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-0.453106 | 8.582642 | -1 | Take the 2-minute tour × I wish to use Stage3D and Context3D in
ActionScript. For that I need to download the beta version of
Flash Player 11. However, I can't find the equivalent Flash
Builder SDK with the mxmlc executable that can compile
ActionScript into Flash 11 capable Shockwave Flash files. Any
clue as to where I may download it from? share|improve this
question add comment 1 Answer up vote 3 down vote accepted
You do not need another SDK you need to modify the flex-
config.xml file and add additional parameter to your mxmlc
command. Look in sdks\4.5.1\frameworks\flex-config.xml and
change the target-player node the swf-version to 13 and the node
path-element to the correct playerglobal.swc (available on
labs.adobe.com). The compiler parameter is "-target-
player=11.0.0" (if your flex-config.xml reflect that version).
share|improve this answer There's a download link for the
playerglobal.swc at adobe.com/support/flashplayer/downloads.html
– slowdog Nov 21 '11 at 19:43 add comment Your Answer |
3.135859 | 4.785339 | 2 | Switch Lights The lights are on What's Happening 25 Indie
Games To Watch In 2014 With the launch of the Steam Greenlight
open alpha program and the loosening of self-publishing
standards on both the Xbox One and PlayStation 4, 2013 will be
remembered as a year that indie developers broke down some of
the walls standing between them and gamers. Now it's time for us
to enjoy the spoils. The list of promising indie games slated to
come out in 2014 is long and impressive. Here are the 25 titles
we're most excited for. Among the Sleep Developer: Killbrite
Studio Platform: PC, Mac, Linux It loses some of its haunting
powers as you age, but darkness is the scariest thing in the
world to many children. Among the Sleep puts you in the footie
pajamas of a two-year old. Rising from your crib, you stumble
and crawl your way through your home, wary of everything that
goes bump in the night. In this house, there are a lot of bumps.
The Banner Saga Developer: Stoic Platform: PS3, 360, PC, Mac,
Linux Conceptualiz |
-0.139157 | 8.703539 | -1 | Tag Archives: typo3 image quality Image Quality settings in
TYPO3 TYPO3 has a very cool mechanism to resize images
automatically. Often we might notice that the images like
JPEG/PNG when resized are either blur, or their quality may not
be very good. This can easily be changed by loggin into the
install tool and changing the following configuration from the
“All Configuration” menu: [GFX][jpg_quality] = 90
[GFX][png_truecolor] = 1 |
0.526169 | -1.414778 | 7 | world news Insults fly on Nixon tapes Richard Nixon Richard
Nixon believed there were humanitarian reasons for releasing
Rudolf Hess. Photograph: AP Former US president Richard Nixon
called then-Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi an "old witch"
and Indians a "slippery treacherous people", according to
recently released transcripts of Oval Office tapes. The
comments were made during a private conversation between Nixon
and his national security adviser, Henry Kissinger, on November
5 1971, and Mr Kissinger appeared to support his views. "We
really slobbered over the old witch," Nixon told Mr Kissinger of
his meeting with Gandhi the previous day. "While she was a
bitch, we got what we wanted too," Mr Kissinger said. "She will
not be able to go home and say that the United States didn't
give her a warm reception and therefore in despair she's got to
go to war." Gandhi had come to Washington to discuss the
growing possibility of war with neighbouring Pakistan. At the
time, the United States was allied with |
0.440717 | 9.253372 | 16 | Tell me more × I want to find packages whose names contains
characters in a specified search string. Something similar to
apt-cache search, but I also want the output to show whether the
package is installed on my system by marking with a flag ii
(installed) or un (not installed). $ dpkg -l *skype* ||/ Name
Version Description un skype <none>
(no description available) un skype-common <none>
(no description available) un skype-mid <none>
(no description available) So Ubuntu finds skype in its
software center and it passes the flag un, indicating its not
installed on my system. Well, actually it is installed on my
system: $ apt-cache policy skype So why was the un flag
associated with skype in the above example? In fact, whenever I
use the dpkg command, it thinks the package is not installed:
dpkg -L skype Package `skype' is not installed. share|improve
this question Looks like you're on a 64-bit system with a |
4.312583 | 5.213156 | 66 | Meta Battle Subway PokeBase - Pokemon Q&A Pokemon day care
questions ? 0 votes 1. if you put two Pokemon in the daycare
do the expreince like 20, 10 for Pokemon 1 and 10 for Pokemon
two or they both get 20 exp 2.can Pokemon evolve in daycare
2. is there anyway to make Pokemon in daycare get more
experience since 1 step is 1 exp asked Sep 8, 2012 by metapod
pro 2 Answers 0 votes Best answer 1. Pokemon do not split
experience in the daycare because otherwise there would be 1/2
exp. per step and it is 1 exp. per step no matter what. If 2
different Pokemon types are in the daycare, some may lvl. up
faster than others because of their experience category. •
Pokemon do not evolve in the daycare. To evolve the Pokemon
after it has gone past its evolution lvl., just level up the
Pokemon one level and it will evolve. 2. No there is not a way
to earn experience faster in the daycare by an item or any other
method. answered Sep 8, 2012 by Chimcharizard selected Sep 9,
2012 by metapod pro i mean expe |
-2.393123 | 2.182807 | 26 | Pet Psychology & Pet Emotional Therapy What is Pet Psychology?
Pet psychology, animal psychology, pet or animal behavior study,
is the understanding of canine, feline or equine behavior,
instincts and social rituals in their natural habitat as well as
in our unnatural human environment. Animal psychologists and
pet behaviorists use these understanding to educate human
caretakers how to act and respond to animals based on their
natural body language and social rituals. Pet psychologist and
behaviorist also use these understanding to redirect unwanted
natural behavior and instincts, without suppression, in order to
help human adapt animals to our society in a safe and acceptable
manner. Pet psychology is all about helping dogs, cats and
horses feel safe, confident and secure inside and outside our
homes. True animal psychology is based on observing and learning
from canine natural pack behavior, feline solitary natural
instincts and equine herd mentality, then modify the rules for
interspecies co-existence. |
4.693497 | 0.927086 | 13 | CMT News 20 Questions With Chris Young He Discusses Nashville
Star, Jay Leno and Scrambled Eggs New artist Chris Young made a
name for himself in Music City this year by winning Nashville
Star. Here, the Tennessee native answers fans' questions about
the country singer who inspired him to sing falsetto, why he
wears a bandana on his wrist and the reason he's proud of his
first single, "Drinkin' Me Lonely." 1. When you won Nashville
Star, what was running through your head? "Don't fall off the
stage." (laughs) I guess the neatest thing for me was looking
forward literally to what the next day was going to be like. The
next day, I went into RCA and met everybody and my producers of
the album. I knew I was going to have to do all that stuff. It
was also kind of like a "Finally, it's over!" thing. We'd been
holed up in Opryland Hotel for two and a-half months. It wasn't
that long for everybody else, but we were living it. 2. How did
you feel the whole time you were on the show? Were you nervous,
scared of emb |
-0.917574 | 9.934961 | 15 | Take the 2-minute tour × I'm trying to setup a reverse proxy in
lighttpd, such that all requests (and only those requests) under
/mobile/video is redirected to the / directory of a secondary
web server. This is pretty easy in apache, but I can't for the
life of me figure out how to do so in lighttpd. $HTTP["url"] =~
"^/wsmobile/video/" { url.rewrite-once = (
"^/wsmobile/video/(.+)" => "/$1" ) proxy.server = ( "" =>
( ( "host" => "", "port" => 9091 ) ) ) I've tried using the
http["url"] directive, but lighttpd simply ignore those requests
and continue to pass the full url to the secondary server, which
of course chokes and throws 404s. However, if I do a global
rewrite then everything gets forwarded to the secondary server,
which is also not what I want. How do I go about this task?
share|improve this question 1 Answer 1 up vote 1 down vote
accepted url rewrites won't work in $HTTP["url"]. However, you
should be able to rewrite it globally in this manner:
url.rewrite-once = ( "^/wsmobil |
4.390649 | 2.843334 | 5 | Good Night, and Good Luck Dodging the Sniper Fire Marcel Ophüls
on the heroic idealists and cynical mollycoddles of wartime
journalism "Stay away from CNN." Those were among Colin
Powell's first words of advice to Bush during the plotting of
the invasion of Afghanistan. Perhaps the president recalled the
warning while Anderson Cooper discovered his manhood in the
flooded bayou, shouting in outrage that the government had
betrayed the people, or when, a few days ago, the cable news
outlets saw fit to point out that the Q&A session between Bush
and American soldiers was staged (as if that were a novel
occurrence...). Just as Bush's lockdown of the American press
seems to be unraveling, the Bell is screening Marcel Ophüls's
long essay-movie The Troubles We've Seen: A History of
Journalism in Wartime. Though the movie takes many hours to
restate things we already knew, there's still a terrible shock
in hearing a French cameraman tell us that his country's
military was worse than our own when it came to hiding t |
-0.105358 | 1.940876 | -1 | Cold Beer and Crocodiles 1st edition A Bicycle Journey into
Australia Cold Beer and Crocodiles 0 9780792279525 0792279522
Details about this item Cold Beer and Crocodiles: The born
wayfarer takes his time, stays close to the land, and lives by
its rhythms, always ready when a friendly nod turns into a
dinner invitation but just as happy to camp alone under the
Southern Cross. He's a free spirit, following the road map of
his own adventurous imagination. When he happens to be a keen
observer and a vivid writer as well, the result is a classic
travel book. American Roff Smith had been living in Australia
for 15 years when he quit his job, pared his life to what could
be carried in the panniers of his bicycle, and pedaled off on a
10,000-mile circuit of the continent. By the time he coasted
back into Sydney nine months later, he had discovered an
Australia that eludes the casual traveler; "Cold Beer and
Crocodiles" is his evocative, eventful report from the highways
and byways of "Oz," an affectionate por |
1.424581 | 0.487732 | 118 | I am just curious about this because I don't hear about it. I
hear about Atheists being shunned and hated but not that much
about any actual physical harm outside of intense
mental/emotional harm. This question is only intended in the
U.S. I know it happens in other countries. I am just wondering
if Atheists need to fear this in the same manner as a homosexual
would fear beatings and being killed? Views: 365 Reply to This
Replies to This Discussion This is a good article on the
subject. I don't think your discussion is a network question
though. That is a good article, thank you. I have reposted this
question hopefully I'll get a few more responses. I've
personally have never been attacked or threatened and was
curious if this was an actual threat to other atheist or a
unneceessary fear. I understand that there is a definate fear of
shunning and verbal abuse it's just that i've never heard of
actual physical abuse because of atheisism. I'm dead tired and
this may come out garbled. I ran into someone Fri |
3.182661 | 4.974979 | 2 | Dragon Age II Reader Review Dragon Age II is an average game.
Let's get that out of the way first. Normally I wouldn't go out
of my way to rag on an average game, but DA2 systematically
strips out all the promise, mystery and depth that Dragon Age:
Origins went to great lengths to establish. In every way but one
this is an inferior title to its predecessor and it's just
baffling. Clearly there were budget and timing issues at work
but the drop in quality and quantity in this sequel is so brazen
and so staggering it leaves me little choice but to chalk up
this mess as possibly the biggest disappointment of 2011. And
it's only March. Looking at the large scale of the game, the
overarching narrative blows. Is 15 hours enough time to make a
fair judgement of something like this? If not, it should be.
There is nothing driving the momentum of DA2's plot and
characters are shifted up so often that it's hard to establish
any real camaraderie. There were many significant plot threads
and narrative cliffhangers that |
-1.216277 | 6.387019 | -1 | legally binding Common legal phrase indicating that an
agreement has been consciously made, and certain actions are now
either required or prohibited. For example, a lease for an
apartment is legally binding, because upon signing the document,
the lessor and the lessee are agreeing to a number of
conditions. The lessor typically agrees to provide the apartment
in a certain condition for a certain length of time, and the
lessee typically agrees to pay an agreed upon rent and refrain
from certain destructive behaviors. The other requirement for an
agreement or contract to be considered legally binding is
consideration - both parties must knowingly understand what they
are agreeing to. If a person is forced, tricked, or coerced into
entering into an agreement, it typically is not considered
legally binding. Use legally binding in a sentence Related
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-1.286177 | 0.497368 | 6 | 408 F3d 900 Kikalos v. United States 408 F.3d 900 Nick KIKALOS
and Helen Kikalos, Plaintiffs-Appellants, UNITED STATES of
America, Defendant-Appellee. No. 04-1613. United States Court
of Appeals, Seventh Circuit. Argued December 2, 2004. Decided
May 24, 2005. Donald E. Schlyer (argued), Schlyer & Associates,
Merrillville, IN, Ralph M. Bernstein, Chicago, IL, for
Plaintiffs-Appellants. Before BAUER, POSNER, and ROVNER,
Circuit Judges. POSNER, Circuit Judge. The plaintiffs brought
suit for a refund of federal income taxes, had a jury trial that
resulted in a verdict for the government, and appeal,
complaining about the jury instructions and the exclusion of
much of their evidence. The plaintiffs, husband and wife, own
three retail stores in Hammond, Indiana. The stores operate
under the name "Nick's Liquor" but sell cigarettes, beer, wine,
soft drinks, potato chips, and other snack food as well as hard
liquor. Most sales are cash sales; the stores do not accept
credit cards. Nick Kikalos, the husb |
4.212484 | -4.405539 | 0 | So, who owns the Dodgers? Kai Ryssdal: Major League Baseball
came to the Los Angeles County legal system today. The couple
that owns the Los Angeles Dodgers started a high profile,
Hollywood-style divorce trial this morning. Actually, we don't
know who really owns the team, hence the trial. Frank McCourt
says his wife, Jamie, signed away her rights to the Dodgers in a
post-nuptial agreement a couple of years ago. California being a
community property state, though, Jamie McCourt figures half the
team and half of its value of something near $800 million
belongs to her. Also at issue -- because sometimes a billion
dollar baseball club just isn't enough -- are who owns which of
their seven houses, how many hundreds of thousands of dollars in
monthly living allowance is enough and who gets the private jet.
Meanwhile, the Dodgers stink, players are being released and
Carla Hall is spending her mornings inside the courtroom
covering the case for the Los Angeles Times. Carla, good to have
you with us. Carla Hal |
1.59642 | -0.254287 | -1 | 1. Religion & Spirituality Discuss in my forum Military &
Political Outcome of the Crusades Military, Political,
Religious, and Social Consequences The first and perhaps most
important thing we should bear in mind is that when all is said
and done, from a political and military perspective the Crusades
were a massive failure. The First Crusade was successful enough
that European leaders were able to scratch out kingdoms which
included such cities as Jerusalem, Acre, Bethlehem, and Antioch.
After that, though, everything went downhill. The Kingdom of
Jerusalem would endure in one form or another for several
hundred years but it was always in a precarious position. It was
based upon a long, narrow strip of land with no natural barriers
and whose population was never entirely conquered. Continual
reinforcements from Europe were required but not always
forthcoming (and those that tried didn't always live to see
Jerusalem). The whole of its population was around 250,000
concentrated in costal cities like As |
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yousif wleed does not have any videos yet. Recent Activity
1. seriously when shooting people with all PP that's in the
camera, all of them would be super sharp and lots of aliasing
problems. tried natural light and artificial and both are the
same ( for people only) maybe sharpening 2 and up would be
great… |
2.402029 | 1.381456 | 19 | Nabokov: the Prose and Poetry of It All Readers of Lolita may
recall that Humbert Humbert, who delivers himself of the
contents of the book while in confinement awaiting trial for
murder, is something of a poet. “You can always count on a
murderer for a fancy prose style,” he says, and you can count on
this particular murderer for scattered flights of verse as well.
His are “occassional poems” in the most invidious sense
possible. His muse materializes only intermittently, and when
she does it is in response to situations of a kind that do not,
as a rule, give rise to la poèsie pure—or whatever we may call
the opposite of occasional poetry. Hoping, for example, to calm
his restless Lolita he improvises a bit of what he tells her is
“nonsense verse.” The Squirl and his Squirrel, the Rabs and
their Rabbits Have certain obscure and peculiar habits. Male
humming birds make the most exquisite rockets. The snake when he
walks holds his hands in his pockets. Nonsense is correct,”
Lolita says mockingly perhaps gu |
0.02813 | -0.210856 | 88 | AVmail: May 7, 2007 • E-Mail this Article • View Printable
Article • Text size: • A • A • A Doctors in
Bonanzas Will we never hear the last of the Doctors/Bonanzas
myth (Short Final, Apr. 29)? When the FAA finally set about
testing the Bonanza more thoroughly, they found that the v-tails
were prone to structural damage. Essentially, the tails had been
failing due to high-speed twisting forces through a fault in the
basic design. Maximum allowable airspeed was immediately
restricted until two well-known modifications were installed to
protect the ruddervators. How come doctor-flown Bonanzas with
traditionally designed tail-feathers had not been subject to
failure? Bill Vitale All-Weather Flying I am deeply concerned
by Point2Point's John Boehle's comment on the company's winter
dispatch reliability (AVwebFlash, May 2). There are no all-
weather aircraft smaller than the B737. None. Zip. Nada.
Aircraft of the types he operates have no business being
airborne in known icing. Risk of ici |
-2.002199 | -0.659452 | 10 | Skip to Content General Laws Section 55. Registrars shall,
from the names entered in the annual register and from the names
maintained on the inactive voters list, prepare voting lists for
use at elections; provided, however, that such registrars shall
not enter the names of women voters in separate columns or
lists. In such voting lists, such registrars shall place the
names of all voters entered on the annual register and those
maintained on the inactive voters list and opposite to the name
of each his residence and party enrollment. The registrars shall
maintain separate voting lists for active and inactive voters or
one voting list if inactive voters are designated as such on the
voting list. In cities they shall prepare such voting lists by
wards, and if a ward or town is divided into voting precincts,
they shall prepare the same by precincts. In all such cities and
in towns having five thousand or more inhabitants, the voting
lists shall be arranged by streets in alphabetical order, and
the names of t |
1.113277 | 9.004342 | -1 | Some Programming Basics Embedded Hello World GPIO Outputs
Output Examples GPIO Inputs Input Examples Interrupt
Examples Timer/Counter Examples LCD Character Displays
Display Multiplexing Key/Switch Multiplexing Real Time
Operating Systems Coming Soon AVR Freaks This site
is still very much a work in progress, and not yet ready for
prime time! If you are seeing this website now it's probably
because you got the URL from my resume. If so, that's because I
took the chance that an incomplete (!) website would give you
more information about my background than no website at all.
This endeavor has proven to be a lot more work than I expected,
but maybe it will also end up being a little more useful to
beginners as a result. Welcome to the OLD site of the
Introduction to Embedded Programming website. Please visit the
NEW site for the latest version of this tutorial. Target
Audience This tutorial is intended for students, hobbyists,
programmers and hardware designers who want to le |
0.829424 | -0.673202 | 50 | Teaching the Holocaust with Primary Sources Holocaust Header
IntroductionNuremberg Race Laws | Kristallnacht | Ghettos
Concentration CampsDachau | Bergen-Belsen | Auschwitz Righteous
Among the NationsGies | Schindler | Winton | Grueninger Primary
Source and Analysis Tools | Library of Congress Resources
Primary Source Sets | PDF Version Righteous Among the Nations
During World War II many Jews went into hiding to escape Nazi
concentration camps. For some, hiding Jews was a profitable
business. They would agree to hid Jews in exchange for money.
When the money ran out, many would turn on their Jewish charges
and hand them over to the Nazis. But there were a select few who
could not turn their backs on their fellow human beings, no
matter the cost. These non-Jewish people who risked their own
lives to save the Jews from Nazi persecution are referred to as
The Righteous Among the Nations. In most cases these individuals
never intended to become a rescuer, the opportunity often
presented itself by a simple |
4.378503 | -4.547691 | 0 | Rosenthal: Romero close to one-year deal with Cardinals Cash
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theYankees apparently totally out of the mix for players such as
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-0.096825 | 1.563096 | -1 | Monday, September 26, 2011 American Idol Phenom Chris Daughtry
Lists North Carolina Crib SELLER: Chris Daughtry LOCATON: Oak
Ridge, NC PRICE: $699,000 SIZE: 3,670 square feet, 4 bedrooms,
3.5 bathrooms listing photos: Re/Max Realty
Consultants Anonymous said... "Hateful stares and LOUD
guffaws!" this is the part NO ONE ever speaks of when waxing
poetically on the Parent Trap. Dr. Phil has never spoke so pure
and honest in all the days I've been reading your fortune
cookie/tea leaf go gurl! candi speling said... The house isn't
the only thing that is brick-built. Anonymous said... What a
terribly blah house of no distinction whatever. What on earth
made you put it on your blog, Mama? Anonymous said... I like
Greensboro - it's a nice college town with friendly residents. I
don't know anything about Oak Ridge, but I'd take something in
town over this McMansion. Ditto Anon 3:40 PM. I sent this to my
Dad last year and he declared it to be the perfect set-up, a
house for the parental units & |
4.698171 | 0.824873 | 13 | Category: One Song How Stevie Wonder sparked Drake's 'Marvin's
Room' Before a late-night drunk dial became the anchor of
Drake’s bitter breakup jam, “Marvin’s Room,” his phone buzzed
during a studio session with a surprising voice on the other
end: Stevie Wonder. “He’s one of the kindest, most spontaneous
individuals. He said, ‘I’ll be there in 20 minutes,’” the
Canadian rapper-singer recalled from a booth in the Polo Lounge
at the Beverly Hills Hotel. “So we started cleaning up.” Drake
was already in the legendary Marvin’s Room studios in L.A. when
he received the call from Wonder, who, true to his word quickly,
arrived. Drizzy and his longtime producer Noah "40" Shebib were
cutting “Doing It Wrong" when Wonder requested to go into the
booth. Continue reading » Party rock is in the house? Please,
no. Two-hundred twenty-eight million people have watched the
“Party Rock Anthem” video on Vevo since it was uploaded in March
2011, so we're a little late in the game to argue against it.
It's the 15th mos |
-4.402416 | 2.466635 | 70 | Weight lifting Discussion in 'Off-topic Zone' started by
locked&loaded, Nov 30, 2008. 1. locked&loaded
locked&loaded its redskin season 2,827 Messages 85
Likes Received I just started lifting sense the football
season came to a close. I have creatine but i dont know what is
best. What supplements should i take, i want to add lean muscle.
ofcourse. 2. Yeagermeister Yeagermeister Active Member
47,576 Messages 9 Likes Received Raw eggs.....it worked
for Rocky :D 3. Section444 Section444 Well-Known Member
4,351 Messages 859 Likes Received Honestly, I just drink
a half gallon of 2% milk a day. Sometimes I'll mix it with soy
protein; it's worked great for me thus far. Lot's of fish and
chicken too. 4. Route 66 Route 66 Active Member
3,310 Messages 6 Likes Received Some say you get plenty
of protein in regular foods but I and many others disagree and
take protein supplements along with our meats and other
products. I basically s |
-0.769979 | 0.341846 | 6 | Lemon Law Lawyers In La Junta Colorado The City of La Junta is
a Home Rule Municipality that is the county seat and the most
populous city of Otero County, Colorado, United States. The city
population was 7,568 at the U.S. Census 2000. La Junta is
located in southeast Colorado, on the Arkansas River east of
Pueblo. During World War II, La Junta had an Army Air Force
Training Base outside town. The airport, located 5 miles (8.0
km) north of La Junta, has 77 acres (31 ha) of tarmac and two
runways which are still in use. One runway (east-west) is 6,851
feet (2,088 m) long and the other is 5,800 feet (1,800 m). . In
1979, the first episodes of the CBS western miniseries The
Chisholms, starring Robert Preston, was filmed near La Junta.
The Caboose (pictured below right) is the drive through for the
State Bank which was established in 1893. The bank is unique as
it has been remodeled with antiques, including a teller line
from the late 1890s. What is lemon law? Answers to lemon law
issues in Colorado |
-0.362822 | 2.129322 | -1 | Moving into rented accommodation in the catchment area-when can
I safely move back? (282 Posts) enlondon Wed 10-Apr-13 01:00:03
I am thinking of renting a property in the catchment area of a
secondary school. Once I have done this and my child is given a
place (presuming everything has gone to plan and the catchment
area has not all off the sudden become even smaller etc), how
much longer do I need to live there before I can move safely
back to our house outside the catchment area? As soon as I have
filled in the application? As soon as my child is offered the
place? As soon as my child has actually started in September? I
actually called the LEA to ask this question and they were not
sure. I asked a different LEA the same question about another
school and they said that I could move out of the catchment area
as soon as the application form was received! They seemed
puzzled by my question though, understandably, and not sure if I
trust their answer. tiggytape Sat 30-Aug-14 11:08:29 Lavender
- there is no |
0.913493 | 10.376221 | -1 | Documentation of the module re by Peter Verhas Table of
Contents 1. Introduction 2. The module RE This module
implements some simple regular expression handling functions.
They can be used to match some strings against regular
expressions and to use matched sub strings to format replace
strings. This module provides functions that are similar to the
Perl language operators m// and s///. 3. Match a string
against a regular expression re::match(string,regexp [,
replace]) re::m(string,regexp [, replace]) This function is the
main regular expression match function. The first argument is
the string that is to be matched against the regular expression.
The second argument is the regular expression. If the string
matches the regular expression the return value of the function
is true, otherwise false. The regular expressions may contain
parentheses inside it. If it does the substrings matching the
regular expression part between the parentheses will be stored
in a regular expression dollar array. The sub |
3.203885 | -4.166853 | 38 | Posted: Tue May 7, 2013 2:03PM; Updated: Fri May 17, 2013
10:47AM Jim Trotter States, ex-players trying to level playing
field on workers comp Decrease font Decrease font Enlarge font
Enlarge font SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Reggie Williams' movements
are as labored as his breathing. While others walk the halls of
the state Capitol with apparent ease, the 58-year-old former
Cincinnati Bengals linebacker struggles to get around. He has a
crutch under each arm, and his strides are uneven because his
right leg is three inches shorter than his left due to surgical
complications from injuries sustained during his 14-year career.
A raised scar runs down the middle of his right knee, which has
been operated on 24 times. It's so swollen it's hard to tell
where the top of the knee begins and the bottom of his thigh
ends, so disfigured that there appears to be three large
broccoli heads beneath the skin. Williams, the NFL's Man of the
Year in 1986 and Sports Illustrated's co-Sportsman of the Year
in 1987, normally keeps |
-2.176764 | 0.666165 | -1 | Régie des rentes du Québec Administering a defined contribution
plan A defined contribution plan is generally administered by a
pension committee, which is the first responder for the plan and
must ensure that the plan is in conformity with the relevant
laws. The pension committee is responsible for the
administration of the plan and the management of the pension
fund. Furthermore, it has an important role to plan in providing
information to plan members. It must act with prudence,
diligence and competence, like any reasonable person. Sometimes
the administrator is not a pension committee A plan with less
than 26 members and beneficiaries can be administered by the
employer. In that case, the employer has the same obligations
and responsibilities as a pension committee. Who can provide
information about a plan? Generally, the documentation given to
plan members indicates the name and contact details of a contact
person. Those details can also be obtained from the employer our
by using the Régie's onlin |
0.470651 | -0.236034 | -1 | This is a debugging block Support Navigation This is a
debugging block This is a debugging block GLAAD Social Media
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Roger Ross Williams About His New Sundance Film 'God Loves
Uganda' This is a debugging block One of the standout
documentaries at Sundance this year is the new film God Loves
Uganda, which examines the relationship between American
evangelical missionaries and the increasingly anti-gay Ugandan
religious and political establishments. Academy Award-winning
filmmaker Roger Ross Williams faced death threats to expose how
virulent, and potentially deadly, anti-LGBT bias is being
promoted by US-based religious institutions in other countries.
In the case of Uganda, this has led to the undermining of HIV
prevention programs and advocating for the death penalty for
LGBT people. Below you can read GLAAD’s interview with Williams
about his film, which is currently screening at Sundance, and
view the film’s trailer. In your “Meet |
0.259027 | 9.533302 | 16 | Help - Search - Members - Calendar Full Version: Visiscript
Question For Python I'm running Visiscript and Python on a
Henteges 3.5.3 Poodle and am not able execute a python script
from within Visiscript. I can open and save script files ok,
and I can execute the scripts just fine from the command line.
But when I load a simple script file and press the 'execute'
button (or select run from the menu), nothing appears to happen.
Am I missing a config setting or something? Ok, I'll answer my
own question so that someone else might save some time. In the
Visiscript Configure menu: 1. Set 'Command' to python. 2. In the
drop down menu, select 'python' 3. deselect 'Interactive Modus'
4. In 'Execute Modus', select 'popen' Now I can run a script
and view the output! I'm liking Visiscript now. I installed
visiscript recently, but I cant seem to be able to open existing
files in it at all. It starts off with a new button only and
when I do the "New" then I get the file menu. On "Open" it just
closes down totall |
0.118649 | 9.591846 | 16 | Take the 2-minute tour × i am working on a app that is keeping
track of high school sporting even scores. it will allow users
to submit scores of games in progress. right now i have a
database table called scores. But i am stuck when it comes to
representing the amount of time in minutes and seconds left in
the game. share|improve this question Instead of recording the
(relative) "time left" consider reporting the "time submitted"
as well as the "end time". Then the "time left" is just the
difference of the other two (absolute) times. – user166390 Jul
19 '12 at 3:37 i am capturing the timestamp of when the score
was submitted by the user. although there is really no way of
capturing the end time since its "game time" and you have
stoppages of play or the stoppages of the game clock due to
timeouts, an incomplete pass, or the ball carrier going out of
bounds. – Eric Cumbee Jul 19 '12 at 3:42 add comment 1 Answer
up vote 2 down vote accepted You can use the TIME type:
share|improve this answer that s |
0.36566 | 5.031731 | -1 | Idea Factory Priceless Science: SuperBowl 2012 So, The Pats
and the Giants are going to square off in one of America's most
popular televised sports events, but have you ever considered
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mirrors, prisms, and light. Walk into a room where children are
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-3.996482 | 1.482382 | 21 | The Green Fairy What do you do in a one horse ski town when
it’s freezing cold and there’s no skiing? Hang out with friends
in Glacier at Grahams and talk about skiing. But talk only lasts
so long, then the questions about liquor come up. “Hey,
anything tasty in that locked wooden chest you keep? The one
with the chains and padlocks on it?” Of course there’s something
tasty in it, some questions needn’t be asked. Several years ago
I preferred a good Single Malt Scotch. Before scotch, I spent
time getting to know all those wonderful varieties of tequila.
This last summer, it seemed that all roads led to the state of
Rum, but only if it had flavor. However, there’s a certain
drink I developed a weakness for several years ago that until
recently I had to procure from my favorite liquor store in White
Rock, B.C., a crazed fifteen minute drive north if you really
want to get there quick. Also known as the Green Fairy,
Absinthe is a mysterious nectar with hints of licorice and has
been linked with madness |
1.285005 | 1.926912 | -1 | < Back to front page Text size + She left me with the dog
Posted by Meredith Goldstein June 29, 2010 08:30 AM E-mail
this article Invalid E-mail address Invalid E-mail address
Sending your article Dog days of summer. Q: This will be the
first time I've ever written to an advice column, but there's a
first for everything or so I've been told. I find the act both
slightly embarrassing and therapeutic. I am currently undergoing
the pain of a 4+ year relationship ending. For a period, I was
deeply in love and could only see the good. We lived together
and even adopted a wonderful little screwed-up dog that we
shared the care of. Now I am living by myself with sole custody
of the pooch. My companion moved out over two months ago but
things started going south slowly long before then. She became
sad and I became withdrawn, perhaps not in that order. For each
of us it was the longest romantic relationship we have ever been
in, and neither of us has ever been married or anything like
that. When it was good, |
-1.998629 | -0.996972 | 10 | People, Parties, and Power Back In my years of political
activity beginning in 1960, I have found no shortage of
conservatives willing to tell the political parties what they
should do. But I have noticed a great shortage of conservatives
willing to take the time, spend the money and pay the political
price necessary to achieve and hold power in a political party.
Unless more conservatives accept the responsibility of political
participation inside the parties, thirty years from now
conservatives will still be complaining that the parties fail to
do what they ought to do. Only a tiny fraction of Americans
participate in party activities. There is a great turnover of
participants and leadership. In the business world, corporate
leadership tends to last for decades; labor union leadership
tends to last for life. Some years ago I looked up the tenure of
all the Republican Party state chairmen in the United States.
The average state party chairman had held that post for about
eighteen months! I believe it is th |
-0.110437 | 5.109384 | -1 | Medieval Machinery YKTTW Discussion Medieval Machinery Buttons,
switches, and even proximity sensors in a medieval setting.
Already have? (permanent link) added: 2012-08-27 12:29:07
sponsor: Xolroc (last reply: 2012-08-29 23:56:51) Add Tag:
You've seen them and not given them a second thought, they're so
ubiquitous. But think: Buttons and pressure plates, commonly
used for traps or alarms in medieval settings, don't do much of
anything without electricity. If you mechanically connected them
to what they're supposed to operate, you'd either have to press
them in several feet or push with the force of a truck! And
don't even get me started on fires that start or spikes that
come out of the ground when you get near them. Sometimes there
are even doors that slide up into the ceiling at the press of a
button, and slide back down when it's pressed again. True, a
mechanism to do that is possible. But it'd likely be larger than
the building it's used in! Admittedly, counterweights would
work for the levers and bu |
-0.020645 | 9.362263 | 16 | Undo and Repeat the Changes Microsoft word provides two
important features called Undo, which is used to undo the
previous action and second one is Repeat or Redo, which is used
to repeat the previous action. For example, If you mistakenly
delete text, you can use the Undo feature to recover it, similar
way if delete a character and you want to delete more characters
then you can use Repeat operation. How to use Undo & Repeat
operations: You can access the Undo and Repeat buttons from the
Quick Access toolbar. You should make a note that Repeat button
also called Redo button and both operations have same meaning.
Undo and Repeat Buttons Here is the simple procedure to apply
undo or repeat (redo) operations: Step (1): Let us type some
text in a blank document as I have typed above. Now click Repeat
(Redo) button and you will see that word would repeat the same
operation for you. Repeat Operation Step (2): Now to examine
undo operation, let us delete last word operation character by
character so that |
-2.155622 | 3.338335 | -1 | Iowa State University Horticulture and Home Pest News Summer
Care of Lawns This article was published originally on 6/9/1995
Sound mowing practices are necessary for a good quality lawn.
This is especially true during the summer months. Improper
mowing during hot, dry weather may seriously damage the turf.
Mow Kentucky bluegrass lawns at a height of 3 to 3 1/2 inches
during the summer months. During cool weather in spring and
fall, bluegrass lawns should be mowed at a height of 2 to 2 1/2
inches. The additional leaf area during summer shades and cools
the crowns of the turfgrass plants. Extremely high temperatures
at crown level can kill turfgrass. When mowing the lawn never
remove more than one-third of the total leaf area at any one
time. A lawn mowed at a height of 3 inches should be cut when it
reaches a height of 4 1/2 inches. Removing more than one-third
of the leaf area weakens the turfgrass and reduces its capacity
to withstand additional environmental stresses. Weakened turf is
also more likely t |
-1.621696 | 8.915051 | -1 | What is meta? × I'm most active in the c++ tag and as a result
I find myself referencing C++ FAQ Lite quite a bit. That
tendency comes from my brief Usenet experience, where the
convention was to link to known good content rather than writing
your own answer (i.e., don't reinvent the wheel). The convention
on SO, however, appears to favor writing your own complete
answer rather than linking somewhere that might not exist in the
future. Given that the C++ FAQ Lite website has only had one
update in the last three years, is there any benefit to posting
some of the more interesting FAQs (using the c++-faq tag) on SO
and letting the community decide on the best answer? I'm
certainly not suggesting we plagiarize the excellent work of
Marhsall Cline et al. It's just that many C++ language questions
(and I think this applies to most programming languages) that
come up on SO can be answered simply by referencing the FAQ
website. What's the right thing to do? Should SO seek to become
the home of all programming lan |
-0.362021 | -1.702996 | -1 | [an error occurred while processing this directive] BBC News
watch One-Minute World News Last Updated: Thursday, 29 July,
2004, 19:00 GMT 20:00 UK Iraq 'is al-Qaeda battleground'
Coalition troops in Iraq The Iraq war may have increased the
terror threat, says Donald Anderson Iraq has become a
"battleground" for al-Qaeda, MPs have warned in a report on the
war on terrorism. The Commons foreign affairs committee says
there are too few foreign troops in Iraq and Muslim states
should be encouraged to send forces. The MPs say Iraqi forces
are still a long way from being able to ensure security in their
country. The report also says Afghanistan could implode with
"terrible consequences" without more foreign troops. Donald
Anderson, the committee's Labour chairman, said the Iraq war
might well have increased the terror threat in the short term,
although it was too early to assess its long term impact. The
wide-ranging findings are the latest instalment in the MPs'
long-running investigation into the war against |
0.917554 | 2.91614 | -1 | Take the 2-minute tour × It often happens to me that after
learning the whole day and reading lots of text especially with
small letters I feel my eyes very tired. Who knows good set of
exercises that don't takes lot of time, that helps to prevent
eyes tiring. share|improve this question This doesn't seem like
a question on Judaism. – Ariel K Jun 28 '11 at 19:42 @ArielK
Can you provide more insight on why you think it's off-topic.
After all, isn't it about Jewish Life? – yydl Jun 28 '11 at
22:48 @ArielK But many of the questions in product-
recommendation are also not halacha and hashkafah. I think we
ought to allow questions that are particular to Jewish life (in
this case learning texts for many hours). Perhaps we should
raise this on Mi Yodeya Meta? – yydl Jun 29 '11 at 2:11 @yydl
This reminds me of a batch of questions from early days of SO:
"What is your favorite food... as a programmer?" "What music is
best... for a programmer?" "Which is the most effective
coffee... for a programmer?". Just because |
0.529253 | 3.286276 | 151 | HOME > ON THE BOOKSHELF > March-April 2003 > Bookshelf Detail
Science Across Cultures Anthony Grafton Lost Discoveries: The
Ancient Roots of Modern Science—From the Babylonians to the
Maya. x + 453 pp. Dick Teresi. Simon and Schuster, 2002. $27.
Early in the 1990s, Dick Teresi set out to write an exposé.
Multiculturalism was on the rise in the schools and generating
controversy in legislatures, school boards and the media. No
specimen of it created more heat or less light than the Portland
African-American Baseline Essays. According to this curriculum,
the ancient Egyptians had built flying machines, mastered
psychokinesis and even devised electric batteries. Some of these
claims rested on fragments of archaeological evidence,
interpreted with little or no reference to their original
contexts. Others had no basis whatsoever, except their creators'
desire to instill pride in African-American schoolchildren.
Teresi—a skilled and prolific science writer—accepted a magazine
assignment and began to debunk wha |
-1.244676 | 5.260678 | -1 | A client came accross my website (most probably through google
as I did some SEO to my website) and just contacted me, he's
looking for an ASP.NET developer for some project. The problem
is that I didn't do any serious freelance work here before and
have no idea how much I should charge. The problem is that if I
try to be competitive and give a low rate they could think I'm a
bad developer, on the other hand if I give a high rate they
could go to others with lower rates, what's a good and
reasonable rate for a freelance developer in Sydney, Australia?
Many thanks in advance ... The main IT professional Job site
in Australia is seek.com.au have a look at the contract jobs in
there, you should get a feel for it depending on the contract
length, experience etc. If I had to guess I would say in this
economic climate somewhere in the range $50 - $80 per hour would
be around average for an experienced dev. That's a bit
localized. You need to check out the Sydney rags (I'm originally
from Melbourne so I'd be |
0.074334 | 10.289805 | 16 | Take the 2-minute tour × I have a java application with
multiple thread started and they are all sharing a single db
connection created in the main function. So far things have been
running smoothly. I am worried will there be any problem in
future like corruption etc? share|improve this question 1
Answer 1 up vote 2 down vote accepted You will have problem
if: - you use transactions. Two threads starting transactions on
the same connection would not be nice for your datas. Think
about what mysql will do if one thread want a rollback - you use
auto increment and LAST_INSERT_ID. If two threads work on the
same table at the same moment, the last id is the same for both
if they share the same connection - and maybe much more problems
if you don't only use "simple" things (aka select/insert/update)
share|improve this answer thank you for the input yes each of my
thread is using one transaction and sure enough I am using
last_insert_id too. So what is your best suggestion then use
individual connection is it |
-1.503773 | -0.110214 | -1 | • Heritage Action • More Lecture #1173 on Immigration
December 3, 2010 The Arizona Immigration Law: What It Actually
Does, and Why It Is Constitutional Abstract: America has
arrived at a dangerous, unprecedented moment: an Administration
is attacking a state that is simply trying to help the federal
government restore the rule of law. In addition to partisan
mischaracterizations of S.B. 1070, observes Professor Kris
Kobach, the Eric Holder Justice Department launched an
unprecedented and unwarranted lawsuit that has shattered the
balance between the federal government and the states, as well
as the balance between executive and congressional power,
through its distortion of preemption doctrine. A federal
district judge has already embraced the Justice Department’s
argument without any evident awareness of how the argument
breaches constitutional boundaries. Consequently, concludes
Kobach, America’s only hope is that the appellate courts will
realize just what is at stake, and uphold S.B. 1070 on cons |
0.223551 | 9.207804 | 16 | Take the 2-minute tour × I have a tcp server setup using inetd
on aix 5.3. Problem is the responses come very very slowly from
the server.But if I have a standalone deamon server , its very
fast. But my requirement is that i have to use inetd. So,Is
there anyway to improve the performance of inetd.
share|improve this question add comment migrated from
stackoverflow.com Oct 26 '09 at 8:35 This question came from
our site for professional and enthusiast programmers. 4 Answers
One of the problems when running through inetd is that it's
going to introduce overhead in the performance. If performance
is a concern, which it is, do not use inetd and use a standalone
daemon. share|improve this answer add comment The best way to
improve performance would be to take inetd out of the picture.
But if you really, really have to use inetd, here are some
ideas: 1. Renice inetd to a negative priority. 2. Turn down
/ off inetd logging 3. Log to a faster disc / raid. Another
possibility is that your service i |
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The simulated swimming requires exertion of energy to move
through the space. Just as in any sport, often it is the process
of doing that is enjoyable and satisfying. Virtual swimming is
about the fun of the activity as much as the destination. 3.
Education. With this apparatus, people who are afraid of the
water can learn to swim and enjoy the pleasures of body movement
while floating. For researchers, Swimming Across the Pacific
supports investigation into new ways of engaging the body for
navigation through virtual spaces. |
-1.030812 | 0.305861 | 6 | Saturday, January 19, 2008 Juror Records I'm not sure why, but
the concept of jury duty keeps following me around, like a bad
odor. I guess it all started earlier in the week when a co-
worker announced that he had been called for jury duty and he
wasn't sure how long the court would require him to be there.
I've never been a big fan of jury duty, but when I lived in
California, there was a law which stated that you were told on
the first day if you were to be on a jury. If not, you were
dismissed and couldn't be called back for another year. People
always came up with excuses and ploys to get out of jury duty,
many of which are no longer accepted. Recently, in Colorado, so
few people showed up for jury duty, that the court staff went
out and subpoenaed people on the street for "emergency jury
duty." Read the article here. Laughs aside, I have found that
many counties have jury duty-related records available. Many
times they are listed as "jurors census" or "jurors lists." Of
course, being in the 19th cent |
2.59134 | 1.497693 | 19 | Forgot your password? Resources for students & teachers At
one end of the machine was a broad band of cloth, passing around
two rollers. One roller was close to the wheels and other large
rollers of the machine itself. The other was back from it a
little; and the cloth, being extended from one of these to the
other, formed a sort of flat table just before the machine. The
girl who came to tend the machine immediately opened the great
bundle of wool, and then she took up a handful of it, and began
to spread it evenly over the cloth. When she had got the cloth
pretty nearly covered she pulled a handle pretty near her, and
that, in some mysterious way or other, set the machinery
a-going. The cloth, with all the wool upon it, began to move
towards the great rollers of the machine. These rollers were
covered with card teeth, and the wool, as it was drawn in
between them, was carded fine, and spread evenly over all the
surface; and in a few minutes Jonas and Oliver found that it
began to come out at the |
1.754337 | 9.489853 | -1 | Take the 2-minute tour × Let $A=\{1,2,3,4,5,6\}$ and let's
consider the usual order relation given by $\leq$. My textbook
includes an image representing this structure: enter image
description here Given the definition of lattice, I don't
understand how this isn't it. When I am looking for the supremum
and the infimum for every pair it is obvious that $\forall
(a,b)\in A$ $$\begin{aligned} \;a\leq6 \text{ and } b\leq6,
1\leq a \text{ and } 1\leq b\end{aligned}$$ so what is that I
don't take into account? share|improve this question I think
2,3 don't have a join, and 4,5 don't have a meet? – sperners
lemma Nov 13 '12 at 18:13 @spernerslemma I'm trying to figure
out this thing myself... and it's kind of confusing. I don't
know why they aren't joined! – haunted85 Nov 13 '12 at 18:15
Sperners observation is correct. Both $4$ and $5$ are upper
bounds for $2$ and $3$. There is no least upper bound. Similarly
there is no greatest lower bound for $4$ and $5$. – Jay Nov 13
'12 at 18:23 add comment 2 Answers |
-2.522167 | -0.201087 | 36 | Government-Shutdown Watch: An Inside View I mentioned
yesterday the uncertainty tax that the possible government
shutdown was imposing on "normal" government operations, as
people from National Park employees to members of the military
tried to figure out whether they could plan as far ahead as next
Monday. Thumbnail image for hillary-clinton-secretary-of-
state.jpg I included mention of one important Cabinet
Department that was not sure whether it could welcome a foreign
delegation arriving this weekend for long-planned talks. NEWS
UPDATE: I have heard just now, from a State Department
spokesman, that "The Consultation on People Exchange hosted by
Secretary Clinton and State Councilor Liu Yandong will still
proceed as planned even during a shutdown." So there! And that
is good news. State Councilor Liu Yandong, fyi, is the highest-
ranking woman in the Chinese government. Despite this
development, a reader's account of other shutdown-related churn
at State: >>As the spouse of a federal government employe |
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1.96986 | 1.972617 | -1 | Jaci Stephen Jaci Stephen: 'How did I end up here? LA wasn't
where I expected to be at 50' Way Out West Full May moon over
Los Angeles. It hovers beside the Lexington Commercial Holdings
building on Wilshire Boulevard, above the streetlamp at the end
of North Crescent Drive. I try to take a picture of it on my
i-Phone and curse again the contraption that is about as
effective as Gordon Ramsay with laryngitis. When the camera
finally captures the shot, I see that the moon is
indistinguishable from the light from the streetlamp: two white
balls that could be anything, anytime, anyplace. Except that
they are in Beverly Hills 90210, just outside my new apartment
on North Crescent Drive where, bizarrely, I am now living. Most
days, I don't cry, but tonight, as I think of Britain waking up
as I walk into dusk, I do. How did I get here? How did I, an
intelligent woman, teetering on the menopausal precipice of
life, end up pretty much alone, financially struggling, in a
strange city, staring at the wrong sid |
0.032261 | 10.134305 | 16 | Take the 2-minute tour × Is it any way to import/export Radio
Station list of Rhythmbox? If not, could you please suggest me
any good music player which has similar functionality like
Rhythmbox? Thank you! share|improve this question You mean
radio stations? – Javier González Jan 14 '11 at 20:35 Yes, I
mean radio stations – Bakhtiyor Jan 17 '11 at 11:01 add comment
3 Answers rhythmbox stores information about all music-files in
~/.local/share/rhythmbox/rhythmdb.xml Entries concerning
radiostations start with "entry type iradio". share|improve
this answer Yeah you are right, I knew that before. But I am
looking for some easier way, if one exists. – Bakhtiyor Jan 15
'11 at 11:56 add comment here's a python script to do the same
thing, i.e. extract names and locations of internet radio
stations from the xml data base used by Rhythmbox: import
xml.sax.handler import xml.sax import pprint class
RhythmboxPlaylistHandler(xml.sax.handler.ContentHandler):
def __init__(self): self.inRTitle = F |
-2.718496 | 1.346726 | -1 | Dr. Gawande: Teams at heart of better care 05/12/2014 10:32 AM
02/15/2015 11:19 AM Dr. Atul Gawande received widespread
attention after The New Yorker published his 2009 article about
two Texas towns that were starkly different from each other in
heath care costs and the culture of their medical communities.
In one, a culture of profit-making led doctors to over-treat
patients. In the other, costs were significantly lower because
the doctors worked more as teams when treating a patient and
focused more on quality of care than money. The clarity with
which Gawande described the issues involved has made the article
almost required reading for anyone working to solve the nation’s
health care problems. Gawande, an associate professor at the
Harvard University medical and public health schools and
director of the World Health Organization’s program to reduce
surgical deaths, was interviewed briefly after his UNC-Chapel
Hill commencement address on Sunday. The interview has been
edited for clarity and length. |
3.093943 | 2.02269 | -1 | The Wife Test by Betina Krahn, historical (2003) Berkley, $6.99,
ISBN 0-425-19092-7 Structurally, The Wife Test is written in a
way that mirrors the author's previous book, The Husband Test:
we have a road trip for the first half of the book, court stuff
in the second half, and enough stupid heroine antics to make me
wish someone would swat all these horrible creatures to pancakes
with some giant almighty fly-swatter. Seriously, watching Chloe
of Guibray and her entourage of near-nuns crashing through the
wilderness is like watching a bunch of children running through
a Nazi concentration camp thinking it's a new Girl Guide
jamboree gathering site. The stupidity begins early on, when
our heroine Chloe persuades the elderly nun to let her, a know-
it-all empty-headed loudmouth, lead the other four women from
the Convent of the Brides of Virtue to England. See, the patron
of the Convent, the Duke of Avalon, is unable to get his people
to raise enough ransom to free him. So he decides to use his
four "daughters |
-2.277197 | 3.207996 | 76 | Southwestern Deserts September, 2000 Regional Report Improve
Soil in Garden Beds To get the garden ready for fall crops, add
organic matter, digging a 4- to 6-inch layer of compost into the
soil to a depth of 12 to 18 inches, add fertilizer containing
nitrogen and phosphorous (desert soils have plenty of
potassium), and add soil sulfur (3 pounds per 100 square feet)
to enhance drainage and reduce alkalinity. Plant Cacti and
Succulents Propagate jointed cacti such as prickly pears and
chollas by cutting them with a clean, sharp knife at the joint.
Separate aloe and agave "pups" from their parents, retaining as
much root as possible. Allow the open cuts to callus for a week
before transplanting into well-drained soil. Their roots will
rot if kept too wet. Fall Plant Selection Late September and
October are prime planting months in the desert. Decide what
types of plants you want in your landscape, what cultural
requirements they have, and what conditions your landscape
provides. Look through plant books |
-0.374912 | -2.097659 | 128 | • Mon 49°F / 28°F Democratic Congresswoman Speaks Out Against
Syria Military Strike Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call(WASHINGTON) --
President Obama's efforts to win congressional support for a
resolution to hit Syria for its alleged use of chemical weapons
got a lot tougher Monday when a Democratic congresswoman from
his birth state said she wouldn't sign on to the plan. Tulsi
Gabbard, who was elected to the House last November, knows
something about war having served tours in both Iraq and Kuwait
with the Hawaii National Guard. Gabbard acknowledges that she's
disturbed by the deployment of chemical weapons that the
administration claims was launched by Syrian President Bashar
al-Assad's forces. However, Gabbard says that after weighing
all the evidence, "I have come to the conclusion that a U.S.
military strike against Syria would be a serious mistake." A
vote in the Senate for a resolution authorizing military force
is expected to be close but the House appears to be another
story with sentiment running heav |
3.756377 | 1.869152 | 5 | The BAM! Squad Jan 23, 20120 No. 2 - Surprise! Post
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ditto Andrew--It feels good watching Nene bond with Marlo. The
"talls" need each other to fight the opinionated short trolls. I
am liking Marlo more and more. I don't see her as a loose
cannon, I see her like a woman who stands up for herself and
doesn't allow anyone to treat her like crap. Can't wait until
Sheree goes off the show. She is really serving NO purpose.
Nene's friendship with Marlo is the most set-up, contrived bit
of "Housewife reality" I've seen to date. Nene can't get along
with anyone so Bravo bought her a friend. I like the NeNe &
Marlo combo. If Nene went by herself it would have been those 3
making snides remarks about her and Cynthia. As an outside
observer it seems NeNe is so over being on this show. I think
she "hangs on" because of the money and little else. Sheree
still seems so bitter about life and I am not sure how she is
funding her lifestyle. Kandi is becomin |
4.469465 | -4.414212 | 0 | San Francisco Giants: The Splash All about the San Francisco
Giants Buster Posey to start tonight despite throat injury
Thanks to rookie beat writer Alex Pavlovic, or as I call him my
lineup fetcher until I say he isn’t, we now know that Buster
Posey is starting tonight’s game against the Padres. Manager
Bruce Bochy said Friday night he would check on Posey to see how
he was doing after taking a bounced pitch to the throat. Posey
apparently must be OK. He is due for a day off Sunday. Marco
Scutaro, who was sick yesterday, must be feeling better, too.
The lineup against lefty Eric Stults: 1. Pagan CF 2.
Scutaro 2B 3. Sandoval 3B 4. Posey C 5. Pence RF 6. Nady
LF 7. Belt 1B 8. Arias SS 9. Bumgarner P Categories: SF
Giants |
-1.957999 | 3.761974 | -1 | The Observer (Kampala) Uganda: Oil - Uganda Still Has Chance to
Avoid Curse Tucked away in one of the tallest buildings in
Kampala is the oddly named 'National Social Security Fund.'
Oddly named because despite its intention to provide a soft
landing for salaried employees, NSSF is hardly a pension fund.
Most Ugandans in fact consider its deductions a form of
taxation. Recently the NSSF managing director, the former
banking official Richard Byarugaba, described the fund, now
easily Uganda's wealthiest purse beside the Central bank, as a
"monster." What he meant was that despite its lion size, the
fund is little more than a pussycat in the economy, meowing, not
roaring, scratching and not clawing forward at the opportunities
around it. Around the world these days it is fashionable to talk
of Africa's moment. On Sandhill road in the small but extra-
wealthy city of Palo Alto where Silicon Valley investors eager
for the next big find pitch their ventures, Africa is coming up
regularly. These venture funds c |
-0.837108 | -0.14302 | -1 | WASHINGTON, Jan. 21— A Congressional subcommittee investigating
investments in the United States by President Ferdinand E.
Marcos of the Philippines and his wife, Imelda, heard testimony
today from two lawyers who said they were told Mrs. Marcos owned
a Long Island estate and that she intimidated another investor
in the property. Possible corruption and what the subcommittee
chairman, Representative Stephen J. Solarz, a Brooklyn Democrat,
called a ''headlong, multibillion flight of capital'' led by the
Marcoses out of the Philippines, have become issues in the
presidential elections scheduled there on Feb. 7. Another
subcommittee member, Representative Toby Roth, Republican of
Wisconsin, accused Mr. Solarz of trying to unfairly influence
the outcome of the elections by holding the hearings now. Mr.
Solarz said the subcommittee staff had begun investigating the
Marcos holdings in September, before President Marcos called the
elections. He said delaying the hearings might make it appear he
was unfairly favori |
-1.407411 | -0.959223 | 63 | EDNA MORRIS President, Quincy's Family Steakhouse,
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talents on a much wider scale. Ladder climbing: Executive vice
president, human resources; senior vice president, human
resources; vice president of education and training, Flagstar
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1.974962 | 0.04521 | -1 | The Peace Pastor Pursuing Peace through Faith with the Rev.
Marty Troyer Roots of Violence #3: Why did Jesus have to die?
How did the violence of the cross come to be? And how was it
that Jesus, whom we proclaim to be Son of God, came to be killed
there? John allows us to sit in on a closed door meeting (John
11:47-50) of power brokers who choose the path of violence for a
specific reason. They are not choosing to be evil. Nor are they
choosing to appease a Holy God with a perfect sacrifice. No,
they are choosing violence as a means to peace. Same script as
Perry’s Texas (who will be executing it’s 500th person this
spring), and Zero Dark Thirty’s myth of redemptive torture.
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-0.923211 | -1.215625 | 3 | Disappointed with congressmen’s votes August 4th, 2013
Author: Administrator Filed Under: Opinion Dear Editor:
Rather than standing up for the rights and privacy of American
citizens, they chose to stand with the Administration and the
NSA in their continuing quest to spy on millions of innocent
Americans. House Republicans claim that they want an open
discussion on the issue of government surveillance, but nothing
could be further from the truth. What they really want is to
keep the average citizen in the dark about exactly how vast the
surveillance program really is. Our government is becoming
increasingly out of touch and out of control. They are using
9/11 and the war on terror as an excuse to slowly but surely
eliminate many of our basic rights and freedoms. Warrantless
wiretaps, secret courts, indefinite detention of American
citizens without due process, secret drone kill lists. How are
any of these things consistent with our Constitution? How are
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2.392755 | 1.715008 | 19 | Literature Glossary If we had a nickel for every time
someone asked us to define cliché… we'd have a nickel.
According to the brightest literary minds, clichés should be
avoided like the plague. So if you think clichés give you a way
with words, abandon ship. At one time, every cliché was as fresh
as a daisy and could take your breath away, but you know what
they say: when there are too many cooks in the kitchen, these
phrases just lose their cutting edge. Sometimes a cliché's not
just a cliché (and it's not always a phrase, either).
Shakespeare used clichéd characters with the best of 'em, but he
did it on purpose. Now that's poetry. We dare you to write an
entire paragraph entirely in clichés. But be warned: it's easier
said than done. (Trust us.) |
-1.830704 | 9.079172 | 59 | What is meta? × Possible Duplicate: Lose Rep Accomplishments…
I have just gotten close-voting privileges on SO. Jeff in the
past has talked about a rep-recalc coming in the future with
downvotes being increased to -5 points; if this is done, I may
well go below 3000 (I still don't understand some of my
downvotes...). Will I lose my close-vote privileges?
share|improve this question marked as duplicate by XMLbog,
ChrisF, GEOCHET, Troggy, Shogging through the snow Nov 3 '09 at
22:10 The great recalc is a myth, like Atlantis and fat-free
food that tastes good. – XMLbog Nov 3 '09 at 20:48 I didn't
think that podcast aired on April 1st? – C. Ross Nov 3 '09 at
20:50 Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and
seas boiling! Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes...
The dead rising from the grave! Human sacrifice, dogs and cats
living together... mass hysteria! – Adam Davis Nov 3 '09 at
20:52 Oh, it's not a myth. The Mayans predicted it... so did
Nostradamus. It's a widely believed fac |
2.332396 | 0.381191 | 44 | Psalm 10 (English Standard Version) View In My Bible Why Do
You Hide Yourself? 1 Why, O LORD, do you stand 1far away? Why
2do you hide yourself in 3times of trouble? 2 In arrogance the
wicked hotly pursue the poor; let them 4be caught in the schemes
that they have devised. 3 For the wicked 5boasts of the desires
of his soul, and the one greedy for gain 6cursesa and 7renounces
the LORD. 4 In the pride of his faceb the wicked does not 8seek
him;c all his thoughts are, 9"There is no God." 5 His ways
prosper at all times; your judgments are on high, 10out of his
sight; as for all his foes, he 11puffs at them. 6 He 12says in
his heart, "I shall not be moved; throughout all generations I
13shall not meet adversity." 7 14His mouth is filled with
cursing and 15deceit and 16oppression; 17under his tongue are
18mischief and 19iniquity. 8 He sits in ambush in the villages;
in 20hiding places he murders the innocent. His eyes stealthily
watch for the helpless; 9 he lurks in ambush like 21a lion in
his 22thicket; he 23 |
-3.21503 | 1.318184 | -1 | Smoking cigarettes is getting more and more taboo, even though
some still cling to the habit and some embrace it with the
accompanying pride of rebellion. In case you were wondering
what that cigarette is doing to you, this one shows a graphic of
amount vs. lung damage. There’s also a two sided cigarette,
although we’re honestly not sure how that’s supposed to work.
There’s also a cigarette with minutes counted down on
it—according to the artist, it’s to let you watch how much of
your life is slipping away. Barcelona-based Ernest Perera is
responsible for these unusual and bewildering cigarettes. The
Spanish are still very accepting of smoking in public places,
making this designer all the more edgy. |
4.079853 | 2.335214 | 5 | Nance's dazzling "An Oversimplification of Her Beauty" anything
but oversimplified By Sean Burns Share this Story: Terence
Nance (left) and Namik Minter in "An Oversimplification of Her
Beauty." “In layman’s terms, I got Friend Zoned,” Terence Nance
announces late into An Oversimplification of Her Beauty, summing
up in seven words this rambunctious multimedia kaleidoscope of
missed connections and unrequited affection. Audacious, playful
and sometimes quite sad, it’s also beyond self-indulgent and
wears a little thin over the long haul. But still, what a
dazzling debut. The title itself is something of a hoot, as
there’s nothing oversimplified about this picture. It’s expanded
from an autobiographical short film called How Would You Feel?
that Nance made in 2010 as a devotional object for his dreamgirl
(Namik Minter, whose name is redacted in the copious onscreen
text, but cheerfully plays herself all the same). They’re
friends without benefits, and Nance longs for so much more,
bemoaning her “serious co |
-1.049746 | 2.513898 | -1 | Australia Flooding Creates Global Ripple Effect - World - CBN
News - Christian News 24-7 - CBN.com Australia Flooding Creates
Global Ripple Effect Ad Feedback As flood waters
in Australia have covered an area larger than the state of
Texas, Queensland Treasurer Andrew Fraser has called the
flooding a "disaster of biblical proportion." The flooding is
also having a global impact on wheat and coal prices. It has
turned the city of Rockhampton's streets into raging rivers.
"What's happening here in Rockhampton is - well, I don't think
we're going to see it again for another 50 or 100 years," Anna
Bligh, Queensland State Premier, said. "That's the nature of
this event." Residents in the coastal city are bracing for the
rising waters to peak sometime in the next 24 hours. Hundreds of
people have already evacuated. Local police continue to go door-
to-door to check to see if anyone's still in their homes.
"We're still expecting that this potentially could be the second
or third largest flood that this regio |
-1.59442 | 8.905383 | -1 | If the answer to a question is patently in the official, easy to
find, obvious documentation, the question has little value
because: • it is a basic question that 99% of visitors would
already know • the answer is already published • any answer
given would not stay as current as official documentation So it
should be closed, but the existing close reasons don't cover it.
The most reasonable close reason would be a custom "...because
the answer is available in official on-line documentation".
However this situation happens more often (in my experience)
than some of the other pre-canned reasons. What about adding a
"the answer is available in official on-line documentation" to
the menu? Yes, I know it's already cluttered. I'd vote for
removing some of the "other site" shortcuts and move them into
the "other site" menu (one more click, big deal), leaving the
front off-topic menu for custom reasons. The close vote would
require a link to said documentation. Like duplicates, 4 other
people would need t |
0.570502 | 5.098753 | -1 | Good robots make jobs Kai Ryssdal: Marketplace's David
Brancaccio is making a very solo car trip this week, a long
lonely coast-to-coast drive in pursuit of the answer to this
question: As technology becomes more and more powerful in our
lives and in this economy, who's winning and who's losing? Who's
working and who's not? Here's David with another installment of
Robots Ate my Job. David Brancaccio: It's day four after
leaving the beach in New Jersey an I'm outside Oklahoma City
now, in 44 miles it will be the halfway point. I'm taking my
travel buddy, Wilson the Robot Dog, for a walk in the parking
lot before getting back into the car. Wilson the Robot Dog
barks Try listening to that for another 1,600 miles. My silver
plastic pal in his own AA battery powered way is a very
rudimentary virtual companion and for people who know how to
design, build or operate more cutting-edge robots it's a golden
age of full employment -- as I discovered before the trip when
visited one of the top robotics programs in |
0.288046 | 0.894569 | -1 | Procure por qualquer palavra, como sex: The list of people who
are duche's and just dont get it. set up with code names to
protect the identy of the guilty with varying levls of
retardation. i swear if that guy calls one more time he's moving
up on the old douchemeter. por olympiacos 21 de Dezembro de 2006 |
3.862189 | 0.58932 | 31 | Source: http://www.sing365.com Long Shadow ------Jackson
United Another song about you Swore I wouldn't do this again It
takes some getting used to strangers Become fast friends Eye to
eye we're disagreeing on everything Getting closer now to
desperate So desperately Stuck in frustration Holdin on to
nothing to no one Stuck in frustration Holding out giving in
moving on It's a long, long shadow from which I crawled out fo
But I can't complain Whispers and riddles we stick to the middle
It's harder every day Digging thru old thoughts of you sponsored
links That never fit quite right Stained and burned and torn and
bruised Now fight into fight I can't take this long I can't
fake this strong I keep moving on Anger's my anchor I sink to
the bottom Here come the vultures Circling closer |
-3.717968 | 2.456339 | -1 | Answer a question Ask a question When feeding ur baby,how do u
knw he or she is satisfied? Smtimes,my baby throws up
immediately after eating .i can't say may b it's over feeding or
he gets irritated by eatin a particular meal Posted: 04/03/2012
by Ayikra Mom Answers have you considered that he has reflux?
sounds like it my baby is constantly spewing and throwing up he
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0.566557 | 6.949452 | 68 | New Posts All Forums:Forum Nav: Halp, rewiring post #1 of 10
Thread Starter Anyone has any idea why both drivers would
require 3 wires? Can I wire them up in 2 wire per driver? post
#2 of 10 All drivers I believe have 2 needed connectors: In (+)
and ground (-). The reason some have 3 is because the 2 grounds
are connected. For example, the Q701's left driver has 4 wires
it appears. The 2 grounds are connected to the single pin on the
3 pin xlr, and then the right driver is connected via wire to
the left driver, so it appears that the driver has 4 wires, when
actually, it has only 2 needed. Do you have a multimeter? post
#3 of 10 And also, how exactly are you wanting to require these
headphones? Just recable, or reterminate, or balance? post #4 of
10 Thread Starter No multimeter till tomorrow, recabling these
headphones. It appears that the + of the left driver is
connected to the right as well for some weird reason. Ground is
the brown color cable that is soldered on the same place for
both drivers. |
-1.457539 | 7.234751 | -1 | Who the heck are these people? Highlight's social overload Too
many people, too little privacy: new location-aware friend
finder breaks privacy norms. I don't know you, but I know where
you are. Screenshot by Rafe Needleman/CNET Unlike Foursquare
or Facebook, it works without requiring check-in, which is what
makes it cool. The serendipity factor is just through the roof.
It'll tell you if a person you know (that is, a Facebook friend)
is in the coffee shop where you are standing in line. That's
assuming they are also a Highlight user. Which, if they're a
geek in the Bay Area or at SXSW, is pretty safe bet. This thing
is taking off. As Robert Scoble says, you can tell this app is
important, because it's already winning a bunch of haters. And
for good reasons. In fact, I have two. I've been using the app
for barely 48 hours here in San Francisco, and already I'm
overwhelmed with alerts from it, because Highlight seems to be
designed to help you connect with people you don't know just
yet: your Facebook |
-0.078981 | -0.242187 | 88 | Maine and Maryland made history on election night by becoming
the first states to legalize same-sex marriage by a popular
vote. An hour ago, Washington officially joined in by
confirming the passage of its own marriage equality measure,
Referendum 74. Minnesota also contributed to this election's
history-making by becoming the first state to defeat a
constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage. To put the
four-out-of-four sweep in perspective, before this year,
marriage equality made 32 ballot appearances and lost every
single time. That's a big fucking deal. Particularly when you
take into account that Maine voters rejected a same-sex marriage
bill just three years ago. Needless to say, celebration was
well warranted, and cameras were happily on hand in three of the
four states to capture the moment each marriage equality measure
passed (or, in the case of Minnesota, the moment the anti-
marriage-equality measure failed). Above: Minnesota (skip to
the 3-minute mark); Middle: Maryland; Bottom: Main |
1.611283 | 2.481615 | 62 | January 4th, 2011 - 11:13 am That Second Twirl of Princess Boy
Yesterday on the Today Show, Meredith Viera interviewed Cheryl
Kilodavis and her self-described "princess boy," Dyson, age 5
(left). Dyson likes to dress up like a princess, wearing tutus
and lots of pink. His mom used to push back against her son's
inclinations, trying to redirect him toward trucks and other
boyish things. But then her older son said, "Why can't you just
let him be happy, mom?" She realized that her discomfort with
her son's interests were more about her than about him. She has
since allowed him to dress and play however he wants and wrote a
children's book called "My Princess Boy" to help other kids and
parents who may face a similar situation. Personally, I'm
behind Dyson and allowing him to play however he wants, wear
whatever he wants, go to school in tutus, or whatever. Lord
knows my boys have enjoyed the not-so-occasional twirl in a
fairy or ballerina outfit (see exhibits A and B below). I was a
little conflicted, thoug |
0.02713 | -0.611899 | -1 | YOURSAY 'Speed does not kill, but reckless driving does.
Nevertheless AES should not be privatised, for God's sake.' AG:
AES trials on hold to address legal concerns your
sayMahashitla: Out of almost 300,000 summonses issued, only less
than 4 percent were paid. If AES (automated enforcement system)
is not cancelled, in less than one year more than a million
summonses would have been issued. The courts will be
overstretched and hundreds of thousands of warrants of arrest
will be issued. The police will have a field day bringing in
offenders every day. Lock-ups will be crowded every night and
more Black Marias will have to send these offenders to court
every morning. Soon the prisons will be filled with speeding
motorists. By not paying, the rakyat has sent a very strong
message to this 'do what I want' government that they no longer
tolerate its stupidity and greed anymore. Kgen: I don't think
BN is going to give up the AES. It is too lucrative for their
cronies. They are stopping the court charges becau |
0.420305 | 1.956108 | 75 | negotiating childcare arrangements- help needed (15 Posts)
typographicerrors Tue 19-Mar-13 16:09:11 my partner and I are
separating; after a long period of unhappiness on both our parts
I have met someone else and cannot attempt to make things work
any more. Partner is deeply hurt, angry, upset - understandably.
I want to be sensitive to his feeling but also want to work out
how we look after our two children - we have always shared
parenting evenly and fairly as we both work full time. Partner
wants me out of the house immediately and to retain custody of
the children; I want a proper conversation about what we think
is best for them rather than him dictate the terms. I dont
really know where and how to begin to sort things out; me being
in the house is creating tension that the children are picking
up on but I feel anxious about leaving the family home without
having some agreed arrangements in place about the children. Am
I being unreasonable? Lonecatwithkitten Tue 19-Mar-13 18:58:50
I would make a lis |
3.751638 | 2.029496 | 5 | Harrison is bleeding out! At least, that's the nightmare Dex
wakes to in the middle of the night when he hears his son cries
out and finds what looks like bloody footprints. Luckily, it's
just popsicle juice, and Harrison's biggest problem is a stomach
ache from eating an entire box. Dex cleans him up and gives him
Pepto — in full good-daddy mode. Meanwhile, Deb is also not
feeling great: She's passed out drunk in her car. An officer
finds her and arrests her for having hit a parking meter. Deb
bursts out laughing before saying, "Mother s—t." (Always good
for a new profanity, that Deb!) The cop, recognizing her, offers
to call Dex, but she instead dials Quinn — who comes to Miami
Metro and gets her out of trouble. In the light of morning, Dex
arrives at the team's latest crime scene: Lyle Sussman's cabin.
Sussman, however, is not where Dex found him last — hanging on
the porch — but instead face down in a bloody heap, having been
shot in the head. Dex suspects someone restaged the death to get
the cops off |
1.625921 | 6.85488 | -1 | Twelve identical point charges q are equally spaced around the
circumference of a circle of radius R. The circle is centered at
the origin. One of the twelve charges, which happens to be on
the positive x axis, is now moved to the center of the circle.
Find the magnitude of the net electric force exerted on this
charge. Express your answer in terms of some or all of the
variables q, R, and appropriate constants. Want an answer? No
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3.346446 | 3.64874 | -1 | Memory Alpha Bhigbout Aen 36,784pages on this wiki Bhigbout
Aen was the name of a deceased Acamarian. An autopsy performed
on the deceased person's body revealed the cause of death to be
cerebral hemorrhage. This hemorrhage was attributed to a sudden
onset of tissue inflamation following a spinal injury. The
deceased's death record was reviewed by the crew of the USS
Enterprise-D in 2366. (TNG: "The Vengeance Factor") Bhigbout
Aen seems to be named after John Bigbooté, a character from The
Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension. It was
one of several references to the movie in the records.
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violence test hello test By the BBC's Carolyn Dempster Rape is
endemic in South Africa. On this the police, politicians,
sociologists and rape survivors all agree. There is a silent war
going on, a war against women and children. It is a fact that a
woman born in South Africa has a greater chance of being raped,
than learning how to read. One in four girls faces the prospect
of being raped before the age of 16 according to the child
support group, Childline. Campaigner Charlene Smith Charlene
Smith, rape survivor and campaigner Believes solution to
combating sexual violence lies in: • the way mothers bring up
sons • greater community res |
4.239679 | 5.136882 | 66 | Meta Battle Subway PokeBase - Pokemon Q&A What are two other
good moves for a XtremeKiller Arceus? (Tribute to a legendary
Expert)? 0 votes A normal Arceus with Extreme Speed, Swords
Dance and __________ and __________. Which moves would be good
in the ______ sections? asked Feb 4, 2013 by Flare 1 Answer 2
votes Best answer Shadow Claw/Force (Credit to JCM for SF),
Brick Break (Credit to JCM on BB), and Recover are 3 that come
to mind. Brick Break takes Steels, Shadow Claw hits ghost types
like Giratina which wall you, and Recover would be for recovery,
but I suggest the first 2. As Ferrothorn and Giratina are both
extremely common in Ubers, and if you run Recover, one of them
walls you. answered Feb 4, 2013 by |SentByRavens| edited Feb 4,
2013 by |SentByRavens| I am completely with you Ben. Screwing
ghost and steel types who try and wall you is much more
satisfying than staying in long. Cause I hate ghost and steel
types. Dems annoying I actually don't agree with you. Brick
Break > EQuake for Steels, |
-0.663106 | 7.848201 | -1 | View the buyer's guide chart here. Wireless networks are
ubiquitous, but an enterprise environment demands much more than
the simple wireless routers used on home networks. An
enterprise-class router needs better security, better
performance, and more features than lesser routers. Most
importantly, however, an enterprise wireless router needs to be
able to manage the keys used to access it. Watch Your Standards
Wireless standards have stabilized substantially in recent
years. The older 802.11a, 802.11b, and 802.11g standards are
well accepted. While you still need to make sure that the
hardware in your router and the hardware you're going to use to
connect wirelessly support the same standards, the odds are good
that if you're OK with the speeds these standards provide,
you're not going to have to worry about what will and won't work
on your network. The 802.11n standard, however, raises more
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2.03596 | 2.766201 | 37 | Subscribe Feedback English look up any word, like totes magotes:
2 definitions by Buffalo Danger! Expressing a physical art such
as skateboarding in an excessively stylish manor. Derived from
the English Gnarly meaning "Quite dandy" and the English
suffixes dog shred meaning “to finely dice an animal that is
larger than a cat yet smaller than a horse." *Note* The word's
emphasis is largely expanded if surrounded by "cash-money" signs
as shown in the example bellow. Do not become bamboozled,
"Nardogshred" is not a widely accepted currency! Although
acceptations are made if Rad Percy is taking up residence in
your neck of the woods. That skate sesh was some straight up
$gnardogshred$ A slang term used to refer to the STD crabs,
usualy contracted over the internet. That website just gave me a
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2.994794 | -4.51158 | 38 | Print and Go Back NFL [Print without images] Friday, September
15, 2006 Palmer has lofty expectations for 2006 By Graham
Bensinger Special to Editor's note: Each week during the season
Graham Bensinger will be talking with high-profile NFL figures
for's Weekly Conversation. Graham Bensinger: Next week,
Bengals-Steelers … what comes to mind when you think about that?
Carson Palmer: They're the best team in football, a great
opponent, and got us the last time we played them. It's a huge
game. It's a division game and our rival. A game we need to win
going in to their place [Heinz Field]. It's going to be
exciting. Bensinger: What do you expect it to be like?
Palmer:: It's going to be a knock-down fight and a drag-out,
four-quarter battle. They are a very physical team and we're a
physical team. We match up well. They have a good defense. We
have a good offense. They have a good offense. We have a good
defense. It's a very evenly matched game. Whoever executes
better and plays their best football that day |
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huh?]]\\ '''Hadul:''' Yes! Just like... well, [[FreudWasRight
you know.]] --> -- ''Anime/OutlawStar'' (on the Caster Gun's
DeadlyUpgrade) Any situation which is made, sometimes for comic
effect, sometimes for dramatic effect, to look like another
situation -- not in the sense that it is [[NotWhatItLooksLike
mistaken for that other situation]] by any of the characters,
just in the sense that we the audience see the resemblance. The
characters do not. This sort of situation can lead to a
MistakenForIndex plot if some other character hears it out of
context. Alternatively it can refer to an [[CaptainErsatz
ersatz]] of something more familiar that the audience would
immediately |
3.301447 | -4.155848 | 38 | From Inside the Box: TV News and Buzz Follow Zap2it: A Few Words
With ... 'Southland's' C. Thomas Howell: ' I get Tweeted all
day long' c-thomas-howell-southland-tnt-325.jpgZap2it: Now that
your "Southland" character, LAPD Officer Bill "Dewey" Dudek, is
a regular, what's he up to? C. Thomas Howell: He has an old-
school point of view and perspective. He's been on the force for
25 years and seen everything. He's jaded and hardened, doesn't
trust anybody. All those things happen to these guys that have
been on the force for that long. A lot of them retire or quit,
can't take the heat. Zap2it: How do you see your role in the
large ensemble cast of "Southland?" C. Thomas Howell: I just
try to make our other actors look good. That's my job. I'm like
the fullback on the team. I'm the guy that hits the hole and
blocks when they're given the ball so they can score a
touchdown. It's an unglorified position, really. We're not going
to win a game unless somebody does it. Once you really
understand your role ... tha |
-2.466553 | 4.50765 | -1 | Business in China Recession's blessing Falling Western
demand is keeping high-quality Chinese goods in China See
article Readers' comments Jochen Chen Sir, a kind reminder:
the picture attached to the article reflects a supermarket
filled with people in Summer, but not the Winter. When in
Summer, the world economic is still good, at least compared with
the current situation. However, the supermarket may be nobody
now. Actually what this article describes is very much true.
Chinese has endured low-quality goods while exporting better
quality ones. The reason, though many, may very much be that:.
Government policies tilt towards export, subsidies are given to
exports, hence average Chinese is paying foreigner to have a
better quality product than themselves.. Government regulation
is more strict when it comes to exports. They require better
quality assurance. When tinted milk is found in majority of
manufacturers in China, very few is found among exported
products.. Competition for export is fierce a |