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-0.325241 | 0.667761 | 6 | News Home Car playing 'chicken' before death, court told
Kirsty Nancarrow Alice Springs Law Courts Five men are facing
court charged with Kwementyaye Ryder's murder. A woman has told
a murder committal hearing in Alice Springs she saw a car
playing "chicken" with a man who she found dead minutes later.
Deborah Clarke told the court she was on Anzac Hill with her
partner watching the sunrise on July 25 when she heard tyres
screeching. She said a car was aiming at a man walking on
Schwartz Crescent. Ms Clarke's partner, Matthew Lemons, told
the hearing he saw three people run from the car and then saw
someone making a kicking motion. He said the fracas was over in
seconds. The court heard the couple drove down to find the body
of 33-year-old Kwementyaye Ryder minutes later and called the
police. Five men - Anton Kloeden, Joshua Spears, Scott Doody,
Timothy Hird and Glen Swain - are facing court, charged with his
murder and recklessly endangering the lives of eight other
people the same night. Witness |
4.246368 | 2.801844 | 5 | Teen pin-up Zac Efron is still waiting for the suit he was
promised as a keepsake from the third and final High School
Musical movie. The young actor asked if he could keep the smart
outfit his character Troy wears in the new film - but costume
heads held it back just in case Efron had to re-shoot scenes.
But, after seeing the suit displayed at the film's premiere,
Efron thinks it's time he gets what he was promised. He tells
WENN, "I actually asked to keep one of Troy's suits from the
movie and everyone said, 'No, we might have re-shoots, so we
have to keep it.' "I was like, 'All right, that's cool.' But
when we walked into the El Capitan theatre (in Los Angeles) and
my suit was on a mannequin like, 'Please come touch the suit,' I
was like, 'Are you kidding? Re-shoots?' It's still sitting in
the theatre, I'm sure. I want that suit." |
1.426594 | 0.473784 | 118 | From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation,
search In English history, praemunire or praemunire facias was
a law which prohibited the assertion or maintenance of papal
jurisdiction, imperial or foreign, or some other alien
jurisdiction or claim of supremacy in England, against the
supremacy of the monarch. This law was enforced by the Writ of
Praemunire facias, a writ of summons from which the law takes
its name. The name praemunire may denote the statute, the writ,
or the offence. Praemunire in classical Latin means to fortify.
In medieval Latin, praemunire was confused with and used for
praemonere, to forewarn, as the writ commanded that the sheriff
do (facias) warn (praemunire) the summoned person to appear
before the Court.[1] The Statute of Praemunire (16 Ric. 2, c.
5) was passed by the Parliament of England during the reign of
Richard II, who purchased various loans from foreign creditors
and rulers as well as bulls from Rome in 1392. It was only one
of numerous stringent measures pa |
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-1.794907 | 6.329761 | -1 | Kieran Healy Seeing the Market Via John Gruber, Horace Dediu
looks at how poorly analysts fared when it came to predicting
the size of the market for the iPad. Apple sold just shy of
fifteen million iPads in 2010. (starting in April, when it
launched.) Every pundit with any kind of audience underestimated
how successful it would be, usually by a long ways. Moreover,
Philip Elmer-DeWitt notes that professional analysts (employed
by investment firms and so on) did much worse than
“unaffiliated” analysts with blogs, even when it came to just
the previous quarter: In our ranking of the best and worst
Apple (AAPL) analysts for Q1 2011, which lists them based on how
accurately they predicted seven key numbers—revenue, earnings,
gross margins and unit sales—the unaffiliated analysts … took 9
out of the 10 top spots. The bottom 20 spots were all held by
professionals working for the banks and brokerage houses. Taken
as a whole, the numbers they sent their paying clients were off
by a margin (9.04%) more than twice |
0.005662 | 8.839141 | -1 | Aug 22 PC shutdown Timer For Automatic shutdown in Windows 7
Technology has advanced so fast recently that everything is now
connected and many people now have their computers on 24/7. We
read books on them watch television on them as well as many
other things and have pretty much become the workhorse of the
household and it would be nice to get them to automatic shutdown
when we are not using them. It is quite common to see computers
hooked up to televisions via High-Speed HDMI Cables nowadays to
view things like netflix or iPlayer along with many other types
of streaming media. I am one of those strange people that just
can not sleep without the television on so when I go to bed the
first thing I do is flick the TV on and then set the sleep timer
to 60 minutes knowing in 60 minutes my TV will turn off.
Sometimes though there is notHing on the television so I watch
something on netflix for example and while I can easily set the
sleep timer on my TV I can’t set a PC shutdown timer or can I?
This short tu |
3.671079 | -2.758909 | 72 | Newer Older A double end bag, at the Gleason's Gym.
Brooklyn, NYC This work is licensed under Creative Commons
2.0 Generic. You are free to share and to remix with
attribution. 1. GlobalQuiz.org 11 months ago | reply
Thank you for sharing this photo. We have used it in Sport Quiz,
as an illustration to "What country did boxer Lennox Lewis
represent at the olympics?". The attribution is provided. |
-0.929302 | 3.302436 | 126 | Weather Underground: For the Weather Nerd in All of UsS What's
it do? Weather Underground has been the go-to weather site for
years. Instead of giving you a generalized weather report for a
wide area, the site displays conditions for an area based on the
closest weather station. Choose from over 22,000 weather
stations for incredibly accurate weather information. The app
also includes the National Weather Radio which is especially
important during times of extreme conditions. Why do we like
it? I'll admit that I'm a huge weather nerd. I want to know the
weather of the individual districts in San Francisco. But the
app is more than just a way for me to find out if the Mission
District is sunny while Ocean Beach is foggy. If you're
traveling by car this holiday season, it's important to know
what the weather will be like along your route. The more
accurate the information, they better prepared you can be. Not
only is the app a great addition to the iPhone, the Android
version should be available soon. Like |
0.454453 | 5.210501 | -1 | Humanity's First Transformer Is A...Start, I Guess What you're
looking at here is the first ever machine to be able to "self-
assemble". In other words, go from one state to another that can
be used for...something. Without a human having to ever touch a
button or issue a direct command. The result of a joint project
between MIT and Harvard, the "origami robot" may look humble,
almost toy-like, but is actually built from some pretty sci-fi
tech. The robot starts as a flat sheet with embedded
electronics, and transforms autonomously into a functional
machine. To accomplish this, we developed shape-memory
composites that fold themselves along embedded hinges. We used
these composites to recreate fundamental folded patterns,
derived from computational origami, that can be extrapolated to
a wide range of geometries and mechanisms. This origami-inspired
robot can fold itself in 4 minutes and walk away without human
intervention, demonstrating the potential both for complex self-
folding machines and autonomous, s |
-0.778755 | 10.169076 | 20 | Take the tour × I want to fetch only my accepted answers from
Stack Overflow using the API 2.1 and currently I've following
code $data = file_get_contents("http://api.stackexchange.com/2.
1/users/741747/answers?page=1&pagesize=10&order=desc&min=1&sort=
votes&site=stackoverflow&filter=!4.nQbW4zw_OOSDSf7"); The above
code returns all answers, but I want to filter to only accepted
answers. Searched the API documentation but didn't find anything
or maybe I don't know where to look for it. I Appreciate any
kind of advice. share|improve this question add comment 1
Answer up vote 2 down vote accepted The API filters are kept
pretty simple, and there is no way to restrict these answers to
just accepted answers. Your app would loop through the items
array and return/handle only those where is_accepted is true.
Since you appear to be using PHP, the Stack.PHP library may save
you time and effort, overall. share|improve this answer Thanks!
I'm aware of is_accepted but thought there is another way to do
it. If I d |
-0.200305 | -0.203354 | 88 | We love Zach Wahls, the 19-year-old Iowan who spoke before
legislators yesterday about his family — just before the House
voted for a constitutional amendment to ban Iowa's currently
legal gay marriage. What's next? Wahls is an engineering
student at the University of Iowa who describes himself as an
Eagle Scout and a small business owner-operator. "If I were your
son, Mr. Chairman, I believe I'd make you very proud," he said.
"My family isn't very different from yours." He added, "You are
voting for the first time in the history of our state to codify
discrimination into our constitution." Vote they did — All 59
Republicans, and some Democrats, in the state House of
Representatives voted for the constitutional amendment. That
said, it doesn't have a chance in the Democratic-controlled
Senate, where the majority leader said he won't allow it to come
to a vote. (Side note: The perennial references in the Des
Moines Register article to "one-woman, one-man marriage" as the
alternative to same-sex marriage may |
3.308839 | -3.947067 | 38 | UCONN WOMEN'S BASKETBALL: Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis delivers in
home state Connecticut center Stefanie Dolson, left, Kaleena
Mosqueda-Lewis, center, and Caroline Doty, right, chat on the
bench during the second half of their 61-45 victory against
Stanford in an NCAA college basketball game in Stanford, Calif.,
Saturday, Dec. 29, 2012. (AP Photo/Tony Avelar) PALO ALTO,
Calif. -- When Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis headed home to her native
California, there was a little extra gift waiting for her that
was most certainly not on the UConn sophomore forward's
Christmas list. Mosqueda-Lewis was dealing with a stomach bug
serious enough that she needed to go to the hospital and have an
IV put in to allow her to recover from dehydration. Thankfully
for Mosqueda-Lewis and UConn fans, her affliction was a minor
one. By the time the team gathered in California on Wednesday,
Mosqueda-Lewis was able to practice without restriction. By the
time Saturday's showdown between the second-ranked Huskies and
No. 1 Stanford rolled arou |
1.416001 | 2.151437 | -1 | Nina Dobrev The friends that go through breakups together ...
stay together? After pictures surfaced in recent months of Nina
Dobrev spending time with Julianne Hough, reports attributed it
to the fact that both had recently broken up with their
respective beaus, Ian Somerhalder and Ryan Seacrest. "That's
not what our friendship is about," she told the September issue
of Cosmopolitan. "Unfortunately, that's how it's perceived, but
there's more to us. People aren't defined by their
relationships. The whole point is being true to yourself and not
losing yourself in relationships, whether romances or
friendships." More shocking celebrity breakups The 24-year-old
Vampire Diaries star, however, doesn't necessarily sound
hesitant about jumping into a new romance after dating
Somerhalder for three years. "You either have chemistry or you
don't, but a lot of what attracts me is a guy's mind and humor
and talent. I need to get to know all those things before I fall
for someone," she said. "I'm not a one-night-sta |
0.855059 | 6.631225 | 68 | Review Date October 07, 2010 Fujifilm Finepix Real 3D W3 •
Pros • Bottom Line By PJ Jacobowitz The $499.95 Fujifilm
Finepix Real 3D W3 is a true 3D camera—it packs two lenses and
two image sensors into a pocket-friendly build. The W3 snaps
large 10-megapixel 3D images, and shoots 3D video in 720p24
high-definition that you can view in 3D on the camera's LCD, or
on a 3D HDTV or a 3D-enabled PC. With the touch of a button, the
W3 also becomes a capable (though expensive and somewhat bulky)
2D camera. The W3 is not a difficult camera to operate, but
shooting photos that look good in 3D can be challenging. Not
every image you shoot is going to look good in 3D—in fact, most
images I shot during testing were very difficult to view, and
some actually hurt my eyes to look at. Compare Similar Products
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the camera looks like an ordinary 2D camera. At 2.6 by 4.9 by
1.1 inches (HWD) and weighing 8.2 ounces, the camera is fairly
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0.489824 | 9.543608 | 16 | Hi all, Is there an appropriate way to facilitate loading the
appropriate binary (hence, platform dependent) module based on
some information from the python interpreter (e.g.
sys.version_info, sys.maxsize, platform.system(),
platform.architecture()). Is this maybe even something the
community could standardise on? Right now I put several
binaries in various folders and change the generated wrapper
file, say my_module.py, accordingly [not adapted for py25 and
below, just as an example]: # Do not make changes to this file
unless you know what you are doing--modify # the SWIG
interface file instead. + # TK: NB: Changes are made to
facilitate loading appropriate binary for current platform
from sys import version_info if version_info >= (2,6,0): +
def get_search_path(): + import os, platform +
dn = os.path.dirname(__file__) + if
os.path.exists(os.path.join(dn, 'lib')): + dn =
os.path.join(dn, 'lib', platform.system(),
platform.architecture()[0]) + return |
-3.4846 | 2.651284 | 47 | Pressured to be sterilised vs no intimacy? Expectation or
neglect? (264 Posts) AnotherLostDad Sun 28-Oct-12 19:39:20
First I must apologise for the long post but as I am trying to
get some help, I prefer to give the full background... So here
you go... The issue: After our 3rd child (twin second time
round) my wife told me to get sterilised if I wanted to have
sex... That the procedure was simple and that all of her husband
friend had it done... Each time another of her husband's friend
went through it. I was reminded that they had it done and that I
should speak to them as really, this is not a big deal... The
background: - 3 kids by IVF as she has blocked tubes - My Mrs is
early / mid 40 - I am late 30.. - We have been together for 16
years. - 9 years before our 1st child. My thinking: - That the
probability is low already to have children due to the treatment
required to have them.... - Due to her age -no offence to
anybody- the pre-memopause / menopause might just be round the
corner... (I just have |
1.142946 | 0.822017 | -1 | Olmec Civilization by Mark Cartwright published on 30 August
2013 The mysterious Olmec civilization prospered in Pre-
Classical (Formative) Mesoamerica from c. 1200 BCE to c. 400 BCE
and is generally considered the forerunner of all subsequent
Mesoamerican cultures such as the Maya and Aztecs. Centred in
the Gulf of Mexico (now the states of Veracruz and Tabasco)
their influence and trade activity spread from 1200 BCE, even
reaching as far south as present-day Nicaragua. Monumental
sacred complexes, massive stone sculpture, ball games, chocolate
drinking and animal gods were features of Olmec culture which
would be passed on to all those who followed this first great
Mesoamerican civilization. An Enigma The Olmec civilization
presents something of a mystery, indeed, we do not even know
what they called themselves, as ‘Olmec’ was their Aztec name and
meant ‘rubber people’. Due to a lack of archaeological evidence
their ethnic origins and the location and extent of many of
their settlements are not known. T |
3.290621 | 3.392311 | -1 | Tokko (manga) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to:
navigation, search Cover of the first manga volume of Tokko.
Genre Action, horror, police procedural, supernatural Written by
Tohru Fujisawa Published by Kodansha English publisher
Demographic Seinen Magazine Afternoon Original run February 25,
2004April 25, 2004 Volumes 3 Anime television series Directed by
Masashi Abe Studio AIC Spirits Group TAC Licensed by Network
WOWOW English network Original run April 15, 2006July 29, 2006
Episodes 13 Portal icon Anime and Manga portal Tokko (特公
Tokkō?) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by
Tohru Fujisawa. It was serialized in Kodansha's Afternoon in
2003 and collected into 3 tankōbon volumes. An anime adaptation
directed by Masashi Abe, animated by AIC Spirits and Group TAC,
first aired in Japan on April 15, 2006 and ran for 13 episodes.
The manga was licensed in North America by Tokyopop, who
released the first volume on July 15, 2008. The anime was
licensed in the United States and Unite |
-1.999187 | -1.020401 | 10 | The Stump For GOP Comeback, Leaders Urge Stepped-Up Outreach
RNC Chairman Reince Priebus, shown at the Republican National
Convention in August, has been re-elected to another two-year
term. Mark Wilson/Getty Images In their first big party
gathering since Election Day, Republican leaders from around the
country met in Charlotte, N.C., this week. The GOP is promising
a great deal of change in advance of the next election, but one
area where there will be no change for the party is in its
leadership. Republican National Committee Chairman Reince
Priebus was elected to another two-year term. In his acceptance
speech, he cited a simple reason why Republicans failed to win
the White House and lost seats in the House and Senate in
November. "I'm no math whiz; I'm an attorney. But I don't need
a calculator to know that we need to win more votes," he said.
"We have to find more supporters. We have to go places we
haven't been, and we have to invite new people to join us."
Priebus has set up a special panel |
-0.009548 | -1.796447 | -1 | Al Qaida Plants Its Flag In Libya Vice's man in Libya noticed
that a flag flying above the courthouse in Bengahzi, the cradle
of the now victorious Libyan revolution, belongs to Al Qaida.
That doesn't mean the Islamists have won or anything—Al Qaida
flags actually pop up a lot in that part of the world. But it's
not encouraging! When reporter Sherif Elhelwa started taking
photographs, a courthouse guard approached him and said,
"Whomever speaks ill of this flag, we will cut off his tongue. I
recommend that you don't publish these. You will bring trouble
to yourself." Later, though, the same guard tried to argue that
it wasn't the Al Qaida flag, which features "There is no God but
Allah" in Arabic and a full yellow moon: The guard claimed
repeatedly that there is no al Qaeda in Libya, and that the flag
flying atop the courthouse is "dark black," while the al Qaeda
flag is charcoal black. Obviously! And the yellow in the
courthouse flag is maize, while everyone knows Al Qaida uses
lemon. |
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-0.590867 | 5.162029 | 4 | View Single Post 12-08-2007, 03:44 PM #193 Drives: E92
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Posts: 689 iTrader: (0) Originally Posted by
bruce.augenstein@comcast. View Post There's a chance we may have
another misunderstanding here, but that said, gearing and
redline essentially have no bearing on the matter, which in fact
is only power and weight. In addition to the information I've
posted on the topic in another string in this file, there are in
fact only three caveats here that I know of. The first is that,
having a redline a good deal higher than the power peak means
that you can wind the engine out higher, and thus arrive in the
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"higher" redline (in this case meaning higher than the power
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an 8400 rpm power peak and another making the same 414 HP and
295 foot pounds at 4200 (each at their |
-1.468804 | 2.609387 | 54 | Is Anybody Out There? The Island Of The Blue Dolphins by Scott
O'Dell Reviewed by Grace P. Published in:1969 Length:184 pages
Ranking (1-10): Genre:Historical Fiction Karana lives on an
island with her brother and her father the chief of the island.
A couple of days later, white men come to the island. Then they
asked the natives on the island if they could take some seals
and leave right away. Instead of taking only a few of the seals,
they took a lot and went on without asking anybody. They took at
least nine dozen of them. Also, instead of leaving like they
were supposed to, they did something so terrible to the chief.
It was so terrible that all the people on the island wanted to
move from the island and live somewhere else. When they moved
on the boats, Karana sees somebody left on the island. That
person looked important to her so she swam back to the island.
Who is left on the island? When Karana swims back, what happens
to her since the other people leave her and that person is left
on the island. |
1.269289 | 2.31544 | 40 | What Attracts Women Gentlemen, so you want to learn what
attracts women? Well it’s not really what you think it is.
Let’s have a show of hands! Is it being a nice guy? Or is it
dressing good? Well partially! If you want to learn how to get
their attention, then you must learn how to get their attention.
Ok, it all starts like this. Men are attracted to a woman’s
looks first of all. Men usually take a look at how a woman
looks are as the first thing. He thinks and ponders if he is
attracted to her or not. This is just how men are. What
attracts women! Women on the other had are more drawn to
personality then looks. This is what attracts women. Sure, a
woman does have other things she looks for in a man. Looks,
money, stability and all that are very appealing to a woman.what
attracts women But if you don’t have personality, then many
things don’t even matter and it’s not what they like. Many men
try and just use things like body language for attraction and
for many men this does seem to work. |
-1.179685 | 8.592559 | -1 | The MathSciNet usage statistics reporting system follows much of
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0.579371 | 1.272191 | -1 | Funeral Directory USA Rotating Header Image Eco Friendly
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allow proper decomposition. Natural burial can be accommodated
on private land or cemeteries that allow it. In the case of
private land make sure to check with your local laws and
regulations before proceeding. In the spirit of reduce, reuse
and recycle and leaving behi |
-3.784891 | 3.028503 | 39 | Help Trying To Find Common Allergen In Nuts... Monique Reed
monique at Mon Nov 2 09:39:00 EST 1998 I think I can help make
it a little clearer, being a nut allergy sufferer The person
who told you peanuts are not nuts but legumes was correct--they
are members of the Fabaceae. Also, almonds are not nuts, but
the seed of a peach-like fruit in the Rosaceae. Cashews are
the seed of a plant in the Pecans and Walnuts are nuts and are
both members of the Juglandaceae. It stands to reason that if
you are allergic to one, you might be allergic to the other,
since they are very closely related and have similar compounds.
Hazelnuts (filberts) are in the same group of families and are
more closely related than are pistachios (also not a nut),
peanuts, and almonds. I'm not sure what the specific allergen
in walnuts and pecans is, and it might be different for
different people. (E.g., I can eat pecans till I burst, but
one walnut and I'm in trouble.) As a general rule, though, if
you are allergic to s |
-4.117499 | 2.67411 | 70 | PORTLAND -- For years, health experts have used the Body Mass
Index to help tell if patients are healthy. Now doctors say the
method that divides a person's metric weight by his or her
height is outdated. The BMI tells you what your body mass is,
but not where it's distributed on on your body. For example,
muscle is heavier than fat, and doctors say some fat is more
harmful, depending on where it is on your body. It can be very
confusing, said Dr. Miles Hassel of Providence St. Vincent
Medical Center. Many people look at a BMI scale and it tells
them they have a perfectly normal weight. And yet, they have a
lot of visceral fat (around their waists) as evidenced by a
ponch. Hassel called that normal weight obesity. He said you
won't always be able to identify it by your BMI score, so he
suggested reaching for a tape measure. Hassel said average-
built women with a waistline (measuring at the belly button)
greater than 35 inches, and men with waist bigger than
40-inches, should be concerned. Next, Hassel sa |
-0.863472 | -0.589225 | 28 | Ignorance is risk British voters know the least about the
European parliament so will they turn out and vote for
representatives they have never heard of? Ros Taylor finds out
Scores of interested parties turned out at a rainy Centrepoint
in London today to mull over one of the toughest tasks in
British politics. They weren't talking about education, they
weren't discussing health (or, at least, not much), and they
most definitely weren't debating the euro or the EU
constitution. They were wondering how to persuade the electorate
to vote at all in next year's European elections. Turnout in
European elections has always been poor. Between 1979 and 1994
it hovered around a third of all UK voters. In 1999 it fell away
to 24%, and would have been even lower had the Northern Irish
not turned out in force. Proportional representation appears to
have confused rather than encouraged voters, and not everyone
thinks that holding both the local and European elections on
June 10 will improve matters. Several delegates |
3.610492 | 2.542289 | 5 | A funny take on Halloween: Project Improv’s Halloweenie
Humorfest [Society] Okay, confession time: I'm a bit of a
scaredy cat. Instead of wandering through an old spirit-filled
asylum or playing peek-a-boo while watching the latest horror
flick, I rather celebrate Halloween by simply dressing up or
serving as the candy lady for trick-or-treaters. And as of
Thursday, going to comedy shows isn't too shabby, either.
Project Improv, a local comedy group specializing in longform
improv, hosted a special Halloweenie Humorfest at the Bard’s
Town Theater this past Thursday night. It was a pretty packed
house as guests enjoyed a free show filled with laughs. The
word, "asparagus," kicked off the night, serving as a prelude to
the random and comedic nature of the show. Based on a Q&A with
the audience, which included questions about the audience's
worst Halloween costumes and craziest Halloween memories, the
comedians dove right into the first montage. Centered around
feedback from the crowd, the first part of the |
-1.75684 | 6.200114 | -1 | Andrew´s profile Reviews (4) usually spot on I've bought
various things from ebuyer in the last couple of years and where
they shine is that although occasionally they do make mistakes,
customer service are usually pretty quick and responsive in
trying to get things sorted out No product, no response, paypal
claim refuded in minutes I ordered a product on the 8th of
April and was given a delivery estimate of 5-10 working days -
22nd of April with no product in hand, I emailed their various
email addresses and received no response, contacted PayPal and
they only gave me the option of raising a claim (normally they
allow you to contact the seller via them), and I received the
refund within minutes, so obviously known issues with this
seller. I can only surmise that PayPal have received so many
complaints that they've locked the account and are issuing
refunds on demand without going through the normal complaints
procedure. Don't bother ordering as you won't get anything
other than a long wait. Gareth Da |
0.752255 | 10.226907 | 16 | Larry Wall: Apocalypse Two Editor's Note: this Apocalypse is
out of date and remains here for histor ic reasons. See Syn
opsis 02 for the latest information. Perl 6 Apocalypse The
rest of the "Apocalypse" series is available on Larry Wall's
author page. Table Of Contents Larry Wall will give his annual
entertaining talk on the state of the Perl world, covering both
Perl 5 and Perl 6 at this Year's Open Source Convention. Don't
miss this rare opportunity to hear the creator of Perl, patch,
and run share his insights. Here's Apocalypse 2, meant to be
read in conjunction with Chapter 2 of the Camel Book. The basic
assumption is that if Chapter 2 talks about something that I
don't discuss here, it doesn't change in Perl 6. (Of course, it
could always just be an oversight. One might say that people who
oversee things have a gift of oversight.) Before I go further,
I would like to thank all the victims, er, participants in the
RFC process. (I beg special forgiveness from those whose brains
I haven't been abl |
0.668725 | 1.786231 | 75 | Love or Security? As is typical, Paul's immigration thread ( is
quickly drifting off topic. This thread is an outlet for part of
that drift. Rebecca brought up the issue about why a young
Nicaraguan might be interested in an old Gringo. Or, more
specifically, is it love? Back when I live in Costa Rica I was
told the following but a Costa Rican woman. She said, "in Costa
Rica we don't marry for love, we marry for security". She was
very matter of fact about it. It sounded cold. Ten years later,
the word I would use rather than cold is honest. While usanos
at least like to think this is not the case, I believe it it
happens more often than one would expect. Or maybe that should
be one would admit. I leave this up to the reader to fill in
their own personal details or details of those around them.
Comment viewing options For the mother is why many young gals
marry gringos or older wealthier Nicas. Is a mixed bag-if your
over 50 or so don't delude yourself-be happy you are in the
situation and accept thin |
3.713604 | 2.756191 | -1 | On Supernatural, there are scary ballerinas and real estate
agents I took a vacation this weekend, so I watched Friday's
episode of Supernatural a little late — and then had to mull
over whether "Out with the Old" was great or awful for another
24 hours. I'm still undecided. In its favor, this episode
returned to the Supernatural format I love, where the show seems
to be about one thing and then takes an abrupt left turn halfway
through. But the plot also felt a little messy and aimless,
particularly when we got to . . . spoilers! The greatest plot
structure ever This episode started out as a monster-of-the-
weeker that felt like an hommage to Warehouse 13, with the
brothers tracking down some cursed objects that a guy was
selling while liquidating the inventory in his recently-deceased
mother's magic shop. Making things more complicated is Sam's
insane sleep deprivation — everytime he shuts his eyes, Lucifer
starts tormenting him. But even operating on no sleep, Sam
quickly figures out that a ballerina who |
0.850784 | 9.802145 | -1 | Take the 2-minute tour × I'm making a text based game in C++,
but I've hit a snag. I have three classes, plus the driver
program. One class is for the player, one for monsters, and one
for battle related functions. My question is, what would be the
best way to split up the functions between the classes? Right
now I have the variables and functions that create and store all
data for the player character (typical RPG style stats, the
player menu for commands like move, inventory, etc.), the
inventory, and the structs I use to create weapons and armor in
the player class. I have a similar class for creating monsters.
I originally intended to put all of the functions related to
fighting in the battle class, but then it occurred to me that
I'll need all of the data of the player and monsters for the
fight function. So, I wrote the main fight function in the
driver program, where I create the player and monster objects,
and therefore have access to the private member variables of
each. However, since I have the |
-0.561734 | 0.19355 | 6 | Original URL:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/04/25/hang_em_high/ Hanging's
too good for 'em - so what do you suggest? Reader alternatives
to capital punishment invited By Lester Haines Posted in Law,
25th April 2012 14:39 GMT Our report last week that there's no
evidence capital punishment has an effect on the murder rate in
the US of A prompted a lively reader debate on the subject of
execution. Just about the only clear conclusion that came from
the tussle is that once you've been strapped to a gurney and
administered a fatal chemical cocktail, you're very unlikely to
reoffend. That's assuming you broke the law in the first place,
of course. The execution of innocent people is death penalty
opponents' strongest argument against nooses, electric chairs
and gas chambers. It's fair to say that life imprisonment
without parole is a pretty stiff punishment for murder, while
allowing the chance for those unjustly incarcerated to be
exonerated while still alive. However, banging murderers up
indefinitel |
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-0.731854 | 5.100615 | 4 | Even though today's automobiles are already developed to match
the needs of the intended customers, there will always be
motorists who will not settle for the performance of their ride.
In case you are one of those who are looking for ways to enhance
your automobile's efficiency, it's good news that you no longer
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to do is to unleash that extra strength hiding under your hood
by upgrading your Saturn Exhaust System. Remember that not all
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during combustion; those unburned gases should be expelled from
the car or truck since they can harm the engine. It is the
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0.011641 | 4.534582 | -1 | 1. Dimensions - A horseshoe court shall be a level rectangular
area 6 ft wide and a minimum of 46 ft long. A north-south
setting is recommended for outdoor courts to minimize the
effects of the sun. 2. Pitcher's Box - The pitcher's box is the
square 6 ft by 6 ft area at each end of the court. It is
composed of 2 parts - 1) the pit, and 2) the pitching platforms.
a. PIT - The pit is a rectangular area filled with the substance
onto which the shoes are pitched. Its maximum length (in the
direction in which the shoes are pitched) is 72 inches and its
minimum length is 43 inches. Its maximum width is 36 inches and
its minimum width is 31 inches. The pit must be centered in the
pitcher's box. If the pit is less than the maximum dimensions,
the extra space shall be filled with the same material of which
the platforms are made, or some other material different than
the pit substance, and shall be level with the pit and
platforms. b. Pitching Platforms - The pitching platforms flank
the pit to its left and right sid |
0.226716 | -1.01583 | -1 | • Fri • Mar 14, 2014 • Updated: 3:52am Renewed commitment
needed on East Timor PUBLISHED : Monday, 09 April, 2007,
12:00am UPDATED : Monday, 09 April, 2007, 12:00am Presidential
elections in East Timor today should go a way to bridging
simmering ethnic and political divisions but are not in
themselves a solution to the country's numerous challenges.
These can be overcome only through the sustained help of the
international community. Such was the pledge in 1999 when the
world rushed to the aid of East Timorese as they fought for
independence from Indonesia. The United Nations was instrumental
in that goal being achieved three years later and international
donor meetings and non-governmental groups have helped build
infrastructure. A deal with Australia has been struck on the
most viable source of income - oil and gas - and a petroleum
fund is accruing the financial resources that will be the
lifeblood of development in coming decades. How today's
elections, the second since independence, are conducte |
-0.708702 | 6.50863 | -1 | Forgot your password? Comment: Windows XP 2 (Score 1) 856
Just sayin Comment: Completely reinvent yourself (Score 1) 423
by greywire (#46401683) Attached to: RadioShack To Close 1,100
Stores Here's an idea. F*ck all the consumer BS products that
they can't compete with walmart on (cables, batteries, cell
phones, etc). Fire everybody that doesn't actually know about
electronics and building things. Stock the stores with awesome
stuff like robotics kits and little computer boards and such.
But thats not enough... Put in work benches. Turn the stores
into maker-spaces. Have classes for all ages on making robots
and spy devices and little computer controllers and such.
Sponsor local schools that have engineering programs or create
such programs. Make it so that when the next kid walks by the
store in the mall his mind is blown when he sees robots and
blinking lights and kids with their parents making cool shit. I
never go into Radio Shack anymore. My son wouldn't even notice
the store. But I guarantee if |
-0.488103 | 4.952583 | 4 | Anyone ever "lifted" their step bars? I want to tuck them up
tighter.. Discussion in 'Chevy Truck Accessories' started by
Falcone, Oct 27, 2011. 1. Falcone Falcone Rockstar 100
Posts Well guys I was just wondering if anyone has ever
seen an after market side step bracket that would tuck the steps
up higher/ closer to the body. I just think it would look alot
cleaner and add to the stance of the truck alot. 2. ntbush83
ntbush83 Rockstar 4 Years ROTM Winner 1000 Posts I like
this idea! I kinda like having step bars but in some cases I
feel like they take away from trying to make your truck look
like its sitting up higher. Ik they make the power ones that can
go up and come down when you open the door but they are pricey.
I don't know of any brackets off hand but I'm sure it wouldn't
be that hard to make your own. 3. Greg84 Greg84 Rockstar
100 Posts With the regular tube steps that bolt to the body
mounts, there really isn't any way to get them up higher unless
you notch the |
-4.408173 | 2.771852 | -1 | Friday, October 04, 2013 Sugar And Diabetes Does eating sugar
increase the risk for diabetes? It doesn't look that way: A
Prospective Study of Sugar Intake and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes in
Women, Diabetes Care, 2003 Objective - To investigate
prospectively whether intake of total or type of sugar (sucrose,
glucose, fructose, and lactose) is associated with the risk of
developing type 2 diabetes. Excluding subjects with
hypertension and elevated cholesterol level, sucrose intake was
inversely* associated with the risk of type 2 diabetes." * An
inverse relationship means as sugar intake went up, diabetes
risk went down. That was a big epidemiological study. Below is
a tightly controlled intervention study on people with diabetes.
Not only did a high-sugar diet have no influence on their
diabetes, it improved their diabetes: Improved Glucose
Tolerance with High Carbohydrate Feeding in Mild Diabetes, New
England Journal of Medicine, 1971 All subjects ingested formula
diets consisting of: Basal Diet: • 40 |
0.839235 | 7.659857 | 77 | Sign in with Sign up | Sign in Your question Idle power
consumtion Last response: in Systems I don't know it this is
the right place to ask this, sorry if I should have posted
elsewhere. So I was just wondering how much power my PC is
using during idle(listening to music, reading news/forums). But
I couldn't find a site where you just insert your parts and it
gives you an approximation, like the ones that tell you the PSU
you need. My questions are: is there such a site? if not, is it
just a mater of adding the numbers, and then, are there any
hidden heavy power consuming chips in the PC that I wouldn't
know about if I were to calculate the power consumption myself,
like north bridge or something else? I have activated
Cool'n'quiet. Any help is appreciated. MoBo: Asus M4A77T Proc:
Phenom ii x2 550 DDR3: 4GB (2x2GB) OCZ low voltage 1333Mhz
Graphics: Ati HD5750 by XFX PSU: 400W OCZ silent More about :
idle power consumtion a b B Homebuilt system Listening to
music and some forum activity isnt perfectl |
1.6667 | -0.674126 | -1 | T of C Qin as Qin in / Song Analysis History Ideo- Personal
email me search me Qin Biographies Caishi Wunong 首頁 Cai
Yong - Qin Shi #77 蔡邕 1 琴史 #77 2 Ming dynasty depiction of Cai
Yong 3 Cai Yong (133 - 192) is famous both as a qin player
and a writer on the qin. His writings included a Qin Cao,4 and a
Qin Jing (QSCM #13).5 One of his students was supposedly his
daughter, Cai Wenji. A suggestion has been made that his
tradition was carried on by Zhuge Liang. Yuefu Shiji includes
in its qin melody section a Caishi Wunong (Five Melodies of the
Cai Clan). Here these five are said to be the following
melodies: 1. You Chun (Spring Travel) 2. Lu Shui (Green
Water) 3. You Ju (Retired Life) 4. Zuo Chou (Sit in Sadness)
and 5. Qiu Si (Autumn Thoughts) The Caishi Wunong listed in
at least one Song dynasty source changes one of the above
titles. And as can be seen by following the link in the next
paragraph, surviving versions of Caishi Wunong include still
different melodies. Surviving qin melod |
-0.351491 | 10.225661 | -1 | Shawn M Moore > Jifty > Jifty::View::Static::Handler Annotate
this POD New 13 Open 4 Stalled 1 View/Report Bugs
Jifty::View::Static::Handler - Jifty view handler for static
files This is deprecated and is being port to a stack of plack
middleware and plack::app::file This class takes care of
serving out static files for a Jifty application. When fully
operational, it will use an algorithm along the lines of the
following: * Static files are served out of a separate root *
If static files go through apache: * How do we merge together
the N static roots? * If static files go through Jifty::Handler
* We need a flag to allow them to go through the dispatcher, too
* return "True" (304) for if-modified-since * if the browser
accepts gzipped data, see if we have a cached gzipped copy if
so, send it see if we have a marker indicating that gzip is a
lose if so, send uncompressed gzip the content
send the gzipped content * if the browser doesn't accept
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0.828173 | 2.506528 | -1 | 3 Ways to Deal With a Passive-Aggressive Boss What do your boss
and your loved ones have in common? Both sometimes have to tell
you things you don't want to hear. Also, I'm betting you'd
prefer that they wouldn't be passive-aggressive about it. Alas,
we don't have a lot of control over what our managers do, so the
burden is on us to find successful ways of dealing with
management styles we don't like. Lifehacker recently put out a
call to their readers to share some coping mechanisms. These
were my favorites: 1. Ignore it. If it's just your boss's
style, and doesn't impact your ability to do your job, you might
be better off just pretending you don't care -- or better yet,
learning how to concentrate on other things. 2. Be literal.
Commenter xenocyclus says "...one strategy that works well for
me is to address passive aggression as if it is literal truth.
It also forces the person being passive aggressive to come clean
with what they want. Since my boss is doing it mostly as an
unconscious behavior, she's |
-0.881854 | 5.133685 | 4 | Fiat 500 "Topolino" From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump
to: navigation, search Fiat 500 "Topolino" Manufacturer Fiat
Also called Topolino Production 1936–1955 520,000 made Body and
chassis Class City car (A) Body style 2-door coupé 2-door
cabriolet 2-door van [1] 3-door station wagon Layout Front-
engine, rear-wheel-drive Related Simca 5 Simca 6 Engine 569 cc
straight-4 sidevalve Transmission 4-speed manual Length 3,215 mm
(127 in) [2] Width 1,275 mm (50 in)[2] Height 1,377 mm
(54 in)[2] Successor Fiat 600 With horsepower of about
13 bhp,[4] its top speed was about 53 mph (85 km/h), and it
could achieve about 39.2 miles per US gallon (6.00 L/100 km;
47.1 mpg-imp). The target price given when the car was planned
was 5,000 lire.[3] In the event the price at launch was 9,750
lire,[3] though the decade was one of falling prices in several
part of Europe and later in the 1930s the Topolino was sold for
about 8,900 lire. Despite being more expensive than first
envisioned, the car was competitively pric |
-2.303609 | 2.150002 | 26 | You are here Gah! My ethics are frayed. X| Long story short:
My family and I are now in love with a pet store animal. We've
been planning to take on a new guinea pig pretty much from the
moment we woke to find the house unexpectedly silent last
Christmas. I've been spamming my father's inbox with notices of
guinea pigs in the local animal shelter. Buuut... no. This one
individual from a pet shop. Bugger. I don't know what to
doooo... As they go, this chain is hardly the WORST - they
eschew anything even remotely resembling puppy mills, they don't
'get rid of' animals that don't sell or 'excess' - I've passed
by and seen the same bird there for years on end, just sort of
living there, in good health. Their rodents are of all different
ages - the guinea pig in question is definitely into adulthood,
much older than the babies I've usually seen in pet stores. They
have employees hired more or less with the express purpose of
socialising the animals and making sure customers play nice with
them. But they are a |
0.253599 | 7.178722 | -1 | CES Afterparty: The Top 11 Gadgets You (Probably) Never Heard
About As gadget shows go, the annual Consumer Electronics Show
is… what's the word? Freakin' huge. Over 140,000 people attended
CES this year, all of them pushing, buying, or covering
supercool new tech toys. Among the thousands of devices shown
off at the show, there are certainly headline stealers (like
LG's dual-format Blu-ray/HD DVD player), but in their shadows
lie plenty of promising gadgets that never get plugged into the
big public-relations machine. Sitting on a table in a distant
corner of the Sands Convention Center or in an off-site hotel
room are the hidden stars of CES. Well, lucky you. Our team of
writers scoured the remote sites of Las Vegas to find the most
promising gadgets off the beaten path. Some are from companies
you've never heard of, while others come from more familiar
names but didn't get top billing in their press kits. It's time
these unsung gadgets got some deserved attention. After the
jump, take a look at the best |
3.776032 | 1.108159 | -1 | Just thought i'd let you know that i've listened to your McFly
remix 134 times. I'm so sad ;-; Phupp Phupp Phupp Phupp Phupp
Phupp Phupp Phupp Phupp Phupp Phupp Phupp Phupp Phupp Phupp
Phupp Phupp Phupp Phupp Phupp Phupp Phupp Ilu bbz! Yea. I
signed some guestbooks and had the stamp on my clipboard so I
was like "wtf who should I sign next" then I see a little bleepy
thingy on my taskbar for an MSN window and I was like, "CRAP
YEA, KEYZER" So yea. I hate you for lots of reasons. Allow me
to list them all. 1.) You are a very good writer, better than
me 2.) You make me like music that I would never listen to if
you didn't force me to 3.) You have "gigs," which isn't
something to terribly hate you about but the thought is cool and
therefore I'm afraid I must hate you for it 4.) The picture of
your ex gives me all sorts of ideas to photoshop it with. So
many that I can never accomplish all of them, and for that I am
frustrated 5.) You ran out of pics on facebook for me to comment
on rudely and inappropriately |
4.479594 | -3.100999 | 1 | Russia not taking Northern Ireland lightly Russia coach Fabio
Capello has warned his side not to take their match against
Group F strugglers Northern Ireland lightly. The match, which
was rearranged after heavy snow in Belfast forced it to be
postponed in March, is the only competitive qualifier taking
place in Europe tomorrow and Capello's side can leapfrog
Portugal at the summit with a victory. A repeat of the 2-0
success Russia achieved in Moscow at the start of the campaign
would leave them on 15 points to Portugal's 14, with a game in
hand. The hosts, meanwhile, are winless in 13 matches stretching
over two qualifying campaigns but the Italian coach does not
expect his side to go through the motions. "It is very
important for us to play in a compact way with good movement of
the ball. It is necessary to play fast and that is what we work
on at training sessions," Capello added. "I am satisfied with
the current players' state and commitment, their attitude to
work and the atmosphere inside the team. |
-1.984702 | 2.558904 | 54 | Common Ground-Dove in flight 20120731 Newer Older We
got out before sunrise yesterday morning, but it was already 80
degrees and very humid. Deer flies were biting, and it got into
the 90s by 8:30 AM. Saw only 25 bird species. Visit
blog.rosyfinch.com |
-0.615551 | 1.299639 | -1 | Aim higher, reach farther. Two Trains Derail in North
Dakota,Triggering Evacuation A grain train and a crude-oil
train on adjacent tracks derailed in North Dakota Monday,
sparking a fire and explosion, and triggering warnings to those
within a 10-mile radius to seek shelter. A grain train and a
crude-oil train traveling on adjacent tracks derailed Monday in
North Dakota, sparking a fire and explosions that prompted
evacuation warnings. The accident occurred at about 2 p.m.
Central Standard Time when a westbound 112-car grain train
derailed into a 106-car crude-oil train heading east about a
mile from Casselton, N.D., according to BNSF Railway Co., which
owned both trains. Fire crews from... Popular on WSJ Editors’
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-3.191052 | 1.365303 | -1 | He is smoking! (10 Posts) ConnieM1970 Tue 22-Jan-13 12:52:24
As someone that started smoking at a young age and still smoking
ughhh, I know how addicting it is for both adults and for kids.
My 15 year old started about a year ago and no matter how much I
lectured and talked to her she kept on smoking. I decided it was
not a battle I was going to continually fight and realized she
was as addicted as I was. I don't like the fact that she smokes
but I have accepted it and just hope that eventually she will
quit. Toomuchtea Thu 17-Jan-13 19:23:49 I agree with sowornout
- DS announced with some pride that he particularly enjoyed
cigars. For once in my dealings with my teens, I think I hit the
right note when I told him he was absolutely not, not ever,
allowed to smoke in the house but other than that it was up to
him. For the main, that seems to have worked. Staggered though
that you had a letter from the police, OP. flow4 Tue 15-Jan-13
20:44:57 My DSes' school has a police officer based on site. He
is regu |
4.198712 | -4.184821 | 0 | MLB Front Office Manager lets players take on the role of
running a team from the ground up and gives them expertise from
famous Oakland A's GM Billy Beane. Oakland A's general manager
Billy Beane (left) talks about 'MLB Front Office Manager,' the
new stats-based baseball video game that he is promoting for 2K
Sports. Beane was chosen as the consultant for the game because
he is known as one of the smartest GMs in the game, and an
expert at getting the most out of a small-market team. (Credit:
Daniel Terdiman/CNET News) The new game--which is unlike any
baseball video game I've ever seen--has perhaps the perfect
pitchman, Oakland A's General Manager Billy Beane. For those not
familiar with him, the game probably won't mean much, since as
the main subject of Michael Lewis' hit book, Moneyball, Beane
has long been considered the most cerebral and efficient guy
putting contending baseball teams on the field. There is no end
to the roster of baseball video games that pay homage to the
complexities of buil |
1.475599 | 0.575981 | 118 | [Constitution, Jefferson's Manual, and the Rules of the House of
Representatives, 109th Congress] [109th Congress] [House
Document 108-241] [Jeffersons Manual of ParliamentaryPractice]
[Pages 240-242] [From the U.S. Government Printing Office,
www.gpo.gov] sec. xxxiv--the previous
question [[Page 241]] may speak anything further to it, either
to add or alter. Memor. in Hakew., 28; 4 Grey, 27. Sec. 461.
The previous question of Parliament. When any question is before
the House, any Member may move a previous question, ``Whether
that question (called the main question) shall now be put?'' If
it pass in the affirmative, then the main question is to be put
immediately, and no man Sec. 462. Manner of putting the previous
question. The previous question being moved and seconded, the
question from the Chair shall be, ``Shall the main question be
now put?'' and if the nays prevail, the main question shall not
then be put. In the modern practice of the House the previous
question is put as fol |
-0.50913 | -0.066338 | -1 | Hendon Publishing - Article Archive Details Print Article Rate
Comment Reprint Information Police Armored Rescue Vehicles:
Tactical Rescue Considerations Written by Jim Weiss Central to
the mission for all SWAT teams is rescuing pinned down, injured
persons—civilian and police alike—under hostile gunfire. This
worst-case scenario is a prime reason for SWAT’s existence.
Unfortunately, worst-case is precisely what occurred in two of
the biggest law enforcement shootouts in recent U.S. history.
The 1993 ATF-Branch Davidian raid and shootout near Waco, TX
resulted in multiple ATF casualties—four killed, 16 wounded,
with an unknown number of Branch Davidian casualties. Only a
negotiated “truce” prevented further loss of life. The 1997
North Hollywood bank robbery / shootout between officers from
the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) and two heavily armed,
armor-protected robbers resulted in 11 officers wounded and both
robbers killed. Both Waco and North Hollywood stand out among
the fiercest police firef |
-3.157266 | 5.158357 | -1 | de · Deutsch ru · Русский bg · Български US borrows money
from China while giving aid to China Last year, China loaned
more than $1 trillion to the U.S. to fund its deficit-spending.
But at the same time, the U.S. sends foreign aid to China, which
lawmakers of all stripes say is just plain nuts. USA: Louisiana
bans cash for second hand transactions In July Louisiana has
banned cash for second hand transactions. Nobody seems to have
noticed this law until now, almost 4 months later. If enforced,
it would put many businesses at risk and would effectively
outlaw all flea-markets. Too big to bail for Germany: France A
new Euro-bailout package could cost France her AAA-rating.
Occupy Wall Street: The obedient opposition of the elites Obama,
whose campaign was paid by Wall Street shows "understanding",
while central bank chief Ben Bernanke shows solidarity. No
surprise that the "Occupy Wall Street" movement does not touch
the main problem: The money monopoly of FED and ECB which is
guaranteed by the state and |
-1.111084 | 2.367218 | -1 | Raising New Money Today's Philanthropy Your "Underwater"
Endowment Raising New Money Dianne Debicella, senior program
director, fiscal sponsorship, Fractured Atlas Emma E. Dunch,
president, Dunch Arts, LLC Cathy Maciariello, principal,
HieroResources LLC Stephanie Pereira, director, art program,
Kickstarter Today's Philanthropy Charitable giving makes up
the largest percentage of the total income that supports
orchestras - more than any other single revenue source.
Fundamental shifts in the economy and civic participation are
changing the way grant makers exercise their
charitable/philanthropic impulse. How must orchestras adapt
their fundraising strategies to fit into funders' tolerance for
risk-taking, increased expectations for civic impact, and other
new criteria? Chris Abele, president and CEO, Argosy
Foundation; chairman, board of directors, Milwaukee Symphony
Orchestra; Wayne Brown, director, music and opera, National
Endowment for the Arts; Paul Hogle, executive vice president,
Detroit Symphony |
-4.037134 | 4.12805 | 94 | HIValg Program: Mutation List Analysis There are two methods
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integrase mutations can be entered using either the text box or
pull down menus (detailed usage is found below). The output can
be customized to display the results using the original
interpretation of each algorithm or a normalized interpretation
in which the 3 levels of |
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0.922545 | 1.120345 | -1 | Daily Archives: 27 January, 2010 History around us Where
exactly IS History? Interesting thought isnt it. Classrooms?
Books? Films? Museums? Libraries? Stately homes? Maybe in times
gone by History was something that was taught by teachers,
written by authors, shown in films or stored in glass cases.
Sadly, this meant that history became about castles, kings,
battles, generals, paintings and the like. Whilst these are all
pretty interesting, they are only a small part of the picture.
But the world is a different place. When was you house built?
Where did the bricks come from? Take a walk out of your door.
Whats the name of your road? Why is it called it that? Who
decided to build a road there? Even think about the road itself
– when did tarmac start getting used for roads? Whats the name
of your local pub? Chances are heres something historic aout it.
When you go to work, how do you get there? How did people get to
work 100 years ago? And I bet they didnt have nearly so much
leave back then! Look at the |
-0.948121 | 1.15883 | -1 | Title: Interview with William Bashaw (April 18, 2000) Full
Citation Permanent Link: http://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00006989/00001
Material Information Title: Interview with William Bashaw
(April 18, 2000) Physical Description: Book Language: English
Publication Date: April 18, 2000 Spatial Coverage: 12081 Manatee
County (Fla.) -- History. Record Information Bibliographic ID:
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Text This Oral History is copyrighted by the Interviewee and
Samuel Proctor Oral History Program on behalf of the Board of
Trustees of the Univers |
-0.635355 | 1.214211 | -1 | MY RIDE- John Carden- Segway It's been nearly three years since
John Carden bought his $4,500 Segway personal transporter, and
he's still charmed with his ride. "It sure beats sitting in
traffic," he says. "You never suffer road rage when you're on a
Segway. You can't be anything but optimistic." Carden, who owns
Carden Salon on the Downtown Mall, made news in 2003 when he
chased down a thief on his Segway. Since then, he says, "The
streets have been much calmer and safer." Well, for the most
part. "I did ride it into the salon and crash through a plate
glass window," he admits. "I was sort of hotshotting through the
salon, and I was brought back down to earth as I caught the
corner of a potted plant and the wheel went through the door."
But despite the mishap, Carden remains upbeat. "I didn't fall
off," he jokes. "That's the great thing about it." John Carden
1 comment when is john going to run for public office in
charlottesville!? he is such a great person and good man!!! GO
JOHN!!!! |
-0.921008 | 6.515997 | 134 | Printed from Amazon wants three-year Kindle deals to squeeze
Apple updated 08:15 am EDT, Thu March 18, 2010 Amazon, Apple
demanding best e-book prices Amazon has escalated the growing
feud between itself and Apple by issuing ultimatums to e-book
publishers, inside stories from the industry claimed on
Thursday. The online retailer has allegedly been pressing major
publishers to sign three-year contracts that not only guarantee
Kindle books for the period but would prevent them from offering
a better price to Apple or any other e-bookseller. These
publishers could use the agency model and set their own prices,
the NYT noted, but only if Amazon was given equal or better
treatment. At the same time, Amazon is said to be using its 90
percent market share of US e-books as a club against smaller
publishers. Here, Amazon has not only tried to insist on buying
books wholesale, which would let it set the price as it has in
the past, but has supposedly threatened to pull publishers'
books off of the Kindle store al |
-0.645541 | 2.370072 | -1 | Bure Mamas As an award-winning, world-famous resort, Turtle
Island has taken the concept of service to a new and unique
level. Each of the couples that visit our island has a dedicated
“Bure Mama,” who looks after that couple while they are spending
their vacation at our pristine island resort.The moment guests
arrive at the island they are introduced to their own personal
Bure Mama. The Bure Mama ensures that guests have everything
they need, and makes sure that their cottage, or “bure,” is as
comfortable and worry-free as possible during the course of
their stay. The Bure Mama is responsible for laundry and
housekeeping, as well as a multitude of other services. They
will be your guides on island tours, set up your picnics on a
private beach, and perhaps return at the end of the picnic to
help them pack up. If the guest wishes, the Bure Mamas will
participate in snorkeling activities, providing assistance and
knowledge on marine resource identification. - Your Bure Mama
will also be given a digital camera |
3.060921 | 1.468088 | -1 | Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter. A/N: Italic parts are
flashbacks, the rest is set a few months after the end of Half-
Blood Prince. No spoilers really, though. Review and tell me
what you think. Sorrow's Flight A light snow fell, every flake
slower than the last. Gray, luminescent clouds hung low and
still, and time seemed to almost stop in its tracks. Ice
collected on Narcissa Malfoy's pale cheeks, caught in the
streams her tears had left behind. She wiped them off with one
gloved hand and dropped to the ground in front of the flat
marble rectangle that served as her son's grave marker. She laid
down, her head against the smooth stone, her lips pressed above
the engraved surname. Narcissa wrapped her black cloak around
her, shutting her eyes and imagining a world where her greatest
hindrance was the white frost now covering her frail form. "You
looked like a fallen angel." Narcissa recognized the voice but
did not open her eyes or greet the man now standing at her feet.
"Finally," she sneered, "a |
-0.147039 | 10.121337 | 16 | Take the 2-minute tour × How can I see all the members of a
group in Linux? share|improve this question add comment 2
Answers up vote 15 down vote accepted Use the commands:
getent group groupname getent group groupname | awk -F:
'{print $4}' share|improve this answer add comment Just FYI,
this answer appears to be incomplete and may miss certain users.
share|improve this answer add comment Your Answer |
1.71582 | 1.843423 | 147 | Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 22:22:57 -0600 From: Subject: Peter My
feelings that I might be gay (as I was growing up it was fag or
worse) started when I was in grade 7 (around 13 years old). I
was working in a drug store and used to steal sunbathing
magazines to look at the naked women and men. I was
alternatively turned on (didn't know what that meant) by both
sexes but had no idea what that meant. I was in my basement
where I hid my stash and found that my little cock was getting
sore. When I took it out to look, it was a firm 3" (scary huh?)
and as I touched it, I felt a major burning like liquid fire as
I stifled a cry and a clear liquid spilled onto my hand. It was
my first cum and scared the shit out of me. I threw out the
magazines, quit my job so I wouldn't be tempted again, and
didn't touch myself again for a couple of years. Fast-forward to
the late 1950's when I was at an all boys' camp for 6 weeks
every summer for almost 3 years. On particularly hot days - and
there were many in northern Ontario - we w |
0.032518 | 4.785785 | 143 | HOME > Diving Safety > HERE Logo of Diving Medicine Online
Search This Site Web scuba-doc.com Lightning and the Diver
Oceans Rarely Hit By Lightning NASA has shown with satellite
imaging that the oceans rarely get hit with lightning.
Apparently the surface water does not heat up enough to cause
the positive charge needed for lightning to occur. Potentially,
lightning is the biggest weather danger for divers. Every year,
lightning kills more people in the US than tornadoes or
hurricanes. Only floods are more deadly. During the last three
decades, floods killed an average of 139 people a year,
lightning 87, tornadoes 82 and hurricanes 27 in the US,
according to national Weather Service figures. The question
should be "what cautionaries should the scuba diver take?"
Should he get out of the water? Is he safer in the water than in
the boat? If shore diving - stay in the water or go ashore?
Over the years around ten percent of the lightning deaths in the
US have been in or near the water- the statistics don |
4.172151 | 5.113628 | 66 | The Red Skull's Army Discussion in 'BW OU Teams' started by
GtM, Aug 22, 2011. 1. GtM Jun 3, 2009 Hello again
Smogon! In another attempt to explore the more obscure pokémon
in the OU tier, I decided to build a team around the infamous
Latias. What she lacks in raw power she makes up for in cunning
and sheer tenacity, and as such she has employed a number of
prolific mercenaries to help her dominate the OU metagame!
Whilst she may not always be the star of the show, she certainly
holds a fearsome late-game presence, should she not be
distracted by other duties. Lyrical waxing aside, this team
was really fun to make and following its final revisions it has
been surprisingly effective against a lot of different teams.
Most of this team's members were added specifically to help
Latias sweep in the lategame, elimating various threats and
softening bulkier targets. I've peaked at a rating of 1250 on
the Smogon ladder, which I feel is good enough for me to warrant
posting the team. Anyways, onto |
-0.067289 | 1.046391 | -1 | Firefighters recall initial chaos of massacre Memory of parents
waiting to pick up children who would never come haunts
firefighter By Vivian Kuo CNN POSTED: 1:50 PM Dec 18 2012
UPDATED: 7:15 AM Dec 19 2012 Sandy Hook Connecticut school
shooting 5 NEWTOWN, Connecticut (CNN) - It isn't the woman who
was taken to the hospital after being shot in the foot at Sandy
Hook Elementary. It isn't the police officer he saw leaving the
school's interior covered in someone's blood. "As the children
were coming down the street, little by little, classroom by
classroom all holding hands, parents were claiming their
children," says Corbo, the first assistant fire chief at Newtown
Hook and Ladder No. 1. "After a little while, once they claimed
their kid and signed them out ... they left. "There were some
sticking around and that's when we realized that they're
probably not going to be leaving. They're gonna get the
confirmation soon enough that they're not gonna be grabbing
their child and hugging them and taking the |
1.874552 | 2.308077 | -1 | x phoenix Set Clip Length: in mandatory programs winding down
from wars in iraq and afghanistan. the big point here is his
plan is not contingent on congress coming together around major
deficit reduction measures for the president to be able to raise
the debt ceiling once again. we now, within a half an hour of
each other, we have these two dueling plans they will be working
their way through both chambers of commerce. >> opinions about
them will be working their way through the media as well, i'm
sure. >> yes, absolutely. >> indicakate bolduan on capito. >>>
does your significant other snore? i'll tell you about a unique
hotel chain. [ female announcer ] sweet honey taste. 80 calories
per serving. 40% daily value of fiber. i'm here in the downtown
area where the crowd is growing. [ female announcer ] watching
calories at breakfast never tasted this sweet... i'll go get my
bowl. [ female announcer ] ...or this huge. new fiber one 80
calories. yes, you can actually love breakfast. now?! [ female
announcer |
2.506339 | 2.076248 | -1 | Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 17:54:45 +0530 From: I Am Bipasha
Subject: The Daughter Husband (Part-II) Lesbian/Incest I am
really overwhelmed for the way my readers have showered their
liking for this story. Really it had been beyond my all
expectation. I personally replied to almost all the mails noting
their kindness in writing to me. Again I take this opportunity
to say, "Thank You Again and Again" The Part - II appears now
for your reading pleasure. Please mail me your liking/disliking
suggestion and constructive criticism as you have done after the
first part at I assure you to reply all the mails. The
overwhelming response from the readers is compelling this writer
to continue this story, and she believes, your love will be
showered upon her always. For those who are visiting this page
for the first time:- This is not a story at all, as it hardly
has merely ten percent of fiction. Truly it is based on some
real life incidents between a mother and her daughter on a
lesbian voyage. As this narration of developi |
3.217561 | 2.515326 | -1 | Fellow Fallen Insurance Company Spokesman Defends Gilbert
GottfriedS When Gilbert Gottfried was fired from the role of
the Aflac duck for making terrible tsunami jokes, he was just
the latest in a long line of insurance spokesmen to get fired
amid public outrage. (Well, there's another one.) Last year,
voiceover actor DC Douglas was fired as the voice of Geico's
television campaigns after he left a prank voice message on a
Tea Party organization's website. Now he has some thoughts in
Salon about the plight of the insurance company spokesman who
becomes the center of a firestorm. Most useful in times like
these where the time between tasteless tweet to hasty firing is
fast approaching zero, is this: Imagine a stranger coming up to
you and saying, "Dude, I heard what you said about that thing
and I disagree! I found it as offensive as Janet Jackson's bare
boob at a Super Bowl half-time show! I'm going to get all my
friends to call up Applebee's and get you fired!" Operating
from a place of anger is a Charli |
-3.880662 | 1.34483 | 21 | On Tap: Your Friday Drinking Instructions Are Nigh! Our Friend
of the Blog Kyle McCan't chimes in with this week's Friday
Drinking instructions, and they are AWESOME. 100 cocktails to
you, good sir. Promoted to the front page for obvious reasons.
Typically, this space is used as a casually informative bridge
into weekends (hopefully) filled with the imbibing of copious
amounts of Big Ten-centric beer. Typically this is a wind-down
piece, a nightcap for the week if you will. Typically, however,
the college sports world doesn't LOSE IT'S FUCKING MIND! Your
Friday Drinking Instructions: Brewery Ommegang's Ommegeddon
Talk of Big Ten expansion, Pac 10 expansion and Big XII
implosion are all the rage in the salon (Voltaire not Vidal
Sassoon) these days, and with conjecture finally morphing into
concrete it's official: it's the end of the world as we know it
(and I feel drunk)! Thus, it seems only appropriate to direct
you, dear reader, to a beer oh-so-representative of the chaos of
expansion. 1. Expansio |
3.238554 | 4.967109 | 2 | Honestly I think Borderlands 2 deserves most of the Game of
the Year awards zerooo0(Topic Creator)Posted 12/30/2012
10:01:36 AM xxghost12xx posted... If Borderlands 2 is GOTY. Then
Diablo 3 wins Game of the Decade, they are both the same
concept. Same concept, but 2 completely different games. They
really shouldn't be compared to each other, other than the
looting aspect. Diablo 3 is a completely different game than
Borderlands 2. Games I'm looking forward to:Lightning
Returns:FFXIII,MGR:R,GTA5,Bioshock Infinite,and TLOU |
3.389868 | -1.973783 | -1 | Rodeo readies for spring season in winter practices Motivation
isn't just for humans, but for animals too. During the long
winter months, it isn't just people who fall into patterns of
inactivity and apathy, horses do as well. And like any athlete,
if a horse doesn't work out, it will pay the price when the
competitive season rolls around. That's why senior Camie
Haskins is on her horse nearly every day. Every Thursday she's
riding with teammates from the Moffat County High School rodeo
team in the first organized practices the team has had in nearly
two years. Haskins realizes the importance of daily practice,
and if she can't work out with the team, she has the opportunity
to do so as often as she likes in her family's arena. "I'm on
my horse almost every day, maybe not practicing, but at least
riding him," she said. "For other girls on the team, Thursdays
are the only time they get to work out, so it's pretty big for
them." The rodeo team reintroduced organized practice under the
guidance of first |
0.45881 | 7.52553 | -1 | If you found yourself scratching your head at the announcement
of an ExpressCard/34 slot in the new MacBook Pro, you're
probably not alone. Built by the PCMCIA association to take slot
dwelling expansion cards into the next generation, the
ExpressCard is smaller and faster than a PC Card, and can
support PCI Express -- all good things, but it leaves EV-DO card
users and others out in the cold for now. At least Y-E DATA of
Japan has their act together, since they've announced a 5-in-1
card reader for the new platform. Good for them, but let's hope
we see some other cards on the market real quick like, or Apple
could be losing a bunch of those mobile professionals who have
been holding out for Intel books for a while already. [Thanks,
Aaron] Y-E DATA announces ExpressCard/34 media reader |
-2.031613 | -0.888753 | 10 | or Login to see your representatives. Public Statements
Location: Miami, FL Mourning Residence Now, I want to
just say a little bit about Ron, because so much of the reason
we're here is to make sure that he continues to do the
outstanding work that he's doing on behalf of south Florida.
They have lived here for 25 years. This is where they raised
their family. This is where Ron helped run a small business.
That's who he's been fighting for since he got to Washington --
families and small business owners -- because he's part of them,
he understands them. He's fought to bring skyrocketing costs of
homeowner's insurance down. He's fighting to protect and
strengthen Medicare and Social Security. He was one of the
leaders in helping to make sure that we impose sanctions on Iran
-- to provide more security for us, but also to provide more
security for our ally, Israel. He knows the people of south
Florida, has been listening to them, has been working with them,
is fighting for them. And he's an exampl |
-1.357649 | 1.656432 | 92 | Greater Greater Washington Would new taxi rules "shut down"
Uber? The DC Taxi Commission (DCTC) has proposed new
regulations for "sedan" services, rides you pre-arrange instead
of just hopping in a cab driving down the street. Uber, a
popular service that uses sedans, says the new rules will make
their business impossible in DC, but DCTC Chairman Ron Linton
says Uber is misreading the regulations. Photo by magerleagues
on Flickr. In a letter to elected officials, Uber continues its
aggressive rhetorical stance against regulators. Uber CEO Travis
Kalanick writes: These rules are not designed to promote
safety, nor improve quality of service. They are intended to
shut Uber and similar technology companies down. ... The rules,
which the DCTC has published and coordinated to present at Mary
Cheh's hearing on Monday, are a blatant attempt to shut small
sedan companies down and therefore Uber's business. Our position
is that any additional DCTC rule-making around sedans must be
severely restricted. Linton ve |
-0.116352 | 9.074613 | 16 | Take the 2-minute tour × I have two Qt projects. The first
project builds a library that provides a widget for the main
window. The second project then uses this library and creates
custom widgets to plug into it and define implementation.
Everything works properly except for the graphics not showing up
in the second project that includes the library. The widgets
show up just fine, but nothing from the stylesheet is displayed.
Is there something else I'm forgetting to do? For example, I've
made this frame... namespace saiwidgets { class
SAIWIDGETSSHARED_EXPORT Frame : public QFrame { explicit
Frame(QFrame* parent = nullptr); Frame(QWidget* widget,
QFrame* parent = nullptr); void addWidget(QWidget* value);
virtual void mouseMoveEvent(QMouseEvent *e) override;
QVBoxLayout layout; And load the stylesheet like this...
QApplication a(argc, argv); QFile styleFile( %path to the
stylesheet% ); styleFile.open( QFile::ReadOnly ); QString
style( styleFile.readAll() ); a.setStyleSheet( |
-1.867555 | 5.725222 | -1 | Why Three Founders Is Better Than Two 25 Flares Twitter 11
Facebook 9 LinkedIn 1 Google+ 2 Pin It Share 0 Reddit 1
StumbleUpon 1 Filament.io 25 Flares × Handshake 400x223 Why
Three Founders Is Better Than TwoCreating a company with a good
friend or like-minded business partner is common, and allows you
to both call the shots and make decisions that have a direct
impact on your startup’s future. Unfortunately, a startup
founded by two people can be a tough sell. It opens the door for
disagreements and ultimately legal issues that could threaten to
disrupt and even close the doors of your company for good. This
is why having a third founder is preferable to many startups
that want to keep things equal between the two primary partners,
but have an objective third party to resolve disagreements and
help keep things smooth and civil. Imagine a startup where two
owners split the company’s assets in half and everything worked
50/50. This sounds like a great deal, but business is rarely a
platform for constant a |
4.912553 | 0.911044 | 13 | Skip to content, or skip to search. Amanda Palmer. chat room
Amanda Palmer on Her Kickstarter-Funded Album, Boring
Fortysomethings, and Nudity Since wrangling free of her
Roadrunner Records contract two years ago, former Dresden Dolls
frontwoman Amanda Palmer has refashioned her career as a grand
DIY experiment: announcing spontaneous concerts over Twitter,
recording as conjoined-twin performance artist Evelyn Evelyn,
marketing an album of ukulele Radiohead covers for 84 cents.
When she decided to make her first independently released studio
album, Theatre Is Evil, Palmer turned to her fans for help — and
startled the music industry by raising $1.2 million dollars in
one month via Kickstarter donations. The record, out this week,
does not disappoint. Accompanied by a new band, the Grand Theft
Orchestra, Palmer fleshes out her signature cabaret-rock
songwriting with flourishes of dark eighties pop. We spoke to
Palmer about leading the independent music revolution, how not
to tweet at your significant other |
2.689467 | 2.338051 | 25 | Report a Review Review:Jchrissy says: I see someone took
enough chemistry to actually create an amazing and believable
potion... Or do we need to discuss the possibility of market on
your arm not actually being marker?! Dun dun dun! Snape, Avery,
Wilkies, Lucius oh my!! Seriously, every DE section was great
and very realistic. Lucius has some serious nerve, doesn't he?
I just remembered again what happens to Dorcas in canon, and it
really depressed me because I starting to love these two as a
ship :(;(. You give the perfect amount of detail without there
being too much. You set the scene then let your characters take
over. It's perfect! You are really making this an addicting
story, Pix. And now where oh where is Severus off to?!
Author's Response: Hi there! What? That? Oh, that's,
umm...grease. Yeah, grease from oiling my, umm... my bicycle
chain this morning. Yeah... Lucius DOES have a lot of nerve.
And other things that make him perfect for his role. And if he
continues to give Severus tips on ha |
-2.21574 | 3.147453 | 76 | Reasons to Believe Does Retroviral DNA Insert Randomly into
Genomes? We receive a lot of great questions for the I Didn’t
Know That! podcast, some of which we are unable to answer due to
time constraints. In an effort to address more of your queries,
we will occasionally post a scholar’s reply on Today’s New
Reason to Believe. From Ryan in Shimane, Japan: Recently I
have seen more and more atheists using an argument from
retroviral insertion as proof that mankind evolved from a common
ancestor. The argument usually states that ERVs (endogenous
retroviruses) are inserted randomly into the host’s DNA and that
any two species sharing that ERV in the same location is proof
that they share a common ancestor. I wonder, is ERV and
specifically HERV insertion random and is the 8% content in the
human genome truly known to be retroviral since they are mostly
single LTR (long terminal repeat) strands? Ryan, you ask an
important question. For many people (not only atheists, but even
Christians who embrace evol |
-1.731543 | -1.278372 | 63 | April 29th, 2008 01:35 PM ET 6 years ago Watch Easley's
comments Tuesday. Filed under: Hillary Clinton soundoff
(358 Responses) 1. A Voter I'm with Hillary all the way.
She is the next President. The people who believe in her
have a feeling about it. It's just undeniable. No
matter how bleak the horizon looks, we can feel in our guts that
she is going to make it. It's her time. The television
pundits haven't been able to stop her. Obama's money
machine hasn't been able to stop her. The print media
hasn't been able to stop her. Her supporters keep pluggin
along, quietly, and not so quietly. We will overcome.
We will prevail. She hears us and she fights for us.
We will fight for her. Love you Hillary (and thank you,
Bill, for 8 yrs. of peace and prosperity) HILLARY CLINTON,
Madame President, POTUS #44 !!!! April 29, 2008 10:27 am at
10:27 am | 2. Ryan kr Obama 08..................Obama
2012......... Yes...Ye |
-1.78722 | 1.509285 | -1 | Comments by billp Written on Fate of historic Camarillo
farmhouse in question : in response to keeptothepoint: Oh boy
is the same group that tried to save Wagon Wheel? It is old and
it would take thousands of dollars to move (where) and fix it.
Being a tax payer I don't want my money spend on this junk. We
have enough historic houses in Ventura, Camarillo and Oxnard and
cannot take care of what we have. Let the go and bury it.
Fixing it up hiring someone to watch it, having tours and
docents its a joke we have enough stuff around to do that with.
Waste of time and money if you ask me. What about the Wagon
Wheel mess.? Here is my New England roots speaking out - you
people here in California have no respect for anything old. Just
plow the old stuff over and make into stucco homes that all look
the same. There is very little historic around here because
noting existed for the most part 100 years ago except for parts
of Ventura & Oxnard. Its does not have to be a museum - it can
be a community center or |
4.318457 | 2.896477 | 5 | My Theory on Shia LaBeouf's Weird Behavior Is Logical if True
By Luke Y. Thompson in Movies, Nerdery Tuesday, February 11,
2014 at 6:14 pm Okay, so...Shia LaBeouf makes a short film
that gets called out for plagiarizing a Daniel Clowes comic. He
repeatedly apologizes, but using the distinctly worded apologies
of other people for other things. He apologizes again in
skywriting, puts a paper bag over his head, and finally makes
himself a living art exhibit, in what our regular commenter
nix.nightbird rightly points out is also a rip-off of a
previous, similar exhibit. So what the hell is the point of all
this? If I'm right - and I don't know if I am - it should have
been obvious all along. Look who directed Shia's latest movie.
You realize it's Lars von Trier, right? What does Lars like to
do, when he's not stupidly comparing himself to a Nazi? It's
easy to forget given the relative slickness of Antichrist and
Melancholia, but he was one of the founders of the Dogme
movement, which advocate a purity and t |
3.74279 | 3.551568 | -1 | Blogs - The Undiscovered Gate Which Leads Towards Galileo's
Celestial Garden An Open Letter To George Lucas Concerning
Indiana Jones 7/29/2008 11:43:24 AM permalink Dear Mr. Lucas:
First, as you are most likely aware of, I am a fan. I thank you
for the advances you've pushed through for both the home theater
and the theatrical setup. You've helped to streamline and
increase the wonders of filmmaking. And, it is for those
reasons, you are one of my heroes. I, much like you, have an
appreciation for the latest technology, the greatest gadgets,
and the magic of things that light up and make a slight humming
sound when they're in operation. I, also much like you, have a
vested interest in filmmaking. You have your stories to tell, I
have mine. But I am also a fan, and have a serious interest in
the direction your stories could go. I like "Star Wars," and I
worship "Indiana Jones." "Kingdom of the Crystal Skulls" was
awesome, but as nothing is truly perfect, I feel I must add my
voice to the detractors. |
-1.093491 | 7.577357 | -1 | The growing threat of cyber-attacks and network hacking has
reached the satellite-space sector, posing a growing challenge
to satellite fleet operators and raising questions as to whether
commercial satellites will in the future need to be “hardened”
to the standard of the most secure military satellites. Although
the threat of cyber-attacks emanates from several nations, non-
state actors and even individuals, a significant amount of
attention has focused on the role of People’s Republic of China
(China). The U.S.-China Economic and Security Review
Commission (USCC), a U.S. Congressional commission charged with
monitoring the trade and economic relationship between the U.S.
and China and assessing its security implications, issued an
annual report in August 2011 (available at that concluded that
computer hackers, possibly affiliated with China’s military, had
interfered with two U.S. government earth terrain and climate
surveillance satellites, Landsat-7 and Terra AM-1, several times
in 2007 and 2008. In o |
1.261831 | 9.772975 | 22 | Next: , Previous: Macros and Functions, Up: Tree overview 9.2.2
Identifiers An IDENTIFIER_NODE represents a slightly more
general concept that the standard C or C++ concept of
identifier. In particular, an IDENTIFIER_NODE may contain a `$',
or other extraordinary characters. There are never two distinct
IDENTIFIER_NODEs representing the same identifier. Therefore,
you may use pointer equality to compare IDENTIFIER_NODEs, rather
than using a routine like strcmp. You can use the following
macros to access identifiers: The string represented by the
identifier, represented as a char*. This string is always NUL-
terminated, and contains no embedded NUL characters. The length
of the string returned by IDENTIFIER_POINTER, not including the
trailing NUL. This value of IDENTIFIER_LENGTH (x) is always the
same as strlen (IDENTIFIER_POINTER (x)). This predicate holds if
the identifier represents the name of an overloaded operator. In
this case, you should not depend on the contents of either the
IDENTIFIER_POINTER o |
3.280308 | 4.579281 | 2 | Archives by Day March 2014 Tokyo Beat Down Platform(s):
Nintendo DS Genre: Action Publisher: Atlus USA NDS Review -
'Tokyo Beat Down' by Dustin Chadwell on April 24, 2009 @ 3:24
a.m. PDT Genre: Beat-'Em-Up Publisher: Atlus Co. Developer:
Success Release Date: March 31, 2009 Tokyo Beat Down isn't
exactly perfect. It uses a pseudo 3-D system to show the
characters and locations, so it's not really sprite-based like
classic titles, and while that worked out well for Warriors,
it's not exactly a good look for a DS title. The environments
are pretty bland, and while they're supposed to represent actual
Tokyo-based locations, it doesn't come off as well as it did in
something like The World Ends With You, where we had little
landmarks and other visual aids to show off that these places
indeed exist in the real world. Instead, you'll see a lot of
repeating backgrounds in Tokyo Beat Down ... and not much else.
There's still some visceral fun to be had with the game,
provided you can get past the less-than- |
3.924828 | 3.555357 | -1 | Adventures of Power A very poor man’s “Napoleon Dynamite,” Ari
Gold’s cringeworthy Sundance bore stars himself as Power, a
headband-wearing, borderline-spastic air drummer who leaves his
Nevada home after his obsession leads to an accident where he
works. Our hero’s odyssey takes him to the mean streets of
Newark, where he joins a team that competes in the Big Apple
against another led by Adrian Greiner, as the preening son of
his former boss. So would-be hip it hurts, “Adventures of
Power” is barely watchable, despite the presence of such pros as
Michael McKean and Jane Lynch. Running time: 88 minutes. Rated
PG-13 (profanity, sexual references). At Loews Village, Third
Avenue and East 11th Street. Share Selection |
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comments → [–]TriangleDimes 2 points3 points ago This is the
weird part... Like if Rolling Stones came out with a record
tomorrow, rock fans across the board would get it at least out
of curiosity. Regardless of age, gender, culture. Bob Dylan,
same story (his last record - Modern Times - did pretty well!)
Tom Waits. I just fucking hate this idea that "rap is a young
game." Young people suck. The Beatles sucked when they were
young, but they got better. All these artists - classical,
blues, jazz, electronic - get better with age. Of course you
would! You know more things! You're better at the craft! You
have more experience! Except hip hop? It always needs to be
this aggressive, sexually weird, desperate, jerky genre of
music? Why does it need to be Young Men, the worst people in the
world? That's why even though I don't like Jay Z, I want him to
keep going. I wanna see the 70 year old rapper. I wanna see KRS-
One making shit we haven't hear |
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Best foldable piano so far posted by TheHuuf on 01/19/2010
0 0 Also kinda plays on non super flat surfaces.
The arrangements aren't of the best quality, every time you need
to reselect the one finger or multiple finger cord settings.
Sometimes hard to press the button. Best played on a flat
surface. There isn't a USB cable delivered with it to
connect it as power supply because it isn't really an USB
connection. It's a normal adapter plug 4.5v. If you want
to travel and you want a portable piano, this is one of the
better ones to have. You can have some fun with it while
away. Post comment DX Everywhere |
0.596625 | 8.410056 | 74 | About Me My Photo Saturday, July 20, 2013 Tutorial 4:
Painting Tiles Part 4 of the tile-making tutorial is up: Click
Here And just so this post has a bit more content than just 8
words and a link, here's a screenshot of a side-project: Once
it's gotten a bit further along, I'll share some more details.
1. I have added this site to my bookmarks. You have the sweetest
grafics i have seen so far for the RPG-Maker and you are making
nice constellations with it. :3 Keep it up! 2. Nice. Good
layout on everything and using the DS tiles really adds that
retro touch. Also, I'm doing the same thing with my
doorways, but I got the idea from FFVI while playing it a few
days ago. Great minds! 3. Hi, I have been using your
tutorials and would like to thank you and also ask when saving
as PNG do I save interlaced or not? 1. Hi, I don't
normally save as interlaced, as it increases the file size.
If you're curious as to what interlacing does, here's a brief
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