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0.828446 | 6.483672 | 68 | Replacing a turntable stylus can work magic An upgrade to my
turntable stylus rendered previously unplayable records
miraculously well again. Arthur C. Clarke is credited with
saying that any sufficiently advanced technology is
indistinguishable from magic, but when it comes to music, the
older gear is more miraculous--and mysterious--to me. MP3
players are just special-purpose hard drives or memory sticks,
Pandora and other online radio services are just twists on the
streaming audio sites that first emerged in the early Web days,
and every online tool for musicians simply takes an old task--
recording, CD manufacturing, distribution--and moves it to the
Web, gaining various efficiencies along the way. Even digital
audio workstations like ProTools and Cubase are somewhat
intuitive to a longtime computer user. It's a miracle: the
Goldring 1022GX. But a turntable involves actual mechanical and
electrical engineering, and, despite being a longtime vinyl
buff, I find the technology remains an absolute mystery |
-0.495147 | 2.926651 | -1 | Aleutian kayak From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
(Redirected from Baidarka) Jump to: navigation, search Aleut
men in Unalaska in 1896, with waterproof kayak gear and garments
Three hatch model Aleut baidarka, by Sergie Sovoroff. Wooden
frame of 1/6th scale model Iqyax. The Baidarka or Aleutian
kayak was the watercraft created by the native Aleut (or
Unangan) people of the Aleutian Islands. The Aleut people were
surrounded by treacherous waters and required water
transportation and a hunting vessel. Due to the geography and
climate of the Aleutian Islands, trees and wood were in scarce
supply and the people relied primarily on driftwood to create
the framework of the kayak, which was covered with the skins of
sea mammals. Two types of boats were created, one with a covered
deck, the hunting kayak and another that was open and capable of
carrying goods and people from one island to another. Baidarka
is the Russian name used for Aleutian style sea kayak. The
ancient Unangan name is Iqyax. The word has |
0.598972 | -2.06082 | 96 | Saturday, July 31, 2010 Last Call Just a reminder what's at
stake in November. It's not just the House. Nate Silver's
latest Senate Rankings: If Nate's right, the Republicans
picking up 9 Senate seats is conceivable and that would leave
Charlie Crist as the the man who decides who's in control of the
Senate. Or hey, Ben Nelson. Or Joe Lieberman. Just saying. A
lot of noise has been made about the GOP retaking the House, but
the Senate is in play at this point. It's not likely, but it's
in play. Upping The Ante By Calling Anti-Semitism David
Cameron and his UK government are learning what American
lawmakers have known for decades: anything less than full-
throated support for Israel's policies will eventually lead to
Israeli charges of anti-Semitism. What, you thought Cameron was
going to be allowed to point out the ridiculousness of the
collective punishment in Gaza? His remarks, made in an
interview on a Jewish website, provoked anger from senior MPs
and Jewish leaders who said the 87-year-old pres |
4.136567 | 2.47779 | 5 | This is Jeff Driggs' first time directing at the OBT. His
history with the company includes acting in a 2008 show and as
assistant director at Phantom of the OBT earlier this year. The
play follows three friends. Well, really two friends and one
patsy. Charlie and Jack ask Lord Fancourt "Babs" Babberly to
play the role of Charlie's aunt, Donna Lucia d'Alvadorez, while
they court the loves of their lives. Things get crazy when
Jack's dad and the father of one of the young maidens try to
court Babs, and then the real Donna Lucia d'Alvadorez shows up!
Actors change nightly, so we can't write about all of them.
We're sure the cast we didn't see are equally talented, and the
show will be good any night. Unlike many OBT plays, the majority
of jokes have nothing to do with Utah culture. So feel free to
bring out-of-state friends. They will get it. It's light on
hilarity to start, but once Babs (Rusty Bringhurst) comes out of
his dressing room as Donna Lucia, the place explodes in laughter
and continues to peri |
1.023797 | 3.683899 | 29 | asked 204 Muslimah02's gravatar image closed Apr 10 '13 at
15:32 sadie ♦ 1.6k313 sadie's gravatar image The question has
been closed for the following reason "The question is answered,
right answer was accepted" by sadie Apr 10 '13 at 15:32 If you
mean burka that covers the face then the problem is solved. She
can remove the face veil and wear the black jilbab. But she
should not put on anything on her face that will attract
attention. is permissible for her to wear any colour of
clothing so long as it covers her ‘awrah, does not resemble
men’s clothing, and is not so tight as to show the shape of her
limbs or so thin as to show what is beneath it, and does not
provoke temptation. but it is better for her to wear a jilbab.
So no matter if you wear a pants it will reveal your shape so it
is deemed haram in addition women are not suppose to imitate men
in dress. However, if you men skirt that is loose and that it
covers the whole lower half. It permissible on the condition
that upper half is covered acc |
-0.406518 | 9.188096 | 16 | Take the 2-minute tour × I am encrypting data (health care
industry) using the aes encryption classes in the .net
framework. What are some of the recommended locations for safely
storing the key? I have it in the web.config for development,
but that does not feel production worthy, to say the least.
share|improve this question add comment 4 Answers You can
encrypt your web.config values using built in methods in the
framework: This is probably a reasonable place to store your
key - if somebody has managed to access your server to retrieve
these details, then you probably have bigger worries.
share|improve this answer True. Is DPAPI more "secure" though?
– Saraz Oct 25 '10 at 14:35 @Saraz - Sorry, don't know the
answer to that... – Paddy Oct 25 '10 at 14:46 @Saraz: More
secure than what? It's more secure in the sense "is infeasible
to recover without administrator-level access on that specific
machine" (as the encryption algo is dependent on data that are
unique to the machine). In other words, if som |
-2.342104 | 4.957653 | -1 | Investing For Cash Flow Home » Business, Real Estate Investing
For Cash Flow What is just as important as location, location,
location when analyzing a piece of real estate? Cash flow, cash
flow, cash flow! The Lucrative Investor defines cash flow as
the net profit left after expenses. This includes all of the
expenses associated with owning real estate such as mortgage
payment, insurance, taxes, property management, maintaince and
in some cases a property owners fee (commonly referred to as an
HOA). Too often, investors purchase an investment property
without throughly conducitng their due diligence. For seasoned
investors, what I’m about to tell you is nothing new, but often
comes a surprise for newer investors. In general, cash cow
properties will not be prettiest property on the block, but
running a successful real estate portfolio comes down to at
least covering the monthly and unforeseen expenses. “Aligator”
properties as we call them, or negative cash flow properties
take from investors bank a |
-1.690729 | 7.12269 | 32 | SEO News Facebook Mobile Social Platform 1. Social Media
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Audiences allows marketers to retarget Facebook users who
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3. Unruly's Second Opinion on Top 10 Social Video Trends for
2014 This will be fed by the launch of Facebook's new video
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It's a game-changing move by the social network, with Morgan
Stanley predicting Facebook video ads could be worth $1billion
market... Keyword data is still available for advertisers
using PPC on Google's platform. First we |
1.335873 | -0.792059 | -1 | Magazine Links What Is Hinduism? Join the Conversation Magazine
Web Edition > February 1990 > Violence is Not Hindu Dharma
Violence is Not Hindu Dharma I was in India during the
election time. People asked me about the Ramjanmabhoomi
controversy in Ayodhya. My feeling is that Hindus should be a
little more tolerant and not demand and use violence in getting
the place back. If it really comes to it, the Hindus could be
more generous. The Muslims seem to be loving Rama so much.
That's why they want to put their mosque right over the
birthplace, because they feel it is a more holy place. So Hindus
could be more generous and say, "Yes, all right. We are friends.
You seem to be interested in that place, because you seem to
love as much as we do. OK, take it. Rama will be happy to
accommodate you. We will request Rama to be present in some
other place. Not even nearby. There is no need." Wherever we
pray, Rama will come. We seem to be sticking with geographical
places, as if in the other places Rama is not avail |
-1.373968 | 4.401539 | -1 | Vial Stoppers That Won't Stop Clumping Sep 21, 2011 By
Pharmaceutical Technology Editors Untitled Document Q: In our
manufacturing process, we are running into issues with our vial
stoppers clumping in the feeder bowl. How can we ensure that the
stoppers go through smoothly without clumping up? A: Clumping
can result from various issues. The design of lyophilization
stoppers can lead to twinning, a condition where the closures’
legs interlock and remain that way during processing.
Autoclaving in an inappropriate container or in a container that
holds closures too tightly may also result in twinning.
Inconsistent siliconization and overprocessing can lead to
clumping. If stoppers are autoclaved or dried too long,
excessive heat may break down the elastomer. The result is a
bowl full of tacky stoppers. When clumping occurs,
manufacturers must first examine the type of stopper they use.
It may be time to move to a newer product, such as ready-to-use
or ready-to-sterilize stoppers. Suppliers of these componen |
3.768871 | 5.405442 | -1 | Guild:Emerald Dreamers (Staghelm US) 99,207pages on
this wiki This article is a guild information page for
Emerald Dreamers of Staghelm US. Emerald Dreamers was
originally intended as a mostly druid Horde guild, to allow
druids to break free of the 'STFUhaelz lol' stigma. With the
release of the expansion, this became much less necessary, and
it was basically opened to friends and friends of friends.
Overview Edit The guild was formed on Staghelm, shortly
before the expansion was released, when the Head Treehugger
became disgusted with the micromanagement of the raid guild it
was his misfortune to get into. Its main intention was to allow
a druid to be a druid, instead of a healer, whether they wanted
to be Moonkin, bear, ZOMGKITTIESMEWMEWMEW or even a healer. This
is not a guild where one can use the phrase "holding the guild
back" and mean it. Be what you are, what makes you happy to
play, and we will work around that. If you're interested in
joining, send a message to any |
-1.295917 | 3.293447 | -1 | Variability of particulate seawater properties related to bottom
mixed layer-associated internal waves in shallow water on a time
scale of hours Turnewitsch, Robert, Gerhard Graf Limnol.
Oceanogr., 48(3), 2003, 1254-1264 | DOI:
10.4319/lo.2003.48.3.1254 ABSTRACT: To obtain information on
relations between internal wave-controlled hydrographic
variability in bottom mixed layers (BMLs) and particle-
associated BML parameters, depth distributions of density,
relative turbidity, relative chlorophyll a (Chl a), relative
phycoerythrin fluorescence (Phyco), total particulate matter
(TPM), particulate carbon (PC), and particulate nitrogen (PN)
were obtained at a shallow-water site in the southwestern Baltic
Sea in July 2001 in the course of a temporally highly resolved
1-d time series. The density distribution showed evidence for a
BML and undulations of BML thickness probably caused by near-
inertial internal waves. Relative pigment fluorescence in the
BML and in the layer above the BML was inversely coupled and re |
1.120352 | 9.813497 | 22 | Subject: Re: Making a common API for cpu frequency drivers To:
Juan RP <> From: Jason Thorpe <> List: tech-kern Date:
09/01/2006 15:56:43 On Sep 1, 2006, at 3:15 PM, Juan RP wrote:
> Do I need to release references with every obj used in the
code? From the proplib(3) manual page: The rules for
managing reference counts are very simple: o If you
create an object and do not explicitly maintain a reference to
it, you must release it. o If you get a reference to an
object from other code and wish to main- tain a
reference to it, you must retain the object. You are
sible for releasing the object once you drop that reference.
o You must never release an object unless you create it or
retain it. So, take the following example: foo(device_t dev)
prop_number_t num; num =
prop_dictionary_get(device_properties(dev), /* ... do
something ... */ You did not need to manipulate the ref count
because you did not maintain a reference outside |
-0.948695 | 3.767141 | -1 | The Hydrologic Cycle The basic hydrologic (or water) cycleThe
hydrologic cycle involves the continuous circulation of water in
the Earth-Atmosphere system. At its core, the water cycle is the
motion of the water from the ground to the atmosphere and back
again. Of the many processes involved in the hydrologic cycle,
the most important are... • evaporation • transpiration •
condensation • precipitation • runoff Evaporation is the
change of state in a substance from a liquid to a gas. In
meteorology, the substance we are concerned about the most is
water. For evaporation to take place, energy is required. The
energy can come from any source: the sun, the atmosphere, the
earth, or objects on the earth such as humans. Everyone has
experienced evaporation personally. When the body heats up due
to the air temperature or through exercise, the body sweats,
secreting water onto the skin. The purpose is to cause the body
to use its heat to evaporate the liquid, thereby removing heat
and cooling the body |
-0.445689 | 0.503303 | 6 | Woman Charged With Murder in Anchorage Shooting by Your Alaska
Link News Team ANCHORAGE, Alaska- Anchorage police say they
have arrested a 27-year-old woman and charged her with a man's
fatal shooting. According to investigators, Bonnie Degenstein
called 911 Friday night to report that she and 24 year old Ryan
Tamborrino had been drinking and playing with a gun inside a
residence on West 54th Avenue when she accidentally shot him.
Police arrived and found Tamborrino dead. They initially
reported that he had been shot multiple times, but later
corrected that to say he was only shot once. Multiple guns were
found at the residence. Degenstein was arraigned Saturday in
Anchorage and charged with second-degree murder. |
-1.412842 | 5.862044 | -1 | There's more to you than meets the eye What we offer FIve
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approach to image expands to communicating beyond the aesthetic
components. Communications on many levels is visual brand
creation, verbal communication and etiquette and behavior that's
appealing and situation appropriate. It's our brand message to
the world. How we show up, who we be, our environment and peers
and our contribution and lega |
-0.242899 | 1.923946 | -1 | Sailing - Corfu Ionian sea is the perfect destination for
sailors as its clear and tranquil waters make one of the safest
sailing areas in the world. Going to Corfu by sailing boat is
ideal not only for the amateur sailors but also for the
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natural beauties, several moorings and an international airport.
The scenery is beautiful with several picturesque villages and
many fortresses dating back to the period of Venetian
occupation. Its gulfs are well protected and surrounded by pine
tree forests and olive groves, busy cosmopolitan cities and vast
sandy beaches where you can swim or eat at the local taverns.
Sailing will give you the opportunity to reach beaches that can
not be accessible by car. |
2.056664 | 0.768483 | -1 | Web Theoi Greek Name Transliteration Latin Spelling Translation
Θεια Theia Theia Sight, Prophecy OURANOS & GAIA (Theogony
132, Homeric Hymn To Helios, Apollodorus 1.8) HELIOS, SELENE,
EOS (by Hyperion) (Theogony 371, Homeric Hymn To Helios,
Apollodorus 1.9, Hyginus Pref) THEIA (Theia). A daughter of
Uranus and Ge, one of the female Titans, became by Hyperion the
mother of Helios, Eos, and Selene, that is, she was regarded as
the deity from which all light proceeded. (Hes. Theog. 135, 371
; Pind. Isthm. v. 1; Apollod. i. 1. § 3, 2. § 2; Catull. 66.
44.) Source: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and
Mythology. Hesiod, Theogony 371 ff : Greek Name
Transliteration Latin Spelling Translation Θεια Theia Theia
Divine Inspiration, Prophecy (theiazô) Θεα Thea Thea Sight,
Seeing (thea, theaomai) Ιχναιη Ikhnaiê Ichnaea Tracing, Tracking
Ευρυφαεσσα Euryphaessa Euryphaessa Wide-Shining (eury-, phaethô)
Αιθρη Aithrê Aethra Clear Blue Sky, Ether (aithrê) 1. The
ancient Greeks believed that the eyes |
1.41433 | 4.831697 | -1 | Thursday, January 19, 2012 Jack White's Apollo Hoax Evidence
They've now deleted the only copy left of Jack White's Apollo
Hoax book on Here is a link to all of Jack White's Apollo Hoax
Evidence and below are a few examples of his work: This is NASA
image AS11-40-5922 of the lunar lander supposedly taken on the
moon. Is that construction paper, tape, and foil!? Can anybody
tell me with a straight face that this is a multi-million dollar
space craft? There is no burn print under the lunar lander's
10,000 pound thrusters, nor a speck of dust/dirt on the landing
pods (as though it was just set down in place), even though NASA
scientists in their own documents were worried about the lander
falling into it's massive burn radius. In these images of Buzz
Aldrin we can see his boots and gloves changing colors and
shapes. If he was really on the moon then this would mean de-
pressurizing his suit time and again for fashion's sake. In the
top image there are footprints all around but the moon rover has
no tracks i |
3.543073 | -4.171775 | -1 | Friday, September 18, 2015 Milan Lucic - 1st day of training
camp Lucic on playing with Kopitar and Gaborik.... Two of the
best players in the league and I get a chance to play with them.
I am excited for the opportunity. They've already had success
playing together and I just want to do what I can to contribute.
On his first training camp with the Kings? I am still getting
used to everything. it's been a good transition so far.
Everybody has been very welcoming. Just taking it day by day.
Kind of feel like a rookie again. I am just going to try and
bring my game. On his style and fit for the Kings...... I think
my game fits really well. Watching this team from the outside I
hope and think its a perfect fit. I hope it works out the way I
think it should. I am just going to bring my big body and
physical play to the team and add to what this team already has.
i feel like i fit right into the system they already have in
place. it's not like they need me to change my style to fit the
way they play |
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1:16:36 PM#61 Originally posted by Elikal I must say, those
teeth-grinding last 10 levels from 70-80 are really, really
tiresome. Fight, fight, fight... for every damn centimeter. Yes,
there are other zones than Orr, but overall, where is the fun
any beauty from the early levels? It's all serious, war-ish and
deadly. Yes, I too feel worn out and tired of the fighting and
the confounded difficulty of the last 10-15 levels. Why are
they always catering some hardcore nuts? :( The last 15 levels
are the fastest, most casual, and ea |
0.021283 | -2.047846 | 102 | Skip to main content Return to Transcripts main page Week's
War Activities Recounted Aired August 12, 2006 - 19:00 ET
CAROL LIN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: "This Week at War" is coming up in
just a moment, but first, a look at what's happening right now
in the news. Israel confirms one of its helicopters was shot
down by Hezbollah fighters in Lebanon. No details on casualties
though yet. Israel also says it lost seven soldiers today in
fighting on the ground. The Lebanese cabinet has thrown its
support behind the U.N. resolution that is meant to bring an end
to the fighting. Israeli officials will talk (ph) about the
measure tomorrow. They've already said they do expect to halt
military operations on Monday. Two more American soldiers
killed today in Iraq. The military says they were on a foot
patrol south of Baghdad when a roadside bomb went off. British
police raid some Internet cafes as part of their probe into the
alleged airline terror plot. They're searching for any e- mails
sent or received by the |
0.694736 | 2.222003 | 75 | Annotation Please »« Credulity, Skepticism and Cynicism How
Unhappy Is Irrational? • …is just too damned much trouble,
really. 1. says Friends are generally
better than therapists, but therapists are usually *most*
effective if you have a good cognitive grasp of the *reason* for
your unhappiness. Whether it's from an obvious physical illness
or not. Therapists are actually pretty poor at helping one
identify the source, but pretty good at helping one figure out
how to make life more plesant in the meantime. So, while if you
don't know one who would benefit you I wouldn't urge therapy, I
also don't see why the 'rationality' of your unhappy state means
that it's useless to consult one. This is the problem with all
you "ohh I'm so RATIONAL!" skeptic folks. Sometimes it takes
irrational to be happy. I reccomend rainbows and puppies. Or
FWDAOTI. 2. says Wow. Just wow. I think that your
"negativity" given your current state of health and activity and
all the rest is a perfect |
-0.407756 | 8.340612 | -1 | login about faq I was looking for a couple of good repped -(By
you guys)- Minecraft servers. Some things that are very helpful
-I only need a 10 person slot -under twenty dollars a month
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-0.531236 | 8.856599 | -1 | Take the 2-minute tour × I do know that ~ are the loopback IP
addresses for most modern operating systems and we could use
these IP addresses to refer to our own computer. But what's It
seems it also refers to the local computer, then what's the
difference? And could you explain the following ip connections
for me: alt text share|improve this question Might find this
question interesting as it is partially related:
stackoverflow.com/questions/113238/… – username Oct 25 '09 at
8:35 @username:Thanks for the clue. – Jichao Oct 25 '09 at 8:40
Also have a look at this question, as it gives details as to
what is (and isn't): serverfault.com/questions/228629/… – Ellie
Kesselman Aug 12 '11 at 4:25 4 Answers 4 up vote 51 down vote
accepted blank3's comment on that is mostly right too. The
only thing is that you're not saying "all addresses should have
access" -- that's done in your firewall(s) and/or the server
software and/or other security layers like tcpwrappers., in this
context, means "all IP addresses |
1.395236 | 5.409475 | 82 | • galaxies: clusters: general; • cosmology: observations; •
X-rays: galaxies: clusters We present the results of a simple
but robust morphological classification of a statistically
complete sample of 108 of the most X-ray-luminous clusters at
0.15 ≤z≤ 0.7 observed with Chandra. Our aims are to (a) identify
the most disturbed massive clusters to be used as gravitational
lenses for studies of the distant Universe and as probes of
particle acceleration mechanisms resulting in non-thermal radio
emission; (b) find cluster mergers featuring subcluster
trajectories that make them suitable for quantitative analyses
of cluster collisions; and (c) constrain the evolution with
redshift of the cluster merger fraction. Finally, (d) this paper
represents the third public release of clusters from the MAssive
Cluster Survey sample, adding 24 clusters to the 46 published
previously. To classify clusters by the degree of relaxation, we
use the projected offset of the brightest cluster galaxy from
the peak (or the global |
0.880758 | 7.982643 | 77 | JakeJanovetz-webField-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA) are the
most flexible and capable devices available to interface to a
large variety of system devices such as memories, data
acquisition (ADC/DAC), image sensors, displays, and so on.
Often, the goal is to interface these system devices to a
software infrastructure running on a workstation platform using
a Windows, Linux or Mac operating system. The ubiquitous PC,
with its myriad of software development environments,
comfortable presence, and low-cost, should be the ultimate
microprocessor development platform but it has generally been
ill-suited to the intimate hardware development scene. This is
largely due to the layers of operating system between the
application software and the device pins a developer wishes to
"wiggle." Development engineers in commercial design and
academic research have found a way to bring these two worlds
together fortuitously with USB-based FPGA modules, designed to
bridge the gap between hardware and software worlds. |
0.068224 | 3.139115 | -1 | Research Committee on Conceptual and Terminological Analysis
RC35 Programme Coordinators Volker H. Schmidt, National
University of Singapore, [email protected] David Strecker,
University of Jena, Germany, [email protected]
Congress Programme Sessions descriptions Session 1:
Contingency and directionality Chair: Volker H. Schmidt,
National University of Singapore, [email protected] This session
will concern itself with a puzzling observation. On the one
hand, every social phenomenon, institution, structure, is
contingent in the sense that nothing forces them upon us, that
there is choice in both individual and collective action, that
alternate paths of development are possible (and often
realized), that nobody can predict the future with absolute
certainty – in short, that it is open rather than being fixed
and determined by the past. On the other hand, when adopting a
long term perspective and a historical viewpoint, we can also
discern powerful trends that seem to reflect a directed rather |
0.10152 | -1.718248 | 17 | 4 reasons the U.S.-Pakistan alliance will survive Islamabad is
furious with Washington after NATO airstrikes kill two dozen
Pakistani soldiers. Still, a diplomatic divorce may not be in
the cards A NATO strike that killed two dozen Pakistani soldiers
last year has fueled calls for the U.S. to end drone attacks in
Pakistan. akistan, outraged over cross-border NATO airstrikes
that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers over the weekend, reportedly
plans to boycott next week's talks in Germany on the future of
Afghanistan. Pakistan has also shut down a crucial route used to
get supplies to U.S. troops in neighboring Afghanistan, and has
given the U.S. 15 days to vacate a shadowy base used in
America's drone war against Taliban insurgents. U.S. officials
have apologized for the incident, calling it "a tragedy," and
NATO has promised an investigation. Despite the increasingly
tense atmosphere, once the dust has settled, both America and
Pakistan are expected to work hard to patch things up. Here,
four reasons the latest U. |
1.993214 | 2.800582 | 37 | Subscribe English look up any word, like alabama hot pocket:
When two individuals engage in joining hands, but as they do so
they spread their fingers and one individual rotates their hand
to a horizontal plane while the other keeps his or her hand
vertical, resulting in a scissoring motion of the fingers. This
act is seldom done in error. Its usage could connotate either a
later scissoring rendezvous or membership in one of the many
global scissoring sororities. Person 1: "Did you see Mary and
Sue do the Persian handshake when Sue came in?" Person 2: "Yeah,
I think they're totally going to scissor later!" by scissordome
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3.541843 | -3.157275 | -1 | Edit Article If you want to play well in dodgeball, just follow
these steps. The most important thing, of course, is to
practice! 1. 1 Stay behind and let your teammates get
the balls, unless you're really fast. If nobody on your team is
fast, then let the other team get the balls and just stay back
and try to dodge and catch. If you and your team do get them,
then roll the extras back to your side so the enemy won't get
them. 2. 2 Once you get a ball, hold on to it until the
other team's best players have thrown theirs, then go up and
throw it at some of the people who are not as good. Get the
average throwers out first so there are less distractions. If
you are a bad thrower, just catch them as they get thrown at
you. 3. 3 While getting ready to throw, stay crouched low
to the ground and start to sort of gallop towards the line that
divides the two sides. This will help you gain power for the
throw. If they throw a ball at you while going towards the
middle line, crouching and running |
3.465735 | 1.217641 | -1 | Posted in: News Miss Utah Fumbles Pageant Question, Gets Mocked
On Twitter Miss Utah Lost The Pageant With A Fumbled Answer
Miss Utah certainly sent Twitter buzzing on Sunday night when
she stumbled over her answer to a question during the Miss USA
pageant on NBC. The unfortunate flub by Miss Utah, Marissa
Powell, came during the question and answer session of the
program. While dressed in a beautiful evening gown, the beauty
pageant contestant was asked: Her response, according to many
Twitter users, made her the perfect poster child for her
response. Miss Utah gave a fairly jumbled answer, which
contained the following phrase: The look on Marissa Powell’s
face said it all. Miss Utah was sure she blew it. And she did,
as the crown eventually went to Miss Connecticut, Erin Brady,
instead. On Twitter, Miss USA was ridiculed by users, who said
things like, “If you’re having trouble sleeping like me… watch
Miss UTAH say the dumbest thing ever to at least make you
laugh!” Another user commented: “Miss U |
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4.003186 | 2.402816 | 5 | Sherwood Schwartz embraces actresses Florence Henderson of 'The
Brady Bunch,' left, and Dawn Wells of 'Gilligan's Island' during
a ceremony where he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of
Fame in 2008. Associated Press Sherwood Schwartz created
"Gilligan's Island" and "The Brady Bunch," wacky television
shows that drew generations of loyal viewers—and heaps of
critical derision. Mr. Schwartz, who died Tuesday at age 94,
wrote and produced both shows, which have gone on to be
broadcast world-wide. Surprisingly for shows that have
performed so well in syndication, neither "The Brady Bunch" nor
"Gilligan's Island" was a blockbuster on first run. But
audiences grew as repeats multiplied, and the shows'
introductory theme songs have become cultural tropes. Each laid
out the set-ups and characters—because, Mr. Schwartz told the
writer Merrill Markoe, "Puzzled people cannot laugh." Mr.
Schwartz co-wrote the sea shanty, "The Ballad of Gilligan's
Island." "Both shows are pervasive," Mr. Schwartz told the Los
An |
-4.177004 | 3.877736 | 94 | • Register Forgot Password Leaving Community Cep97 and
CP110 suppress a cilia assembly program. Mammalian centrioles
play a dynamic role in centrosome function, but they also have
the capacity to nucleate the assembly of cilia. Although
controls must exist to specify these different fates, the key
regulators remain largely undefined. We have purified complexes
associated with CP110, a protein that plays an essential role in
centrosome duplication and cytokinesis, and have identified a
previously uncharacterized protein, Cep97, that recruits CP110
to centrosomes. Depletion of Cep97 or expression of dominant-
negative mutants results in CP110 disappearance from
centrosomes, spindle defects, and polyploidy. Remarkably, loss
of Cep97 or CP110 promotes primary cilia formation in growing
cells, and enforced expression of CP110 in quiescent cells
suppresses their ability to assemble cilia, suggesting that
Cep97 and CP110 collaborate to inhibit a ciliogenesis program.
Identification of Cep97 and other genes inv |
-0.575722 | 5.00345 | 4 | The first part of this Series laid out the importance of
carefully planning your engine build. In this month's segment,
we will further discuss the planning process and begin
addressing bottom-end component selection. The information
should help you understand more about current techniques in
circle track engines or, if you purchase your engines, is
intended to make you a more educated buyer. When planning a
build, the first place to start is a careful review of the rules
you'll face. You need to understand what is permitted in the
class you'll be competing in. It is also important to evaluate
what the engine will be required to do. Answers to the following
questions will help guide you:1. On average, what is the minimum
engine speed where wide open throttle (WOT) occurs? 2. What is
the minimum WOT engine speed under worst possible cases
(slippery track, ill-handling car, hot humid air with low
barometric pressure)? 3. On average, what is the maximum engine
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-1.560175 | 3.280549 | -1 | Catalog Search: PCB6335C: Estuarine Ecology 4 Prerequisite:
Graduate status, PCB 3043C or equivalent Estuarine ecology
involves an examination of the unique physical, chemical, &
biological interactions within estuaries, emphasizing energy
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consists of two parts, a brief general introduction and overview
followed by forays into specific areas of Estuarine Ecology. The
introduction portion of the course is designed to bring graduate
students with diverse backgrounds to the same point by the end
of the semester with respect to basic Geological, Biological,
Chemical, and Ecological principles relating to estuaries. The
remainder of the course will examine specialized topics which
are of current interest or which have played important roles in
the development of the field. Students will be introduced to
these advanced topics through guest lectures, scientific papers
and field work. (A laboratory fee of $51.93 will be assessed.) |
0.6936 | 1.977261 | 75 | Wednesday, August 7, 2013 I had an encounter recently with my
housemate, that sheds a little light on the way I am perceived
by people, especially by those who have no idea about my CFS,
and the strange in-between world that my condition forces me to
live in. I have already written a little about this before here.
A brief word here about my living arrangements. I live in a
shared semi-detached house in an estate on the edge of a medium
sized town. There are three bedrooms in the house, though only
two are now occupied, so I basically share with a woman in her
forties from an African country who has been in Ireland about
four years. Let's call her K. K was here when I moved in, about
eighteen months ago. K and I had an argument about the
electricity bill last week, a common enough occurrence I imagine
for people who share a living space and who have communal bills.
She has a thing about the immersion water heater, and doesn't
like anyone to have it on for longer than fifteen minutes. From
my perspective sh |
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Friday - 3/1/2013, 3:43pm ET FILE - In this Feb. 24, 2013 file
picture German politician Peer Steinbrueck speaks to the media
in Berlin, Germany. The German opposition leader's comment that
"two clowns" won Italy's election has led the Italian
president to cancel a meeting with him. Peer Steinbrueck is
Chancellor Angela Merkel's challenger for the top job in
Germany's September election. In discussing the Italian vote, he
said Tuesday Feb. 26, 2013 that he was "appalled to a
certain point that two clowns won." That was an apparent
reference to comic-turned-politician Beppe Grillo, whose anti-
establishment 5 Star Movement performed strongly, and scandal-
scarred former Premier Silvio Berlusconi, whose center-right
coalition did better than expected. Italian President Giorgio
Napolitano is visiting Germany and was due to meet with
Steinbrueck, but Steinbrueck spokesman Michael Donnermeyer said
Napolitano called off the meeting bec |
5.428544 | 0.899394 | 13 | No encontramos iTunes en este ordenador. Para usar vista
previa y comprar música de Cripple Crow de Devendra Banhart,
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álbum Cripple Crow marks a departure for Devendra Banhart. It's
obvious from the faux Sgt. Pepper-meets-Incredible String Band
freak scene cover photo that something is afoot. The disc is
Banhart's first foray from Michael Gira's Young God label, and
it's more adventurous than anything he's done before. This is
not to imply that the set is a slick, over-produced affair, but
it is a significant change. The instrumental, stylistic, and
textural range on this 23-song set is considerably wider than
it's been in the past. Working with Noah Georgeson and Thom
Monahan, a backing band of friends known as "the Hairy Fairies",
Banhart's crafted something expansive, colorful, and perhaps
even accessible to a wider ar |
3.819831 | 0.604441 | 31 | Cliff RichardSay You Don't Mind I feel I'm taking up all of
your time And i still can't work it out, wheter or not you mind
Say you still need my love and I will be strong Just say that
you're O.K. and I'll carry on Say you don't mind Well I need to
show my love of that I am sure Just let me feel you close,
closer than before I'm feeling better now, now that you're near
Just let me say the things, the things you want to hear Say you
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that I know you I need to love - can't give enough And all
because you do - everything right to me can't you see Say you
don't mind © 2014 |
0.442506 | 5.505754 | -1 | A new microscope called the Multi-View SPIM, or MuVi-SPIM for
short, is allowing scientists to take unprecedented images of
rapid biological processes, at a level of detail we've never
seen before. And to show off the power of this new microscope,
the developers have released an incredible time-lapse video of a
fruit fly embryo undergoing development. To capture this video,
the new microscope shines a thin sheet of light on the embryo,
illuminating one layer of the sample at a time, to obtain an
image of the whole sample with minimal light-induced damage.
MuVi-SPIM builds upon the Selective-Plane Illumination
Microscopy (SPIM) technology developed at EMBL a few years ago.
But unlike SPIM, the new microscope takes four full images from
different angles, eliminating the need to rotate the sample.
This results in faster imaging and the ability to merge the four
images into a single high-quality three-dimensional image -
something that's never been done before. Astonishing Time-Lapse
Video of a Fruit Fly Embryo |
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Definition of they in English Syllabification: (they)
Pronunciation: /T͟Hā/ Translate they | into French | into German
| into Italian | into Spanish [third person plural] • 1used
to refer to two or more people or things previously mentioned or
easily identified:the two men could get life sentences if they
are convicted • people in general:the rest, as they say, is
history • informal a group of people in authority regarded
collectively:they cut my water off • 2 [singular] used to
refer to a person of unspecified sex:ask someone if they could
help Middle English: from Old Norse their, nominative plural
masculine of ; related to them and their, also to that and the
1 The word they (with its counterparts them, their, and
themselves) as a singular pronoun to refer to a person of
unspecified sex has been used since at least the 16th century.
In the late 20th century, as the traditional use of he to refer
to a person of either sex came unde |
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Partnerships Your epoints How To Calm A Cat In Heat How To
Calm A Cat In Heat This video shows a vet from Cats Protection
providing information about how to tell if your intact female
cat is in heat and what you can do about it. The vet goes into
great detail describing the signs and behaviors of the cat in
heat, including calling, affection, and a lordosis pose, as well
as how your cat can attract male toms from far away. Hi, my
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about a female cat or a queen who's in heat or ready for mating.
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one that's not been spayed, she will come into heat periodically
throughout the year, eve |
0.74994 | 8.494859 | -1 | Export Contents Suppose, you are editing a PSD file created in
Photoshop and need to edit a smart object it contains. Since the
"Edit Smart Object" command can't do this, you will need a
workaround. 1. Select the smart object in the Layers panel.
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thumbnail. 3. In the "Save" dialog that opens, choose a
destination folder, file name (let it be "sample.psd") and click
"Save". So, you have saved the smart object's contents as a
separate PSD file. 4. Now open the exported file "sample.psd"
(File > Open), edit it as needed and save the file (File >
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selected in the Layers palette and apply the "Replace Contents"
effect. 7. In the "Place" dialog that appears, browse to the
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-5.342699 | 1.413754 | 33 | Artichoke-Rosemary Tart with Polenta Crust This super-easy
polenta crust doesn't require a rolling pin or a baker's touch.
Serve this savory tart at a barbecue or other summer gathering.
April 2011 Web "Ancient Grains for Modern Meals" features
Mediterranean-inspired recipes starring Old World grains such as
farro, barley and polenta. Photo Courtesy Ten Speed Press The
following is an excerpt from Ancient Grains for Modern Meals by
Maria Speck (Ten Speed Press, 2011). The excerpt is from Chapter
6: Modern Mains. Artichoke-Rosemary Tart with Polenta Crust
Serves 4 as a main course, or 8 as a starter Polenta Crust:
1 1/2 cups low-sodium vegetable broth 1 1/4 cups water 1/2
teaspoon fine sea salt 1 1/4 cups polenta or corn grits 1/2 cup
shredded Parmesan cheese (about 21/2 ounces; use the large holes
of a box grater) 1 large egg, at room temperature 1/4 teaspoon
freshly ground black pepper Artichoke Cheese Filling: 1 cup
plain whole-milk Greek yogurt 2 large eggs 1/2 cup finely
chopped green onions ( |
-0.979817 | 6.998065 | 8 | Net Neutrality vs. Net Neutering The fight for Net Neutrality
is for the place we call the Net. The fight against Net
Neutrality is for a neutered Net biased toward carrying the next
form of Cable TV. But what about the fact that most of us never
have experienced Neutrality in the first place? An earlier
version of this article was presented in Doc's March 2, 2006,
SuitWatch newsletter. Click to subscriber to SuitWatch. It's
time to define the Internet. We haven't done that yet--certainly
not in a way that allows lawmakers and regulators to operate
from the same set of assumptions that we do--"we" being the Net-
savvy techies of the world. As I pointed out last November in
"Saving the Net: How to Keep the Carriers from Flushing the Net
Down the Tubes" , carriers subordinate the Net to the pipes that
carry it, which they own. To them the Net is a container cargo
system for the stuff we call "content", and it's subject to
whatever traffic control regime they wish to impose on it. That
includes tiered service |
-0.617541 | -1.16372 | -1 | Friday, December 17, 2004 Beacon No. 16: Hold the Smallpox,
I'll Take the Flu Hard power is the application of military
force. No other nation dares resist the U.S. in a stand-up
fight, everyone says, for fear of bringing destruction down on
their own heads. For terrorists, large-scale sabotage will
backfire, too: It was simple for U.S. investigators to trace the
September 11 hijackers back to Al-Qa'ida, Usama bin Ladin and
Afghanistan, and quickly destroy the Taliban regime. So this
leaves terrorists, so far denied weapons of mass destruction, to
issue tape recordings from caves and perpetrate one-off
bombings. Doesn't it? About 25 years ago, science-fiction
author Frederik Pohl wrote about intermediate steps between
combat and influence in The Cool War. In it, a Unitarian
minister named Hornswell "Horny" Hake is shanghaied into helping
a CIA successor called The Team to conduct something with
elements of sabotage and propaganda, but smaller than war. Here,
a Team member tells Hake how the world really w |
-4.902247 | 1.409067 | -1 | Kamado Joe "MoJoe" Newscast March 2012 Kamado Joe Company
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done, rare or anywhere in between, a few simple steps will get
you to steak perfection. Choosing a Grill Temperature Ask 10
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is that you can grill a steak as low as 300°F or as high as
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meat at higher temperatures. I prefer 500°F for grilling steaks,
because it gives me a bit of blackening like a fine steak
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-0.981464 | 0.210064 | -1 | Ex-Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. Sentenced to 2.5 Years in
Prison His wife, Sandra, was sentenced to one year in prison
for filing false tax returns. Posted: 08/14/2013 01:00 PM EDT
Former congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. was sentenced to 30 months
in prison, followed by 36 months of supervised release, after
pleading guilty to the misuse of $750,000 in campaign funds. His
wife Sandi, a former Chicago alderman, received a one-year
sentence and a period of supervised release for an additional
year. "The fall from grace is complete for my client," attorney
Reid Weingarten told reporters after a nearly five-hour
sentencing hearing. "Jesse Jackson went from an enormously
respected, charismatic long-term member of Congress to a
convicted felon who's about to be incarcerated. So it's a day of
deep sadness." Weingarten pronounced the sentence rendered as
fair and applauded Judge Amy Berman Jackson for being
extraordinarily thoughtful during every aspect of the procedure.
As a result of her thoughtfulness, he said, |
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0.986741 | -0.779015 | -1 | Man kills 85-year-old observing Ramadan night prayer Residents
of Abiola Central Community, Moniya, Akinyele Local Government
area of Oyo State were thrown into mourning as a young man,
Mutiu Tiamiyu, beat to death an 85-year-old man, Nasir Adigun,
on Ramadan eve. The octogenarian, who was physically impaired,
was said to be observing Tarawhi (Ramadan night prayer) on
Tuesday when Tiamiyu pounced on him. It was learnt that the old
man was persuaded by his family members to observe the prayer at
home, while other members of the household went to the mosque.
The attention of residents and worshippers in a nearby mosque
were drawn to the old man’s plight by an unnamed teenager, who
raised the alarm. When the residents arrived at Adigun’s house,
the old man was found in a pool of blood. He was rushed to a
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Hospital, Ibadan. He died before getting to the hospital. An
eyewitness, who preferred anonymity, said, “Tiamiyu had eaten
the old man’s |
4.232289 | 3.37168 | 5 | Teen sci-fi franchise 'Divergent' debuts with $56M JAKE COYLE
AP Film Writer Published: NEW YORK (AP) -- To go with
"Twilight" and "The Hunger Games," Lionsgate now has a trio of
young-adult franchises with the box-office leading "Divergent."
The teen science-fiction thriller starring Shailene Woodley
debuted with $56 million over the weekend, according to studio
estimates Sunday. The opening, while less than some anticipated,
launches Lionsgate's third franchise built on young-adult best-
sellers. With an audience 59 percent female and half under the
age of 25, "Divergent" lured young moviegoers with dystopian
drama and an upcoming star. "Divergent," though, fell well short
of its forerunners: "Twilight" opened with $69.6 million in
2008, and "The Hunger Games" began with $152.5 million in 2012.
Richie Fay, president of domestic distribution for Lionsgate,
called it "a great beginning for another franchise for the
company." A sequel is already in the works. "The key to the
success of these franchises is |
0.036387 | 4.186107 | -1 | closet in a spare bedroom… yes please! even though this idea
is not a reality for most, the pictures are brimming with ideas
that can translate into any space. for instance… 1. a set of
hooks to hang jewelry 2. repurposing a credenza in the bedroom
to hold accessories 3. rolling racks that don’t look like
rolling racks will help this usual eyesore blend with your
room’s decor 4. large, full-length mirrors help open up a
small space while pulling double duty (you can really see what
you look like before leaving the house) 5. utilizing bins and
baskets to store everything from shoes to clutches on a shelf,
cubbie or flat surface images; ballard designs neato: extra
long hooks not sure how i’d survive in a world without
hooks—thank god you and i don’t have to. ballard designs has
pumped it up a notch and given us what they call, ralston hooks
(aka extra deep, really long hooks). i’d use these for heavy
book bags and purses in the hallway and to be honest, just about
anywhere you need to hang you |
0.623836 | 4.58735 | -1 | Are there other people that wish there were sunglasses
#11WasabeePosted 9/21/2013 7:26:12 PM ThePrisoner06 posted...
Wasabee I do wear sunglasses when outside due to a medical
condition affecting my eyes, but indoors is not cool. I just
get used to it. Well... then close your eyes for 2 or 3 seconds
while the light lasts, or look away from the tv... I personally
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#121PefrogPosted 9/21/2013 7:38:24 PM Try turning your back to
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control sensitivities set high, may just try the quick 180 turn
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-0.785408 | 7.152718 | 8 | Nokia: exclusivity for charity July 27, 2008 at 5:23 by
Martina Comments Anyway, I’d like to go back to the main
point of my post: the combination of charity and exclusivity.
It’s a great idea, especially with technology products and
technology freaks that would go crazy to get a phone or any
other device way before it hits the market. If you think about
it, pre-selling a product and giving the takings to charity can
do a very good job for a brand and its social responsibility,
especially if done consistently and transparency. Of course this
can’t work for all goods, but with technology and luxury brands
I think it can result as a positive tool to promote a product
while doing something good for the others. One Response to
Nokia: exclusivity for charity 1. Buzzing Bees says: Why
do they force you to watch all the video clips before you can
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2.558085 | 1.40881 | 19 | Monday, December 9, 2013 Smart housewife! Another few days
go by, and it's raining pretty hard. The wife finds a leak in
the roof. She says, "Honey, there's a leak on the roof! Can you
please fix it?" He says, "What do I look like, Bob Vila?"
Friday, December 6, 2013 Here are some signs and notices
written in English that were discovered throughout the
world. You have to give the writers an 'E' for Effort.
We hope you enjoy them. In a Tokyo Hotel: person to
do such thing is please not to read notis. In a Bucharest hotel
lobby: regret that you will be unbearable. In a
Leipzig elevator: In a Belgrade hotel elevator:
should enter more persons, each one should press a number of
wishing floor. Driving is then going alphabetically by
national order. In a Paris hotel elevator: Please
leave your values at the front desk. In a hotel in Athens:
Visitors are expected to complain at the office between the
hou |
-0.954699 | 2.135526 | -1 | Daycare Grants & ChildCare Grants Are you a small day care
owner dreaming of one day expanding your operations? Or a day
care provider wanting to set up your own child care center at
home? Are you a young parent wanting to return to college but
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utmost care and nurturing while you are away? These and more
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day care or child care grant. With a renewed focus on improving
services and benefits for its citizens, the federal government,
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teamed up to offer different types of grants. While the grants
do not exactly amount to a fortune, these are still substantial
amounts meant to bridge or meet the needs of different people.
Daycaregrants.Org has compiled and listed the different
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-2.890254 | 5.382164 | 30 | Seeking Alpha Seeking Alpha Portfolio App for iPad Seth
Klarman, the author of the legendary investment work "Margin of
Safety" that only ran one print edition (and thus the book sells
for over $1,000 on websites like Ebay and Amazon), often
encouraged investors to think like investors instead of
speculators. While Warren Buffett has his analogy that
encourages investors to pretend that the stock market has closed
for five to ten years, Klarman encourages investors to only buy
assets that would generate good returns by measuring the
business performance in relation to the price paid (instead of
worrying about market fluctuations in either direction). In
particular, Klarman pointed out how ridiculous the market for
thirty-year Treasuries has become because no one actually goes
through with holding them for thirty years: For still another
example of speculation on Wall Street, consider the U.S.
government bond market in which traders buy and sell billions of
dollars' worth of thirty-year U.S. Treasury bonds |
3.837032 | -2.906926 | 110 | Girls Soccer Is Now The Ultimate Combat SportS You thought New
Mexico's Elizabeth Lambert was tough? Wait until you see the
next generation of female soccer hooligans who will take over
America with their very unladylike football skills. The Rhode
Island state soccer championships were apparently played in the
Thunderdome yesterday, as the final between Tolman and
Woonsocket ended a bit earlier than scheduled after a bench-
clearing, hair-pulling brawl broke out on the field. Woonsocket
was leading five to zip when Kristen Cahill got into a little
dustup with Tolman's Maria Lopera and things just went down hill
from there. Even better, there was another brawl during the
post-game medal ceremony, this time involving the fans of the
two schools up in the bleachers. Now that's fucking soccer!
Click to view I think someone needs to put a stop to these
hyperviolent soccer girls before they make all the soccer-
playing boys in this country look like a bunch of weak bitches.
Fights break out at HS soccer game [WP |
3.81923 | 1.933116 | 5 | Again With the Sarah Silverman-Jimmy Kimmel BreakupS So the
Sarah Silverman-Matt Damon "f*ckng" was for laughs, but the July
breakup was real; Silverman's awkwardness on Jimmy Kimmel Live
in October was staged but the couple's reconciliation was real.
This latest breakup? Actual, or setup for a joke? It's
confirmed, anonymously but by Us Weekly and then People, so
probably as real as it gets between two Hollywood celebrities
and their dualing phalanxes of "people." In other words, they
waited until after the Oscars. Wouldn't want any "plus one"
guest-list awkwardness at the afterparties! (Judging from the
Vanity Fair Oscar-party pic above, they both knew the fix was
in.) |
-0.26797 | 7.115904 | 8 | It's not always a question of why -- sometimes why not will
suffice. The rolling bot above relies upon the Mindstorms NXT
light sensor's ability to read the contrasting colors on the
iPhone display. After some simple programming and DIY tomfoolery
you can drive the robot from the comforts of your WiFi-enabled
web browser. Overkill? Oh hells yeah, but at least now your
iPhone will serve a purpose after Monday. See how the kids at
Battlebricks did it in the video after the break. Softbank to
sell (UMTS 3G?) iPhone in Japan |
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Article Email Article Left-wing Monster: Robert Mugabe By:
Michael Radu FrontPageMagazine.com | Tuesday, March 14, 2006 In
comparison to Zimbabwe, neighboring Mozambique and Zambia, once
the far poorer countries, now look wealthy. South Africa and
Botswana, moderately successful by African standards, look like
first-world countries. Zimbabwe is becoming the most benighted
sub-Saharan nation, the heart of Africa's darkness and the soul
of its shame. The death of this once-rich and thriving country
has been the lifetime project of its Dictator for Life, Robert
Mugabe. The Making of a Tyrant Dictator for
Life Around 1990, Mugabe took his secretary Grace Marufu,
40 years his junior, as a second wife (his first wife would die
two years later). The marriage was a strange one, entered into
under a traditional African law which allows a junior wife.
Grace is infamous for her influence on her husband and for her
family's voracious |
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building up pressure, until audible release is inevitable. Note
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its just not like that. And im talking mostly of the
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Fighter or any other competitive puzzler: - often one dies
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3.925752 | -4.112432 | -1 | MLS responds to Players Union criticisms over labor talks Just
a day after members of the Major League Soccer Players Union
publicly criticized MLS officials over their handling of labor
negotiations, MLS is defending itself against claims that it is
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seriously. MLS president Mark Abbott responded on Saturday to
criticism from players that MLS hasn't done enough to help make
a labor deal happen, telling SBI that the league has done quite
a bit to try and get a deal to happen. "They're mis-
characterizing the scope, extent and seriousness of the
proposals that the league has made," Abbott said. "We can't
compel them to accept those proposals, we can't compel them to
appreciate those proposals but I can tell you that they are
significant. To say that the league is not serious is a complete
mis-characterization of what has happened over the past few
weeks, or months for that matter." "There was some sense that
the league hadn't been taking the negoti |
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3.929651 | -3.390505 | -1 | When Team Canada entered their dressing room ahead of today's
eventual 1-0 win, they found this note—left there by a group of
players who already knew what it's like to beat the U.S. by a
goal. The Inspirational Note Canada's Women's Team Left The Men
Hayley Wickenheiser, Brianne Jenner, and Shannon Szabados were
the authors, but the sentiment was likely universal. It also
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Darcy Lambton reports. DARCY LAMBTON: The Australian dollar is
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0.161016 | 10.117244 | 16 | Take the 2-minute tour × I have an entity and I've realised
that there is a group of properties that work together. So, I
moved them to a value object (together with their behavior) and
now I have a reference from my entity to this value object.
I've read "Domain Driven Design Quickly" (PDF) and I came across
the following statement when explaining Value objects: If
Customer is an entity object, then one instance of this object,
representing a specific bank client, cannot be reused for
account operations corresponding to other clients. The outcome
is that such an instance has to be created for every client.
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0.601903 | 2.213417 | 75 | From Mean Girls to Geeks: A Teen's Hilarious Guide to Surviving
Middle School My daughter started her second year of Middle
School last week. After a year of being a 6th grader at the
bottom of the school's totem pole, she was excited to return to
a place that she'd formerly found intimidating. It was no longer
a new and scary world. She was returning to school as a
seasoned, worldly (dare I say a little jaded) 7th grader. And
because my daughter apparently knows everything about
everything, I sat down with her to ask about what tips she might
have for kids (and parents) who are just starting Middle School
this year, and feeling a little nervous. She had a lot to say.
Parents, feel free to pick and choose from these nuggets of
wisdom… and edit accordingly. Daughter: Middle School is
really hard if you go it alone. You need friends who will watch
your back when the mean kids start coming around. Me: Are there
always mean kids? At every school? Daughter: Yes. I mean, not
to freak anyone out, but mean ki |
0.777717 | 7.922305 | 77 | Foxconn 925A01-8EKRS2 0 thumbs up The Foxconn 925A01-8EKRS2 is
equipped with an Award / Phoenix v6.0 BIOS derivative, like most
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It's Fairly Complete Most of the BIOS menus contain options
that are commonly found on a multitude of other products. The
Standard, Advanced, and Chipset Features menus are home to
common features for tweaking memory timings, assigning the boot
order, and setting the time and date, etc. On the "BIOS
Features" menu though, we found some Foxconn specific options
that aren't very common. These "BIOS Features" are dubbed
SuperBoot, SuperBIOS-Protect, SuperRecovery, and SuperSpeed.
SuperBoot basically trims down the POST routine on warm-reboots
to shave a few seconds off of the boot process and SuperBIOS-
Protect prevents unwanted programs, like a virus for example,
from overwriting the BIOS and damagin |
0.61542 | 2.179033 | 75 | Monday, April 28, 2008 General Update Stud has the younger
three kids up at the local school grounds to play catch,
football, etc. I got Princess her own pink bat, ball and glove a
few weeks ago and she has been begging Stud to take her to play
catch so he finally got a chance tonight. Cryptic is working on
catching up on over-due assignments with his on-line school (I
won't even GO THERE right now! ARG!) and I just got done doing
some lovely yoga and ball exercises from one of my many exercise
DVDs that I have not done in MONTHS. Stud and I are not doing
good about going to the gym anymore and I am eating horribly
AGAIN, so I am still attempting to get myself feeling better. I
feel MUCH better after doing this and walking for about 30
minutes with Cryptic at 6:30 this morning. We plan to do that
every morning before everyone else is up and before things get
too bright. Neither of us like sunshine and bright light, so we
go early! LOL Stud was 40 yesterday! I feel kind of weird that
it was almost like any |
0.536125 | -1.364221 | 7 | Agenda and views of this site This statement may be updated
from time to time as circumstances change. But the principles
will not. There are a few things that need to be made clear
from the outset. Things which I and others here have stated
repeatedly but can get lost as articles vanish down the blog and
into the past. However some of these ideas are the template
around which other posts are made and therefore it is important
that this site and its articles are viewed with these principles
in mind. If nothing else, it can solidify either your support
for, or your contempt of this blog and its authors but at least
it will be for what we actually stand for and believe as opposed
to what others may imagine and impugn it to be. The first thing
I feel needs clarification is our attitude towards Islam. I need
to be as clear about this as humanly possible. Islam is a
religious political and cultural system. Its no more deserving
of protection than that of Nazism or Communism with which, by
the way, it shares a |
0.570952 | -1.761762 | -1 | Thursday, March 05, 2009 Another brief demolition of Roger
Cohen If the examples I have given weren't enough, here's a
letter to the New York Times concerning Cohen's belief that
Iranian Jews are patriotic and free: To the Editor: David
Simantob Los Angeles, March 2, 2009 In Iran, as in all Muslim
states, the tolerance of other religions only extends to the
point at which they are perceived to be slightly threatening.
There are a few Jews left over in Egypt and Syria and Yemen, and
as in Iran their governments like to point to them as proof of
their tolerance. But they will only tolerate those who toe the
line, who publicly agree with their totalitarian masters and who
submit to second-class citizen status. Proof that this is anti-
semitism and not only anti-Zionism could be seen from a simple
thought experiment: Imagine how these tolerant governments
would react if a Jewish community wanted to build a single
synagogue that is taller than the surrounding mosques. |
0.288253 | -2.230913 | -1 | May 11th, 2009 03:00 PM ET 5 years ago Cafferty: How can Pres.
Obama succeed at Mideast peace where others have failed? Join
the conversation on Jack's blog. Join the conversation on Jack's
blog. To read more and contribute to the Cafferty File
discussion click here Filed under: Cafferty File soundoff (45
Responses) 1. Mississippi Mike No, he's basically a more
arrogant Jimmy Carter. Obama is failing in everything he's tried
to do so far, Middle East policy is way "above his paygrade." He
thinks that making flowery speeches and giving in to their every
whim will make the muslim world respect him but instead they are
going to use him up and hang him out to dry. 2. Tony
President Obama can dream all he wants and the Arab world and
dream along with him! The elephant in the room that no one wants
to acknowledge is the misguided support the United States has
provided to successive Israeli govertments, without ever the
warning that things will change. It has always been the 'other'
side that |
-0.072643 | 2.927114 | -1 | Convergent validity From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia -
View original article Jump to: navigation, search Convergent
validity, a parameter often used in sociology, psychology, and
other behavioral sciences, refers to the degree to which two
measures of constructs that theoretically should be related, are
in fact related.[1] Convergent validity, along with discriminant
validity, is a subtype of construct validity. Convergent
validity can be established if two similar constructs correspond
with one another, while discriminant validity applies to two
dissimilar constructs that are easily differentiated. Campbell
and Fiske (1959) developed the Multitrait-Multimethod Matrix to
assess the construct validity of a set of measures in a
study.[2] The approach stresses the importance of using both
discriminant and convergent validation techniques when assessing
new tests. In other words, in order to establish construct
validity, you have to demonstrate both convergence and
discrimination.[3] Convergent validit |
-2.063721 | 3.018582 | -1 | Take the tour × I've come across two kanji, which are both read
やなぎ and both mean "willow". From what I've found out so far,
has an On'yomi of リュウ and it seems to mean more "things with the
qualities of a willow"; while has an On'yomi of ヨウ and means
the type of tree. That being said it also seems to be a name
element. Can anyone confirm this or shed some more light on the
subject? share|improve this question add comment 2 Answers
up vote 5 down vote accepted やなぎ リュウ: • Used for willows
which have their branches hanging down including しだれやなぎ. Can
refer more broadly to the tall deciduous trees in the willow
family and as a general term for shrubs as well according to
Kanjigen. • Has a frequency of 1169/2501 and is classified as
a general usage Kanji according to Kanjidic. かわ やなぎ ヨウ: •
Used for willows which have their branches going upwards
including かわやなぎ and ねこやなぎ according to Kanjigen. • Has a
frequency of 1815/2501 so is less common and is classified as a
人名用{じんめいよう} Kanji for use in pe |
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-1.225696 | -0.097415 | 48 | NORM PATTIS: Perhaps it's time to repeal the Second Amendment
I'll be starting trial this week in Norwich. My client is
accused of murder. The victim was shot to death, point blank,
with a hand gun. The gun has never been found. As near as I can
tell from reading the police reports, a bunch of people were
hanging out in a low-income neighborhood in New London, rolling
dice, getting stoned, and passing a communal bottle of alcohol.
A hooded man walked up, pointed a handgun at the back of man's
head, and pulled the trigger. The shooting seems almost random,
a casual even. I've seen far too many of these sorts of cases
in recent years. They are far too common. Young men get in a
beef about something, a girl, a slight, drugs, and then, someone
returns with a gun. Shots are fired, and quick death is
delivered courtesy of the Second Amendment to the United States
Constitution. Dis' me and die, sucker - that's the new motto for
patiots. This right to bear arms, to transform our streets into
killing fields, is ove |
1.673259 | 0.924525 | -1 | Between Worlds: Jilbab and Transgender in Indonesia It is a
scene that wouldn’t be unfamiliar in France or Belgium: a
woman’s hijab is snatched away by strangers on the street from
her head despite her protest. She is told she shouldn’t wear it,
or rather, she has no right to because her wearing it mocks
other women and femininity itself. But it is not an episode of
Islamophobic rage that is recounted by Shuniyya Rumaha
Haiibalah, but an incident in her native Indonesia that would
later become the title of her best-selling memoir, Jangan lepas
jilbabku! (Please do not remove my jilbab!) Haiibalah is Muslim
and transgender. The hostile reactions from other women and men
towards her decision to wear the jilbab (hijab) in public was
based on the belief of the irreconcilability of being waria*
(transgender) and expressing religiosity in the gender of
choice. While other waria do not mix gender identity with
religious identity (as the video above shows, some transwomen
dress as men in places of worship), women |
-3.729154 | 3.41036 | 109 | Font Size Alzheimer's Disease (cont.) Health Tools
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4.515728 | -3.0706 | 1 | Rooney: Relaxed England not lost in translation England's
unbeaten Euro 2012 squad feel more relaxed and confident under
new manager Roy Hodgson because he is English and nothing gets
"lost in translation", striker Wayne Rooney said on Sunday. In
his first appearance at a news conference at the England squad's
media centre in Krakow, the talismanic forward confirmed he was
fully fit, relieved to be available after serving a two-match
ban and unfazed by facing a hostile Ukrainian crowd in Donetsk
on Tuesday. "We've been to a lot of stadiums around the world
and we've had to deal with a big atmosphere on a lot of
occasions," Rooney said. "I think we are big enough and
experienced enough to deal with that." England need a draw in
their final Group D game against the co-hosts to be certain of
reaching the quarter-finals. "Are we feeling more relaxed than
at the World Cup?" said Rooney. "Yes, I would say so... we are
more relaxed. It helps all the coaching staff being English and
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-2.043496 | -0.707951 | 10 | If You Can't Beat 'Em, Manufacture a Scandal October 17, 2013
RSS Feed Print Kathleen Sebelius and Barack Obama. There's a
new tactic by critics of the Obama administration: Off with
their heads! Or, if you can't beat 'em on policy, demand they
resign or try to force them out of their jobs. First, there's
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, who
Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus says
should go. Why? Poorly-handled technology Sebelius surely had no
role in developing or operating. But is this a fireable
offense? You get fired as a cabinet secretary when you take
bribes or show up drunk at a cabinet meeting. Yes, it's clear
the RNC hates the Affordable Care Act. But if they really think
it's a "train wreck,'' why not let the choo-choo hit the wall?
Demanding that Sebelius be fired diminishes the seriousness of
the legitimate opposition to Obamacare, and just makes the RNC
look raving mad. [See a collection of political cartoons on
Obamacare.] Then there's Jonathan J |
0.483121 | 7.665074 | -1 | post #21 of 21 Thread Starter take the notebook apart i will
help u, the chips looks like this manuals if u need it 1) Find
the Password Chip: This is usually a small 8-pin chip, approx. 5
x 6mm. Security chip is usually marked with one of the following
designations (or just a portion of the complete number, i.e.
'02' instead of '24C02'):<24C01, 24C02, C02, 24C04, 24C08,
24C16, 24C164, 93C46, C46, 93C56>To locate the security chip,
you must remove the system board completely from the laptop
andcarefully and systematically examine the entire system board
to locate all 8-pin chips with any of thedesignations indicated
above. Often, there are two chips (i.e. a 'C46' and a '24C08'),
only one of which is the security chip. If more than one chip is
found, please contact us before removing any of the chips and
send us detailed pictures showing the exact location of these
chips so that we can determine which one is most likely to be
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-0.6345 | 0.649336 | 6 | General Question robmandu's avatar Under what circumstances
can you imagine where a person could shoot a policeman in self
defense? Asked by robmandu (21196 points ) February 13th, 2009
Sorry, been listening to Bob Marley. Observing members: 0
Composing members: 0 21 Answers eambos's avatar Corrupted cop
turned hitman out to get you? miasmom's avatar Unfortunately
there are crooked cops, so maybe in a situation where the cop
was doing something illegal and trying to hurt someone…
nikipedia's avatar Is the policeman acting on behalf of the
law, or is he just some dbag who happens to, coincidentally, be
a policeman? If the former scenario is the case, is the law
corrupt? If the latter scenario is the case, is he a dbag who
happens to be a policeman who happens to be threatening you in
some substantive way? La_chica_gomela's avatar These ones: if
the police broke down your door without warning because they
thought your house was the crack house but it was actually next
door or it was the same numb |
-1.340263 | 6.645485 | -1 | Well, here's a surprise: Mountain View now accepts PayPal
payments for apps, games, books and other digital goods on
Google Play. If you're not exactly fond of paying through credit
cards cards or carriers, you can activate the option by clicking
Add Paypal and typing in your log-in details. The option has a
huge limitation, though: you can't exactly use it to buy devices
and accessories. So, if you want to buy a new Android phone or a
Nest thermostat, you need to bust out that plastic. That said,
Play has also expanded carrier billing and gift card
availability to more countries, and anyone waiting for either
may want to check Google Support for the full lists. [Image
credit: Steve Ganz/Flickr] |
0.215743 | 0.203943 | 127 | macrohistory & world timeline Timeline: 1771 to 1780 1771 By
the Gamtoos River, clashes occur between Xhosa people and Dutch
trekkers (pastoral wagon pullers). 1772 Oxygen is discovered
by the Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele. Europeans have been
investigating the properties of gasses. 1773 A Baptist Church
for black slaves is founded is South Carolina Colony. 1773 Tea
selling businessmen in Boston are upset because the British East
India Company has been given the right to sell tea directly to
the colonists and at a cheaper price. The business men have
begun a boycott of the East India Company's tea along the
Atlantic coast. They disguise themselves as Indians and throw
342 chests of tea into Boston harbor – to be known as the Boston
Tea Party. 1774 An English chemist, Joseph Priestly,
independently discovers oxygen. 1774 King George III of
Britain decides to punish lawbreakers in the colonies. He closes
Boston Harbor and expands the powers of his governor in
Massachusetts. Local elections i |
4.156765 | 2.331868 | -1 | Undated -- Today's Birthdays: Singer Ron Isley of the Isley
Brothers is 71. Guitarist Hilton Valentine of The Animals is
69. Actor Richard Hatch ("Battlestar Galactica") is 67.
Keyboardist Bill Champlin (Chicago) is 65. Actress Carol Potter
("Beverly Hills, 90210," "Sunset Beach") is 64. Singer Leo
Sayer is 64. Comedian-turned-politician Al Franken is 61.
Actor Mr. T is 60. Drummer Stan Lynch (Tom Petty and the
Heartbreakers) is 57. Actor Judge Reinhold is 55. Actor Brent
Briscoe ("Mulholland Drive," "A Simple Plan") is 51. Actress
Lisa Edelstein ("House") of 46. Actress Fairuza Balk ("The
Waterboy") is 38. Singer-guitarist Mikel Jollet of Airborne
Toxic Event is 38. Rapper Havoc of Mobb Deep is 38. Actress
Ashlie Brillault ("Lizzie McGuire") is 25. Actress Sarah Ramos
("American Dreams") is 21. |
2.949142 | 1.52312 | 19 | I typed out Charlotte's accent. I don't care if it offends
anyone that's just how I write it ok. This was just a little
thing I did for fun. It goes with a big story I'm working on,
but it's just... for fun... I swallow thickly and look down at
the rushing water below. My palms are sweaty and my toes curl
around the stinging hot edge of the bridge. The sun is beating
down on my back and I feel like my scars are burning. They itch
so bad that I just need to tear my skin off, but I'm too
terrified to move. "Are you sure you want to jump first?" I
hear Růžena ask gently behind me. I can't answer even if I
wanted to; my throat is too dry. "I am villink to go first if
you are to be changink your mind, Casey!" Charlotte sings. "Or
perhaps little Chmury vould like to?" I hear Chmury squeak and
say something nervously and indistinct Charlotte giggles and
says something in German. Verona tries to stifle a laugh. I
look down again. For once, I can't jump. I've wanted to jump my
whole life and now that I finally h |
0.268389 | 8.585918 | 103 | Archive of articles classified as' "All Posts" Back home A
short letter to a unit testing newcomer One of my friends
asked how to get started with unit testing and Test Driven
Development and figured I could write a short post. I also
mention TDD a few times in my book so I think it could use some
more attention. I got started with unit testing when I wrote a
smallish Python project, and realized I couldn’t maintain large
Python projects without tests*. So I wrote unit tests for my
code. I then quickly got into TDD. I don’t remember what
resources I used, but there are plenty. I’d encourage you to
start unit testing by writing your code first, then the tests.
As soon as this becomes easy and is paying off, start writing
the tests first (TDD). You will come to appreciate that this is
a powerful way of thinking and working. Even if you don’t
ultimately stick with this approach, it is worth becoming
skilled with it. You will uncover many suboptimal areas in your
coding process that are otherwise extremely |
-0.659443 | 6.107239 | -1 | Automobile Accident Cases: Strategies To Expose The Inattentive
Driver Most automobile accidents are caused by driver
inattention. All it takes is a glance away from the roadway or a
moment of distraction for a driver to lose control of his or her
vehicle. These precious seconds often result in disastrous
consequences for our clients. Consequently, it is incumbent on
trial lawyers for victims of automobile accidents to develop
strategies to expose and explain such driver inattention. We
live in a society of ever-increasing technology and multi-
tasking that greatly increases the likelihood of driver
distraction and inattention. The sources of distraction include
the proliferation of: cell phones, PDA’s, computer options and
controls on the dashboard, GPS devices, drive-through fast food
restaurants, and perhaps most importantly, hectic lifestyles. It
is wise for trial lawyers to develop strategies to determine
such sources of distraction and expose them in their automobile
accident cases. It is at least as i |