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0.067554 | 8.355305 | -1 | hide cookie message 2,622 Tutorials How to pick business
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Setting up a backup system is an essential task for any
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-1.347912 | 1.674628 | 92 | Group looks to revitalize Downtown Elkhart - Fox 28: South Bend,
Elkhart IN News, Weather, Sports Group looks to revitalize
Downtown Elkhart A group in Elkhart has come up with a
comprehensive plan to bring more people downtown to live, work,
and play. The group, who calls themselves SoMa for "Supporting
our Main Assets", has been doing research on the revitalization
for two years an now their plan is almost ready to go before the
City Council. The group has a lot of ideas to bring people
downtown and it is summarized in a ten page document, that aims
to bring a lot of change to Downtown Elkhart. A key piece of the
whole plan though is just getting the word out about what
Elkhart already has to offer. Steve Gruber who lives in Elkhart
said, "When I was a little kid Downtown was really vibrant."
Gruber grew up in Elkhart, then moved away, but eventually came
back to a very different city. "When I came back it was really
in need of a lot," said Gruber. He decided he wanted to invest
in his community, so |
1.202338 | 1.521672 | -1 | Spiritual materialism From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to: navigation, search Cutting Through Spiritual
Materialism by Chögyam Trungpa Spiritual materialism is a term
coined by Chögyam Trungpa in his book Cutting Through Spiritual
Materialism. The book is a compendium of his talks explaining
Buddhism given while opening the Karma Dzong meditation center
in Boulder, Colorado. He expands on the concept in later
seminars that became books such as Work, Sex, Money. He uses the
term to describe mistakes spiritual seekers commit which turn
the pursuit of spirituality into an ego building and confusion
creating endeavor, based on the idea that ego development is
counter to spiritual progress.[1] Conventionally, it is used to
describe capitalist and spiritual narcissism, commercial efforts
such as "new age" bookstores and wealthy lecturers on
spirituality; it might also mean the attempt to build up a list
of credentials or accumulate teachings in order to present
oneself as a more realized or holy person |
4.506385 | -3.244443 | 1 | With Brazil and Mexico having just checked into the final of the
third FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup, what better time for the two
men responsible for guiding them there to tell share their
views? Deja vu for Soares Alexandre Soares knows exactly what
to expect on Sunday. The 41-year-old coach took charge of the
national side after the disappointment of 2005, steering his
charges to the title in 2006 and has just taken them back to yet
another final showdown. "I don't know what's harder: winning the
title for the first time or retaining it. It's tough, you know,"
he tells FIFA.com. Victory over France is still fresh in the
memory and Soares offers a very candid assessment of Saturday's
events. "We've beaten them easily every time we've played them
recently. Eric Cantona tried to motivate his players by telling
them France were better but he must have known that wasn't true.
They always play the same way and that makes things easier for
us." A member of the national team's coaching staff since 2003,
Soares kn |
-0.24649 | 3.691678 | -1 | Scouts-L Mail Archive for August of 1999: Four Seasons Tent
Four Seasons Tent Tue, 10 Aug 1999 13:59:52 EDT My need is an
answer to the rather expensive four-seasons tents. When using a
regular tent in cold weather, below freezing, a lot of moisture
builds up in the tent causing the floor to become wet along with
the occupants. The major tent makers advertise 3-season and
4-season tents. What is the difference? What can we do make the
3-season tent bearable for winter? Or what are we doing wrong
with all the moisture in the tents? Thanks for you help with
your responses. Jim Fitzgerald Unit Commissioner Louisville, KY |
4.308793 | 2.854097 | 5 | Seven Psychopaths Marty (Colin Farrell) is a hard-drinking
screenwriter struggling with his latest project; a crime story
without violence he calls “Seven Psychopaths.” Wanting to help
him with the script is his friend Bill (Sam Rockwell), an actor
with self-control issues who more than once has punched a
director during an audition. To make ends meet, Bill is
partners with Hans (Christopher Walken) in a dog abduction
business. Bill trolls the local park looking for easily
snatched dogs. When the owners of the dogs post flyers offering
a reward, Hans brings the dog back and the pair pockets the
cash. Bill targets the wrong dog when he grabs a shih tzu
belonging to Charlie (Woody Harrelson), a violent gangster who
is crazy about his dog and goes crazy when she disappears.
Marty, who has nothing to do with the dognapping business, gets
caught up in the insanity as Bill and Hans try to keep ahead of
Charlie and help Marty with the script, but what do the Jack
O’Diamonds killer, a duo of serial killers who |
-3.395369 | 3.172528 | 39 | Can't find your glasses? Signs of short term memory loss Short
term memory loss--it happens to the best of us. You walk into a
room and forget why you went there. You can't remember where you
put the newspaper, peanut butter, cell phone--insert any item
here--and search for hours only to find it's exactly where you
usually leave it. It's short term memory loss. It's
infuriating, and this kind of memory loss is also so common,
especially as we get older, that it's become a cliché. Signs of
short term memory loss Short term memory loss can involve
symptoms from a general sense of being “scatterbrained” to a
truly frustrating inability to remember things from the recent
past. While sometimes short term memory loss can be a symptom of
a serious problem, such as a head injury, usually it's just the
result of a hectic, busy schedule and the process of aging. If
you suffer from short term memory loss, you should first see
your doctor to ensure you aren't suffering from any serious
illness or injury. Causes of |
-1.406912 | -0.692221 | -1 | Tuesday, 21 April 2009 Situation report Hardest of all is to
find time for the dissertation. About everything else comes in
the way. Today I spent the entire morning at didactics class for
teachers (which btw is great - my students in Public
Administration class will notice that things have changed next
week). In the afternoon I worked with a professor on the
dissertation draft of a fellow grad student - the MEP in the
making Max Conrad - he's on the hunt for a European public
sphere, and he's sort of found it. Then off to a brief meeting
with the vice chairman of the Students' Credit Union of which
I'm the chairman - interrupted by Expressen journalist Natalia
Kazmierska calling me to ask about the Pirate Party: is it
underrated or overrated? Quick answer: both. The Pirate Party,
yes. Maybe I'll devote a longer post to them, they are an
interesting example of an online-driven movement with an online-
driven agenda (freedom of speech + freedom of information)
seemingly succeeding in breaking through to the |
4.218316 | 2.490797 | 5 | 'August: Osage County' Trailer: It's Meryl Streep vs. Julia
Roberts Later this year, Hollywood will release its own big,
grand Hollywood version of August: Osage County, the critically
acclaimed Broadway play that won a boatload of Tonys and the
Pulitzer Prize in 2008. This version stars Meryl Streep as
pill-popping matriarch Violet Weston, and Julia Roberts as her
disgruntled daughter, Barbara. There's also Ewan McGregor,
Benedict Cumberbatch, Chris Cooper, Abigail BreslinJuliette
Lewis and a whole bunch of other famous faces, too. Basically,
this is Broadway to The Butler's national tour. Whether the
movie version will live up to the success of the play remains to
be seen; Meryl already seems to be reaching high for an accent,
which is never a great sign. Still, the movie is being backed by
Harvey Weinstein, so at the very least, we'll see it at the
Globes. Watch the trailer, above. Default avatar |
1.537691 | 9.505641 | -1 | Take the 2-minute tour × Scala has Double.isNaN for detecting
not-a-number but no Double.isInf for detecting (positive or
negative) infinity. Why? I'd like to check whether a parameter
is a "real" number (i.e. has a numeric value). Converting it to
a string and checking for "inf" or something will do it, but
there must be a better way? Like in C++:
http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/numeric/math/isinf Using Scala
2.10 share|improve this question add comment 3 Answers up
vote 9 down vote accepted Scala's Double has an isInfinite
method, and Neg/Pos variants: scala> val a = 22.0 a: Double =
22.0 scala> a.isInfinite res0: Boolean = false scala> val b =
2.0/0 b: Double = Infinity scala> b.isInfinite res1: Boolean =
true scala> b.isPosInfinity res4: Boolean = true share|improve
this answer Thanks. Don't know how I missed it. – akauppi Jun
17 '13 at 8:54 @akauppi Maybe because the REPL doesn't
autocomplete it. I see eclipse will offer it. – som-snytt Jun
17 '13 at 16:23 @som-snytt oh, good point. IDEA |
-1.202846 | -0.079647 | 48 | Friday, December 14, 2012 Guns (Redux) Back in August, while
vacationing at Cape Cod with family, I started writing about
kids and guns. Or, more to the point, parenting and guns. I
noodled around, trying to talk about how we institute sane gun
policy with our child, because kids, especially boys, like to
play with toy guns. Now, on December 14, 2012, as I sit on the
couch with my child while he eats Extra Cheesy Cheddar Bunnies
and watches “Wonder Pets,” that essay sits unfinished in my
queue, and 20 children and 7 adults have been slaughtered in
Newtown, Connecticut by a man with guns. On Tuesday, a man with
guns killed two people at a shopping mall in Oregon. Here in
Minnesota last week, a man shot his granddaughter because he
thought she was an intruder. (She lived.) On Thanksgiving, again
in Minnesota, a man shot and then executed two teenagers who he
says broke into his home. I don’t need to go any further back in
time, do I? Because America has reached the point where
headlines such as this are ne |
-3.396004 | 3.995756 | 89 | Saturday, June 26, 2010 How can you get rid of blemishes ? so
what can I use , like natural things. Or exfoliates might work ,
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? If so please list some products or possible home
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3 days ? i was a recent sufferer from acne but know i'm not.
don't touch your face..ever because it only makes your skin
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your face will break out more if it is dry. i went to the
dermatologist a |
4.159198 | 2.81521 | 5 | 'The Woman in Black' review: A lousy cure for post-Potter
depression 'The Woman in Black' 'The Woman in Black' *1/2
(out of four) If it looks like a haunted house and sounds like
a haunted house, it is probably a haunted house. Yet the
ominously remote location and eerie appearance that practically
includes a sign reading “Stay away, you fool!” aren’t enough to
deter Arthur Kipps (Daniel “Harry Potter” Radcliffe), a young
lawyer sent to finalize some paperwork and deliver on one last
chance to save his job. Obviously Kipps has little faith in his
employment prospects; the more he sees screaming ghosts and
learns about deceased children, the more he insists on walking
slowly down dark hallways in search of something unlikely to
complete his assigned task. Working from Susan Hill’s
Victorian-era novel, writer Jane Goldman and director James
Watkins subscribe to the notion that it’s always terrifying for
something spooky to appear and then disappear on second glance.
Since they also don’t think that will b |
2.057609 | 8.566555 | -1 | Take the 2-minute tour × An answer to another question derived
a formula for the volume of a delta-ball in $O(n)$. I am
wondering if there is a (constructive) way to draw samples
uniformly at random from such a region. For my purposes, an
acceptance-rejection scheme is not viable. I am trying to study
the behavior of an integral over $O(n)$ of a function that is
very small outside of certain regions, so accepting samples that
lie within the ball is no different (from a computational
perspective) from sampling from $O(n)$ in its entirety.
Alternatively, any other non-uniform sampling scheme on $O(n)$
might be of interest, especially if it concentrates more samples
around diagonal matrices $\text{diag}(\pm1,\dots,\pm1)$.
share|improve this question For small $\delta$, sampling
uniformly from a $\delta$-ball in the (linear) space of
antisymmetric matrices and exponentiating ought to give an
approximately uniform sample. – Mark Meckes Dec 19 '11 at 23:45
If you tell what your function is, somebody may come u |
4.336629 | -4.263135 | 0 | Sabathia cherishes wearing No. 42 Sabathia cherishes wearing
No. 42 CLEVELAND -- When first presented with the opportunity
to wear Jackie Robinson's No. 42, C.C. Sabathia figured he'd be
doing so while seated firmly on the bench. Sabathia, you see,
wasn't originally scheduled to pitch Sunday's home game against
the White Sox. But when Mother Nature wiped out four home games
and forced the Indians to make some adjustments to their
rotation, Sabathia suddenly fell in line for a start on Jackie
Robinson Day. Turns out, it was a memorable one. The Tribe's
ace left-hander worked eight innings in which all he allowed was
a run on five hits with 10 strikeouts to go 3-0 to start a
season for the first time in his career. It was, simply, a
performance that would have made Jackie proud. "It meant a lot
[to wear the number]," Sabathia said. "I'm just excited I got a
chance to pitch. To be able to pitch and play on this day was
huge." Introduced in 2004, Jackie Robinson Day was created to
honor the enduring impact |
0.346586 | 2.478525 | 130 | Britney Spears: 'Yoga helps me battle anxiety' BRITNEY SPEARS
has credited regular yoga sessions with helping her deal with
anxiety issues. The Toxic hitmaker has adopted a new workout
regime to get fit before taking up a rumored residency in Las
Vegas, and the singer has revealed she finds her yoga classes
extremely therapeutic. She tells Ryan Seacrest, "I love my
yoga! I'm doing a lot of yoga right now. It's like my go-to
between all (my) anxiety and everything." However, Spears
admits she wasn't always fond of the stress-busting exercise
routines: "The first time I did yoga I didn't like it at all. I
think the key is finding a good teacher, someone you kind of
connect with and if you do find that person then it doesn't feel
like you're bored or impatient because I've been in tons of
classes where I'm so over it and I can't deal (sic) and want it
to end, but I think if you find the right instructor, it does
wonders for your body." Print this article Back to Top |
0.047545 | 8.277074 | -1 | From FedoraProject Revision as of 19:02, 28 January 2011 by
Brianlamere (Talk | contribs) Jump to: navigation, search
Brian LaMere is a long-time Linux junkie. He started with
Slackware, went to Redhat, then to Fedora when it first started,
then to Gentoo, then did his own builds for a while, and came
back to Fedora once he finally realized he didn't need to re-
invent every wheel he came across. He lives in San Diego, where
he is active in animal welfare organizations, and has just
started going back to school. His work experience has generally
been in "information assurance" - high availability, security,
etc. He's served as a named SYSIAO for a DoD contractor, and has
reworked/designed the infrastructure of several companies to
meet FDA, HIPAA, and PCI compliance controls for the services
they provide. He's currently working for a SaaS provider
designing a framework for rapid deployment PCI-compliant
e-commerce websites. |
0.450436 | 9.384648 | 16 | Timing is Everything By Chet Haase (with helpful input from
Scott Violet, Hans Muller, Christopher Campbell, and Vincent
Hardy), May 12, 2005 This article originally appeared on
java.net. It's About Time Going Beyond the Built-In Timers
Overview of the Timing Model Features in TimingController
Introduction to the Code Future Work Appendix: Timing Resolution
It's About Time I recently wrote a simple demo application to
show off a particular point for a presentation on dynamic
effects in Swing. In the course of this, I once again realized
what a complete hassle it is dealing with timing and animation
issues. For example, suppose I wanted to have a simple
animation where an image moves across the screen back and forth
ten times, each time taking 500 milliseconds. I'd like to update
its position every 30 milliseconds (about 30 frames per second),
I'd like to pause for 50ms before starting, and finally, I'd
like it to hold its final position when it is finished. I should
be able to write code akin to the fo |
4.262589 | 5.162409 | 66 | Pokémon watcher From Bulbapedia, the community-driven Pokémon
encyclopedia. (Redirected from Pokémon Watcher) Jump to:
navigation, search Pokémon watcher Tracey A Pokémon watcher
(Japanese: ポケモンウォッチャー Pokémon watcher) is a Pokémon Trainer who
prefers studying Pokémon in their natural habitats rather than
battling them. Pokémon watchers travel the world, and go looking
for all kinds of Pokémon so they can observe and study their
characteristics and abilities. They also search for new,
undiscovered Pokémon. They often write reports to be reviewed
by Pokémon Professors. Pokémon watchers, like some Pokémon
researchers, are known to be eccentric due to their overwhelming
fascination with Pokémon. The famous Pokémon watcher Dr. Quincy
T. Quackenpoker, for instance, devoted his entire life to
studying Magikarp. Notable watchers In other languages
Language Title Mandarin Chinese 神奇寶貝觀察家 Denmark Flag.png Danish
Pokémon Vogter France Flag.png French Observateur Pokémon
Germany Flag.png German Pokémon-Beobachte |
-1.300452 | 2.618829 | -1 | Reply to a comment Reply to this comment p3t3rpan writes: in
response to ArtSeen: Exactly, why? There's a lot of head-
scratching going on. Since continental drift and plate
tectonics never happened (how could they if the Earth is only
6000 years old), how did Noah get kangaroos from Australia,
polar bears from the Arctic, and tigers from Africa? And does
this mean that Noah and his sons were responsible for the
ancestry of every human alive today? What about the
Neanderthals? Oh, yeah…they opened a biblical museum in
Kentucky. And how can the most populated country on earth
(China) claim 5000 years of documented history (and yet have no
record of a global flood wiping out all land dwelling cretures)
if the earth is only 6000 years old? PT Barnum said it best.... |
0.941653 | 6.54347 | 14 | Stompbox Fever: Source Audio Orbital Modulator By Matt Blackett
Tue, 23 Jul 2013 IF THE ORBITAL MODULATOR ($169 street) from
Source Audio wasn’t my favorite pedal at this year’s NAMM Show,
it was in the top two. Although it appears to be essentially a
collection of 12 different chorus, flange, and phase flavors
(plus tremolo!), the Orb Mod actually goes way beyond that
generous offering by giving you crazy control over how you
modulate and manipulate those effects. The results range from
trad to rad to mindbending, all with righteous sonic quality. I
plugged a PRS SC58 into the OM then into a Bad Cat Hot Cat.
Being an unabashed chorus guy, I selected the Quad Chorus
setting and was blown away by what I heard: not just rich,
dimensional chorusing—it definitely had that—but incredibly
quiet operation, impressive low end, and no seasick out-of-
tuneness that bedevils so many chorus pedals. Cruising through
the other effect choices revealed loads of thick, chewy sounds,
with the Thru Zero Flange and 8 Stage Phas |
-0.76593 | 9.716228 | 15 | HTML: The Markup Language h4heading # T The h1 through h6
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2.197751 | 2.76961 | 37 | Subscribe Feedback English look up any word, like selfie: 6. PoK
PoK is an acronym used by the players of the MMORPG Everquest,
in order to easily refer to the Plane of Knowledge. This is a
zone that was introduced to the game in the expansion set,
Everquest: Planes of Power, which coincidentally enough, users
of Everquest often refer to as PoP. The Plane of Knowledge is a
central area to the game, in which people may access distant
places all throughout the game world, via clickable stone
portals placed throughout the zone. Thus, it is spoken of a lot
while playing. Let's head to the PoK to meet up, and buy some
new spells. by Lurick March 14, 2005 add a video add an image 1.
pok one who loves the cock on 5 million levels dude, aaron is so
pok, he's like some dreamy pok fag or somethin'! 2. pok ref: gay
Dayum, That guy in the tight shirt is definately pok. 3. pok The
equivalent of tapping or drumming your finger on a table. The
three letters on the keyboard 'P' 'O' 'K' are in prime position
for your finger |
3.43328 | 5.046099 | 2 | Take the tour × Is there any way to tell whether a tower will
be able to attack enemies at a particular point? I find myself
confused by all the various stairs, ledges, etc, and while the
area of effect overlay seems to ignore elevation, I'm not sure
that is accurate. Is it just a matter of having line of sight,
meaning I could "test" it by standing where I would place the
tower and determining whether I can see the point in question?
Or are there also limits on how far up or down towers can
attack? share|improve this question add comment 2 Answers up
vote 5 down vote accepted Two towers, Deadly strike and
lightning towers can shoot through walls while others, like the
fireball tower, magic missile, and squire harpoon cannot. The
projectiles, when they hit a wall, will not continue through and
thus cause no damage to the mobs. Line of sight does play into
the game for some of the maps, but all of the huntress traps,
and monk auras have a spherical area of damage. share|improve
this answer also, the squ |
-3.727563 | 3.050026 | 39 | or excrement or stools Solid bodily waste discharged from the
colon through the anus during defecation. Normal feces are
75percnt water. The rest is about 30percnt dead bacteria,
30percnt indigestible food matter, 10–20percnt cholesterol and
other fats, 10–20percnt inorganic substances, and 2–3percnt
protein. The colour and odour are produced by bacterial action
on chemical constituents. Many disorders produce abnormalities
in the feces, usually constipation or diarrhea. Bleeding in the
stomach or intestines may show up as dark red to black stools.
Tests are needed to detect small amounts (occult blood). High
fat content usually indicates disease of the pancreas or small
intestine. Many diseases are spread by contamination of food
with feces of infected persons. Learn more about feces with a
free trial on Britannica.com. Feces, faeces, or fæces (see
spelling differences) is a waste product from an animal's
digestive tract expelled through the anus (or cloaca) during
defecation. The word faeces is the plura |
-3.593409 | 3.250327 | 39 | Request Information Your Name Your Email Your Message 4040
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Fax 702-483-5562 What is Phlebotomy? It is the act or
practice of opening a vein for letting blood as a therapeutic
measure; also referred to as venesection or bleeding. The word
“phlebotomy” comes from the Greek and Latin and means to excise
or cut into the vein. Phlebotomists literally cut into veins to
remove blood. What is a Phlebotomist? Specialists called
phlebotomists draw blood, prepare blood samples and perform
manual tests or operate automatic analyzers. The phlebotomist
uses a variety of skills and techniques to obtain the best
specimen. As a phlebotomist, your main responsibilities are to
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by a blood bank. Why become a Phlebotomist? The healthcare
field is a booming industry, and being a part of that field
involves caring for people and their health. People who chose to
make phlebotomist their career path |
5.248744 | 1.05453 | 13 | Creative Orchestra (Guelph) 2007 Pieces of Time Eyvind Kang,
violin François Houle, clarinet Dylan van der Schyff, drums As
the long, appreciative applause at the end suggests, you should
have been there. Still, Pieces of Time captures a glimpse of
what was a momentous meeting on an auspicious night. Five
brilliant improvisations recorded live at the Western Front in
Vancouver. Kang, Houle and van der Schyff forge a radical
statement here. In no known camp, but an ear (6 of them) for all
things subtle, and fine attention to nuance, shade and grain
make audible a microcosmic, subterranean world. A new kind of
tree perhaps, but one with deep roots. Produced by Dylan van der
Schyff. Recorded by Shawn Pierce for Maximum Music Ltd. at the
Western Front, Vancouver BC, on November 28th, 1997. What the
critics are saying: "On Pieces of Time's five improvisations,
Chinese folk themes collide with pointillistic splatter and
pensive melodies snake through textural soundscrapes; everything
is glued together b |
-2.022726 | 0.409166 | -1 | 'These jobs really make the world a worse place' Author: By
Blake Ellis Published On: Nov 21 2012 05:54:02 AM EST Updated
On: Nov 21 2012 06:01:03 AM EST While fast food workers, casino
dealers and telemarketers topped a recent list of jobs that make
the world a worse place, CNNMoney readers have their own ideas
about the careers that hurt the world the most. After CNNMoney
ran a slideshow based on a Payscale.com survey of workers who
said their job makes the world a worst place, readers sent in a
wave of e-mails and posted dozens of comments sounding off about
their own jobs -- or jobs of others -- that they think are just
as despicable. Rob, a 58-year-old from Alabama who asked that
his last name not be included for privacy reasons, says he
worked for a U.S. defense company for 10 years fixing broken
missiles so they could be launched by the U.S. Army in places
like Iraq and Afghanistan. Since his job involved ensuring the
missiles were accurate and that they would deploy, it became
especially diffic |
0.043861 | 9.764609 | 16 | From Wikibooks, open books for an open world Jump to:
navigation, search This is a complete step-by-step guide on how
to run your own pywikibot on Wikimedia projects, from your Mac,
hopefully more easy and readable than the original one.
Downloading MacPython[edit] Apple provides an installation of
Python with every Mac OS X installation, by default. You don’t
need to install Python, but you might want to update it. Here
are the instructions. First of all, you need to download
Python, the application that reads the scripts and does
something with them. Download MacPython from here, choosing
“Python 2.5.2 for Macintosh OS X”. Open the downloaded dmg file
and install it. In Applications in Finder you should now find a
folder named “MacPython 2.5”. Nothing else needs to be done
here, close Finder. NOTE: A new application will be installed
on your Mac, with the name “IDLE”. It’s just difficult and
confusing, and nothing worth spending time on trying to use.
Downloading SVN[edit] Many Wikimedia projects re |
1.822843 | 1.531484 | -1 | Hindi/Urdu: baiThnaa vs. baiTh jaana or baiTh lenaa Discussion
in 'Indo-Iranian Languages' started by eskandar, Oct 4, 2013.
1. eskandar eskandar Moderator English (US) What
are the semantic differences between these three verbs? My
feeling is that while baiThnaa is the basic verb, baiTh jaana
conveys motion ("to go sit") and baiTh lenaa would be equivalent
to the English "to take a seat". Have I understood correctly?
It also seems to me that, for example, baiTh jaa'o would be a
more direct (maybe even more forceful?) command ("go sit down!")
compared to baiTh lo ("take a seat"). Is that right?
Finally, I would appreciate recommendations for a good
(preferably somewhat comprehensive) source for these types of
compound verbs in Hindi/Urdu. Dictionaries typically offer only
the simple verb form, so aside from listening to contextual use
it's hard to know when to say X karo vs. X kar lo or what have
you, and I fear that my over-reliance on simple (non-compund)
verbs makes my speech so |
2.288534 | 2.915971 | 65 | Fashion Police Leighton Meester at a Biotherm commercial event
at Three on the Bund The Top Cops Weigh in: Owen Weber,
Comedian, How did she get ahold of my high school doodles?
Andrea Henry, Stand-up comic: Who ordered a Pajama-gram?!
Vivian Manning-Schaffel, Writer, @soapboxdirty: Even flowers
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-0.977623 | 1.468366 | 91 | 'He'll use every means at his disposal to make his money. If it
means pissing off the locals, he'll have no qualms about it.'
US billionaire displays famed ruthlessness in Scotland and in
Manhattan It must be dispiriting at times to be one of the
local Aberdeenshire protesters trying to stop the billionaire
Donald Trump from building a £500m golf complex along one of
Scotland's finest stretches of dunes. His visit to the site this
week has reminded them, if they needed it, that they are pitted
against one of the world's most famous and famously ruthless
businessmen. But they should take comfort from the thought that
they are not alone. Three thousand miles away, in the rather
less rustic location of SoHo in lower Manhattan, a very similar
battle is being played out between residents and the Trump
phenomenon over his plans to construct a $450m (£220m)
condominium. The scheme's opponents say the 46-storey tower
would ruin the low-rise nature of the neighbourhood, in much the
same way as Aberdeen's antagonist |
-1.464185 | 9.208126 | -1 | Possible Duplicate: “Follow that question” feature I don't
always comment on questions I'm interested in answering, but I
do like to follow the development of said question because
sometimes an edit or comment can lead to information that will
help me answer said question so I tend to keep it open and
refresh it, sometimes I do this with several questions. Why not
add a button to follow a question until it is resolved and get
notified when new comments or edits are made on the question?
share|improve this question That's what that favorite "star" is
for. – Mysticial Sep 20 '12 at 19:18 You don't get notified
about comments or edits made to favorited question. And it's
different, you tend to favorite questions that are either highly
relevant, or very helpful to you, and tend to be answered. –
8vius Sep 20 '12 at 19:20 You do actually. But they're easy to
miss. For comments, the question will be highlighted in yellow
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5.462022 | 0.924436 | -1 | No encontramos iTunes en este ordenador. Para usar vista
previa y comprar música de Sailing the Seas of Cheese de Primus,
descarga iTunes ya. Yo tengo iTunes Descarga gratis iTunes
para Mac y PC Sailing the Seas of Cheese Abre iTunes para
escuchar un fragmento, comprar y descargar música. Reseña de
álbum The first Primus album to achieve much widespread airplay
(thanks to its release on a major), and the one that broke them
on MTV, Sailing the Seas of Cheese completely redefined the
possibilities of the electric bass in rock music for those who'd
never heard the group before. Slapping like a funk player, but
strumming power chords and finger-tapping like a metal guitar
hero, Les Claypool coaxed sounds from his instrument that had
rarely if ever been made the focus of a rock band. Claypool's
riffs were so full and dominant that they hardly needed to be
doubled by guitarist Larry LaLonde (and wouldn't have had the
same effect anyway), which freed him up on most songs to launch
into dissonant, atonal s |
-1.182257 | 1.454516 | 91 | No to Per-Faculty Fee-Levy Referendums Concordia is a
remarkable school beyond the classrooms, because we have such a
strong sense of community. The vibrancy of campus life here is
apparent in ways I have not seen at any other school. A central
component of the unique nature of Concordia is our relationship
to fee-levy groups. These groups bind us together, support us,
and enrich our education and experience at university. However,
they are under threat by the per-faculty fee-levy referendum
question. By treating fee levies as a faculty issue, we ignore
the fact that people benefit from these groups regardless of
their faculty. Currently, we vote yearly as a school on whether
we will support fee-levy increases. If people want to opt out of
these fees, they are free to do so. However, if a faculty were
to opt out, they would switch the orientation to an opt-in
system, where people must be individually solicited for their
donations. These fee-levy groups would no longer be just student
funded service, inte |
-0.119698 | 9.363859 | 16 | Take the 2-minute tour × I need to be able to programatically
(from an installer program) install and run a windows service so
that it will have elevated admin rights (the installer app has
already elevated by this point), and also that it will restart
at system startup with elevated rights. Is this possible?
share|improve this question 1 Answer 1 up vote 1 down vote
accepted You need to read up on OpenSCManager(),
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2.045199 | 8.247705 | -1 | Solved Question Papers - IIT JEE/MathsQP2005 Two Mark
QuestionsEdit Q1. A person goes to office either by car,
scooter, bus or train the probabilities for which are 1/7, 3/7,
2/7 and 1/7 respectively. The probabilities that he reaches
office late, if he takes car, scooter, bus or train are 2/9,
1/9, 4/9 and 1/9 respectively. Given that he reached office in
time, what is the probability that he travelled by a car? Q2
Find the range of values of t for which 2\sin
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3 = 0, 3x + y + z = 5 and at a distance of \frac{1}{\sqrt 6}
from the point (2,1,–1). Q5 A function f(x) is such that | f
(x1)-f (x2) | < (x1-x2)2 for all real x1 and x2. Find the
equation of the tangent to the curve y = f (x) at the point
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-1.30896 | 7.367033 | -1 | What would your world look like I agree that "this was
trashy". However, we are guaranteed the right to free speech.
This area is specifically designated for that very purpose. The
thought that this tunnel is monitored at all goes against the
very idea with which it was created. "People that do this type
of activity with their FREE time should be locked away!" What
would the world be like without the right to self expression.
While tasteless, they have a constitutional right say it. Take
away that right, and the others are sure to follow. Then the
country that established these rights would be no more than a
thought prison. Disagree yes, but deny rights, never. If free
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1.07226 | 8.96674 | -1 | Thursday Nov 17, 2011 How John Got 15x Improvement Without
Really Trying The following article was published on a Sun
Microsystems website a number of years ago by John Feo. It is
still useful and worth preserving. So I'm republishing it here.
How I Got 15x Improvement Without Really Trying John Feo, Sun
Microsystems Taking ten "personal" program codes used in
scientific and engineering research, the author was able to get
from 2 to 15 times performance improvement easily by applying
some simple general optimization techniques. Scientific
research based on computer simulation depends on the simulation
for advancement. The research can advance only as fast as the
computational codes can execute. The codes' efficiency
determines both the rate and quality of results. In the same
amount of time, a faster program can generate more results and
can carry out a more detailed simulation of physical phenomena
than a slower program. Highly optimized programs help science
advance quickly and insure that monies su |
-0.372798 | -0.674128 | 98 | The Monitor's View In Colombia and Afghanistan, elections that
pacify Elections in Colombia and Afghanistan put a democratic
stamp on talks with rebels, or a listening to their political
views while rejecting their violence. • close Colombian
President Juan Manuel Santos gestures to the crowd after winning
a second term in a presidential election June 15. His victory
allows him to continue peace talks with Marxist guerrillas.
View Caption 1 of 2 In the two dozen or so countries facing
violent insurgencies, such as Iraq and Pakistan, the preferred
response has been military force. Yet in two countries, Colombia
and Afghanistan, elections held this past weekend point to an
alternative: reaching out to insurgents with a degree of empathy
toward some of their ideas – if not their violent tactics.
Colombia’s president, Juan Manuel Santos, was reelected Sunday
in a victory seen as a referendum on his peace negotiations with
the left-wing FARC rebels. With his mandate renewed, Mr. Santos
may now more |
-2.15445 | -0.35816 | -1 | This transcript is automatically generated There we will --
wondered if someone else this time teachers they said there
teachers -- job that you don't. No longer ever fire them and
lots of teachers -- bad. The schools are failing teachers are
the reason bad teachers bad bad teachers. -- -- of a nearly
eight minute video from a California's teachers union.
Suggesting the rich point a finger at everyone else when they
are really to blame for all of our problems. But it is another
part of that video that has some questioning the union's
message. Even labeling it as vile and vicious. Trace Gallagher
has a lot -- -- -- newsroom Trace. Meg in the video begins with
once upon a time and it and -- happily ever after but in between
about seven minutes and 35 seconds of attacking the ridge
calling them greedy. And uncaring money loving liars who
elected all the politicians and do not pay. Their fair share of
taxes in fact the only reason they're rich says the video. Is
because of tax cuts loopholes and tax |
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system of law, with the administrative system established to
handle any disputes between the government and individuals but
the judiciary system handles both criminal and civil cases.
There is no jury system in France. Cases are heard by a
‘tribunal’ which is composed of 6 ‘lay’ judges and 3
professionals. If two-thirds of the panel agree then the verdict
is carried. France has several different types of courts,
depending upon the type of case that is being heard. There are
several le |
5.320141 | 0.867005 | 13 | Não conseguimos localizar o iTunes no computador. Para ouvir
um excerto e comprar música de In Case We Die de Architecture In
Helsinki, descarregue o iTunes agora. Tenho o iTunes Descarga
gratuita iTunes para Mac + PC In Case We Die Architecture In
Helsinki Open iTunes to preview, buy and download music.
Crítica do álbum On their debut album, Fingers Crossed,
Architecture in Helsinki felt like they were just getting their
bearings. This gave the album, and the Australian indie pop
collective's mix of symphonic and electronic pop, a tentative,
first-steps kind of charm. However, after a spending a year on
the road tightening up their live act, and a little while longer
in their wonderfully named Super Melody World studio recording
their second album, In Case We Die, the group sounds much more
assured. Everything on In Case We Die, from the intensely sweet
melodies and vocals to the widescreen production, delivers the
kind of playful pop majesty that Fingers Crossed's best moments
hinted were within A |
0.862262 | 1.864168 | -1 | Edition: U.S. / Global Published: October 27, 2002 To the
male victims of goosing and other physical humiliations
described in our cover article, readers offered advice: forget
litigating for harassment; sue for assault. And to the aging
boomers who feel shut out by TV advertising pitched to ''18 to
34,'' others asked, Why would they care? |
-3.37064 | 5.202836 | 115 | 6 votes We can only hope that nobody will be shocked that the
greatly overhyped Friday Cyprus bank reopen has been postponed.
And since March 25, Monday, is another Cyprus bank holiday,
"Greek Independence Day" (from whom? Certainly not the Troika),
it means Cypriot banks will now remain closed at least until
next Tuesday and likely far longer. In the meantime, since TV
cameras can't show lines of people at their freindly
neighborhood bank, which will have been closed for over a week,
the propaganda machine will blast full bore how because the
market is pushed higher by the Fed, any fears of bank runs can
be forgotten. Actually instead of "can", replace with "must."
But since banks have to reopen at some time, at which point the
inevitable bank runs will become reality, the already discussed
Plan B is now taking shape: It remains to be seen if a country
can't have a bank run in the New Centrally-Planned and Despotic
Normal, if there is simply a law saying it is now illegal to
pull or transfer more tha |
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37353682.post3209167519813769066..comments2014-10-
23T07:52:33.085-07:00Comments on Just a car guy : Ever seen a
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com,1999:blog-37353682.post-17458208582052898432011-11-
30T15:53:03.089-08:002011-11-30T15:53:03.089-08:00I have. When I
bought the 8,000 plaque patterns f...I have. <br />When I bought
the 8,000 plaque patterns from the original pattern maker for
Chicago Metal Craft, the original pattern for that plaque was
included. So we can make you as many new, new old stock ones as
you'd like. Here's a link to a picture of the original
and the search page so you can get pictures of any of the 12,000
plaques we have for reproduction (the other 4,000 are the
original patterns from Speed Gems). Happy searching:)<br /><br /
>https://www.obrientruckers.com/plaques_search.php?name=Veeblefe
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-2.115865 | -0.715277 | 10 | • Text smaller • Text bigger Colorado’s majority-Democrat
legislature adopted a series of new election laws that could be
used by unscrupulous campaigners to alter election results by
bringing in a flood of outside voters, according to election
officials. A new law allows someone who has lived anywhere in
Colorado for 22 days to walk into an election polling location
in another district and, with a statement of intent to move to
that area, be given a ballot. Critics point out an unscrupulous
person could lie, and unless he admits to lying, there appears
to be little law enforcement could do. The development comes as
two Democrats who helped their party ram through major gun
restrictions and other liberal agenda items in the last session
face recall elections. Weld County Clerk and Recorder Steve
Moreno told WND it is his understanding that a voter living for
more than 22 days in Weld County, far from the districts where
Sens. John Morse (Colorado Springs) and Angela Giron (Pueblo)
are being recalled f |
-2.708795 | 3.115712 | -1 | Open Access Research article Association genetics in Solanum
tuberosum provides new insights into potato tuber bruising and
enzymatic tissue discoloration Claude Urbany1*, Benjamin
Stich1, Lysann Schmidt1, Ludwig Simon2, Hergen Berding3, Holger
Junghans4, Karl-Heinz Niehoff5, Alexander Braun6, Eckhard
Tacke7, Hans-Rheinhardt Hofferbert8, Jens Lübeck9, Josef
Strahwald9 and Christiane Gebhardt1 Author Affiliations 1 Max
Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, 50829 Cologne;
Germany 2 Bavaria Saat BGB GmbH, 86529 Schrobenhausen; Germany
3 Saatzucht Berding, 26345 Bockhorn-Petersgroden; Germany 4
NORIKA, 18190 Groß Lüsewitz; Germany 5 Dr. K.-H. Niehoff, Gut
Bütow, 17209 Bütow; Germany 6 Böhm-Nordkartoffel
Agrarproduktion OHG, 84085 Langquaid; Germany 7 BIOPLANT GmbH,
29547 Ebstorf; Germany 8 Böhm-Nordkartoffel Agrarproduktion
GbR, 29574 Ebstorf; Germany 9 Saka-Pflanzenzucht G.b.R., 24340
Windeby; Germany For all author emails, please log on. BMC
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-0.349256 | 9.99911 | 16 | Take the 2-minute tour × I don't know if this is expected
behavior or not, but if I create a project with a single model
with an ImageField field and upload a photo with the filename
"árvórés", the uploaded file is saved with an incomprehensible
filename(ascii, I presume). As a direct result, that photo
becomes impossible to retrieve from the site. Is this normal?
If yes, then how to allow those types of filenames?
share|improve this question ASCII is rarely that
incomprehensible. What filename are you getting, exactly? –
jcdyer Jan 18 '10 at 20:52 From an image filename "árvóré", I
get "árvóré" – Ricardo B. Jan 18 '10 at 21:12 Yeah that
dodgy à is usually a char-encoding issue. – Oli Jan 18 '10 at
21:22 1 Answer 1 The issue is that you haven't specified how
the POST data should be encoded by the browser, and subsequently
you are getting whatever the browser has guessed it should use -
usually ISO-8859-1 instead of Unicode (UTF-8). The HTML 4.01
spec for the FORM element includes the "accept-chars |
0.589371 | 10.194143 | 16 | Take the 2-minute tour × Using Ubuntu 12.04 I need help on
copying files that were returned from a search with grep . I
have many pdf files, so to filter specific named files I am
using General grep command as follows.
raja@badfox:~/Desktop/mtech/M.Tech II Sem-April 2012$ grep
"DESIGN OF FAULT TOLERANT SYSTEMS" *.pdf Binary file R09-DESIGN
OF FAULT TOLERANT SYSTEMS.pdf matches How do I automatically
copy the files returned from the search to another directory?
share|improve this question Do you want to copy files based on
the name of the file? (Then just do it this way.) Or do you want
to copy all files that contain a certain string? Also, remember
that if a string appears in a PDF when you view it, that string
will often but not always appear as a contiguous sequence of
characters in the PDF file itself, as there may be formatting in
the string that breaks it up. – Eliah Kagan Aug 2 '12 at 17:55
@Ankit as i mentioned only a specific files , not all . – Raja
Aug 2 '12 at 18:01 based on their name @Elia |
-3.257443 | 2.116193 | -1 | From Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia Revision as of
15:21, April 1, 2012 by (talk) Jump to: navigation, search The
Halloween coloring makes them fruity. Long considered by
children to be a form of herpes, Dexedrine is a favorite among
schools as an anesthetic. Unfortunately for children, Dexedrine
has the second highest fatality rate of all candy, next to
licorices. Secondary uses of Dexedrine include making one smoke
really hard and appreciate doing menial tasks such as analytic
philosophy, driving dirt bikes around and moving boxes at work.
Critics contest that Dexedrine is actually an intelligent life
form, and should be given some form of protection under the
Geneva Convention. edit History of Dexedrine While dexedrine
was first synthesized in 1887, it did not gain recognition as
having any use until the attacks of September 11th, 2001. Pills
were distributed to the dead, mutilated remains of firefighters
in hopes of reviving them. The procedure worked, and now they
all live happily ever |
-1.476246 | 2.666684 | 54 | G. Philip Rightmire My interests include systematics,
musculoskeletal anatomy, skeletal biology of human populations,
paleoanthropology, and hominin evolution. My research focuses on
the genus Homo, and I have been able to study fossils from many
of the important prehistoric localities in Africa, western
Eurasia, Java, and China. I am particularly interested in the
origin and dispersal of Homo erectus at the beginning of the
Pleistocene, and the ways in which this species was able to
adapt to challenges posed by novel environments. Using
comparative anatomical and metric evidence, I am also attempting
to map the evolutionary relationships among human populations of
the Middle Pleistocene. I find this work in paleoanthropology to
be highly rewarding. Discoveries of fossils call for constant
adjustments to our thinking about the evolutionary process, and
the future promises to bring many exciting new developments.
One of my current research projects involves Dmanisi in Georgia.
Since 2001, I have worked frequ |
4.434789 | -4.331357 | 0 | DETROIT -- Here's how thoroughly the Giants have throttled the
Detroit Tigers in the World Series. They've driven the American
League Triple Crown winner and likely MVP into hiding. While
most the Tigers stayed in their somber, silent locker room to
face up to the sour music of a 3-0 series hole, star slugger
Miguel Cabrera dressed and bolted Comerica Park following the
2-0 Game 3 loss without even speaking to the media. Little
wonder. Cabrera has pretty much vanished throughout this series,
as well. The Giants' pitching staff has limited him to two
singles, two walks and one RBI in 11 plate appearances (.222).
More importantly, Ryan Vogelsong won a pivotal battle Saturday
night in a Cabrera at-bat that could have turned the Fall
Classic -- the bases-loaded, two-out situation in the fifth
inning with Comerica Park rocking and the Tigers poised to
celebrate a huge Cabrera hit. But it wasn't much of a battle.
Vogelsong threw a low-and-outside pitch that Cabrera fouled off
for strike one, then came up and in |
-0.578357 | 9.153955 | -1 | Shopping Basket 0 Human Kinetics Publishers, Inc. Appendix
4. Guidelines for Typemarking Contents Back Appendix 5: Place
of Publication and Province Abbreviations Appendix 4.
Guidelines for Typemarking Typemarking instructions are crucial
for communicating to the GA and book designer which manuscript
elements need to be formatted differently from normal text. For
example, typemarks can communicate the level, or weight, of each
heading and can differentiate bulleted lists from numbered
lists. On some projects, copyeditors will be asked to complete
the typemarking tasks, marking elements that are standard and
easy to identify (such as lists, tables, chapter numbers and
titles, a-, b-, and c-heads, and so on) as you perform the rest
of the copyediting tasks that you have been performing. The DE
or ME will determine which of these marks will be used, and will
pass this information on to you via the copyediting transmittal
form. Special elements (normally ones the DE, ME, or AU has
created to draw special |
4.221353 | 2.741807 | 5 | Modern German Tale of Crime and Punishment Tom Tykwer’s Winter
Sleepers , from a screenplay by Mr. Tykwer and Anne-Françoise
Pyszora, based on the novel Expense of Spirit , by Ms. Pyszora,
was made in 1997, just before Run Lola Run , and what the two
films have in common is a furiously kinetic energy that reminds
us of the roots of cinema in the contemplation of motion. Of
course, the full flowering of cinema required the transformation
of motion into emotion. And it is in this realm where the merely
mobile becomes luminously lifelike, where characters and
dramatic narrative intersect, that opinions may differ on the
esthetic achievements of Run Lola Run and Winter Sleepers . That
is to say, if you didn’t like Run Lola Run , you probably won’t
like Winter Sleepers , and even if you did like Run Lola Run you
may like Winter Sleepers less. As for the great mass of
moviegoers who avoid foreign language films with subtitles like
the plague, the only virtues I can recommend are the helicopter-
borne moving-camera |
-1.821419 | 3.030422 | 54 | Amazing Fish Adaptive Design The same basic kind of fish,
called the stickleback, inhabits salt or fresh water and lakes
or streams. Strikingly, however, those living in salt water are
much larger and have different colors and different scale armor
than their freshwater counterparts with whom they can
interbreed. One generation of the marine variety can give rise
to a generation of freshwater versions, and vice versa. Are
these fish evolving, or were they created to make these kinds of
body changes within their kind? Researchers scoured DNA from 22
representative stickleback fishes for any sequence differences
that might be linked to saltwater versus freshwater
environments. Their research should help answer questions about
how fishes adapt to their surroundings and how closely those
processes match standard ideas about evolution. According to
the Nature study, the team gathered interesting results,
including specific sites of DNA differences that were directly
linked to the fish's environment. They found |
2.568174 | 1.64676 | 19 | Banner by Rituparna Chatterjee, a woman with the potential to
make it big. It's not that she can't: she just won't. Monday,
February 11, 2013 The error It was one of those rainy
afternoons when the whiteness blinds your vision. Being one of
those hapless individuals who did not understand heavyweight
phrases like 'paradigm shift', he did not really feel like
working on a stormy afternoon. He kept on checking the time at
the bottom right of his Dell Latitude. It was still half an hour
before he would be able to leave work. He stood up from the
chair, visibly impatient, and he paced up and down the corridor
next to the window, keeping an eye on his manager's door. If
only he could feel the rain... He knew that the outside was not
going to be as cosy as inside the office. However, he also knew
that once he was through with that tedious drive back to the
hotel, he would be warm and smug once again. Sighing, he walked
towards the coffee machine. His cellphone beeped once. Was it
her? Yes, It was her message |
-1.494926 | 3.714409 | -1 | Global Warming, Ethanol, DDT and Environmentalism's Dark Side
While well meaning, environmentalists have been tragically
wrong. So during the decades in which DDT was not used,
when the world bowed to undoubtedly well-intentioned
environmental activists, about 50 million people—overwhelmingly
African children—died, mostly unnecessarily. Ethanol provides
another, though far less dramatic, example. For years, biofuels
were heralded as the promising alternative to fossil fuels,
which would reduce our carbon output, improve the environment,
and provide needed energy. Yet it turns out biofuel's
environmental impact is much more complicated. In 2008, Time
magazine wrote about ethanol's dubious environmental benefits in
a cover story entitled, "The Clean Energy Scam." The article
warned that forests, wetlands, and grasslands were being
sacrificed in a rush to farm crops that could be turned into
gasoline. More recently, the peer-reviewed journal Science
reported on a study finding that cap-and-trade account |
3.630693 | -3.874596 | -1 | Email this page Print this page Share this page Pay Them What
They're Worth Marvin R. Shanken, Gordon Mott From the Print
Edition: Don Johnson, Mar/Apr 02 In our profiles of American
heroes this month, one quote hits home particularly hard. It
came from New York City firefighter John Whaler, of Engine 291
in Queens. His perspective is direct: "It's strange the way our
society treats athletes and celebrities. What are they doing?
Hitting a baseball for a living. And every year they demand more
millions. We will die for you without even thinking about it,
and for us to get a three-percent raise is like pulling teeth."
You know he's right. We know he's right. In fact, we know he's
so right that it makes us cringe. Here's a man who puts his life
on the line every day, and he can't even get an extra $1,000 or
$2,000 a year. But we pay a shortstop who has never been to the
World Series $25 million a year, and a movie star gets $20
million a picture even though his last three or four movies have
bombed at the |
3.327087 | -3.755134 | -1 | The first time the Amherst player throws it in off the Colby
player's face, you figure it's an accident. Maybe trying to play
it off her torso to herself? Whatever, she apologizes, and tries
again. And then, bam, you realize you're watching a true NESCAC
blood feud. Amherst defender Emily Little was assessed a yellow
card for unsportsmanlike conduct, which seems eminently fair
considering she twice did her best to obliterate Colby
midfielder Maddie Tight's face. The overheard comments from the
spectators are the best—"Class act, classy act!"—not a surprise
considering D-III athletics are usually only attended by family
members of athletes. But one lady's sarcastic "Way to waste
time!" gives us a clue as to what's going on here. Amherst was
up 1-0 in the 89th minute, and at this point was just trying to
run out the clock. If the ploy succeeded, Little would have
repeatedly bounced the ball off of Tight and back out of bounds,
ticking off valuable seconds. But twice was too much, and Little
was assessed a yell |
-1.335655 | 0.844298 | -1 | Stanton Braverman en Beaten, but undrained: Litigant says City
gets its water... in 40 years <p>One man's water lawsuit against
four local governments was tossed out of court Friday as a judge
dismissed the case and, in a separate ruling, validated the lead
defendant's request to issue millions of dollars in bonds–
although the judge did grant the litigant's demand that no
physical assets could be used as bond collateral.</p> <div
class="sidebar"> <h2>Recent and related:</h2> <p>• <a
href="">Drowning in debt? Water litigator warns of future
shocks</a></p> <p>• <a href="">Draining feeling? Lawsuit
challenges dam-pipeline plan</a></p> <h2>Older:</h2> <p>• <a
href="">FLAWS- Tripled rates, spun numbers, and Conservancy
conflicts: Why the war on dredging slogs on</a></p> <p>• <a
href="">Goodbye, dredging? Brown, Huja, Szakos opt for mega-
dam</a></p> <p>•<a href="70340/fish-jump-red-herrings-filleted-
dredge-test"> Fish jump: but red herrings filleted at dredge
test</a></p> <p> </p> <p>• <a href="82127/ne |
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-0.664584 | 5.165659 | 4 | Obtaining optimum engine performance from your Nissan Micra
won't take so long when you know the step-around-which is
ensuring the ideal ratio of air and fuel. Every time these
crucial substances are combined correctly, expect the engine to
operate well. To achieve this, you have to first mount your ride
with a good working Nissan Micra Oxygen Sensor. Your vehicle's
computer can instantly verify the exact ratio of the air and
fuel by using an Oxygen Sensor. It pinpoints if the mixture is
lean or rich and then also regulates the gasoline that goes
inside the combustion cylinder consequently. Your component's
failure can lead to poor engine performance plus early
deterioration of several automotive components. A good
aftermarket Nissan Micra sensor is ensured an outstanding
alternative since it's constructed with optimum durability. This
automotive maintenance is certainly a breeze since the item is
customized as a direct alternative to your stock device. Just
make sure you've got the correct hand tools with y |
-1.439762 | 1.507401 | -1 | Really Margaret? At one point in last night's council
meeting, Councilwoman Haynes said, regarding the planning
committee's previous unanimous rejection against the zoning,
"well, they are volunteers, and not really planning experts."
Kind of an ironic statement, coming from you Ms. Haynes! Kind of
a groin-kick to those who give their time to that committee. At
least you admitted to not being one yourself. Still, some of
those non-planning experts are probably more qualified than you
to make that assessment, based on what I witnessed at both of
those meetings, and their educational/professional background.
The strongest argument (which was not which side believes in
Jesus the most) was the one of safety. Low income, elderly
residents do not own cars or drive, public transportation is not
really available or convenient, and with exception of access to
the Food Lion, NOBODY is walking or crossing S. College or S.
17th Steet on foot. You would be taking your life into your own
hands. Those folks would have |
-1.028549 | 9.903609 | 15 | Take the 2-minute tour × I'm using the following code to scroll
a layer according to mouse position: It works find however,
I'm finding that the scroll speed is much faster when going to
the right. Also noticed that if the scroller starts on the left
and scroll to the right just a little bit and then scroll back
tot he right again it's really really slow. I'm assuming that
the actuall scroll speed isn't best controlled using the
duration argument but I'm not sure how else to control the
speed. I would like to have a consistent speed regardless of
where the scroll bar is. Any pointers? share|improve this
question it should actually be scrollTop, not scrollTo. Typo? –
jAndy Jul 19 '10 at 14:09 sorry, well spotted. I'm actually
using scrollLeft.. horizontal scroller... I've had a look at
scrollTo plugin and smooth scroller but I'd like to avoid using
loads of plugins... – Steven Cheng Jul 19 '10 at 14:19 add
comment 1 Answer up vote 5 down vote accepted The problem is
that's a duration, not a speed yo |
1.937468 | 2.663858 | 37 | 2 definitions by Teckadoll Top Definition Someone classed as a
wannabe is generally considered a bad person simply because they
want to be something that they aren't yet. Something most people
cannot seem to understand is that everyone is a wannabe at some
point in their life. You make fun of that "barbie wannabe" over
there thinks she has to have big boobs or be really skinny to be
around the type of people she likes, she will learn to make it
her own as time goes on. You make fun of that girl covered in
makeup and stuck in class faking a hangover because she thinks
it will make her popular, she will learn either by friends,
family, or time that it only makes her look... significantly
unintelligent. I'm sure at one point in your life you've tried
hard to be someone or something when you weren't quite there
yet, right? Ignorant 1: "Dude, that girl's makeup is way too
dark. She thinks she's goth. She's so retarded." Ignorant 2:
"Ugh, I know, right? She's such a wannabe." Intelligent: "You
say that like you ne |
1.453518 | 3.885763 | -1 | News Article News Article Fringe Benefits Poster #2 Revealed -
It Glows in the Dark! fringe benefits No, not that cheesy
black light, stoner-type poster. A legit, light-activated, glow-
in-the-dark print. Let's back up. A few weeks ago, we told you
about Fringe Benefits, a charity event in honor of the final
season of Fringe, where fans could vote on which episodes got
limited edition art posters. Poster #2 was just released - and
almost instantly sold out. By day, the poster offers a
beautiful, panoramic skyline, with the silhouettes of Walter,
Olivia, and Peter standing by the water. But when the lights go
out, a different image emerges, one that depicts the skyline in
the alternate universe, complete with the still-standing World
Trade Towers and a sky dotted with zeppelins. Peter's silhouette
has vanished (although, interestingly, the Walter silhouette
still appears to be hunched, even though in the other universe,
he had impeccable posture as the Secretary of Defense.) I want
one. |
-1.438537 | 6.619726 | -1 | Carlson Relationship Builder Study Reveals How to Connect wtih
Wireless Customers MINNEAPOLIS | June 22, 2009 Carlson
Marketing, the largest independent marketing services company in
the U.S. and a recognized world leader in building loyalty,
recently partnered with Peppers & Rogers Group, one of the
world's leading authorities in customer-based strategies, to
determine if building and strengthening customer relationships
with wireless providers could accelerate business success. "We
uncovered many interesting facts about the telecommunications
industry in our research," said Luc Bondar, global vice
president, Loyalty, Carlson Marketing. "The biggest takeaway is
that no wireless company has really excelled in developing
strong customer relationships. Coupled with the other insights
from the research, it means that companies that get the
relationship part figured out will realize more value from their
customers." Carlson Marketing has analyzed relationships in
several industries and also was able to conclu |
-2.01967 | 1.1179 | 101 | Joshua Tree Enterprises Sign Up for Newsletter About this
Entry This page contains a single entry by lsaret published on
March 30, 2009 2:15 AM. Getting From Here to There During These
Troubled Financial Times: A Modest Discussion of Retirement
Challenges By An Insurance Industry Analyst was the previous
entry in this blog. IRS Announces Reduced-Penalty Program for
Taxpayers Who Voluntarily Disclose Offshore Accounts is the next
entry in this blog. How To "HEET" Up An Estate Plan By Julius
H. Giarmarco, Esq. Under IRC Sections 2503(e) (concerning gift
taxes) and 2611(b)(1) (concerning generation skipping transfer
("GST") taxes) (hereafter the "IRC exclusion provisions") all
"qualified transfers" for tuition or medical expenses are
excluded from both gift and GST taxes - if they are paid
directly to the educational institution or to the medical care
provider. High net worth individuals commonly use IRC Section
2503(c) as a wealth transfer strategy. By paying their
grandchildren's and great-grandchildr |
-1.659793 | 5.256385 | -1 | Tell me more × Say, if an academic program has already
registered for my hotel stay and paid for it. Then can I count
the nights I've spent in the hotel for a hotel awards program?
share|improve this question Depends... What hotel? What frequent
stay program? Did the conference negotiate a special rate, or
did they just pay the regular "rack" rate? – Gagravarr Jul 9
'12 at 14:11 add comment 1 Answer up vote 5 down vote accepted
In almost all cases the answer is "Yes". It doesn't matter who
makes the booking, or who pays for it - as long as your "number"
is attached to the booking (which you can do at check-in if it
hasn't already been done) then you will get points/miles/etc.
However, there are exceptions. Although most rates do earn
points - even corporate rates - occasionally hotels will have
specific deals that explicitly exclude earning points for a
specific rate. For example, most (all?) of the "Family and
Friends" rates that are available with some hotels do not earn
points. Stays paid for with |
0.939663 | 2.825151 | -1 | Channing Tatum is a major movie star, the reigning Sexiest Man
Alive, happy husband to Jenna Dewan-Tatum, and a future doable
dad. But he's also a normal guy who likes the simple things in
life. Actress Mindy Kaling tweeted a screenshot of the back of
an in-flight magazine, featuring quotes from herself and
Channing. Mindy's quote says, "There is no sunrise so beautiful
that it is worth waking me up to see it." Channing's quote, also
on beauty, reads, "Life is too short to miss out on the
beautiful things like a double cheeseburger." So maybe instead
of a baby shower gift, just send Channing some coupons to In-N-
Out Burger. Source: @MindyKaling |
-0.773547 | 9.468831 | 15 | Take the 2-minute tour × Is it possible I create a webpage that
doesn't allow the website source to be displayed? share|improve
this question migrated from superuser.com Feb 11 '11 at 9:17
No. You're asking to break functionality in a web browser. The
only difference between how your site looks in the browser and
the source is how the browser renders it. – user114600 Feb 11
'11 at 7:38 It's actually quite easy: Password-protect it
(.htaccess) and give nobody the credentials. It's a problem
similar to that of the movie and software industry. They need to
give you their goods for viewing/regular use, but want to
prevent further access. Like giving someone a key to a door and
wanting them not entering the room behind. It just doesn't work.
– Daniel Beck Feb 11 '11 at 7:47 Don't upload it... –
BloodPhilia Feb 11 '11 at 8:45 @DanielBeck The Only Secure
Computer Is One That's Unplugged, Locked In A Safe, And Buried
20 Feet Under The Ground In A Secret Location. – likeitlikeit
Apr 14 '13 at 16:18 @likeitlik |
-0.221434 | -1.788787 | 17 | Click photo to enlarge U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry,
right, is greeted by Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-
Faisal upon arrival in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia,Tuesday, June 25,
2013. Kerry is on a day visit before continuing on to Kuwait, as
he returns to his Middle East tour after a stop in India.
JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia—Secretary of State John Kerry said Tuesday
that the United States is not looking for a confrontation with
Russia, where admitted NSA leaker Edward Snowden is believed to
be hiding. Speaking at a news conference in Saudi Arabia, Kerry
said it's true that the United States does not have an
extradition treaty with Russia but called on Moscow to comply
with common law practices between countries where fugitives are
concerned. "There are standards of behavior between sovereign
nations. There is common law," Kerry said. "There is respect for
rule of law and we would simply call on our friends in Russia to
respect the fact that a partner nation—a co-member of the
permanent five of the United Nati |
-0.507079 | 7.354737 | 8 | Forgot your password? Hardware Hacking Linux Business
Bluetooth SIG Attacks Linux Bluetooth List 127 Posted by Hemos
from the battle-royale dept. Karma Sucks writes "As reported in
the latest free edition of LWN the Bluetooth Qualification
Administrator has demanded that the Linux BlueZ project take
down the highly-useful Bluetooth hardware compatibility list for
Linux with the intimation that 'As neither of these products
have been qualified using Linux it is illegal to make them
available for public use'. This was apparently done at the
request of a registered member of the Bluetooth SIG. Anyone know
who this member was?" Bluetooth SIG Attacks Linux Bluetooth
List Comments Filter: • "unofficial" (Score:3, Interesting)
by 198TFour (201363) on Monday December 26, 2005 @10:52AM
(#14339691) easy - cant they just rename it the "unofficial
compatibility list" and put in some "this is nto official bla
bla bla in small print" or better yet - tell the bluetooth
peopel to get lost • by PSaltyDS (467 |
-2.0254 | 4.973713 | -1 | 5 Ways to Save for Your Kids' College Funds 5 Ways to Save For
Your Kids' College Funds5 Ways to Save For Your Kids' College
FundsIn our relationship, my husband is the fiscally responsible
one. He pays the monthly bills because he knows I have a fluid
relationship with due dates. I often like to think of them as
suggestions, and thankfully my husband takes the more rational,
responsible definition. And so it's no great surprise that he's
also the one who suggested that we start saving for Elijah's
college fund now. What I didn't know was that when he made that
suggestion, he had already managed to tuck away over a thousand
dollars. My first thought upon hearing this sum was that he had
robbed someone because we are decent at saving, but that much
money in 5 months is kind of amazing, and then he shared his
method. And suddenly I'm feeling a lot better about my son's
ability to afford a higher education some day. Here's how to
save: 1. Designate an account Set up a separate savings account
that you will n |
0.590146 | 9.94329 | 16 | Take the 2-minute tour × I'm writing a phonegap plugin for iOS.
In javascript file, I need to pass some arrays to my function.
However, in the .m file, [arguments count] only shows me the
number of 'string' arguments that I passed to my function. That
means, the arrays passed to my function are not understood/seen
in the .m file. Following is the senario: In test.js, I call
test() function with 2 arrays and 1 string. In MyPlugin.m, in
test() function, however, the number of arguments shown is only
1. ----------- plugin.js -------------------- function
MyPlugin(){ MyPlugin.prototype.test = function(arg1, arg2,
arg3){ PhoneGap.exec('MyPlugin.test', arg1, arg2, arg3);
//.....code is omitted...... ---------------declare
plugin---------------- function onDeviceReady() { myPlugin =
window.plugins.plugin; -----------test.js where function is
called---------------- function testPlugin(){ var arr1 = new
Array(), arr2 = newArray(), text = 'sample
string'; myPlugin.test(arr1, arr2, |
-1.04368 | 9.009762 | -1 | A blog and website by Peter Bengtsson Filtered home page!
Currently only showing blog entries under the category: DoneCal.
Clear filter # ab -n 1000 -c 10 # ab -n 1000 -c 10 # ab -n
1000 -c 10 Here's a nice write up about DoneCal on
MumbaiMirror "All in all, DoneCal is one of those Web 2.0 tools
that you wouldnt really miss if it wasnt around, but once you
use it, you cant go back." They don't make a link to DoneCal
which I suspect is some sort of half assed attempt to avoid too
many outgoing links. They've strangely spent time writing about
another web page but can't make a link to it. If I've learned
anything from Google is that the ultimate mantra of SEO is:
don't try to be smarter than us, just write great content and
let us worry about ranking. If these guys are worried about
that, why don't they use a rel="nofollowup" attribute on the
link? international visitors For the first time in my life I've
launched a web site/app that isn't mostly popular in the United
States. Yay!(?) Not that I |
-3.209882 | 3.506828 | -1 | Why the Stepmill is the Most Overrated Piece of Equipment in the
Gym In recent years the bodybuilding community has celebrated
the step mill as the key to striated and well shaped glutes.
Bodybuilders, physique competitors, and bikini athletes alike
fight over the step mill at their local gyms, and often spend
over an hour on them at a time. While I believe that the step
mill provides a great fat burning workout, some of the arguments
put forth about this contraption are largely based on myth. On
the bodybuilding side, I consistently hear over and over again
how the step mill is the only way to bring the glute/ hamstring
tie-in out. From the bikini and figure competitors I hear, “my
coach will only let me do the step mill because it makes my butt
pop.” Let’s separate fact from fiction people. The first main
fact that we have to talk about is that there is no such thing
as sight removal of fat without liposuction. This means that we
cannot target any one area, like the glute/ hamstring tie-in,
for fat |
-2.343952 | 3.101405 | 76 | Ulex europaeus From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to:
navigation, search Common gorse Common Gorse flowers Scientific
classification Kingdom: Plantae (unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots (unranked): Rosids Order: Fabales Family:
Fabaceae Subfamily: Faboideae Genus: Ulex Species: U. europaeus
Binomial name Ulex europaeus Ulex europaeus (gorse, common
gorse, furze or whin) is a species of flowering plant in the
family Fabaceae, native to portions of Europe from the northern
United Kingdom south to Portugal, and from the western Republic
of Ireland east to Galicia in Poland and Ukraine. Common gorse
in flower Growing to 2–3 metres (7–10 ft) tall, it is an
evergreen shrub. The young stems are green, with the shoots and
leaves modified into green spines, 1–3 centimetres (0.39–1.2 in)
long. Young seedlings produce normal leaves for the first few
months; these are trifoliate, resembling a small clover leaf.
Invasive Species[edit] The species has been introduced to other
areas of Europe, and |
1.513175 | 1.815288 | -1 | Just Another Day I don't see why Halloween is so special.
After all, it's just people Pretending to be something they're
not. Masks cover grimaces and make them Look like ordinary
smiles. Paint on the tears and the blood That we always try
and hide. It's not special. It's every day of my life. |
1.893246 | 2.396946 | -1 | How Japanese Schoolgirls Started A Mobile Phone RevolutionS My
good friend Brian Ashcraft at Kotaku wrote another book! It's
called Japanese Schoolgirl Confidential, and this time, he
explores and explains how Japanese schoolgirls have changed and
shifted Japanese society. Among the most important things
they've influenced? Cellphones. The mobile phone revolution
came early to gadget-crazy Japan, and 80 percent of Japanese now
own at least one. There are over 100 million users with advanced
third generation handsets. But it was schoolgirls, not business
men, who kicked phone technology into high gear. And it all
started with pagers. Originally intended for salary men, pagers
caught on with teens in the early nineties, and millions and
millions of colorful versions called "Pocket Bell" were sold.
Professor Mizuko Ito, a cultural anthropologist known for her
research on how teens use technology, suggests that Pocket Bells
were the first viral youth tech. Though basically just a pager,
what made the Pocket Be |
4.874308 | 1.082586 | 13 | The Colombian singer sold five million copies of the single but
a judge rules that whoever wrote it copied parts of a 1990s
track. 09:50, UK, Thursday 21 August 2014 A judge has ruled
that one of Shakira's hit songs copied the work of a Dominican
songwriter. US District Judge Alvin Hellerstein said the
Colombian pop star's 2010 Spanish-language single Loca infringed
on Ramon 'Arias' Vasquez's song Loca Con Su Tiguere, which was
released in the late 1990s. Mr Hellerstein dismissed claims
that Shakira's English version of the track also infringed,
citing a lack of evidence during the hearing in Manhattan. The
single, which featured Dizzee Rascal, was not released as a
single in the UK. The judge said Shakira's single was based on
a 2007 song by Dominican rapper Eduard Edwin 'Bello' Pou, better
known as El Cata, which also copied Arias and was distributed by
Sony. The ruling is a victory for Mayimba Music, which holds
the rights to Arias's work and which sued Sony Corp of America
and several other Sony u |
3.044033 | 3.830844 | -1 | Mediabistro’s Jason Boog is covering the Inside Social Apps
conference in San Francisco, where he met up with Aunim Hossain,
CEO of social gaming company Tista Games. Hossain argued that
with the worldwide gaming audience of 500,000,000 people
expected to triple in the next decade, the demand for writers
who can craft compelling narratives will skyrocket.
“Storytelling is the best way of keeping people engaged and
keeping them playing,” he argues. For now, however, it looks
like you need a solid programming background to work at
Tista–narrative abilities or no. Still, we’ve already seen
plenty of prominent Hollywood actors lend their talents to the
gaming industry. How long before the best screenwriters start
jumping ship? |
-0.353363 | 2.13157 | -1 | On gravel, goal is to get dirty but not down June 15, 2003|By
Paul Duchene, Special to the Tribune. As adventure touring on
motorcycles expands into the Second and Third Worlds, blacktop
highways become dusty memories. Welcome to gravel roads. Even
in the U.S. gravel roads are a temptation. After all there's a
certain exclusivity, secrecy and privacy associated with them,
or they'd be paved. And gravel roads set traps for the unwary.
Apart from the chance of blasting all the paint off your
fairing, sportbikes with short bars and the rider's weight on
the front wheel are easily dropped if deep gravel is
encountered. "You get to a certain road and you stop and think:
What's down there?," says Dwight Hughes, of Clearwater, Fla.
The 64-year-old Hughes has ridden all over Africa, Europe and
South America on dual-sport bikes, once racking up 33,000 miles
in 18 months. He has four adventure tourers, a Suzuki V-Strom
and Ducati Elephant in Florida, a Kawasaki KLR 650 in Texas for
trips into Mexico and a BMW 65 |
0.665636 | 6.997272 | 68 | Take the 2-minute tour × Is there a headphone daemon for Linux
like there is for maemo? It is really convenient that whenever
you unplug your headphones, the media player automatically stops
playing. share|improve this question It seems unlikely that
would you describe would actually exist - largely because of the
fact that the kernel probably wouldn't need to know itself. It'd
be a major hack, so I'd be surprised if you find such a thing.
Don't let it stop your trying, though. – new123456 Mar 30 '11
at 0:18 Maybe a simple program that get list of devices from
PulseAudio, and checks if a new device with type of headphone is
connected, do the job. But how to getting list of PulseAudio
devices (with their types) is the point. – ilius Jun 11 '11 at
13:36 1 Answer 1 the hda driver, covers most of the new HD
sound cards now has a way to detect plug changes. So if you did
have a newer sound card, an input event happens when ever you
change headphones. An input event could be mapped to a virtual
keypress, such |
-0.600534 | 3.587589 | 144 | Jet Ski From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Redirected
from Kawasaki JS300) Jump to: navigation, search European
Personal Watercraft Championship in Crikvenica Jet Ski is the
brand name of a personal watercraft manufactured by Kawasaki.[1]
It was the "first commercially successful" personal watercraft
in America, having been released in 1972.[1] The term is
sometimes used to refer to any type of personal watercraft.
Common noun[edit] Though the proper noun "Jet Ski" is a
registered trademark of Kawasaki, the common noun "jet ski"
refers to small recreational watercraft.[2] The Oxford English
Dictionary records the term in use in 1961 to describe the
aquatic motorbike, and in 1948 to designate a jet-propelled
aircraft equipped with skis.[3] 1. ^ a b Josephson, Paul R.
(2007). Motorized Obsessions: Life, Liberty, and the Small-Bore
Engine. JHU Press. p. 150. ISBN 9780801886416. Retrieved
2012-08-24. 2. ^ "jet ski". Merriam Webster Dictionary.
Retrieved 2013-05-04. 3. ^ "jet ski". Oxford Engli |
-0.346613 | 9.084119 | 16 | You are now in FULL VIEW Is Domain-Driven Design More than
Entities and Repositories? Recorded at: by Jimmy Nilsson on Oct
10, 2009 | NOTICE: The next QCon is in New York Jun 9-13, Join
us! Jimmy Nilsson makes a case for DDD explaining that while
DDD uses some similar elements as DB-driven design does, for
example, entities and repositories, the difference is in how
they are used, the way the design is approached and elaborated,
building on collaboration and feedback, incorporating deep
domain knowledge, having as end result: reduced complexity,
testability, and maintainability. General Feedback Privacy
policy |
-2.420597 | 0.440745 | -1 | Among the responses in your editorial advisory board's comments
on the proposed rise in the minimum wage is the "caution" that
"it is a bad idea to raise the minimum wage faster than
productivity or inflation." A few moments with an Internet
search engine brings the information that the maximum of that
wage came in 1968, and if it had risen with inflation since then
it would be at least $9.22 (using the modern computation), and
computed like inflation was then, $10.52. If the wage growth
had matched the growth in the average production worker's wage,
it would be $10.01, and finally, if it had kept pace with
productivity growth, it would be over $21. Even if minimum wage
workers were shared just a quarter of that growth, the minimum
wage would be over $12. The minimum wage (to quote the title of
the report from which these numbers were drawn) is too damn low. |
3.305981 | 0.811125 | -1 | Ogr81 woke up to music playing off a static soaked alarm
clock... Some people like to fill the world with silly love
songs I look around me and I see that this is so... Why was the
alarm set? Something he shouldn't forget? Something he'ld
regret? Should he be upset? So what's wrong with that... I'ld
like to know... Cos here I go... Doo-doo doo-doo-doo-doo doo Doo
doo doo doo doo-doo He did what he did when he first opened his
eyes everyday...said the lords prayer Our father...who art in
heaven... Doo-doo doo-doo-doo-doo-doo Doo doo doo doo-doo
Hallowed be thy name Oww! Ogr811 head hurt. Thy kingdom
come... Thy kingdom come... "That's right!" he remembered. He
drank a few with that girl at the party...she was an angel...
Doo-doo doo-doo... Thy kingdom come... They talked about ww3
...and comet ison... polar shifts and continental drifts... the
struggle to be free... the new moon risen... Religious rifts and
face lifts... ...and the conspiracy of NWO... ...New World
Order... ...so what's wrong |
4.223023 | 3.121942 | 5 | DVD Talk DVD Talk Reviews & Columns International DVDs Reviews
by Studio Video Games Collector Series DVDs Easter Egg Database
DVD Talk Radio Feature Articles Anime Talk DVD Savant HD Talk
Horror DVDs Silent DVD discussion forum DVD Talk Forum DVD
Price Search Customer Service #'s RCE Info DVDTalk Interview -
Peter Bogdanovich' by Phillip Duncan DVDTalk Interview - Peter
Bogdanovich' Director Peter Bogdanovich's career spans decades
and includes such films as the Oscar nominated " The Last
Picture Show" and the follow up "Texasville." The multi-talented
director is also an accomplished actor, often taking small roles
in film and television. Most viewers today would recognize his
visage today from his frequent appearances on HBO's hit series
"The Sopranos" as Dr. Melfi's psychiatrist. To top it all off,
he is also an accomplished film scholar and writer who holds an
almost unique view and position in the industry today.
Throughout his career as a journalist he has interviewed many of
the famous directo |
4.163671 | 0.491646 | 31 | 50 Cent – Outlaw Lyrics You pyonged “50 Cent – Outlaw” Save
Note No Thanks Caution: You are now annotating this song as
Outlaw: we lawless We ballin' out, nigga, regardless Everything
VVS, we flawless When I stunt, I stunt on niggas the hardest
[Verse 1] If niggas so hot, why they ain't got what I got? My
Maybach, my watch, my Hublot My fat knots, my swag is top-notch
My crack spots bring cash in non-stop My nigga Rock just came
home from Comstock I got shooters, they ain't got what I got Got
shit locked, I stunt non-stop I get it and I blow it how I want,
why not? My bitch cold, I mean hot, sure shot Come through in
the drop, hold the Glock, why not? 9 millimeter, 9 shots, big
rock 9 carat stones, I'm in my own zone Outlaw, yeah yeah, we
lawless We balling out, yeah, regardless VVS yeah yeah, we
flawless [Verse 2] You wan' get shot? Go ‘head, run up in my
spot My lawyers will have me out by 1 o'clock Go 'head, get
dropped trying to take what I got My diamonds twinkle over my
Azad My gun pop, tell me w |
-5.389135 | 1.344803 | 33 | Spanish-style chicken with almonds, raisins, and olives (Sally
Pasley Vargas for The Boston Globe) By Sally Pasley Vargas Globe
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skinless, boneless chicken breasts (7 to 8 ounces each) 1
teaspoon grated orange rind Juice of 2 oranges 1 small clove
garlic, finely chopped 4 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley 4
tablespoons olive oil, and more if needed Salt and pepper, to
taste 1/2 cup sliced almonds 1/2 cup chicken stock, and more if
needed 3 tablespoons golden raisins 1/2 cup pitted green olives
1/3cup medium-dry sherry 1. If the chicken breasts are thick on
one side, place them between 2 pieces of plastic wrap and pound
the thick end lightly with a rolling pin so that the entire
breast is an even thickness. 2. In a bowl, stir the orange rind
and juice, garlic, 2 tablespoons of |
1.645525 | 0.387746 | -1 | Hate Mail the Myspace Brian files << PAST | NEXT >> Latest
Updates I don't know why I get these urges to ruminate about
religion, and the nature of man's various gods... must be my
upbringing. Any way... I guess what I don't get about
Christians, or religious people in general that believe in the
Judeo/Monotheistic god is... well... how is it that they don't
see the absurdity of it all... and even more so the inherent and
inevitable illness one derives from attempting to establish
inside one's mind a relationship that is in all reality abusive.
I mean... think about it.... What exactly is
Jehovah/Allah/Elohim saving us from? No matter what the belief
system, no matter the denomination, creed, and cult, whatever...
God is saving us from God himself. A hell created by God, a
world fallen as a result of God's creative planning, a
separation from God imposed... by God. Evil, god. Good, god.
Everything, God. Satan... yep, God. EVERYTHING... God. An all-
powerful god, an all-knowing god cannot possibly do AN |
0.12385 | -0.486919 | -1 | Remote Falkland Islands Back In The News The Falkland Islands
are back in the news, now that Britain has allowed the first oil
wells to be dug in the South Atlantic island nation. So host Guy
Raz checks in with Stephanie Pearson of Outside magazine, who
profiled this remote land of quirky sheepherders, dangerous
minefields and one of the largest albatross populations on
Earth. GUY RAZ, host: Roughly 700 miles north of Antarctica,
the British overseas territory known to them as the Falkland
Islands is back in the news. Britain has started to drill for
oil around the archipelago, and that's infuriated Argentina,
which never gave up its sovereignty claims over the islands. The
two countries, of course, went to war over the Falklands, which
Argentina calls the Malvinas, back in 1982. Buenos Aires is now
calling on the U.N. to intervene and stop the British oil
exploration. Back in January, 2009, writer Stephanie Pearson
explored the Falklands. You can read her article in the March
issue of Outside magazine. |
-1.706126 | 5.512891 | -1 | In order to grow our company and expand, our skincare line S.W.
Basics recently decided it was time to pursue a round of
financing. This is sort of like taking on a whole new job. We
had to fine tune our business plan, put together a deck (a
fancier version of a business plan with pictures), carefully
calculate our projections and then put it all out into the
world. While demanding, the most intense part was the
conversations I was required to have in order to convince
investors that we were worthy of their money. Imagine having to
field questions like: What makes your company so special? How
do you know you'll succeed? What are your limitations? Why you?
That last one can especially get you. No amount of paperwork can
help you in this moment. Most of us entrepreneurs already have
pretty inflated egos, we have no problem boasting to strangers
about this "awesome idea we have that's going to change the
world." But when the future of your company is on the line -- in
the form of lots and lots of money -- it |
3.303342 | -2.841169 | 46 | Golf gear: August 12, 2009 New on the market: Adams Golf's Idea
a7OS hybrids and irons. The scoop: The new Idea a7OS hybrids
and hybrid irons use Adams' gapping technology that is designed
to increase distance and improve launch conditions. Intended for
aspiring and recreational players looking to improve their
games, the Idea a7OS clubs are designed to be easy to hit. Each
set features three hybrids, two mid-hybrids and three short
irons that will appeal to a vast majority of golfers looking for
the utmost in forgiveness and playability. Featuring 44-grams of
rear weighting to increase launch angle and distance, the 3-, 4-
and 5-hybrids have rounded shaping with a slight draw-bias to
enhance forgiveness for the higher-handicap player. With a four-
way cambered sole and an H-back channel vibration dampening
system, the 6- and 7-mid-hybrids optimize distance, and launch
conditions. Low and deep centers of gravity highlight the short
irons (8-PW) that are designed to be both forgiving and
versatile. These scor |
4.452196 | -1.803889 | 67 | Two months after suffering a shocking on-air heart attack that
led the WWE to assure viewers that "this is not part of the
show," wrestling legend Jerry "The King" Lawler returned to Raw
tonight to deliver a heartfelt message to fans—though exactly
how heartfelt we'll never know, because his speech was
interrupted by the very much kayfabe villainy of C.M. Punk, and
subsequent promo-ing between Punk and Mick Foley. The entire
evening seemed to center booked scripts around Lawler's real-
life medical issues, which is awkward and weird when Foley is
screaming at Punk to respect Lawler because "The King" almost
died. Of course, the messy mix between work and shoot (say, when
Punk slugged a spectator) is what keeps the WWE relevant—because
it's certainly not Linda McMahon's political career. [USA] |
-1.216551 | 7.131423 | -1 | Newsgroups:,,,,,,misc.answers,news.answers
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-0.151042 | 3.404009 | 138 | MGT 515 - Organizational Behavior EMBA Core Course This
course analyzes the organizational processes of coordination,
communication, and control to identify relationships between
process and structure for organizational effectiveness. It
examines alternative forms of organizational structuring,
contingency factors, and forces for and against change, taking
into account the limitations of human information processing and
decision systems. |
1.215276 | 8.184752 | -1 | Re: Update on CSS shaders security issue From: Chris Marrin
<[email protected]> Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2012 08:02:01 -0700
Message-id: <[email protected]> To:
Vincent Hardy <[email protected]> I just wanted to toss my 2
cents in here. First let me say that while I'm still editor of
the WebGL spec, I'm no longer in the WebKit group. So my
observations about CSS shaders are as an interested 3rd party.
And let me also say that I have great respect for all the work
this group has done. If I am reading your proposal right you're
saying that we will have no access to the texture we're
filtering in the shaders. If so, that would seem to nullify the
usefulness of this feature. The two examples you give (vertex
shader-based image warping and fragment shader "lighting") are
really the only two effects that would be practical. Vertex
shader warping is mildly interesting, but will need very dense
meshes to get really interesting effects. But you're really only
allowing fragment shaders to be i |
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