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Locks Of Love is a charity that makes wigs out of donated hair for children who have lost theirs due to cancer treatments or other medical reasons. Most people are familiar with Locks Of Love, for whom well-known hirsute people often go shorn in the name of charity and good faith. Tim McCarver, it would seem, is not one of these people. During a discussion of the previously- dreadlocked Darnell McDonald's new home on the Yankees, McCarver became stupefied by the idea a charity might actually want someone's hair, later asking "How much business does Locks of Love have?" It's a charity, Tim, they don't do "business." [FOX] Update (9:06 p.m.): McCarver later apologized:
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'Father' of Pakistan's atom bomb freed comments powered by Disqus More Comments: Randll Reese Besch - 2/13/2009 For extraordinary rendition then this is it. Like when the Israelis took Eichman from Argentina so it would be for any reasonable police operation to whisk Khan away to the Hauge for trial for international crimes. scott daniel kulm - 2/6/2009 Khan should probably go to jail for all that he did and the giverment needs to know that.
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Terraria: Collector's Edition Rating: 12+ (PEGI)     (1 customer reviews)  |  Write a review Customer Reviews "Average rating (1 reviews)" Results 1-1 of 1   Better than minecraft | | See all Matthew1999's reviews (5) this game is one of the best indie games i have ever played it is cheaper, funner and generally better than minecraft not to mention it is cheaper.me and my friend both bought it and had the time of our lives playing it. Would deffinately recommend it. BTW it is cheaper on steam going for only 6 pounds
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To Five Star Laser Home Page Mar-12-2014 23:48 : 0 Items Shaw brothers movies on DVD Hong Kong TVB Chinese TV series Chinese Blu-Ray movies Basic Interests DVD SKU #:12213 (4890391107381) Title:Basic Interests Starring: Guo Da , Yang Suo , Wang Jun Director:Feng Xiao Ning Aspect Ratio:Anamorphic Widescreen 16:9 Media Format:DVD - NTSC Region Code:All Regions Running Time:96 Minutes Studio: Mei Ah Entertainment Production: 2005 Price: US$11.95 Shipping Unit: 1 Audio Spec:Dolby Digital Subtitles:English , Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese With the same name, this film is based on the best-selling documentary book "Basic Interests". The folk song in the China plateau flows from generation to generation unmasking the hardships of the peasants. The spark out of a fighting between villagers reveals the untold stories, which are about a warrior; a meeting with the authority being waited for thirty-two years; and a group of poor peasants being oppressed. What are the underlying causes? And what are the rati
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Slash Boxes All the Perl that's Practical to Extract and Report More | Login | Reply Loading... please wait. • Yes, include all common and useful things in perl distribution. The default really matters. Include LWP in the default distibution, include an XML parser in the default distribution, include DBI and most popular DBD functionality. Ask users what they use most commonly and include it. No, it really doesn't work to tell anybody that you can get it from CPAN. IF there is no builtin XML support, people simply think that perl doesn't have XML support. If perl doesn't come with Mailtools by default, perl doesn't support email, etc. What happens is that majority of the users are located on virtual hosting servers. Each server probably host 400-500 domains/users. Well lets consider CGI users for a second. I am pretty sure these correspond to a big percentage. The admin usually installs (compiles) the default perl and that is it. They don't want to touch it just in case if it breaks something else.
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"This is Broadway" was a series of short radio interviews with Broadway luminaries conducted by Isobel Robins and Richard Seff. The interviews, produced by The League of New York Theatres and Producers (now the Broadway League), were used to promote Broadway circa 1977 and syndicated to radio stations around the country. They appear here through a collaboration between The Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing.
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The Place of the Bass In 1947,George Pal made a classic puppetoon called “Tubby the Tuba,”which was the story of a tuba that wanted to go beyond oom-pahing all night and get the front- line attention given to those horns that played the melody. Dismissed as foolish by a class conscious French horn,Tubby became despondent until a bullfrog gave him the confidence to believe in his register; the tale ended with him getting the lead after showing the conductor he could croon his stuff. It was another American fable about democratic values. In the world of jazz, the Tubby issue has two sides: one good, one bad. If Tubby was in New York and left after his orchestra gig to go hear Buster Williams at the Village Vanguard some months back when he opened a set with an unaccompanied feature on “Summertime,” the puppetoon hero would have wanted to trade in his brass for lacquered wood, a bridge and four heroic strings. Williams marvelously summed up everything that has happened on his instrument since Charles Mingus,be
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Rumors of Our Acquisition Were Greatly Exaggerated Various people are alternately scolding or feeling scolded about the falseness of month-ago rumors that not-yet-launched photo recognition service Riya is being acquired by Google. Relax, people. Fine, Riya wasn’t bought. And fine, the initial accounts that an acquisition was impending have turned out to be incomplete. But so what? That sort of thing — rumors of an impending acquisition that then doesn’t happen — is commonplace in the capital markets. Matter of fact, it is one of the essential information-discounting mechanisms by which markets and prices incorporate data. Sometimes that data is correct, sometimes it is incorrect. Telling people to keep quiet until they have all their info-ducks lined up does, however, show a lack of sophistication about how capital markets work. Because acquisition rumors, large and small, can play many roles. Sometimes it is the way that senior employees or investors register unhappiness with a CEO. Sometimes it is the
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Location: Alternate Reality Discussion: Schrödinger's catReported This is a featured thread Showing 1 post Schrödinger's cat Feb 3 2010, 2:02 PM EST | Post edited: Feb 3 2010, 2:02 PM EST My thoughts on the season premeire was how this parallels the Schrödinger's cat experiment. As I was talking with a few of my friends, they too brought up the same experiment. For those that are not familar with the experiment, here is a brief overview: A cat is placed in a box which also has a container filled with poison. The box is closed, so you cannot see what is happening inside. It is not known if the poison container is broken. If it brakes, the cat dies, but if it doesn't, the cat lives. Because you cannot see what is inside and do not know the outcome, the cat is both dead and alive at the same time. When the box is open, only one result can occur in this reailty, but in another reality the opposite outcome happens. This is very similar to Flight 815. It both crashes and lands safely at the same time. But only
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Oregon’s Dilemma: How To Measure Health? Apr 26, 2013 There are hundreds, if not thousands, of ways to track the health of a population: the average blood pressure of a large group of people, the rate of mental illness, the average weight. Epidemiologists have been collecting this kind of data for years, but now, in Oregon, there is cold, hard cash riding on these metrics. In a special experiment that is part of the health law, the Obama Administration gave Oregon almost $2 billion to come up with its own system to coordinate care better. The idea is to get doctors, nurses, hospitals and other caregivers to work together – and get paid well -- to keep people healthy and to get rid of wasteful, unnecessary care. Sarah Bartelmann of the Oregon Health Authority’s Metrics and Scoring Committee says it was hard to boil down the list. There was "a lot of discussion and the conflict was where the data would come from and if it was something the state could easily report on," she says. Oregon decided on 33 meas
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Audi Glossary Light Sensor The light sensor measures the surrounding light conditions with the aid of a photocell. If the headlight control switch is set to “Auto”, the low-beam headlights are automatically activated at dusk. The light sensor is usually combined with the rain sensor, located on the windshield and just behind the rearview mirror.
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Best matches, sorted by the Matches. 1-20 of 20 possibilities opponent's position angle Russian anarchist; ally and later opponent of Karl Marx (1814-1876) Bakunin , Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin , Mikhail Bakunin wrestling hold with arms locked tightly around the opponent bear hug sport of attacking one's opponent using punches boxing (tennis) a score consisting of winning a game when your opponent was serving break , break of serve fighter who strikes the opponent with his head butter removal of an opponent's piece from the chess board capture obstructing an opponent in ice hockey check (chess) a direct attack on an opponent's king check checkerboard game for two players who each have 12 pieces; the object is to jump over and so capture the opponent's pieces checkers , draughts chess move constituting an inescapable and indefensible attack on the opponent's king checkmate , mate board game for two players who move their 16 pieces according to specific rules; the object is to checkmate the opponent's king
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Quarterback concerns Carolina Head Coach John Fox said he will start Jake Delhomme next week. Philadelphia, PA (Sports Network) - If you had Drew Brees, Adrian Peterson or the Philadelphia Eagles defense/special teams in your starting lineup, in all likelihood you are smiling today. But what about the rest of use who struggled in Week 1. What should we be thinking about some of the ugly performances behind center which we saw on Sunday? Let's look at some of the weak quarterback results in Week 1. Nine interceptions and two fumbles in his last two games...Can Jake Delhomme really be this bad? Although Delhomme doesn't get started in a lot of leagues (less than 5% in Week 1), his favorite wide receiver, Steve Smith, is supposed to be a fantasy stud. Head Coach John Fox said he will start Delhomme next week so before I panic and try to trade Smith while his value is low, I'll see how the quarterback situation plays out. I was not impressed by either of Delhomme's backups - Josh McCown or Matt Moore. I'm n
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Ready to get started?Download WordPress Tables used for layout (3 posts) 1. zdislaw Posted 4 years ago # I know that 90% or more users of this theme will never have a problem with the use of tables for layout (either practical or "theological"), but I would love to see the tables defining the sidebar layout go away in favor of divs. My reason is on the practical side (though theologically I dislike the use of tables for layout as well). Basically, I don't want to be limited to only vertical sidebars, but be able to position divs that could make up more complex layouts. For example: | header | | left | inner left | | MAIN | | right | | inner rt | | footer | This would enable me to make a more graphically complex homepage design using this template and not custom code myself out of being able to upgrade in the future. Any ideas? 2. I'm not sure what you are talking about. I've never seen tables in any themes. I've also been able to code graphica
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Vodafone, Cosmote 3G on Linux (wvdial and umtsmon) The following configs can be used when you have either Vodafone Mobile Internet or Cosmote Internet on the Go or both 3G USB sticks and you want to connect to the 3G Internet (in Greece) while using Linux. I’ll provide two ways to connect to 3G, the command line way using wvdial and the GUI way using umtsmon. 1) Using wvdial Create /etc/wvdial.conf: [Dialer Defaults] New PPPD = yes Dial Command = ATDT Dial Attempts = 1 Modem = /dev/ttyUSB0 Modem Type = Analog Modem ISDN = 0 #commented out see the comments on the post. #Baud = 460800 Username = user Password = pass Init1 = ATZ Init2 = AT&F E1 V1 X1 &D2 &C1 S [Dialer cosmote] Phone = *99# Stupid Mode = 1 [Dialer vodafone] Phone = *99# Stupid Mode = 1 [Dialer vfPIN] Init4 = AT+CPIN=1234 [Dialer cmPIN] Init4 = AT+CPIN=5678 WARNING: You HAVE to change the PINs on the last part of the config To connect to Cosmote, plug in the usb stick: # wvdial cmPIN # wvdial cosmote To connect to Vodafone, plug in the usb
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The Unspoken Rules of Etiquette for Unisex Bathrooms 4. Do Restock the Toilet Paper We're going to go out on a limb and say that toilet paper is pretty vital to the bathroom experience. It's already awkward when you have to ask a stranger to take pity and pass some extra TP between stalls, but this weirdness could reach previously unkown levels of discomfort if you have to cross gender lines. Pay it forward for that next patron on the potty and find a way to replenish their supply. Don't leave anyone stranded: It's hard enough in there as it is. blog comments powered by Disqus
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Hike in state minimum wage isn't the right total on April 09, 2013 at 5:18 PM, updated April 09, 2013 at 5:21 PM     Let’s do some math re: The recent hike in the state minimum wage.     The number of Democrats elected to the state Senate: 33.     The number of Republicans elected to the state Senate: 30.     The number of senators who said they supported raising the minimum wage right away to $9 an hour: 32. A majority.     The percentage of New York voters who supported raising the minimum wage: 80 percent. A majority of whom wanted a raise closer to $10 than to $9.     Republican voters by 2 to 1 wanted a minimum wage hike.     Then how did we come up with a minimum wage hike of only $8 an hour this year? Sen. Jeff Klein and his Independent Democratic Conference group, including Sen. Diane Savino of Staten Island: Five Democrats who gave power to the minority Republicans in order to make “democracy work” better.  How much money will low-income workers lose by delaying the minimum wage hike to
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You are here Feeding a 1 yr old? I know  some of you have 1 yr olds on here, so I am curious as to what you feed your baby? when merrick was a yr old i fed him mac and cheese casserole with different cut up veggies and a little meat (when he would want to eat meat) in it, spicy ramen noodles with different veggies, crackers, chips, pretzels, if i left the fridge door open then he would get a apple and eat the whole thing. ;D  lol, the gerber graduates corn in the pouch is actually good to much on urself, dunno about the other stuff they have like that. When my son was 1 (he's 2.5 now) he was still breastfeeding so food was really still being introduced at that point, it was more about him learning how to feed himself, since he had another source of nutrition. I never fed him baby food. He ate grapes (always cut them in half!) whole grain cereals, frozen peas (which he still loves!) bread....some whole grain crackers... yep... that's pretty much it! Toddlers will eat what they need to eat and their nutrit
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Reply to a comment Reply to this comment cookinglawman writes: in response to Waldenwa: Bricks, Knives, and Cars are all good examples of people using whatever to kill others, but assault rifles greatly increases the number of people that can be killed very quickly. These guns are only needed for law enforcement or the military. Your post is reasonable. If I agree that maybe there should be a moratorium on the sale of certain firearms to the general public, would you be satisfied or would you want all lawfully owned firearms of the variety mentioned currently in the hands of law abiding citizens confiscated? I absolutely support anyone who wants to turn in their guns voluntarily, but do you believe that it should be mandatory and if so, what methods used by our benevolent government to seize lawfully obtained firearms from law abiding citizens would you support? Should law abiding owners be paid market value for voluntarily surrendering the "certain firearms" and should they be allowed to keep them if th
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People of the Book Summary Extended Summary Sarajevo and Vienna, Spring 1996 At one time, Sarajevo had been a close- knit, modern enclave of Muslims, Christians, and Jews. But in 1996, the city is engulfed in civil war. Hanna Heath is a book conservator who arrives in Sarajevo during a ceasefire in the Bosnian Civil War. Every step she takes is watched over by designated United Nations and local army officials. She has never been in a war zone before and is a bit intimidated. Her tensions are somewhat eased when she is presented with the ancient Jewish Haggadah. The Haggadah had recently been rediscovered and the Sarajevo community wanted to display the book as a symbol of the city’s own survival and its multicultural and multi-religious ideal. Hannah’s task is to restore the holy book to its original state. She carefully turns the pages of this illustrated text and is amazed by what she sees. The more she examines the book, the more fascinated she becomes by its history. She wonders why Amitai Yomtov, the
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What most people don't know is that this feature actually went in incomplete. I've had grand plans to finish this, but it's a biggish project and I've simply never had the time to do it. What I mean by incomplete is that the underlying framework of this feature actually involves a process internally known as a 'rendering pipeline' (or just 'pipeline'). This pipeline contains a number of rendering possibilities and it chooses one based on available information. If you've used Page Manager extensively, you've seen this before. It's called a Variant, and it lets you pick the page that's actually displayed based upon selection criteria. Typically this involves things like user access, or node type, or taxonomy term type, or other, less-used items such as user language. In most places you can put a panel, if you have the Panels IPE module there is a radio selector that lets you pick the standard renderer, or the IPE renderer. In reality, both of these are pipeline selectors. The standard renderer always select
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Why Having a Pen Name Can Be a Risky Move Mask Image Having a pen name is one of the oldest traditions of being a writer. Even Homer, the famed author of the Illiad, is more of a mythical figure than a real person. Writer’s select pen names for a variety of reasons. Some feel their “real” lives might be harmed if it is known what they write, others just think a new name sounds better and still others want to try two different writing styles or subjects without interference from past works. In fact, even publishers can demand an author use a pen name, as was the case with J.K. Rowling. [Read more…] Content Freelance Writing Gigs
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<I>Don't</I> Leave Them Speechless This story first appeared in the August 2002 issue of Startups. To receive the magazine, click here to subscribe. You've found a good prospect, you've grabbed their attention, and you think they are interested in what you're selling. Time to pull out your best sales presentation and then go for the close, right? I see it on a daily basis, in every industry, at every level. It happens on the telephone, in the showroom, on a customer visit or sales call and even in the boardroom. New and seasoned salespeople alike want to jump to the good part of selling--they want to wow prospects with a powerful presentation that leaves them speechless. Unfortunately, that is usually what happens: What used to be a solid prospect sits speechless, and you have nowhere to go in this sales relationship but back to your office. What started out as a promising sales call quickly grinds to a halt. Every salesperson has experienced at least one of these stalled sales calls. If you are serious a
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Exclusive: Busta Rhymes Reacts To His Conglomerate Protégé Blowing Up Monday, Sep 10, 2012 2:55PM Written by Cyrus Langhorne With the buzz continuing to build around his Conglomerate protégé Reek Da Villiain, rap veteran Busta Rhymes recently spoke to SOHH about watching the emcee finally blossom into the hip-hop spotlight. In Busa Busss' opinion, he simply offered Reek an opportunity and the New York rapper cashed in by dismantling guest verses and heating up the airwaves. "I definitely feel like a proud dad or a proud big brother," Busta told SOHH when asked for his reaction to seeing Reek blow up as of late. "I think it's more like a proud big brother because Reek is an adult and he's able to make judgement calls on his own. It ain't like I've got to tell him how to do everything. You know what I'm saying? I don't feel like his father but I definitely feel like his big brother that just provided the right guidance. The dude knows what he's doing, knows what he wants and he knows how to get it done. I'
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WSU Libraries Directory You may use any or all of the following criteria to find information. You may type in a partial name if you don't know the complete spelling. For example, typing "joh" will retrieve all persons with "joh" in either their first or last name (ie. John or Johnson). To find Library or Departmental Fax numbers, Main numbers, and Conference rooms - type "Fax", "Main" or "Conference" in the Name box. Contact Us | Website Feedback
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Collapse pasting in R January 30, 2012 (This article was first published on The Geokook. » R, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) How do you take a vector in R, and paste the individual elements together?  Easy, a loop.  No, bad! **slap on the wrist**  Here’s an example why not.   So let’s start by concatenating a few character strings and showing some examples using base::paste: a <- c("something", "to", "paste") [1] "something" "to" "paste"  > paste(a, sep="_")  [1] "something" "to" "paste" > paste(a, collapse="_") [1] "something_to_paste" > paste(a, sep="_", collapse="-") [1] "something-to-paste" And there we have it, a simple example demonstrating the difference between a separator expression and a collapse expression without using a hideous loop.   So finally the moral: read the help pages! Comments are closed.
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Take the 2-minute tour × Suppose I have a python function that takes two arguments, but I want the second arg to be optional, with the default being whatever was passed as the first argument. So, I want to do something like this: def myfunc(arg1, arg2=arg1): print (arg1, arg2) Except that doesn't work. The only workaround I can think of is this: def myfunc(arg1, arg2=None): if arg2 is None: arg2 = arg1 print (arg1, arg2) Is there a better way to do this? share|improve this question I'm just rethinking this, it might be possible to achieve with a decorator. It's going to be unclear what it does at first glance so probably a bad idea, but it's an idea. –  marcog Jan 1 '11 at 19:39 add comment 3 Answers up vote 9 down vote accepted As @Ignacio says, you can't do this. In your latter example, you might have a situation where None is a valid value for arg2. If this is the case, you can use a sentinel value: sentinel = object() def myfunc(arg1, arg2=sentinel): if arg2 is sentinel:
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Adding Documents to a Page What You Will Learn • How to add documents to your page by linking text directly to documents you've already uploaded into Tridion Quick Steps 1. Highlight text in "Text and Tables" field of content component; click on "Hyperlink" button in Format tab 2. Select Component from "Type' menu; pick document and click OK 1. After uploading your document(s) in your Building Blocks folder as multimedia components (click here for instructions on how to upload a document), open the page and then the Content component that contains the text that is relevant to your document(s). 2. Create text and/or find text in your paragraph that relates to your document. Bold this text to help it stand out. 3. Highlight the bolded words. Then in the Format tab, click on the "Hyperlink" button. A small window will appear on your screen. 4. From the Type drop down menu, select Component. Then click on the yellow folder next to this field. Tridion will take you to your Building Blocks folde
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Galitzine vs. Dvorak on VoIP Tom Keating : VoIP & Gadgets Blog Tom Keating Galitzine vs. Dvorak on VoIP Uhhh, so the DSL providers are intentionally degrading their data DSL connections because they are afraid of cannibalizing their voice revenue? That's ridiculous. Not to mention most DSL providers are INCREASING their DSL speeds lately to keep up with cable providers increasing their bandwidth. The funny thing is that two years ago Dvorak posted a POSITIVE article on VoIP in 2003 titled "Free Phone Calls". In this article he mentions that he used a Cisco ATA-186 in a hotel on the road using Vonage and how he could make and receive phone calls anywhere in the world for free. Let me pull a few interesting quotes: 1) "I made a few calls. Perfect. In fact, the line was cleaner than the one I have at home. I could make unlimited calls from the hotel room. And I could receive calls as though I were at home." Ok, Dvorak two years ago the VoIP calls were perfect and now in 2005 they suck? What gives? 2) "T
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You are here: Home>Collections>Laws Put down by his in-laws, man injures wife, kills her family Nitin Yeshwantrao, TNN Nov 20, 2012, 01.07AM IST THANE: Upset with the humiliation at the hands of his in-laws, a 30-year-old man stabbed his wife's aunt and her aunt's brother to death. He also injured three others, including his wife. The accused, Azeem Hanif Shaikh, and Aliya, were in a live-in relationship before getting married a week ago. The couple shifted from their home at Amrut Nagar in Mumbra to a single-room tenement at Shirin Villa in Kausa. Most of his in-laws occupied tenements in the same building and the couple were immediate neighbours of Aliya's aunt, Zakira Qureshi (38), and her husband Mohammed Faiyaz Anwar Qureshi (40). Police said Aliya's family was not in favour of the marriage as Shaikh did not have a steady job. Upset about their relationship, the family would never hesitate to voice their displeasure in public. On Monday, the Qureshis were engaged in a heated argument, presumably ove
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Take the 2-minute tour × I'm a LaTeX beginner. Up until now whenever I've created a table (using the tabular environment) LaTeX floats it in its own paragraph, between my lines of text. However, I want a way to embed a small table within a paragraph (to the left or right), having the text flow around it. Is there a simple way to do this without having to exert too much manual control over the formatting? share|improve this question Not a programming question. –  Cayle Spandon Mar 6 '10 at 15:49 LaTeX is a scripting language. You can compare it with PHP, but the output is not a webpage but a PDF page. –  Pindatjuh Mar 6 '10 at 15:52 add comment closed as off topic by Will May 6 '12 at 20:28 1 Answer up vote 3 down vote accepted % 0.5\columnwidth is 50% of the width for text. It will wrap to the "outer" % of the current page, and thus if you have double-sided print, it'll still look % good. % The centering will look nice (else it's left-aligned, which isn't nice) % Having your own tabular here. Hello & W
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Media Approval Ratings: Craig Sager By now, the factoid that Craig Sager was one of the guys who followed Hank Aaron around the bases on his record-breaking home run has been considered unknown for so long that it's now known by everybody. (If that makes sense.) Here's something we didn't know about Sager, though: He's six-foot-four. That's, you know, taller than most people. Also, Sager is married to a former Luv-a-Bull dancer for the Chicago Bulls. Way to go, Craig! Oh, and sometimes he wears some unusual suits. The best part about this is that he never seems to believe they're all that unusual. So: Do you like the Craig Sager? Do you not like the Craig Sager? Operators are standing by.
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Friday, December 9, 2011 Picking the Right Driver We are very excited to announce the availability of the fourth generation G-Series 1 VP8 hardware decoder, internally codenamed “Driver”. In this release, our focus has been on optimizing the VP8 bitstream decoder. The new architecture helps the IP run at 13% higher operating frequency allowing the decoder chips to reach higher frame rates or do multi-channel decoding more easily. At the same time, the new implementation has reduced the decoder’s logic gate count by 6% which directly cuts the production cost of each chip incorporating a WebM hardware decoder. Furthermore, the revamped design allows us to do even more optimizations for the next release. With future video requirements in mind, we designed Driver to decode up to 4k by 4k video resolutions. To make the IP evaluation easier for a chip company, the deliverables now include a bit-exact decoder C-model. This allows partners to create their own test cases for thorough performance analysis. Modern
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Battle of the Year Set Visit: Director Benson Lee Interview Source: Heather Newgen May 13, 2013 Director Benson Lee talked to on the set of his new film Battle of the Year and tells us about his latest project: Q: From the beginning, were you thinking, "I've got to make a feature film too?" Benson Lee: Well, when I finished the documentary, I thought this could make a great dance feature, because I had seen all of them, in terms of the urban dance genre. I lived the drama of this event, which had pretty much like a Cinderella ending. I realized this would make for a great feature. After we premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, a lot of producers came up to me and said, "We'd like to make this a features." We went with Tripp Vinson and Beau Flynn from Contrafilm, they took it to Screen Gems, and that's where we are today. Q: Can we expect to see any of the same dancers from the documentary? Absolutely. There are definitely some of the same dancers from the documentary in the feature. Q: How did you go a
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Reply to a comment Reply to this comment visitingcanadian writes: in response to Tiz: So you would be happy to pay 4$ a gallon? Are you happy paying 5.30$ a gallon now? I’m not happy with what it is or what it is predicted to become. If you wish to be complacent, that’s your choice. If the Canadian government is fleecing its citizens then try to do something about it. Frankly, I couldn’t give a rat’s rear about what people in another country pay for anything. Gas prices are up 93% since Obama took office; sounds like everything is going according to his plan. I guess you have a short memory because in 2008 just before Bush junior and his buddies tanked the economy you were paying 4 dollars a gallon and it was rising fast.Just to make a comparison you pay almost 3 dollars a gallon for coca-cola and over 5000 dollars a gallon for printer ink with out much complaint.At least gas gives you something for your dollar.
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Subject: Re: Write a translating FS layer instead (Was: Re: Mount option to ignore case) To: Bill Studenmund <> From: Bill Sommerfeld <> List: tech-kern Date: 04/03/2002 13:52:30 > Actually I think case preserving drops out. As long as the name that gets > handed to VOP_CREATE() has the same case as the original system call did, > we preserve case. So as long as we leave the name alone, I think we're > fine. :-) One clear loose end: how do you handle two processes simultaneously attempting to create equivalent but not equal names?
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Take the tour × I've just completed Act 1 - and looking at the achievements, it seems there are several which have not awarded because the requisites have been marked as not completed. For example: The Last of the Horadrim Achievement which says complete all quests in Act 1, has few quests marked as incomplete even though I I'm pretty sure I've completed them. Why is this so? achievement list share|improve this question add comment 1 Answer up vote 3 down vote accepted The servers, overburdened as they were, had a hard time synchronizing all achievements the first few days after release. Official Blizzard response I had the same issue, and actually had to redo some bosses in Act I to get the "kill boss X" achievement. share|improve this answer I have the achievements for lvl 10, 30, and 40. But I missed the one for lvl 20. –  Sjoerd May 19 '12 at 10:49 thanks for adding the link to Blizzard's reply! –  Sathya May 22 '12 at 7:54 add comment Your Answer
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this is borrowed heavily from the "different trivia game" thread, but what are some of your favorite lines from films? here are a few of mine: "You have no idea!" - Jeremy Irons, in Reversal of Fortune The President: Oh, God! General Zod: Zod. - Terrence Stamp, in Superman II Mike: "Well, I mean it's pretty hairy in there. It..It's Charlie's point." Kilgore: "Charlie don't surf." - Robert Duvall, in Apocalypse Now "He has a pressing engagement." Gert Frobe, in Goldfinger ...and so many more!!!!!
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Wednesday, October 24, 2012 Missing Something on the Final Moyer He had a nice run, but Jamie Moyer's career is finally over.  Topps was nice enough to include a card of him in the Update set. Unfortunately, something is missing from the back, though.  Take a look. I don't think I've seen this before on a Topps card....incomplete career stats.  Instead of going back to his debut with the Cubs in 1986, Topps starts with his 1995 stats.  Last year they were able to squeeze in his entire career. But I guess they didn't want to go with a small font on the 2012 card.  What a shame.  The guy has a career that lasted 26 years, but Topps couldn't deviate from its template and put in his entire career.  Boo! This is Moyer's first card as a major leaguer, issued by the Cubs in 1986.  Who would have thought that his career wouldn't end until 2012.  I sure didn't. To give you a little perspective on just how long Moyer was in the majors, I've got the Mindset List from Beloit College.  Each year they put together a
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Public Health Statement for Endosulfan June 2013 CAS# 115-29-7 Public Health Statement PDF PDF Version, 349 KB We define a public health statement and show how it can help you learn about endosulfan. A public health statement summarizes information about a hazardous substance. The information is taken from a toxicological profile developed by ATSDR's Division of Toxicology and Human Health Sciences (DTHHS). A toxicological profile is a thorough review of a hazardous substance. This toxicological profile examines endosulfan including the α-isomer, β-isomer, and the degradation product, endosulfan sulfate. This public health statement summarizes the DTHHS's findings on endosulfan, describes the effects of exposure to it, and describes what you can do to limit that exposure. Endosulfan at hazardous waste sites The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) identifies the most serious hazardous waste sites in the nation. U.S. EPA then includes these sites the National Priorities List (NPL) and targe
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Tuesday, January 15, 2008 This dude caught a swordfish with his bare hands. Overheard on the streets of New York: Stuffy white lady pushing stroller, to friend: I can't believe people are actually taking Justin Timberlake seriously these days. --Central Park West Health student #1: It's a man's obligation to stick his boneration in a women's separation to increase the population of the younger generation. I got this information from the board of education... Health student #2: No, it should go like this: It's a man's obligation to stick his cockulation into a women's ventilation to increase the population of the younger generation of our nation. I got this information from the board of education. If you want a demonstration, lie down. --Middle school, Manhattan Dude #1: They have been underestimating my power. Dude #2: What? Dude #1: They have been underestimating my power for quite some time now. Dude #2: What are you, a supervillain? Who's been underestimating your power? The justice league? Dude #1: N
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Windows 8 on a MacBook Air: Beautiful and Kinda BrokenS The MacBook Air is the most beautiful piece of computing hardware you can put in front of your face. Windows 8 is arguably the most exciting software counterpart right now—sorry, Mountain Lion. So what happens when you mix? Well, maybe not what you'd hoped. Now of course, caveats aplenty here. Windows 8 is in Consumer Preview mode right now—this isn't the final plate, just a taste. What Microsoft released today is meant to be toyed with and dug around into, but not to replace your current OS. It's an unfinished product. There will be bugs. Windows 8 on a MacBook Air: Beautiful and Kinda BrokenS Apple also doesn't officially support Windows 8—fire up Boot Camp, and it'll refer only to Windows 7. Close but no cigar. This means the driver foundation Apple prepared for Windows isn't right for this Windows—you're kind of building a house on mud, here. And nobody's denying that. Unfinished software on unsupported hardware isn't for the meek—but, damnit, we
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Slash Boxes All the Perl that's Practical to Extract and Report More | Login | Reply Loading... please wait. • The fact that it has no dependencies makes it even more compelling. Really? You honestly think that a webapp framework should also ship with its own object system, its own cookie parser, its own HTTP server, its own HTTP header system, and to top it off, its own new templating system! I look at Mojo and can only think that it represents the height of foolish arrogance, and I for one am repelled by it. Catalyst is far from perfect, but at least the Catalyst developers can concentrate on building a web framework • What's wrong with a framework that has such a low barrier to entry? As Ovid wrote, there is very little required to use it. It's almost like baby talk for a Perl web framework. What would be wrong with getting to learn about frameworks with Mojolicious::Lite and when you understand them, try to move to the more complete and "grown up" Catalyst. Fro
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Sand-Swimming Creature (CR +0) This simple template can only be applied to creatures with the aquatic subtype. Sand-swimming creatures swim through sand instead of water. A sand-swimming creature's quick and rebuild rules are the same. Rebuild Rules: Type lose the aquatic subtype, gain the earth subtype; Speed replace swim speed with an equivalent burrow speed, gain earth glide; Environment any desert.
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The Simplest And Most Powerful Strength And Muscle Building Strategies On The Internet... Without All The Usual Bullshit And Broscience! Is your neck hurting everytime you Squat? Are you therefore doing Squats using one of those bar pads, manta rays, or worse, wrapping a towel around the bar? If so - you're not Squatting with the bar properly positioned in your back. Think about it - how else could I Squat 400lbs wearing just a cotton t-shirt? And why do StrongLifts Members like Jake Squat well over 600lbs without using that sissy pad? Obviously, because we Squat with the bar correctly on our back. Before I show you how to master the correct bar position, you probably know that there are 2 variations of the Back Squat... • High bar aka Olympic style - the bar is higher on your traps, your torso is more upright, and you can thus Squat a lot deeper. • Low bar aka Powerlifting style - bar is lower on your upper-bar, you have a better leverage, and thus you can Squat heavier. On StrongLifts 5x5 you will
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Take the tour × I have a project with sqlite3 amalgamated in it in a separate static lib project but xcode is burning my cpu since it's a 4MB source file. I can't find a way to say that exclude that file during the static analysis. share|improve this question Maybe there is a way to avoid Xcode, eg. by using just make, gcc, emacs in terminals? –  Basile Starynkevitch Dec 20 '11 at 20:22 good idea! will switch to emacs now! have to ship a product tomorrow still debugging, will master gcc & emacs in a few minutes right? –  user1085552 Dec 20 '11 at 21:26 add comment 1 Answer If you check your analyse logs in xcode, you'll see that it's don't analyse resources (pngs, jpgs, xib, etc) files. If you look at the usage of the clang analyzer (which is integrated into xcode), it says : "The scan-build command can be used to analyze an entire project by essentially interposing on a project's build process. This means that to run the analyzer using scan-build, you will use scan-build to analyze the source files com
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Share this Page URL 3.3.2 Fragile Names from Overloading, an... > 3.3.2 Fragile Names from Overloading... - Pg. 139 3.3 War Stories: Pathologies in the Use of Names 139 3.3.1 a Name Collision eliminates Smiling Faces A west coast university provides a "visual class list" Web interface that instructors can use to obtain the names and photos of all the students enrolled in a particular section of a class. At the beginning of the fall 2004 teaching term, instructors noticed that their classes had several photographs of the same individual. One might believe a sec- tion includes a set of triplets, but not triskaidekatuplets. What went wrong: When there is no picture available for a student, the system inserts an image of a smiley face with the words "No picture available". The system designer stored the image in a file named "smiley.jpg". That fall a new freshman whose last name was Smiley registered the user name "smiley". As one might expect, the freshman's photograph was named "smiley.jpg", and it became t
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Edition: U.S. / Global MY JOB; Happy to Be Co-Pilot During Labor By JONATHAN LANZKOWSKY, M.D.; Written with Ellen Rapp. Published: June 27, 2001 Previously, I was with a managed care practice and saw as many as eight patients an hour -- about six minutes a patient. Now I see about three patients in an hour. The other day a patient came in, 38 weeks pregnant. She said, ''I'm scared.'' It takes a lot longer than six minutes to respond to that. Pregnancy is a fragile time, especially a first pregnancy. Much of what I do is offer reassurance. Almost half of my obstetric patients are over 35, and there is a lot of concern. I've gotten telephone calls late at night. I'm a new father myself, and I understand the fears. You don't really know everything is going to be O.K. until you're actually holding the baby. If my patients had access to an ultrasound machine the way I do, they would have ultrasounds every week. A specialty here is treating patients who have had multiple miscarriages. A lot of them have diffi
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Wednesday, December 8, 2010 Elmore & Eudora Last night I heard Elmore Leonard read, the last of Butler University’s visiting writers this semester. He’s in his mid-eighties now, but the moment he began reading from his novel, Freaky Deaky, years fell away and he was at the same his own low-life characters carrying on a hilarious dialogue about a gangster who might or might not be about to get blown up by a bomb and the writer delighting in his own words, sometimes half-chuckling at a line. During the Q&A a guy asked, “What’s the secret to good dialogue?” Leonard looked bemused. “Don’t you hear it?” he asked. “There are people all around us, talking. I listen.” Someone else asked if he knew what the end of a story would be when he started it. He said, no, he just got a couple of interesting people talking and let them go. If someone gets boring, he shoots him. About three- quarters of the way through the book, he starts thinking about how it could end. A book could end in a lot of different ways, he said.
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Talk:Lists of twin towns and sister cities From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search Note: this page was originally called "Twin towns", and combined a description of the concept of twinning with a list of twinning arrangements. The bulk of the editing had gone into the list, so the history is retained here, but the general description has now been split into a seperate article, Town twinning. Please note that much of the discussion below pre-dates this reorganisation, and may therefore seem not to make sense. - IMSoP 21:17, 10 Nov 2004 (UTC) Inconsistent formatting[edit] Should we add twin towns to infoboxes? This would create a common format for recording these connections. I imagine this would take massive consensus building among editors? I'm scraping all the twin town data, so could provide a script to update infoboxes. Anyway, something to think about/discuss...Reviewing the various lists for twins shows different countries and areas have used different formatting rules. Some
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 VeriSign's goal: Bump up internet bandwidth 1,000 times | ZDNet VeriSign's goal: Bump up internet bandwidth 1,000 times Summary: CTO Ken Silva explains how the company will carry out Project Apollo, which aims to increase internet root server bandwidth to meet 4 quadrillion queries a day To deal with the flow of information over the next 10 years, the capacity of the internet will need to increase by a factor of a thousand, according to US security company VeriSign. The company, which administers one of the root servers of the internet, has started a project to deal with the expected increase in bandwidth demand. Project Apollo was announced by VeriSign in March, with the aim of strengthening the .com and .net domains. The company's chief technology officer Ken Silva talked to ZDNet UK to give details of how VeriSign plans to increase internet server bandwidth. Q: Why was Project Apollo put in place? A: Over the next decade, anything that informs or entertains will be connected to the network, deliveri
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[conspire] conspire Digest, Vol 54, Issue 20 Rick Moen rick at linuxmafia.com Wed Nov 21 15:57:22 PST 2007 Just my opinion, Bruce: Your quoting technique is so illegible that hardly anyone's going to plow through it to figure out what you're saying. (As an aid to any who're tempted, Bruce is currently using "..." before and after his own new sections. Stuff on the other side of the elipsis -- if you can figure out which side is which -- is quoted from some prior poster. Quoting Bruce Coston (jane_ikari at yahoo.com): > I firmly believe new users should multi boot and test many > distributions. My own view, by contrast, is that new users should eschew multibooting if possible. If they have time and interest, they should indeed test many distributions -- one at a time. Among the many reasons why multibooting seldom works well is that the user is generally kidding him/herself into thinking he/she will spend time in both/each operating system, but in fact ends up spending almost all time in one to th
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Take the 2-minute tour × I'm trying to follow stackoverflow's approach of using a white list for the sitemap. I have tried to find an extensive list of search engine crawlers (and other crawlers) to use in my white list but what I have found so far is outdated information (hasn't been updated in years). Is there any place on the net where I can find a regularly updated list that contains the user agent of every search engine crawler along with its domain name (for reverse DNS)? share|improve this question 3 Answers 3 The question you referenced indicates that the answerer is whitelisting the user agents themselves, not the domains or IP addresses associated with particular spiders. It appears as though user-agents.org has an exhaustive list if you plan to work with the user-agent string. share|improve this answer Whitelisting the user agents isn't enough as they can easily be spoofed (see meta.stackexchange.com/questions/37231/…). I haven't mentioned anything about IP addresses but I need the domain na
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Take the tour × I have a few million rows in my database already. I didn't know about the PostgreSQL UUID data type when I designed my schema. One of the tables has 16M rows (about 3.5M to 4 M records per shard), growing at about 500K records per day. I still have the luxury of taking the production system down for a few hours if required. I won't have this luxury in one or two weeks. My question is, will it be worthwhile to do so? I'm wondering about JOIN performance, disk space use (full gzip'd dump is 1.25 GiB), things of that nature. Table schema is: # \d twitter_interactions Table "public.twitter_interactions" Column | Type | Modifiers interaction_id | character(36) | not null status_text | character varying(1024) | not null screen_name | character varying(40) | not null twitter_user_id | bigint | replying_to_screen_name | character varying(40) |
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Air Apparent The great white hype: Minnesota MC Slug of Atmosphere. Slug, the primary rhymesayer behind the Minneapolis hip-hop duo Atmosphere, is feeling like something of a prognosticator these days. He predicts that once Christina Ricci listens to his song "The Bass and the Movement," from his new disc, God Loves Ugly, she'll be unable to resist his charms. On the track, he pays the plucky Pumpkin actress this tribute: "All that matters is the bass and the movement/From the top of the Fiji to the bottom of Christina Ricci." "She's going to think it's hilarious. That's my Father Guido Sarducci prediction," says the rap prince of the Twin Cities, laughing into the phone from somewhere in Los Angeles. "She's going to know me and love me. She's going to be my übergroupie. She's going to be my Winona Ryder." Female fixations are the norm for Slug, aka Sean Daley. Atmosphere's last record, Lucy Ford/The Atmosphere EPs,dealt almost exclusively with the MC's problematic relationships with women -- most notably
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Flea Bites vs Bed Bug Bites – What is the Difference? Flea Bites vs Bed Bug Bites - What is the Difference?The first thing you need to do when trying to get rid of bugs is find out what you’re dealing with. This can prove to be quite difficult, as there are many different types of bugs and bug bites. Many of my visitors have asked me about the difference between flea bites vs bed bug bites when they have noticed red spots appearing on their body, typically on the arms and legs. This is the reason why I’m writing this post. I know how annoying both flea bites and bed bug bites can be. So let’s take a look at the two types of insects. You need to learn about these bugs in order to know the difference and get rid of both flea bites vs bed bug bites. Flea bites Fleas are typically found on pets like dogs and cats, but they can also be found on many other animals. They suck the blood out of the host with their special jaws that cut right through the skin. Some people are more sensitive to flea bites than others
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I got a chance to look at the European release of ICO, and pretty much immediately noticed the new files SRCFILE.TXT and TRFILE.TXT. SRCFILE is the complete 'objdump -d' output of the game, with the debugging line numbers, and TRFILE is the complete linker log. Which includes these function names: This matches perfectly with all the stuff down here. I'm going to stop looking now, in case the Japanese release has Fumito Ueda's credit card numbers on it or something. I haven't suceeded in contacting anyone about this; SCEI and ONICOS/Izumo don't read their email. Someone who speaks better Japanese than me should try writing them a letter. ICO, a video game by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 2, seems to be using parts of the GPL library libarc for compressed data handling. It doesn't credit the author or mention libarc or the GPL. This isn't a big problem in terms of code — the two files from libarc used are under 1500 lines put together, and one is a heavily- edited copy of inflate.c from
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TheFutureEmbrace - Billy Corgan Mixed or average reviews - based on 24 Critics Critic score distribution: 1. Positive: 9 out of 24 2. Negative: 3 out of 24 1. The tragedy here is not that this is a mid-nineties retread, though, as much as Corgan’s songwriting is Machina level unmemorable. 2. Corgan does his level best to make the whole affair as joyless as possible. 3. It's not that any of the songs are horrible; it's just that they are so shamelessly middle-of-the-road that you become sickened by the ambivalence that they instill. User Score Generally favorable reviews- based on 77 Ratings User score distribution: 1. Positive: 44 out of 59 2. Negative: 10 out of 59 1. Nov 4, 2011 Not Billy Corgans finest hour by a long stretch but this record isn't nearly as bad as people would have you believe. Half the songs on this are quite dull but the half that work are very good and sound like nothing he did with the Smashing Pumpkins. SP fans might hate this because it really bears no resembla
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First:   Mid:   Last:  City:  State: Delbert Shead For accurate and reliable information on Delbert Shead, look no further. USA-People-Search.com's search database contains billions of current information on people across the nation, including Delbert, so you can find all the detailed info you need right here with us. To locate Delbert Shead faster, all you have to do in enter in as many details as you can remember about Delbert Shead like former city and state of residence, any known nicknames, etc. Once you've narrowed down the list, go ahead and join USA-People-Search.com to get a more in-depth profile on Delbert Shead. You'll find that all the results generated for your search are efficiently categorized under different sections that include name/aliases, age, location, and possible relatives. Arranging it in such a way can help you find the right Delbert Shead in a jiffy. Get more details about Delbert Shead by accessing their detailed profile page.  Name/AKAsAgeLocationPossible Relatives
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New music royalty rates may cost Apple A pair of organizations representing music artists is pushing for the U.S. government to give the music industry more freedom in deciding what to charge for music, AppleInsider reports. In turn, streaming services like Apple's iTunes Radio and the newly acquired Beats Music could feel a bit of a pinch if rising prices leave too small a margin. Royalties on music are going through some growing pains at the moment, and really ever since streaming music services became the norm. Many of the current standards have been in place for decades, and long before the idea of on-demand music was even conceivable. A reworking of the laws in place is probably a good thing on all fronts, but how it could affect current streaming services remains to be seen. This article was originally published on Tuaw.
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Take the 2-minute tour × I'm going to a Web Service an Array of Byte, the issue that is going the bytes with values ​​from 0-255 and the Web Service accepts only value of -127 to 127, someone could help me? A snippet of the code is this: BytesFile : array [1..66000] of Byte; BlockRead(fileB, BytesFile , SizeOf(BytesFile ), NumRead); share|improve this question As a side note, you shouldn't be using AssignFile, Reset and BlockRead they're archaic. Look up TFileStream and use that. –  Lloyd Nov 1 '12 at 11:46 that that your code would fail on readonly files, uch as network or CD-ROM. There is global FileMode variable. Set it to zero before ReSet to open read-only or set it to two to open read-write (default). However better use modern tools like TFileStream or IOUTils unit or David's fast file reader class. stackoverflow.com/questions/1642220 –  Arioch 'The Nov 1 '12 at 13:26 add comment 3 Answers up vote 2 down vote accepted -127-127 is basically a signed byte. For that in Delphi you can use a ShortInt
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Pennsylvania High School Yearbook Features Lovely Hitler QuoteS By accident! Don't get all freaked out. It was an accident! The Easton, PA high school put the Hitler quote "And in the last analysis, success is what matters" in its 2010 yearbook, not noticing that it was a Hitlerism. Which, like, either way, it's kind of an awful quote, isn't it? "Enjoy grownupish life, kids, also: Succeed or die." The Hitlerness of it is just icing on the depressing cake. Anyway, here are some other objectionable Nazi quotes that wind up in yearbooks all the time. "Dance like nobody's watching, love like you've never been hurt" - Adolf Hitler (thanks to Max Read for digging up that one) "You don't go to college to meet your husband, you go to meet your bridesmaids!" - Joseph Goebbels "Wherever you go, go with all your heart" - Hermann Göring "Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today" - Adolf Eichmann "True friends stab you in the front" - Eva Braun [Photo via Lehigh Valley Live]
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one pic - the power of symbols Started 11 months ago | Discussions thread Regular MemberPosts: 430 Re: one pic - the power of symbols In reply to meagre offerings, 11 months ago nikonFboy wrote: I have a couple of questions.  Those look to me like plastic chairs.  I can't help not thinking about the incongruity of plastic chairs juxtaposed against what appears to be a formal, expensive (or at least professing to be expensive) shoe of some kind.  Also they are right in my line of vision along with the wall or window ledge (we normally initially tend to look at the top third of a compositional frame and then we scan the rest of the image.) It makes me wonder what the significance of these plastic chairs might be. Also it appears that she has a tan line on her foot suggesting that she doesn't wear shoes like this often and instead perhaps wears casual running shoes as her daily shoe.  Also I ask myself why did the author choose to make this into a B+W image (the world is in color so I have to ask myself why
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1 reputation bio website location Falls Church, VA age 52 visits member for 2 years, 3 months seen May 8 at 20:58 I'm been developing software since dinosaurs walked the earth - well, since FORTRAN 77 was the hot language, CP/M was a cool OS and adding hardware involved solder. I've tried other careers, but I always come back to writing software. I can't count how often I've been caught coding while I was supposed to be doing something else. Originally trained as a mathematician, I've worked in a bunch of computer languages, mostly self-taught. I've worked as a programmer, a systems administrator, a webmaster, and tech support guy. My last words will probably be: "I should have written it in Lisp." Turn your head, cough and press Ctrl+Alt+Del This user has not earned any badges
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• Comment () Are Barack Obama and Mitt Romney Good Leaders? Why Obama could pass healthcare when Clinton couldn't and how Romney's business leadership would translate in the White House October 5, 2012 RSS Feed Print President Barack Obama and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, right, campaign in swing states in August 2012. The consensus in social science is that institutional leaders rarely have a significant impact, good or bad, because they tend to go through a filtering process that's likely to produce a capable and competent candidate. In Indispensable: When Leaders Really Matter, Harvard Business School professor Gautam Mukunda explains when individuals in leadership roles do make a difference. Mukunda recently spoke with U.S. News about significant leaders, the traits embodied by the great ones, and how the presidential candidates measure up. Excerpts: When do leaders matter? When they're different from the alternatives. Leaders of big organizations are chosen pretty carefully. [Gene
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Skip to content Chi-square FAIL when many cells have small expected values William Perkins, Mark Tygert, and Rachel Ward write: If a discrete probability distribution in a model being tested for goodness-of-fit is not close to uniform, then forming the Pearson χ2 statistic can involve division by nearly zero. This often leads to serious trouble in practice — even in the absence of round-off errors . . . The problem is not merely that the chi-squared statistic doesn’t have the advertised chi- squared distribution—a reference distribution can always be computed via simulation, either using the posterior predictive distribution or by conditioning on a point estimate of the cell expectations and then making a degrees-of-freedom sort of adjustment. Rather, the problem is that, when there are lots of cells with near-zero expectation, the chi-squared test is mostly noise. And this is not merely a theoretical problem. It comes up in real examples. Here’s one, taken from the classic 1992 genetics paper of Guo an
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Tell me more × The distribution of sums of two squares has been studied by Landau. What is known about the distribution of the function $r(n)$, the number of representations of $n$ as the sum of two squares? Some specific questions of interest to us are these. Suppose $a \leq n\leq b$. What is the average value of $r(n)$? What is the standard deviation? Edit: Thanks for the answer and comments. I am particularly interested in the range $a\leq n\leq b$ where $b-a = \Theta(\sqrt{a})$. Let $a,b$ be like that, and let $C(n)$ be the circle of radius $n$ around a fixed center. Conjecture. The number of integers $n\in[a,b]$ with $r(n)>0$ is $\Omega(\sqrt{a})$. Furthermore, if $S$ is the segment of $C(b)$ cut off by a chord of length $\Omega(\sqrt{a})$ that touches $C(a)$ and if $r_S(n)$ is the number of lattice points in $C(n)\cap S$ then the number of integers $n\in[a,b]$ with $r_S(n)>0$ is $\Omega(\sqrt{a})$. Added: Finally, with the help of Greg Martin, I got hold of relevant literature and educated myself. T
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Skip to definition. Noun: mercantile agency 1. An organization that provides businesses with credit ratings of other firms "Dun &amp; Bradstreet is the largest mercantile agency in the United States"; - commercial agency Derived forms: mercantile agencies Type of: agency Encyclopedia: Mercantile agency
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Healthy Fish Meals 20-Jul-2011 by Healthy fish meal - fish stewHealthy fish meals are high protein, low fat food which can perfectly fit in your every day healthy diet option. Omega-3 fatty acid present in fish oil is an essential nutrient, required in significant amount, by human body. Regular consumption of fish reduces the risk of several diseases like asthma, cancer, diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. Here are some healthy and delicious fish dishes that you can try and enjoy. Healthy fish breakfast: ·         Mediterranean fish stew with garlic - sumptuous fish delicacy featuring onions, garlic, tomato puree, fresh tomatoes, white wine, parsley, prawns and skinless halibut fillets. The nutritional value per serving in this glorious dish is 411calories, 39g protein, 3g fiber, 8g sugar and 28g carbohydrate. This can be had with buns. Lunch and dinner menu options: ·         Green Spice Fish with Stuffed Peppers - exquisite delicacy with typical coastal flavor prepared from yellow gram or moong
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Eureka Stockade(Dec. 3, 1854), the most celebrated rebellion in Australian history. It involved the gold prospectors of Ballarat, Victoria, and was named for the rebels’ hastily constructed fortification in the Eureka goldfield. The rebellion was the culmination of long-standing grievances on the part of the miners, or “diggers,” over exorbitant prospecting- license fees, brutal police procedures for collecting those fees, lack of the vote, and lack of representation in the Legislative Council, and a prohibition against prospecting on crown lands. While Charles J. La Trobe, the former lieutenant governor of Victoria who had introduced the license fee in 1851, pressed the Legislative Council for reform on these issues, the diggers underwent increased harassment by the police and responded with greater militancy. The murder of a digger named James Scobie in October 1854 and the acquittal of his alleged killers by a government board of inquiry further inflamed the situation. Demonstrations and clashes with the p
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All songs - change Chordie needs editors! Improve this page Ludacris (born Christopher Brian Bridges on September 11, 1977 in Champaign, Illinois), is a Grammy Award winning American rapper and actor. Born in Illinois, he moved to Atlanta, Georgia where he eventually made a name for himself, first as a Radio DJ and then as one of the most prominent Southern rappers. = Bridges began his music career as a radio personality and DJ as Chris Lova Lova on Hot 97.5, an urban radio station in Atlanta, Georgia. He made his recorded debut on "Phat Rabbit," a track from Timbaland's 1998 album Tim's Bio: Life from the Bassment. Although both Timbaland and Jermaine Dupri showed interest in signing Ludacris, he decided to release the album Incognegro independently in 1999. The album sold over 50,000 copies through the Atlanta based independent music distributor, Southern Music Distribution. The same year, he recorded the theme to the video game Madden NFL 2000. Scarface, an original member of the Geto Boys, signed Ludac
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Thursday, August 13, 2009 fuck this blog screw this. Here I am baring my soul to myself. i looked at the stats and i am the only one reading this crap. this is supposed top be therapy, but why bother if it only makes me mad? Wednesday, August 12, 2009 pondering a future heartbreaker I'm been sipping on a bottle of Firestone Riesling and it has apparently loosened my tongue or thoughts or fingers... let's see... I watched a group of kids playing soccer on the beach today. They looked to be around 10 to 12 years old. A weird age. As summer winds down those kids are heading into some of the biggest changes of their lives. The loss of innocence and all that bullshit. But it's true. This is the age when friendships die. This is the era when "cool" kids evolve and they leave the losers behind. There was one girl in particular who I found striking. Now-- I'm not a pedophile or some fucked up shit like that... but you could look and just tell that she is going to be a knock out. She had a natural beauty. Real
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Fix problem with A-Data 2GB microSD card - Revisited Andy Green andy at Sun May 11 10:20:46 CEST 2008 Hash: SHA1 Somebody in the thread at some point said: |> What happens if we ignore the timeout bit if DRDY is set? Normally |> timeout is just a way to stop waiting when a transfer is not happening |> or something fatal happened to the card in the meanwhile. If data does |> come ready, we can just use it despite it took longer than the timeout. | I've tried that. I end up with corrupted data. |> It'd be a pity to force all cards down to 10MHz because of (so far) this |> one card: the 512MB cards I got from Openmoko don't exhibit this issue |> for example. | This happens with 2 identical A-Data 2GB cards on 2 v6 phones. I agree, | though, and would like to get down to the bottom of this. What is | setting f_max doing to the lower layer? Is it causing a pause between | blocks? Is it programming a DMA clock? No it's doing something pretty mundane, setting a ceiling for the clock rate that will be requ
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Digital disruption and startups: Q&A with Saul Klein, Index Ventures With the internet accounting for 8% of the UK's GDP it is becoming more and more fundamental to the economy Saul Klein, Index Ventures The disruptive impact of the internet on the economy should not be underestimated. Photograph: . Ahead of the Changing Media Summit 2013, Saul Klein, a partner at Index Ventures, spoke to us about digital disruption, startups and why the internet has an impact on every single area of our lives. Can you tell us a little about Index Ventures? Index Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm. We invest around the world, at all stages from seed to early to growth and across sectors from media, retail, financial services to life science. Which media/tech areas do you think are ripe for disruption in 2013? We focus our investments on the internet and software. What we've seen is that both the internet and software have disrupted sector after sector. From the mid-90s, entertainment and media have been fee
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Skip to content This repository Vim Emulator Plugin for Visual Studio 2010+ Welcome to VsVim 1. Install the Visual Studio SDK 2. Open the Solution VsVim.sln 3. Build VsVim.sln will only work on machines with both Visual Studio 2010 and 2012 installed. For machines with only one or the other installed use VsVim10 and VsVim11 respectively. Branching Structure - master: Stable branch - staging: Used for releasing new versions - fixes*: Both short and long term fixes - dead*: Branches which will never integrate with master again. Something went wrong with that request. Please try again.
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Take the 2-minute tour × Im basically working on an image analyser that downloads images from another server. I have no control over the server but I only want to scan images not html pages. would something like this work? new URLRequest('http://otherserver.com/someimage.jpg'); Or would I have to use a PHP script to act as a proxy for my script and have the swf look up that php script with parameters instead? new URLRequest('http://myserver.com/proxy.php?image=someimage.jpg'); I only ask because I remembered AJAX requests wont work cross domain so I wondered if the same thing affects AS3 aswell. share|improve this question add comment 1 Answer Your Answer
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Export (0) Print Expand All 4 out of 4 rated this helpful - Rate this topic System Management Gathering WMI Data without Writing a Single Line of Code John Kelbley At a Glance: • Data available to WMI • Simple command-line data collection in WMIC • Formatting the output Download the code for this article: WMIC2006_09.exe (151KB) can be intimidating, but leveraging the relatively unknown command-line interface of WMI, called WMIC, makes it easier. What is WMIC, and why do I like it so much? Read on. WMI is the Microsoft implementation of an industry-wide initiative called Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM), which defines standards for accessing and managing systems in an enterprise environment. WMI gives you control over many components of your systems, from the hardware all the way up to installed applications. You can use it to access event logs, operating system attributes, processes, installed applications, and much more. When you want to know the MAC address of a network card, the size of insta
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Latest CAPA News Abroad101 has released its 2014 rankings. CAPA International Education was... Studying abroad is the learning experience of a lifetime and adding an... Study Abroad with CAPA International Education Why CAPA?Don’t just learn about another culture. Live another culture.We know that no two students are exactly alike. Consequently, we believe that no two learning abroad experiences should be alike. CAPA International Education’s unique approach to international education has made us the trusted global leader in study abroad since 1972. The result is a holistic learning abroad experience that challenges, excites, and inspires students like no other program can. By putting students in charge of creating their own self-selected, self-identifying programs, CAPA delivers a once-in-a-lifetime, rigorous learning abroad experience filled with choices, life experiences, and unforgettable memories. CAPA’s strategically designed programs take place in Beijing, Buenos Aires, Dublin, Florence, London,
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Tuesday, June 15, 2010 Movie Review: Ondine (2010) - 2 stars There is an odd charm to the romantic fantasy Ondine that makes it watchable for about half of its running time. Established writer-director Neil Jordan (The Crying Game) is able to work well with cinematographer Christopher Doyle to create a film of visual entrancement. The problem here is that the story never takes off and, even worse, doesn't have much of an attention- getting quality to begin with. The main character is Syracuse, an Irish fisherman played by Colin Farrell. Since his divorce, Syracuse has made good on his promise to stay sober so that he can remain a viable role model for his daughter Annie (Alison Barry), who suffers from kidney failure. He isn't a churchgoer, but he makes frequent visits the local priest (Stephen Rea) to confess his wrongdoings. He is a good man at heart, and Farrell makes him easy to like. At the start of the film, we are introduced to the title character (Alicja Bachleda), whom Syracuse inexplicably finds
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Twitter Trends If you can't afford a pool, there's no better way to cool off than with the Water Soaked Knee Hockey Rink. For those who remember the Slip n' Slide, the Water Soaked Knee Hockey Rink is a way better version. Rather than just throwing your body Superman style across a thin sheet of plastic, this item actually provides a bit of exercise. Think of the rink as an oversized version of air hockey but with foamed hockey sticks and 30 nozzles that spray water onto the surface. So of course, the goal is to score the plastic puck into your opponent's net. The Water Soaked Knee Hockey Rink may be the best thing to happen to backyard toys. Definitely a must-have during the times of an intense heat-wave.
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DSpace Collection: http://hdl.handle.net/10362/2246 2013-12-13T09:24:42Z Republic of Guinea-Bissau http://hdl.handle.net/10362/10624 Title: Republic of Guinea- Bissau Authors: Sousa, Cláudia 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Use of leaves for drinking water http://hdl.handle.net/10362/10623 Title: Use of leaves for drinking water Authors: Sousa, Cláudia Abstract: The use of leaves for drinking water is a widespread tool-use behavior among chimpanzees. Although this tool-use behavior is widely described as the use of leaf sponges, it can actually be found in three different forms: leaf sponges, leaf- folding, and leaf spoons. Among the chimpanzee community of Bossou, we can observe all three forms, albeit in different frequencies. Here I describe the longitudinal record of manufacture and use of leaf tools for drinking water, highlighting the learning process underlying the acquisition of the skill. The degree of laterality evident in both immature and mature performers is also presented here. The use of leaves for drinking
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A guide to tai chi All you need to know about tai chi, including the health benefits, the different styles of tai chi and getting started. What is tai chi? Tai chi, also called tai chi chuan, combines deep breathing and relaxation with slow and gentle movements. Originally developed as a martial art in 13th-century China, tai chi is today practised around the world as a health-promoting exercise. What are the health benefits of tai chi? While there's scope for more rigorous studies on tai chi's health benefits, studies have shown that tai chi can help people aged 65 and over to reduce stress, improve balance and general mobility, and increase muscle strength in the legs. Can tai chi help prevent having falls? Some research suggests tai chi can reduce the risk of falls among older adults who are at increased risk. However, more research is needed. Can tai chi help with arthritis? There is some evidence that tai chi can improve mobility in the ankle, hip and knee in people with rheumatoid arthritis (RH). H
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Sacred Texts  Legends and Sagas  William Morris  Index  Previous  Next  Ralph Rides the Wood Under the Mountains A long way now rode Ralph, and naught befell him but the fashion of the wood. And as he rode, the heart within him was lightened that he had escaped from all the confusion and the lying of those aliens, who knew him not, nor his kindred, and yet would all use him each for his own ends: and withal he was glad that he was riding all alone upon his quest, but free, unwounded, and well weaponed. The wood was not very thick whereas he rode, so that he could see the whereabouts of the sun, and rode east as far as he could judge it. Some little victual he had with him, and he found woodland fruit ripening here and there, and eked out his bread therewith; neither did water fail him, for he rode a good way up along a woodland stream that cleft the thicket, coming down as he deemed from the mountains, and thereby he made the more way:  but at last he deemed that he must needs leave it, as it turned over
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Phone  Broadband  Fiber  Hosting  Colocation  Support  More ACD Loop Length Estimator This form will provide you with a loop length estimate for the length of the wires from a central office to an address that you input. The following services DSL, Ethernet Over Copper and T1 Lines. This will point you to the closest central office, after the data is submitted. You may cycle through the central offices, in the event you want to home a T1 to another central office for some reason. This is only an estimator, the loop length may be longer or shorter, because the wire does not always go in a straight line from the central office, and ACD sometimes has equipment deployed in other locations than just the Incumbent Central Office. ADSL2+ (DSL): DSL is distance sensitive, meaning the speed of service may be adjusted based upon the length of a DSL Loop. For the DSL distance, ACD has added 20% to the distance estimate to account for wire distance overhead. Bandwidth Chart for this service: UltraSpeed Ethernet: This
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Brave woman follows robber - WBTV 3 News, Weather, Sports, and Traffic for Charlotte, NC Brave woman follows robber Posted: Updated: A brave woman sees a crime unfold. She calls 911. Then, she does what few would do. This all unfolded on a Sunday night inside the Little Cesars Pizza on South Boulevard at Archdale. From surveillance video, we see customers coming in and out. At the counter, the clerk was just handing one woman her change, when all of a sudden, a gunman rushes in. He was hooded and wearing mostly dark clothes. He was young and slim with long dreadlocks and he brandished a chrome pistol. It was a frightening sight-- so much that the clerk and the other three employees immediately bolted out the back door. "They were bunched together. They ran out the back of the store together. Luckily," said CMPD Detective Marty Cuthbertson, "the guy didn't shoot and none of those employees were hurt." In fact, this guy was too busy to shoot. He was seen punching button on the cash registers, trying to
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2014_08_25_LD_ALL_SWB Labor Day SaleExtra 30% Off • Girls Nursery 9  Girls Nursery 9 Why This Room Works White is accented with a refreshing aqua to create a sense of high style in this nursery. We hung cotton window panels at the entrance to the storage alcove to create a sense of separation without closing it off. Damask wallpaper and an ornate chandelier are the design indulgences; the rest of the room is kept simple and understated, with lots of attention given to smart, versatile storage solutions.
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One of the Reds' radio broadcasters has called Samuel R. LeCure "one of the best relief pitchers you've never heard of." "I don't know how many people know or don't know who I am," LeCure said. "I know how many Twitter followers I have, but I imagine there are more people than that that have seen me pitch. I guess that's a dubious honor. I guess if you are a reliever and you're doing your job, people aren't going to hear much about you. Usually people hear when you give up a home run late in the game or something like that. So I'd rather people don't know me for that reason. "I want to just go out there and do my job, just like everyone else." LeCure may be modest about it, but he is pretty darn good at what he does. Last year, the reliever posted career highs in appearances and wins and a respectable 3.14 ERA, whiffing 61 batters. LeCure has served in a host of roles for Cincinnati, coming up as a starter, then converting to the bullpen and filling in the blanks in various relief positions. He said there
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• The Hollywood Reporter on LinkedIn • Follow THR on Pinterest Murdoch opens Abu Dhabi Media Summit Calls for a media market open to foreign competitors NEW YORK -- News Corp. chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch said Tuesday that the Arab world can adhere to traditions and values, while also investing in a thriving creative industry and avoiding over-regulation and hurdles that keep out foreign players. He said the Arab world -- with its 335 million people that News Corp. is betting on -- should take an approach that allows it to make its mark on the global entertainment market, but also keeps it open to companies from other countries. Opening the first-ever Abu Dhabi Media Summit, the media mogul also called for freedom of the press after media organizations faced restrictions in the United Arab Emirates last year amid critical reports, including in Murdoch-owned newspapers, about Dubai's debt woes. "I have learned that this type of coverage is a fact of life in a modern media society," he said, referenci
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About the SA Blog Network Opinion, arguments & analyses from the editors of Scientific American Observations HomeAboutContact Back off, asteroids–We’ve got nukes Email   PrintPrint A directed-energy weapon could do the job, Dearborn said, but not in the state that the technology is in today. A laser such as that at the National Ignition Facility, a nuclear fusion experiment at Lawrence Livermore, could adjust a typical asteroid’s course enough to avoid a collision—changing its velocity by about one centimeter per second—but doing so would take about 6,000 years. "I’m not saying that our children’s children won’t know a lot more than we do, and I certainly hope that they do," Dearborn said, but laser technology isn’t up to the job just yet. A non-nuclear blast—or a simple ramming mission—could also work, but those approaches would require numerous launches to match the power of a single nuclear device. Of course, nuclear weapons make many people uneasy in any context, and not everyone is on board w
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Take the 2-minute tour × What is the best practice for implementing the Post/Redirect/Get pattern in ASP.NET MVC? In particular, what is the best way to do this when you want to redirect back to the initial action/controller? Here's how I am currently doing this: 1. Display form to user. • In the form, use <%= Html.Hidden("returnUrl") %> • In the action, use ViewData["returnUrl"] = Request.Url; 2. User submits the form via POST 3. Redirect to the returnUrl model-binding, if not null. Otherwise, redirect to homepage. This get's the job done, but it feels like this would result in a lot of duplication. I also realized that I could probably redirect to Request.UrlReferrer... What do you suppose is the cleanest, most ideal method of accomplishing this? share|improve this question 2 Answers 2 up vote 9 down vote accepted The way you're doing this is fine, but it looks like you might be overthinking it a little bit. Do your POST actions take form posts from more than one form? If not, why bot
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Wednesday, June 30, 2010 Sculpture and Cars #2 It really doesn't pay to go against your gut instincts. I HATE tatoos and piercings and low brow art. The gear shift design company wanted skulls, piercings, frankensteins and devils. You know the art, flaming eyeballs. I tried it as a test of my skills. How fast could I make something disgusting? My starting concept was a burned out, meth-addled old biker devil. An old goat. The final thing was using a dress maker pin to stand in for a pierced tongue. I was 90 minutes into creating this head for a gear shift when I realized it wasn't going to be worth finishing. I needed to spend less than half an hour on the art to make any profit at all.  Now my problem is that there's something alive about his eyes. I can't just dump him back in the smushed clay bin. Can I close his mouth and change him from old biker dude to an even older Pan? Change from cars, which have never held my interest, to the garden, which fascinates me. He might work as a finial hidden along
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Tech Biz  :  People   RSS Hans Reiser: Once a Linux Visionary, Now Accused of Murder Joshua Davis Email 06.26.07 On the overcast Sunday of Labor Day weekend 2006, Nina Reiser goes shopping at a crowded Berkeley, California, grocery store. Although she has been living in the US for nearly eight years, she was born and raised in Russia at a time when stores like this didn't exist. The place is stocked with heirloom tomatoes and vegan burgers, and Nina loads up her cart. She brings along her son, Rory, 6, and daughter, Niorline, 5. After depositing the groceries in her minivan, she drives to the quiet neighborhood where her husband now lives with his mother. Reiser will have the kids for the rest of the weekend. Rory tells two versions of what happened next: + znode *left_child; + znode *right_child; Version 00 Version 01 On the witness stand during the December hearing to determine whether his father should be tried for murder, Rory tells the court that he came back upstairs and stayed in the entryway wit
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Take the tour × I wrote a database update program. The problem is that value is the QString, which may include ' in some cases. It must not be removed. Here is the code: QSqlQuery q; q = db.exec("UPDATE " + arr + " SET " + name + " = '" + value + "' WHERE question_id = "+ id); any ideas? share|improve this question add comment 2 Answers up vote 0 down vote accepted You have to use parameters (or placeholders): QSqlQuery q = QSqlQuery(db); q.prepare("UPDATE " + arr + " SET " + name + " = :name WHERE question_id = :id"); q.bindValue(":name", value); q.bindValue(":id", id); It is better to always use parameters to pass any value to your queries. Appending values to query string, is subject to sql injection attack, and also may not always work (as in your situation). share|improve this answer add comment The ' must be escaped by doubling it. Use the driver to do it as shown in the MD.Unicorn's answer. share|improve this answer add comment Your Answer
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POV: Stay connected through stories This article originally appeared in the August issue of Capital District Pages. An old Norwegian saying wisely tells us, “It is the duty of the present to convey the voices of the past to the ears of the future.” Once upon a summer night, a mother putting her children to bed suddenly changed course and declared there would be no bedtime book read. The mother, whisking a blanket off the bed, ordered the children to follow her. The children lined up like ducklings behind their mother, and together through the house and out the door they marched. Outside in the summer night air, the mother flung the blanket on the ground and the children instinctively sat down wondering what would come next. Without even a hint of whining, they had successfully escaped their beds and that annoying stream of light that always came through the window at summer bedtimes. As their mother began to tell them a story from a familiar fairytale, they could hardly believe their good fortune. There th
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Preventing disease requires on-time vaccination for your entire family, especially for children. With that in mind, childhood vaccine schedules are developed with great care to ensure that your children are protected from diseases when they are most vulnerable and when their bodies are best able to build immune responses to the different vaccines. The immunizations you and your family members need may vary based on several factors, including age, where you live, and where you travel. However, the vast majority of children are best protected by following the CDC-AAP-AAFP’s Recommended Childhood Immunization Schedule. Below you will find the vaccines your child is recommended to receive at his or her well-child visits, listed according to the age he or she would receive the first dose. Hepatitis B vaccine The hepatitis B virus can be spread through contact with blood, saliva, body tissues, or the fluids of an infected person. Many people who contract hepatitis B never discover the source of their infection
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About your Search English 35 boswell is live from midland city, alabama with the latest. >> reporter: maureen, good evening to you. investigators have listed items, including a heater and blankets and also toys provided to the boy in the bunker. those were new items. they also had a message for the alleged kidnapper. >> i want to thank him for taking care of our child. that's, that's very important. >> reporter: investigators say alleged alabama gunman and kidnapper jimmy jimmy lee dykes is allowing food, warmth, toys and medicine to a 5-year- old boy he's been holding in a bunker tuesday since. as of now, the suspect is showing no signs of giving in. a day after the schoolbus was towed away as evidence, more stories are being told about the bus driver, charles poland, jr. >> surely this man died an american hero. >> the laughter and the love he had for kids, somebody would lay their life down. that's a hero. >> reporter: officials maintain the 5-year-old child has not been hurt. >> this whole nation actuall
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The Demographics of Germany reference article from the English Wikipedia on 24-Jul-2004 (provided by Fixed Reference: snapshots of Wikipedia from Demographics of Germany See the real Africa The population of Germany, with a current population of over 80 million, is primarily German. There are about 7 million foreign residents, the largest single nationality group of whom are Turkish. Germany has been a prime destination for refugees from many developing countries, in part because its constitution long had a clause giving a 'right' to political asylum, but restrictions over the years have made it less attractive. Germany has one of the world's highest levels of education, technological development, and economic productivity. Since the end of World War II, the number of youths entering universities has more than tripled, and the trade and technical schools of the are among the world's best. With a per capita income level of about $25,000, Germany is a broadly middle class society. A generous social welfare s
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5: Blown apart Explain xkcd: It's 'cause you're dumb. Jump to: navigation, search Blown apart Blown into prime factors Title text: Blown into prime factors [edit] Explanation The title text explains the comic. An anthropomorphic number 70 is blown into its prime factors (2, 5 and 7). Prime numbers are numbers which can not be divided by any number other than itself and 1. Factors of a number are numbers which can be multiplied together to produce that number (2x5x7 = 70). 70 has other factors, including 1, 10, 14, 35 and 70, but 2, 5 and 7 are the only factors which are prime. All other factors of 70 (other than 1) can be formed by multiplying two of the prime factors together. [edit] Transcript [A black number 70 sees a red package.] 70: hey, a package! [The package explodes with a BOOM and an brown cloud of smoke.] Comment.png add a comment! Personal tools
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Hunting for Sport Isn't As Good As It is Made to Be Originally published on December 12, 2006 in The East African Standard (Nairobi) as an OP-ED. By James Isiche South_africa_hunting_webA zebra skin is hung for sale at an open-air market in Cape Town, South Africa. Few weeks ago, columnist Dr Imre Loefler called for the exclusion of NGOs from the ongoing wildlife policy review talks. This was a baffling and shocking turn-around. Last year, while still at the helm of an NGO, the East African Wildlife Society, Loefler set up a think tank comprising "experts", Government representatives, landowners and non-governmental organisations. In the same year, Loefler, who was the think tank's self-appointed chair, announced in the Society's magazine, Swara, which he used to propagate his ideologies, that its recommendations had been forwarded to the Ministry of Tourism and Wildlife for evaluation and preparation of a sessional paper. This, he said, would "form the basis of discussion in amending Kenya's Wildlife
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