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waldoj / defined-terms-fl.txt
Created October 15, 2013 14:48
A list of every term defined more than once in the Florida Statutes.
department (248)
person (86)
board (71)
agency (48)
division (45)
commission (42)
secretary (23)
state (21)
bonds (20)
owner (20)
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waldoj / defined-terms.txt
Created October 14, 2013 01:04
A list of every term defined more than once in the Code of Virginia.
person (162)
board (142)
department (98)
commission (63)
state (56)
owner (55)
director (52)
fund (48)
authority (46)
commissioner (37)
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waldoj / 59.1-284.13.xml
Created August 13, 2013 21:23
State Decoded XML with some sample tabular data
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<law id="28936"><section_number>59.1-284.13</section_number><catch_line>Semiconductor Manufacturing Performance Grant Program; eligible counties.</catch_line><history>1996, cc. 642, 652; 2007, c. 813.</history><order_by>00000000019028859.1</order_by><text><section prefix="A">As used in this section:
"Eligible county" means Goochland County.
"Manufactures wafers" means the transformation of raw wafers into finished wafers (probed or unprobed).
"Qualified manufacturer" means any manufacturer of semiconductor products who (i) has made a capital investment of at least $1 billion in buildings and equipment located in an eligible county for the manufacture of wafers or activities ancillary or supportive of such manufacture in such eligible county and (ii) manufactures wafers for fast static random access memories and microprocessors, and other semiconductor products.
"Secretary" means the Secretary of Commerce and Trade or his designee.
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waldoj / va.txt
Created July 3, 2013 14:30
This is a sample of the "SGML" of the the Code of Virginia that LexisNexis produces for the state, under their contract to publish Virginia's laws. These are the first few laws in the 2013 edition of the Code. What is this I don't even.
$$PROFILE=COD 1-1 Contents and designation of Code 0000000000100011 1 Code of Virginia N
<section>
| 1-1. Contents and designation of Code.
</section>
<section>
The laws embraced in this and the following titles, chapters, articles and
sections of this act shall constitute, and be designated and cited as the
"Code of Virginia," hereinafter referred to as "the Code" or "this
Code."
</section>
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waldoj / misspelled-words.txt
Last active December 18, 2015 05:09
About 400 commonly misspelled English words, in their misspelled form, limited to those words that could not plausibly be another word. (For example, "you're" and "your" are frequently confused, but neither appear here, because both are valid words.)
absance
absense
acceptible
accidentaly
accidently
accomodate
accordian
acerage
acheive
acknowlege
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waldoj / ee-dates
Created June 3, 2013 16:22
Actual code segment from ExpressionEngine, found within /expressionengine/expressionengine/libraries/Localize.php, in convert_human_date_to_gmt(). I tracked it down in an effort to fix the software's inability to store dates from prior to 1902 <http://ellislab.com/forums/viewthread/74033>, which they had blamed on everybody but themselves.
if ($year < 1902 OR $year > 2037)
{
return $this->EE->lang->line('date_outside_of_range');
}
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waldoj / ubuntu-ckan.sh
Last active December 15, 2015 07:49 — forked from JoshData/gist:5212696
The steps required to get CKAN running on Ubuntu 12.10. Note that they are not the same as [the official instructions](http://docs.ckan.org/en/latest/install-from-source.html), because those do not work.
# Spin up an Ubuntu 12.10 LTS (64bit) server.
# The following are based on the source install of CKAN....
# http://ckan.readthedocs.org/en/latest/install-from-source.html
# install dependencies
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install python-dev postgresql libpq-dev python-pip python-virtualenv git-core libcap-dev
# We'll install in the ubuntu user's home directory, i.e.
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waldoj / 15.2-627.json
Created March 16, 2013 18:54
Sample API response from Virginia Decoded's Law method.
{
"section_number": "15.2-627",
"section_id": "7508",
"structure_id": "1980",
"catch_line": "Department of education.",
"history": "Code 1950, § 15-324; 1956, c. 153; 1962, c. 623, § 15.1-644; 1980, c. 559; 1981, c. 246; 1982, cc. 32, 75; 1995, c. 8; 1996, c. 873; 1997, c. 587.",
"full_text": "<p>The department of education shall consist of the county school board, the division superintendent of schools and the officers and employees thereof. Except as herein otherwise provided, the county school board and the division superintendent of schools shall exercise all the powers conferred and perform all the duties imposed upon them by general law. Except for the initial elected board which shall consist of five members, the county school board shall be composed of not less than three nor more than nine members; however, there shall be at least one school board member elected from each of the county’s magisterial or election districts. The members shall be elected by popular vote from election districts cote
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waldoj / legislative_tags.csv
Last active November 13, 2015 14:26
A collection of 11,000 sets of crowdsourced, moderated tags, applied to legislation by hundreds of people over the course of eight years. Sourced from richmondsunlight.com.
We can make this file beautiful and searchable if this error is corrected: It looks like row 2 should actually have 3 columns, instead of 8. in line 1.
art,blacksburg,home rule
business,electricity,energy,regulation,results,scc,ssc,utility
business,electricity,energy,regulation,results,scc,ssc,utility
amendment,business,clean air,freedom,loss,marshall,newman,regulation,restaurant,sb,smoking
amendment,business,clean air,freedom,loss,marshall,newman,regulation,restaurant,sb,smoking
alcohol,bar,business,firearm,gun,regulation,restaurant,weapon
alcohol,bar,business,firearm,gun,regulation,restaurant,weapon
court,judge,supreme court,term limits
court,judge,supreme court,term limits
deed,foreclosure,hb,house,mortgage
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waldoj / ahs-stony-point.txt
Created August 29, 2012 23:58
AHS Letter Regarding Stony Point Shooting
From: ALBEMARLE HIGH SCHOOL <email@blackboardconnect.com>
Date: Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 4:17 PM
Subject: Dear Albemarle High School Families
A message from ALBEMARLE HIGH SCHOOL
Dear Albemarle High School Families:
Sadly, the Albemarle County police department announced today that four people lost their lives as the result of an incident that occurred in a house on Stony Point Road. Two of those people were Albemarle County public school students, including Lily Romando, a junior at Murray High School and a wonderful young lady well known to our own Albemarle high school community. Her brother, Andrew, an eighth grader at Sutherland, also died.
Very few details are available at this time. The police are moving forward with an investigation. They have described this as an isolated incident and have said there is no danger to the larger community.