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Thesaury RSS Feedsskyquake - Roughly a year after a series of bizarre rumbling was reported across the Magic Valley, similar incidents are being reported again in south-central Idaho and northern Nevada.?Often called ?skyquakes,? the unexplained booms have become a regular occurrence worldwide in recent years, often coming in waves over the same area.. ...Feed Source: feedproxy.google.com silent stinker - ?There?s a filing deadline when legislative sponsors can propose new legislation,? said Harper. ?In order to get around the filing deadline, they can file a shell bill, which is like a placeholder, that they can fill it in at later date.? ?We euphemistically refer to shell bills as ?silent stinkers? because they?re extremely hard to track,? she said. ?A shell bill can, quite literally, turn into just about anything with very little notice. That makes it very hard for citizens to voice their opinions and concerns in a thoughtful, thorough or timely manner.?. ... bullet line - There?s a lot of talk about the bullet line in Juneau these days. Now we even have a bullet line czar that Gov. Sarah Palin has designated to ramrod the project?Harry Noah, a veteran and capable state official. ?Bullet line? is the euphemism for a 20-inch or 24-inch pipeline that would carry natural gas from the North Slope to Southcentral Alaska.. ... fang-banging - ?You know how many people are having sex with vampires these days?? The answer to this question, right at this present time, appears to be: quite a few. ?Fang-banging,? as it is known in some parts of the vampire universe, is everywhere.. ... Man-happen?in - Jessie Raven, 18, a December graduate from Lincoln-Way Central High School, is getting an education of a lifetime, spending four months in Beijing with her aunt and uncle. It?s a long way from Manhattan, or ?Man-happen?in? as she calls it.. ... blower door - Before any work is done, an assessor is sent to each home to conduct a detailed examination using an infrared camera and what is known as a ?blower door??essentially an airtight door with an inset fan?to locate leaks and hot or cold spots.. ... poodle cut - Lygodium, or Old World climbing fern, covers trees like a green blanket. Workers use a technique called ?poodle cut? on lygodium vines, carving deeply into the thick vegetation near the base, which kills the vine?s growth above the cut.. ... greyfield - Dead malls, referred to as ?greyfields? in the New Urbanist community, are formally defined as failing malls with sales less than $150 per square foot, according to the non-profit Congress for New Urbanism (CNU).. ... hot-in-place - A process known as ?hot-in-place? treatment will also be used to extend the life of some city streets. Dopp described the process as a way to recycle existing road materials by heating the surface and then adding fresh liquid asphalt.. ... spider cleaning - As high-rise buildings mushroom across the city, facade cleaners?the ones who dangle from ropes to give those glass houses the impeccable look?are finding more jobs and more challenges.??If a person hangs from a rope and cleans, the process is called ?spider cleaning.? When he sits on a seat attached to a pulley, it is ?rig cleaning.? In cases of spider cleaning, the rope will be connected to a pillar or an ?I? joint on the top of the terrace.?. ... tire buster - Another thing that we?ve done is we?ve implemented emergency response teams and these guys are able to go out within 24 hours and address any hole that are sometimes referred to as ?tire busters,? those holes that can cause a tire to go flat or cause damage to a vehicle.. ... roller - I reined in the speedy pace and tried to find a rhythm over the first three miles, where we encountered ?rollers??in running parlance, those are mellow hills with ups and downs that wake up your legs, but aren?t so challenging that they leave you breathless.. ... amortality - You may not have heard of amortality before?mainly because I?ve just coined the term. It?s about more than just the ripple effect of baby boomers? resisting the onset of age. Amortality is a stranger, stronger alchemy, created by the intersection of that trend with a massive increase in life expectancy and a deep decline in the influence of organized religion?all viewed through the blue haze of Viagra. Amortals live among us. In their teens and 20s, they may seem preternaturally experienced. In later life, they often look young and dress younger. They have kids early or late?sometimes very late?or not at all. Their emotional lives are as chaotic as their financial planning. The defining characteristic of amortality is to live in the same way, at the same pitch, doing and consuming much the same things, from late teens right up until death.. ... underperforming asphalt - In auto-dependent suburbs that were built without a traditional center, shopping malls offer the chance to create downtowns without destroying existing infrastructure, by recycling what?s known as underperforming asphalt.. ... landfill indie - Commentators have gone so far as to coin the derogatory term ?landfill indie? for the glut of ho-hum groups whose gritty slice-of-life aesthetic is, let?s be honest, the last thing we?re in the humour for.. ... dag - ?He was selling it right here at the bar? Dag. I didn?t know it was that kind of place.? According to court documents, Mr. Younge, 50, of the Bronx, sold illegal drugs on at least a dozen occasions since October to undercover narcotics officers.. ... golden coffin - On a related measure sponsored by The American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees Pension Plan Fund, voters defeated a proposal to end death benefits, also known as ?golden coffins,? granted to top Disney executives.. ... bus butt - Like many touring musicians, Navarro had a voracious appetite?he quickly gained what was known as a ?bus butt,? which earned him the nickname ?Fats? or ?Fat Lady.?. ... shack farming - Municipalities would be able to demolish the shack and thus continue our national effort to eradicate slums. The act also ends what is commonly called ?shack farming,? which is when people invade land and build shacks for rental and thus create havens for criminals.. ... dieback - The team believes that the process, known as dieback, will begin when average global temperatures reach around 15C. Weather system changes will mean less rainfall on the jungle which will result in saplings failing to reach maturity while older trees die and wither away. Once the process begins it will feed on itself as less tree cover will mean less water evaporation to create more rain. Eventually it could have the effect of turning more than a million square miles of the jungle in Brazil into savannah.. ... macaroon technique - He used PowerPoint to impart what he calls the ?macaroon technique,? referring to the sandwich-like French macaron pastry. This can be applied to most any product (including, presumably, a Xerox machine) and goes something like this: ?Madam, this timepiece (or diamond or handbag) comes from our finest workshop and it has a value of $10,000. If you buy it, your children are sure to enjoy it for generations to come.?. ... sorry gift - Because guilt over spending is playing a big role in the sales downturn, he teaches salespeople to suggest a ?sorry gift??of another timepiece?for a wife who might be disappointed that her husband just dropped a sizable sum on his own wrist.. ... break the ton - When I was a kid we all drove muscle cars with enormous hemis. The term ?breakin? the ton? was popular slang. You broke the ton when 100 mph was significantly exceeded and sustained.. ... ghost shift - Very low serial numbers, like very low MAC ID addresses, are a hallmark of the ?ghost shift,? i.e. the shift that happens very late at night when a rogue worker enters the factory and runs the production machine off the books. Significantly, ghost shifts are often run using marginal material that would normally be disposed of but were intercepted on the way to the grinder.. ... stock - Wade will eventually shift to LeBron on defense, and while he does post some gaudy defensive numbers (almost 3 ?stocks? per game, to use some Simmons parlance), most of those come as a help-side defender.. ... startle factor - Practical research shows that experienced pilots, with training provided by their airlines in upset recoveries, still struggle to perform when attempting to recover. There are many human factors involved in an actual upset, including the ?startle factor? a nd the sometimes overwhelming psychological aspects of an upset attitude. With appropriate instruction, pilots can learn how to recognize and recover from an upset.. ... hair crush - OK guys I am not going to lie here, I do this thing that I like to call my ?hair crush.? My hair crushes are people with fab hair that I personally would kill to have.. ... seagen - As for food Kelli is what she likes to call a, ?Seagen.? A vegan that eats seafood.. ... rollup - Patrick Neil, a division manager for Ventura County?s probation department, would not comment on why Avary was removed from the furlough program. ?Any causes behind a rollup is not something we can discuss,? Neil said, using the term for when an inmate is transferred from one facility to another. Thursday evening, @avary?who has been referring to himself as #34?tweeted ?#34 is ?rolled up? to a higher security facility for exercising his first amendment rights. The truth he has discovered is too dangerous.?. ... simming - It took a room full of networked computers called a ?render farm? to do in about 14 months what would have taken a single machine 16 years: churn out digital scenes precisely modeled after real life, Mr. Weigert and Mr. Engel said. Artists positioned the sun in the virtual sky, and dictated how every surface?metal, glass, wood or stone?would reflect rays and cast shadows. Teams installed virtual hinges in lampposts and etched thousands of fault lines into skyscrapers and houses so when simulated tremors or winds or waves were applied, a process called ?simming,? they?d crumble or buckle in natural-looking ways.. ... nimbleton - So let?s raise a glass to big funds with a toast of sincere best wishes for their success . . . of course, I?ll be explicit about my ulterior motive: keeping the small fund space the preserve of the nimbletons. If big players continue to focus on big funds, it?ll be more beer for us.. ... kitchen - Lobsters like the shelter of rocks and prefer cold water to warm. They move around a lot and find their food by smell?that?s what the antennas are for?and not by sight. But the whole notion of trapping them may be a misconception. There is some evidence to suggest that the traditional lobster pot, with its two ?rooms??the kitchen and the parlor, as they?re known?and funnel-shaped nets, is not as confining as fishermen think, and that the bugs come and go more or less as they please.. ... skuke - In this little town on the south coast, people like me ? summer folk ? are known as skukes. I?ve never met anyone who knows the real derivation of the term, but it?s not a compliment. Skukes are annoying because they drive up the price of real estate and because they do for fun what year-rounders do for a living. Take lobstering, for example. Most of the summer there was a local man at the town dock selling lobsters for a very reasonable $4.99 a pound. Skukishly, I thought I would be more enterprising and try to catch my own. My goal was by the end of the summer to hear my family complain: ?What? Lobster again??. ... parlor - Lobsters like the shelter of rocks and prefer cold water to warm. They move around a lot and find their food by smell?that?s what the antennas are for?and not by sight. But the whole notion of trapping them may be a misconception. There is some evidence to suggest that the traditional lobster pot, with its two ?rooms??the kitchen and the parlor, as they?re known?and funnel-shaped nets, is not as confining as fishermen think, and that the bugs come and go more or less as they please.. ... broccoli journalism - Collective responsibility. Socialized journalism. This is the ultimate in broccoli journalism: You are not only forced to read what journalists say is good for you but you are now forced to pay for it through taxation.. ... strap hanging - Usually the truck drivers wait at the opening of the valley for a U.S. Army patrol to pass and then they follow it, a practice soldiers have dubbed ?strap hanging.? Lining the sides of the road are the remains of scorched trucks belonging to drivers too impatient to wait for an informal escort.. ... parclo - The Ontario Ministry of Transportation designed a modification to the original cloverleaf to address its shortcomings for the 400-series highways. The redesign creates more room for acceleration and deceleration and avoids the notoriously dangerous weaving lane. The Parclo has been embraced throughout the world as one of the most popular freeway-to-arterial interchange designs.. ... Dipper - My exquisite pleasure as a Liberal party man who barely knew a Tory or ?Dipper? (as we called NDPers) was to work with people from organized labour, Liberals, Conservatives, ad people and NDPers all in a glorious coalition united in our desire to sweep city hall clean of the remnants of the Mel Lastman regime and restore pride to our city.. ... jeggings - ?What?s so great this year,? she says, ?is that they?re making jeans that are great for boots.? They?re slim, soft, light and tight, fitting almost like leggings. In fact, At the store they like to call them ?jeggings.?. ... dittoism - There is a tendency in favour of what is called ?dittoism,? i.e., everyone thinking the same thought without a healthy tendency to break the uniformity of thought.. ... busticate: Dictionary.com Word of the Day - busticate: to break into pieces.... Copyright © 2010, Donna's List. All Rights Reserved. |