it with the
background content? Yes, there is one which was introduced in
PSE 9. So here are my initial and final images to show what this
tutorial will help you achieve through this tutorial:
Initial image Final image So in my
source image above, I wanted to remove the girl from the
temple and have just the building. It may be achievable with
clone tool, however it would really be a big time task. For
non-complex images, it may just take seconds to fix that photo
using content aware spot healing by doing just a couple of dabs
However, I choose an image which is complex as we need to remove
a person whose background is not consistent throughout. It has
the dark area inside the gate, the gate boundaries, the
sculptured wall, the ground with var |
-1.005494 | 1.042623 | -1 | Comments » 60 cphil writes: Shades of 1984. Let's just rename
Tennessee to Oceania. dmwvols#230456 writes: If they set up
these cameras most of the violators would be Knox County
Sheriff's vehicles. Many of these officers apparently think they
have some special authority to tail-gate and drive at excessive
speeds without the use of their emergency lights and sirens. I
can't count the number of times I have been nearly blown off the
road by speeding Sheriff Deputies. I have even had them turn on
their siren and lights briefly to get me out of the way when
they were traveling the Interstate in Cumberland and Sevier
County. Wonder how many of their tickets would get waived, with
the excuse, "They were doing their job"? reform4 writes:
Here's a question: In order for the red-light cameras to be
legal (e.g., allowing a fine to be issued by a third party), the
law had to be changed so that points couldn't be taken from your
license. If I have enough money (and I don't hit anyone), I can
run red lights all d |
-0.746778 | 0.673601 | -1 | When Fleeing the Cops, Do Not Hide in a Pool of Manure Outside
Your Marijuana Grow HouseS Three things you should not do when
fleeing the police: Hide in a pool of liquid manure, hide in the
greenhouse where you grow your pot, or stop for a bathroom
break. Guess who's got some dumb criminal stories... Suspected
meth user Thomas Hovis Jr. of Albion, Indiana (pictured) hid
neck-deep in the "liquid manure" of hogs and dogs, in a "tank
beneath an outbuilding floor" on a farm. Hiding in the poo pit
gave the 52-year-old hypothermia, but managed to so violently
resist arrest as to require two zaps of the stun gun, anyway. As
foul as this is, Hovis is sort of a genius. In the highly
unlikely event that the cops actually find you in your shit-
filled hidey-hole, you at least get the glory of making them
dry-heave for however long it takes them to apprehend and cuff
you, drive you to the jailhouse, and book your stinky self. In
less-smelly news: Pulled over for a DUI, Charles Byrd of
Gwinnett County, Georgia bolted f |
3.40237 | 4.797836 | 2 | Minecraft Easter Egg #11BokugoPosted 9/17/2012 5:35:55 PM there
should be an enderman boss PSN - Bokugo #12pttp_co_nrPosted
9/17/2012 5:37:47 PM No Spoilers tag? What the heck dude!? PKMN
White FC: 1850 0959 2499 - Name: Kevin Nintendo 3DS FC: 4639
8975 1450 - Name: Kevin #13ChaoticNonsensePosted 9/17/2012
5:39:59 PM DaltonM posted... It's real, here's a more reputable
source, albeit a terrible one... "According to a thread on
reddit"... Yes, so very reputable. #14Shy420Posted 9/17/2012
5:59:15 PM Minecraft is the new zombies #15SamieFishPosted
9/17/2012 6:50:49 PM Thanks for ruining the easter egg. The
point is to find them. You could have just put easter egg in the
title. #16Epic_McDudePosted 9/17/2012 6:53:03 PM I hate
Minecraft. "Fight for them, then, and die for their sins!"
-Dracula, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night |
2.473278 | 1.747935 | 19 | Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2011 09:46:32 -0400 (EDT) From: Subject: Lewi
and Rick: the suduction begins part 1 incest Caution this story
contains underage nudity and sexual satiations This is a work of
complete fiction and everything in it comes from my imagination.
If you do not like these kinds of stories then I suggest that
you back out of this story and find something else to read. This
is a gay story about two brothers. Cast: Lewis/Lewi 16 year old
male, Rick 16 year old male. Mom, Dad and grandparents will also
appear from time to time. LEWI and RICK: THE SUDUCTION BEGINS
PART 1 By Thomas Smith Lewi lies awake in his bed, the top sheet
which was covering him last night is now laying crumpled at the
very foot of his bed. Lewi himself is currently dressed in a
pair of boxer briefs; his black boxers seem a little tighter
this morning, probably do to the early morning heat. It's late
June and it would appear that summer is indeed here; the summery
weather thus far has been beautiful. He lies on his bed staring
up at |
3.256907 | 5.012845 | 2 | Hands-On: 'Mirror's Edge' Time Trials Hands-On: 'Mirror's Edge'
Time Trials By Stephen Johnson - Posted Oct 07, 2008 Since the
game was announced more than a year ago, I have been eagerly
tracking Mirror's Edge's progress from idea to execution, but
last week, I finally got a chance to play it. EA sponsored a
contest for the game's time trial mode, an add-on to the main
plot where the point is to get from point A to point B as fast
as possible through your character's awesome parkour moves. The
game's plotline follows Faith, a "runner" in a dystopian future
who goes from delivery person to solver of mysteries after a
terrible fate befalls her sister. Along the way, you'll battle
gunmen and your fear of heights as you leap from perch to perch
to get where you're going. Time Trial Mode, though, contains no
enemies except the merciless clock. You start out at the
beginning of a level and try to get to the end as quickly as you
can. Seems simple, but unlike, say, a racing game, finding the
best "line" is onl |
-0.443707 | 0.044774 | -1 | Chucho el Roto From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to:
navigation, search Chucho el Roto (1858–1885) was a Mexican
bandit active in the late 19th century, whose life story has
been the basis of number of books, plays and other media since
before his death. His real name was Jesús Arriaga; the nickname
Chucho (literally "mutt") is a common dimmunutive of Jesús in
Mexico and roto, literally "broken", can mean "discarded" or
ragged". He was born in the state of Tlaxcala in 1858. After
being forced to abandon his family, Chucho became a bandit,
becoming famous in the late 1870s and the first half of the
1880s. His fame came from his ability to cross Mexico’s strong
socioeconomic circles and use this ability to rob from the
wealthy. His legend also includes the love of fine clothes and
the theater despite his humble birth and the sharing of at least
some of his gains with the poor. The last aspect has prompted
comparisons between him and Robin Hood. Chucho was last arrested
in 1884 and died in the prison |
-3.456336 | 1.441813 | -1 | The Maduro Wrapper, One Robust Cigar! A Maduro wrapper is one
for those who prefer a more robust or flavorful smoke. The
wrapper of a cigar is the outermost leaf and hence provides much
of the flavor of the stick. Those who prefer a more robust, or
stronger, cigar often choose what is called a Maduro wrapper,
which defines much of the Maduro cigar’s character and flavor.
However, some cigars are called Maduro based on the dark color
of the outer leaf or wrapper alone, when in fact the wrapper is
not a Maduro at all. In other words, while the Maduro is
typically a dark leaf wrapper, all dark leaf wrappers are not
Maduros. While the filler and the binder also contribute to the
flavor of the cigar, a Maduro, which is Spanish for ripe,
wrapper will typically provide a more robust experience than
lighter wrappers, regardless of the filler or binder. The leaf
is usually matured in sunlight, causing it to release or sweat
the oils from the leaf. The increased exposure to sunlight and
the resultant sweating of the |
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Apple develops sample code to demonstrate and showcase its
developer technology. Often the sample code provides end users
with applications that offer unexpected utility. Sometimes you
can leverage this technology directly. Sometimes you need to
modify the source code to create the results you want. This
article focuses on MovieVideoChart, a typical Apple sample app
that's meant to demonstrate how to access video frames in
QuickTime 7. But that's just where things begin to get
interesting. The scrolling layout and built-in video frame
displays make for a perfect starting point, allowing you to re-
aim the application toward a different end point. In this
article you'll discover how to modify the MovieVideoChart sample
code to create a comic-book-like video layout tool. This tool
will be able to scroll through video frame by frame, letting the
end user compare successive frames in the same |
0.440169 | 2.461152 | 130 | (55 Posts) poachedeggs Fri 13-Sep-13 12:35:09 Acinonyx
Fri 13-Sep-13 13:59:58 I've got one just like this and I'm
still working on it. I've had some occasional successes by using
examples of things I didn't start off doing well, for example I
found some scribbling of mine from early childhood and dd was
impressed with my inability to draw properly whereas I can now.
Not that I want to encourage you to lie - but could you present
an example of your own horrible handwriting now so much improved
with practice? Our big headache is arithmetic <<bangs head off
wall just thinking about practicing tables>> kkoo Fri 13-Sep-13
14:08:23 Wow - this could be me! Only my dd is 5 and just
starting year one so I'm a step or two behind you. She won't try
in swimming class - and cheats (walks through the water!
cheeky), gets very upset about cycling, even with stabilisers,
fear of failure is huge! I will look forward to the responses.
MrsTruper Fri 13-Sep-13 14:15:04 My dd was/is just like that at
around the same |
0.026891 | 7.605168 | -1 | Content from CNET tagged with laptop computer [x] , Microsoft
Windows [x] , PC [x] News Stories Showing 1-16 of 16 results
found Vista draining laptop batteries, patience May 4, 2007
Microsoft's attempt to improve power management in Windows Vista
hasn't made up for the pretty but power-hungry Aero interface,
causing battery life to suffer. TAGS: power management, Richard
Shim, battery life, battery, Microsoft Windows Vista, notebook
computer, Lenovo, HP, laptop computer, Microsoft Corp., setting,
operating system, Microsoft Windows, PC, Microsoft Windows XP
Dell picks Ubuntu for Linux PCs May 1, 2007 Computer maker is
trying a second time to sell Linux PCs and has chosen
Canonical's Ubuntu to supply the operating system. TAGS: Linux
PC, Ubuntu, Linux, Dell, operating system, PC, laptop computer,
Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Can Longhorn improve
laptops? April 27, 2005 New OS promises to give portables
additional features, from auxiliary displays to improved tablet
and touch-screen abilities. T |
0.955563 | 10.008891 | 22 | Anonymous comments the record. Anonymous wrote: 1. It is
amost certainly a mistake to base feature-ids on SRFI document
numbers. There are many reasons why this is a bad idea, but it
should be sufficient to point out that when I'm -reading- a
piece of Scheme code, how am I going to figure out what
`(if-implements SRFI-17 ...)' does? I have to look it up
somewhere. So why not write `(if-implements extensible-
strings ...)' instead, and save me the trouble? SRFI-0
hints that there might be "aliases" for feature-ids,
presumably nice mnemonic names, which I guess is supposed to
address this problem. Presumably people will be encouraged
to use the mnemonic aliases to keep their code readable. So
then what's the point of the document number based IDs? You
should just be giving features mnemonic names from the very
beginning. 2. Logical combinations of features will be wanted
all the time. Suppose there is an easy way to do something
only if -both- the |
1.178013 | 9.98752 | -1 | Take the 2-minute tour × Shouldn't the list comprehension
restrict the variable scope. user = <user1> project.users =
[<user1>, <user2>, <user3>, <user4>] project_usernames =
[user.username for user in project.users] I am generating the
list project_usernames using list comprehension on
project.users. But it is modifying the user to which was earlier
. I am using above flow in one of my project but because of
this bug it was not working. later when I changed the variable
"user" in list comprehension, it worked properly. entity within
<> refers to I know that the interpreter works line by line,
but shouldn't the scope of variable used in list comprehension
die once the iteration is over?. share|improve this question 1
Answer 1 up vote 1 down vote accepted This is a Python 2.x
'feature', where the variable you use inside of the list
comprehension (in your case, user) becomes part of the
surrounding scope (in Python 3, it is treated like a generator -
see here for the breakdown from Guido himself). A |
0.83072 | 2.836281 | -1 | 5 Ways to Make Yourself Network Worthy 6/15/2010 1:54:23 PM
Examiner -- Not everyone is network worthy but I'm hoping to
help get as many people there as I can. It is true that anyone
can technically network, but it's hard for a lot of people to do
it effectively. As I've often said, it is a team sport, and the
sad reality is networking is often one sided. You may be one of
those people who reaches out, does all the right things, follows
up in the right amount of time. But some people are just not
responsive to you. It's not your fault. It's theirs. Some
people, sadly, are just not network worthy. So now you can
breathe that sigh of relief and no it's not your doing. But I
want to share some tips so that you never become unworthy. |
-5.346724 | 1.415648 | 33 | Harvest Cooking Tip: Roast Garlic Cloves Inside Squash Here's a
quick, flavor-boosting tip we've been using with our acorn
squash lately. Pin it button We love baked acorn squash straight
from the rind, or mashed with a little cheese and milk. It's an
easy, easy side dish, lunch, dinner - or even breakfast, with
some cinnamon sugar. (See directions for roasting acorn squash
here: Sweet and Spicy Acorn Squash.) Lately we've been dropping
one or two cloves of peeled garlic into the cavities of each
acorn half. The garlic slowly roasts, partially sheltered by the
squash so it doesn't burn, and mellowed by olive oil and salt.
Then when the squash is fully tender we mash the roasted garlic
into it and eat together. Easy and delicious! How are you
eating squash this fall? Related: Eat This: Baked Acorn Squash
Rings (Images: Faith Durand) |
-1.202088 | 7.337945 | 156 | Forgot your password? Comment: Re:Fly me to Mars or even to the
Moon. (Score 1) 376 by Bogtha (#46498225) Attached to: NASA-
Funded Study Investigates Collapse of Industrial Civilization
Frankly, I think this is useful. Sure, but that doesn't mean
NASA should be doing it. Get some other government body to do
it. Or set one up if there isn't anything suitable already
existing. Don't use money allocated for space research for
something other than space research. Comment: What's the issue
here? (Score 1) 58 by Bogtha (#46462183) Attached to: Large
DDoS Attack Brings WordPress Pingback Abuse Back Into Spotlight
From the description of the issue, all that seems to be
happening here is that an attacker makes an HTTP request to a
third-party blog that supports Pingback, and that blog makes an
HTTP request to the target. As stated, there's no amplification,
so all this appears to be doing is masking the source of the
attack. To what is he referring when he says that it amplifies
the "scale and reach" of the a |
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vocabulary and a writing style that you can comprehend. Article
Review Structure: The structure of an article review follows
the introduction-body-conclusion format. |
4.726348 | 0.979359 | 13 | Son of Anarchy Riccardo Tisci was too young to experience punk
firsthand, but he has absorbed its lessons in provocation. The
Givenchy designer, who will host Monday night's Met Gala, tells
about his own journey from chaos to couture Published May 03,
2013 Continued (Page of ) Riccardo Tisci is both an unlikely
and a logical choice to host the opening gala for this year's
Costume Institute exhibition, Punk: Chaos to Couture. Unlikely
because he was a mere infant when punk was born. In fact, Tisci
himself initially thought the honor should go to an English
designer. But in another way, the role fits him. He jokes that
he is now "the good boy of LVMH," and he has the commercial
success and recently renewed contract to prove it, but he was
for many years the luxury group's dark prince, whose radical
reinvention of the house of Givenchy brought cries of sacrilege
from the critics. If punk is above all an attitude, Tisci has
that to spare. Our interview took place in a room at The Mercer
hotel in Soho. In perso |
-2.147104 | -0.787445 | 10 | Take the tour × Again in the Time article (June 29),“Roberts
Rules: What the Health Care decision means for the country” that
many of my familiar ‘teachers’ criticized the style of writing
as too pretentious and the analogies too outdated, there is the
following sentence: “Romney wasted little time in reacting
(Chief Justice’s ruling). – Our mission is clear,” he said. “If
we want to get rid of Obamacare, we’re going to have to replace
President Obama.” ---Polls show little appetite for repeal among
independent voters, but for the Republican base, the Roberts
ruling was cause for downing a quart of Red Bull.” I know Red
Bull is an energy drink brand, but what does the writer want to
say by using this phrase? Does it mean Republican voters are
angry with Roberts’ ruling? Does it mean that the Republican
base need to rouse themselves to repeal Obamacare? In what
particular occasions is “down a quart of Red Bull” used? Why
should it be Red Bull? Can’t I replace it with other drinks such
as beer, whisky, vodk |
-2.279717 | 4.921498 | -1 | Don't get swayed away by freebies while buying real estate
Pallavee Dhaundiyal Panthry, ET Bureau Jun 5, 2011, 06.54am IST
Post recession many areas sprung up with claims to offer
affordable homes and everyone hopped to grab the opportunity .
Fixation with lesser prices was so high that no one enquired
properly about the areas. "The only thing that prevailed and
mattered was the prices. The buyer forgot to stick to the main
rule of real estate investment , that is, enquire before
investing. They did not enquire about the area, the land title,
turned a blind eye to the surroundings and invested because
everyone was investing" , says Dujender Bhardwaj, director , JMD
Realty Pvt. Ltd. Investing in real estate is one of the most
valuable acquisitions that we make in our lives. But a mistake
in the purchase can be a testing experience especially for those
who dream for at least one home in life. So one must act smart
and do proper homework before buying a property. Let's have a
look at the areas in demand and c |
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-1.129039 | 1.263971 | 91 | Friday, February 29, 2008 Randi Weingarten Randi Weingarten
gave the keynote address at a conference on performance
incentives here last night. If you're thinking that it's odd for
the head of a large teacher's union to be addressing a roomful
of education economists you are correct. She essentially walked
into the lion's den, confronted the lions, and lived to tell the
tale. Whether you agree or disagree with her politics, you have
to be impressed with her moxy. My previous experience with
Randi was limited to newsclips of her leading rallies, so I was
pleasantly surprised by both the mechanics and the substance of
her speech. She focused on two issues: bridging ideological
divides to focus on what helps children (which, depending on
your ideology, is either highly ironic or very fitting for a
union head to say) and incorporating teachers in all reforms.
She argued that the start of a pilot incentives program has gone
smoothly in NYC because teachers had a role in its creation and
management and because t |
0.036921 | 10.294165 | 16 | Markdown links in TextMate: The Final Frontier OK, let’s hope
this is my final posting on making Markdown reference links in
TextMate. When we last left our intrepid hero, I had refined my
command/snippet/macro system to automate the numbering of the
references, while still allowing the references to be overridden
by, say, words or abbreviations. The problem with that system
in real-world use is that it assumes that I know I’m going to
make a link as I’m typing along. For example, if I am writing
about wombats and want to insert a link, I have to know, a
priori, that a certain word or phrase is going to be a link and
invoke the macro just as I get to that point in the text.
Unfortunately, I often find myself typing along without any
links and then deciding later which words and phrases should be
links. So I also need a system that allows me to selected a
string of text and turn that into a reference link. My new
command/snippet/macro combination does just that. It consists of
two commands and a macro. The |
-0.450803 | 5.189588 | 4 | Ok i think my motor is burnt up and it wasnt a fualty setup i
just think the something happened with the motor. But my
question is how do i get the free replacement from traxxas on
the 380 motor cause i have read forums that people got it
replaced free. So any advice is thanked. Im not affraid to pay
the 30 dollars but you know free is always better. |
3.027641 | 4.998107 | 2 | Super Mario Galaxy Reader Review Let's get something clear
from the start: Galaxy is definitely not a straight forward
successor to Sunshine, and that's a good thing. For me at least,
Sunshine was good but way off great, something we've come to
expect from Miyamoto and Mario. You haven't played anything
like Galaxy, that's fact. Miyamoto's genius has once again
pulled out all the stops to create a entirely new Mario
experience. What's his new play toy? Its quite simple...
gravity. The Japanese developers have created a traditional 3d
platform game with a huge emphasis on gravity, this concept is
quite hard to explain in words, so you'll just have to play it
to see what I mean. As with any Mario game, the story doesn't
really play a huge part... but what has Bowser done this time?
Not to our surprise, he's kidnapped Princess Peach.. and
recruiting the help of some UFOs he's managed to transport
Peach's entire castle into outer space. The standard stuff,
although we are treated to a so-so cut scene showing |
2.108925 | 0.350687 | 44 | Take the tour × Old Earth Creationism incorporates evolution,
which requires natural selection, which requires death. If death
pre-dated Adam, then death pre-dated sin. How then do Old Earth
Creationists explain Romans 5:12, which says that death did not
pre-date sin? share|improve this question There is many
different viewpoints on what the word "death refers in verses in
bible; such as Mark 9:1: And he said to them, “Truly I tell you,
some who are standing here will not taste death before they see
that the kingdom of God has come with power.” – Sȱɳɨȼ Ʈħe
ǶḝÐɠḝħȱɠ Mar 1 '12 at 3:04 Old-earth creationism traditionally
does not incorporate evolution. Theistic Evolution does, and it
is sometimes considered OEC, and sometimes not. – Flimzy Mar 1
'12 at 10:49 Related: christianity.stackexchange.com/q/1589/20
– Flimzy Mar 1 '12 at 10:50 @Flimzy You are absolutely right
about OEC, but it's hard to believe in an Old Earth and not
admit that (physical) death took place before Adam. –
DJClayworth Mar 1 '12 at 1 |
1.817206 | 6.988367 | -1 | You are on a train that is traveling at 3.0 m/s along a level
straight track. Very near and parallel to the track is a wall
that slopes upward at a 12° angle with the horizontal. As you
face the window (0.923 m high, 1.92 m wide) in your compartment,
the train is moving to the left, as the drawing indicates. The
top edge of the wall first appears at window corner A and
eventually disappears at window corner B. How much time passes
between appearance and disappearance of the upper edge of the
wall? |
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story. In 1979, as an Army major I was assigned to the U.N. in
Lebanon. As the only plans officer for the force, I was
responsible for deployment, movement, certain liaison activity
and other concerns. In 1975, the Lebanese government
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government, the military was inept, under-sourced and poorly
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-0.099936 | 10.167001 | 16 | Tell me more × I am writing a Java application for the
postprocessing of XML files. These xml files come from an RDF-
Export of a Semantic Mediawiki, so they have rdf/xml syntax. My
problem is the following: When I read the xml file, all the
entities in the file get resolved to their value which is
specified in the Doctype. For example in the Doctype I have
<!ENTITY wiki ''> and in the root element This means
<swivt:Subject rdf:about="&wiki;Main_Page"> <swivt:Subject
rdf:about=""> I have tried using JDOM and the standard Java
DOM. The code I think is relevant here is for standard DOM:
DocumentBuilderFactory factory =
DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
factory.setFeature("", false); and for JDOM SAXBuilder builder
= new SAXBuilder(); builder.setExpandEntities(false);
//Retain Entities builder.setFeature("", false); But the
Entities are resolved throughout the whole xml document none the
less. Am I missing something? Hours of search has only led me to
the 'ExpandEntities' command |
3.270829 | -4.314553 | 38 | Chicago Sun-Times Mike Martz shoulders blame for offensive
issues | 10 Comments | No TrackBacks Bears offensive
coordinator Mike Martz insisted throughout his press conference
that there was one person to blame for Sunday's miserable
performance by his unit: himself. "Let me tell you guys this. I
just feel terrible. Defense had a great effort in that game. I
just tried to do waaaay too much in a short week, with these
guys," Martz said. "They're not ready for that. We've got a
bunch of young guys, trying to learn how to play, and we lost
our poise, and we got on our heels, and we couldn't do much of
anything right. That's just an old coach's fault right there.
"You pin that one right on me." Martz noted that the Bears had
a short week, playing a Sunday night game after a Monday night
game. "We just asked them to do more than they're ready to do
and handle, and I know better than that," he said. So will he
go back to the basics? "People who do that, don't believe in
what they're doing, and I believe i |
-2.146907 | 5.628056 | 56 | ATM Fees Under Fire Voters in San Francisco get to show banks
how they feel about those one- and two-dollar ATM surcharges.
Residents are being asked to vote Tuesday on the hot-button
consumer issue, as CBS News Correspondent John Blackstone
reports. ThereÂ's little doubt that the proposed ban of cash
machine fees will pass, but since banks don't like the idea,
theyÂ're certain to challenge any injunction. Bankers contend
the charges help pay for their growing networks of ATMs.
"They're constantly charging you for everything and I think
people are sick of it," says one resident. The fees can add up
if you use an ATM at a bank where you don't have an account. The
ATM affixes one charge, and your own bank adds another. Pretty
soon, it can take a $3 bite out of your $20. Santa Monica has
already passed a city ban on surcharges, and other California
communities are considering bans. Connecticut and Iowa have
already passed laws implementing the ban. "The voters and the
consumers do have a right to stand up |
0.154999 | -0.345158 | 73 | MSSU France Semester Why France? By Dr. Chad Stebbins
Director, Institute of International Studies Missouri Southern
State University Since 1997, Missouri Southern has selected a
different country or continent every fall to emphasize
throughout the semester. This is one way we attempt to “bring
the world” to the campus, especially for those students who are
unable to study abroad due to work or family obligations. This
fall is the France Semester, with 63 programs — guest speakers,
concerts, films, plays, and brown bag seminars — on tap to
showcase this diverse country of abundant riches. But why
France? Here are just a few reasons why this country the size of
Texas is worthy of intense study this semester. For starters,
few countries intrigue Americans as much as the République
française. Our love-hate relationship with the French goes back
to the days of the American Revolutionary War, when General
Lafayette helped the colonists defeat Cornwallis and end the
war. Indeed, France is the oldest ally of t |
-1.71025 | 7.387553 | -1 | For any small business trying to thrive online, there are few
questions more critical or often, confounding: How can we
increase traffic to our business's Website on a budget? And
then, once they're there, how can we convert them to paying
customers? There are lots of companies, SEO gurus and social
media pundits offering up their solutions, some of them more
legitimate than others. One company we spoke to recently took an
approach that led to a 300% increase in organic search traffic
in just three months. Corensic, a two-year-old company that
specializes in building tools for multi-core software
developers, is using real-time marketing platform Optify to
analyze their traffic and optimized their site based on their
findings. "We just pointed Optify at our site and it gave us a
checklist of things to do," said Prashant Sridharan, Corensic's
senior director of marketing. Many of the suggested changes,
such as putting important headings in the proper HTML heading
tags and including keywords in URLs, were eas |
-1.238372 | 4.326201 | -1 | The Wind Explorer: in the future, we will be traveling this way
Kitesurfers Dirk Gion and Stefan Simmerer had an incredible
idea. Let's build a 200-kilogram car that is, at the same time,
a kitesurfing craft and a wind turbine. Meet the "Wind
Explorer", a powerful convertible that has crossed the
Australian continent in 18 days. That's a 3,000-mile trip that
only needed £10 of electricity to complete the challenge.
There's no gas or gasoline involved. The "windmobile" uses
light-weight Lithium-Ion rechargeable batteries and gets the
best cross winds to travel 420 kilometres by steerable kites, in
total. The "Wind Explorer" is so efficient that the little wind
turbine carried aboard can produce enough energy for a daily
distance of 250 to 400 kilometers. The journey has begun in
Albany (south of Perth), Australia's southwest-most point. From
there the route followed the south coast through the Nullarbor
plain, Adelaide and Melbourne, all the way to Sydney on the
Pacific Ocean. Every day, the environmenta |
0.392204 | 2.727325 | -1 | Shopping Basket 0 Human Kinetics Publishers, Inc. Developing
anger management programs for athletes By Mitch Abrams, PsyD
The culmination of the previous chapters leads us to the “How
To” of anger management. As should be clear by now, getting
angry in and of itself, is not a problem. It is the high levels
of anger that lead to reactive aggression. The program that is
outlined below provides guidelines on how to recognize one’s
emotion levels and control them. This is done by becoming aware
of one’s body, how it changes when one is very angry, and
different methods to both calm down when very angry as well as
ways to avoid getting so angry in the first place. These
techniques are truly cognitive and behavioral skills.
Prescreening for Anger Management Participation Certain groups
of people should be evaluated before they are enrolled in an
anger management program. When I say evaluated, I do not mean
unilaterally ruled out, but prescreened. Certain kinds of people
are more likely to benefit than others |
-1.238496 | -0.019211 | 48 | Reply to a comment Reply to this comment rosanelleatonsfan
writes: I'm betting there's another assault-style weapon
involved here. When the heck is America going to say "ENOUGH?"
I don't care if the shooter is black, brown or white; what
religion they ascribe to (or not) -- when Congress can't pass
legislation banning these weapons that 90% of Americans want
because of the money a single entity (the NRA) puts into buying
Congressmen, something is very very wrong in this country. |
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-1.828977 | 0.706522 | -1 | John Hawkins Recommend this article "Does anybody think it's OK
to have 40-year-old trees growing through the roofs of
dilapidated houses?" -- Detroit's Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr
"A few years ago, the nonpartisan Bay Area Center for Voting
Research rated Detroit as the most liberal city in America." --
Michael Tanner The result? 1) Unions crippled the auto
industry: The Big 3 automakers could afford unions when they
practically had a monopoly on auto production in the United
States. However, once they started facing real competition from
overseas, the unions made them less and less competitive. The
unions forced the companies to pay out more than market value
for their workers, put stifling work rules in place that made
flexibility and innovation difficult, and created generous
pension plans that are proving to be unsustainable. This
wouldn't have been possible without a symbiotic relationship
between the unions and the Democrats in government who tied the
hands of the Big 3 automakers and simply wo |
-4.772406 | 1.602127 | 34 | This is what happens when Shen ults in on a pumpkin Posted
by: Lance Liebl Thanks to /r/leagueoflegends, I know what I'll
be carving into a pumpkin this Halloween. Reddit user
lordgreggreg shared his pumpkin pattern with the League of
Legends community, and 'impressive' isn't a strong enough word
to describe how amazing it is. I don't know how long it took
him, but I know how long it would take me. I don't think I'd be
able to finish it before the pumpkin rots. Look at all that
detail! If you want to have a go at carving Shen into your
pumpkin this year, you can get the Shen Pumpkin Pattern from his
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-2.523282 | -0.578852 | -1 | Monday, March 10, 2014 Follow us: Why the stocks fell after
the election • Text size: + - Albany/HV: Why the stocks fell
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Sign in with your TWC ID to access our video clips. To view
our videos, you need to enable JavaScript. Learn how. install
Adobe Flash 9 or above. Install now. Then come back here and
refresh the page. Wall Street looked to rebound Wednesday after
suffering its worst day of the year on Tuesday. The Dow finished
down 312 points. It's the fourth time ever it's been down the
day after the general election. But how do we explain the
market's fall? Our Erin Vannella reports. NATIONWIDE -- The
president is elected and the Dow Jones drops more than two
percent to one of its worst sell-off's of the year. Why? "I
think it had more to do with the disappointment that Romney was
not elected than anything else," said Financial Analyst Hugh
Johnson. Johnson blames in part, a lack of confidence among
some Republicans that Obama |
-1.377831 | 1.55932 | 92 | Monday, May 26, 2008 Humboldt Bay and NCRA: A great investment?
I've read this article on Golmdan- Sachs' interest in Humboldt
Bay and the North Coast Railroad Authority a couple times to
make sure I have it right. It does indeed look like they're
talking about using private investment from various pension
funds to develop the harbor and railroad. How could a
libertarian argue with that? It's their money to lose, or is it?
I had to ask myself; If it was my retirement money they were
investing, would I want it spent on rebuilding our railroad?
Would you want your retirement account to invest in Humboldt's
port and railroad? Not Sure Free polls from At 5:27 PM,
Anonymous Anonymous said... The NCRA give away of public
property already happened. According to the contract with the
NWP the "operator" pays $250,000 a year to use the entire line
when or if it gets used. Anything that needs to be fixed beyond
basic maintenance is payed for by the public. So the public will
end up footing the bill for the failin |
-2.901354 | 5.235132 | 30 | Are Poor Countries Better Off Without Banks? By Robert E.
Anderson This article was published in FOX News Online, April
22, 2004. Good banks can be a major force for economic growth.
They can transfer the public’s savings to those businesses that
need capital for productive investments. Unfortunately, many
banks in poor countries have turned out to be pyramid schemes in
which most of their loans are bad (non-performing) and the banks
are insolvent. However, as long as deposits are growing, they
can use new deposits to pay the interest on the old and thus
remain liquid. Such banks can continue to operate sometimes for
decades until something causes new deposits to decline such as a
macro-economic shock. The result is a banking crisis. According
to a World Bank inventory, about two-thirds of the 140 low or
medium-income countries have had a banking crisis since 1976.
Sixteen have had more than one, with Argentina holding the
record with four. After each crisis, the government has usually
had to bail out th |
3.848308 | -3.774635 | 55 | Edition: U.S. / Global Where Is Sportsmanship? Published:
March 14, 2004 To the Sports Editor: This ugly incident is
indicative of how far sports have approached becoming gladiator
spectacles, egged on by the establishment of each sport, and of
hockey in particular. This adversarial atmosphere is fostered to
titillate the fans, as our Canadian pundit, Don Cherry, does
with his most spectacular hits and fights TV piece. Where is
sportsmanship? It doesn't generate as much money and profit.
This gratuitous culture of violence could easily be stopped or
at least curtailed by the hockey establishment, but it seems
everyone is under pressure to squeeze as much money as possible
out of the sport. Even though Moore is the main victim, his
disabling of a Canucks superstar in an earlier game started the
vendetta. We are all poorer for this pugilistic atmosphere.
North Vancouver, B.C. |
1.002055 | -1.146559 | -1 | « Back to news John Ciorciari quoted in Time about uptick in
violence in Thai-Cambodian border dispute Monday, April 25,
2011 John Ciorciari was quoted in a Time article called "Deadly
Clashes as Thai-Cambodian Temple Tensions Reignite." The article
discusses a new series of violent clashes that have erupted
around the Preah Vihear Hindu temple, a UNESCO World Heritage
site. Thailand and Cambodia both lay claim to the land, and
each claims the other initiated this latest round of fighting as
a political maneuver. Thai political divisions between the
military and the ruling party are only complicating matters. "In
any country where the army seeks a prominent role in politics,
it needs a security dispute to command attention and influence,"
Ciorciari explained to Time. |
-3.352317 | 1.401762 | -1 | Smoking is now more than just a habit for people these days. It
becomes lifestyle and trend. Sometimes someone smokes just
because he/she wants to fit him/herself in the community.
Smoking is now seen as way to intimating one and each other in a
community. This way, someone that used to have principal not to
smoking eventually will be taken along and smoke in the end, in
order to fit themselves with people in the community. But if
you’re in that position, what will you do? In one side, you want
to blend yourself into the community. But in the other side you
don’t want to damage your health with smoking. Is there any way
to smoke and still healthy? Yes, there is one way you can try; e
cigs. E cigs or e cigarette is cigarette that powered by
electricity. Sounds funny? No, it is real and has become trend
in any place in this world. Electronic cigarette powered by
batteries that will help the atomizer and cartridge to create
vapor. The benefit of smoking through e cigarette is that it has
lower nicotine level; a |
-0.776429 | 2.0237 | -1 | For many families who are dealing with sending a youngster off
to college for the first time, the time between April 15 and May
15 can be perplexing. Recently, Kaitlin Filippi, a 2010 graduate
of Burr & Burton Academy and currently a junior at Lesley
University in Cambridge, Mass, submitted the following column
for a class project. The cost of my father's college education
at Pace University, from 1969 to 1973, was $6,080. He was a
commuter, so room and board is not included in that cost. The
cost of my mother's college education at Boston College, from
1983 to 1987, was $45,000. The cost of my college education at
Lesley University, from 2010 to 2014, will be $112,294. My
total cost, though, is only so "low" because I receive a merit
scholarship, am graduating a semester early, and will be doing
my fall 2013 semester from home, online, to save on room and
board costs. Without all of that, the cost of my education would
have been roughly $190,600. Clearly, the cost of a college
education has been rising |
1.11651 | 0.744698 | -1 | [an error occurred while processing this directive] BBC News
watch One-Minute World News Last Updated: Thursday, 30 August
2007, 18:50 GMT 19:50 UK Burial clue to early urban strife Bones
from mass burial Image: Science Only a fraction of the burial
pit has been excavated There could be hundreds and
potentially thousands Dr Augusta McMahon, University of
Cambridge The surface of Tell Brak is covered with broken
pottery and other debris Image: Jason A Ur Ancient forensics
Tell Brak appears to have developed from the outside inwards
Dr McMahon said she did not know whether the victors were
defending or attacking Tell Brak. "We need at least another
season to understand what happened," said Joan Oates, an
archaeologist at Cambridge and project director at Tell Brak.
She estimates that the Majnuna incident took place in about
3,800BC. Tell Brak is a 40m-high, 1km-long archaeological mound
in what would have been northern Mesopotamia. Jason Ur, an
anthropologist at Harvard University in Cambri |
1.15201 | 9.728146 | 22 | dangling pointer: n. [common] A reference that doesn't actually
lead anywhere (in C and some other languages, a pointer that
doesn't actually point at anything valid). Usually this happens
because it formerly pointed to something that has moved or
disappeared. Used as jargon in a generalization of its techspeak
meaning; for example, a local phone number for a person who has
since moved to the other coast is a dangling pointer. |
1.112526 | 2.278068 | 40 | Quantcast How Sex Works: Why We Look, Smell, Taste, Feel, and
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-0.746514 | -0.202904 | -1 | Protester Non Grata 'Nightline' Spikes a Segment About Peaceful
Protesters Did Nightline spike a segment about a group of
peaceful protesters at the World Economic Forum, because they
failed to spark enough "violence" for a sensational story? So
claims Phil Skaller, a first-year student at Hampshire College
and a member of the Hampshire Direct Action Group. Skaller says
that about 10 days before the forum, Nightline producers and
camera crews came to Hampshire to profile his 25-member
anarchist group. Because the producers "seemed seriously
concerned about the issues," Skaller says, "we went out of our
way to work with them." Interviews were done on campus and at
the protest, but while many Hampshire students were arrested,
they maintained a peaceful presence. Nightline had planned to
air its segment on the protesters February 4, but that day,
producer Ted Gerstein called Skaller to tell him the show had
been postponed. Enron chairman Kenneth Lay had skipped out on
Congress at the last minute, and Nightli |
-1.749838 | -0.073315 | 41 | Comment: How hypocritical. (See in situ) In reply to comment:
BEFORE WE GET TOO EXCITED~~ (see in situ) How hypocritical.
Why are you waiting for a national solution? Why do you CARE
about national? Build your OWN STATE's organization. Take the
trainings and organize locally. No one is stopping you. No one
has EVER stopped you. You stopped yourself. |
-4.203906 | 1.614783 | -1 | Night Shift: Business owner Adam Williams on April 03, 2008 at
6:12 AM, updated April 03, 2008 at 6:24 AM Adam Williams, 24,
is co-owner of Recess Coffee, 110 Harvard Place, Syracuse.
"Being my own boss is great. There's the stress side of it, but
being able to hear people's request and being able to take
action is great. It's cool to give back to the community."
"The previous owner trained us in every aspect of the business.
We learned how to roast our own coffee and gained a lot of
knowledge about coffee." "We always have local art on the
wall. We're trying to get more art shows to come here. We're
open to cool ideas and we want a melting pot of different people
and culture." "The Westcott neighborhood is a lot of fun.
Sometimes people try to barter for their coffee like giving away
gems, crystals and earrings made out of clay in the shape of a
peace sign." "Some people ask me if I have certain 'special'
ingredients in the back, which we don't support. We're both
straight edge." "I'm singl |
3.169489 | 1.481196 | 123 | Title: Sighs and Sacrifice: a Wizarding Romance by
UnseenLibrarian Disclaimer: I own nothing in this fiction
except the plot idea, and make no money from it. JK Rowling's
characters and locations are all hers. Author's Note: This
story was written for the final round of the dmhgficexchange at
LJ, which just ended today, May 22, 2011. The original recipient
for this story dropped out of the exchange, so I dedicated this
fic to all the wonderful Pinch Hitters. Without them, many of
the participants would not have received gifts. Pinch Hitters
are fantastic people. :) The request I received for this fic
had a somewhat Scottish bent, and a sudden image of Draco in a
kilt flashed through my head. He would not go away, not that I
minded! I think I was able to throw a little bit of everything
in here, including humor. Please enjoy. Thank you to my DH and
to RZZMG for being supportive betas. You folks rock! Malfoy
Manor, Wiltshire and Diagon Alley, London Monday afternoon,
April 30, 2001 Narcissa Malfoy was f |
4.263904 | -4.180187 | 0 | Take the 2-minute tour × Possible Duplicate: Is it “5-6 weeks
are a lot of time” or “5-6 weeks is a lot of time”? I am
writing about a baseball player who has 33 at-bats in his
career. Which is correct: Yes, 33 career at-bats
qualifies/qualify as a small sample size. My guess is that it
should be qualify because at-bats is the subject, but it sounds
odd. share|improve this question marked as duplicate by
FumbleFingers, JeffSahol, simchona, kiamlaluno, Daniel Jun 27
'12 at 23:02 The subject is 33 career at-bats - which is
plural, so qualify is the correct verb form. But people will
often use singular qualifies in a context like this, where that
number of "at-bats" is alternatively described as (singular) "a
small sample size". – FumbleFingers Jun 18 '12 at 17:20 A
similar question: 5 weeks is vs 5 weeks are – J.R. Jun 18 '12
at 17:24 2 Answers 2 The argument could be made that there's
an implicit 'having' in the sentence: Yes, [having] 33 career
at-bats qualifies as a small sample size. If you b |
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