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  • Mr. Oktar should crawl his way out of the pile of organic ooze that seems to be smoothering his reason.

    Bad Day for Darwin Haters - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2009

  • My husband wasn't all keyed up, he could actually relax and enjoy it even with all the questions and smoothering of love because it was all on his terms.

    R&R - To Share or Not to Share - SpouseBUZZ 2008

  • Trust me you doe both them great wrong, in depriuing them of the desired sonne, annd also your selfe, in smoothering your deserued prayses, and all men generally, in withholding from them so diuine pleasures, which they might conceive of your gallant English verses, as they haue already doen of your Latine Poemes, which in my opinion both for inuention and Elocution are very delicate, and superexcellent.

    Shepheardes Calendar 1579

  • THis method of information control has corrupted the way we think, and is largely responsible for the smoothering weight that strangles the democratic process.

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed Igor Volsky, Think Progress 2009

  • THis method of information control has corrupted the way we think, and is largely responsible for the smoothering weight that strangles the democratic process.

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed 2009

  • THis method of information control has corrupted the way we think, and is largely responsible for the smoothering weight that strangles the democratic process.

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed 2009

  • I would say that if one assumes the linear model, there are much better ways of doing the “signal extraction” than FA (with or without post rotation), e.g., Kalman smoothering (filtering), Independent component analysis (ICA),… In fact, I think some (nonlinear) extension of Kalman procedure (e.g. extended, unscented, particle filtering…) might be something appropriate for these type of studies.

    Regression and Varimax Rotation « Climate Audit 2007

  • (WHY: Without such a price floor, oil producing countries and big oil companies will, as they have so many times before, temporarily flood the market with cheap oil, thereby smoothering still-fragile clean, renewable sources of energy, such as wind and solar.

    Keeping it Simple - Stupid 2008

  • (which is perpendiculer under the Equinoctial) [58] all that whole Bay is more subiect to many blooming and smoothering heates, with infectious and contagious ayres, then any other place in all Torrida Zona: and the cause thereof is some accidents in the land.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I. Richard Hakluyt 1584

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