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Sunny Jackson

Wikipedia:Citation needed - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • {{Citation needed}}
  • Exercise caution
  • If you can provide a reliable source for the claim, please be bold and replace the "Citation needed" template with enough information to locate the source.
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  • You may leave the copyediting to someone else
  • If someone tagged your contributions with "Citation needed" and you disagree, discuss the matter on the article's discussion page.
  • Controversial, poorly-sourced claims in biographies of living people should be deleted immediately.
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Wikipedia:Verifiability - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • a reader's ability to check cited sources that directly support the information in an article
  • It must be possible to attribute all information in Wikipedia to reliable, published sources that are appropriate for the content in question.
  • Verifiability
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  • Neutral point of view
  • All quotations and any material challenged or likely to be challenged must be attributed to a reliable published source
  • The citation should fully identify the source, and the location within the source (specifying page, section, or such divisions as may be appropriate) where the material is to be found.
  • The burden of evidence lies with the editor who adds or restores material.
  • Editors might object if you remove material without giving them time to provide references. It has always been good practice to try to find and cite supporting sources
  • consider adding a citation needed tag
  • article
  • paper
  • or book
  • creator
  • document
  • publisher
  • published sources with a reputation for fact-checking and accuracy
  • Sources should directly support the material presented
  • appropriate to the claims made
  • academic and peer-reviewed publications are usually the most reliable sources
  • Material from reliable non-academic sources may also be used, particularly if it appears in respected mainstream publications.
  • university-level textbooks
  • books published by respected publishing houses
  • journals
  • magazines
  • mainstream newspapers
Sunny Jackson

Mortgage Credit Certificate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • a Mortgage Credit Certificate (more commonly referred to as MCC) is a certificate issued by certain state or local governments that allows a taxpayer to claim a tax credit for some portion of the mortgage interest paid during a given tax year
  • Because it is a tax credit and not a tax deduction, mortgage lenders will often use the estimated amount of the credit on a monthly basis as additional income to help the potential borrower qualify for the loan
  • Buyers must not have owned a home in the previous three years
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  • income
  • purchase price
  • Buyers must intend to use the new home as a primary residence
  • capped at a maximum of $2000 per year by the IRS
  • The buyer may continue to receive a tax credit for as long as they live in the home and retain the mortgage
Sunny Jackson

Hanlon's razor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
  • You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity
  • Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence
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  • misunderstandings and neglect create more confusion in this world than trickery and malice. At any rate, the last two are certainly much less frequent.
  • Sunny Jackson on 03 Jul 13
     
    Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
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Equality Act 2010 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • United Kingdom
  • anti-discrimination law
  • Great Britain
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  • requires equal treatment in access to employment as well as private and public services, regardless of the protected characteristics
  • there are special protections for pregnant women
  • In the case of disability, employers and service providers are under a duty to make reasonable adjustments to their workplaces to overcome barriers experienced by disabled people
  • reducing socio-economic inequalities
  • reform and harmonise equality law
  • restate the greater part of the enactments relating to discrimination and harassment related to certain personal characteristics
  • enable certain employers to be required to publish information about the differences in pay between male and female employees
  • intended to simplify the law by bringing together existing anti-discrimination legislation
  • prohibit victimisation
  • eliminate discrimination and other prohibited conduct
  • increase equality of opportunity
  • amend the law relating to rights and responsibilities in family relationships
  • England
  • Wales
  • Northern Ireland
  • Scotland
  • Status: Current legislation
Sunny Jackson

Information Search Process - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • recognizes the need for new information
  • think more about the topic
  • discuss the topic with others
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  • brainstorm
  • decide what topic will be investigated
  • information retrieval
  • how to proceed
  • new personal knowledge is created
  • situate it within their previous understanding of the topic
  • information on the topic is gathered
  • locate new information
  • evaluate the information that has been gathered
  • a focused perspective begins to form
  • formulate a personalized construction of the topic from the general information gathered
  • Formulation is considered to be the most important stage of the process
  • presented with a clearly focused, personalized topic
  • support the focus
  • more successful searching
  • summarize and report on the information
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Meme - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • acts as a unit for carrying cultural ideas, symbols or practices
  • an idea, behavior or style that spreads from person to person within a culture
  • something imitated
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  • coined by the British evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins
  • the spread of ideas and cultural phenomena
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Irony - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • dissimulation
  • feigned ignorance
  • a sharp incongruity or discordance that goes beyond the simple and evident intention of words or actions
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  • statements that imply a meaning in opposition to their literal meaning
  • if the actions taken have an effect exactly opposite from what was intended
  • serves the communicative function of sharpening or highlighting certain discordant features of reality
  • often used for emphasis
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Ideomotor effect - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • the body sometimes reacts reflexively to ideas alone without the person consciously deciding to take action
  • Many subjects are unconvinced that their actions are originating solely from within themselves
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Ideo motor response - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • a thought or mental image brings about a seemingly "reflexive" or automatic muscular reaction, often of minuscule degree, and potentially outside of the awareness of the subject
  • Body language may be considered the most commonly visible aspect of IMR
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Red herring - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • a clue which is intentionally or unintentionally misleading or distracting from the actual issue
  • a clue or lead that turns out not to be relevant to the solution of the mystery would also be a red herring
  • with a strong enough brine, turns its flesh red
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Lucene - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • information retrieval software library
  • suitable for any application which requires full text indexing and searching capability
  • utility in the implementation of Internet search engines and local, single-site searching
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  • At the core of Lucene's logical architecture is the idea of a document containing fields of text
  • Text from PDFs, HTML, Microsoft Word, and OpenDocument documents, as well as many others (except images), can all be indexed as long as their textual information can be extracted
  • independent of the file format
  • indexing and search library
  • web crawling and HTML parsing
  • search server
  • Java Search Engine Framework
Sunny Jackson

Spanish/Verbs List - Wikibooks, open books for an open world - 0 views

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  • Abrir (to open)
  • Acordar (to agree upon)
  • Alquilar (to rent)
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  • Amar (to love)
  • Aprender (to learn)
  • Ayudar (to help)
  • Bailar (to dance)
  • Beber (to drink)
  • Besar (to kiss)
  • Buscar (to look for)
  • Caminar (to walk)
  • Cantar (to sing)
  • Casarse (to marry)
  • Celebrar (to celebrate)
  • Cerrar (to close)
  • Comer (to eat
  • Comprar (to purchase, to buy)
  • Comprender (to comprehend, to understand)
  • Conducir (to drive)
  • Contestar (to answer, to reply)
  • Correr (to run)
  • Cortar (to cut)
  • Costar (to cost)
  • Recibir (to receive)
  • Creer (to believe)
  • Cubrir (to cover)
  • Deber (to owe, should)
  • Decidir (to decide)
  • Desear (to desire, to wish)
  • Detener (to stop)
  • Discutir (to argue)
  • Distinguir (to distinguish)
  • Divertirse (to have fun)
  • Doler (to hurt)
  • Dormir (to sleep, go to sleep)
  • Enamorarse (to fall in love)
  • Encantar (to be delighted about) - gustar-type verb
  • Entender (to understand)
  • Entrar (to enter)
  • Escuchar (to listen)
  • Escribir (to write)
  • Esperar (to wait, to hope)
  • Esquiar (to ski)
  • Estar (to be)
  • Estudiar (to study)
  • Felicitar (to congratulate)
  • Ganar (to win, to earn)
  • Gustar (to like)
  • Hablar (to talk)
  • Hacer (to make, to do)
  • Hallar (to find)
  • Ir (to go)
  • Invitar (to invite)
  • Jugar (to play)
  • Lavar (to wash)
  • Leer (to read)
  • Llegar a ser (to become)
  • Levantar (to raise)
  • Llegar (to arrive)
  • Llevar (to bring, to carry)
  • Lograr (to accomplish)
  • Mirar (to look)
  • Morir (to die)
  • Nacer (to be born)
  • Nadar (to swim)
  • Necesitar (to need)
  • Obtener (to get, to obtain)
  • Crear (to create)
  • Saber (to know)
  • Sacar (to take out)
  • Salir (to leave, to go out)
  • Saludar (to greet)
  • Seguir (to follow)
  • Sentir (to feel)
  • Ser (to be)
  • Significar (to mean, to signify)
  • Soñar (to dream)
  • Tener (to have, to own)
  • Terminar (to finish, to end)
  • Tocar (to touch, to play an instrument)
  • Tomar (to take, to drink)
  • Trabajar (to work)
  • Traducir (to translate)
  • Traer (to bring)
  • Usar (to use)
  • Vender (to sell)
  • Venir (to come)
  • Ver (to see)
  • Viajar (to travel)
  • Visitar (to visit)
  • Vivir (to live)
Sunny Jackson

unglue.it - Introduction to Programming Using Java is a Free eBook - 0 views

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  • Introduction to Programming Using Java
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Hugo Award for Best Novel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • Double Star
  • Robert A. Heinlein Have Space Suit — Will Travel
  • Starship Troopers
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  • Kurt Vonnegut Sirens of Titan !The Sirens of Titan
  • Stranger in a Strange Land
  • Children of Dune
  • A Fall of Moondust
  • Little Fuzzy
  • Here Gather the Stars (also known as Way Station)
  • Kurt Vonnegut Cat's Cradle
  • The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
  • Daniel Keyes Flowers for Algernon
  • The Left Hand of Darkness
  • Slaughterhouse-Five
  • Ringworld
  • To Your Scattered Bodies Go
  • The Lathe of Heaven
  • The Gods Themselves
  • Rendezvous with Rama
  • Time Enough for Love
  • The Dispossessed
  • Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
  • The Mote in God's Eye
  • The Forever War
  • Mindbridge
  • The Man in the High Castle
  • Man Plus
  • Gateway
  • The Fountains of Paradise
  • Frederik Pohl Jem
  • Frederik Pohl Beyond the Blue Event Horizon
  • Downbelow Station
  • Foundation's Edge
  • 2010: Odyssey Two
  • Startide Rising
  • Isaac Asimov Robots of Dawn !The Robots of Dawn
  • Job: A Comedy of Justice
  • Ender's Game
  • Speaker for the Dead
  • Cyteen
  • Hyperion
  • Robert J. Sawyer Terminal Experiment !The Terminal Experiment (also known as Hobson's Choice)
  • Forever Peace
  • The Rise of Endymion
  • To Say Nothing of the Dog
  • J. K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
  • Dan Simmons Ilium
  • American Gods
  • China Miéville Perdido Street Station
  • Paladin of Souls
  • Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
  • Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
  • Old Man's War
  • Accelerando
  • Rainbows End
  • The Graveyard Book
  • Cory Doctorow Little Brother
  • Neal Stephenson Anathem
  • The Windup Girl
  • Blackout/All Clear
  • The Mule
  • C. S. Lewis That Hideous Strength (also known as The Tortured Planet)
  • Farmer in the Sky
  • Isaac Asimov Pebble in the Sky
  • C. S. Lewis Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe !The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
  • Fahrenheit 451
  • Arthur C. Clarke Childhood's End
  • Isaac Asimov Caves of Steel !The Caves of Steel
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  • Philip K. Dick Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the Bomb
  • G. C. Edmondson Ship That Sailed the Time Stream !The Ship That Sailed the Time Stream
  • Philip K. Dick Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch !The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
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  • Flowers for Algernon
  • Daniel Keyes
  • Robert A. Heinlein Moon Is a Harsh Mistress !The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
  • Robert Silverberg Tower of Glass
  • Robert Silverberg Masks of Time !The Masks of Time
  • Ursula K. Le Guin* Left Hand of Darkness !The Left Hand of Darkness
  • Kurt Vonnegut Slaughterhouse-Five
  • Larry Niven* Ringworld
  • Philip K. Dick Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
  • Robert Silverberg* Time of Changes !A Time of Changes
  • Ursula K. Le Guin Lathe of Heaven !The Lathe of Heaven
  • Isaac Asimov* Gods Themselves !The Gods Themselves
  • Arthur C. Clarke* Rendezvous with Rama
  • Robert A. Heinlein Time Enough for Love
  • Ursula K. Le Guin* Dispossessed !The Dispossessed
  • Philip K. Dick Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
  • Joe Haldeman* Forever War !The Forever War
  • The Mote in God's Eye
  • Frederik Pohl* Man Plus
  • Frederik Pohl* Gateway
  • Arthur C. Clarke* Fountains of Paradise !The Fountains of Paradise
  • Frederik Pohl Jem
  • Gregory Benford* Timescape
  • Frederik Pohl Beyond the Blue Event Horizon
  • Isaac Asimov Foundation's Edge
  • Robert A. Heinlein Friday
  • David Brin* Startide Rising
  • Robert A. Heinlein Job: A Comedy of Justice
  • Orson Scott Card* Ender's Game
  • Orson Scott Card* Speaker for the Dead
  • Margaret Atwood Handmaid's Tale !The Handmaid's Tale
  • Ursula K. Le Guin* Last Book of Earthsea !Tehanu: The Last Book of Earthsea
  • George R. R. Martin Game of Thrones !A Game of Thrones
  • Jack McDevitt Ancient Shores
  • Joe Haldeman* Forever Peace
  • Connie Willis To Say Nothing of the Dog
  • Neil Gaiman* American Gods
  • Ursula K. Le Guin Other Wind !The Other Wind
  • China Miéville Perdido Street Station
  • Elizabeth Moon* Speed of Dark !The Speed of Dark
  • Cory Doctorow Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
  • Susanna Clarke Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
  • Jack McDevitt Polaris
  • Terry Pratchett Going Postal
  • Jack McDevitt* Seeker
  • Joe Haldeman Accidental Time Machine !The Accidental Time Machine
  • Cory Doctorow Little Brother
  • Jack McDevitt Cauldron
  • Paolo Bacigalupi* Windup Girl !The Windup Girl
  • Connie Willis* Blackout/All Clear
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