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-1.022826 | 5.029831 | 4 | Clean Car Research Never Reaches Production GM's Impact
prototype vehicle later to be produced as the EV1 It seems that
every 10 years or so US automakers take a bunch of money from
the Federal Government and sometimes state and local governments
in developing one or two high mileage demonstration vehicles. I
believe this is to assure government that it is capable of
producing a vehicle that truly saves on gasoline. The automakers
meet the objectives of the contract; they roll out one or two
vehicles, but then they do nothing else. They show the world
that the US auto industry can make production vehicles that get
80+ miles to the gallon and then arrogantly refuse to produce
them after having soaked up all of the government research
dollars. Ad published by GM introducing a series hybrid the
Stirlec1 In 1969 GM introduced to the world through its Opel
division the Stirlec1, an experimental prototype conversion of
its most popular European vehicle. It was equipped with a
Stirling engine and an electric dri |
2.059719 | 2.615751 | 37 | What does GRW stand for? What does GRW mean? This page is about
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-1.307223 | -1.489029 | -1 | Democratic Underground Latest Greatest Lobby Journals Search
Options Help Login Reply #22: There are some obvious answers,
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Response to Reply #13 22. There are some obvious answers, ones
that have been given to Kerry By members of his own party.
Perhaps he should stop talking and listen. 1. "How can you
expect Kerry to say that his first action when president will be
to pull all troops out of Iraq?" Because it SHOULD be his first
action. It is the most prominent issue in the world today, so he
should be addressing it early and often. Kerry is now making
pious mouthings that the Iraq war was a mistake, that we
shouldn't have gone in, etc. etc. Well then, it is time for him
to put up or shut up. Kucinich ha |
-0.46922 | 6.680614 | 60 | Netflix Disses Games-By-Mail, Old GamesS Blockbuster's been
toying with games-by-mail in select markets for about a year
now, but don't expect Netflix to join the fun. Leaving aside
the fact it'd be following the lead of a company it's turned
into a metaphor for dinosaur business models, Netflix just isn't
digging the idea of offering games. Said a company spokesman to
The Consumerist: Video games are a different economic model
than movies and TV episodes, on which Netflix concentrates to
provide the greatest convenience, selection and value to
consumers ... Movies are perennial. A great movie from 1972 is
still a great movie but who wants to play Madden '95? I dunno.
GameFly seems to be doing alright with it. But maybe that's
because it's not offering Madden 95, and instead has a library
of games people do want to play. Blockbuster Considering Adding
Games-By-Mail Service [The Consumerist] |
0.09438 | -1.527815 | 17 | Commentary: U.S. can't ignore North Africa The Islamic
radicals who have conquered large tracts of Mali were not long
in expressing their ultimate aims. They plan on "globalizing the
conflict," according to one of their commanders, now that they
have a secure base in northern Mali to operate from. A hurried
infusion of French troops seems to have stabilized the
situation, stopping the radicals' march toward Mali's capital
and its more populated and prosperous south. They liberated one
town and surrounded another rebel-held town in central Mali.
However, the world quickly got a taste of what is in store if
the radical Islamists are left unmolested to establish their own
state. A heavily armed column, loyal to a breakaway al-Qaida
warlord, entered Algeria and overran a remote natural gas plant
Wednesday and took a large number of hostages. Soon enough, the
demands began coming: Foreign troops were to leave Mali and the
United States was to release several terrorists, including Omar
Abdel Rahman, the "blind |
0.368724 | 5.163875 | -1 | Lists of Nobel Prizes and Laureates The First Transistor In
the late 40s three American scientists named William Shockley,
John Bardeen and Walter Brattain at Bell Labs, announced the
creation of the first transistor. The name transistor is a
combination of the words transfer and resistor - a transfer
resistor - a transistor. When it was announced the name was
explained; "because it is a resistor or semiconductor device
which can amplify electrical signals as they are transferred
through it from input to output terminals." This, the very first
transistor was called a point-contact transistor. Shockley,
Bardeen and Brattain received the Nobel Prize in Physics 1956
"for their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of
the transistor effect." Share this: To cite this page MLA style:
"The Transistor". Nobel Media AB 2014. Web. 23 Oct 2014. <>
Try to save some patients and learn about human blood types!
Discover the 2012 awarded research on stem cells and cell
signalling. |
4.013489 | 2.888277 | 5 | sun 09/03/2014 Front Row Confidential | Film reviews, news &
interviews Front Row Confidential Films and friends: not a
good combination George Clooney and Frances McDormand in Burn
After Reading George Clooney and Frances McDormand in Burn After
Reading Your friends never learn. No matter how many times you
tell them you don't look on going to the cinema as a social
activity, they still insist on dragging you along with them. And
even though you've told them a hundred times that, after a hard
day's writing about Béla Tarr the only film you can even
consider watching afterwards is District 9, they still call up
and say things like, "Hey, let's go and see the latest Michael
Haneke," or, "What do you say to Hunger?" or, "How about that
new Iranian film?" The usual arguments ensue. They say, "But Mr
McCritic gave it five stars and four smiley faces," to which you
counter with, "Yes, but it's about a man smearing shit on his
walls and starving himself to death, and I don't feel like
watching that right now. |
-1.814351 | 6.768015 | -1 | The Web Week in Review Google earnings up despite weakening
economy Google came through for battered shareholders who
probably knew that if the company didn't, GOOG $300 would be a
day away. The company reported third-quarter revenue of $5.54b
and net profits of $1.35bn, handily beating analyst forecasts.
The company's stock rose nearly 10% in after-hours trading on
the news. Eric Schmidt, however, subdued some of the confidence
that Google exhibited earlier in the year about Google's
position in the economy. He stated: Translation: we're
confident long-term but in the short-term, everyone is going to
be impacted. Two interesting statistics: • 30% of Google's
revenue came from clicks on the websites of AdSense partners, up
from 15% during the same period last year. • 51% of Google's
revenue came from abroad. Next up for Google: continuing not to
disappoint and making sure its deal with Yahoo goes through.
Ballmer says Yahoo deal would "make sense economically" And
Google might want to get tha |
-2.79587 | 5.197671 | 30 | The National Catholic Review An economist's take on HBOs 'Too
Big to Fail' I am an economist, not a film critic, so I will
not say much about HBO’s “Too Big to Fail” as an example of film
making. My reviewing process: I watched the film with my wife
and we then discussed it. The film is a cross between a mystery
drama and a documentary. HBO went all out and cast big-name
stars: William Hurt stars as Treasury Secretary Paulson, Ed
Asner as Warren Buffet, Billy Crudup as New York Federal Reserve
President Timothy Geithner, Paul Giamatti as Chairman of the
Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke, Kathy Baker as Paulson's wife,
Wendy, and one of my favorite actors, James Woods, as Richard
Fuld, chairman and CEO of Lehman Brothers, whose filing for
bankruptcy in September 2008 set off shockwaves of fear that the
entire financial system was about to implode. To emphasize the
film as a drama the producers focus on Secretary Paulson and his
personal interaction with the other characters—Bernanke,
Geithner, assorted bank pres |
-1.157294 | 4.431527 | -1 | Can This Electric Bicycle Really Save The Planet?S As you sit
in traffic on your way to or from work, you just know the person
who just flew by on a bicycle is smug. And now, a Bangkok-based
design firm wants to make riders even more smug with a bicycle
that actually cleans the air too. The creative director of
Lightfog Creative & Design told Fast CoExist that this electric
bicycle uses photosynthesis, like plants apparently do. The idea
would be a big filter between the handlebars and immediately
behind buses and trucks spewing fumes or other foul odors. Those
smells would be absorbed by a filter that then sends the clean
air to waft around you. It's just like having a big air
purifier on your bicycle. And makes about as much sense. There
are some bigger problems. First of all, it doesn't actually
exist yet. And how much air you'd actually be improving at city
speeds hasn't been figured out. And if you're going to ride
around with something like this, I think it needs an energy
monitor like that of a lo |
2.135793 | 2.196339 | -1 | Summary (Identities & Issues in Literature) Hunger of Memory:
The Education of Richard Rodríguez is a memoir that explores
Richard Rodríguez’s coming-of-age in an America that challenges
him to understand what it is to be a Mexican American and what
it is to be a Catholic in America. At the heart of this
autobiography is Rodríguez’s recognition that his is a position
of alienation, a position that he accepts with resignation and
regret. As the title of this collection of autobiographical
pieces suggests, he remembers his early childhood with
nostalgia, while acknowledging that his coming-of-age has
resulted in his displacement from that simple, secure life. The
most critical aspect of his education and his development of an
adult self is language. He explores his first recollection of
language in the opening essay, which describes his hearing his
name spoken in English for the first time when he attends a
Catholic elementary school in Sacramento, California. He is
startled by the recognition that the impers |
1.369085 | 3.521029 | -1 | After the big day is done and dusted, most brides face the
dilemma of what to do with their wedding dresses. But not Coleen
McLoughlin... The new wife of football star Wayne Rooney is one
step ahead of the game, with plans to house her £100,000
Marchesa gown in a specially-built cabinet... obviously.
According to reports, McLoughlin's stunning dress will take
pride of place, amongst Rooney's football trophies and other
memorabilia, at the couple's Prestbury mansion in Cheshire.
"Coleen fell in love with her dress and wanted to preserve it
properly," a source told The Sun. "Marchesa will be helping her
with it - it's not the kind of dress you can just drop off at
the dry cleaners." I'm guessing that the dry cleaning bill
alone would cost the couple close to the 2.5m they were paid by
OK! for photos of the event. "The dress symbolises everything
she wanted from the wedding and she felt it would be best to
have it around as a permanent memory instead of sticking it away
in the loft," they added. Here's an i |
-1.005557 | 4.671107 | -1 | #FoodieFriday: 5 Kitchen Appliances and Food Creations that
Transformed Women’s Live in the 20th Century By: Sydnee C.
Winston, Project Coordinator 1. The Refrigerator Refrigerators
started popping up in some middle-class households as early as
the early 20s. The conventional methods that women used to
store food (ice boxes, root cellars) gradually became a thing of
the past. In 1923, the cheapest refrigerator on the market cost
about $450! 2. The Electric Stove Electric stoves were still
uncommon during the 1920s, even though they had originated
around the turn of the 20th century. Fewer than one in 10 US
homes were wired for electricity at this time. As America began
to “plug in” more and more especially during the 1930s due to
decreased cost of electric power, the electric stove gained
popularity. 3. The TV Dinner 4. Electric Appliances Electric
appliances like cake mixers, waffle irons and toasters began to
“pop up” during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The
appliances helped to moderniz |
-3.726089 | 3.421785 | 109 | NPR Story 12:00 pm Fri February 3, 2012 Study Tracks
Alzheimer's Progression In Mice Originally published on Fri
February 3, 2012 12:40 pm Next up, Alzheimer's research.
Researchers think they have discovered a key clue to how
Alzheimer's spreads in the brain. If you look in the brains of
people diagnosed with Alzheimer's, you can see abnormal clumps
of cell debris called amyloid plaques and tangles of a protein
called tau. And we all have tau proteins in our brains, and we
need them to live. But in people with Alzheimer's, the tau
proteins take on a new shape, and they form into tangles. But in
new work published this week, researchers reported that at least
in mice, the tau tangles seemed to spread through the brain as
Alzheimer's disease progresses. It's sort of starting out in
one small part of the brain responsible for memory storage, then
spreading sort of like a cancer spreads or a virus. Joining me
now to talk about the finding is Karen Duff. She's one of the
authors of that study in the journal |
3.485209 | -2.468817 | -1 | Yachting: We'll be racing Team NZ - Coutts By Paul Lewis
Oracle's Kiwi boss believes the sailing classic has to find new
money and new competitors if it is to survive Oracle Racing
chief executive Sir Russell Coutts says the America's Cup racing
will soon blossom into a compelling spectacle but believes the
cup's current format - a four-yearly festival financed by
billionaires - can't last. Coutts has done some thinking about
the next regatta after being at the forefront of the planning
for this one - a bold vision to widen sailing's appeal by using
high-speed, hi-tech 72ft (22m) catamarans, racing close to shore
and using new broadcast techniques to attract audiences and
produce payback for sponsors. It has come unstuck, attracting
only three challengers instead of the expected 15. Coutts blames
the economic downturn; critics say the cup budget was still too
high - the accepted figure for a competitive team in this
regatta is US$100 million ($124 million). The cup suffered with
the capsizes of the Orac |
-0.577557 | 0.303104 | 6 | AP Interview: Death row inmate says new law unfair Associated
Press Posted on July 17, 2012 at 12:32 AM Updated Tuesday, Jul
17 at 8:31 AM SOMERS, Conn. (AP) — Daniel Webb is awaiting
execution for the 1989 kidnapping and murder of a Connecticut
bank executive, but he believes he is also paying a price for
another, unrelated crime that has heavily influenced the state's
debate on capital punishment. Webb told The Associated Press in
a death row interview that he thinks there would be no capital
punishment in the state if not for the public's desire to
execute the men responsible for the 2007 home-invasion slayings
of a mother and her two daughters in suburban Cheshire. The only
survivor of that crime, Dr. William Petit, lobbied to keep the
death penalty for the men who killed his family, Steven Hayes
and Joshua Komisarjevsky. "Dr. Petit is angry with them and
with his anger he wants to kill all of us," said Webb, who spoke
by telephone from behind a glass window. "Now you are trying to
increase my suff |
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2.177893 | 2.673966 | 37 | Subscribe Feedback English look up any word, like poopsock: 3.
the yellow dart Interpreted, incorrectly, to be a refference to
the male sexual organ. A nickname. Often chosen for and by elite
peoples with avant-guard personas. "He is called the Yellow
Dart. He is a cool guy, so cool that he is worth mentioning on a
site called Urban Dictionary." the yellow dart images Pix
leftarrow of 1 Pix rightarrow 1. The Yellow Dart The Alias for
Kyle Smith. Kyle "The Yellow Dart" Smith report got an F cause
it has nothing to do with bustle i.e hustle. by anonymous April
08, 2003 add a video add an image 2. the yellow dart a gay
culture term used to describe the penis of lucky pierre "Last
night the yellow dart was huge." rss and gcal |
-2.385027 | 5.913082 | -1 | Large Dell Holder Sells Stake After Blackstone Pullout April
24, 2013 11:54 a.m. ET The Oakmark Funds, a group of mutual
funds that were one of Dell Inc.'s larger shareholders, sold
their stake after Blackstone Group LP withdrew its potential bid
for the PC maker, Oakmark said Wednesday. A "potential acquirer
with access to non-public information decided to end its quest
to acquire Dell at a higher price. Since they had information we
didn't, we believed it was prudent to assume they might be
right. So we sold our stock and will put the proceeds into other
stocks that we are more confident are... Available to
Subscribers |
3.498361 | 2.022197 | -1 | THAT LAST NIGHT IN TEXAS (4) by Ann Evans: Thirteen years after
being trampled by a horse and setting the love of her life free
because she feared she’d never be whole again, Cassie McGuire is
shocked when Ethan Rafferty shows up on her doorstep looking to
buy a parcel of her ranch to open a training school for problem
horses. Ethan’s arrival forces Cassie to tell him that her young
son, Donny, is his. Angry that Cassie never told him, Ethan is
determined to be a part of his Donny’s life, even though
Cassie’s ex-husband has been raising him as his own. Soon,
Cassie and Ethan realize that their feelings for each other have
never died. Evans pens a heartwarming story about rekindling a
romance years after a couple is broken apart due to a terrible
accident. Reviewed by: Alexandra Kay |
4.437415 | 0.821918 | -1 | Wednesday, October 05, 2005 Stop ringing and singing me, yo
Eminem's publishing companies filed a lawsuit in an effort to
stop his songs from being used as cell phone ring tones. They
are seeking a court order to prohibit five companies from
selling Eminem ring tones on the Internet. Lawyers for Eminem
said they also plan to sue karaoke companies that sell Eminem
songs without getting the proper licenses. "This is a big
business. We're talking hundreds of thousands of dollars a
year," said Howard Hertz, a lawyer representing the plaintiffs.
Anonymous said... What a nut. What got into him? Anonymous
said... Is he still in rehab? |
0.115438 | 9.539231 | 16 | Take the 2-minute tour × I have some queues bound to one topic
exchange, e.g. with routing keys: 1) big.yellow.rabbit 2)
small.*.dog 3) small.*.* 4) *.*.cat 5) *.*.* I want the
RabbitMQ to choose only one queue to place my message by
following logic: • the number of coincident tags should be as
big as possible • coincidence of first tag is more importat
than for second... Examples for aforementioned keys:
big.yellow.rabbit -> 1) small.yellow.rabbit -> 3)
small.white.cat -> 3) big.grey.cat -> 4) big.yellow.pig -> 5)
I've come to conclusion that common exchange types (direct,
topic, fanout, headers) will not help me. And I need to
implement new custom type. Am I right? share|improve this
question add comment 1 Answer up vote 2 down vote accepted
Yes, the routing logic you describe is not implemented by any of
the default exchange types in RabbitMQ; you'll have to write
your own. You'll need to write a RabbitMQ plugin. More
concretely, you'll need to write a custom exchange type: you can
find |
-2.047331 | -1.014921 | 10 | The Republican Superminority With Scott Brown's stunning, come-
from-behind victory over the boring lady who hated baseball in
Massachusetts, the Democrats must admit defeat. Please welcome
our new unstoppable Republican Superminority. The Republicans
now hold 41 seats in the US Senate. As we all learned in Civics
class, Glenn Beck's Secret Mormon Founding Fathers always
intended for the party that controls slightly more than two
fifths of one house of the legislature to have complete control
over the government. It is in the Constitution! Our finest
Democratic Senate leaders have honorably admitted that this
brief experiment in Majority Rule was a horrible failure. Like
Joe Lieberman: "The independents are speaking loudly around the
country today and they're telling us, one, to get together here
in Washington," he said. "The second thing really is to do
something about the economy and move to the center and worry
about things that [independents] are worried about." And Evan
Bayh, who weighed in even befor |
-2.084728 | -0.86011 | 10 | LONG before the votes cast in Tuesday's elections began to be
tallied, reports from around the country indicated that
significant problems remain in a process reformed to prevent a
repeat of the 2000 Florida presidential election's hanging chad
debacle. Despite having plenty of time to test and retest new
electronic systems, election officials from New Jersey to
Colorado struggled with malfunctions that resulted in long lines
and in some cases voters' being turned away from polling places.
The problems were bipartisan, afflicting Democratic and
Republican precincts. Close to home, at least four precincts in
Fort Bend County received the wrong voting machines. At least 64
voters were denied the opportunity to vote on the eight city of
Houston bond and revenue cap propositions. Some voters at a
Third Ward precinct in Houston could not vote in the morning
before work because of inoperative machines. The precinct judge
told the Chronicle that technical support from County Clerk
Beverly Kaufman's office took tw |
-0.589135 | 7.222367 | 8 | Mobile Economics is Web Economics January 7th, 2011 Fred
Wilson of Union Square Ventures thinks mobile economics will
mirror web economics: I think it means the mobile is slowly but
surely moving to a web model. And as that happens, it is
important to think of it as one big web and lots of devices and
software accessing it. Lots of devices means billions of devices
accessing largely free content and applications with advertising
and freemium and commerce and virtual goods and many other
business models generating trillions of dollars for developers.
Just like the web, but even bigger and more exciting. John
Casasanta disagrees; he thinks Apple’s App Store, which enables
anyone with an iTunes store account to instantly purchase
applications, has made micro-payments a reality: Fast-forward
to 2003 and Apple incorporating music purchasing into iTunes. In
its 7.5 years of existence, Apple’s managed to grow its number
of users to several hundred million and many of these users have
iTunes Store accounts, comp |
2.338794 | 0.314502 | 44 | bezrat hashem May Your compassion come to me that I may live,
For Your Torah is my delight.- Psalm 119:77 Figures of Speech
Written by / 30 December 2011 Figures of Speech-
Psalm11918.orgThere are various figures of speech found in most
languages including English, Hebrew, and Greek. The words of
Scripture convey a specific message by using these forms of
language. This short list of figures of speech (with examples
from Scripture) was taken from a sidebar in the January/February
2008 edition of Biblical Worldview Magazine. The article was
entitled "A Beginner's Guide to Biblical Prophecy". We should
recognize these figures of speech in G-d's Word to understand
the meaning G-d intended to convey whether we are studying
Biblical prophecy or Biblical history. Similar to
personification, apostrophe is a figure of speech that occurs
when someone speaks to an imaginary person or an abstract
quality or idea. Personification is a statement about an
inanimate object while apostrophe is a statement directed |
2.236395 | 2.593573 | 37 | Odebírat Czech vyhledat jakékoliv slovo, například surfboard:
The kitten who can name fruit. This cute little feline can be
seen on Cartoon Network's "Fridays", every Friday at 7:00 EST.
"Avacodo" - one of the fruits named by Whiskers od uživatele
DanMat6288 24. Červenec 2004 38 16 The faded horizontal line
marks below front jeans' pockets. whiskers can look cool on some
but gay on others e.g. David Schwimmer. od uživatele
hytham_hammer 08. Červenec 2005 37 28 another word for
cigarette, or to smoke a cigarette "hey im going to go get a
whisker" "im gonna go whisker right now" od uživatele whisker
king 09. Leden 2009 11 4 Irish slang for Male music eccentrics
with a strong political background of whom attempt beard growth
to enhance their attraction to other men David Collins is DJ
Whiskers od uživatele Iam Sam 19. Únor 2009 10 6 A very curious
kitty kat who goes by the name of krista Krista: my friends call
me whiskers cause im oh so curious od uživatele christabelle 04.
Leden 2007 6 12 v. The act of licking |
0.62142 | 2.255971 | 75 | Complete Without Kids Exploring all facets of childfree living.
Childfree by Choice—A Growing Trend Parenting is an option, not
an obligation! In my clinical psychology practice, I see a lot
of students from our local university, and it's refreshing to
hear that more and more young people are viewing the choice of
whether or not to have children as simply another big decision
to make when exploring future life option. Girls are recognizing
that, just because they have the capacity to get pregnant and be
mothers, this is NOT their purpose for living. It's an option!
This was certainly not the case when I was in college in the
Deep South in the late 1970's; at that time, we all expected to
find a mate, get married, and begin to pop out babies. We spent
more time choosing a major in college than we did contemplating
the biggest decision of all—whether or not to have kids. Here's
an example of just how rare it was to not become a parent—when I
was writing my book, Complete Without Kids, my mother told me
tha |
1.013365 | 4.875578 | 57 | Elon Musk says SpaceX is working on reusable rockets Mar 10,
2013 The CEO of both Tesla and SpaceX, Elon Musk, took the
stage yesterday at SXSW to discuss several things, including a
couple of new projects SpaceX is working on. SpaceX is currently
working on building rockets that are reusable. The rockets are
what Musk says is one of the roadblocks that is holding back
humanity from the future of space travel. The cost of making the
one-time use rockets is what's stopping many businesses from
joining the industry. Musk says that fuel and oxygen are hardly
the biggest costs of space travel. They only amount to 0.9% of
the total cost of the rocket. If SpaceX is able to create a
reusable rocket, they would be able to provide a "massive
hundred-fold derease in the cost of space flight." Musk says
that SpaceX's goal has been to expand humanity beyond Earth and
turn it into a "multi-planetary species." He continues to say
that all other forms of transportation that humans use are
reusable, so why not rockets? T |
-1.683448 | 4.000417 | -1 | (Source: Go Solar Energy For Life) (Source: Wordpress) BP
oil spill directs country's viewpoint toward renewable energy
Comments Threshold By shin0bi272 on 6/22/2010 7:48:28 PM ,
Rating: 2 Recently I heard from some oil person in a news blurb
that we here in the US (and off the continental shelf) have 300
years worth of oil (just oil not including coal and natural gas)
but we arent allowed to get it because of eco-nutjobs like the
idiot green girls pictured in this article lobbying the
government to buy up private land (30% in some states) and ban
drilling in those areas. The incompetence of us moving to a
"green economy" when there is nothing that can replace oil,
coal, or natural gas is like Saudi Arabia saying "tomorrow we're
going to move to an all volcanic hydrothermal electricity system
and stop pumping and selling oil"... Its insane! You don't jump
into the new boat and paddle out to sea if the boat is only half
finished! But that's what the people who cant do math but "love
mothe |
0.392143 | 8.309361 | -1 | Sign in with Sign up | Sign in Your question I think I messed
up my new build Last response: in Systems I have been having
some problems with my first home built computer and I feel I
need to reinstall windows and start new. First off, I didn't
know about keeping additional hard drives unconnected when
installing windows so my system reserved fell on my storage
drive instead of on the main boot drive, which is a 128 GB SSD,
and I want to keep the OS and Reserve on the same drive.
Secondly, I was trying to figure out installing drivers and such
for the motherboard so I put in the disc that came with the
Motherboard, MSI Z68a-GD65, and it installed this BiosRomCheck
that keeps giving me a "Drivers Can't Load!" Error when I start
up the computer. I think I am early enough in setting up the
software to reinstall Windows 7, but I don't know the steps I
would have to do to reinstall everything, such as re-using my
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3.871076 | 1.617433 | -1 | QUINCY, MA—Longtime couple Scott Pfaff and Lisa Baumgartner have
pretty much always been like this, sources close to the pair
revealed Monday. "This is definitely no news-flash," said mutual
friend Stacie Pritkin, who recently hosted a holiday party
during which the pair was at it as usual. "You hang out with
those two, you learn to expect that sort of stuff." Said Pfaff's
friend Marc Dohn: "I was at the mall with them once when they
started getting like that—right in Radio Shack." |
-1.673726 | -0.011909 | 41 | LONDON -- The evaporation of trust in lawmakers as a result of
the U.K.'s expenses scandal could make it more difficult to
achieve the shared sacrifice required to repair the fast-
deteriorating public finances. With the U.K. government
forecasting that its debt will soar to 80% of gross domestic
product by 2014 as the country suffers its deepest recession in
decades, fixing the public finances will be the dominant policy
challenge for years to come. The last 10 days has seen a string
of revelations that lawmakers from all parties milked the
parliamentary expenses system for their own personal gain. The
allegations have led to lawmakers being suspended, a ministerial
resignation and police investigations. Tuesday brought the most
significant casualty to date. Michael Martin, speaker of the
House of Commons, resigned, becoming the first holder of the
office to be forced out in over three centuries. The speaker
umpires debates and is responsible for the office that oversees
expenses. (See related article.) In |
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0.432366 | 8.489115 | 74 | - Linux - Software ( - - suspend to disk issue (
ksmatthews 12-08-2009 11:24 AM suspend to disk issue Hi There,
From time to time when I Leave -> 'suspend to disk' my computer
freezes up on the green screen (SUSE linux 10.3) and the
progress bar does not move. The only thing to do is to switch
it off manually. Why does this happen and is there a way around
this ? Steven Matthews business_kid 12-09-2009 04:29 AM Try
this approach sync; echo -n disk > /sys/power/state The sync
clears the disk cache. You do have a 'resume=/dev/somewhere' in
the line you boot up, do you? Check logs in /var/log for
strangeness. |
0.953731 | 3.272306 | -1 | Page:Popular Science Monthly Volume 86.djvu/601 From Wikisource
Jump to: navigation, search This page has been validated. sults
from finding others in the wrong, Cardan promptly found that the
Archbishop’s brain was too hot and too dry. He put his
distinguished patient on a cold and humid diet to resist the
attraction of the brain, yet had him sleep on a pillow of dry
straw or sea-weed, and had water dropped upon his shaven crown;
in addition, however, he prescribed a regimen of simple food,
much sleep and cold showers. The improvement that
resulted—naturally ascribed to the “humoral” procedures,—added
much to the glory of Cardan’s reputation and the profit of his
purse. This physician, learned and wise for his day, was yet the
very embodiment of all things superstitious. Every trivial
occurrence was an omen or potent. He cast horoscopes, wrote on
all manners of cosmic influences, and espoused the rôle of a
physiognomist. His distinctive contribution was an astrological
physiognomy, based upon the underlyin |
1.741452 | 2.399587 | 62 | Take the tour × I know how words can become racist but I'm not
sure how a word becomes derogatory or politically incorrect. If
seems as though once one does, a new term is created to replace
it that is not derogatory and is politically acceptable. But
those new words and terms often times become derogatory or
politically incorrect over time. For example, the way crippled
gave way to handicapped, which gave way to disabled.
share|improve this question For example, the way crippled gave
way to handicapped, which gave way to disabled? – JAM Dec 6 '12
at 17:11 @JAM - Thanks, added the example. – Justin808 Dec 6
'12 at 17:13 And the 'savage' has given way to 'tribal man' or
'primitive man'. – Dilawar Dec 6 '12 at 17:14 Also called the
euphemism treadmill. – Cerberus Dec 6 '12 at 17:51 @JAM Which
is now differently abled. – MετάEd Dec 7 '12 at 0:09 show 5
more comments 1 Answer up vote 10 down vote accepted The
linguistic processes are technically called Taboo (in this case,
Taboo words) and Euphemism, w |
-0.523641 | 7.050566 | 8 | [opendtv] New development in broadcast TV to handheld devices
How interesting. It turns out that DVB-H is not making it, as a
mobile broadcast DTV standard, for precisely the same reasons
that some are skeptical about ATSC M/H chances of success. Which
is, the 3G operators don't see a benefit to themselves, so they
are not commissioning the handset manufacturers to build the
function into the handsets they offer with their service. I
thought that the Europeans were more immune to such shenanigans,
but evidently not. Looks like mobile TV uptake is even smaller
in Europe than it is here. Like, 4 percent. So Integrated
Mobile Broadcast (IMB) is a brand new TV broadcast standard that
is (a) legitimately cellular and (b) uses wideband CDMA, just
like all 3G cellular. Which means, this would allow the 3G
operators to offload TV bandwidth hogs from their unicast
channels, but at the same time, NOT give this (they hope)
lucrative function to someone else, like TV broadcasters. The
broadcast channels come from 5 |
-3.458536 | 3.179859 | 39 | IODIUM PDF Εκτύπωση E-mail There are no translations available.
Homeopathic Materia Medica by Nash Always hungry; eats or
wants to all the time, yet emaciates; > while eating.
Hypertrophy of all glands except mammary, which dwindle; while
body withers glands enlarge. Mentally anxious, anguish, wants
to move, do something, hurry, kill somebody, etc. (ARSEN.)
Warm blooded notwithstanding emaciation; wants a cool place to
move, think, or work in. Pulsations all over, stomach, back,
even arms, fingers and toes. (BELL.) Especially suitable to
dark haired, dark eyed, dark skinned persons of scrofulous
habit. Modalities: < fasting, in warm air or room; >
while eating; moving, and cold air. Great weakness and loss of
breath on going up stairs. Hard goitre in dark haired persons;
also tumors in the breast. Sensation as if the heart was
squeezed together; as if grasped with an iron band. (SULPH.)
Croup; membranous; in scrofulous children; child grasps the
larynx; face pale and cold; in fles |
0.038272 | 7.177314 | 8 | Alcatel's colorful Android 'Pop C' phones pop up • 1 /
Updated: September 6, 2013 9:21 AM PDT Alcatel One Touch Pop C1
Alcatel's new Pop series of phones includes some eye-searing
shades. Alcatel All four devices run Android 4.2 and target
the young and young-at-heart with a curvy, youthful design that,
in some incarnations, looks similar to Samsung's Galaxy S3
phone. Each of the phones has an FM radio and 4GB of internal
storage. Expandable memory options up to 32GB for the series
will help make room for photos and apps. Most have dual-SIM or
single-SIM options. Let's break them down. Pop C1 The 3.5 inch
HVGA screen (480x320 pixels) on this candy-colored phone is best
suited for slim, nimble fingers that can deftly navigate the
smaller screen. Under the hood is a dual-core 1 GHz processor.
Its 2-megapixel camera and 1,300mAh battery place this as the
least expensive of the bunch. Pop C3 With a larger 4-inch WVGA
display (800x480 pixels) that can support two-finger gestures,
the C3 slowly ratchets up |
-0.385902 | -1.478443 | -1 | Recent Items George Washington: Is America the World’s Largest
Sponsor of Terrorism? Posted on by The director of the
National Security Agency under Ronald Reagan – Lt. General
William Odom - noted: Odom also said: (audio here). The FBI
station chief for Los Angeles – Ted Gundersen – said that most
terror attacks are committed by our CIA and FBI: Wikipedia
notes: As Truthout notes: Stieber answered:
Terrorism is defined as: Wikipedia notes: Some Specific
Examples … United Press International reported in
June 2005: There is substantial additional evidence of hanky
panky in Iraq. Print Friendly 1. Mike Jesus H. I’d
always turned to Hitler as my go to example of evil. Turns out I
was looking on the wrong continent entirely. 1. Maju
Thanks for this most informative piece, Yves and George. Sadly
enough many people do not realize that this is like Orwell’s
1984, where the alleged “Resistance” is nothing but a sockpuppet
of the police state, desi |
-1.777582 | 2.532824 | 54 | Relationships/How Women Select Men From Wikibooks, open books
for an open world Jump to: navigation, search Women have two,
conflicting instincts when choosing men. On the one hand, women
have the natural imperative to select optimal genetic traits,
one way of making that selection easy is through hierarchically
superior men, a.k.a. "alpha" males. On the other hand, women
want men who can materially provide for their families, commit
to a long-term relationship, and enjoy interacting with
children, a.k.a. "good relationship skills." "Alpha"
Males[edit] What kind of "alpha" male are you? If you're a
gorilla, you're big and strong. You're twice the size of a
female. You establish your physical dominance over any male you
meet. You live with your harem of two to five females. Your
females are monogamously faithful to you. Your penis is Ten inch
long. Sex is quick. If you're a gibbon, you mate monogamously
for life. You live with your mate and your children. You sing to
your mate. She sings back to let you |
-0.490589 | 5.464392 | 4 | 1998 Pontiac Firebird I have a 1998 firebird 3.8 v6 it wont
start and I need help? For a while it would run but still
backfire and my rpm gaige would jump and then die. Now it wont
even start but still backfires when you turn the key over. It
has brand new plugs wires coils. December 19, 2011. Pull #1
plug. Rotate the engine until the #1 piston reaches the top of
its rotation. Look at the harmonic balancer. You should see a
notch lined up with the timing mark on the timing cover. If not,
rotate the engine 180 degrees, bringing the piston up and check
again. Remove the distributor cap. The rotor electrode should be
pointing to #1 plug wire tower. If not, loosen the distributor
hold down, replace the plug and cap, and slowly turn the
distributor until the engine fires. If this doesn't work, check
for spark and fuel delivery. If these are good, you most likely
have a timing chain that has skipped gears. Dec 19, 2011. |
-2.211725 | -0.574726 | 10 | Reply to a comment Reply to this comment hoperequired writes:
How about someone asking Obama WHY he demonizes businesses and
businesses owners, instead of working with them to incentivize
them to add more jobs? Now, why would they want to under him? |
0.828259 | 0.760842 | -1 | Welcome to SP! - Featured on the Front Page Page Type:
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vote Naafkopf from the Pfälzerhütte Naafkopf from the
Pfälzerhütte After Vorder Grauspitz (2599m) and Schwarzhorn
(also called Hinter Grauspitz) (2574m), Naafkopf is the third
highest peak in Liechtenstein. And where the Schwarzhorn and
Vorder Grauspitz summits are already shared with Switzerland,
Naafkopf is shared by still one more country: this is where
Liechtenstein, Switzerland and Austria meet, right on the
highest point. The Schesaplana group The Schesaplana massive By
Austrian and Swiss standards, 2570m is not particularly high,
but nevertheless the summit views are magnificent. T |
-0.419596 | 0.651686 | 6 | Auburn police seek missing 20-year-old man Auburn police seek
missing 20-year-old man Robert Jacob Todd AUBURN, Wash. - Police
are seeking the public's help in finding a missing Auburn man
who was last seen more than three weeks ago before setting out
on a walk to his friends' house. Robert Jacob Todd, 20, was
reported missing on April 15 and was last seen April 11. Todd
had spoken with friends living in the Lakeland Hills area of
south Auburn and said he was going to walk to their residence
from 4205 Auburn Way South, roughly five miles away. Reports
indicate Todd was planning on taking various trails in the area
to get there. He mentioned one in the area of Dogwood-Forest
Ridge Drive and a second along the White River Trail on the
south side of the river. He never arrived at his friends' house
and has not been seen or heard from since. Todd is about 6 feet
tall, weighing 180 pounds with brown hair and blue eyes. He was
last seen wearing a blue T-shirt, shorts over “skinny jeans” and
blue Nike shoes wi |
3.01925 | -4.467879 | 38 | Pete Carroll's Patriots Legacy A look back at the Patriots
portion of Pete Carroll's history in coaching. Pete Carroll's
Patriots Legacy By Kevin Saleeba With two coaching legends
manning the Patriots sidelines for nearly two decades, it can be
easy to forget about the third coach sandwiched between future
Hall of Famers Bill Parcells and Bill Belichick. Pete
Carroll's three year tenure in New England may have been brief,
it still was a significant transitional period for the Patriots
franchise. Without it, the success the team currently enjoys
with Belichick following Carroll's departure may never have
happened. Carroll now coaches with the same carefree
attitude for the Seattle Seahawks he had in New England from
1997 to 1999. He is likely "jacked and pumped" to be facing his
former team this weekend for the first time since he left 13
years ago. Prior to his arrival to New England in 1997, he
was fired after one season with the New York Jets when he went
6-10 in 1994. Carroll serv |
4.027507 | 5.173973 | 2 | View Full Version : Wonky Willowmaker Mechanics, strength
removal. 01-17-2010, 11:18 PM Currently, willowmaker applies
the debuff to the target. Wasn't this originally supposed to be
only to those behind the target, in the cone effect?
Additionally, health is taken out proportionately with the
debuff (a full health target will still have "100% health,
though of a lower amount) and added back proportionately. Was
this the intention of the skill? If a target takes damage during
the debuff, he only heals back a proportion back...(I assume
yes, as it makes the damage "temporary" and a target more
readily killable within the 5 seconds). Additionally, this
oddity comes into play when using +health items. For example,
this was tested with a level 6 deadwood vs a level 1 pebbles.
Pebbles with no items at level 1 has 606 health. Ult with
deadwood. Pebbles has 137 health and heals up to 161 after a few
ticks of regen (141-161 is what I observed). That's 4 strength
being restored, with approx 5 hp/str healed. This m |
-1.744548 | 9.000936 | 59 | What is meta? × My post which was aimed at not asking a
question but at sharing knowledge was closed today. When posting
a question on Stack Overflow, there's a little checkbox below
which says "Answer your own question – share your knowledge,
Q&A-style" I tried finding ways to parse XML with Java via
Groovy but couldn't find one on Stack Overflow. I also found
many people asking a solution for the same but no success. So, I
went on to write a post about it by asking and answering the
same. The sole aim here was to help people who faced a similar
situation. And I was really excited about the fact that I could
contribute (maybe a little) to the ways of XML parsing by
starting this post. I also got another fellow suggesting a
couple of different ways to achieve the same. Until today when I
saw some community members downvoted and closed my question
without any proper reason. Let me know if my post isn't genuine
or if it's copied or if it's a duplicate or if it's not trying
to solve a problem. My question - |
3.291522 | -3.782772 | -1 | Reply to a comment Reply to this comment Junky_James writes:
College coaches break commitments to student athletes all the
time. How can we blame a teenager for something 40, 50 and 60
year olds do everday? That's recruiting folks. |
0.339115 | 9.795737 | 16 | Take the 2-minute tour × I'm working with datastax 3.1 on a
single node with 4Go of RAM. I have not change anything in
cassandra-en.sh and cassandra.yaml except the "--Xss" (because
of my java version which require a little more) So by default
Cassandra set to 1Go my -Xms and -Xmx parameters: -Xms1024M
-Xmx1024M But while inserting my data after around 200 000 rows
(in 3 different column_families), Solr and cassandra logs keep
repeat this kind of warning: WARN StorageService Flushing
CFS(Keyspace='OpsCenter', ColumnFamily='rollups60') to relieve
memory pressure 17:58:07 So, OK my heap is full, but why after
flushing, is my heap still full ? If I stop inserting data at
this point. Warning keep repeating. If I stop and restart
cassandra. No problem raise It looks like memory leak issue
right? So where should I look at? Thanks for futur help.
share|improve this question add comment 2 Answers Cassandra is
trying to clear up heap space, however flushing memtables
doesn't flush Solr heap data structures |
1.837055 | 1.233371 | -1 | Saturday, May 31, 2008 Friday, May 30,
2008 Anyway. Enough stand-up cosmedy.
Thursday, May 29, 2008 Vertical Man the Microcosm, Horizontal
Man the Microchasm I'm trying. Save. To remumble. Save.
Yesterday's lost post. Save. But it's not. Save. That easy.
Save. For one thing, as always, I was in a sort of half-dream
state when I wrote it, so not only do I have to remember the
barmy content, but to try to re-enter the "state" from which it
arose. But you can never really have the same dream twice,
although the left never stops trying (no, that wasn't only
gratuitous -- see here for details. This book has entered my
list of foundational raccoomendations). This is a G-rated blog,
so I'll try to keep it clean, but let me just add that entering
this fertile state sort of involves simultaneously penetrating
and being penetrated. But there's a big payoff at the end. Let
me also add that the Boy is still recovering. His sleep has been
disrupted, so he c |
-0.386023 | 10.535701 | 132 | Take the tour × I am looking for a css minifier that I could
use in rails apps (not gziper) which doesn't need a command line
YUI compressor instalation. I am working on a content mangament
software where the css is pasted into a textarea and then I want
to minify then gzip and send it to amazon. So those solutions
are not OK which use some command line preprocessing... Any
ideas? Online minifier services are also welcome.
share|improve this question There is the Google Closure
Compiler, but that isn't written in Ruby AFAICT... – Blender
Sep 9 '11 at 19:46 Well... That is good to compress the
javasript... – Boti Sep 9 '11 at 19:48 Oh, whoops. For some
reason I misread CSS and thought JS. Disregard that comment...
– Blender Sep 9 '11 at 19:59 add comment 3 Answers You could
also try SASS with :syntax => :scss, :style => :compressed.
share|improve this answer Since the css is coming from a
textarea as a string how do you tell the SASS API to compress a
string? – Boti Sep 19 '11 at 19:00 As in the exam |
4.18199 | 3.00567 | 5 | PRO: It's Got an Okay Title Sequence The title sequence is
pretty...okay. It's illustrated and there's a lot of zooming
around because, you know, it's in 3D, and you need to justify
that extra cost. (It's also, amazingly, being released in IMAX
3D, which goes to show you how many screens are available in
January.) Also, during the credit sequence, you get to see the
words "Produced by Will Ferrell and Adam McKay," which will
immediately bring to mind the films that Ferrell and McKay have
made together -- "Step Brothers," "Anchorman," "Talladega
Nights" and "The Other Guys." Thinking of these movies will
probably give you a moment of peace, or maybe even cause a smile
to slide across your face, which is more than I can say about
anything that's actually in "Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters."
CON: Pretty Much the Whole Movie Where to begin? The movie is a
horrible, horrible-looking mishmash, attempting to reconcile
storybook mythology with more modern smart-asser-y (in ye' olden
times did people really use th |
2.469528 | 3.41704 | -1 | User avatar #1 - MitsukiOokami (02/10/2012) [-] Good evening,
friend. Thanks for the friend request :3 User avatar #44 to #1 -
abronyforlife (02/13/2012) [-] Can't respond again. Is there a
limit or something? Maybe my computer is being retarded.
Whatever, so I'm starting a new one. Again. Good luck with that
chapter bro. Do you know what you are going to write about and
are lazy, or don't know and have writer's block? User avatar #45
to #44 - MitsukiOokami (02/13/2012) [-] Yeah, there's a limit. I
never counted how many responses, but... I know exactly what I'm
going to write. All the imagery is in my head, it's just I'm too
lazy to put them into words. #46 to #45 - abronyforlife
(02/13/2012) [-] That's not so bad. t least you know where you
are going to go. User avatar #47 to #46 - MitsukiOokami
(02/13/2012) [-] For the most part. It changes when I figure out
it doesn't make sense, but those are easy cosmetic changes. #48
to #47 - abronyforlife (02/13/2012) [-] That's understandable. <
Not related. User ava |
1.375369 | 1.753369 | -1 | Please leave your thoughts and comments on the new pope
Views: 2782 Reply to This Replies to This Discussion
Interesting. And how old were you when you sat down and made a
conscious decision to be heterosexual? I was beginning to think
you might be sensible when I read your previous post on another
thread, but this:- ...could well be one of the more stupid
things I have read. Please go and do some homework, research
and produce evidence for statements you make, because this one
is imbecilic, bigoted and grotesque.. You mean you didn't
choose it? You didn't find yourself thinking one day, "I could
be into men if I wanted, but that's just too socially accepted
and easy. I'd like something that presents a bit more of a
challenge." edit: I see J only included man on man action.
Guess you might be in the clear, unless it's that bizarre
discrimination in which people will protest male homosexuality,
but won't even acknowledge female homosexuality (which I think
is actually worse). Do you mean its |
0.921512 | 6.199708 | -1 | I've been thinking about an NF3 for a while but can't seem to
get a good feel for how the NF works out in the bridge position.
I'd be interested to get some feedback on that, the bolt on
maple neck/korina body combo or anything else you'd like to
share on your NF3s. |
2.009349 | 3.397723 | -1 | Skip Navigation Tokyo's Mad Men: New UCLA book explores antics
of Japanese avant-garde in 1960sWilliam Marotti Tokyo's Mad
Men: New UCLA book explores antics of Japanese avant-garde in
1960s They threw random possessions off rooftops, made printed
copies of Japanese currency and perpetrated odd "happenings" in
commuter trains that left Tokyo residents scratching their
heads. By Meg Sullivan, UCLA Newsroom No wonder these artists
have been dismissed as just another group of nonsensical
pranksters. But there was so much more to the underground
artists who made Tokyo an epicenter for the avant-garde in the
late 1950s and early 1960s, UCLA historian William Marotti
argues in a forthcoming book. In "Money, Trains, and
Guillotines: Art and Revolution in 1960s Japan," Marotti
contends that the two dozen or so renegades gave voice through
their art to postwar angst and in so doing presaged
countercultural concerns that would reverberate worldwide in the
late 1960s and early '70s. "By delving into what these qu |
3.816749 | 3.867887 | -1 | May the Force Be with You! William Sims Bainbridge Pages
395-403, 422 in The Sociology of Religious Movements New York:
Routledge, 1997 Pages 395-403: The thesis of this concluding
chapter is that religion will constantly renew itself through
religious movements, indefinitely into the far-distant future.
To this point in the book, every story that introduced a chapter
has been true, but here our challenge is to imagine the future
of religion, so history may be of little help. Therefore we
begin with one of the most familiar science-fiction stories, the
three-part Star Wars saga, treating these popular movies as if
they were true.[1] Amazingly, this is a religious trilogy,
postulating a religious movement totally independent from the
Judeo-Christian-Islamic tradition and situated in a highly
advanced technological society. Perhaps George Lucas, the
creator of Star Wars, will forgive us for finding our own
meanings in these films, and we shall avoid dipping into all the
ancillary novels and television prod |
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-0.75618 | 9.453939 | 15 | Take the 2-minute tour × I want to design a webapp that can
print signs for various products, such as a big store. The
content of the signs (product names , descriptions ,prices )
comes from the server and changes daily. Each product can be
printed to a A3 or A4 document. It is also possible to have 3
signs in one A4 page. In addition each product type has a
differently desinged sign (Tv's have the price on the top of the
page in RED, and printers have the price on bottom left in BOLD)
the idea is that the program will get the product data from the
DB, push it in inside a html template according to the page size
and product type and print the html (or convert the html to pdf
and print) some problems I faced so far: - textfields from the
DB can be to long, and overlap an area with other texts or
scramble the rest of the sign. - there are many product types
and each one has its own html design and css so its very hard to
maintain if i need to change things . - different browsers show
the sign differently . - |
5.333373 | 0.818883 | 13 | Monday, September 22 Laibach can make any song conform to their
engaging/disturbing militaristic aesthetic. They transformed
Queen's "One Vision," a giddy utopian ditty inspired by Live Aid
and featured in Iron Eagle, into a faux-fascist rally, with a
stentorian German delivery darkening lines like "one race/one
hope/one real decision." They turned Europe's cheesy synthfest
"The Final Countdown" into Wagnerian propaganda, albeit with a
disco pulse. And they made The Rolling Stones' "Sympathy for the
Devil" so terrifyingly ominous that listeners might suspect
Satan himself is indeed the vocalist. Formed in 1980, the
Slovenian band mixes strident industrial beats with operatic
bombast, resulting in some of the most epic dance songs ever
assembled. Live, Laibach barrages the audience with provocative
video imagery. Largely instrumental albums such as 1990's
Macbeth keep Laibach's sets stocked with eerie atmospheric
segues, while electro-metal tunes from records like 1996's Jesus
Christ Superstars serve as viole |
-1.685958 | 7.123081 | 32 | YOU are browsing for lampshades on a department store's website.
You grow bored, and surf across to the website of your favourite
daily newspaper. Mysteriously, the lampshades follow you: an
advertisement for the same brand appears next to the article you
are reading. Welcome to the world of real-time bidding, a
cleverer and nosier way of selling advertising that is beginning
to shake up the online media business. A decade ago online
display advertisements, or “banners” as they were often known,
were booming. Companies paid huge sums to appear on news
websites. But, as the number of ads increased, people stopped
noticing them. Now, for every 1,000 display ads that pop up,
less than two are clicked on. Prices have slumped. Some media
firms, notably News Corporation, have concluded that online ads
will never bring in enough money to support a newspaper.
Meanwhile search advertising, which reaches people when they
seem to be interested in something, has grown from 1% of
American online ad spending in 2000 to al |
-2.094431 | 2.454835 | -1 | From Pet Zebras to Monster Hummingbirds, Worth1000 Shows Why
Size Matters By: Bianca Bartz - Published: • References:
worth1000 These 'Size Irregular' photos use intense exaggeration
and photoshopped distortion to prove that size matters... a lot.
They include everything from a miniature pet zebra (held,
surprise, surprise, by Paris Hilton) to massive urban pigeons.
"Change the size of something (or things) in your image, in a
way that is extraordinary, but not impossible. Make your image
believable, but not impossible," Worth1000's official contest
rules suggested. Check out the gallery of highlights from the
'Size Irregular' contest to see some extreme visual examples of
why size matters. Stats for Size Irregular Trending: Older &
Average Traction: 14,939 clicks in 262 w Interest: 4 minutes
Concept: Size Irregular Related: 92 examples / 71 photos
Segment: Neutral, 18-35 Comparison Set: 34 similar articles,
including: 3d felt pets, super sized motorcycles, and miniature
milk producers. |
-0.411224 | 0.400693 | 6 | ‘We believe it was murder': Probe demanded in cop’s killing of
robbery victim TRAGIC: Reynaldo Cuevas, 20, was killed.
TRAGIC: Reynaldo Cuevas, 20, was killed. ( The NYPD calls it an
accident, but the family of a bodega worker shot dead by a
housing cop says it’s murder and that the Bronx DA’s Office has
launched a probe into the killing. “We believe it was murder
unless it is proved any differently,” said activist Fernando
Mateo, who is representing the family of Reynaldo Cuevas, the
20-year-old fatally shot early Friday after running into a cop
while fleeing a stickup at his family’s shop in Morrisiana.
Cuevas’ family and their lawyer huddled with Bronx DA Robert
Johnson for an hour today. Afterward, at a press conference,
Cuevas’ mother, Ana, fainted and was taken to New York
Presbyterian Hospital, where she was expected to be released
after treatment for high blood pressure. Ana Cuevas “told the
DA that she wants justice, that she wants to make sure the
police officer who shot her son goes in front |
-2.034623 | 5.08343 | -1 | Living Solo in the Big City Erica Horne braces for unexpected
expenses as she becomes a homeowner in New York • Create a
budget. Brown cautions that Horne is in a good position but she
must be very shrewd with her next financial steps. “She’s in
flux because she closed on her apartment but she hasn’t moved in
yet,” Brown says. “She got this really good deal with a $67,000
purchase price and her debt is only $1,400 which is not really a
problem. She has a 4.1% rate on her mortgage, which is
unbelievably low,” says Brown. However, experts agree that
Horne must keep track of all expenses and make cash payments for
any new homeowner items such as furniture. “She can use free
services such as to track spending and use online banking to pay
bills and track monthly payments. also imports your bank
financial data which makes it easier to create a budget,” says
Freeman. “I recommend she delay any major furniture expenses.
It’s the easiest way to get into debt by buying such items on
credit cards. She should pay cas |
3.486935 | -4.126176 | -1 | 23 January 2013 For His Next Trick... By Joe Speaker Los
Angeles, CA The commercials are dumb, sure, and I don't even
know what crappy beer they're selling so quickly do I shut off
my brain when I see them on screen, but there is truth in the
49ers fan sitting in his favorite spot from 1995 and the guys
with their labels out for the field goal try. Sports fans are
superstitious. We truly believe we have some supernatural
ability to alter or influence the outcome of a sporting contest
in which we have nothing but a rooting interest. If you are
scoffing at me right now, first, stop and second, you are lying
to yourselves, because you've done it, maybe not consciously,
but you've done it. I can't watch Oakland A's playoff games with
my mother. They have never won in the post-season when she is in
the room telling me to "be quiet" and "calm down" and "stop
yelling at the umpires." My friend Kool Breeze spent large
portions of the 1990 NLCS with his pants half off, a ritual he
believed helped his Cincinnati Red |
-2.04243 | -1.304816 | 10 | (Source: Reuters) I. President, Romney Unanimous in
Support for Warrantless Wiretaps Bush and Obama [Image
Source:] II. Opponents Continue to Fight on Ron Paul
EFF Senior Staff Attorney Kurt Opsahl concurs, adding:
Source: The SCOTUS Comments Threshold RE: Ron Paul By
godshatter on 10/12/2012 4:57:49 PM , Rating: 2 Voting for the
best candidate I can find is not wasting my vote. I can't help
it if the plurality of people out there vote culturally rather
than by selecting the best candidate. RE: Ron Paul By
Reclaimer77 on 10/12/2012 5:31:08 PM , Rating: 2 Okay great. Now
back in the real world, you're wasting a vote. Let us be clear.
Every vote for Johnson or Paul, is a vote for Obama. I
understand that Romney is far far from being a "Libertarian",
but Liberal Socialist Democrats are even farther. So I just
don't understand why you third partier's year after year feel
compelled to help Democrats get in office. Last time I checked,
Johnson wasn't the candidate. He's not on th |
0.124996 | -0.636113 | -1 | This page has been archived and commenting is disabled. ViVa
SaRKo! williambanzai7's picture Sarkozy is losing his
head His dreams of the Euro are dead He knows it will pass Like
so much bad gas To chaos this voyage has led The Limerick King
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2366058 Barefooted_Tramp Barefooted_Tramp's picture Apart from
their differences — on fair taxation, for example — Sarkozy and
Hollande have both supported the same European treaties, from
Maastricht to Lisbon. They have both endorsed the targets set
for reducing the national deficit (3% of GDP in 2013, 0% in 2016
or 2017). They are both against protectionism. They both think
growth will cure all ills. They support the same foreign and
defence policies (the French Socialists no longer challenge
Sarkozy’s decision to bring France back into Nato’s military
command str |
3.178829 | -3.993688 | 38 | "My first-ever game at home, they always have the Game Day
Magazine sitting in the lockers. I was looking through the
magazine and as all players do, I "My first-ever game at home,
they always have the Game Day Magazine sitting in the lockers. I
was looking through the magazine and as all players do, I came
across the cheerleaders section. I instantly saw her and she was
beautiful." - Elam, on discovering his future wife, Tamy, a
former Broncos cheerleader (Post / Glenn Asakawa) Editor's
note: Throughout this season, Broncos reporter Mike Klis and
photographer Glenn Asakawa will help readers get to know one of
the team's players on a deeper level. Asakawa's photographs will
complement a weekly conversation with Klis about life, about
work and about play. This week features kicker Jason Elam,
whose 14 seasons make him the Broncos' longest-tenured player.
Born in Florida, raised in Georgia, Elam graduated from the
University of Hawaii before the Broncos made him their third-
round pick in the 1993 draft. He an |
-1.134692 | 5.913108 | -1 | ITIL doesn't add overhead I'm intrigued by the endless
repetition of the chant "ITIL slows things down". No it doesn't.
Doing things properly slows things down. Variations we also
hear are "ITIL Gets in the way". or "ITIL adds overhead". I
always tell clients that it is highly unlikely that the
application of ITSM principles will save them money. I think
those who sell ITSM or ITIL as a cost-saving tool are misleading
clients or know little about ITSM. An improvement initiative
will almost certainly add new activities, roles and even tools,
as the client uncovers all this stuff they really ought to be
doing but aren't. Think of ITIL as your conscience. Or your
Mum. • You really ought to be analysing UCs to ensure they
match up with your SLA commitments • All calls should be
recorded • perform a post-implementation analysis of failed
changes • how can you allow production changes that have no
backout plan? • there's no use promising availability levels
if you can't measure them • it is a good i |
-2.79878 | 4.799283 | 30 | Tony Fratto: Knocking Down the China Myth Timothy Geithner
Timothy Geithner If there's one strategic communication goal
Treasury Secretary Geithner should strive to achieve this
weekend in China, it would be to strike down the myth that the
U.S. is beholden to the Chinese because they buy our debt.
Curtain-raising news reports in advance of Secretary Geithner's
trip to Beijing persist in repeating this myth. Reporters can be
forgiven for their error, since it was Secretary of State
Clinton who gave new life to the myth during her own ill-fated
trip to Beijing earlier this yearwhen she begged the Chinese to
keep buying U.S. paper. We need to be clear about this: the
Chinese do not purchase U.S Treasury securities out of altruism.
And they don't buy them to blackmail American policymakers -
unless American policymakers willingly and foolishly choose to
be blackmailed. China buys U.S. Treasury paper because it's in
their own best, rational investment interests to do so. In
short, they must. Because of Chin |
-0.405404 | -1.481449 | 43 | Belfast Telegraph Friday 14 March 2014 The world's most
wanted? He wasn't even on Twitter In his 'sites': Bin Laden may
have put pictures like this on his social network site What
seems strange is that if this raid was watched live on film,
wouldn't someone have bought the rights and released it on DVD
by now? Americans aren't usually slow with a commercial
opportunity. They probably arranged a three-minute gap between
the two shots fired at bin Laden, to allow for a commercial
break. It would become the best-selling film ever, possibly
with a spin-off competition called Champions League
Assassinating, with a semi-final between the SAS and Mossad
presented by Ray Stubbs. But so far, they've not even put a tiny
clip on YouTube. We've seen that photo of them in the White
House, looking tense as they apparently watch the raid live, but
for all we know they're watching the snooker, and Hillary
Clinton's gasping because Judd Trump missed a crucial blue.
Some newspapers might be happier if the film isn't see |
1.681621 | 3.606532 | 51 | Renaissance 1st edition Renaissance 0 9783822852965 3822852961
Details about Renaissance: The rebirth of culture Art as we
know it today could not exist had not the revolutionary work of
the Renaissance artists paved the way. Widely considered the
most important and influential movement in the history of fine
arts, literature, architecture, and science, the Renaissance
marked the emergence of Western civilization from the Middle
Ages into the modern era. Beginning in the 14th century in
Italy, the movement spread throughout Europe by the late 15th
century, the main centers of fine art activity being in
Florence, the Low Countries, and Germany. For the first time,
art became intellectual; influenced by humanism, artists
experimented with secular subjects and revived classical
antiquity. Advances in anatomy and geometry produced more
realistic depictions in terms of space and perspective for the
Italians, while new oil painting techniques made their mark in
Flemish painting and woodcuts and engravings w |
-0.404606 | 7.531853 | 8 | Microsoft needs to do something about WP8 or get beaten by
Blackberry Blackberry has had 2 port a thons in the past two
weeks. The first brought over 15,000 apps to the platform while
the other got 19,000. Thats almost 35,000 apps in 2 weeks. Now I
already know what the comments are going to say. "atleast
microsoft doesnt pay for apps". Well you know what I wish they
did. They would have alot more god damn apps than they do know.
That 35,000 X 100 = 3.5 million dollars. Thats right RIM just
paid 3.5 million. I know not all those apps will be approved but
still, Microsoft has over 60 billion dollars. Imagine how many
apps they could get if they only spent 20 million dollars. It
looks like Microsoft has more of a fight on their hands than
they thought. Blackberry app submissions |
-2.895827 | 3.642921 | 45 | Search tips Search criteria Logo of ijsptLink to Publisher's
site Int J Sports Phys Ther. 2012 October; 7(5): 525–532. PMCID:
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Green, DPT,3 and Brian Wurzinger, DPT, LAT, ATC4 1Commonwealth
Sports Medicine, Glen Allen, VA, USA 2East Carolina University,
Greenville, NC, USA 3PRO Physical Therapy, Dover, DE, USA 4Duke
Sports Medicine Center, Durham, NC, USA Informed consent for
participation in the study was approved by the University and
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USA, bwilliams/at/ Both forefoot strike shod (FFS) and barefoot
(BF) running styles result in different mechanics when compared
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mechanics of FFS and BF running are similar to one another.
Comparing the mechanical changes occurring in each of these
patterns is necessary t |
0.04576 | 9.87846 | 16 | Take the 2-minute tour × What's the difference between x:Key
and x:Name in WPF? Not sure what the true difference is.
share|improve this question @Alastair, the question you listed
as a possible dupe is unrelated to this. – Josh Dec 13 '10 at
3:39 how is it a duplicate? The other question talks about Name
vs Type. This question is about Key vs Name. – jalf Dec 13 '10
at 3:40 My mistake, I misread the "possible dupe" question.
Apologies. – Alastair Pitts Dec 13 '10 at 3:51 2 Answers 2 up
vote 28 down vote accepted Although they are used for similar
purposes, they are not interchangeable. x:Key is used for items
that are being added as values to a dictionary, most often for
styles and other resources that are being added to a
ResourceDictionary. When setting the x:Key attribute, there is
actually no corresponding property on the object or even an
attached dependency property being set. It is simply used by the
XAML processor to know what key to use when calling
Dictionary.Add. x:Name is a bit more com |
-0.983148 | -0.473787 | -1 | Welcome login | signup Language en es fr Forum Post: What can 1
PROTESTER do? How about THIS?! Posted 1 year ago on Dec. 10,
2012, 6:43 p.m. EST by therising (6643) This content is user
submitted and not an official statement **What can one
protester do? How about this?:** And what can a group of those
individual protesters do? How about this: Americans and
citizens of the world rise up and take notice when their fellow
citizens take the streets, squares and public spaces. The
mainstream press can't ignore it at that point.. And that's what
REALLY shakes the power structure, the LIGHT OF DAY. We
collectively have the power to shine that light wherever we want
to aim it. It's a powerful light. We just need to wake up and
realize we ARE the 99%, that we have more in common than we have
dividing us. Then we can make decisions from a position of
united strength instead of demands from a position of divided
weakness. NOTE: **I think we need to remember that part of our
job is to create nonviolent tensio |
3.806827 | 1.369988 | -1 | Back To Mobile Site Unusual celebrity baby names
POSTED: 01:48 PM PDT Mar 12, 2012
UPDATED: 05:51 AM PDT Jun 21, 2013 What do the words North and
Blue Ivy have in common? They're both names given to the
children of famous celebrities -- and they're not alone. Kim
Kardashian, Kanye West 1 / 38 Lucy Nicholson/Reuters Kim
Kardashian and Kanye West's daughter is named North West.
Kardashian's mom, Kris Jenner, shared the meaning behind the
name during an appearance on "The View." "The way (Kardashian)
explained it to me was that North means 'highest power' and she
says that North is their highest point together," TV Guide
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3.768694 | 1.745177 | -1 | Joshua Jackson and Diane Kruger are ready to have children. The
couple - who have been in a relationship since 2006 - are
''working on'' starting a family, the actor has admitted. Asked
if they plan to have children, Joshua said: ''Kids are one of
those things that kind of happen, aren't they? ''Certainly
we're working on it if that's what you're asking.'' Both Joshua
and Diane - who was previously married to Guillaume Canet for
five years from 2001 - have previously insisted they have no
desire to tie the knot, and though it is still not ''important''
for them to make their union official, they won't rule it out
completely. Joshua told E! Online: ''It's important for the
people that it's important for, but neither one of us are
particularly religious so I don't think that there's any
particular push. But never say never.'' Earlier this year,
Joshua, 33, sparked engagement speculation after he won a
$45,000 necklace at auction and was quoted as announcing it to
be an ''engagement gift'' for the 35-year- |
-0.023664 | 9.827988 | 16 | Amazon SimpleDB Developer Guide (API Version 2009-04-15) «
PreviousNext » Amazon SimpleDB Glossary AWS account
associated with a particular developer. Similar to columns on
a spreadsheet, attributes represent categories of data that can
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the domain must be unique within the customer account.
eventually consistent read An eventually consistent read (using
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3.715947 | 2.606146 | 5 | Tuesday, June 30, 2009 As beginnings go, this one was sort
of …. blink and you’ll miss it coupled with cheesy voice over
and a tall pointy eared youth walking through a forest. I
suppose it is hard to make a new show based on a story that has
been done and redone and then redone again (and again) but in
today’s climate of “We miss Buffy” and “Harry Potter made a lot
of money….” It isn’t really all that surprising. Ok, fine. Open
mind and all that. Actually the show isn’t half bad. Anthony
Stewart Head is Uthur, the roles of who is who in the court are
a bit jumbled, but overall it is a fantasy show with enough
familiar touches and enough changes to make it interesting.
Like.. Guinevere is the Lady Morgana’s maid… and she is all
sweet on Merlin. This can’t end well. I will note that Merlin
has remarkable teeth… in fact most of the pretty people in this
show are well, remarkably pretty which is slightly
disconcerting… but the fact that there aren’t any blonds I find
refreshing. By the way, Arthur i |
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Our pharmacists are decentralized, which means they are
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allows for better communication with medical staff, nurses, and
our patients. In 2009, the decentralized services were expanded
to include the Emergency Department. There are many clinical
initiatives carried out such as conversion from intravenous to
oral medication therapy, monitoring of lab values to adjust
medication dosages, initiation of medication to prevent blood
clots when appropriate, and counseling patients on drug regimens
to allow a safer transition outside of the medical center. In
addition to these services, there is also a warfarin clinic run
by our decentralized team. Pharmacists are responsible for
monitoring lab values and adjusting warfarin doses for
orthopedic patients and follow them for four weeks after
discharge. Clinical services The Pharmacy |
3.806927 | 4.092678 | -1 | The Amazing Spider-Man 2 Review The Amazing Spider-Man 2 Box Art
Dev: Beenox Pub: Activision Release: April 29, 2014 Players: 1
Doesn’t Do Whatever a Spider Can by Angelo M. D’Argenio Movie
licensed video games don’t just suck, it’s more complicated than
that. More often than not, they are depressingly mediocre. You
can’t make a Transformers game a generic shooter. Players want
to be transforming into cars! You can’t make a Ratatouille game
a generic platformer. Players want to be… cooking or something.
Similarly, you can’t make The Amazing Spider-Man 2 a generic
open world action game. People want to be swinging on webs and
crawling up walls. Unfortunately, that’s the biggest problem
with The Amazing Spider-Man 2. While the action is solid enough,
the Spideyness of it all just doesn’t work. Here’s an example.
One of the biggest complaints about previous Spider-Man games,
and Spider-Man in general, is that sometimes it seems as if he
is swinging on nothing whatsoever. The Amazing Spider-Man 2
tries to fix t |
-0.150257 | -1.961204 | -1 | Thursday, November 23, 2006 The HISHee Rebellion! The
assassination of Pierre Gemayel is not some haphazard ill-timed
event, but a carefully calculated one meant to help push Lebanon
further and further along the path of internal implosion. And
the HISH (Hezbollah-Iran-Syria-Hamas) Alliance is definitely to
blame here, the particular considerations related to their
particular decision-making and implantation strategies
notwithstanding. The current summit on Iraq, which Tehran is
currently hosting is another calculated event organized by HISH
with the purpose of helping close ranks on the US presence in
Iraq and their entire regional adventure. On the short run,
however, HISH spin-doctors might make it appear as though the
Alliance is actually taking a more proactive approach towards
stabilizing the situation in Iraq thus helping establish a
better negotiating position vis-à-vis the US. But what is
actually taking place is an attempt to hijack Iraq from the US,
making US position there quite untenable by w |
0.904394 | 0.292074 | -1 | click here to jump to start of article Join Our Newsletter Join
400,000 Aish subscribers Get Email Updates Sexual Immorality –
Giving Up One's Life 1) Idolatry - this would threaten the
very fabric of Judaism and therefore cannot be allowed. 2)
Murder - you cannot take one life to save another, because every
human being is infinitely valuable. In the words of the Talmud,
"who knows whose blood is redder?" (Though it is permitted to
take a life in self-defense.) The one that is really puzzling
me is #3: Sexual immorality like incest and adultery. Why is
this so serious? I'm not suggesting it is a "good" thing, but if
sleeping with your brother or another man's wife would save a
life... why not? The Aish Rabbi Replies: Let's start with the
premise that a stable family structure is the primary foundation
of healthy society. Societies in which the family unit is
falling apart are societies in trouble. What is the prime cause
of the breakdown of the family unit? Sexual promiscuity -- e.g.
adultery causes |
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Only) Note: This feature is only available in NetResults
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date and time such as "2 days after the 'Date Reported'") or
triggered by a lack of change in a record's state within a
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2.240263 | 8.749023 | -1 | Take the tour × Let $\omega(n)$ be the number of distinct
primes dividing $n$. 1. For $x\in(0,1)$, let $\varphi(x,n)$
be the number of positive integers $m\leq xn$ which are prime to
$n$. Show that $\varphi(x,n)=x\varphi(n)+O(\tau(n))$. 2.
Deduce that as $n\to\infty,\,\varphi(x,n) \sim x\varphi(n)$.
This is an exercise in the book Fundamentals of Number Theory
(page 142). I was wondering how to connect it with $\omega(n)$.
Could you explain it to me or give a proof on that? Thanks in
advance. share|improve this question There is a typo in your
post. – Kerry Dec 9 '11 at 5:22 As written, this can't possibly
be right. Surely the $\phi(x)$ is meant to be $\phi(n)$. But
also $\phi(x,n)\to x\phi(n)$ doesn't make sense. Maybe
$\phi(x,n)$ is asymptotic to $x\phi(n)$? – Gerry Myerson Dec 9
'11 at 8:16 @GerryMyerson Can you explain more about the second
problem? – Kou Dec 19 '11 at 22:17 I think I'll echo Greg's
answer. It's really not hard to get from the 1st problem to the
2nd, if you know what that symbo |
4.296864 | -4.487445 | 0 | No Need to Sweat the Philadelphia Phillies Signing Marlon Byrd
Yahoo Contributor Network COMMENTARY | Once upon a time, the
Philadelphia Phillies dipped into the bargain basement and
pulled out Shane Victorino and Jayson Werth. I'm talking bargain
here, folks. In 2007, the Phillies paid these guys $1.26
million combined. That season, the Phillies won their first of
five straight National League East titles and the two bargain
outfielders would be key contributors to a World Series
championship the following season. Both blossomed into All-
Stars and eventually priced themselves out of the Phillies'
budget. Last season, they cost two other teams a combined $29
million. I bring this up to exemplify that very often major
league teams have to be very lucky to succeed. These days, most
teams can't afford to exceed the luxury tax, at least on a
regular basis. Few teams can hold on to great stars for their
entire careers, or sign top talent on demand to fill in holes.
It requires creativity with budgeting money |
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-1.781575 | 8.997864 | 59 | Who asks the hardest to answer questions on SO? And what's the
best metric for this? questions with no answers? fewest answers?
longest delay in answers? Oh StackDB gurus, what say you?
share|improve this question Why does it matter how hard a
question is? What matters more is how useful the answer will be
to some. If the question is too easy (obvious) than the answer
is not useful (because anyone experienced should be able to know
the solution off hand). But sometimes questions are difficult
because they apply only to a specific audience. A question that
is less difficult but which, once answered, is useful to a
greater number of people, is of more value. – Billy ONeal Apr
18 '10 at 6:02 Sure... But SO is unique in being a large Q/A set
for which the database is available. It's interesting to see (a)
what the "graph" of difficult questions would look like, and (b)
what those questions would be. – Mark Harrison Apr 18 '10 at
8:16 Worth noting:
stackoverflow.com/unanswered/tagged/?tab=votes . On the other |
-0.880023 | -0.821663 | -1 | Reply to a comment Reply to this comment jrios (staff) writes:
The ones that show "confidential" are people who are not on bond
and have not been arrested. A recently passed law says those
names aren't public record until that happens. The indictment
list was being released at a later date, with more of those
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-4.890985 | 1.84456 | 79 | Monday, May 7, 2012 Medieval Fruit Platter My sweet daughter
had a Medieval Festival at her school today. It was SO fun!
The kids in her class all dressed up in Middle Age costumes,
made castles and hats, shared some of their talents in
performances, and sat around and feasted on treats their mama's
made for the event. The parents and grandparents were all
invited to be apart of the festivities. My little princess read
part of a story she has written...she's becoming quite the
little writer for a 1st grader! I'm so proud of her!!! :) Last
year a mom made some amazing miniature fruit out of marzipan for
the feast and the kids thought it was so cool! So this year my
daughter's teacher asked me if I could do the same thing. I
decided to make the fruit out of rice crispy treats covered in
various color of modeling chocolate. They ended up being about
50-75% the size of regular fruit. Perfect for little
hands...and FULL of sugar for their little tummies! :) YUM! I
whipped up some rice crispy treats, |
0.291913 | -0.169548 | 73 | NTSB Identification: LAX04FA190. Nonscheduled 14 CFR Accident
occurred Sunday, April 18, 2004 in Holoaloa, HI Probable Cause
Approval Date: 02/28/2006 Aircraft: Piper PA 28-161,
registration: N8198A Injuries: 3 Serious. During a for hire
sightseeing tour flight, the airplane impacted rising
mountainous volcanic terrain following the pilot's encounter
with deteriorating weather. The pilot had been employed by the
operator for 11 days prior to the accident and this flight was
the pilot's first 14 CFR Part 135 revenue tour flight. Two
pilots were interviewed who had flown the route shortly before
the accident flight. They both reported encountering low
visibility and light rain in the area of the accident. They
conducted their flights along the shoreline to avoid the weather
conditions. After departure, the pilot was flying south along a
highway between the mountains and the coast. The passengers said
that within 10 minutes of takeoff, they began to encounter
weather conditions that would "get bad, clear up, a |
-4.832265 | 1.472386 | -1 | [Photograph: Robyn Lee] When it comes to avocado, I think
it's best not to fuss with it too much. If it's not broke, don't
fix it, you know? So I have mixed feelings on the Avocado Toast
($5.00) from Iris. On the one hand, it's lightly seasoned and
the avocado is rich and ripe. The 7-grain bread is chewy and
nutty: a perfect companion for the avocado. On the other hand,
the toast has mayo on it, which seems like overkill. It's true
that without the mayonnaise, the avocado would be the only thing
on the toast (except some salt and pepper), but to me there's
nothing wrong with that. Iris Take Away 16 Columbia Place,
Brooklyn, NY 11201 (map) Previewing your comment: |
0.425446 | -1.479144 | 7 | ON MAY 28th, during Friday prayers, two squads of gunmen entered
a pair of mosques belonging to the Ahmadis, a minority Islamic
sect, in Pakistan's eastern city of Lahore. Methodically, they
emptied AK-47s into the assembled worshippers, lobbed grenades
and exploded suicide vests. Their rampage has claimed 95 lives
to date. Our Pakistan correspondent writes about the
perpetrators, the Punjabi Taliban. The deaths were shocking,
but so was the response by officialdom, the media and the
public. Yes, the attacks aroused a deal of concern in Pakistan.
Lahore, after all, is the Punjabi capital and Pakistan's
cultural heart, a place of sophistication far removed from the
country's lawless frontiers, where extremism tends to have its
breeding ground. Yet the concern was palpably not for the
Ahmadi victims. Politicians have shunned the bereaved. Punjab's
chief minister, Shahbaz Sharif, has not shown his face at either
mosque, despite living down the road from them. Admittedly, an
admirable trio of women in parliamen |
-2.190603 | 0.090774 | -1 | Readers write: Tuesday, March 29 • Updated: March 30, 2011 -
11:41 AM Illustration by Bruce Bjerva Illustration by Bruce
Bjerva Photo: file, Star Tribune CameraStar Tribune photo
galleries Cameraview larger Missing the forest for the trees
Our legislators have proposed to cut old growth hardwoods from
two of our state parks and sell them for a few thousand dollars.
They see the value of the trees as cash to plug Minnesota's
short-term budget hole. So much for the public's majestic trees
that have survived a couple centuries of Minnesota winters and
human predation. In a few more generations, our progeny can
again see fully mature walnut trees in one of our state parks,
if we haven't by then also sold the property to a developer to
balance our budget. Legislators also have proposed to grab
transit sales tax revenue, intended to pay for rail and busway
capital infrastructure, to pay for bus operations instead. And
in protecting tax breaks for the very rich, our legislators
again would sacrifice |
-0.866497 | 7.446198 | -1 | SAP's Apotheker takes on shoddy consultants, certifications The
enterprise software giant is trying to end the days where it's a
whipping boy for failed implementations. The key question: How
do you avoid a project failure? SAP's Leo Apotheker.
SAP's Leo Apotheker. (Credit: Michael Krigsman via ZDNet News)
"I don't give a s**t if it's Accenture or IBM. I care about the
customer. I find it shocking people are walking around talking
to customers and have no experience on (SAP). (Consultants) get
hired of people and have no clue. It's annoying but that's a
fact. Let's start by certifying people," said Apotheker. "If we
believe (a project) takes 500 days and another partner says it's
5,000 days I'll do it for 500 and a fixed fee." Despite that
declaration, Apotheker said that he "can't boil the ocean" and
that the sometimes unhappy triad of customer, SAP, and systems
integrator can be complicated. The chat with Apotheker, which
lasted about 45 minutes or illustrated a bit of a conundrum for
me. On the |
0.11827 | -1.523386 | 17 | Connect to share and comment At least 15 dead in huge Damascus
suicide bomb A massive suicide car bomb ripped through the
heart of Damascus on Monday, killing at least 15 people and
littering a central street with dead bodies and the carcasses of
charred cars. "Terrorists detonate car bomb between Sabaa
Bahrat Square and Shahbander Street," state television reported,
adding that initial information suggested it had been a suicide
attack. "The preliminary toll from the terrorist bombing... is
more than 15 martyrs and 53 injuries," the broadcaster added.
An AFP correspondent said the blast caused extensive damage and
that intense gunfire was heard shortly afterwards. The blast
damaged the AFP Damascus office, blowing out the windows, but no
staff were hurt. State television broadcast scenes of
devastation as huge plumes of thick black smoke billowed up
around buildings in the area, partly obscuring them. Dozens of
vehicles were damaged, some crumpled almost beyond recognition,
others with their windows |
1.384424 | -0.01677 | -1 | Sunday, December 11, 2005 Nihilist In Golf Pants Christmas
Greeting After writing about President Bush's "Holiday"
greeting card, I thought I would show him how a proper Christmas
greeting should be done: The entire Nihilist In Golf Pants
family wishes you a joyous and healthy Christmas season! Take
time to remember the birth of our lord and savior Jesus Christ,
who established his one true church nearly 2,000 years ago. If
you are an Evangelical Christian or member of any protestant
denomination, you understand the importance of this season. You
just missed being correct by a very small margin, but peace and
goodwill to you anyway. If you are Mormon, we don't really
understand what makes you different from protestant Christians.
Anyway, good luck to BYU in their minor tier bowl game. If you
are Jewish, we at NIGP disapprove of those who hold a grudge
because you killed Jesus. We understand none of you were alive
at that time. So enjoy spinning your tops and lighting your
candles! If you are an atheis |
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