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2.14501 | 0.190886 | 44 | They're Random, Baby! Fan Fiction The Eye of the Storm:
Prologue Posted By: LordofDestruction<Exwing4123@aol.com> Date:
27 March 2004, 5:40 AM Read/Post Comments The Eye of the
Storm: Prologue Date: May 6th, 2625 Military Calendar
After the Covenant invasion of Vega Prime was repulsed in
2578, the UNSC and Covenant Liberation Forces continued their
push into the worlds controlled by the Prophets. By 2600,
hundreds of worlds had fallen to either civilian rebellions or
the UNSC and CLF combined forces. In order to quell the
rebellions be started left and right, the Prophets ordered any
rebelling planet to be glassed. This, however, only further
inflamed the trillions of people under control of the Prophets,
forcing them to abandon this idea. By that time, Covenant
Templar caste morale had sunk to its lowest point ever. Nearly
all of them knew they were fighting and dying on a false jihad,
and few had much loyalty left to the Prophets, but they all
feared what would happen if the were captured. |
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0.477588 | 10.072309 | 16 | Take the 2-minute tour × I am very new to the Linux
environment, and I am stuck with a situation. What I want to do
is to pass the command test -s $testFile to a variable, like,
say "tes" tes="test -s $testFile" share|improve this question
add comment 2 Answers up vote 6 down vote accepted If the
command you're trying returns specific data, you could use:
test = "$(test -s $testFile)" When you use $(), you're telling
the command line to execute the function passed in a subshell,
get the result and print back on the other terminal.
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2.169813 | 1.573365 | -1 | Site hosted by Build your free website today! Every Who Down In
Who-Ville Like Christmas a lot... But The Grinch, Who lived just
North of Who-ville, Did NOT! The Grinch hated Christmas! The
whole Christmas season! Now, please don't ask why. No one quite
knows the reason. It could be that his head wasn't screwed on
quite right. It could be, perhaps, that his shoes were too
tight. But I think that the most likely reason of all May have
been that his heart was two sizes too small. But, Whatever the
reason, His heart or his shoes, He stood there on Christmas Eve,
hating the Whos, Staring down from his cave with a sour, Grinchy
frown At the warm lighted windows below in their town. For he
knew every Who down in Who-ville beneath Was busy now, hanging a
mistleoe wreath. "And they're hanging their stockings!" he
snarled with a sneer. "Tomorrow is Christmas! It's practically
here!" Then he growled, with his grinch fingers nervously
drumming, "I MUST find a way to keep Christmas from coming!"
For, tomorrow, he knew.. |
3.132941 | 2.359043 | 25 | Free at last from the chains of marriage. So why the long face?
Midnight All Day by Hanif Kureishi, Faber, £9.99, pp217
Narcissistic and cruel middle-aged men, young nymphets who read
Nietzsche and pout, clawing, man-hating wives and the disturbed
children of divorced parents: Hanif Kureishi's beautifully
written collection of short stories, Midnight All Day, covers
similar ground to his controversial, best-selling novel,
Intimacy. Indeed, Midnight seems to pick up approximately where
Intimacy left off, but a couple of years down the track. While
each story explores the implosion of a marriage from a different
point of view, often, like the marriage depicted in Intimacy, a
marriage with children, the situations, themes and tone are all
so similar that an almost claustrophobic sense of continuity
asserts itself throughout. It isn't until the final surrealistic
story, 'The Penis', that Kureishi is able to leave his
fascination with the minutiae of sadism behind and relocate
cruelty into a more playful system |
-3.015829 | 3.609264 | 45 | Pilates: Health and Disease Prevention - Does Pilates work? -
MedicineNet Pilates (cont.) Does Pilates work? Pilates
practitioners swear by the method, and in some circles, it
almost reaches cultlike status. It is true that there are many
benefits to Pilates, but some of the benefits, even if they do
occur, are unproven in research. What I've done here is present
the claims made by Pilates proponents and then objectively
present whether there is research to support the claims. Before
I go further, I want to state that I believe that Pilates can be
a great workout. It can help strengthen and tone muscles,
improve flexibility, and the movements on the machines can be
challenging and fun. It also has the potential to be an intense
workout since the movements are slow, controlled, and
deliberate. I refer individuals to Pilates who (1) are looking
for an alternative or complement to weight lifting, (2) might
need supervised resistance-exercise sessions, or (3) want a
change of pace and would like to try somet |
-3.957583 | 2.472997 | -1 | The More Weight I Lose, The More Fat Jokes I Hear: A Dating
StoryS When my first and only long-term relationship ended
toward the end of 2012, I was warned that I would likely do one
or more of the following at my ex: date at him, eat at him,
exercise at him or shop at him. And though he had no Facebook
account and we have very few friends in common for him to find
about any of the above, I dove headlong into the dating and
exercise variations of imaginary vengeance. I got a Living
Social deal to a bootcamp and willingly entered that special
circle of Hell where self-esteem goes to either flourish or die:
OKCupid. Bootcamp made me feel and look better almost
immediately. Having settled into a work-dinner-Netflix-bed-
routine, I had made little time for exercise during my
relationship so my new friendship with endorphins and
kettlebells was awesome. OKCupid was...not endorphin-producing.
This site has covered OKCupid up and down so I assume people are
familiar enough with its many terrors that I don't need |
1.011159 | 0.073194 | 133 | Battle of Agincourt From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump
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15th-century miniature Date 25 October 1415 (Saint Crispin's
Day) Location Agincourt, Pas-de-Calais, France 50°27′49″N
2°08′30″E / 50.46361°N 2.14167°E / 50.46361;
2.14167Coordinates: 50°27′49″N 2°08′30″E / 50.46361°N
2.14167°E / 50.46361; 2.14167 Result Decisive English victory
Royal Arms of England (1399-1603).svg England France moderne.svg
France Commanders and leaders Edward of Norwich Arms.svg Edward
of York Royal Arms of England (1399-1603).svg Humphrey of
Lancaster Armoiries Albret moderne.png Charles d'Albret
Boucicaut.svgJean Le Maingre (POW) Blason duche fr Orleans
(moderne).svgCharles D'Orleans (POW) Modern estimates range from
6,000[1] to 9,000[2] (see Numbers at Agincourt.) About 56
longbow archers, 16 dismounted knights and men-at-arms in heavy
armour. Modern estimates range from 12,000 (outnumbering |
4.001982 | 3.637219 | 35 | Still reeling from Hydra's Madbombs, Cap finds himself the
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between her sons at a western Sydney home, police say. Two
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the older man pulled a knife, police said. Their 70-year-old
mother tried to stop the fight but was stabbed in the left arm
by her son, police said. She was taken to Auburn Hospital for
treatment. Her sons were arrested and have been charged with
assault offences. Both were refused bail and are due before
Parramatta Local Court on Thursday. |
-0.390607 | 4.036893 | -1 | How to Get Better Results from Your Team An easy performance
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-1.223118 | 4.409059 | -1 | Oceanside nonprofit’s rating system for homes gaining traction
as key industry tool Q: Is the score motivating people to make
home efficiency upgrades? A: It’s not empirical evidence, but
we’re seeing cases anecdotally where people get a rating and
upgrade the home so it can have a higher resale value or be sold
faster. Q: Could the day come where builders put energy
upgrades ahead of, say, granite countertops? A: What the
builders are finding out is that it’s not a case of either/or.
Many times by making these improvements your utility bills go
down to a certain extent that you actually can afford granite
countertops, too. Q: Is this the equivalent of a government
certification? A: This is completely a market-driven approach.
But a lot of the research comes from government programs. The
Energy Department uses the HERS index for its Builders Challenge
program. The EPA uses the HERS index for the Energy Star home-
efficiency label. And the IRS uses our standard for the energy-
efficient home credit. Q: Pr |
-0.237046 | 2.764567 | -1 | University of Washington DO-IT Home [DOIT Logo] Disabilities,
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determine if this is an appropriate accommodation as well as who
is responsible to cover the costs associated with the attendant.
An attendant may not, however, be able to help the student gain
access to an inaccessible building. |
0.123517 | 9.042369 | -1 | Take the tour × I am looking for any projects integrating
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1.102981 | -1.795089 | 97 | NKorean state broadcaster declares launch success PYONGYANG,
North Korea (AP) -- North Korea's state broadcaster has
announced on TV that Pyongyang's rocket launch was a success.
North Koreans watching TV in Pyongyang broke out into applause
after the noon (0300GMT) broadcast Wednesday, about two hours
after the launch from a west coast station. State media said
the Unha rocket sent a satellite into space. U.S. officials said
they had no immediate confirmation that any device reached
orbit. |
-2.685303 | 5.640484 | 81 | The DNA of a diversified portfolio Managed Money DNA is
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0.171107 | 10.694778 | -1 | Take the 2-minute tour × I have the following table for storing
user data: TABLE: users maritalStatus (INT) - FK gender
(CHAR) occupation (INT) - FK Now I want to compare two
users in this table to see how many columns match for any two
given users (say user X & user Y) I am doing it via mySQL
Stored Procedures by getting each value separately and then
comparing them SELECT maritalStatus from users where
userID = X INTO myVar1; SELECT maritalStatus from users
where userID = Y INTO myVar2; IF myVar1 = myVar2 THEN
END IF; Is there a shorter way using an SQL query where I can
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I dont need to know how much different they actually are, just
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comparing selected columns, not every column in the user table.
share|improve this question 4 Answers 4 up vote 4 down vote
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-1.28894 | 1.498962 | -1 | Tuesday, September 18, 2007 City Offers Sweetheart Deal For
Nightclub In Union Station Remember a few years back how Mayor
Peterson's administration did everything it could to break a
lease in Union Station with the Ugly Monkey? The Ugly Monkey
eventually moved out of Union Station after beating back the
city's attempt to terminate its lease. Now, the IBJ is reporting
on a deal the city has reached with the owners of the 6 Lounge
to open up a new, 12,600 square feet night club in the
struggling facility. The City's even going to throw in $300,000
in improvements to sweeten the deal. The IBJ reports: The city
has reached a preliminary agreement to lease 12,600 square feet
in the basement of Union Station for a new restaurant and
nightclub. The lease is with The Arantee Group, one of the
owners of 6 Lounge & Restaurant on Meridian Street. The new club
would take space in the basement of Union Station along Illinois
Street. The space, last occupied by Iron Horse, has been vacant
12 years, said Mary Hauser, an |
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whether as a single permeant or in mixtures, is driven by its
chemical potential or concentration gradient. Various methods to
assess the permeability of geomembranes to single component
permeants, such as individual gases, vapors, and liqui |
0.696484 | 6.744876 | 68 | or Connect AVS › AVS Forum › Audio › Soundbars › Soundbars: How
Does Music Sound? New Posts All Forums:Forum Nav: Soundbars:
How Does Music Sound? post #1 of 3 Thread Starter I've been
going back-and-forth on a home audio solution for my family
room. I think I've decided on a soundbar, because I don't want
to go down the financial and technical rabbit hole of a receiver
+ speaker set-up. This will be my only way of listening to
music in my family room, and I have a lot of music. I'm not an
audiophile, and I don't want to spend much more than $300-400.
But I also want streamed music to sound pretty good, which it
should for $300. The soundbar I'm most seriously considering is
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w/ Cinema 3D). My question about these, and soundbars in
general, is: How so-so does music really sound? Most reviews and
comments seem to focus on the soundbar as an accessory to TV
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-2.501851 | -0.436329 | 36 | McConnell defends debt ceiling vote Greg Nash Sen. Mitch
McConnell (R-Ky.) is defending his procedural vote that allowed
the Senate to approve legislation raising the debt ceiling. "My
job is to protect the country when I can," McConnell said Friday
at a campaign event in Louisville, reports. "And to step up and
lead on those occasions when it's required. That's what I did."
McConnell faces a tough reelection fight this year and has come
under criticism from Tea Party groups for his vote. McConnell
and 11 other Republican senators sided with Democrats in a
procedural vote to end debate on the legislation. Tea Party
favorite Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) led the filibuster because of
his objections that the bill did not include any spending curbs
on the government. The filibuster meant the bill needed 60
votes to proceed, and it might not have met the threshold
without McConnell's action. The Treasury Department had set a
Feb. 27 deadline for raising the debt ceiling, and had warned it
might be unable to pay |
2.879739 | 5.003121 | -1 | How to pick a winning hand every time Never play rock, paper,
scissors with a mathematician. Well, not until you have heard
what Simon Singh has to say • The Guardian, This Saturday,
hundreds of competitors will gather in Toronto for the rock,
paper, scissors (RPS) world championships. Now into its third
year, the championships have become the highlight in the rock,
paper, scissors calendar, with teams travelling from all over
the globe to pit their wits against the finest exponents of the
sport. The rules are simple. Two players count "1 ... 2 ... 3
... Go!" and then offer up their hand in one of three ways: rock
(clenched fist), paper (open, flat hand), or scissors
(forefinger and middle finger form a 'V'). The winner is decided
according to the rules that rock blunts scissors (rock wins),
scissors cut paper (scissors win), and paper covers rock (paper
wins). If the weapons are the same, then the game is a tie. The
game has suffered criticism from outsiders, who claim that it is
an entirely artificial |
2.287271 | 3.0195 | 65 | 1. When was your first kiss? I remember I was in fifth grade at
a Hawaiian dance and I was extremely nervous. Everyone was
watching! 2. Who's your celebrity crush? I won't give a typical
answer, like the girl from Transformers. So I'll go with Elisha
Cuthbert from The Girl Next Door. I just watched that last
night. 3. What's a girl fashion trend that confuses you? Eskimo
jackets 4. What's the chick flick you secretly love? Splendor
in the Grass. 5. What's your TV guilty pleasure? I've been
watching Dexter recently, I love that show. It's my favorite.
Samuel L. Jackson. 7. What's your dream job? There are two
people. Either Alexander the Great — just knowing that you could
take over so much of the world and have more power than any
person. Or a Beatle back in the day — John Lennon. 9. Who in
your family are you closest to? That's a tough question. I don't
know! 10. What's your favorite Web site? IMDB, I'm on it
constantly. 11. What's the fast food you can't live without?
It's between two. Either In-N |
0.381107 | 4.360308 | -1 | DIY Network Doll Wigging More in Decorating unique objects
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the materials that can be used to make doll wigs: Christmas
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peanuts chenille yarn dyed mohair Here's how to make a doll wig
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materials listed above) doll head 1. Make a wig base by
marking a hairline on the doll's head, using a light fabric pen.
2. Cover the head with plastic wrap. 3. Trim the edges
according to the marked hairline to form a wig base. 4. Cover
the wig base with craft glue. 5. Place wig material on the wet
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Materials and Tools: black pantyhose needle and thread
decorative beads 1. Cut one leg of |
-1.790554 | 6.298169 | -1 | Police tips to protect against card skimmers Police tips to
protect against card skimmers by Stephanie Zepelin Bio |
Email | Follow: @ktvbstephanie Posted on March 27, 2013 at
7:41 PM Updated Monday, Nov 25 at 4:15 PM ADA COUNTY -- Two
credit card skimmers were found at a gas station in Boise. These
devices are used to take your credit card information without
you having to do more than unknowingly swipe your card. Someone
sitting in their car, watching from a distance can then get your
credit card information via an electronic device. "They place
it over the top of that card reader and then every time you run
your credit card through there, it gathers your information from
your credit card," said Meridian Police Deputy Chief Tracy
Basterrechea. Basterrechea said skimmers are usually placed
outside. "It's normally going to happen someplace where there's
not a lot of people; at a gas pump, at an ATM outside of a
building. So really, to catch your odds, you're better to go
inside the store," said Ba |
-3.357199 | 5.207855 | 115 | Saturday, March 23, 2013 Cash Only in Cyprus Reporter’s
Notebook: Worried CypriotsScramble for their Money
Anonymous said... Hello! What do you think about keeping your
money and valuables in a deposit box inside the bank? As keeping
valuables at home seems risky, you could get robbed and loose
everything. Anonymous said... hi ferfal, I have one important
question : why did the argentina government not confiscated the
gold of people? They didn't have records of who buyed some
before the crisis? Or they didn't care? Another question : now
that you are in ireland ( eurozone + country receiving bailout),
what are you going to do?staying here or going outside of
eurozone? k said... The real benefit of keeping valuables in
a safe deposit box in a bank, and not at home, is that only your
box could be violated if a robber or government agent comes to
take it. The economy in Cyprus is poised for collapse. Sure,
cash only still works. But the prices could suddenly shift.
Gasoline and alcohol could q |
0.795531 | -0.755851 | 50 | You are here: Home>Collections>Margao Fake cops strike again in
Panaji, Margao TNN Oct 8, 2008, 04.03am IST PANAJI/MARGAO: In
two separate incidents in Panaji and Margao, persons posing as
policemen relieved unsuspecting individuals of their gold
ornaments. A 65-year-old woman, Eugenia Rodrigues from Shirgao,
complained to the police that she had come to Panaji and was
waiting at the Kadamba bus stand when two men claiming to be
Delhi police officers approached her. They asked her to remove
her gold jewellery and threatened to issue her a challan is she
refused. Scared, the woman did as she was instructed. The two
men then took her handbag and said they would place the
jewellery in it to ensure its safety. They returned the bag
after pretending to place the jewellery in it. However, she
later found that her jewellery worth around Rs 10,000 was
missing. According to the complaint, the men were well built,
well dressed and fair. The incident occurred at 11.30 am. Later
in the afternoon, a similar incident |
3.244729 | 0.063518 | 9 | To listen live to the soulful voice of the first female playback
singer in Malayalam is an incredibly rare and overwhelming
experience. The voice of Vimala B. Varma rang clear at the
Kerala Secretariat Employees’ Association hall at an event
organised by its cultural wing in Thiruvananthapuram on Tuesday.
The programme marked the platinum jubilee of the release of the
first Malayalam talkie, Balan , released in 1938. She expressed
her happiness at being invited as a guest of honour for a
function to recognise her contribution to cinema. It was in the
film Nirmala that playback singing was first introduced in
Malayalam, in 1948. The movie is a landmark in the history of
Malayalam films also for the fact that it was the first to be
produced by a Malayali. (Ms. Varma sang for the film). During
Ms. Varma’s time, playback singing and recording were very novel
exercises and priority was accorded to singers with powerful and
deep voices, music critic Ravi Menon says. “This was not because
it was popular demand, bu |
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3.171448 | 2.032497 | -1 | (W) Conor McCreery, Anthony Del (A) Andy Belanger (CA) Simon
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Juliet, Othello, and Romeo face an even greater danger-Prospero,
a rogue wizard who plans to destroy all of creation. Hamlet must
embark on a perilous journey to a remote island whose
inhabitants have gone mad and want the Dane's blood... if they
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-1.164905 | 5.356277 | -1 | How To Win at the Sport of Selling What would your attitude
toward selling be if you approached it as you would your
favorite sport? In working with sales teams through the years,
that simple question is often enough to shift from “selling is
something we have to work at” to “something we can have fun
with.” If you were an avid golfer or fly fisherman, you would
be reading books and magazines to find the latest tip or insight
to add a few more yards or catch a few more fish. You would
gather with others who enjoyed your sport to discuss it and tell
fish stories. Just as we would want the best and most effective
equipment to play our sport, in sales we would also want the
best marketing material, database management software, website,
portfolio, and all of the other tools that would help us to
close one more sale or capture another lead. Practice makes
perfect It could be estimated that the difference between a
professional athlete and an amateur is about 10,000 hours of
practice to perfect their skills. H |
0.700411 | 7.69486 | -1 | Rust Assured That This Isn't Hazardous at All! computer
fan,electronics,fan,grounded,rpm,rust - - "Some say rust and
electronics don't go together. Some say you must properly ground
old electronics. I say that having a ungrounded, old, rusty 1300
RPM propeller near my head is better than being hot!" Better
you than me, buddy! |
2.131562 | 1.630332 | -1 | "If you're allergic to animals, please let me know now, so we
can work around that." Yeah, that was my hand that went up,
and that was my voice shrieking about being allergic,
specifically to bears. Like, at some point in my murky past, I'd
been deliberately tested for bear allergens. I got shots and
everything. Oh, and yelling to the world that I was on the rag,
even though I wasn't. The rest of the background pool looked at
me with eyebrows raised, and laughed at me. Go ahead and laugh,
suckers. I'll be safe up here in the bleachers, and you'll be
bear snacks. The filming got underway, with me cowering up in
the topmost row of seats, shivering. The scene was about the
beer that Drew & Oswald had invented, the one with caffeine in
it. Can't remember what it was called on the show, as I only
ever watched that one episode. (Yeah, to see if I could spot
myself. Shut up.) And the gimmick is that the bear is drinking
the beer at the beer convention they're all at. So the trainer
puts the bottle into Chuckle's |
0.540426 | 2.773597 | -1 | Cracked Columnists 10 Real Survival Guides for One Very Fake
Apocalypse #5. The Complete Idiot's Guide to New Millennium
Predictions by The New Age Collective & Lisa Lenard I'm
confused. You mean those other guides were for people who
weren't complete idiots? #4. How to Profit from the Y2K
Recession by John Mauldin The most obvious way to make money
from Y2K was to write a terrible book in the late nineties about
how to survive Y2K. The main problem I had with this one is that
it wasn't even published until well into 1999. Assuming you read
this the day it came out and put together a business plan and
found investors the next day, you'd maybe be up and running for
a week before your company's computers tore you apart for their
Y2K Robosports. Society was literally months away from
collapsing and this asshole wanted us to weasel money out of the
paranoid? What needless villainy. That's like Grand Moff Tarkin
calling the people of Alderaan and taking pre-orders on discount
rape whistles. #3. Countdown to |
-1.090937 | -0.643112 | 28 | Sunday, October 18, 2009 Game on for leadership of the English
Liberal Democrats... Arriving early in the North West yesterday
gave me a chance to catch up on English Party politics, and it
seems that there will be a contest for Chair of the English
Party this year. As Brian Orrell is term-limited after three
years in the job, there will be a new Chair regardless, and the
two candidates are Paul Clark, currently Chair of the East of
England Liberal Democrats, and Jonathan Davies, formerly
Treasurer of the English Party. In truth, many people will know
little about the two candidates, although I consider both of
them to be friends. And as I am no longer a voting member of
English Council, I won't be called upon to cast my ballot one
way or the other. However, this is important. Why? Because the
winner will have tremendous amounts of influence on the
organisational direction of the Party. In amongst the
constitutional structure of the Liberal Democrats, the English
Party has a key role. Naturally, most of t |
5.086906 | 0.808168 | 13 | Switchfoot: Music for the difficult places Christian Today
caught up with Switchfoot guitarist Jerome Fontamillas to find
out more about their new surf film and how faith inspires them
to keep making music for people in all stages of life Published
30 December 2013 | Carey Lodge US Grammy award winning rock
band Switchfoot don't label themselves as a 'Christian band,'
("How can a song be 'Christian'?" asks lead singer Jon Foreman,
"there is no such thing as Christian music. No. Christ didn't
come and die for my songs, he came for me,"), but they are
explicit in expressing their faith through their lyrics. The
authenticity that this brings to their music has earned them
critical acclaim. They unapologetically ask real questions that
underline the issues they are grappling with as men of faith in
a modern, broken world. "Where is God in the earthquake? Where
is God in the genocide?" one song asks. It is this authenticity
that marks them as one of the only bands that manages to
gracefully straddle the div |
-0.034196 | 3.289509 | -1 | Modifying the Environment [Cartoon: Child playing outdoors in
yard] What is this about? [Cartoon: Young child using stool to
brush teeth]The healthy development of your children occurs more
easily when they are able to function comfortably and safely in
and around your home. What will I learn? What's in it for me?
By modifying your children's environment, you can help them
interact successfully in your home and prevent some problems
from developing. Go to Next Page [Home][][Right arrow] |
-1.849823 | 3.287458 | -1 | Skip Navigation State and Non-State Providers in the Delivery
of Water and Sanitation Services Urban-Rural Governance and
Poverty Alleviation The main messages of the World Development
Report (WDR) 2004 are that services are failing poor people---in
quantity, in quality, and in access; that economic growth, while
necessary is not sufficient; and more public spending, while
invaluable in many contexts, by itself is not enough. But,
despite these failures, citizens and their governments can and
must make services work for poor people's well being. The report
tries to set out why services are not working, what are the key
institutional relationships necessary for making services work,
and how services have been made to work in a wide range of
settings through various approaches. The report emphasizes that
the failures of service delivery are not primarily technical nor
managerial problems, and therefore are not remediable through a
technical fix. If seven percent of service providers are absent,
it is a mana |
-4.936956 | 1.252616 | -1 | Take the 2-minute tour × I am looking to get rid of the Teflon
rice cooker I have (it is getting a lot of scratches and well
that Teflon has to be going somewhere!). What is a good rice
cooker to go with that is non-stick enough for jasmine rice?
share|improve this question add comment 1 Answer I quickly
checked the models that Cook's Illustrated recommended, and all
of them either say they're Teflon (aka PTFE) or are a non-
specified non-stick (which probably means PTFE). Also, PTFE
isn't toxic, at least not until heated in excess of 200°C
(details at Wikipedia). share|improve this answer Good points.
I guess my real issue is with cheap teflon that flakes away too
quickly. – Zombies Jun 30 '11 at 17:50 @Zombies: It could also
be that you're damaging the Teflon somehow; are you using metal
utensils on it, for example? – derobert Jul 1 '11 at 5:24 Nope!
It is just really cheap the whole rice cooker was like $15 at
target. – Zombies Jul 1 '11 at 15:29 @Zombies: Ok, I've had to
cheap bread pans like that |
1.297441 | 2.284178 | 40 | 5 Rules Of The New ChivalryThis morning on Today, "experts"
weighed in on the hot button issue of chivalry, and whether the
concept is dead, outdated, or just plain unfeminist. We don't
think that chivalry is dead, and we don't think that women on
the receiving end of it are less feminist, but we do think some
of the rules of etiquette need to be revamped to reflect the
shifts in gender roles. The misconception is that, deep down,
all women want a bad boy. Untrue: We just don't want someone who
kisses our asses or behaves like a doormat. But that doesn't
mean that manners should be thrown out the window. We know it
seems like we want it both ways: equality and courtesy. But why
must the two be mutually exclusive? Besides, shouldn't there be
a few trade offs, or benefits, for the crap we have to put up
with as women? We've come up with an updated list of rules of
the new chivalry for the modern man…and woman.1.) Give her your
seat. Not because she's a woman, but because her shoes hurt more
than yours. Like rea |
-2.878362 | 3.067387 | -1 | Faculty » Sara Mednick A classic question in memory literature
is: how does the human brain learn new information while not
overwriting previously stored memories? Memory models solve this
so-called stability plasticity dilemma by proposing a post-
encoding period of reduced interference that allows the brain to
consolidate recent experience into long-term storage. A growing
body of research shows that for some types of memory,
consolidation takes place during sleep. Recent studies show that
rapid eye movement (REM) sleep enhances performance from
baseline and promotes generalization in non-declarative memory
tasks, whereas non-REM (NREM) sleep decreases forgetting from
baseline on declarative memory tasks. These different
performance profiles suggest that two different mechanisms exist
for consolidating declarative and non-declarative memories.
Declarative memory traces must be protected from interference
from other memories, whereas non-declarative memories, almost by
definition, form by association between |
4.058928 | 1.994889 | -1 | Tuesdays 8:00 PM on FOX TV Fanatic Works Better with Prime
Instant Video Try it Now for Free and Instantly Watch Glee.
Wanted: Glee Cast Questions for Comic-Con! by at . Comments
Calling all Gleeks! TV Fanatic needs your help. Tags: ,
The Brittana storyline was one of the best of season 2, the fans
are hooked and it's very inspiring for young girls to see
someone like them struggle with the same "problems". How will
the story continue in season 3, will Santana finally be brave
enough to officially make Brittany her girlfriend? Does the
concert mean that Blaine is joining Glee Club and is leaving the
Warblers? Very good idea! When? Is Jesse coming back??? He's
better than most of the cast imo How many new characters are
coming to Glee next year? Can we have any hints about them? When
do we meet them? Ryan Murphy said Glee was going to deal with
bullying of all of the kids, but what happened? It seemed like
only the bullying of Kurt wast taken seriously, and then even
that got ditched when not |
3.285035 | -4.430171 | 38 | 7th round Cowboys select Caleb McSurdy ILB Montana 1.
jjktkk jjktkk Active Member 1,631 Messages 0 Likes
Received I'm thinking the Boys will have a impressive UDFA
list, or thats the hope anyway. 2. jswalker1981
jswalker1981 Fact > Your Opinion 2,616 Messages 0 Likes
Received Funny, I remember signing two offensive linemen in
FA, and we drafted a DE in the 3rd round. 3. SDogo
13,900 Messages 4 Likes Received The only pick we made
where I dont see a lot of upside 4. ManicDepressiveMan
ManicDepressiveMan Member 748 Messages 1 Likes Received
5. Chuck 54 Chuck 54 Well-Known Member 9,019 Messages
55 Likes Received Personally, after round two, I don't think
there was a lineman who could make our team other than maybe The
Georgia and Baylor centers, and they were gone quickly later.
I think other than center, it was clear that we were happy with
the OL because even DeCastro was seen as a center. We
drafted a DE |
-4.371932 | 0.970803 | 18 | Find a restaurant g.e.b. | New restaurant Graham Elliot opens
a “bistro” in the West Loop. By David Tamarkin Published: May
30, 2012 Exterior of g.e.b. Photo: Martha Williams g.e.b. No,
the b doesn’t stand for Bowles (Graham Elliot gave that up,
remember?). It stands for bistro, which is what Elliot’s new
restaurant is. Sort of. Dishes may not be entirely French, but
they will be simple (fewer than three ingredients, so they say)
and affordable (less than $20), which, at the very least, is
bistroish. 841 W Randolph St ( Share with your network |
-0.3357 | -0.614292 | 98 | THE European Union's draft constitution is in danger of being
felled by a right-left combination punch from either side of the
Channel. The French and British governments have promised
referendums on the document, which provides a single
constitutional framework for an EU of 25 countries and counting.
In Britain, opinion polls suggest that the constitution will be
rejected—though the vote will probably not take place until
2006. In France, most pundits had assumed that there would be a
yes when the vote takes place in the autumn of next year. But
last week Laurent Fabius, a former Socialist prime minister and
would-be president, said that he would campaign against the
constitution unless it is changed—thus splitting his party and
ensuring that the no campaign will no longer consist only of
fringe parties. A French no is now distinctly possible: a poll
in Le Point this week showed only 51% of voters planning to vote
yes. But if Britain and France both turn down the constitution,
they are likely to do so for e |
1.167429 | 3.290694 | -1 | Do I Look Fat in This? Fashion Is King Even when I was a
little girl, I knew exactly how I felt about clothes: I loved
them! I had my favorite T-shirt (cowgirl riding a horse), and I
wasn't afraid to tell whoever was in charge of dressing me
exactly what I wanted to wear. I knew instinctively as I grew
older what I wanted to put on my body, and it was usually
determined by what felt good. Cotton, good. Polyester, bad. And
for a while it was that simple... comfort was king. Then I hit
those invariably rough preteen years, and my attitude toward
clothing changed completely. I had already started to dislike
my body at 11 and was dieting regularly by 12, and so by the
time the fashion-conscious years of 13 and 14 came around, I
identified clothes as a dire necessity that impacted my everyday
existence as a teenager. I saw clothes in two shades: those that
fit and those that didn't. And so I began my love affair with
sizing and numbers before I had even mastered long division. I
became attached to the sizes of |
4.326745 | 2.806525 | 5 | Marie Antoinette Bookmark and Share The New York Film
Festival is a shamelessly elitist institution. But in an
increasingly overstuffed festival schedule, it’s nice to have a
line-up devoted to high artistic standards. The main program is
basically a best-of compilation culled from Cannes, Venice, and
Toronto and a prelude to the awards season. Still, elitism has
its drawbacks: old favorites and gabbed-abouts like Almodóvar
and Sofia Coppola are shoo-ins, and other selections tend to
favor art over topicality. Roughly half the avant garde program
consists of pre-2000 films (as in this year’s sidebar event, “50
Years of Janus Films”: nearly all are staples of revival houses,
not needing “special tribute”). But these are quibbles that pale
next to the overall quality of what I saw during the Festival’s
first week. The loudest mixed reception greeted one of my
favorites, David Lynch’s first digital video feature, Inland
Empire. A seeming sequel to Mulholland Drive, it includes the
first movie’s highlights: b |
3.200652 | -4.151348 | 38 | Score Strip 1. League: NFL 2. Seattle vs. Denver 43 SEA
8 DEN 3. View All Shutdown Corner Jamie Dukes’ PED snark
about Manti Te’o is a compelling case for reliable HGH testing
Doug Farrar Shutdown Corner Apparently, some people were not
impressed at the methods by which Notre Dame linebacker Manti
Te'o shaved a tenth of a second off his 40-yard dash time from
the scouting combine to his pro day a month later. The 4.71
40-yard dash he burned at the Fighting Irish's indoor facility
on Tuesday, Te'o said, was just a function of getting out of his
own way after more distractions than most people have to deal
with. "Don't think -- you've been doing it your whole life.
Just go out there and run," Te'o told the NFL Network in an
interview that was replayed on the network's "NFL AM" program on
Wednesday morning. "We tend to think too much, and psyche
ourselves out, thinking that bad things will happen. I just went
out there and said, 'Hey -- just run. Run as fast as you can.
Whatever the time says |
2.910237 | 5.600591 | 2 | Wasn't Sega supposed to announce more HD Vita remakes of
Dreamcast games? #21sarevokmbPosted 2/1/2013 5:34:37 PM
JP_Sartre posted... DC did not fail. I still have and still play
mine. Ummm.... Yeah, it did fail. Sorry, but just because you
still play yours (I still use mine for Code:Veronica and Sonic
Adventure 1 and 2 every now and then) doesn't mean it wasn't a
massive failure. |
0.840007 | -0.583315 | 50 | The Family Brichta Part One -- Survivors Stories
www.HolocaustResearchProject.org Holocaust Education & Archive
Research Team Survivor Stories Holocaust Survivors
Chelmno Survivors Righteous Gentiles Holocaust Recalled
The Family Brichta Part One – Backgrounds and Life in Berlin
This is the story of the Family Brichta, as recalled by Frank
Bright, in his unpublished memoirs, which due to its length will
be completed in several chapters. We are exceedingly grateful
to Frank for allowing HEART to share both his family’s and his
unique experiences during the Nazis years, before the Second
World War and through the Holocaust, which claimed so many of
his family and friends. Hermann Brichta Hermann Brichta
holding Frank, 1929 Berlin My father, early days My Father
was very similar in upbringing and outlook to that of my mother.
Born on a farm in 1897 among and surrounded by Czechs that is
not all that surprising. There were other Jewish farmers in
Moravia and Slovakia |
2.693102 | 2.216496 | 25 | No Regrets The Life of Edith Piaf by Carolyn Burke No Regrets
Hardcover, 282 pages, Random House Inc, List Price: $27.95 |
purchase Purchase Featured Books • No Regrets • The Life
of Edith Piaf • Carolyn Burke Book Summary Traces the life
of the beloved French chanteuse from her untraditional
upbringing to her years after achieving instant stardom,
covering such topics as her tumultuous love affairs, her
struggles with addiction, and her enduring legacy. Read an
excerpt of this book NPR stories about No Regrets Excerpt: No
Regrets No Regrets No Regrets The Life of Edith Piaf
Copyright © 2011 Carolyn Burke All right reserved. ISBN:
9780307268013 Edith Piaf's life began like a latter-day
version of Les Misérables. A poor girl from the Paris slums, she
grew up among the downtrodden souls who later populated her
lyrics and, through their mythic resonance, shaped the scenarios
of twentieth-century French culture. Her story is the stuff of
working-class legend, its joys and sorrows the ma |
0.604164 | 3.023375 | -1 | Shared publicly - "Talents are given for a reason. Don't ever
feel discouraged." camille austin's profile photoastrid valle's
profile photoFabiola Neri's profile photoDanny Harms's profile
photo Hugh, when's your next film coming out? is that the best
u got but still kind of like it You are so right Hugh Jackman.
That is the best statement I have heard today. c'est pas faut,
mais il s'entretien aussi. comme le décourragement. Talent is
the result of hard work, passion and knowldge the question
wasn't offensive... Easy to say and difficult to do. Having
life & good health is most precious, the rest are secondary.
Хью! Как говорят в России "Худо без добра,не бывает"!!! All of
my studies recently have been closing in on that topic. Hi,
Hugh your one of my favorite actors..... :D You look bored...
Hard work can be a replacement for talent ,for those of us less
blessed Mi Yahh great words of wisdom tha'ts really
inspirational One of our presidents, Calvin Coolidge -- also
known as "Silent Cal," m |
-1.488802 | 5.851888 | -1 | Samoa market price claims disputed SETTLING IN: Some business
owners are already settled in at Tole'afoa's compound at
Fugalei. [Samoa Observer] Sellers using Tole’afoa Fa’afisi’s
property at Fugalei are not charged $105 per week. Instead,
they are being charged as little as $10 a day for using the
property, Aiono Afaese Tole’afoa, Spokesman for Tole’afoa
Enterprises, explained yesterday. “It is no difference from
when they were at the Fugalei Market,” he said. Aiono’s views
were sought following complaints from some stall owners that the
amount they were being charged was “too much.” The stall owners
were unhappy that they had to pay $50 for registration and then
the weekly charge, which they claimed amounted to $105. But
Aiono rejected the claims saying they were not true. “We are not
charging these people $105 per week,” he said. He explained that
a deal was agreed upon between the business owners and Tole’afoa
during a meeting at 1pm, last Friday afternoon. “The agreement
made was that it would cost |
1.686317 | 0.715992 | -1 | Human Transmutation Human Transmutation is a anime/manga
concept Edit this Page The content below is entirely editable.
Alchemy's most forbidden taboo. Sewing life together and with
good reason. As the saying goes whats dead should stay dead.
Tragedy, misery, loosing ones innocence thats what awaits one
and all who attempt human transmutation. In alchemy, there are
two things that are forbidden: the transmutation of
different metals to gold and an even more horrifying taboo: the
transmutation of human life itself. According to the rule of
equivalent exchange, one must offer something of equal value to
get something in return. This law is true and many times
alchemist fail to realize this and perform human transmutation.
Life has no equal in value so therefore there isnt an equivalent
exchange to begin with. Many times alchemist perceive human
ingredients to be the value of a human life. And this is were
the fatal error is created when mankind trespasses on gods
domain. Still those that do perform Human Tra |
-1.181243 | 9.221563 | -1 | Should there be some sort of standardised list of features for
new Stack Exchanges? What I'm thinking about is that different
Stack Exchanges can make more or less use of 'custom' features.
For example, on of the most useful features for would be the
ability to cross post between sites such as and because there
will be a lot of 'borderline' questions that may be more suited
to another site. What might be less useful for would be hosted
posting of photographs. However, for, cross posting right now
is not particularly useful because there are few grey areas
between the other sites and cooking. However hosting of photos,
and adding a recipe 'module' to the cooking site would be very
useful. Should there be some sort of system for voting on
standardised features so that the community can see what
features would be most useful to add to each stack exchange site
. Eventually I can inagine that there may be too many additional
'modules' for sites that switching all of them on at once may
create too much clutter a |
1.110473 | 3.549078 | -1 | Princeton, NJ resident Bill Stephenson graduated from the
University of Oklahoma in 1954 and lived in the Delta Upsilon
fraternity house. Herein he shares his thoughts on haircuts and
grooming products during the heyday of the Ivy League Look.
Back in the day, undergraduates throughout the US looked pretty
similar when it came to hairstyles, just as they did with
standard campus apparel. Haircuts looked the same in Berkeley,
Columbus or Hanover — take a look at ’50s yearbooks and you’ll
see. The cut was usually referred to as a Princeton and was
short on the back and sides and neat on top. We had no idea what
clipper size was used and never asked. Fine clippers were used
on the sides, and scissors on top. The back was always tapered.
To have a haircut that was boxed in the back would be like
walking around with your fly unzipped. The guy with the Ivy
look considered it very important to get a haircut religiously
every two weeks. Haircuts didn’t cost much in those days, and
frequent haircuts were sine qua n |
-1.351489 | 6.016455 | -1 | Weather | Traffic | Surf | Maps | Webcam »Next Story» Local
News Sunday Currents The Last Week Weekly Sections Subscribe
to the UT The San Diego Union-Tribune The quiet CEO
Understated Qualcomm founder retiring after a pioneering career
in cell phone technology June 26, 2005 SEAN M. HAFFEY /
Union-Tribune "He loves it and it works well, so why change
it?" said his youngest son, Jeff Jacobs. The elder Jacobs is
one of the richest men in the world, No. 406 on Forbes
magazine's 2004 list, thanks to the phenomenal success of
Qualcomm, the San Diego wireless technology company he helped
found. He revolutionized cell phone communication around the
world on the strength of a single idea. Yet the trappings of
wealth are largely lost on the 71-year-old billionaire. In many
ways, Jacobs is still the same mild-mannered professor who urged
his four children to turn off lights when leaving a room or to
cut long-distance calls short to save money. For Jacobs, money
isn't about gaining status or power or fa |
1.854025 | 0.391711 | 44 | Saturday, December 01, 2012 Hiding in plain sight A stock
objection which unbelievers routinely raise to Biblical miracles
is the allegation that the world you and I live in doesn’t
resemble the world of the Bible. Biblical narratives are studded
with miracles, but we don’t experience that in the modern world.
Rather, we experience the uniformity of nature. The contrast
between the world of the Bible and the world you and I actually
experience strongly suggests the world of the Bible isn’t the
real world, but a mythical, fictitious representation. There
are different ways of responding to this argument. One way is to
challenge the operating premise. For instance, Jason Engwer and
I have cited a lot of material documenting widely-attested and
well-attested cases of the miraculous or the paranormal. In that
event, the alleged disconnect between the Biblical world and the
modern world or the “real” world is bogus. These are, in fact,
continuous. There is, however, another way to challenge the
operating prem |
-0.538202 | 8.507777 | -1 | Researchers detect secret files lurking within digital images
May 24, 2006 Keeping computer files private requires only the
use of a simple encryption program. For criminals or terrorists
wanting to conceal their activities, however, attaching an
encrypted file to an e-mail message is sure to raise suspicion
with law enforcement or government agents monitoring e-mail
traffic. But what if files could be hidden within the complex
digital code of a photographic image? A family snapshot, for
example, could contain secret information and even a trained eye
wouldn't know the difference. That ability to hide files within
another file, called steganography, is here thanks to a number
of software programs now on the market. The emerging science of
detecting such files – steganalysis – is getting a boost from
the Midwest Forensics Resource Center at the U.S. Department of
Energy's Ames Laboratory and a pair of Iowa State University
researchers. Electronic images, such as jpeg files, provide the
perfect "cover" bec |
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buy online? It's THE deciding factor of whether I buy! I'll
take it if I can get it! It really isn't a factor.
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2.552731 | 2.932184 | -1 | Tagged by Apple Cider and Saxsy at I Like Pancakes, huzzah! And
set off by Gnomey. • Go into your image folder • Challenge
six new bloggers. • Link to them. Umm… how did this get
there? *shifty eyes* I ended up in my Burning Crusade folder
and this was the sixth image in there! There were many, many
better though, I dare say. Ha. This was during a ZA run back in
my first guild, Capo, around the time it was dying admittedly
but we still had a bit of fun at this point. The dead Blood Elf
had “disconnected”. Myself and the cow are apparently voyeurs.
*shrug* Go figure! I challenge.. (and oh GOD it’s hard to pick
6 people) 1. Fulguralis 2. Rades 3. Laeleiweyn 4.
Ophelie 5. Ironyca 6. Cynwise |
0.311249 | 5.237408 | -1 | Scientists have been able to store 2.2 petabytes in one gram of
DNA Since time immemorial, mankind has wanted to share and use
information for later use. First, it was through the caveman
paintings and symbols. Then we invented the alphabets,
ideograms, numbers and other symbols. Using these, books were
written and stored for future generations, in palm leaves,
papyrus sheets or paper. The invention of printing brought the
Gutenberg revolution, making multiple copies easily and
spreading education to millions of people. Printed books occupy
space. Libraries and archives are bursting at the seams. Enter
the computer age and digitization using the binary code of
combining zeros and ones (0,1) for alphabets and other such
symbols, and reading them using the on-off electrical signals,
which has made electronic storage possible, cutting down the
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1.835133 | 0.459643 | 44 | Jain World Doctrine of Karma Part -1 Doctrine of Karma Part
-2(A) Doctrine of Karma Part -2(B) Doctrine of Karma Part -2(C)
Doctrine of Karma Part -3 The Fourteen Gunasthanas The Five
Bodies The Doctrine of Non-one-sidedness Freedom of Will -
The Five Samvay Doctrine of Karma in Jain Philosophy by
Glasenapp Doctrine of Karma in Jain Philosophy by R. Zimmerman
Modern Physics and Syadvada (Part-1) Modern Physics and
Syadvada (Part-2) The Indian-Jaina Dialectic of Syadvad
(Part-1) The Indian-Jaina Dialectic of Syadvad (Part-2)
Syadvada System of Predication Anekanta (Part-1) Anekanta
(Part-2) First Steps To Jainism (Part-2) The Central
Philosophy of Jainism - Anekantavad, The Doctrine of Non-one-
sidedness We take up this subject with some hesitation- it may
be admitted in advance. The subject of Anekantavada or the
Doctrine of Non-onesideness is very difficult (to explain) and
yet not so difficult. It is very complicated as well as very
simple. It is a matter of common, everyday ex |
1.409963 | 9.865225 | 22 | Re: transitivity does not imply type-checking Matthias
Radestock wrote: In section "Why are <? etc. procedures, not
macros?" of the srfi document it says ... one can even require
the compare procedures to check the types of all arguments, even
if the result of the comparison is already known. This is what
Section 6.2.5 of R5RS calls ``transitive`` behavior of the
predicates =, <, etc. It is true that R5RS requires the
predicates to be transitive. However, I cannot see how that
implies that unused arguments must be type-checked, as is
asserted in the above. Take for example the following
definition of =: (define (= x y . rest) (and (number? x)
(number? y) (prim= x y) (or (null? rest) (apply
my= y rest)))) I claim that this meets the transitivity
requirement of R5RS, assuming prim= is transitive, yet it only
type-checks used args. Since R5RS defines = as procedure:
(= z1 z2 z3 ...) we see that the result of calling = with non-
complex arguments are unspecified. R5RS states that = |
-3.022456 | 3.451946 | -1 | Tempo Runs Essential Ingredients IV June 6, 2006 So far in
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Lactate threshold pace (LT pace) is the best physiological
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muscles and blood increases rapidly. Tempo runs are done in an
intensity range at which lactate is just starting to accumulate,
which provides a strong stimulus to improve your LT pace. By
running at your current LT pace, you improve your LT pace (the
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concentration required to susta |
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0.516037 | 7.037691 | -1 | Take the 2-minute tour × I've been using my wireless headset
for sometime now. My wireless controller was damaged and now
have a new one. I connect the controller to the console
perfectly as user 1, but my wireless headset won't connect to
user 1. It'll connect to users 2, 3, and 4, but wont allow me to
connect as user 1 with the new controller. How can I reset the
headset to acknowledge the new wireless controller?
share|improve this question add comment 3 Answers I'll assume
you have one of the generic wireless headsets that come in many
skins, but are all based on the Microsoft design. I've had one
or two of these, and I agree the interface for connecting them
isn't so obvious. Luckily, MS has a pretty good article on it
here. The key info is: If a controller is connected to the
first quadrant, the system will associate your wireless headset
with the first quadrant. If another wireless headset is already
associated with the first quadrant, your wireless headset will
be associated with the second qua |
0.841319 | 0.856883 | 157 | Pukapuka 7, Nama 1 whārangi 1 (16 ngā whārangi) 2titiro ki te
whārangi o muri Tirohia ngā kupu whakataki o tēnei niupepa THE
MAORI MESSENGER. TE KARERE MAORI VOL. VII.] AUCKLAND, JANUARY,
I860.AKARANA, HANUERE, 1860. [Nos. 1 & 2. MAORI MEETING AT PORT
COOPER. A short time since, 11 .M.S.S. "Niger" ar- rived at Port
Cooper, with his Excellency the Governor on board. H.M.S. Iris,"
which bad on a former occasion conveyed His Ex- cellency to the
Bay of Islands, had arrived there before her; on her entrance
therefore into the port, which occurred in the evening, she was
saluted by the guns. of the " Iris," and the announcement of the
Governor's ar- rival was thus communicated to the shore. On the
morning of the following day His Excellency landed, and
proceeded at once with his suite to Christchurch. As soon as the
news of the Governor's ar- rival became generally known, the
Maories of the various settlements began to assemble at Rapaki,
a small village near to Port Lyt- telton, resolving to await
there His E |
-0.357298 | 7.527146 | 8 | Category Archives: Ios Smart Advice About Apple Ios? Looking
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4.422674 | 2.500519 | -1 | A strikingly beautiful Hollywood actress. Hayek is considered to
be the first Mexican actress to become a Hollywood movie star
since Dolores Del Río. Born September 2, 1966 in
Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, Mexico, to a Catholic family, of a
Lebanese father and a Mexican mother. At age 12, her parents
decided to send her to a boarding school in Louisiana. After
being a troublemaker, playing pranks on the poor nuns, she was
sent by her parents to Houston, where she lived with an aunt
until she turned 17. Returning to Mexico, she attended College
in Mexico City, studying International Relations. Whilst Hayek
always showed interest in acting, she thought it is implausible
for her. Despite, she eventually decided to drop Collage to
pursue an acting career. After spending some time working in
theater productions, she moved on to television and taken a few
roles on some local Soap Operas, such as Teresa. She was very
soon the most loved and adored celebrity in Mexico. Hayek's
fulfillment in Mexico was not enough for |
3.502183 | 1.924159 | -1 | Thursday, October 11, 2007 Stupid is as stupid does
Occasionally, I wonder why movie stars and other showbiz
celebrities complain so stridently about having to endure
interviews whenever they're promoting their latest projects. But
then I read something like this, and I wonder why they ever
grant interviews to anyone, ever. Let's face it: There are
people in my racket who are... gee, how can I say this? I mean,
the word assholes comes to mind, but it somehow seems
inadequate. |
1.171464 | 4.357318 | -1 | Comment by Jimmy on October 20, 2013 at 12:26am God's plan is
just another way of saying "predetermination," the notion that
all things that happen are preordained to happen throughout all
of existence. By metaphor, it's like a movie burnt to a DVD, and
the entire movie has already been burnt to the disc. While
people believe they're doing things and making choices, free
will, in this interpretation is actually an illusion. According
to predestination, every thought you have, every plane that
crashes into a building, the sway of every grass blade, the
motion of the clouds, the fall of every rain drop, all the way
down to every quantum effect - all predetermined throughout
eternity. Comment by James Cox on October 20, 2013 at 1:22am I
think this is the 'hard' version. I have had numerous
conversations about time and causation questions. Even a few
shows on NOVA have played this out to a place of intense
discomfort. Sadly it is unclear if we are 'bugs in temporal
amber', or not, but I have not been able to |
-0.851217 | 7.838633 | -1 | Forgot your password? Comment: Re:You're funny, Europe doesn't
work that way (Score 1) 273 It depends, in many cafes and pubs
in Germany they will not bother as long as you don't block a
place in a crowded place without consuming some beverage or
food. In many places you will find free WiFi or payd hotspots
from the Telekom or another provider in the vicinity. Be aware,
that there is the rule, that the cheaper a hotel is, the better
is the chance to get free internet access. A good way to
connect is to get an O2 mobile account. You can get it with a
one Month termination term and at least in all greater cities
the access is more than ok (HDSPA+). (Use the phone as WiFi-
Router). Comment: All secret services are dull dumb and silly
(Score 1) 2 by The Terminator (#41941381) Attached to: How To
Tell if Your Hotel Guest Is a Terrorist I'm a former german
"Unteroffizier" from the signal corps, equivalent 1st Sergeant
in the US Army. After having finished my service and entered the
reserve status, I got a se |
3.330683 | 0.166415 | 9 | 'Life Of Pi' Star's Favorite Melodies Suraj Sharma plays the
lead role in the new film Life of Pi. For the Tell Me More
series "In Your Ear," Sharma shares some of the songs that
inspire him and give him goose bumps. After speaking with
Suraj Sharma about "Life of Pi," we asked to tell us about his
favorite songs for our feature In Your Ear, that's where some of
the guests of our program tell us about the music they listen
to. So here's what's playing in his ear. SURAJ SHARMA: My name
is Suraj Sharma and right now listening to this song called
"Bullet Chain" by Joni Fatora. JONI FATORA: (Singing) Moving
like the speed of sound. Feet can't keep on the ground. Can't
stay in one place. Keep moving like a bullet train. Like a
bullet train. SHARMA: I really like listening to this song
because it gives me this really goose bumpy feeling. So when I'm
walking around, it inspires me in a very, very nice way.
FATORA: (Singing) 'Cause I can't stop time. Like, like, like a
bullet train. SHARMA: Another song I |
-0.255348 | 6.844602 | -1 | Here is a list of all the Paradigm Shift TV recommended
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0.121137 | 7.307878 | -1 | Source: Bloomberg Comments Threshold RE:
Win8 tablets will hit the $300 mark very quickly By Targon on
8/18/2012 6:58:26 AM , Rating: 2 This comment is something I
find funny, the cost of a good Ultrabook when talking about ANY
sort of tablet. Tablets in general are good for consuming
content, but have never been about productivity. If these
tablets get down to the $300 range, then yes, they MAY have a
purpose for limited function devices(web browsing, e-book
reading, etc), but they will STILL be low end. Atom is HORRIBLE
in a real laptop compared to just about anything else out there.
Low power consumption is the only advantage, and AMD has a
decent alternative there when it comes down to it. This is the
thing that makes no sense about $500 tablets, they are not as
powerful as a normal laptop, and the only advantage they have is
long battery life, which most people don't care about(except for
ebook readers, or those who take their machine with them on the
road for work or LONG trips). S |
2.585807 | 1.880305 | -1 | Eunice Randall-- Boston's first female announcer/engineer by
Donna Halper If you had been around greater Boston during the
19-teens and early 20s, you might have heard Eunice Randall
referred to as "ER," since radio announcers were not usually
allowed to use their names on the air. To her ham radio friends,
she was "the OW of 1XE," or "1CDP;" to some of her youngest
fans, she was "the Story Lady." Eunice Randall was all of this
and more-although she was born in an era when women's options
were still extremely limited, she grew up to achieve a number of
'firsts' in the exciting new industry called radio broadcasting.
In the early 1900s, Mattapoisett (a town in southeastern
Massachusetts) was still rural, and Eunice's father was a
farmer, while one of her brothers ran a mill. As far as I have
been able to ascertain, there were no 'radio bugs' in her
family, and yet somehow she became fascinated by the rapidly-
expanding world of ham radio. Her first station, which she built
herself, was called "ER", and her tec |
-2.662029 | 2.874884 | -1 | In Great Britain and/or Ireland: Animal / pathogen Nosema apis
infects gut of adult of Apis mellifera Article rating from 0
people Average rating: 2.5 of 5 Nosema apis Nosema apis is a
microsporidian, a small, unicellular parasite recently
reclassified as a fungus that mainly affects honey bees. It
causes nosemosis, also called nosema, which is the most common
and widespread of adult honey bee diseases.[1] The dormant stage
of Nosema apis is a long lived spore which is resistant to
temperature extremes and dehydration and cannot be killed by
freezing the contaminated comb. Nosemosis is a listed disease
with the Office International des Epizooties (OIE). Nosema
apis is a single-celled parasite of the Western honey bee (Apis
mellifera). The species is of the class Microsporidia, which
were previously thought to be protozoans but are now classified
as fungi or fungi-related.[2] Nosema apis has a resistant spore
that withstands temperature extremes and dehydration. In 1996, a
similar microsporidian parasi |
1.158671 | 9.174588 | -1 | EFL Maemo Edition - Enlightenment Foundation Libraries What are
EFL? The Enlightenment Foundation Libraries (EFL) are a
collection of libraries so powerful, flexible, and easy to use
that they present a strong platform on which to develop nearly
any graphical application you could think of. The EFL begins
with Imlib2, a general image manipulation and rendering library,
and Evas, our canvas library. Because Evas is built on several
different selectable engines (Linux FrameBuffer, DirectFB, X11,
OpenGL, QTopia, etc) the platform is extremely portable, which
translates thru to all of the libraries built on top of it.
Ecore is a modular convience library that in its base provides
timers, callback functionality, and loop management for event
handling. Ecore's various modules can simplify the setup of an
X11 drawable for general use (Ecore_X11), an X11 drawable for
use with Evas (Ecore_Evas), manage IPC (Ecore_IPC), manage BSD
Sockets (Ecore_Con), management of the FrameBuffer (Ecore_FB),
and more. Because Ecor |
-0.299399 | 0.548973 | 6 | • Search • All content • Business listings 'How many guys
does it take to restrain a 95-year-old man?' Park Forest police
killing of nursing home resident becomes a political hot potato
Shuffling the deck, dealing the cards, the seniors play pinochle
and gin rummy at least once a week. The other day, chatting and
kibitzing, they remembered a friend who was gone. He was 95, a
World War II veteran who'd served in Burma, a guy feisty in mind
but old in body, a man just a few weeks shy of his 96th birthday
when he died. His friends said he wasn't steady on his feet,
and should have been in a wheelchair. They said he was so frail
that you could push him over with your left hand. "He was
serious about his cards, I can tell you that," said one of his
closest friends, Patrick Browne. Photos: Sports Illustrated
swimsuit models "I miss him," said Millie Cameron, another of
the seniors at the Blakey senior center in south suburban
Glenwood where the old guy was a fixture. "I enjoyed his
company. He used to c |
-0.84569 | 5.162345 | 4 | Video: Forget your creature comforts, Porsche's 2010 Boxster
Spyder is a pure driver's car December 9, 2009 The 2010
Porsche Boxster Spyder The 2010 Porsche Boxster Spyder Image
Gallery (25 images) If you believe owning a sportscar is all
about prestige, luxury and getting the chicks, then stay away
from the newest Porsche Boxster. This is a pure driver's car,
and everything that's not there for performance or light weight
- like air-con and stereo systems, for example, has been treated
as excess weight and thrown overboard. The 2010 Boxster Spyder
is Porsche's vision of how its high-performance, low-weight
road-race scalpels of the 1950s would look if reimagined using
current day technology, and it deserves a lot of respect for its
sheer purity of vision. There are two ways to build a fast car
- make it extremely powerful like the Bugatti Veyron, or make it
extremely light like the Caterham Levante. The former, with the
right aerodynamics, tends to produce cars with very high top
speeds. The latter |
1.402822 | 9.309945 | -1 | [FOM] LPAR-16 deadline extended Geoff Sutcliffe by way of
Martin Davis <martin@eipye.com> geoff at cs.miami.edu Fri Jan 8
15:47:59 EST 2010 CALL FOR PAPERS
16th International Conference on Logic for
Programming, Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning
April 25 - May 1, 2010 Dakar,
Senegal The series of International Conferences on Logic for
Programming, Artificial computational logic, programming
languages and their applications come to exchange ideas in a
scientifically emerging part of the world. The 16th edition will
be held in Dakar, Senegal. Logic is a fundamental organizing
principle in nearly all areas in Computer At one extreme, it
underlies computability and complexity theory and the formal
semantics of programming languages. At the other, it drives
billions of gates every day in the digital circuits of
processors of all kinds. Logic is in itself a powerful
programming parad |
-0.888462 | 7.158972 | 8 | Print 14 comment(s) - last by Solandri.. on Jul 14 at 12:39 PM
NYC is running a trial on 10 phone booths at the moment
Source: ABC News Comments Threshold RE: This sounds like
an excelent idea. By WalksTheWalk on 7/13/2012 9:45:29 AM ,
Rating: 0 How is this an excellent idea? This is the government
getting into places they don't belong at the expense of
taxpayers. Do you think the government's role is to provide the
citizenry with free WiFi? Make no mistake about it, nothing is
free. The government is paying for the infrastructure and
service. The are also paying for maintenance of this network
too. This is cutting the throats of businesses that pay taxes;
the very thing the government depends on. Let's all clamor for
free WiFi, healthcare, computers, iPads, etc. The more things
that government takes over, the more it sinks the entire
country. RE: This sounds like an excelent idea. By andrewaggb
on 7/13/2012 2:39:14 PM , Rating: 2 Not sure why they down voted
you. But I agree, why? and why i |
-1.543378 | -0.643052 | -1 | Skip to main content 8 nominees who didn't go to the Supreme
Court By David Holzel, Mental Floss • Ebenezer Hoar got a
thumbs down after blocking a well-trod route for patronage •
Wheeler Peckham and William B. Hornblower rejected through home
state courtesy • Newspaper claimed Alexander Wolcott's
nomination degraded the country 1. Robert Bork 2. Alexander
Wolcott 3. Roger Taney Roger B. Taney (pronounced tawny) is
largely remembered as the chief justice who handed down the Dred
Scott decision in 1857. With his sepulchral countenance, Taney
is inextricably linked to the grim ruling that all blacks --
slaves as well as free -- were not and could never become
citizens of the United States. Mental Floss: Are Tomatoes Fruits
or Vegetables? The Supreme Court Weighs In But when President
Andrew Jackson nominated him in 1835 as associate justice,
opposition Whigs were still smarting from Taney's removal of
government deposits from the Second Bank of the United States
while he was a recess-appointed |
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plunge into water to remove dirt and parasites. Because a
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body of water to dive into, it's up to you to keep him clean but
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water. Keep your iguana clean by following these steps: 1.
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isn't used to bathing, put less water in the tub. 2. Let him
soak to his heart's content. If you leave your iguana in
the tub long enough for the |
-0.486657 | 9.33492 | 16 | Take the 2-minute tour × I'm building a system that need to
collect some user sensitive data via secured web connection,
store it securely on the server for later automated decryption
and reuse. System should also allow user to view some part of
the secured data (e.g., *****ze) and/or change it completely via
web. System should provide reasonable level of security. I was
thinking of the following infrastructure: App (Web) Server 1
1. Web server with proper TLS support for secured web
connections. 2. Use public-key algorithm (e.g. RSA) to
encrypt entered user sensitive data and send it to App Server 2
via one-way outbound secured channel (e.g. ssh-2) without
storing it anywhere on either App Server 1 or DB Server 1. 3.
Use user-password-dependent symmetric-key algorithm to encrypt
some part of the entered data (e.g. last few letters/digits) and
store it on the DB Server 1 for later retrieval by App Server 1
during user web session. 4. Re-use step 2 for data
modification by user via web. DB Serv |
4.169801 | 2.973962 | 5 | Movie Review | Insidious Tale raises scary questions Enlarge
Image Request to buy this photo Josh (Patrick Wilson) and Renai
(Rose Byrne), looking for answers There is a world all around
us that we don't see - that we're lucky not to see, because, if
we saw it, we'd start screaming. It is a shadow world known as
the Further, as opposed to the Farther, which would have made
more sense. But the souls that inhabit it aren't worried about
nomenclature. No, they are doomed to walk the Earth, looking for
a living body they might possess. Maybe yours! Insidious is a
respectable attempt at a type of horror movie that isn't made
anymore - that is, horror that is scary and not merely
disgusting. From the opening credits - in which the title
appears in blood-red letters to the accompaniment of blaring,
dissonant music - the movie tries to get under your skin and
inside your mind. Sometimes it does. Perhaps it's the existence
of the unconscious, but there is something within us that fears
and believes in shadow wo |
-2.781502 | 5.611431 | 81 | Investors Are Missing the Bull Market-Kiplinger Value Added
Investors Are Missing the Bull Market Steven Goldberg Fear of
more losses has kept many on the sidelines during most of the
historic run-up. Suppose they gave a bull market and nobody
came? That pretty much sums up the response of individual
investors to the past year’s run-up in share prices. Left
stunned and frightened by the preceding collapse of share
prices, individual investors have lightened up on stock funds
and shoveled money into bond funds. Those who exited stocks
have missed a breathtaking rally. Standard & Poor’s 500-stock
index returned 50% over the past 12 months through March 18.
During the same period, the MSCI EAFE index of developed-market
foreign stocks galloped 61%, the Russell 2000 index of small
companies soared 66%, and the MSCI Emerging Markets index surged
89%. It doesn’t get much better than that. But fear of more
losses has been a more potent consideration for most investors.
The Leuthold Group, a Minneapolis-base |
2.491371 | 4.289425 | -1 | A Video Game, Violence, And Depression Study That Looks At The
Big PictureS Over the past decade countless studies have arisen
supposedly proving a causal link between video games, violent
behavior, and depression. A new study conducted by Christopher
J. Ferguson pinpoints why all of the others may have gotten it
wrong. Video games cause violent behavior. Video games don't
cause violent behavior. Video games cause depression. Video
games combat depression. In the past year alone we've seen
studies attempting to prove all of these points, but none of
them have done what the new study from Texas A&M's Christopher
J. Ferguson and colleagues' has done. Using a sample of young
men and women from three separate cultures - Mexican-American,
English, and Croatian - Ferguson and his team examined not only
the effects violent video games and television programs had on
violence and behavior, but the effects the subjects' personality
traits had on their behaviors as well. Is violent media
influencing young people neg |
-4.300127 | 2.516721 | 70 | New calorie-uncounting experiment: Join me on the train wreck?
What the...? It seems that I just posted about what is working
for me in my weight-maintenance journey right now and rounding
out the list: tracking calories with Daily Plate. It takes a
lot of effort to do this as I'm someone who loves to have small
tastes of many types of foods. It probably takes a good solid
45 minutes every single day to document my eats. One of the
reasons that I included "Tracking calories" in my list was
because when I would stop tracking, I noticed that I would gain
weight. However, I recently realized that every single time I
stopped tracking happened to coincide with traveling.
Convenient, right? Surprising that I gained weight? I think
not. Well, after that revelation, I decided to track calories
while traveling. The result? I gained weight. Surprising?
Really, not at all. So the other day, I decided to try to NOT
track calories (gasp!) while I'm home, and under 'normal'
circumstances (no holidays, etc). |
1.706785 | 0.531421 | 111 | University of Pennsylvania Museum Excavations at Gordion,
Turkey, Reveal Celtic Sacrifices 04 JANUARY 2002, PHILADELPHIA,
PA—Discovery of grisly evidence of strangulation and
decapitation, and bizarre arrangements of human and animal
bones, has solved the longstanding mystery about the Celtic
presence at Gordion, Turkey, where the University of
Pennsyvlania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology has been
excavating since 1950. The chronologically rich site, long
renowned as the capital of Phrygia in the 8th century B.C. and
the center from which the famed King Midas once ruled, is about
60 miles southwest of Ankara in central Turkey. Archaeologists
knew from ancient sources that in 278 B.C., about four centuries
after the Phrygians began to lose political power, King
Nicomedes I of Bithynia (an ancient kingdom located just to the
east of modern Istanbul) welcomed as allies 20,000 European
Celts, veterans who had invaded Macedonia two years earlier. The
Galatai, as these warriors called themselves, marched i |
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-1.621427 | 6.045804 | -1 | Inside IT 'I guess I like other people's money' Even geeks can
get scammed by online fraudsters. Ben Goldacre on his eBay shame
As a geek, I consider it a matter of personal pride that nobody
can rip me off over the internet. I laugh at my parents'
paranoia about buying online. After all, what's the point of
being a clever dick if it doesn't save you money? So it hurt
pretty badly, last week, when someone came very close indeed to
working me over for £1,100. eBay was made for procrastination.
It's not actually a very good place to buy anything collectable,
because the prices are always too high: nobody likes to lose, I
guess, and I can tell you from personal experience that there is
a slightly sinister satisfaction to be had from outbidding a
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0.86321 | 1.956305 | -1 | H and I had heated and possibly over honest confrontation in
counselling, now he is not speaking to me at all (127 Posts)
feelokaboutit Thu 04-Oct-12 16:20:30 We have had two bad
episodes like this before when he blanked me for a period of
weeks following a bad argument. (Once up to 6 weeks, the other
time a little less I think). When I bring this up in counselling
he says yes but what was the argument about - as if what I did
or said (which I don't agree with as on both occasions I was
very angry with him about the way he behaved so it's kind of a
swings and roundabouts situation) warranted him not speaking to
me for six weeks hmm. We have been in counselling for a few
months now but we have probably been for a total of 6 sessions
together so far as often we can't go for various reasons. What
has happened is that I have finally been able to say what I find
so difficult, and he has basically reiterated again and again
that the state of the house is the main issue for him. In fact I
think he went to couns |
2.509104 | 0.834018 | -1 | 1-4Some time later, this happened: Absalom, David’s son, had a
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David’s son, was in love with her. Amnon was obsessed with his
sister Tamar to the point of making himself sick over her. She
was a virgin, so he couldn’t see how he could get his hands on
her. Amnon had a good friend, Jonadab, the son of David’s
brother Shimeah. Jonadab was exceptionally streetwise. He said
to Amnon, “Why are you moping around like this, day after
day—you, the son of the king! Tell me what’s eating at you.”
8-9So Tamar went to her brother Amnon’s house. She took dough,
kneaded it, formed it into dumplings, and cooked them while he
watched from his bed. But when she took the cooking pot and
served him, he wouldn’t eat. 9-11Amnon said, “Clear everyone out
of the house,” and they all cleared out. Then he said to Tamar,
“Bring the food into my bedroom, where we can eat in privacy.”
She took the nourishing dumplings she had prepared and brought
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baking. I had a bear bully me away from my camp gear while on a
portage and then steal a tube of toothpaste from my pack. I had
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