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-1.002864 | 2.972666 | 84 | Rate this paper • Currently rating • 1 • 2 • 3 • 4 •
5 3.66 / 6 Paper Topic: natural disaster and its effect on
economy [Name of Writer] [Name of Professor] [Course Title]
Natural Disaster and Its Effect on Economy Disasters in all
forms , whether made-created or natural have an immediate direct
reflection on the economies where they strike and in a chain-
reaction on overall economies because of the complex demands
that have to be addressed to bring relief and a sense of
normalcy as best as possible However , in this the economical
effects due to natural disaster are specifically being addressed
and first we should look at some of the br different types of
natural disaster faced by humankind the world over These include
earthquakes , volcanic eruptions , flooding in all forms
including typhoons and tornados tsunamis , landslides out-break
of diseases and even lightening among other natural phenomena .
Most of the times , these natural disasters strike without early
warning causing devast |
1.675818 | 1.819486 | -1 | General Question mowens's avatar How would someone with a
Boston Accent say the word Rookie? Asked by mowens (8264 points
) May 10th, 2011 Or any other words that start with an R….
Observing members: 0 Composing members: 0 11 Answers
Kardamom's avatar I think it would sound more like rocky. I
think the letter r’s only get distorted or changed when they
fall in the middle or end of words. I’m pretty sure that when
they’re at the beginning, they would sound the same as most
other American accents. If I didn’t have to run, I would look
for some youtube videos of John Kerry or Ted Kennedy talking.
WasCy's avatar A few years ago we were saying it “Jacoby
Ellsbury”. But he’s not so new any more. This year we might be
saying it “José Iglesias”. Seriously, there’s no r-dropping at
the start of words. Rookie in Boston (and heah in the Hahtfohd
area too) is “rookie”. ‘Rocky’? No way. gailcalled's avatar I
went to college in Boston, married a Bostonian, and hung out
with only Bostonians for 10 years. Rooki |
-1.644764 | -1.163661 | 63 | A group fronted by undifferentiated hate tissue Karl Rove is
pouring hundreds of thousands of dollars into a televised ad
campaign designed to smear Massachusetts Senate candidate and
middle class folk hero Elizabeth Warren. This can only mean that
Rove— and other conservatives— are shit-scared of her. The ad's
about as high minded as any political attack ad from either
party; it relies on the fact that the American public is really
bad at following up on facts and spends about 15 to 30 seconds
trying to claim that the candidate that the ad is against is in
favor of mass puppy genocide or has never officially declared
that they're against having sex with your wife in front of your
mom. This one implies that A) The Occupy Wall Street protests
are universally violent and B) That Elizabeth Warren used her
dirty pinko Harvard brain to will them into existence. The
Warren campaign responded by calling for donations from
supporters to mount a campaign in response to the Rove-backed ad
blitz. If they raise enough |
-4.074414 | 1.840689 | -1 | October 30, 2007 Symptoms and Treatments Symptoms of Zoloft
withdrawal (for me) (so far) (this is going from 50 mg/day down
to 25 mg/day) (are we going to have a list of symptoms here any
time soon?): • Headaches • Feeling like "What's the point?"
• Thinking "Everything's a mess" • People keep asking what's
wrong even when I don't feel like anything is • Longing for
the medication; tempted to take larger dose (not stupid, not
going to) • Tired • Crabby • Weary of everything that
needs to be done • Eating eating eating, especially sugar •
Hm, this is not so much different than usual • But it is,
you'll just have to take my word for it What I've been doing:
• Going to Target, breathing in the Target smell, finding little
fun clearance things to buy • Buying a million sale lip balms
at my friend Lee's Avon site (she gave me a free shipping code;
I'm not sure how long it's good for, but it's REPFS). I got
another Slick Tint* Glossy Wine, because I LOVE that thing and
use it every day |
-0.476422 | 10.68496 | 132 | Take the 2-minute tour × Before my form initiates an AJAX
request, I want to call a function. I see that for link_
to_remote there is the handy :before option... "Called before
request is initiated." here is my source: <%
form_remote_for(@news, :url => {:action => 'create'}) do |f| %>
Before the request is initiated, I want to call myFunction()
Thanks for the help :) share|improve this question add comment
1 Answer up vote 1 down vote accepted My mistake - :before
does work with remote_ form_for. I just had a silly syntax
error. share|improve this answer add comment Your Answer |
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1.105067 | 0.498725 | -1 | Terra di Toscana www.terraditoscana.com Town web Hotels
Farmholidays Restaurants Inhabitants in 1991: 87.100 The
territory of Lucca extends for 185,53 square kilometres,
occupying for the most part a vast alluvial plain formed by the
Serchio, between the southern offshoot of the Apuane Alps, the
Pistoia Apennine to the north and Monte Pisano to the south. It
reached its present day aspect in 1884, when an area of the
territory belonging to the Borgo a Mossano was aggregated to it
and at the same time losing some land to the advantage of
Capannori. Probably founded by the people of Liguria, who made
it their southern outpost, Lucca would have subsequently
suffered the influence – if not the dominance. – of the
Etruscans, and then become a “Municipium Romano” (89 B.C.).
Certainly, in its early development it benefited from its
position of important road junction at the crossroad between the
Cassia, the Clodia and the Aemilia Scauria. The importance of
the city grew however in the Longobardo era, when it be |
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-1.044724 | 9.573001 | 15 | This seemingly simple bug has been doing my head in for hours,
can anyone help me? I have my navigation in a <ul> using
display:block, background images/position changes on hover to
create rollovers. In some places I have 2 elements side by side
(either a static image or a narrower nav button) and their 2
widths add up to the container div width. I wanted to keep all
the elements in a single list for accessibility/simplicity. It
works great in all browsers except for IE7 (and IE6) where for
some reason the 2 half-width elements refuse to sit side by
side, and the second drops below. I tried position:inline, but
without results. It also adds some phantom padding/margin to
the header. You can see the page here: About Sarah de Nordwall
| Poetry Opens The World | [email protected] Can
someone help me figure out why it doing this and how to fix it?
I dont mind the site breaking in IE6, but would really like it
to look ok in IE7. Thanks so much in advance, Claire Louise x |
2.607126 | 8.877255 | 24 | Take the 2-minute tour × If L is a semisimple lie algebra then
L=[L,L]. Is the opposite true? share|improve this question 1
Answer 1 up vote 18 down vote accepted No. A Lie algebra
satisfying that property is called perfect. For an example of a
perfect Lie algebra that isn't semisimple, take a semisimple $L$
and an irreducible representation $V$ of $L$, and define a
bracket on $L \times V$ by $$ [(X,v),(Y,u)] := ([X,Y],Xu-Yv). $$
This turns $L \times V$ into a perfect Lie algebra with
$\text{Rad}(L \times V) = V$. share|improve this answer Maybe
it's also helpful to mention the substantial though often
isolated literature on perfect Lie algebras and related
structure theory? There are some interesting connections with
other questions, as in the paper by Benkart and Zelmanov in
Invent. Math. 126 (1996), 1-45. – Jim Humphreys Apr 5 '11 at
13:08 Your Answer |
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-2.273202 | 0.369452 | -1 | Freezing pay for Louisiana state employees is the right call: An
editorial Many Louisianians will feel the impact of severe cuts
needed to plug the $1.6 billion hole in the state's budget for
the upcoming fiscal year, especially families who have children
attending public colleges or who rely on public health care.
bobby-jindal.JPGLouisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal. That's why the
state's Civil Service Commission made the right call Wednesday
when it voted to freeze salaries and suspend annual "merit
raises" for 56,000 state workers. The commission did the same
last spring for the fiscal year that ends June 30. Wednesday's
vote extends the pay freeze for a second consecutive year.
"We're responding to the whole state fiscal crisis," said
commission Chairman David Duplantier. Gov. Bobby Jindal, who
pushed for the pay freeze, halted pay raises last year for
thousands of unclassified workers -- mostly political appointees
-- and has said he will do the same this year. That's necessary
as well. Overall, the decisi |
1.645838 | -0.437379 | -1 | Unicef WES Project Water, Environment and Sanitation Project
There is a huge taboo in most Indian households, especially in
the villages, to build toilets. In the rare event of one being
built, the skill on how to use them, keep them clean and where
and how the waste from it is treated or cleaned, is never quite
understood. Even simple acts such as washing hands thoroughly
has never been explained to any of us very well, and few people
are aware that well washed hands can
prevent diarrhea, dysentery, and a whole host of other diseases
that prove fatal for many children in India, every year. UNICEF
Chennai funded Nalamdana to train about 100 village volunteers
(young men and women) through 2008 and 2009 in the Krishnagiri
District of Tamilnadu state, on passing on key messages on hand
washing, toilet use, and the safety, and advantages to building
and using toilets.These trained teams performed plays in their
village taluks from August through December 2009. In connection
with the previous theatre training |
1.579123 | 4.58362 | -1 | Project Montauk: The Time Travel Chronicles By: Bill Knell It
was during my first visit to the historic Montauk Lighthouse
that I noticed the huge radar dish which immediately identifies
the base. I must have been about eight years old and remember
asking my parents about the monstrous structure. My father said
it was part of a system to detect incoming enemy aircraft or
missiles. As a retired Air Force Officer, he would know about
that. However, I’m certain that he had no idea what future (or
past) events would give that base such an infamous reputation.
I had plenty of friends that worked in the Long Island technical
community. During the days of the Cold War, those jobs were
everywhere if you qualified. Part of qualifying sometimes meant
having a parent or other relative already on the inside. David
was a good example. His father worked for the government or
government contractors since the days of the Second World War.
That helped David put his engineering degree to good use for the
same company where |
-0.185523 | -2.251643 | -1 | Recommend this article WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack
Obama signed an order giving the Treasury Department more power
to go after individuals and groups who try to evade America's
sanctions against Iran and Syria. Treasury said on Tuesday the
order gives it "a new authority to tighten further the U.S.
sanctions on Iran and Syria." "Treasury now has the capability
to publicly identify foreign individuals and entities that have
engaged in these evasive and deceptive activities, and generally
bar access to the U.S. financial and commercial systems," the
department said in a statement. (Reporting by Jason Lange;
Editing by Doina Chiacu) |
-1.817989 | 9.1129 | 59 | What is meta? × This may have been asked before, but I can't
find it searching. If this has been brought up before, point it
out please. This is also not commonly a problem, but on
occasion, one pops up. The "problem" is that new users add an
answer to a question that already has an accepted answer
(example). I'm only concerned about questions that are quite
old, say at least 3 months old. The question goes straight back
to the top of the front page, but has already been thoroughly
discussed and answered. The new "answer" is commonly of no value
to the question, and the answer previously provided has already
been implemented. I'm essentially proposing that you need a
certain rep (maybe 15, even just a registered account) to be
able to post an answer to a question with an accepted answer
that is so old (say 3 months 1 year or older). share|improve
this question Example question has an accepted answer by the
owner, new user could have been confused due to that. – Ólafur
Waage May 28 '10 at 13:46 Even thou |
1.292486 | 9.048449 | -1 | Skip the navigation How to solve optimization problems with
Excel and Solver Whether it's minimizing costs or maximizing
returns, this excerpt from the book Data Smart shows you how to
use Excel's Solver add-in By John W. Foreman February 18, 2014
06:18 AM ET An optimization problem is one where you have to
make the best decision (choose the best investments, minimize
your company's costs, find the class schedule with the fewest
morning classes, or so on). In optimization models then, the
words "minimize" and "maximize" come up a lot when articulating
an objective. In data science, many of the practices, whether
that's artificial intelligence, data mining, or forecasting, are
actually just some data prep plus a model-fitting step that's
actually an optimization model. We'll start with a little
practice with optimization now. Just a taste. In Excel,
optimization problems are solved using an Add-In that ships with
Excel called Solver. On Windows, Solver may be added in by
going to File (in Excel 2007 it' |
-5.315764 | 1.326644 | 33 | Chinese Beef and Broccoli with Tomato Print Friendly Chinese
Beef and Broccoli with Tomato I used to order this dish at
China House Restaurant in Saipan, and the combination of flavors
grabbed me. Admittedly this is an Americanized version of
Chinese broccoli beef, but I like the extra layer of flavor the
tomatoes add. Don’t add them too soon or cook them for too long;
otherwise, they will turn to mush. The key to making this dish
successfully is to prep everything ahead of time. You’ll feel
like you are on a cooking show with all the bowls of measured
ingredients beside you, but it will help immensely because once
you start stir-frying things move very quickly. Preparation
time depends on how long you want to marinate the beef, which
can sit for 30 minutes or up to 3 hours. Freezing the beef for
about 20 minutes prior to cutting will make it much easier to
achieve very thin slices. The broccoli benefits from a quick
steam or parboil before adding it to the stir-fry. You can do
either right in the wok be |
0.190633 | 4.857265 | -1 | READING THE BOOK OF LIFE; Grad Student Becomes Gene Effort's
Unlikely Hero Published: February 13, 2001 A surprising hero
helped the consortium of academic scientists decoding the human
genome to avoid a drubbing by its rival, the Celera Genomics
company. Scientists throughout the world are now beating an
electronic path to his Web site, where they can analyze and
download the human genome sequence. He is a graduate student at
the University of California at Santa Cruz, and his name is not
Clark but James Kent. In four hectic weeks last spring, Mr.
Kent wrote a computer program that the consortium's leaders
hadn't realized how much they needed, one that assembles the
400,000 fragments of DNA they had decoded into a coherent
sequence. Using 100 computers that his senior colleague, Dr.
David Haussler, had persuaded the university to buy for the
purpose, Mr. Kent performed his first assembly on the human
genome on June 22, just four days before Dr. Francis S. Collins,
the consortium's informal leader, and Dr. |
2.058899 | 2.633499 | 37 | Takip et Turkish sözcük ara, mesela bae: Fish- a faggot kid at
seton high school that adds names here for fun that kid named
fish is a faggot MetallicaRocker tarafından 6 Mart 2004,
Cumartesi 6 21 Food that should not be eaten before or after you
eat ice cream. If you do, you will get Violent Explosive
Diarrhea. Fish and ice cream just don't mix! Shawn B. tarafından
19 Mayıs 2003, Pazartesi 0 17 anonymous tarafından 19 Temmuz
2003, Cumartesi 12 30 A really cool nice guy named Will thats
always there when i need him and is like a big brother to me
Will looks like a fish. Pure Beauty tarafından 7 Ağustos 2003,
Perşembe 3 22 what your bitch smells like after having sex ~guy
goes up to chicks beaver~ Smells like fish MasterX tarafından
15 Ekim 2004, Cuma 10 30 FISH stands for "Fucking Israeli Shit
Heads". FISH are native to southwestern Ontario, and white
Canadians are hoping for genocide. There's so many F.I.S.H in
here, it's a fucking aquarium. Taco Bird tarafından 1 Şubat
2011, Salı 14 37 |
-4.946413 | 1.773884 | 79 | What's New? Recipe for Baked Apples You'll love the effect
this recipe for baked apples will have on your house. As the
apples and cinnamon are baking, your kitchen will fill with the
most divine smell - almost as good as this baked apple recipe
tastes! A French Idiom This recipe for baked apples is called
Pommes Bonne Femme in French. You will find many simple recipes
in France with the term bonne femme tacked on the end. The
literal translation would be Good Woman Apples, but bonne femme,
or good woman, has several additional meanings in French.
Often when people refer to a woman as a bonne femme, it is
because she is old and feeble. Which is sort of funny because
one of the meanings of a bonhomme (or good man) is an old man in
robust shape. You will also hear people use the term bonne
femme in a derogatory fashion referring to a peasant woman, or
someone who they are assuming to be simple minded. Not too
complimentary really. Apples with a Good Reputation But it is
possible this recipe for baked a |
0.006155 | 2.057381 | -1 | • 107328 Infos '''Mesosociology''' or
'''mezzosociology''' deals with analyses of concepts like
stratification by income age gender race ethnicity; social
organization|organizations (functionally circumscribed social
structures) and community|communities (geographically
circumscribed social structures) As such mesosociology lies
between analysis of large-scale macro forces such as the economy
or human society|societies (which is a domain of macrosociology)
and everyday human social interactions on a small scale are
(domain of a microsociology) |
1.447585 | 3.689126 | 51 | home authors titles dates links about art
theft and the case of the stolen turners 20 july 2012 In his
uneven but highly informative study Art Theft and the Case of
the Stolen Turners, Sandy Nairne lists four motives for the
theft of high-profile artworks: resale, ransom, obsession, and
politics. The third and fourth are romantic but rare. There are
more directly persuasive methods of political activism than
stealing Old Masters. And the "Dr. No"-type art thief, the one
who purloins irreplaceable wonders for the pleasure of looking
at them in his diabolical super-villain lair, is evidently a
myth. Though how would we know? And in the case of the paintings
stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 1990, maybe
the best theory is that they are sitting in a mad superman's
climate-controlled mountain chamber, where he can sit and gase
at them, stroke his cat, and cackle insidiously. It's as good as
another. But more likely, the Gardner thefts are stashed
somewhere, safe but not par |
-1.184996 | 2.839866 | -1 | Flooding is not uncommon in Nigeria and last year was
particularly severe, affecteding 500,000 people [EPA] Flooding
in the Nigerian city of Ibadan has claimed the lives of 98
people so far, and more victims are still being discovered.
Southern parts of Nigeria have seen torrential rains this year.
In Ibadan, 120km north of Lagos, yet another thunderstorm hit
over the weekend and the excessive water caused a dam to
overflow. This triggered a torrent of water, which smashed
through buildings, bridges and anything else in its path.
Thousands have found themselves homeless and camps have been set
up to provide emergency shelter for those in need. Acres of
farmland have also been submerged. Although flooding is fairly
common in Nigeria, it unusual for floods to hit in August, which
is normally one of the drier months in Ibadan. August lies
sandwiched between the rainy seasons that affect the area. The
rains in the equatorial region are set off by the sun's heating,
but of course the position of the sun depen |
0.696242 | 0.709678 | -1 | Thursday, December 23, 2010 The Monument to Polish Television
The criteria we use to assess architecture can be slippery. That
shouldn't be elevated into a virtue; much as I love Ian Nairn,
the 'every kind of architecture produces good buildings and bad
buildings, the only important thing is quality' line that he
often peddled is as asinine as it is vaguely accurate. Without
theory, without stylistic and ethical infighting, new forms and
ideas wouldn't develop at all. Yet, there are some buildings for
which any apparatus of aesthetic analysis is just inadequate,
and where any notion of architectural 'quality' is irrelevant.
The subject of this post, the Telewizja Polska building in
Warsaw, recommended to me by Ms Agata Pyzik and designed by
Czeslaw Bielecki, is one such structure. It appears in a fairly
typical Warsaw inner-suburban main road, a long and wide street
with blocks of offices and flats set back from the road line
itself. Most of them are in the unassuming manner you can see
above, prefabricate |
1.771135 | 3.576171 | 51 | Toast Sculptures Give History Lessons Everybody listens when
toast does the talking, which would probably be a pretty good
reason why artist Tibi Tibi Neuspiel decided to use them to
retell some moments of history. While toasts do play a central
part, the artist also makes use of other materials like oil
paint and beeswax to add to the sculpture and get its (sometimes
graphic) message across. Plenty of personalities found their way
onto these toasts, Hitler has a trashcan full of toasts for his
face. |
3.587753 | 5.004911 | 2 | • Register Report article RSS Feed A look into the AI: GOAP
Goal Oriented Action Planning (or GOAP) is the basis for the AI
used in Attack of the Gelatinous Blob. So what is it? Posted by
Sploreg on Nov 27th, 2012 The way it was The AI for the blobs
and the humans (entities) was one giant finite state machine. If
an entity was told to attack, it first had to walk to the
target. As it was walking, it had to make sure it was close
enough. How close it needed to be depended on what weapon or
method of attack it was going to use. What weapon it was going
to use depended on several other states. If it was walking, it
could also be walking to a location to stand guard, or to pick
up an item. Suddenly this 'walk' state had to know about all
other actions that it might be preceding. If I wanted the entity
to be able to do something else after walking, I had to add it
in there and make sure it didn't jump into any of the other
states. In the code this made for many, many, if-else
statements. Chaining actions bec |
-1.931733 | 0.350471 | -1 | After serving her country, female veteran struggles to find a
job Female veterans face job challenge Female veterans face job
challenge Female veterans face job challenge Female
veterans face job challenge 02:24 Story highlights •
Unemployment for female veterans is higher than the national
average • In September, the national unemployment rate was
9.1% • For female veterans, jobless rate was 14.7% • Former
Navy officer Kenya Smith is one of those unemployed female
veterans It's the only profession she's ever known. "I love
the Navy," she said during a recent interview in suburban
Maryland. "If you split me open, I'm blue and gold." Smith, a
former lieutenant and medical service corps officer, first
enlisted right after college but by the time she left had earned
two master's degrees, deployed to Iraq and racked up substantial
experience in healthcare and administration -- experience she
thought would impress potential civilian employers. "I ran
projects. I was an HR manager. I was a lo |
0.41059 | 0.55405 | -1 | Home » Letters to the Editor, Opinion Personal blogs should be
professional 8 December 2011 By Kathleen Quinn 10 Comments I
know that Alex Glaze writes a blog that is not part of The
Towerlight. However, his work outside of the realm of your
publication is reflective of The Towerlight. After Towson’s
football loss on Saturday, Mr. Glaze posted a blog post, “Should
Spadola Have Played?” targeting a Tweet he came across by a
Lehigh football player. Glaze accuses Ryan Spadola of using a
“racial slur.” Yet, a quick archive search of Mr. Glaze’s
Twitter reveals 19 Tweets to him from his followers using the
SAME term as a term of endearment, friendship and familiarity.
Mr. Glaze Tweeted back to these people in a friendly manner.
Why? Because he knows well that the word “nigga” is NOT a racial
slur. It is very irresponsible to post a blog on the Internet
accusing someone of such a horrific thing … especially when the
accuser himself has been OK with the use of “nigga” on his own
social media page. |
-0.493754 | 4.998381 | 4 | How To PROPERLY Clean Your Bearings Picture of How To PROPERLY
Clean Your Bearings I see a lot of people who either NEVER clean
their bearings, or do it improperly when they DO clean them.
I've seen many different ways to clean them, so I thought I
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Bearings Picture of Remove The Bearings The video explains it
all (albeit in a rather stuttery and halting fashion). Step 2:
Taking Your Bearings Apart I used a dental tool to remove the
rubber seals from the bearing. If you have a steel bearing cap
(see image #3), then look for a little c-clip in the side of the
bearing case. If there is no c-clip, then just skip this step.
Step 3: Cleaning The Bearings Put the bearings in a container
WITH A LID and fill it to the brim with isopropyl alcohol. Cap
the container and shake for 5 minutes. If your bearings are
still coated in nasty, repeat the process. Set the bearings
out to dry. While you |
-4.050406 | 1.316298 | 21 | WINE - Interview with Mike Filice What is Malvasia del Fiore?
This is a wine that our family made and sold for many
generations, starting in Italy. My Grandfather made it when he
came to California and our family sold it in our winery tasting
room in the middle of the last century (The more we charged, the
more it sold!). Then we got carried away with the popular
varieties like Chardonnay and Cabernet to keep the business
going. One day I realized that our “recipe” might be lost
forever if someone didn’t start making it again. Well, I ended
up being that someone. What does the wine taste like? We call
it Malvasia del Fiore because the wine has bright aromas of
flowers, especially orange blossoms. At first the wine seems
simple, but its delicate complexities grow on you – kind of like
an Impressionist painting. The wine is easy to drink, crisp, and
refreshing. In addition to flavors of orange blossom and
honeysuckle I also pick up gentle allspice and apricot. How do
you make the wine so delicate, yet full |
0.289865 | 2.509592 | 130 | or Connect Mothering › Mothering Forums › Natural Living › The
Mindful Home › Organize & Declutter › How to cut down when
family isn't into it *long* New Posts All Forums:Forum Nav:
How to cut down when family isn't into it *long* post #1 of 9
Thread Starter I hope this is ok to post here. Please let me
know if its not. I'm posting here because it does have to do
with simplifying and organizing. I just have a family who may
make it harder for me. I'm sorry if this comes off as whiny
too! My family (mom and 2 sisters) moved in with me in December
when I bought my house. For the longest time I envisioned a very
clean, organized space. I don't have this. Now that I'm
expecting my first child I really feel like I need to get
everything organized and back to what I wanted so that when my
child is here, I'm in a much better state of mind. I want to cut
down on the trash we put out to eliminate that expense, I want
to be able to use my organized two car garage instead of having
so many boxes in there that I c |
2.591193 | 1.87001 | -1 | Buried Treasure Glassy Ocean by Justin Sevakis, Jun 25th 2009
Glassy Ocean: Leap of the Whale (Glassy Ocean: Kujira no
Chōyaku) It's hard to know where to begin with a short film
like Shigeru Tamura's Glassy Ocean. Like most experimental
animated shorts it's ostensibly a children's piece, one with
such nuance and beauty that perhaps a child would connect to it
in a way that an adult simply wouldn't know how to. It's
reflective of how a child sees the world in his or her mind's
eye, a visual flight of fancy that traps a moment of imaginative
splendor and preserves it as if in amber. A boy on an ocean
liner stands at the railing with binoculars, looking out upon
the vast ocean. A man (presumably his father) asks if he sees
anything, and he does... but just some flying fish. "I'll bet
there's a really big fish with his eye on us," his father muses.
From there, the ocean turns into a vast sea of green glass,
suspended in its perpetual motion. The idea of the ocean as
glass isn't a new one; rather it's someth |
-0.453576 | 0.375457 | 6 | Rodell Sanders On December 15, 1993, 19-year-old Stacy
Armstrong fell asleep while her friend, 23-year-old Phillip
Atkins, was driving her home from a party. Around 2 a.m., Atkins
woke Armstrong in Chicago Heights, a suburb south of Chicago
because a gunman was ordering them to get out of the car. The
gunman and three other men ordered Atkins and Armstrong to walk
down an alley to a garage where the men took Atkins’ wallet. One
of the men asked Atkins if he belonged to the Mickey Cobras
street gang. When Atkins said he did, the questioner ordered one
of the others to shoot Atkins. That man shot Atkins repeatedly
and at the direction of the questioner, also shot Armstrong
three times. Armstrong lost consciousness for about 20 minutes,
and then managed to get to a nearby house and summon help.
Armstrong, though shot twice in the head, survived. Atkins was
killed. Based on Armstrong’s description of the perpetrator
questioning of Atkins about his gang membership, police
suspected that the four men were member |
0.861245 | 9.857136 | 22 | Channels ▼ Christopher Diggins Dr. Dobb's Bloggers
Composition vs Inheritance April 23, 2008 In most object-
oriented code inheritance is perhaps the most fundamental
technique of object reuse, but it has several flaws. Object
composition is much more robust, and often more appropriate but
still hasn't become popular. I beleive that this can be
attributed to the fact that object composition is more verbose
than it needs be. I propose the introduction of a new feature to
modern OOPLs to alleviate this: delegation of interface
implementation. A feature that I haven't really seen in many
languages, and whose ommission has always struck me as odd, is
the ability to delegate an interface implementation. In other
words the ability to declare in a single line of code, the
following pseudo-code: implement IMyInterface through field
fMyField This feature would simply be syntactic sugar, but in
many circumstances can save reams of code. It would also make
object composition much more attractive to programmers as |
-0.395172 | 9.628728 | -1 | Take the tour × I have run into a problem attempting to
redispatch mouse events in ActionScript 3, which I am admittedly
a bit incredulous about. I have narrowed it down to the
MouseEvent.clone() method appearing, well, completely broken.
The following event handler: private function
handleMouseMove( evt : MouseEvent ) : void
trace("mousemove", evt.stageX, evt.stageY); var
newEvt : MouseEvent = evt.clone() as MouseEvent;
trace("mousemoveclone", newEvt.stageX, newEvt.stageY); Results
in the following output, ad infinitum: mousemove 167 206
mousemoveclone 0 0 This matches what the code I was
redispatching the MouseEvent to was receiving, hence my
hypothesis of the broken clone function. This is directly
contradictory to what the linked documentation indicates should
happen, unless I have missed something. I am at an entire loss
as to what I did (or did not do) that could possibly cause this
behavior. Did the AS3 guys really forget to read their own
documents on Event.clone()? I can work |
-3.630922 | 1.77225 | -1 | Government intervention The nanny state’s biggest test
Should governments make their citizens exercise more and eat
less? See article Readers' comments Dr Swinburn said that
"--- is there is no single policy recommendation that can tell
me how I should behave" My brother David came to see us today,
he struggles to get up our stairs he is so obese, I am very
concerned. I said if you were in an accident and lost an arm it
would be the same as never getting pleasure from eating cheese,
drinking fizzy drinks, eating crisps and chocolate. So if he
were to give up these he would loose weight just as God forbid
if he lost an arm. Andrew Cameron, Canvey Island, Essex Amor
Maclang What issues does it post to other health risks as
smoking, etc. ? I admire Bloomberg, etc but he must find a way
to work and engage stakeholders and communicate with them in a
manner that doesn't always feel like a bull in a china shop.
What's your leadership communications style? Amor Maclang
Why is the solution to every prob |
-1.303946 | -0.495994 | -1 | Option Canada fuss amounts to little It was in March 1997 when
Gazette reporter Claude Arpin startled the country with a front-
page exclusive about an obscure but well-funded organization
known as Option Canada. "Unity group waged secret referendum
battle," our headline said, and the story explained "a
$4.8-million federal grant earmarked for the promotion of
Canada's official languages financed an anti-separatist
operation prior to the 1995 referendum, The Gazette has learned.
The Heritage Canada subsidy was awarded to Option Canada, a
Montreal lobby group set up eight weeks before the Oct. 30
referendum vote. "How the lobby group spent Ottawa's money -
along with an undisclosed amount from anonymous sources -
remains a closely guarded secret ..." In the decade since
Arpin's scoop, muttering sovereignists have spun Option Canada
into a vast federal conspiracy to subvert the democratic will of
Quebecers to separate. This assiduously nurtured myth is
nonsense on many different counts, and now the cold c |
-2.432623 | 2.249444 | 26 | How Old Do Cats Live? On average, a cat will live to be about
twelve to fifteen years old. However, it is also not uncommon
for one to live to be over twenty years old! Cats are amazing
creatures, and with your help, your cat can live for a long,
long time. 1 Additional Answer A cats life span all depends on
whether they get health problems. And what kind of life the
owner gives them. Cats can live to be very old-like 90 in human
years. Q&A Related to "How Old Do Cats Live" It really depends
on the type of cat. You can find house cats for instance all
over the world. The more fortunate ones live in nice households
with families. The unfortunate ones How long a cat lives depends
on their lifestyle - whether they are inside or outside cats. A
cat that spends most or all of its time inside can live 20 years
or longer. Cats live about 12 to 20 years. Indoor cats tend to
live much longer than outdoor cats, mainly because they are kept
safe from predators. For more information see here:
http://www.suite101 Explor |
4.059567 | 3.695145 | 35 | Among the highlights of this battle between Spider-Man and
Batman on a subway in Toronto the other day: 1) Batman
attempting to do the Christian Bale growl while Spider-Man
claims he could stop the train with his bare hands. 2) Spidey
taunting Batman about his dead parents, and Bats retorting that
Spidey's parents weren't international spies, but rather
"international feces." 3) The pull-up contest. 4) The "hanging
from the ceiling" contest." 5) The taunt, "Batman, or Bat-
bitch?" 6) "I have a PhD in kicking ass." "I'm 50 percent
Clydesdale." 7) The wrestling moves that the superheroes try out
on each other, including some that may have originated with
Shatner. 8) The way Spider-Man finally spanks Batman, just once.
According to CTV, the video is the work of Sean Ward, creator of
the viral short "Batman's Night Out." Ward explains: "I've been
a big fan of these characters. I think people are enjoying the
characterizations of these guys in my work." There's another
chapter in the Spider-Man/Batman saga coming |
-0.129447 | 0.87999 | -1 | It was only a couple of months ago that we heard about the
mother who videotaped two toddlers as she apparently encouraged
them to throw punches at each other like street fighters. You'd
think we wouldn't hear about another toddler "boxing match" for,
oh, ever. But we'd be wrong. This time, three women who worked
in a daycare in Delaware have been arrested after they allegedly
forced two 3-year-olds to "whale on" each other -- and, of
course, filmed it. According to reports, the three women, who
range in age from 19 to 47, are accused of forcing two boy
toddlers to hit each other in the face and head while they
filmed it, laughed, and set down rules like, "No pinching, only
punching." More from The Stir: Toddler Nearly Drowns in Major
Childcare Fail (VIDEO) Police say that one of the babies is
crying and doesn't want to fight, and that he is "pushed back
into the fray by one of the adults." One child was reportedly
"screaming and crying and holding his face while being punched."
The whole thing is filmed |
-0.689818 | -0.038071 | -1 | Obama tries to stop execution in Texas of Mexican killer US
president warns Texan authorities that execution would put
America in breach of international legal obligations COP15 U.S.
President Obama President Barack Obama has asked the Texan
authorities not to execute the convicted rapist and murderer
Humberto Leal Garcia. Photograph: Bob Strong/Reuters President
Barack Obama is attempting to block the execution in Texas on
Thursday of a Mexican man because it would breach an
international convention and do "irreparable harm" to US
interests. The White House has asked the US supreme court to
put the execution of Humberto Leal Garcia on hold while Congress
passes a law that would prevent the convicted rapist and
murderer from being put to death along with dozens of other
foreign nationals who were denied proper access to diplomatic
representation before trials for capital crimes. The
administration moved after the governor of Texas, Rick Perry,
brushed aside appeals from diplomats, top judges, senior milit |
4.483212 | -4.38819 | 0 | Game Wrap: Marlins 5, Rockies 3 You better believe this image
can double as a metaphor - Dustin Bradford Shoddy relief work
and a continued offensive malaise spoil a fine start by Juan
Nicasio. It's hard to imagine things getting worse than this.
The Miami Marlins, one of the worst teams in Major League
Baseball, have just taken three of four games from an utterly
lifeless Colorado team. In a game that had both water and boos
rain down upon Coors Field, Juan Nicasio's fantastic start was
thrown away like an empty candy wrapper. All eight runs in the
game were scored in a span of about 20 minutes. Adam Ottavino
started the eighth with two quick strikeouts, but two seeing-eye
singles later and there were runners on the corners. As Wilin
Rosario lazily stabbed at a slider in the dirt, which let the
ball squirt away, the energy in the stadium almost tangibly
deflated. A 1-0 deficit? Might as well leave early and avoid the
traffic. That would have been a mistake, were it not for...
Wilton Lopez followed Otta |
-1.98811 | -0.44667 | -1 | DMI Blog Elana Levin time to get hostile: “the public is
awake” says Sirota reporting back from our Campaign '06 event
with David Sirota: Saying "the system is legalized bribery -
money goes in favors go out" David Sirota laid the ground work
for the discussion explaining that what progressives must do is
show Americans what government corruption means to the average
person. He continued, "corruption isn't just Tom Delay and vote
buying and bribery - it's everything that's legal that goes on
every day and doesn't get reported on. Our political debate is
preemptively limited to only include ideas that won't challenge
the corporate status quo too much. The fact that things aren't
being talked about isn't an accident [the problems created by
NAFTA is one big example he cites] ... electeds have been told
by the interests that are funding their campaigns NOT to go
there. That's why the talk is limited." Sirota explained how
the system actually selects for people that are very good at
shaking down moneyed inte |
0.402706 | 3.947628 | -1 | Crayon-Rubbing Cornucopia Crayon-Rubbing Cornucopia lesson plan
Find interesting textures with which to make crayon rubbings.
Shape the paper into a cornucopia and fill it with natural
textures—leaves, flower petals, or whatever you like! • 1.
Cornucopias are traditional symbols of abundance. They are often
displayed with produce at Thanksgiving—but they can also be
filled with spring flowers, pictures of loved ones, or anything
else for which you are thankful. Think of those things for which
you are most appreciative. Share some of your ideas with your
classmates. • 2. Choose one or more of your ideas to
represent in a cornucopia. Create the texture of the cornucopia
and its contents using crayon rubbings. Here’s how the sample
was made. • 3. To make the cornucopia, remove the
wrapper from a Crayola Triangular Crayon. Lay paper over a
textured item, perhaps a woven basket. Rub with the flat side of
the crayon to cover the whole sheet. Roll the paper into a cone
and glue the top edge |
-2.885086 | 3.615449 | 45 | Take the 2-minute tour × I'm thinking about juggling heavy
balls as part of my workout routine. Could the frequent impacts
of juggling balls up to 1 kg every other day hurt my muscels or
tendons? Assume that I'm of average fitness and won't drop the
balls on my feet. share|improve this question What would be the
reason to start juggling the balls and not perform regular
exercises with them? What are you working out for and how do you
think juggling will benefit you? – Ivo Flipse Apr 26 '11 at
7:18 @Ivo: I guessed that it practices some muscle group, and
which one was going to be my next question. The reason to juggle
would be that it's fun. – user26 Apr 26 '11 at 9:30 So you
don't have a specific sport in mind, you're training for? – Ivo
Flipse Apr 26 '11 at 9:31 @Ivo: No, just general fitness. –
user26 Apr 26 '11 at 9:36 I juggle 3 pounders daily and my arms
looks great! also great core workout... thinking of upping to 5
pounders soon! – user5246 Feb 16 '13 at 7:41 5 Answers 5 up
vote 3 down vote ac |
3.277287 | 5.053094 | 2 | View Single Post Old 08-09-08, 08:57 PM #1 Registered User
JohnDio's Avatar Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 1,026 Default God
bless the Crysis community Reasons why PC gamers should buy
Crysis... even today: Advanced AI It basically makes the AI
more Aggresive and Smart. They regular AI werent just cutting it
for me and i believe for some. Basically the AI will supress
and do other things people might do in real life or in online
shooter games like Project Reality for BF2. Advanced Particles
Mod Alpha Version 1 *Small fires start when explosions are
near buildings or foliage (not dynamic but I'm working on it :P
will spread a little then go out, does not damage AI yet, I have
a way of doing this but it may take a little longer to implement
) *Wood chipping much improved, 3d bits of physicalized wood
splinters. *Smoke that stays much longer *When Cliffs are shot
there are small landslides *Dirt and Soil kicked up from
explosions (Explosions on soil send a barrage of soil that will
fly out) *More dust when |
-1.93573 | 2.298975 | 125 | Please don’t be fooled July 15, 2013 The Daily News In all
the rhetoric and information being presented concerning the
delisting of the grey wolf certain basic biological concepts
have been ignored. Let us attempt to explain. "Any population
can only be as large as the lowest level of a required need will
allow." What this means is that any attempt to produce
populations of any living thing beyond its natural capacity is
doomed to failure. Biological and social forces will not allow
an artificially inflated population to exist for any extended
duration. All populations are balanced in nature by two factors
- decimation factors such as starvation, predation, accidents,
regulated hunting and trapping, disease, parasitism, or extremes
in climatic conditions are factors which will lower populations.
Welfare factors on the other hand such as abundant food, water,
energy sources, regulations and protection, or shelter will
increase populations. Attempts to artificially create
conditions that will increase |
-0.154571 | 10.404759 | -1 | Take the 2-minute tour × In an XML document, I have elements
which share the same name, but the value of an attribute defines
what type of data it is, and I want to select all of those
elements which have a certain value from the document. Do I need
to use XPath (and if so, could you suggest the right syntax) or
is there a more elegant solution? Here's some example XML:
<data type="me">myname</data> <data type="you">yourname</data>
<data type="me">myothername</data> And I want to select the
contents of all <data> tags children of <object> who's type is
me. PS - I'm trying to interface with the Netflix API using PHP
- this shouldn't matter for my question, but if you want to
suggest a good/better way to do so, I'm all ears. share|improve
this question X-Ref: Implementing condition in XPath – hakre
Jul 9 '13 at 9:43 add comment 2 Answers up vote 16 down vote
accepted Try this XPath: $myDataObjects =
$simplexml->xpath('/object/data[@type="me"]'); And if object is
not the root of your document |
-2.306895 | 5.431431 | -1 | Next Story BigCommerce Establishes $2 Million Fund
For Developers ZestCash, a company founded by former Google CIO
and VP of engineering Douglas Merrill to legitimize the payday
loan industry, has raised $73 million round of funding. The
company raised $23 million in an equity round led by Matrix
Partners. Existing investors Lightspeed Venture Partners, GRP
Partners, Flybridge Capital Partners, and Lighthouse Capital
Partners also fully participated in the round. The company also
raised a separate $50 million line of debt financing from
Victory Park Capital to fund its loan portfolio. Payday loans
are common amongst consumers who don’t have the credit to take
out a standard loan through a bank. Payday loans shops allow
users to pay a fee to borrow a certain amount of money. For
example, a consumer will on average pay $60 to borrow $300 for
14 days. After 2 weeks, the borrower must pay the entire loan
and fee back in one payment. If the borrower cannot pay the loan
back, then he or she can get an extensi |
1.877231 | 5.049538 | 90 | Samuel Colt From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to:
navigation, search Samuel Colt Samuel Colt by Brady, 1857.jpg
Samuel Colt (19th-century engraving) Born Samuel Colt
(1814-07-19)July 19, 1814 Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Died January 10, 1862(1862-01-10) (aged 47) Hartford,
Connecticut, United States Occupation Inventor, industrialist,
businessman Net worth USD $15 million at the time of his death
(approximately 1/966th of US GNP)[1] Spouse(s) Elizabeth Hart
Jarvis Children Caldwell Hart Colt Relatives John C. Colt
Samuel Colt (July 19, 1814 – January 10, 1862) was an American
inventor and industrialist from Hartford, Connecticut. He
founded Colt's Patent Fire-Arms Manufacturing Company (today,
Colt's Manufacturing Company), and made the mass production of
the revolver commercially viable. Colt's first two business
ventures — producing firearms in Paterson, New Jersey, and
making underwater mines — ended in disappointment. But his
business expanded rapidly after 1847, when the Texas Ranger |
-4.133042 | 2.540395 | 70 | Advertisement -- Learn more about ads on this site. Message
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11/14/11 12:56 P Well Hey! I'm sure you've faced some difficult
things in your life, and survived. We don't get to be this age
by crawling in the closet and giving up!! How about you try
some simple things, to get you back into it? 8 cups of water a
day. 2 servings of vegetables. 1 piece of fruit. Skip the chips
and eat a salad. Take a walk around the block, or out to the
mailbox. Pick something (or 2 or 3 little somethings) that
you're fairly confident you can do, and DO them. You need to get
a few "GO ME!!"s under your belt. You've got one GO ME!!
already, for posting your frustrations here, and reaching out
for help. Maybe you're hungry all the time because you're
choosing foods high in calories (chips, soda, cookies) but low
in all the nutrients that keep us fe |
1.173204 | 3.799598 | 29 | Vera Wang Vera Unveiled A Different Perspective As the
back of a wedding gown commands its own share of visual
importance during the ceremony, it is crucial that the gown be
conceived with this unique perspective in mind. The charm of an
artfully designed back lies in a confluence of cut, drape and
decoration, with such significant details as intricate seaming
or complex construction. Morning ceremonies always dictate a
special measure of propriety. As such, the back of a gown
should never sit below the level of the bra fastening.
Traditional wedding adornments such as tailored bows, fabric-
covered buttons or hand-rolled flowers lend a touch of subtle
feminity and grace to the back of a bodice. For late-day or
evening weddings, more embellishment is alway appropriate, if
not desirable. A glimpse of bare skin or the soft drape of a
cowl-back can both be incredibly alluring, while sequins, beads
and crytals reflect light and offer a touch of glamour. As some
brides favor a more tailored look, a cle |
-0.526598 | 7.032642 | 8 | or Connect New Posts All Forums: Posts by jd_in_sb Ethnicity
is irrelevant. Experience, regardless of gender or race, is all
that matters in a board. The royalty rates were all negotiated
by the music industry as I understand it. So I don't see how
they are a victim here. Things are so bad at Blackberry they
aren't even mentioned anymore. Glad to read Apple will stick
with the one-handed-use design principle. You're right. Sorry.
Missed that news! It was Facebook not Google and $3 billion not
$4 billion. With Siri's scores in high 70s, 80s and 90's how
does that average to a C ? Tim understands public relations very
well. Nice. They make a demo video that doesn't even show the
product being used. Einhorn does not know what Apple's future
plans are which Apple knows best what to do with their cash.
Period. New Posts All Forums: |
-0.943049 | 3.040856 | 84 | Drought, cold, and massive storms were among the devastating
climate-related events that struck the United States in 2012.
These events were incredibly destructive and disruptive for
people across the country. presents Extreme Events of 2012:
Looking at the Big Picture It’s official: 2012 was the hottest
year on record for the contiguous United States. March kicked
things into high gear, breaking its own record by a huge margin.
July was then the warmest of more than 1,400 months on record,
dating back to 1895. September was the 16th consecutive month
with warmer than normal conditions—the longest streak in the
nation’s climate record. With all that heat came prolonged
drought, which is ongoing as we begin the new year. Crops
suffered, and the Mississippi River approached all-time lows at
several locations. Without enough water, barge traffic on the
river, critical for the nation’s commerce, nearly halted. The
drought also set the stage for massive wildfires. Some of the
largest fires occurred in New Mexi |
4.316501 | 1.588065 | 121 | Digital Spy Search Digital Spy Reality TV Interview 'So You
Think You Can Dance' Cole Horibe on elimination, future plans
The competition is tighter than ever on this season of So You
Think You Can Dance, and as we inch ever closer to the finals,
it's inevitable that we must say goodbye to two wonderful
dancers every week. Unfortunately, last week's saved performers
Cole Horibe and Witney Carson fell just a little short and both
were sent home. We caught up with Cole to hear about his time in
the competition and his plans for the future... 'So You Think
You Can Dance' season 9 contestants: Cole Horibe © Fox /
Mathieu Young So You Think You Can Dance S09E13: Top 6
contestant Cole Horibe and all-star dancer Melanie Moore © Fox
/ Mike Yarish You guys get to go on the tour this fall - what
are you most looking forward to about that? "I think traveling
in general - I haven't had a chance to do much traveling besides
going to Hawaii, so that should be fun. And just to have the
challenge of performing every |
0.254038 | 8.025479 | -1 | Propellerhead Forum Propellerhead Forum ( - General Forum
(read only) ( - - Am I at the mercy of my machine ( ryaz
2013-03-28 01:03 Am I at the mercy of my machine So I think
I've reached my Mac's limit with Reason. I'm at a point where my
Mac slows down so much during playback in reason that I keep
getting the dreaded "Your computer is too slow to play the
song". I have taken the advice from Propellerhead's page (can't
find the link now) about the 10 ways to increase performance on
Reason, which did work for a while, which until now it's giving
me that message again. I have every browser shut down and only
have adium (aim) running. Also tried multiple system reboots and
all the advice from that page mentioned above and freed up my
disk storage to 20 gigs with no visible performance increase. I
feel that I am at the mercy of the performance of my machine
(not software settings) because everything starts to get SUPER
choppy and even the audio starts giving out until giving me that
message 1 second la |
-0.689222 | 6.754696 | -1 | Rene Anselmo From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to:
navigation, search Reynold "Rene" Anselmo (January 14, 1926 –
September 9, 1995) was a Boston native and World War II Marine
Corps veteran. Anselmo moved to Mexico after the war, but later
returned to the United States to help run the Spanish language
television network Televisa, and later to co-found PanAmSat.[1]
PanAmSat gained a foothold in the television market by providing
satellite services for private commercial communication
networks, such as those used by international conglomerates to
connect far flung manufacturing operations around the globe or
provide data connections between a large number of retail
outlets and corporate headquarters.[2] He was a man with
"unflinching self-confidence and willingness to risk all in his
fight to upend the status quo," Space News stated in a tribute
to Anselmo.[3] He challenged the monopoly in satellite provision
held by Intelsat in the 1980s, taking out full-page ads in the
Wall Street Journal asking p |
-0.502629 | 8.150772 | -1 | oreilly.comSafari Books Online.Conferences. AddThis Social
Bookmark Button How Does Open Source Software Stack Up on the
Mac? by Matthew Russell This overview of Mac applications
could keep even the most dedicated software enthusiast busy for
days. Some of them are proprietary, such as iTunes; others are
pure open source. So how does Apple's software, and that of
other proprietary companies such as Adobe, compare to their open
source counterparts? Matthew Russell gets the conversation
rolling with this extensive collection, and even assigns grades
for overall categories. We know there are great apps that aren't
on this list and hope that you will add the ones (in the
Comments section) that you think are important. Try to include
URLs if possible. So with no further delay, let's get going.
Recently on the O'Reilly Radar, it was noted that several well-
known Mac folks are switching to Ubuntu Linux. One of them, Mark
Pilgrim, directly juxtaposed several of Apple's stock apps to
open source software (OSS) a |
0.711114 | 9.611704 | 16 | note RhetTbull Take a look at [cpan://IO::Zlib]. I believe it'll
do exactly what you want -- that is, tie a compressed file and
treat it like an ordinary file handle (a la [cpan://Tie::File]).
In your case, I wouldn't keep the large data record compressed
AND use a compressed data file -- I don't see that it buys you
anything. Just use [cpan://IO::Zlib] and compress the whole
file.<BR> --RT 184139 184139 |
2.924639 | 5.401011 | 2 | Mother 3D #11itouchisnamePosted 6/17/2010 6:47:08 AM Fox lies
and I don't know anything about Jack Thompson
#12ViewtifulGenePosted 6/17/2010 6:49:59 AM It doesn't matter if
Fox lies or not. I never said they didn't. The point is, it
mobilizes people- people that would make sure America never gets
Mother 3. Some ignorant people wouldn't think the game is so
funny. And ignorance is all too common. #13itouchisnamePosted
6/17/2010 6:53:34 AM I guess I can't disagree with you
#14DankAssSlurpeePosted 6/17/2010 7:21:12 AM Its going to
happen... in Japan only. Nintendo doesn't see a big enough
following for Mother games in the States. Bastages.
#15turtleman64Posted 6/17/2010 7:50:16 AM Not enough soccer moms
or children of soccer moms would even buy it, let alone follow
the story in such detail for the game to get any attention by
the media at all. |
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Frank Montreal video artist Jason Harvey’s world is one of hip
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0.904247 | -0.343377 | -1 | Saturday, January 30, 2010 "Hitler was not an occultist": Mitch
Horowitz is right but his sourcing is all wrong (Nazis &
Christians & Pagans, Part Four) A post ("Author Mitch Horowitz
Says Adolf Hitler Was Not An Occultist") over at the always
interesting blog Prometheus Unbound drew my attention to
Alexander Zaitchik's recent review of Mitch Horowitz's book
Occult America: The Secret History of How Mysticism Shaped Our
Nation. Here is a direct link to Zaitchik's review: "Into the
Weird" (originally posted at Killing the Buddha, but also found
at Alternet as well as The Witches Voice). Of course Horowitz
is absolutely right that Adolf Hitler was not an Occultist, and
also that left/progressive movements in the US have had strong
links with Esotericism (which I think is a better term that "the
occult"). And Zaitchik is right to praise Horowitz for saying
that. But it turns out there is a serious problem with how
Horowitz supports what he says about the Nazi/Occult connection.
Here is what Horowitz says in |
0.700384 | 3.033535 | -1 | Am going to start an essay in a about a month that explores
different cultures understandings and perceptions of masculine
and manliness; particularly pertaining to rites of passage.
Just wondering if anyone knows, off the cuff, any splendid
examples of various cultures to employ as examples to compare to
western masculinities. Views: 351 Reply to This Replies to
This Discussion Id like to read this when you finish. I am
working on a book of masculinity and wouldnt mind using some of
your references if you dont mind? Of course credit will be given
where credit is due. For sure =) I'm not getting it. If you
have a story/theory/observation/compilation to tell, I can
understand why you want to write it down. But you want to
write, so you're looking for data? You must already have
something you want to say. What is it? (Same question for Mr.
Hopper.) Best survey I know is Manhood in the Making by David
Gilmore, who explores Spain, Truk, French Polynesia, China, the
Semai, and others. I doubt he has |
0.725635 | 6.593655 | 68 | Opposable Thumbs / Gaming & Entertainment Gunnar Optiks wants
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glasses that look like a real pair of spectacles … The last
time we took a look at a pair of Gunnar glasses, ones designed
to ease eye strain when playing games or looking at a computer
screen for long periods of time, the results were somewhat
controversial in the comments. The company has just sent us
another set of glasses to review, and this time the product is
even more niche: higher quality 3D glasses. These are passive
3D glasses, compatible with the RealD technology used in theme
parks and movie theaters, so if you're in the market for a TV
that uses active glasses technology, you're out of luck here.
Like all 3D glasses, they're not cheap, costing between $100 and
$200 depending on style and options. That being said, I carried
my pair around E3—which is a 3D-rich environment—and have used
them extensively in the past few weeks. They're easy to fall in
love with. You don't rea |
1.284412 | 4.551084 | -1 | New funding promised for the Canadian Space Agency, which is
seeking two new Canadian astronauts to join Steve MacLean, shown
here just prior to blasting off in 2006. (Associated Press)
((Terry Renna/Associated Press)) The past year might have been
filled with talk of curtains closing and arts funding being
taken away, but the 2009 federal budget would aim to keep
Canada's creative juices flowing through tough economic times.
Much of the year's arts funding, according to the budget, would
start at the community level, with a focus on cultural and
heritage institutions. Local theatres, libraries and museums
would receive $60 million over two years to improve
infrastructure; community newspapers and Canadian magazines
would get $30 million over the same period. The Canada New
Media Fund and the Canadian Television Fund would also get
increased funding. The New Media Fund would receive $28.6
million (and $14.3 million in following years) and the CTF would
get $200 million. The Canada New Media Fund is used |
-1.922865 | 1.490759 | -1 | State Net Capitol Journal Legislative Updates: States'
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TRANSPORTATION FUNDING NEEDS TRUMPING TAX AVERSION: This month
Virginia's Republican-controlled House and GOP-Democrat-split
Senate gave final approval to a $6 billion transportation
funding overhaul proposed by the state's Republican Gov. Bob
McDonnell that included, among other things, a new 3.5 percent
sales tax on gasoline and a 6 percent tax on diesel fuel. That
action highlights a developing trend across the country: States
- even some controlled by usually tax-averse Republicans - are
opting to increase gas taxes and other fees to provide funding
for transportation projects. Nineteen states have either
already enacted or are considering tax and other fee changes to
boost transportation budgets, according to the National
Conference of State Legislatures. In March, Maryland lawmakers
passed Gov. Martin O'Malley's (D) plan to raise state gas taxes
13 to 20 cents per gallon by 2016, which wou |
0.857138 | 7.76231 | 77 | Patches appear to solve many of the affected machines'
crippling problems Comments Threshold RE: Dell is
the new Compaq By The0ne on 12/4/2009 10:04:40 AM , Rating: 2 It
was a partnership of Dell and Intel. Dell could say whatever the
hell they wanted for excuses but it still came down to the fact
that they both kissed each others behind. It wasn't until AMD
starting gaining enthusiasm from the public and Dell started
losing money that they offered any type of AMD PC configuration.
By then I think some consumers were already hurt but their
initial decisions. RE: Dell is the new Compaq By bennyg on
12/4/2009 11:51:03 PM , Rating: 2 and by those decisions, they
bought products that contained inferior chips. Since P4-M,
AMD's mobile lines have been consistently trounced by Merom
onwards in all aspects. At least in desktop consumer CPUs they
compete well in the budget and low-end-multicore segments but
then only because they make way less margin than Intel. That is
why there are so few AMD CPUs |
-2.083191 | 2.683828 | 54 | How to Attract Birds to Your Backyard If you are a friend of
feathered visitors, love the diversity of the specimens found in
your area, the palette of colors they display and love listening
to their melodic sounds, there’s some good news: You have many
ways to lure specific fowl into your garden and make them feel
at home. Besides setting up bird feeders with the appropriate
food and offering water, you can influence their arrival in
other ways. How to Attract Birds to Your Backyard First, you
want to make sure the area you are targeting for the birds is
low-traffic so they aren’t constantly disturbed. This means no
opening/closing doors and not a lot of walking by. Start by
determining what breed of bird you are looking to attract. Each
one has its preferences and knowing what they are can help you
conclude how to make it more interesting for them to visit you.
willow flycatcher Willow flycatcher; Photo By Kelly Colgan
Azar/Flickr Tyrant flycatchers, such as the Western Kingbird or
the Willow Flycatche |
2.146924 | 2.553531 | 37 | Subscribe Feedback English look up any word, like swag: 1. mersh
commercial marijuana, not of the highest quality, usually
containing seeds and stems is that nug or mersh? by bell
September 04, 2003 add a video add an image 2. Mersh Lower-grade
marijuana grown in larger quantities, usually contains lots of
beaners(seeds). Less potent than dank or dro but can still get
you pretty high. "Dude I don't have enough money for dank"
"Thats ok man just buy a bag of mersh" 3. Mersh Slang for
"commercial," with reference to works of music, art, or culture.
Derogatory. Implies more money went into producing the thing
than imagination went into conceiving of it. A term frequently
used by 1980s San Pedro, CA punk band the Minutemen (whose
second last album was called "Project Mersh"). "Are you kidding?
I'd never listen to mersh stuff like Justin Beiber." 4. Mersh To
make plans and not follow through; to stand someone up. "Sorry I
mershed last night, but I had to work late." by LittleSam
September 24, 2004 add a video add |
-0.506175 | 6.742699 | 60 | Guardian's first laptop: teaching resource of the month from the
GNM Archive, October 2012 Each month we provide resource
material from the GNM Archive that can be used in the classroom.
This month we are looking at the Tandy portable computer and
talking to Guardian journalist Maev Kennedy about how it
radically changed the reporting process Education Centre - Tandy
Tandy TRS-80 Model 100 portable computer from the GNM Archive
Photograph: Robin Christian for the Guardian A hundred years
after GT Robinson tried to send his Papillon de Metz
(September's resource) getting a story to your editor still
posed some problems. The GNM Archive has in its collections a
Tandy Radio Shack TRS-80 Model 100 used by Guardian reporters
from 1983 onwards. It was not the first laptop in use, this was
arguably the Osborne 1 although this was the size and weight of
a heavily packed suitcase, whereas the Tandy was considerably
lighter and could fit in a satchel size bag. Prior to the
introduction of the Tandy computer, copyta |
-1.580859 | 1.044177 | -1 | Featured Stories Other Pamplin Media Group sites Dream,
reality conflict when thinking about Lake Oswego I have a dream
that the city council will not just listen but give great weight
to the view of the neighborhood associations. That small special
interest group with loud and aggressive spokespeople is not
given preferential treatment to the detriment of the homes and
families in the neighborhoods (Avamere would come to mind). I
have a dream that the city council is committed to
representative government and can put aside personal preferences
for the good of the community (Safeco comes to mind). I dream
that higher taxes are not the only way to satisfy the vision of
improving our city. Other methods of budget restraint could
include a smaller budget (not the automatic increases
consistently enacted), cost controls that would include a
multiple bidding requirement, along with restraint and the
prioritizing of projects. I dream that costly mistakes could be
reviewed and modified and that changes would be |
0.233108 | 1.658684 | -1 | How do I handle 16 year old sneaking boyfriend in while I am at
work? Cindy - posted on 01/02/2013 ( 3 moms have responded )
My 16 year old has been awful for the past 3 years but more out
of control for the past year. She comes home when she wants, now
sneaks her boyfriend in the house when I am at work, admitted to
"trying" drugs and alcohol. I just do not know what to do. It
does not matter what rules I set she does whatever she wants.
She took all happiness away from my home... she lies, is mean,
disrespectful, a slob, and does absolutely nothing. What can a
parent possibly do to regain control of their home again? If
you see this, leave this form field blank. Powered by RESPECT
not THUMPS View replies by ♫ Shawnn ♪♫♫ - posted on
01/03/2013 Let her know you love her, and change the locks.
Install a security system. Do not give her the keys nor the
code. Perhaps, when she's confronted by the police for breaking
and entering, she'll rethink her actions. Or, you can do the
above, but o |
0.938917 | 4.309282 | -1 | Monday, September 28, 2009 Flying The Colors "Miskatonic U
School Colors? Anyone happen to know what they might be?"
That's what launched this thread at Yog-Sothoth. The very
helpful Gil Trevizo points out that Chaosium's "Miskatonic
University" supplement specifies the schools colors as purple
and black. Me? As I wrote there, I vote for Cardinal Red and
White based on the "WDBUD?" test. By default I assume that any
attribute of Miskatonic University not specified by Lovecraft
(or another author*) can be discovered by asking "What Does
Brown University Do?" or some variation thereof. Brown claims
Seal Brown, Cardinal Red, and White as their school colors. It
seems fair to shamelessly steal two of those and leave the
school it's namesake color out of respect. Outside of that
justification I have no basis for the red and white color choice
other than the fact that I think it looks good. * I probably
should have written "another established author". If Campbell,
Derleth, or Smith had said purple and black |
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Developing Web Applications with PL/SQL If you think that only
new languages such as Java and JavaScript can do network
operations and produce dynamic Web content, think again. PL/SQL
has a number of features that you can use to Web-enable your
database and make your back-office data interactive and
accessible to intranet users or your customers. This chapter
discusses the following topics: PL/SQL Web Applications Web
applications written in PL/SQL are typically sets of stored
procedures that interact with Web browsers through the HTTP
protocol. A set of interlinked dynamic HTML pages forms the user
interface of a web application. When a Web browser user visits
a Web page, follows a hypertext link, or pr |
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The Ludwig von Mises Institute Advancing Austrian Economics,
Liberty, and Peace Advancing the scholarship of liberty in the
tradition of the Austrian School Search Mises.org Inside Soros
Mises Daily: Thursday, December 10, 1998 by The political left
loves to prattle about the plight of the poor, but their
darlings are increasingly culled from a small club of the
world's richest men. Last year it was media mogul Ted Turner who
won leftist affections by advocating population control and
bailing out the United Nations. This year, it is George Soros,
the billionaire hedge-fund operator who has turned like a snake
on the system of economics that made him rich. His new book is
The Crisis of Global Capitalism, which argues for a world
central bank and an army of new global regulators to straighten
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1.100781 | 9.847611 | 22 | LispWorks User Guide and Reference Manual > 6 The Advice
Facility > 6.2 Combining the advice 6.2.1 :before and :after
advice First we deal with the case when there is no around
advice present. Here each of the pieces of before advice are
called in turn, with the same arguments that were given to the
function, next the original definition is called with these
arguments, and finally each of the pieces of after advice is
called in reverse order with the same arguments (so that by
default the most recently added piece of after advice is invoked
last). The results returned by the function call are the values
produced by the last piece of after advice to be called (if
there is one), or by the original definition (if there is no
after advice). Note that none of these bits of code should
destructively modify the arguments that they receive. Adding a
piece of before advice thus provides a simple way of specifying
some additional action to be performed before the original
definition, and before any older bits of be |
3.044332 | 5.200398 | 2 | Apparently, the powers-that-be at Ubisoft know that the visual
splendor of their latest gorgeously rendered platformer can be
straight-up confusing. That's the only raison d'etre I can
figure behind the video above. The clip details gameplay goals
so basic that you'd have to be a drooling idiot not to get them.
To be fair, there is a competitive aspect to the co-op play and
it could tough to figure out what's going on amidst all the
chaos. But, all possible explanations aside, the most important
accomplishment of the trailer is that it also puts on display
the zippy action, goofy character design and awesome music that
makes Michel Ancel's latest game a trippy triumph. How to win
Rayman Origins? Start by buying it. |
-0.966763 | 4.317197 | -1 | Q&A / Clothes Dryer Venting DEAR TIM: My husband wants to
vent our clothes dryer directly into our garage in an attempt to
keep our cars warmer in the winter months. I think dryer vents
should be directed outdoors. Can you settle this clothes-dryer-
vent debate? Where would you vent the dryer and what are the top
things you would avoid when installing a clothes-dryer vent?
Cindy R., Redondo Beach, CA DEAR CINDY: I get asked so often to
referee these marital debates, I am thinking of buying a white-
and-black striped shirt. Your husband should be congratulated
for thinking of a way to use the waste heat from the clothes
dryer, but his proposed method will cause some secondary effects
that could end up costing you time, trouble and money. This may
also be a building-code violation in your area, as it is not a
good practice to have penetrations in the wall between a house
and the garage. Along with all of the heat that would pour into
your garage, you also get scads of water vapor. If you have ever
seen a clo |
-1.476313 | -0.811994 | -1 | 1. Education Top 10 Significant Presidential Elections in
American History Will the 2008 presidential election be
considered one of the most significant presidential elections in
US history? It is impossible to judge the importance of any
presidential election until time has passed. However, the
election is truly an historic one with the nomination of the
first African-American candidate by a major political party. In
order to be included in this list of the top ten presidential
elections, a significant event had to impact the election's
outcome or the election needed to result in a significant shift
in party or policy. 1. Election of 1800 This presidential
election is the most significant in US history because of its
far reaching impact on electoral policies. The electoral college
system from the Constitution broke down allowing Burr, the VP
candidate to be in contention for the presidency against Thomas
Jefferson. It was decided in the House after twenty-six ballots.
Significance: The 12th Amendment wa |
0.6134 | -2.099115 | 96 | Text size this story is by related tags For decades the
settlers have been stealing the helpless peasants' land and
Israeli governments have been paving the settlers' roads. Every
year during the olive harvest, Jewish malefactors raid olive
groves in the West Bank, and the long arms of the security
forces are too short to assist the Palestinians. In the rare
cases when they do catch the culprits, a charitable judge "takes
the circumstances into consideration." But to set fire to a
mosque - and on the Festival of Lights? This time they have
really gone too far. Even the president cannot ignore such a
"sinful act," as he described it. By the way, this is the same
Shimon Peres who as defense minister had the honor of planting
the first tree in the West Bank settlement of Ofra, most of
whose homes are built on private Palestinian land. If the
settlers would have set fire to yet another Palestinian wheat
field, the report of the event would have been at best shunted
to the nether regions of the news programs. T |
0.490578 | 5.270134 | -1 | Flying robot armed with shotgun Something I just submitted to
slashdot: A small company called Neural Robotics has produced a
robotic mini-helicopter armed with a rapid-fire shotgun. Based
on their low-cost AutoCopter, the UAV uses neural network-based
flight control algorithms to fly in either a self-stabilizing
semi-autonomous mode controlled by a remote operator, or a
fully-autonomous mode which can follow GPS waypoints. A video of
the AutoCopter Gunship is available. (Dijjer mirror) Stepping
aside the ethical issues of replacing soldiers with flying
shotgun-wielding robots for the moment, their “neural network-
based” flight control system seemed like an interesting
technical accomplishment. This PDF briefing has a few details.
Taking a look at page 14 of their PDF though, perhaps their
control system is a little on the simplistic side. It seems to
just update roll and pitch based on the current movement and
facing of the helicopter, without making use of visual
information or other sensors. I’m not to |
0.358361 | 9.582577 | 16 | Skip to main content My top wish for Java 8: EE applications as
first class citizens Posted by jjviana on August 23, 2010 at
5:38 AM PDT Java EE has come a long way, to the point Java EE
6 can be considered a lightweight development platform. When
Glassfish v3 was released one of the selling points was fast
application (re)deployment times. This is an essential feature
for any team in the quest for greater developer productivity: if
you have to wait 120 seconds for a redeploy and you do it 30
times a day, you spend an entire working hour just waiting for
the server to reload your application. The problem is, even
tough Glassfish v3 deploys applications very fast indeed (most
of my deployments are under 12 seconds now, for relatively
complex web applications) it also suffers from a problem that
plagues every single Java EE implementation I have worked with:
memory leaks. After very few redeployments the Glassfish JVM
dies with java.lang.OutOfMemoryException and you need to
forcefully kill it and start a |
-0.562566 | 2.267213 | -1 | aah, beaver country. Yes, been there several times. We used to
launch our 14ft boat in cross village and hope for the best.
Sometimes the fog would make it hard to find in the morning.
Other times it would be so choppy on the way back that you'd be
sick and soaking wet in minutes. There's a bar there called the
Shamrock. They've got good burgers, at least they did the last
time (probably 15 years ago). Other than that it's been too long
ago. Have fun. If you run into Dean Wilson, tell him vinny say's
hello. |
0.629468 | 7.104994 | -1 | HV355U Mobile Media HDD review At last, a DIVX box that's aware
Europe exists. Except... TODO alt text Our Verdict Better
than the S-video hordes, but the fan noise is a pain • At
last, a standalone player with SCART • Basic interface Were
we ever to stage a war, once we'd finished wiping the Earth
clean of pushchairs and clipart, the next object of our
agression would be S-video. It's vastly inferior to the RGB
SCART sockets found on most half-decent UK TVs, but because it's
the most widely-used interface in the US, it's everywhere. Ever
tried connecting your PC to a telly via S-video? Yeuch. So,
it's a massive relief to discover a standalone (there's no
networking - just copy files from your PC over USB 2.0) hard
drive video player with a SCART port built in. With DIVX, XVID
and VOB support, on paper the HV355U is the perfect portable
media box. 'Perfect' was not the description that we used the
morning after a night's testing on our DIVX collection. Its
built-in fan made more of a racket th |
0.414088 | 2.126581 | 75 | 2kids asks: How can I get my son and daughter to get along? My
problem has to do with my 7 year old daugther and 2 1/2 year old
son. He likes to do nasty things to her but I always deal with
him. The problem is that she doesn't act like he's only 2 1/2.
And I fing it hard to find consequences that work with him.
There are logical consequences but usually, the only thing that
works for him is sitting on his bed. But using the bedroom is a
bad idea because I don't want him to not like going to bed. As
for my daugther, she axagerates the situations and often adds
little lies. I don't like not believing her but sometimes I
just can't. In the evening, I don't have the patience for this
stupid behaviour and say things, to her, that I regret
afterwards. It seems she does things to get her brother in
trouble, thinking I don't know what sh's doing and it just gets
me more frustrated. I need ideas, please. Thank you. Lisa
In Topics: Discipline and behavior challenges > 60 days ago
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-2.249711 | 2.001562 | 26 | It’s Official: New Jersey Bans Horse Slaughter! Friday,
September 21, 2012 - 4:15pm horse in a pasture Congratulations,
New Jersey—you’ve just become the latest state to ban the
slaughter of horses for human consumption! Just shy of his
final deadline, Governor Chris Christie signed into law
A.2023/S.1976, which is an amazing piece of legislation: Not
only does it prevent a horse slaughter plant from opening in the
Garden State, it also prohibits the use of state roads to
transport live horses intended for slaughter elsewhere! New
Jersey’s highways are a major East Coast artery up to Canada
(and Canadian slaughterhouses). Now that horse slaughterers
can’t use them, their lives just became more difficult—and we
have to admit, we’re pretty happy about that. Until we succeed
in passing a federal law banning both U.S. horse slaughter and
the transport of slaughter-bound horses across our borders, it
is vital that individual states continue to stand against this
horrific practice by passing their own bans. So |
-0.110082 | 8.990953 | -1 | Take the 2-minute tour × I have a weird issue... I have an
image (a small thumbnail) included in the project AND as a file
in the documents directory (both files are IDENTICAL)... when I
load it into an image view using [UIImage imageNamed:xxx] it is
perfect however when I load it into an image using [UIImage
imageWithContentsOfFile:xxx] then it is really blocky....
Anyone have an idea why this would be... I repeat the images are
identical (so it is not a different format or resolution which
is the issue). This is on the iPad, iOS 3.2 share|improve this
question This question is so old it's probably left the rest
home. But I just ran into what appears to be the same thing. In
my case it's nothing to do with scale factors, and everything to
do with imageWithContentsOfFile: returning a 34x34 image, even
though the source image is ten times that (and a different
aspect ratio). I'm smelling an iOS bug, but instead of hunting
it down I just worked around it. YMMV – sobri Mar 8 '13 at
16:03 add comment 1 Ans |
-1.300825 | 0.862258 | -1 | ABA Connection New Test for DUI Defense Advances in Technology
and Stricter Laws Create Challenges for Lawyers A correction
has been made to this story. Posted Feb 25, 2005 5:47 AM CST By
Margaret Graham Tebo • Print • Reprints • Share Long a
staple of many a general law practice, defending clients charged
with drunken driving has evolved into a more complex and
specialized field. The changes track the ever-more
sophisticated technology used to detect impaired drivers and a
cultural shift that has raised the severity of punishment and
imposed a stigma on those arrested. More states now mandate
license revocation, alcohol evaluation and treatment, and jail
time or house arrest for a conviction for DUI, also known as
driving under the influence. (In some jurisdictions, the offense
is known as DWI, or driving while intoxicated.) As the stakes
increase, defense attorneys need detailed knowledge of how
Breathalyzers work, about the physiology of the human body, and
about the intricacies of field sobr |
-3.83275 | 2.139326 | -1 | But maybe the stress of a national election and the looming
“Mayan Apocalypse” caused a spike in obesity that would set us
down the projected path of catastrophe? According to Gallup’s
annual Healthways survey, that spike is about as real as the
December 21 doomsday. Obesity and overweight rates barely
changed, and Gallup announced that the “Obesity rate [was]
stable in 2012.” The chart below tracks the survey results since
2008. This finding makes sense in light of the evidence that
shows a leveling off of obesity. A study by the Centers for
Disease Control (CDC) of low-income New Hampshire kids found
fewer were overweight or obese, echoing a similar national
finding. Several cities have seen declines in childhood obesity.
And the CDC found last year that the trend of adult obesity was
flat since 2007. There’s little solid evidence that obesity is
increasing. Projections may suggest it, but they aren’t borne
out by data and are susceptible to “Garbage in, garbage out”
modeling. Instead, they serve to ge |
1.32112 | 3.435095 | -1 | boggle-shakeHas anyone out there not heard of Boggle? I find
that hard to believe. However, in case you’re one of the
few…Boggle is a word puzzle game where the object is to come up
with as many words as possible in the alloted time. Shake the
letter cubes and when you are done, string together letters in
order to form words. Easy, right? The words must be at least
three letters long so no words like he, it, to, etc. are
allowed. It’s a little bit like Scrabble and a little bit like
the bubble from the game Sorry. Add a time limit and you have
the entertaining game of Boggle. boggle-wordsThe main feature
included in the app has to be the three different game modes.
There is the Challenge Mode, where you must race the clock as
you come up with as many words as possible. This is the main
mode of the game and the one most will be familiar with. The
next is the Advanced Mode. Here you can adjust the speed of the
game and basically make it more or less difficult depending on
your level of expertise. The last i |
-0.565654 | 3.176218 | -1 | (CNN) - When faced with the most ferocious waves on the planet,
most people would seek protection in the largest, sturdiest
vessel they could find. But when Swedish pensioner Sven Yrvind
sets out on his ambitious mission to circumnavigate the globe,
it won't be in a hefty ship piled high with food, creature
comforts and telecommunications equipment. Instead, the 73-year-
old plans to traverse the high seas cocooned in a sailboat only
slightly bigger than a bathtub. For many, the proposition of
sailing non-stop around the world for a year-and-a-half in a
vessel just three meters-long will sound rather ambitious, and
coming from a man well past the retirement age, downright far-
fetched. Indeed, few would likely take the idea seriously were
Yrvind not one of the world's most respected boat-builders.
During his accomplished life he has given lectures to the
Swedish king and queen and received awards from the prestigious
Royal Cruising Club in Britain, among others. "People have said
it's a suicide mission," |
-4.201181 | 3.159618 | 39 | Text Size Site Search powered by Ajax Lactase (Beta-
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3.786354 | 2.044132 | 5 | Soaps News Dear Soaps, On Guiding Light,... Dear Soaps, On
Guiding Light, I heard Michelle tell Claire that she and Danny
went through a lot to be together. What exactly did they go
through? — Kendra Dear Kendra, The real question is what
haven't Danny and Michelle gone through? The couple didn't
exactly get off on the right foot since Michelle had killed
Danny's brother, Mick, in self-defense. Danny and Michelle
agreed to fake romantic feelings for each other so that the
Santos family would spare Michelle's life. Then, they fell in
love for real. Next, Carmen, Danny's mom, orchestrated
Michelle's conviction for the murder of Ben Warren. It looked
like Danny and Michelle would be separated for quite a while
after Michelle was put on death row. Danny helped clear
Michelle, but she miscarried his baby after being released from
prison. Memories of Carmen have been haunting Michelle, too.
Currently, Danny believes that Michelle's mom, Claire, had
nothing to do with Carmen's de read more Dear Soaps, I hav |
-1.688585 | -0.584074 | -1 | Wednesday, May 11, 2011 The Brito Bounce burns Robaina
Dist. 7 Voters who voted in Recall Election: 22,671 Dist. 7
Voters who voted AB: 8,579 Said Farias: "She was very
enthusiastic about it." "That's the sense I got," he shot
back. 1. Ok so Brito meets with Robaina, offers to work for
him a fee, he does not pay her, then she sends him information
for free. He will not hire her but then "assumes" she is on his
camp. Then she does a $2000 gig for Suarez who actually pays
her, and you find that wrong?? Whassup with that? I
think you are very good, but you are beginning to lose
credibility because of your personal vendetta against Vanessa.
Please do not lower yourself to that level. 2. Found nothing
wrong with that part, as I plainly wrote. But whassup with not
returning a dozen or so calls from the candidate who leaves
messages indicating he believes you are on the team? Whassup
with allowing a misunderstanding of your commitment knowing they
would make no alternate plans |
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