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Pink the Basin Luncheon celebrates breast cancer survivors and raises awareness about early detection Published 1:55 pm, Thursday, October 1, 2015
“If you are a survivor diagnosed within the last two years, would you please stand?” Mary Carlson, President of Pink the Basin Inc., asked the crowd of about 1,000 at the no... | 1.480087 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Oregon farms will be seeking roughly $220,000 from the U.S. Labor Department now that their settlements over “hot goods” labor law violations have been overturned.
“That is our top priority now, to get that money returned,” said Tim Bernasek, attorney for the growers.
The two blueberry farms — Pan-American Berry Grower... | 1.513893 | 1,019 | 1,017 |
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Camelford poisoning hearings begin
People involved in Britain's worst water poisoning incident are giving evidence about the experience after waiting nearly 14 years.
An inquiry panel was beginning two days of hearings in Camelford, north Cornwall, at... | 1.444701 | 1,023 | 1,021 |
Only the wealthiest and most sophisticated investors are allowed to put money into the leveraged buyouts done by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts. But that might be changing.
KKR is working with another firm to allow investors to commit a minimum of $10,000 for exposure to its private equity funds, according to a Thursday filin... | 1.560779 | 989 | 987 |
CARD is proud to announce that the app that we have been developing called Camp Discovery: Objects is now available on iTunes for iPads and on Google play for Android devices!
How many Autism Moms does it take to change the world? Just one. Holly Robinson Peete is the perfect example. When her son was diagnosed with Au... | 1.516348 | 973 | 971 |
The EU should be unambiguous about the forthcoming parliamentary elections in Albania, taking a joint position spelling out concretely what are the red lines that must not be crossed. An inteview with ESI chairman Gerald Knaus
What can the EU do to prevent polarization in Albania surrounding the upcoming elections?
Two... | 1.630451 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
be touched. Some rules must not be broken. What really matters is not who wins but that Albanian voters have the chance to participate in a free and fair contest.
How can the international community avoid being seen to take sides?
This is a crucial challenge. It is one the European Union in particular failed in the pa... | 1.705994 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Where does all this
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You’ve arrived home from work and as you sort through the day’s mail you see there’s a note from your ex-wife asking for payment for Tommy’s new baseball uniforms and asking you to pick up some new clothes and toiletry items for Susie when she comes to stay with you next weekend.
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When the term ‘accident’ is mentioned, it can summon up a range of images from minor lacerations through to fatalities. Whilst some injuries may appear moderate on the surface, they could affect the quality of life. For example, soft tissue injuries can leave a person with chronic pain making functioning on a daily bas... | 1.659428 | 974 | 972 |
Dr. Khaled Batarfi, kbatarfi@hotmail.com
The senior press historian brought to a climax his presentation of the American press freedom concept by announcing: Here we achieved the Founding Fathers’ dream of the open marketplace of ideas.
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Two scientific papers that initially electrified biologists by describing an easy way to make stem cells were retracted on Wednesday by the journal that published them after they were found to be riddled with “critical errors.”
The papers, published in Nature in January, were a source of pride in Japan, where much of t... | 1.396512 | 1,024 | 1,021 |
When social media first hit the scene back in the early 2000s, no one would’ve guessed the power and heavy influence it would have in the advertising and marketing world. Today, social media marketing is absolutely vital to businesses as a way to reach out to customers. It’s a powerful and effective way to grow your br... | 1.747574 | 1,023 | 1,021 |
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CWS (Old) Health Professions Who We Are Where to Start Internships Fellowships and Scholarships Graduate and Professional School Job Search Essentials Wellesley Serves! What Wellesley Graduates Do _________________ Diversity Resources Online Workshops Alumnae Advice Video Series CWS Social Media Policy ________________... | 1.567329 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
have submitted a completed application, a dean’s certification (only for a handful of schools) and sent an application fee to each school.
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Billionaire Indian businessman, Gautam Adani, has reportedly met with Australia’s prime minister Malcolm Turnbull, seeking new laws that prohibit court actions against controversial environmental approvals for major projects.
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When I was a kid, I used to have a puzzle of the United States. I learned so much from repeatedly solving that puzzle, that when I saw a similar product in a store, I bought it for my children.
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Ever wonder why cause there are two Koreas? The yankee part is little more than a starving , slave trading underground rocket factory with an unfree, unfun new clear weaponized nation state attached led by Young General The Southermost portions - SoKo (or ROK as the ancients insist on nom d'guerr'ing her) is fully crun... | 1.733012 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Is it not time for us to reflect on this idea of sacrifice?
Three thousand years ago, the necessity of the regular and orderly sacrifice of human beings to propitiate the gods was also a universal belief. Then some began to question it. It began with people like Abraham, or like Kaveh, who had handed over their sons an... | 1.735681 | 955 | 953 |
For new renewable energy sources to become competitive with existing generator technology, substantial technological development will be necessary. Marginal costs of electrical generation for wind, solar, and geothermal energy may be very low, but startup costs remain high. What is the state of research and development... | 1.581825 | 1,003 | 1,001 |
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Jewish Magic and Superstition, by Joshua Trachtenberg, [1939], at sacred-texts.com
p. 153
IT IS erroneous to assume that magic is practiced exclusively by professionals, or that it represents always a conscious, deliberate act. As Karl Goldmark once said, "Civilized people lose their religion easily, but rarely their s... | 1.764021 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
the chief features of the religious life is a scholarly regimen. Study therefore was another form of protection. The Bible in itself possesses anti-demonic virtues, as we have seen. The regular reading of the Bible in the synagogue service was believed to protect Israel from the wiles of the devil. "So long as Israel ... | 1.832862 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
before the tenth of Tebet, before the seventeenth of Tamuz, before
Rosh Hashanah, and during the ten succeeding days of Penitence." In an unavailing effort to avert assault during the First Crusade, the Jews of Trier, we are informed, distributed almost all their possessions to the poor. This was a fairly common pract... | 1.839549 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
was conversant with the fairly large class of things and actions which have been universally credited
p. 159
with anti-demonic virtues. Here a brief summary of the extensive material may suffice.
Light was one of these protective agents, due, no doubt, to the circumstance that demons shun the light, and also because o... | 2.001618 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
." For this reason salt was used in many rites connected with birth, marriage and death, and in medicine.15
Very often salt and bread were jointly prescribed to defeat the stratagems of spirits and magicians. When a witch assaults a man, he can bring about her death by forcing her to give him some of her bread and salt... | 1.854402 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
may appease the spirits. In a sense the offering represents a substitute for the intended victim, which the spirits are ready to accept even when it is proffered accidentally and not by design. "When an angel is dispatched to take a man's life, if another born under the same planetary influences chances to die, the fi... | 1.8135 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
author of the only code composed there introduced his description of it with the words, "I have found in the Seder of R. Amram that . . .," implying that he was not acquainted with it from his own experience.
The intent of the rite was to transfer the sins of the individual to the fowl, and by offering this substitute... | 1.742866 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
and Biblical selections "whose secret significance is very profound." What the popular conception of the purpose of this rite was may be gleaned from the rabbinic animadversions against "those men, with as little sense as a woman, who say, 'I am going to the river to shake off my sins,' and grasping the edges of their... | 1.872939 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
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also have believed that the wine of the "cup of blessing" would have the same effect.23
The final weapon in the anti-demonic strategy is that of deceit. It figures prominently in the initiation, marriage and burial rites of primitive peoples and not a few examples have been collected from European folk-customs. M... | 1.909084 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
guardianship of the powers of good. Certain incidental usages illustrate the potency attributed to circumcision. A Geonic source is cited as authority for this practice: the bloody foreskin was placed in a bowl containing water and spices, and each member of the congregation, as he left the synagogue (where the rite u... | 1.90367 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
and honor"; or again, as a notice to
p. 172
[paragraph continues] Jewish passersby that the ceremony was in progress, originating in an ancient proscription against circumcisions which consequently had to be performed in secret. In more recent times it was customary to light thirteen candles, ostensibly to correspond ... | 1.732174 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
The real purpose of all this doubtless, was to delude the demons into imagining it was a sorrowful and not a joyous occasion, and thus to avoid arousing their envy and hatred.44
7. During the ceremony the groom's
mitron, or his prayer-shawl,
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was spread over the head of the bride, and immediately after the weddi... | 1.884056 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
a corpse so that even in the grave their depredations might be forestalled. The rabbis inveighed against this "heathenish" custom, and insisted that the fingers must be straightened out before burial, but the practice persisted. In later times it was modified and the fingers were bent in such a way as to form the name... | 1.962302 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
water be drunk, has been said. So complex do the motives behind these observances become that it is well-nigh impossible to single them out with any assurance. It may be of interest to recall that we have in English a colloquial expression which commemorates this widespread custom of pouring out liquidswhen a person d... | 1.735375 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
admitted that this was intended to confuse and shake off "the evil spirits which follow them home." After the service the chief mourners passed between a double line of people and were then escorted home by the entire company.54
6. The custom of washing the hands after a funeral is very widespread; it seems to have ma... | 1.858421 | 1,015 | 1,013 |
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Karen Ross, CEO of Sharp Decisions, keeps challenging the status quo. A female founder of a 20-year-old technology company, she is now convincing U.S. companies to utilize veterans—newly trained on Sharp Decisions’ nickel—for IT work that would normally be done overseas.
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Gro-Rite Garden in Lincoln Park grows all year-round
Ever wish you could buy fresh, local produce in the midst of winter? Well, Gro-Rite Greenhouse & Garden Center in Lincoln Park is striving to make that possible.
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“Here is some further explaination of the Karuk Tribe Lawsuit against the California DFG to change dredging regulations…” (Forum Post by Dave on 12 January)
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“I want to become a licensed medical perfusionist” says Julie Huong, a health care aide who lives in Nevada. “I am studying for my state’s licensing exam, but it has been hard to figure out what qualifications I need to earn my certification. I earned an Associate’s degree in pharmacy science a few years ago, but that ... | 1.750413 | 973 | 971 |
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There have been a large number of letters in the media over recent weeks from concerned KiwiSaver investors. These investors are worried about the downturn in the world’s equity markets and the impact this will have on their portfolios.
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The temperatures have probably been as hot as they always are, but this feels like the hottest summer I’ve ever been in. It was bad enough to have to deal with the heat, but when I faced a broken air conditioner, things got even worse. Before seeking HVAC repair in NYC, I tried various methods to stay cool, but it was ... | 1.653463 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
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It’s the 7th of October and at midnight the US government will enter its 8th day of shutdown. While many thought that the shutdown would be short-lived, this has not been the case. Indeed, it now appears as though the shutdown will last at least until the 17th of October – the date by which the US debt limit must be in... | 1.588734 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
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not be “raided” to put money into defense and homeland security accounts. If the caps have not been met by the beginning of the fiscal year, sequestration (across the board cuts) will occur to virtually all discretionary programs. Second, a 12-member joint committee, to be created within the next few weeks, will be re... | 1.703918 | 1,014 | 1,011 |
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PARIS — Eighty-seven countries and international organizations pledged $7.4 billion in aid to the Palestinians on Monday, in the most ambitious fund-raising effort in more than a decade to help Palestinians create a viable, peaceful and secure state of their own.
The total is set to cover the next three years. The Pale... | 1.440241 | 978 | 977 |
If businessman and philanthropist Scott Griffin committed a misdemeanour as a young boy, he was sent to his room and not allowed out until he had read and remembered some piece of classical poetry. Scott now presides over what is sometimes described as the world's richest poetry award, the Griffin prize, with prize mon... | 1.780415 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
For the first time, a person fully vaccinated (twice vaccinated individual) against measles has contracted the disease and passed it on to others. According to a study recently published in
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Two decades after overseas sweatshop conditions first hit national headlines, garment factory conditions have become worse than ever. In Cambodia, workers earn so little they cannot afford basic nutrition and are fainting en masse in factories producing for billionaire apparel corporations like adidas. In Bangladesh, 5... | 1.800813 | 1,010 | 1,008 |
Where can NH do better? Some of these are not surprising, but some you may not have been aware of:
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Election reform, the Voting Rights Act, the Help America Vote Act, and related topics -- with special attention to the voting rights of people of color, non-English proficient citizens, and people with disabilities
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LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — Nearly half of the Los Angeles residents who voted in last month’s mayoral runoff election submitted their ballots by mail, according to certified election results that the city clerk’s office released Monday.
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Israel plans to gather international support to force global social media networks to act more responsibly in preventing their platforms from being abused to promote incitement to terrorism. Its Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan is seeking to force these social media giants to take greater responsibility for their c... | 1.626799 | 1,013 | 1,011 |
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Bill Kinney has owned three Honda Insights. Every one of them has gotten an average lifetime fuel economy of more than 80 mpg. How does he manage it?
EV World's Bill Moore asked him recently during the AltCar Expo in Santa Monica, California. The video of that interview is availabl... | 1.383662 | 979 | 977 |
This analysis compares the compensation of Apple’s top executives to the compensation received by the Chinese workers of Apple’s supplier Foxconn. The most complete data are for 2011. In that year, Apple’s nine-person executive leadership team received total compensation of $441 million. This was equivalent to the esti... | 1.059092 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
estimates of some relatively minor compensation were added to this table to make it complete). The vast majority of this compensation came in the form of stock awards issued to Apple’s new CEO Timothy Cook ($376 million) and to Eduardo Cue ($52 million) upon his elevation to senior vice president. The somewhat complica... | 1.202567 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
for the number of Chinese workers is calculated by dividing $441 million (the total pay of the Apple executives) by $4,622 (the estimated average annual pay of the factory workers).
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A headhunted international professor spends three years at a Danish university in Jutland and experiences scandalously low standards, stifling and chaotic administration, and a management using totalitarian methods. Acting according to international norms in academic life, she takes up the fight against the scandalous ... | 1.751643 | 1,024 | 1,021 |
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Jim Lounsbury: The year 1979 in business was notable for a number of things: the revolution and the Federal Government's policy, record-high interest rates and goals soaring to new highs almost daily, it seemed. But most of all, 1979 highlighted just how closely the policies of business and the outlook of Americans tow... | 1.953351 | 1,020 | 1,018 |
By Andrew Walker
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Mr Brown urged a "just distribution of risks and rewards"
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown certainly caused a stir at the G20 finance ministers meeting in St Andrews when he suggested a tax on financial transactions, sometimes called a Tobin tax after the Nobel Prize w... | 1.594418 | 991 | 989 |
The main goal of this study was to assess the usability of a tablet-computer-based application (EmoCogMeter) in investigating the effects of age on cognitive functions across the lifespan in a sample of 378 healthy subjects (age range 18-89 years). Consistent with previous findings we found an age-related cognitive dec... | 0.627038 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
this pilot study. During L/S, concentrated dye was sprayed onto peritoneal surfaces, then aspirated and rinsed with Lactated Ringers solution. Areas of localized dye uptake were evaluated for the presence of visible endometriotic lesions. Areas of intense peritoneal staining were resected and some fixed in 2.5% buffer... | 0.734291 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
, TA, animal model
50183
Measuring Frailty in HIV-infected Individuals. Identification of Frail Patients is the First Step to Amelioration and Reversal of Frailty
Institutions: University of Arizona, University of Arizona.
A simple, validated protocol consisting of a battery of tests is available to identify elderly pa... | 0.385609 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
oid, Humerus, Fracture
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Pseudofracture: An Acute Peripheral Tissue Trauma Model
Institutions: University of Pittsburgh, University of Aachen Medical Center.
Following trauma there is an early hyper-reactive inflammatory response that can lead to multiple organ dysfunction and high mortality in trauma patients; this... | 0.723216 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
to obtain very stable recordings of motoneurons
in vivo
in adult mice
5,6
. However, these recordings were obtained in paralyzed animals,
i.e.
without the possibility to record the force output of these motoneurons. Here we present an extension of this original preparation in which we were able to obtain simultaneous ... | 0.527547 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
detection of postural deficits is important so that appropriate and targeted interventions can be prescribed. The Sensory Organization Test (SOT) on the EquiTest determines an individual's use of the sensory systems (somatosensory, visual, and vestibular) that are responsible for postural control. Somatosensory and vi... | 0.343807 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
10
.The objective of this review video-article is three-fold: a) summarize the findings of randomized controlled studies on the efficacy of OMT in adult patients with diagnosed pneumonia, b) demonstrate established protocols utilized by osteopathic physicians treating pneumonia, c) elucidate the physiological mechanism... | 0.399183 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
vapor, development, alcoholism, teratogenic, animal, mouse, model
51839
Assessment of Vascular Function in Patients With Chronic Kidney Disease
Institutions: University of Colorado, Denver, University of Colorado, Boulder.
Patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) have significantly increased risk of cardiovascular d... | 0.381309 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
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