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warc | 201704 | Can Entrepreneurs Count on Community Banks?
For years, the conventional wisdom was that small, community-based banks were good places for entrepreneurs to do their banking. It was easier to build a relationship with a local loan officer who lived in -- and cared about -- your town, rather than trying to convince a far-... | 2,929 | 1,488 | 0.000676 |
warc | 201704 | Indoor Air Quality is a significant issue in libraries, museums and archival collections - due mainly to the fact that many compounds, as well as unsuitable temperature and humidity has a deteriorating effect on many valuable and precious items stored in these buildings.
Air pollution can attack heritage materials. Mus... | 534 | 338 | 0.002975 |
warc | 201704 | A few days ago I wrote about starting to teach children about money when they’re very small. The important lesson is to delay satisfaction. By not getting everything the child wants when the child wants it, the child learns the value of savings and eventually earning combined with saving. The lesson should carry over l... | 1,815 | 928 | 0.001107 |
warc | 201704 | Product Videos Forever Health - Products Introduction
Eating right is important no matter what your age, but as we get older, certain nutrients become more essential to good health.
Digestive Enzymes
Digestive Enzymes delivers 12 different enzymes, including protease, cellulose, and lipase — to support the digestion of... | 4,820 | 2,195 | 0.000464 |
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The period of prenatal development that takes place in the first two weeks after conception. It includes the creation of teh zygote, continued cell division, and the att... | 4,191 | 1,922 | 0.000528 |
warc | 201704 | India announces to Double Investment in Clean Energy Research in next five years
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03 June 2016 Current Affairs: India on 2 June 2016 announced its plan to double the investment in Clean Energy Research in next five years. At present, India is investing 72 million US dollars in Clean Energ... | 3,128 | 1,536 | 0.000657 |
warc | 201704 | At Daman, we strongly believe in improving the future of our children by cultivating leadership and innovation within our education systems. Studies show that competitiveness of the US is linked closely to the success of our youth in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields.
In efforts to impr... | 2,310 | 1,224 | 0.000822 |
warc | 201704 | If you’ve already heard them, I’ll spare you the recap of the baby monitor hacking horror stories. There’s nothing more stomach-churning than the thought that your baby’s room isn’t completely safe from intruders. But the fact is, if you have a baby monitor in the room, it might not be.
Video baby monitor hacking stori... | 13,813 | 5,577 | 0.000186 |
warc | 201704 | Burn Repair Ointment
MEBO Burn Repair. A 100% natural ointment which assists the natural healing and repair of all burns, scalds and sunburn. Mebo Burn Repair helps clear away toxic material, promotes the natural repair and regeneration of new skin and provides a cooling and soothing effect on the skin. Scientifically ... | 4,353 | 2,049 | 0.000491 |
warc | 201704 | If your business processes, transmits, or stores credit card data, you are subject to the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS). PCI DSS 3.0 went into effect in 2014, and introduced new rules and a clarified direction for the guidelines. Among the most important things for a merchant to know about the... | 5,618 | 2,512 | 0.000409 |
warc | 201704 | I see a lot of people who hate their jobs. I think your "RodneyDangerfield Syndrome" may explain a lot, though it's not clear whichis the cause and effect. I'd guess that low esteem leads to hatingone's job (and everything else). If you don't like your job, find anew one. Some will (can?) never be happy, though.
I know... | 3,180 | 1,665 | 0.000604 |
warc | 201704 | Strategic partnership to improve the lives of vulnerable people 16-09-1999
Reference Document – 27th International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent, Geneva, 31 October to 6 November 1999
Final Goal 3.1.
Improved health for vulnerable people based on strengthened co-operation between States and National Soci... | 55,483 | 19,807 | 0.000051 |
warc | 201704 | The Infona portal uses cookies, i.e. strings of text saved by a browser on the user's device. The portal can access those files and use them to remember the user's data, such as their chosen settings (screen view, interface language, etc.), or their login data. By using the Infona portal the user accepts automatic savi... | 3,363 | 1,683 | 0.000604 |
warc | 201704 | Whether we're slaving over a scholarly article or a textbook, or knocking off streams of memos and e-mails, virtually all of us write constantly -- and we can do it better and more meaningfully, Mike Rose argues.
Submitted by Rob Weir on January 22, 2013 - 3:00am
Stewart Brand is credited with coining the phrase "infor... | 14,156 | 6,819 | 0.000151 |
warc | 201704 | The Internet has had a major influence on how we begin, develop, maintain and end relationships. No longer limited by distance, we can be in contact with friends, family and lovers any time, from anywhere.
Whether it’s because you met online or because one partner has to move away or travel, couples can sometimes face ... | 4,426 | 2,181 | 0.000467 |
warc | 201704 | Writing a Professional Email
Despite the growth of communication through social media and texting, email still remains the most common method of business communication. As you communicate with employers and network with other professionals, email will be your primary communication. You will likely send emails when appl... | 4,555 | 2,074 | 0.000503 |
warc | 201704 | This post originally appeared on Insure.com.
“Why don’t you lie on the couch and tell me what’s going on?”
If you think this is how an appointment with a psychiatrist might begin, think again. These days only 10 percent of the nation’s 50,000 psychiatrists actually talk to patients in the way Sigmund Freud popularized ... | 4,314 | 2,092 | 0.0005 |
warc | 201704 | Have you ever considered turning your hobby into a business on the side so that you could deduct the expenses? For instance, if you become an aspiring professional rock climber, actress or weekend charter boat captain, can you deduct the cost of your life jacket, cleats and theater lessons? Most people think so, but Da... | 2,256 | 1,111 | 0.000916 |
warc | 201704 | A masters is the first level of graduate coursework and can be obtained after you receive a bachelor’s degree. Earning a masters usually requires two years of full-time study, which amounts to 36 to 54 semester credits.
Development Studies is a vibrant field concerned with processes of change such as social and economi... | 1,795 | 969 | 0.001046 |
warc | 201704 | A masters is earned after students complete an undergraduate degree program. To obtain a masters, you usually need to complete 12 to 18 college courses that often involve completing comprehensive tests and/or a thesis.
Energy management studies are designed for those interested in energy conservation and the developmen... | 2,008 | 1,020 | 0.000989 |
warc | 201704 | Use a few simple “secrets” to get your website discovered on the big World Wide Web.
You know you’ve created something special. You’ve already developed great products and services, yet, running a successful business doesn’t stop there. Now you have to let as many people as possible know how they can buy what you’re se... | 3,911 | 1,927 | 0.000539 |
warc | 201704 | The EU’s telecoms commissioner has hinted at progress towards a pan-European telecoms market via a legislative overhaul aimed at encouraging network sharing, cross-border consolidation and harmonised policies.
“We’re working on a range of measures to create common and stable conditions across the EU for telecoms compet... | 1,829 | 924 | 0.001121 |
warc | 201704 | Abstract
Abstract An invertebrate α-ketoglutarate-dependent aspartyl/asparaginyl β-hydroxylase, which posttranslationally hydroxylates specific aspartyl or asparaginyl residues within epidermal growth factor-like modules, was identified, partially purified and characterized. Preparations derived from two insect cell li... | 1,278 | 632 | 0.001605 |
warc | 201704 | OBJECTIVE:
The aim of the present study was to evaluate the efficacy and safety of lithium and valproate in nonbipolar pathological gamblers.
METHOD:
Forty-two subjects with DSM-IV-defined pathological gambling entered a 14-week single-blind trial with lithium (N = 23) or valproate (N = 19). A total of 15 subjects on l... | 1,239 | 673 | 0.001497 |
warc | 201704 | BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:
Central nervous system and cardiac toxicity following the administration of local anesthetics is a recognized complication of regional anesthesia. Levobupivacaine, the pure S(-) enantiomer of bupivacaine, was developed to improve the cardiac safety profile of bupivacaine. We describe 2 cases ... | 1,547 | 779 | 0.00129 |
warc | 201704 | BACKGROUND:
Despite CDC recommendations regarding universal catch-up vaccination against human papillomavirus (HPV), only about ten percent of young adult women in the United States have been vaccinated. The purpose of this study was to better understand reasons for non-vaccination among insured 19-26 year-old women an... | 2,084 | 1,091 | 0.000925 |
warc | 201704 | Waterfalls have never been this much fun. Sheets of cascading droplets have been turned into a multilayered computer display, suitable for playing Tetris in 3D.
Peter Barnum, Srinivasa Narasimhan and Takeo Kanade at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, have projected images onto a series of water scr... | 2,036 | 1,054 | 0.000979 |
warc | 201704 | This week, we stumbled upon The Way of the Gun: Estimating Firearms Traffic Across the U.S.-Mexico Border, one of the strangest and most half-asked gun control-related "studies" to come down the sendero in a long time. It contends that a quarter of a million firearms are smuggled from the U.S. to Mexico annually--a fig... | 8,169 | 3,703 | 0.000272 |
warc | 201704 | Debbie Moss reviews Keith Ewing's IALS lecture on Constitutional Reform. Ewing makes a convincing case that Parliament and not the courts ought to guard our liberties.
Professor Keith Ewing gave a lecture Monday evening at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies on how best to protect our rights and liberties in the fa... | 5,194 | 2,465 | 0.000408 |
warc | 201704 | How different is Greece? The beginning of wisdom about the current Greek crisis is to recognize that it is fundamentally political, and that it has been long in the making. Greece’s failure is the outcome of a long process during which populism prevailed over liberalism and became hegemonic in society.
Cultural theorie... | 19,589 | 8,156 | 0.000126 |
warc | 201704 | Every meeting is different. But every one ends the same way.
Whether it’s your daily scrum meeting, weekly team stand-up, monthly executive update, or a one-time project kickoff, someone has to pull together notes, record ideas from the whiteboard, write it all up in an email and send the memo off to all involved.
Esse... | 1,726 | 956 | 0.001081 |
warc | 201704 | Back pain and neck pain are very common in this computer era because of our sedentary life style. Even youngsters and mid age people are not spared from spinal issues because of their poor exercise habits and nature of jobs.
Robin McKenzie, a reputed Physiotherapist from New Zealand classifies the cause of spinal probl... | 2,090 | 1,056 | 0.000965 |
warc | 201704 | If the discovery of life elsewhere in the universe is just around the corner, what would be the consequences for religion? Would it represent another major conflict between science and religion, even leading to the death of faith? Some would suggest that the discovery of any suggestion of extraterrestrial life would ha... | 1,980 | 1,012 | 0.00099 |
warc | 201704 | Sustainable Nuclear Power provides non-nuclear engineers, scientists and energy planners with the necessary information to understand and utilize the major advances in the field. The book demonstrates that nuclear fission technology has the abundance and attainability to provide centuries of safe power with minimal gre... | 1,123 | 627 | 0.001599 |
warc | 201704 | What Should You Do if a Worker Quits but Doesn’t Exit the Building?
You don’t need to call security or contract a couple of heavies to unceremoniously bounce the undesirable from the office — we’re not talking about a direct, flat-out refusal to leave. We are talking about that actively disengaged 24 percent of staff t... | 4,171 | 1,917 | 0.000533 |
warc | 201704 | Continue Reading
Honey is good for your face and for skin in general. Honey absorbs and retains moisture, which helps hydrate and freshen skin. Applying a mixture of honey and milk to your face and allowing it to sit for 2 minutes keeps the skin smooth, radiant and youthful looking.
Honey offers efficient sun protectio... | 1,281 | 705 | 0.001424 |
warc | 201704 | Winterizing a Mercruiser boat requires fixing any mechanical problems and flushing the system with fresh water. Once the system is clean, fog it and add a fuel stabilizer to prevent the small parts from freezing, which may cause irreparable damage.Continue Reading
Always remember to disconnect and remove the battery be... | 1,344 | 717 | 0.001404 |
warc | 201704 | Importing from a foreign country is always a bit of a chore. You have international tariffs, customs, and the like to take into account. Before any of that comes into play, however, you've got to consider the subtleties involved in doing business with people from another culture. This issue is particularly pronounced i... | 6,000 | 2,802 | 0.000359 |
warc | 201704 | “There are no good options for these businesses that are at or near that 50 employee threshold,” the National Federation of Independent Businesses’ Kevin Kuhlman explained to CNBC. “They either have to reduce hours, prevent growth and expansion, or move to a more temporary workforce. None of these choices are good.”
Ku... | 1,869 | 953 | 0.001092 |
warc | 201704 | Our five senses–sight, hearing, touch, taste and smell–seem to operate independently, as five distinct modes of perceiving the world. In reality, however, they collaborate closely to enable the mind to better understand its surroundings. We can become aware of this collaboration under special circumstances.
In some cas... | 6,591 | 3,094 | 0.000329 |
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Inflammatory cytokines may mediate hypoxic-ischemic (HI) injury and offer insights into the severity of injury and the timing of recovery. In our randomized, multicenter t... | 3,133 | 1,570 | 0.00065 |
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A spatially explicit landscape model of disturbance and vegetation succession, LANDIS, was used to examine the effect of fire regime on landscape patterns of functional group dominance in the sh... | 2,730 | 1,396 | 0.000731 |
warc | 201704 | Understanding Dropshipping
Dropshipping is a retail fulfillment method where a store doesn't keep the products it sells in stock. Instead, when a store sells a product, it purchases the item from a third party and has it shipped directly to the customer. As a result, the merchant never sees or handles the product.
The ... | 6,632 | 2,908 | 0.000351 |
warc | 201704 | Polish is one of the many languages whose text corpora are included in Sketch Engine, a tool for discovering how language works. Sketch Engine is designed for linguists, lexicologists, lexicographers, researchers, translators, terminologists, teachers and students working with Polish to easily discover what is typical ... | 3,907 | 1,781 | 0.000574 |
warc | 201704 | Can we expect to see more movement and progress as regards European-wide tax harmonization? Tax Professional Answers
My own personal prognosis is that EU tax harmonization will slow down over the next five years, at least as regards the legislative side of corporate income taxation. That is because the predictions are ... | 1,960 | 1,045 | 0.000975 |
warc | 201704 | The provincial government has downgraded the safety rating of the company that collects Toronto household waste west of Yonge St. — largely because of a spate of incidents during the rocky first three months of its contract, city and company officials say.
The downgrade could affect the company’s ability to win other m... | 5,870 | 2,694 | 0.000394 |
warc | 201704 | From: BeYoutiful,
I’ll just stay indoors for five minutes longer...
Sound familiar? Unfortunately, as we’re sure you all know, it’s far too easy to procrastinate during the winter. However good our intentions may be, when it’s cold, wet and dark outside, going to the gym just doesn’t seem as appealing as collapsing ont... | 3,570 | 1,831 | 0.000565 |
warc | 201704 | Spring weather has arrived early this year bringing some severe weather with it. The weather that has hit Missouri and our neighboring states recently is a reminder that we need to review tornado safety from time to time such as the statewide tornado drill that occurred on March 13
th.
In order to help spread the word,... | 1,010 | 567 | 0.001774 |
warc | 201704 | Stuck moment: New car — check. Personal trainer — check. Impressive job title — check. I am so on track for the good life. But where’s the joy? At the end of the day I just feel…unsatisfied.
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Status, like so many human inventions, has a stuck side.
In its purest sense, status is a coping mechanism, a way for us to... | 5,362 | 2,815 | 0.000368 |
warc | 201704 | Astral AR doesn’t just build drones. They build neuromechanical holportation drones. In fact, the world’s only neuromechanical holportation drones. Their long-range drones are flown in augmented reality with your mind. Astral’s customers include national organizations, enterprise companies, international governments an... | 4,148 | 1,964 | 0.00053 |
warc | 201704 | The government’s much-hyped Energy Bill is so far failing to live up to the expectations of businesses and households, new analysis has found.
In its Renewable Energy Country Attractiveness Indices (CAI) report, global analyst Ernst and Young notes that the high expectations of the investor community are not being met,... | 2,980 | 1,476 | 0.000707 |
warc | 201704 | WHITE PLAINS - The New York Power Authority announced the completion of a two-year program to install nearly $3 million worth of insulation in 781 homes and small businesses in upstate New York, including 102 facilities in Western New York.
Co-sponsored by the Independent Energy Efficiency Program, the Village Insulati... | 4,358 | 2,012 | 0.0005 |
warc | 201704 | DescriptionThis book offers new perspectives on the pedagogical value of literary texts. The book is, in the first place, a theoretical study - speculative in nature - about the inherent connection between reading and interculturality. The author argues that reading literary texts may open up a passage to a 'third plac... | 2,443 | 1,178 | 0.00086 |
warc | 201704 | The US President Barack Obama signed on 29 September the Continuing Resolution, extending authorisation of the EB-5 Regional Center Program until 9 December.
Both House and Senate gave the nod to the funding measure, which will be effective immediately.
Peter D. Joseph, Executive Director, IIUSA (the non-profit trade a... | 1,893 | 1,008 | 0.000999 |
warc | 201704 | Before you start raising money online, it’s important to know how to write a fundraising letter. You need to start reaching out once your fundraiser page is posted. We’re here to help with advice about creating a fundraising appeal letter that will persuade and speak to friends and strangers alike to support your cause... | 3,093 | 1,417 | 0.000717 |
warc | 201704 | Home and auto insurer,
Allstate Corp. (ALL - Free Report) announced its pre-tax catastrophe (CAT) estimates for October 2012 yesterday, stating that it expects losses of over $150 million. However, a final estimate is yet to be computed.
The loss primarily includes the damages created by Hurricane Sandy on the north-ea... | 2,607 | 1,341 | 0.000754 |
warc | 201704 | "Represents seminal work on understanding mathematical learning difficulties and disabilities." --Asha Jitendra
This book will comprise a comprehensive and multidisciplinary treatment of current research on mathematical learning disabilities. Empirical, theoretical, methodological, and pedagogical perspectives on this ... | 932 | 512 | 0.001998 |
warc | 201704 | Related Information Additional Resources
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EID Teh C, Suhaili Z, Lim K, Khamaruddin M, Yahya F, Sajili M, et al. Outbreak-associated Vibrio cholerae Genotyp... | 14,440 | 6,127 | 0.000165 |
warc | 201704 | Within a few years, everything will connect to everything via the Internet. The so-called 'Internet of Things' will propel the era of the 'Customer'. Fast translation of direct end customer feedback into usable and valuable functionalities is the key for survival of all businesses. Consequently business strategies will... | 913 | 532 | 0.001926 |
warc | 201704 | This piece in The Onion, “Heartbroken Chris Brown Always Thought Rihanna Was Woman He’d Beat To Death,” was brought to my attention by fellow Abortion Gangsters, many of whom are offended and some who were triggered and hurt by the language used. I take the position that this piece is brilliant.
The Onion has gone to a... | 5,261 | 2,480 | 0.000424 |
warc | 201704 | There’s nothing better than digging your toes in the warm sand, breathing crisp, salty air and hearing the sound of waves crashing on the shoreline. But whether the beach is close to home, or thousands of miles away, you don’t have to leave the memories behind at the summer’s end. There are many creative ways to bring ... | 2,894 | 1,433 | 0.00072 |
warc | 201704 | Pakistan supreme court rejected review petition of Sarabjit Singh, an Indian citizen convicted for espionage and bomb blasts in various cities of Pakistan. The petition was rejected on the grounds that Sarabjit's lawyer was not present in the court for the procedings. (Link)
Contrary to this, in India the court will no... | 7,245 | 3,384 | 0.000297 |
warc | 201704 | Heart transplantation is lifesaving in diseases of heart when all other treatment modalities fail. Unlike many other organs, supporting a failing heart is not feasible for a lengthy time period. In such situations heart transplantation remains the choice of treatment. The common indications for heart transplantation in... | 1,273 | 631 | 0.001589 |
warc | 201704 | Today’s rapidly growing flood of big data represents immense opportunity for forward-thinking marketers. But to fully leverage the potential that exists within these massive streams of structured and unstructured data, organizations must quickly optimize ad delivery, evaluate campaign results, improve site selection an... | 755 | 482 | 0.002131 |
warc | 201704 | (Fortune) -- You have to love the ways computers find new ways to screw up our lives, in matters big and small.
One day, a computer glitch at the New York Stock Exchange slices $1 trillion or so off the value of the U.S. stock market. Another day -- today, actually -- a computer glitch involving a somewhat smaller amou... | 2,334 | 1,229 | 0.000817 |
warc | 201704 | People's Democracy( Weekly
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Supreme Court judgement of April 27, 2004 in the Modern School case is a
historic judgement having far reaching effects in the field o... | 11,212 | 4,679 | 0.000218 |
warc | 201704 | Not taking medications as directed can make a serious condition worse. (Fotolia)
Harvard Health Blog
Wiser use of prescription medications by everyone--doctors and their patients--could save the U.S. health care system more than $200 billion a year. That's the conclusion of a new report, "Avoidable Costs in U.S. Health... | 4,578 | 2,147 | 0.000468 |
warc | 201704 | German Chancellor and Chairwoman of the German Christian Democrats (CDU) Angela Merkel poses in front of a CDU elections campaign bus outside CDU headquarters in Berlin, Germany. (Sean Gallup / Getty Images)
Angela Merkel, known as "Mrs. Nein," is back for a third term as German chancellor, which is good news for a Eur... | 4,947 | 2,464 | 0.000409 |
warc | 201704 | A successful IPM program requires that all pest management activities are conducted according to IPM principles. A policy statement can guide you, but you must have a plan, which is a detailed proposal for achieving specific goals.
Integrated pest management demands a customized approach for each pest because each poss... | 1,395 | 707 | 0.00142 |
warc | 201704 | Root zone heating is an effective option for greenhouses that provides heat directly to the growing media rather than heating the air of the greenhouse. This approach provides a triple benefit for greenhouse growers: faster production, higher quality crops and energy savings. If the root zone temperature is maintained ... | 9,486 | 4,048 | 0.000248 |
warc | 201704 | Most internal combustion automobile engines, whether they're four, six or eight cylinders, operate on a four-stroke cycle known as the Otto cycle. The four strokes are: intake, compression, combustion and exhaust. To put it in the simplest of terms, each of the vehicle's pistons moves up and down within a cylinder. As ... | 2,780 | 1,251 | 0.000801 |
warc | 201704 | While on a jeepney ride... going somewhere... I saw two figures. Out of place...
A lola and her apo sit in the midst of a sidewalk. The child plays with an empty plastic cup while the elder woman struggles to cover up the child’s genitals.
I was hit with a wave of emotions so powerful that my eyes moistened and my brea... | 2,942 | 1,573 | 0.000691 |
warc | 201704 | Lt. Meredith Doran peers at her computer monitor at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson and sees the pain of Haiti.
Looking at aerial photos taken by Air Force planes she had dispatched, Lt. Doran makes sure aid and supplies reach the earthquake-devastated Caribbean nation as quickly and as safely as possible.
Tucso... | 2,796 | 1,428 | 0.000709 |
warc | 201704 | Dry Needling For Lower Back Inflammation
This article explains a new method of treatment for spinal inflammation having a similar approach to acupuncture except the needles are inserted along the nerve pathways, which are well defined in order to get relief from specific muscular pains.
Dry needling for lower back infl... | 3,181 | 1,515 | 0.000679 |
warc | 201704 | I think my lack of updates over these past few months (read: entire school year) shows you how crazy my life is. However, I don’t want to start with the craziness. I want to start with what I love:
my dance class.
In October, I started teaching an after-school dance class twice a week open to all our middle schoolers. ... | 5,784 | 2,822 | 0.000372 |
warc | 201704 | Carrying credit card debt is a real drag. When you’ve got high-interest bills hanging over your head, saving toward long-term goals, such as buying a home or starting a family, becomes much more difficult. Rather than bide your time by paying the minimum each month…
Commit to knocking down your debt with these 6 simple... | 3,940 | 1,896 | 0.000542 |
warc | 201704 | A 2009 article in the Guardian newspaper, which I've just read, suggests that Japan has the world's most innovative system for garaging commuters' bicycles.
It's not often something stops you in your bike tracks. But a spectacular "bike tree" invention from Japan bowled me over when I was in Tokyo a couple of weeks ago... | 2,228 | 1,199 | 0.000849 |
warc | 201704 | Medicine in space does not have the right stuff.
After 28 months, the medication stored in space generally had a lower potency and degraded faster than those stored on the ground. Six medications on the space station underwent physical changes, such as discoloration and liquefaction, while such changes only occurred in... | 361 | 215 | 0.00469 |
warc | 201704 | While some sort of standardization exists, there are still a lot of cutters who are producing under par diamonds and trying to pass them off as Hearts and Arrows stones. Here are some basic guidelines that you can use to check whether your chosen diamond has good optical symmetry.
In reality, a perfectly cut diamond th... | 1,896 | 1,030 | 0.000993 |
warc | 201704 | I am kind of surprised by this. I was aware that eating disorders were much more common among gay men than among straight men, but I didn't know lesbian and bisexual women faced heightened levels of eating disorders as well.
I generally assumed that the reason more gay men starved themselves and threw up was because of... | 1,045 | 552 | 0.001819 |
warc | 201704 | Heading back to The Wilds for another post or two...
On the Saturday after Thanksgiving, we took the kids on a drive to The Wilds, near Cumberland, Ohio for a day of birding and animal watching. Deer-hunting season was set to start in two days. Because The Wilds has vast areas of fenced grassland where endangered anima... | 3,258 | 1,646 | 0.000613 |
warc | 201704 | A new meaning to window shopping
By Mike Cavers, Lateral Group
We’ve all been there, trying something on in store, asking friends what they think and taking photos to show off our latest purchase. Now Adidas has taken this experience one step further as the latest big brand that has adapted its stores to tap into the o... | 3,787 | 1,813 | 0.000562 |
warc | 201704 | But wait – before you get back in the saddle, take some time for a tune-up and brush up on your rules of the (two-wheeled) road.
First, let’s make sure your bike is ready for a safe spring ride.
The Washington Area Bicyclist Association (WABA) recommends the following safety checks:
A is for Air: Check your tires and m... | 3,224 | 1,660 | 0.000627 |
warc | 201704 | What is the future of social commerce?
The future is looking bright for eCommerce businesses looking to increase revenue via social media. Social commerce sales are expected to rise, bringing in $30 billion per year by 2015, according to Mashable.
While most users do not view social media as a preferred outlet to purch... | 1,653 | 864 | 0.001165 |
warc | 201704 | I previously blogged about ICU checklists. Atul Gawande has written another excellent article about them, this time an editorial in the
New York Times:
A year ago, researchers at Johns Hopkins University published the results of a program that instituted in nearly every intensive care unit in Michigan a simple five-ste... | 3,151 | 1,578 | 0.00066 |
warc | 201704 | If you are buying a new inverter for your house or apartment then it is a smart choice to go for a solar inverter – it will work like a normal inverter and will also help you save money by using solar energy. However, if you already have an inverter in your house then you can still make it into solar power system by do... | 4,344 | 1,957 | 0.000518 |
warc | 201704 | The economic data released this week had little impact on mortgage rates. Tuesday's Bank of Japan meeting also caused little reaction in U.S. markets. Mortgage rates ended the week lower.
While it had little market impact, Wednesday's report on sales of previously owned homes exceeded expectations and reached another m... | 2,097 | 1,044 | 0.000964 |
warc | 201704 | As summer begins to wind down, there’s still plenty of time to get out and enjoy the rivers. Many avid floaters prefer to enjoy the river during the fall season. The vivid colors of foliage mixed with the gentle sounds of nature can offer a float filled with peace and serenity. Of course, if you’re more of a thrill-see... | 2,014 | 1,080 | 0.00094 |
warc | 201704 | Tag: pros and cons of BYOD
Posted by Kelly Ungs
As IT organizations everywhere are restructuring their budgets for 2013, figuring out where their company should be spending and how much, it’s no secret that one of the areas that will require some careful consideration is BYOD. While there is certainly not a “one size f... | 4,506 | 2,153 | 0.000478 |
warc | 201704 | FIVE MYTHS ABOUT THE NONPROFIT ARTS Hello everyone. “And the beat goes on.............." Nonprofit Arts managers are lousy business people and Four other Myths about the Nonprofit Arts.
I ran across an interesting Opinion piece in the
Christian Science Monitoron myths about arts entitled: “Anyone could paint that and 7... | 5,177 | 2,424 | 0.000426 |
warc | 201704 | Planet Moneypodcast discusses a novel program to help patients save money on health care by cutting them in for a piece of the savings: "Pay Patients, Save Money".
Although not a fully market-based mechanism, it does show that patients can respond to incentive when they have "skin in the game".
For similar reasons, I s... | 469 | 306 | 0.003325 |
warc | 201704 | There is a procedure that people use and teach students to use for finding the inverse of a function. It goes like this (this image comes from page 10 of this document from Edexcel, but this pic is from Jo Morgan’s blog where I first saw it):
My problem with this is that it doesn’t make any sense, in two ways.
Firstly,... | 2,718 | 1,321 | 0.000798 |
warc | 201704 | It’s ‘Guilty Until Proven Innocent’ for the Falsely Accused
In the frenzy to pursue the suspects in the bombing at the Boston Marathon, a number of innocent people were publicly scrutinized and falsely accused in both traditional and social media.
Initially news sources reported that a Saudi man who had been injured in... | 5,108 | 2,481 | 0.000422 |
warc | 201704 | By Shawn Langlois
Good morning.
Chalk a big chunk of recent index gains up to Apple’s /quotes/zigman/68270 /quotes/nls/aapl AAPL run, but that doesn’t change the fact that the troublesome trend of defensive stocks leading the rally has reversed in the past couple weeks.
With the Nasdaq /quotes/zigman/12633936 COMP char... | 6,155 | 3,176 | 0.000328 |
warc | 201704 | GUESTVIEW: From “security” to compassion – a needed shift for Obama gov’t The following is a guest contribution. Reuters is not responsible for the content and the views expressed are the authors’ alone. Libyan theologian Aref Ali Nayed is a senior advisor to the Cambridge Inter-Faith Programme and a leading signatory ... | 7,044 | 3,232 | 0.000317 |
warc | 201704 | Islamic finance outsources scholars’ supervision to grow
Bankers in Islamic finance are increasingly outsourcing sharia supervision due to a lack of scholars in the industry, but critics say this is making the sector even less transparent and slowing its development.
The $1 trillion industry rode a five-year oil boom u... | 1,326 | 732 | 0.001406 |
warc | 201704 | What makes a good boss?
June 01, 2009
Plenty has been written about bad bosses. As this piece in the spec.com points out, there are good reasons why people hate their boss: management treats them with disrespect, good work goes unrecognised, everyone is scared to express their views, the boss is okay at managing things... | 6,900 | 3,054 | 0.000331 |
warc | 201704 | A cardinal error is committed with appalling frequency in managing the investments of affluent families — thinking in pre-tax instead of after-tax returns. This may seem surprising as taxes are often the biggest single expense of wealthy families. Similarly, affluent retirees live on after-tax, not pre-tax cash flows.
... | 3,908 | 1,865 | 0.000548 |
warc | 201704 | Are you looking for a way to earn some extra money from home but aren’t quite sure how to do it with young kids?
Fortunately, you have a lot of options.
Working from home is ideal if you have young kids at home but it can definitely be challenging to find a job you can actually do with young kids underfoot.
The
best op... | 4,383 | 2,040 | 0.000496 |
warc | 201704 | The editor-in-chief of the pro-industry legal magazine, The National Jurist, chose to use his soapbox to wag his tiny finger at greedy, wealth-seeking law students rather than hold accountable the greedy and
reallywealthy deans and student loan industry. Quelle surprise! For too long, many of the students who entered l... | 5,566 | 2,632 | 0.000383 |
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