Scoop - Scoop Scoop is a kind of computer software used on web server - a web application. As the home page says "Scoop is a collaborative media application". Enabling content management and building a community that interacts with this content it is an example of a collaborative tool. See also Content Management Systems, ScoopWiki License: GPL Scoop is an open source content management system / weblog engine written in Perl. It makes use of the MySQL database server (support for other databases is being worked on). Scoop was originally written by Rusty Foster for Kuro5hin.org, which is still the most popular site that uses it. It is now collaboratively developed and used on a large number of websites, including: Kuro5hin - The founding site Adequacy.org [1] Smokedot.
Kozmo.com - 2001 after paying out $15 million. Although Kozmo filed an IPO with Credit Suisse First Boston, it never went public. A documentary film e-Dreams (2002) portrays the fate of the company. See also: dot-com, Webvan online grocer References and external links Kozmo to shut down, lay off 1,100 News.com, April 11, 2001 Kozmo may deliver itself to the public February 29, 2000 News.com, a scoop article that disclosed Kozmo's IPO plan. Kozmo.com sees more sales in Starbucks deal News.com, February 14, 2000.
Kuro5hin - website focused on technology and culture. The site runs on the GPLed Scoop collaborative system, originally developed for Kuro5hin. Its motto is "Technology and Culture, from the Trenches". The site is remarkable for being almost entirely community driven. All content is generated by and selected by the users - with the exception of site news, which comes from Rusty Foster, the site's founder. Registered users can submit stories to the Submissions Queue. In the queue, users vote +1 FP (front page), +1, -1 or 0 (for an abstention). If the story reaches a predetermined threshold score, it is posted either to the front page or to the relevant section, depending on the proportion of +1FP votes. If it fails to make the threshold, it is dropped. An interesting feature of the.
Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity - CIA officers, including Ray McGovern and David MacMichael, "to discuss the use/abuse of intelligence to support the US administration's case for attacking Iraq." 18 March 2003: VIPS "Memo to the President: Forgery, Hyperbole, Half-Truth: A Problem" posted Timothy D. O'Hare on March 20, 2003 -- "Veteran US Spooks Strongly Doubt Bush's Iraq Case" -- at ForeignPolicy.com. 26 April 2003: VIPS Memorandum: "The Stakes in the Search for Weapons of Mass Destruction" by David MacMichael and Ray McGovern; "Weapons of Mass Distraction: Where? Find? Plant?" in Scoop. 1 May 2003: "Intelligence Officers Challenge Bush" - VIPS Memorandum for the President: "Intelligence Fiasco" at BNfP.org; Also. 17 May 2003: "The Moment of Lies Has Arrived" by Hwaa Irfan, Staff Writer, IslamOnline: VIPS credited with bringing "to light" the forged Iraqi documents that were.
JINSA - the U.S. military, concerned U.S. citizens and America's leaders in Washington, facilitating base visits, symposia and publications that highlight future trends, growing threats and areas of concern, within the realm of U.S. national security. JINSA has also recently begun a program aimed at exchanging counter-terrorism experience and tactics between U.S. law enforcement agencies and the Israeli national police. The inaugural program, which included 12 police chiefs and sheriffs from departments in major American metropolitan areas, including the Port Authority Police Department (PAPD) of New York and New Jersey, has already led to massive changes in U.S. counter-terrorism tactics. In addition, JINSA officials have served as official and unofficial representatives of the United States on visits to more than 30 nations, including roles as election observers in many former Soviet-bloc republics. Each.
Interstellar travel - to rule out accelerating past a beam of light, it does not immediately appear to prevent one from exploiting particles that already are moving faster than light or perhaps by somehow sending information faster than light without having any physical object move faster than light. However even this causes problems. According to a section of the theory of relativity called special relativity, travelling faster than light is equivalent to travelling backwards in time, or time travel, according to some observers. In particular, if faster than light travel is possible without too many arbitrary restrictions, it is possible to have events in the future cause events in the past. This is called a causality loop. This concept has not been verified experimentally, because no-one has yet exceeded the speed of light in.
InfoAnarchy wiki - website slogan is: "Which future do you want to live in?" This alludes to the perspective that, if traditional intellectual property laws are rigidly enforced, the digital commons of the Internet might be destroyed. The infoAnarchy wiki uses the UseMod software. The rest of the infoAnarchy website is based on Scoop. All content contributed to the wiki is in the public domain and may therefore be freely used for any purpose..
Intercooler - to be mounted so as to maximize air flow and promote efficient cooling. Cars such as the Mitsubish Lancer Evolution use front-mounted intercoolers mounted vertically near the front bumper, in line with the car's radiator. In contrast, cars such as the Subaru Impreza WRX mount the intercooler horizontally on top of the engine, and use a hood scoop to force air over the intercooler. Some World Rally Championship cars use a reverse induction setup, with air from ducts in the front bumper being forced up over a horizontally-mounted intercooler and then vented through ducts in the top of the hood..
Helgö - settlement, but also a workshop area that became an international sensation. The finds were a small Buddha statuette from North India and a christening scoop from Egypt, both dating from 6th century. The settlements at Helgö are 500 year older than Birka at Björkö. See also: List of islands of Sweden.
Henry M. Jackson - Henry M. Jackson Henry Martin "Scoop" Jackson (May 31, 1912 - September 1, 1983) was a Congressman and Senator for Washington State from 1941 until his death. Born in Everett, Washington, Jackson went on to graduate with a Bachelor's degree from Stanford University and a law degree from the University of Washington. In 1935 (the year of his law school graduation) he was admitted to the bar and began to practice law in Everett. He found immediate success, and was the prosecuting attorney for Snohomish County from 1938 to 1940. His involvement in politics grew from there; he successfully ran for Congress as a Democrat in 1940 and took his seat in the House of Representatives with the Seventy-Seventh Congress on January 3, 1941. From that date forward, Jackson would.
History of the United States (1980-present) - effective affirmative action over the past two decades had reduced prospects for advancement. The growth of conservatism, the assault on Détente, and the elections of 1980 The 1970s inflicted damaging blows to the American confidence characteristic of the 1950s and early 1960s. The War in Vietnam and the Watergate crisis shattered confidence in the presidency. International frustrations, including the fall of South Vietnam in 1975, the hostage crisis in Iran in 1979, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the growth of international terrorism, and the acceleration of the arms race raised fears over the country's ability to control international affairs. The energy crisis, unemployment, and inflation, derided as "stagflation," raised fundamental questions over the future of American prosperity. American "malaise," a term that caught on following Carter's 1979 "malaise speech," in the.
U.S. presidential election, 1976 - Senator from Indiana Jimmy Carter - Governor from Georgia Fred R. Harris - Former Senator from Oklahoma Henry Scoop Jackson - Senator from Washington R. Sargent Shriver - Organizer and first director of the Peace Corps Mo Udall - Representative from Arizona Carter, starting from a position of being largely unknown nationally, won primaries first in his native Georgia, then in Alabama and Indiana, and gained increasing momentum and popularity. At the Democratic Party convention he received the party's nomination on the first ballot. Republican Candidates Gerald Ford - Incumbent President Ronald Reagan - Governor from California Centerist Ford succeeded in putting down challenge from the party's right wing backing Reagan. Ford and Carter in debate. Jimmy Carter ran as an honest outsider reformer, which many voters found attractive in the.
Horse teeth - six the hollow under the nippers, called the mark, has disappeared from the nippers, and diminished in the dividers. At seven the mark has disappeared from the dividers, and the next teeth, or corners, are level, though showing the mark. At eight the mark has gone from the corners and the horse is said to be aged. After this time, indeed good authorities say after five years, the age of a horse can only be conjectured. But the teeth gradually change their form, the incisors becoming round, oval, and then triangular. Dishonest dealers sometimes "bishop" the teeth of old horses, that is scoop them out, to imitate the mark: but this can be known by the absence of the white edge of enamel which always surrounds the real mark, by the.
Geekizoid - geek weblog Slashdot. It first went live in early 2001 and evolved through various Slash- and Scoop-based incarnations until April 2002, when its owner began shutting down the site. The Geekizoid domain was sold in late May, 2002. Many of Geekizoid's editors and authors went on to start other sites, such as Adequacy.org and Trollaxor.com..
Gordon Banks - in a road traffic accident. Banks is also credited with making the best save ever, during the 1970 World Cup in a game against Brazil when Pelé executed a downward header, which somehow Banks contrived to scoop away over the crossbar in the most extraordinary of fashions..
Golden Hour - the victim as fast as possible to a trauma center. First, the prehospital care are thus limited to the minimum, i.e. A.B.C (airway, breathing, circulation) cover the wounds realign the members when broken (reduction) protection of the spine. The intravenous drip must be fast and must not delay the transportation. The endotracheal intubation is the only act that can delay the transportation. This prehospital strategy is also called scoop and run, opposed to the stay and play that is more adapted to less severe cases (when there is no severe trauma, the trauma caused by the transportation itself is more important than the gain of time). Second point, the victim must be transported not always to the closest hospital, but to the hospital that has the equipment and team to treat.
Guacamole - Juice of 1 1/2 limes 1 small onion, diced very small 1 small tomato, diced very small 2 tbsp chopped cilantro (coriander) Salt to taste Put everything except the avocados into a medium-sized mixing bowl. Halve the avocados and scoop the flesh into the bowl. Using a large fork (or a blender), mash the avocados and combine with all the other ingredients. Taste the mixture and add anything you think necessary (be aware that the flavours, especially the lime, will soften a little by the time it is served). Cover and refrigerate for at least an hour to allow the flavours to blend. When it is removed from the refrigerator, there may be some brown on the top - scrape it off. This alternative recipe is somewhat simpler, but gives an.
Ford Torino - to Ford's FE series 390 cubic inch big-block. The Torino GT was the upscale model, with extra 'sport' trim. 1969's model changed little, but for the introduction of the Fairlane Cobra that came with a Ford 428 Cobra Jet engine, floor mounted 4-speed manual transmission, uprated suspension, dual exhaust and bucket seats. Optionally the engine breathed through a functional 'shaker' hood scoop for extra power at high speed; also available was a Traction-Lok limited-slip differential. 1970 brought a completely new look, with a pointed grille and sleek lines. The engine choice was all-new; the 351 Cleveland small-block V8 at the low end and the new Ford 429, available in Thunder Jet, Cobra Jet and Super Cobra Jet levels of performance. 1971's cars were for all practical purposes identical. Having only been.
East Touch - news is ranked as the least important. Reporting style When it comes to the reporting style of East touch, four guiding principles of editing was set up by the owners. These four reporting principles distinguish "East Touch" from other magazines targeted at trendy young people. The magazine's competitors, namely, "Easy Finder", "East Week", "3 Magazine" put much more emphasis on paparanzzi-type entertainment scoop and Category IIB photos of starlets. This is affirmed in a statistical figures from the Hong Kong Press Council and the Hong Kong Journalists Association which showed that no complaints were filed nor condemnations issued against "East Touch" this year. Cover design in 31st-44th issue ==Big events= Nonetheless, the first great challenge came to this magazine’s vibrant history when its 42nd issue was published on 29 March 1995..
Edgar Cayce - Psychic believers defended him, saying treasure had been buried there before and dug up, or it would be buried there in the future. Skeptics also cite the supposed vagueness in his language while using his psychic abilities. Martin Gardner cites an example of a Cayce reading from when Cayce's wife had tuberculosis: .... from the head, pains along through the body from the second, fifth and sixth dorsals, and from the first and second lumbar...tie-ups here, floating lesions, or lateral lesions, in the muscular and nerve fibers which supply the lower end of the lung and the diaphragm...in conjunction with the sympathetic nerve of the solar plexus, coming in conjunction with the solar plexus at the end of the stomach.... Cayce used the word lung, and this his followers take as.
