text stringlengths 672 9.77k | entropy float64 0.13 5.62 | num_tokens int64 155 1.02k | num_pred_tokens int64 153 1.02k |
|---|---|---|---|
The Big Short, Michael Lewis, 2010
Having read and commented on several works detailing the financial meltdown, including IOU, How Markets Fail, Too Big To Fail, and House of Cards , this reader still felt that something was missing from the account; how could all these “masters of the universe” have been so monumental... | 1.735278 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
By Heather MacDonald
The Wall Street Journal, January 8, 1999
The federal antidiscrimination juggernaut stumbled recently, tripped up by an impediment called the First Amendment. In 1994, the Department of Housing and Urban Development investigated three Berkeley, Calif., residents who had protested planned homeless ho... | 1.818644 | 1,015 | 1,013 |
Supreme Court divided in immigration detention dispute Donald Trump Sworn in as 45th U.S. President Wall Street ends higher as Trump becomes president Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA) Said to Face Antitrust Concern for Rite Aid (RAD) Fix - Bloomberg Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMY) Says It Won't Pursue Accelerated U.S. Regulat... | 1.319873 | 1,021 | 1,019 |
Nasal solution joins SARS race Vaccine against fatal virus works in monkeys.
As human trials of a vaccine for severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) kick off in China, US researchers are developing the first nasal vaccine for the disease.
"The nose is where the infection attacks, so it is very effective," says Peter ... | 1.175033 | 912 | 911 |
Monday served as a historic moment for the small southeast Asian country of Myanmar when hundreds of new democratically elected government officials were sworn in for the first time.
The officials were elected last November in the first free and fair election in 25 years, and the transition to the new government is the... | 1.472815 | 1,009 | 1,007 |
Full profile →'">
The author is a Forbes contributor. The opinions expressed are those of the writer.
How did age 67 become the universal retirement target age?
When I started as a financial planner in the mid-80s, I distinctly remember using age 62 as the prime target age for retirement. We only used age 65 as a “back... | 1.399647 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Each week the bloggers at our own Friendly Fire (http://blogs.dailynews.com/friendlyfire/) debate on the pressing topics of the moment. This week, it was on the increasing pressure for domestic use of drones and the news that Southern California is one of the regions that may become a testing ground for drone use.
Are ... | 1.97854 | 929 | 928 |
Packaging has become an essential marketing tool nowadays. Visually appealing and highly functional packaging can attract the attention of consumer, and play an important role in buying decisions. The current development in the e-commerce market is cross-border online shopping. Overall, availability of desired products... | 1.436209 | 1,022 | 1,020 |
In this article you can find out useful information and 10 interesting tricks for successful weight loss without diet:
1. Use tall thin glasses
If you use thin tall glasses instead of small and wide, then you’ll cut down the “liquid” calories. Studies have shown that people are more inclined to fill the cup when it is ... | 1.75649 | 1,022 | 1,020 |
A 27-year-old woman who has been described by neighbours as having a history of mental illness stabbed a pensioner of Oropune Gardens, Piarco, to death yesterday.
You are here Howai on cause of forex problems: Many buyers, few sellers
Bottlenecks in T&T’s foreign currency supply are nothing new in T&T, according to Fin... | 1.637325 | 978 | 976 |
Stem cells coaxed into regenerating bone while leaving tumors out Chris Wood August 31, 2016 The UC San Diego team added adenosine to their stem cell culture medium (pictured) to create osteoblasts (Credit: UC San Diego Jacobs Schools of Engineering) View gallery (2 images) http://newatlas.com/pluripotent-stem-cells-bo... | 1.210491 | 988 | 986 |
3. Statistical Metadata in each phase of the Statistical Business Process (Statistics Sweden) Statistics Sweden 5. System and design issues (Statistics Sweden) 4.1 Metadata system(s)
Statistics Sweden has several metadata systems, some new and some old. The long term vision is to have one common system that provides me... | 1.887356 | 998 | 997 |
Introduction
When I took AP English History in 1999-2000, we were required to have a subscription to either Newsweek or Time Magazine.
When I worked in the public library during most of high school, I admired the large, full-page covers of
Time and I considered it to be one of the premier news magazines of the, well, t... | 1.808506 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
contexts that render them meaningless).
Having a major news source have any author posting about it in this kind of credulous “reporting” is worrying, among other adverbs.
Charlotte Alter Parrots Deepak Chopra
I haven’t really talked about Deepak Chopra on this blog before. That’s mostly because Chopra is primarily in... | 1.897645 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Helen Clark: Fourth High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness Nov 29, 2011
I congratulate our Korean hosts and the OECD for organizing the Fourth High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness here in Busan.
We are here representing governments, multilateral organisations, civil society, the private sector, parliaments, research in... | 1.627818 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Issue No. 12 - December (2005 vol. 31)
ISSN: 0098-5589
pp: 1056-1073
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TSE.2005.138
Axel van Lamsweerde , IEEE
ABSTRACT
Requirements-related scenarios capture typical examples of system behaviors through sequences of desired interactions between the software-to-be ... | 1.621369 | 953 | 951 |
Published on Monday, August 14, 2006 by CommonDreams.org Why the WTO Doha Round Talks Have Collapsed – and a Path Forward
by Lori Wallach and Deborah James
The collapse of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Doha Round talks on July 24, 2006, should come as no surprise. A decade into the WTO experiment, it is clear that... | 1.52802 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
of reduction in poverty have slowed in most parts of the world – especially when one excludes China, where huge reductions in poverty have been accomplished, but not by following WTO-approved policies (China became a WTO member only in 2001). Indeed, the economic policies that China employed to obtain its dramatic gro... | 1.691821 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
.” And finally, the models fail to adequately take into account the loss in tariff revenue for developing countries, which the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development estimated would be 2 to 4 times the projected gains for developing countries from the Doha WTO expansion. These flaws have rarely been mention... | 1.843182 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
and poor countries alike – and many cut off of these life sustaining goods.
Instead of having to adhere to new restrictions on trade that protect corporate profits, countries must be free to prioritize other values and goals, particularly regarding the saving of millions of lives by getting access to low-cost life-sav... | 1.963448 | 1,009 | 1,007 |
While I am a contributing writer here at Clash Daily, I am also a loyal reader. I follow many of the writers here and I am constantly amazed and humbled by the level of talent that Doug has been able to assemble here. It is truly a blessing and a privilege to write for Doug and alongside such a great bunch of conservat... | 1.818778 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
are more attracted to our minds than anything else, or rather, the women we are looking for are. If you are hitting the gym and you are smart, you have a leg up on 90% of the guys walking around. Girls are looking for that annoying guy from Jersey Shore but women are looking for the guy who is smart, grounded in his f... | 1.784295 | 1,003 | 1,001 |
Analysis of the article, we have a certain understanding of the Repairing Jobs That fail to Satisfy. The report focuses on how DrainFlow can improve in three areas: job structure, incentive structure, and hiring practices. The main contents include an introduction to the problems DrainFlow is encountering, analyses of ... | 2.199459 | 1,022 | 1,020 |
In his new book, The Word According to Eve , Cullen Murphy exploresthe revolutionary implications of feminism's encounter with religion August 6, 1998
"The Bible is famous for being the world's most overstudied book," Cullen Murphy writes in the foreword to
The Word According to Eve: Women and theBible in Ancient Times... | 1.666867 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
. I wondered when I first started out whether, as aman, I would be greeted with suspicion by the feminist scholars I wanted totalk to. I never was. If anything, they may have been intrigued to discoverthat their work might be as interesting to men as it is to women. And I dothink it is -- or ought to be. One of the mai... | 1.656621 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Moses and Aaron she leads the Israelites out of Egypt, and watches from the shore as the waters of the Red Sea close in upon Pharaoh and his army. And then Miriam has a victory song snatched from her lips by the Bible's editors, some scholars say, and given to Moses. After that she is essentially evicted from the Isra... | 1.544881 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
how other interpretations are not only justified but may even have long precedent.
There is a much better understanding of the diversity of religion in ancient Jewish and Christian life -- and of the roles played by women in community leadership, although the memory of those roles has been largely suppressed. There is... | 2.024733 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
The set of uniform policies developed by four major auction firms – Barretts, Fasig-Tipton, Keeneland, and the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Co. (OBS) – took effect beginning with the OBS February select sale of 2-year-olds in training Feb. 17 in Central Florida. The policies address medication, prohibited practices, riding cr... | 1.55592 | 1,023 | 1,021 |
I'm still amazed how most companies, even when they've been breached and their reputation has been ruined, fail to fight malicious hacking correctly. Instead, they erect security defenses that have little to do with the threats they're hoping to prevent.
Let me give you a common scenario: I frequently consult with larg... | 1.707262 | 1,011 | 1,007 |
The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, investigated the hydrogeology of the Galena-Platteville aquifer and its relation to contaminant migration at the Parson's Casket Hardware Superfund site in Belvidere, Ill. This report presents the results of the second phase of th... | 1.352042 | 979 | 976 |
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa today at 10 AM unveiled the poster for the “Give me 3”, a campaign geared towards improving bicycle safety and driver etiquette in the City of Los Angeles. The mayor kicked off the campaign by installing its first poster on the bus shelter at city hall on the corner of 1st & Main. The “Give m... | 1.397296 | 1,000 | 998 |
For the nearly 8,000 people locked up in Cook County jail, and the 2,400 on house arrest, the presumption of innocence until proven guilty effectively does not exist. Roughly 95 percent of those incarcerated have not faced trial or conviction of any kind, the vast majority of them ensnared simply because they are unabl... | 1.595429 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
a few days in jail can permanently disrupt jobs and family connections, a reality underscored by the Pretrial Justice Institute's "Three Days Count" campaign.
Diomar, who was formerly incarcerated in Cook County jail, says it was only because he was bonded out by CCBF that he was able to "be free to see the birth of m... | 1.37065 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
US constitution. Yet despite the public airing of concerns, the system continues unabated, with rare exceptions. In contrast to most state and local jurisdictions in the United States, Washington DC releases roughly 90 percent of people held overnight, without requiring monetary bail.
Peter Goldberg, executive directo... | 1.6666 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Meet Joel Kotkin, a guy who is reviled by smart growth advocates and new urbanists everywhere. Kotkin, an author and trend-watcher, is fond of dashing urban dreams with cold, hard numbers. Talk about the “triumph of the city,” and he’ll parade out a long line of Census figures that show that, sorry, the suburbs are sti... | 1.692255 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
countryside, are less vital to you. You may want to come for a weekend or a vacation, but do you really want the noise, the congestion. Are you really going to stay up until 3 in the morning hanging out in Manhattan? Probably not, in most cases.
Q.
What about young people?
A. When I was the age that the older millenni... | 1.7053 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Plateau State governor, Simon Bako has exonerated the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) from blame for the current economic challenges facing citizens of the state.
The APC-led government in Plateau State encouraged citizens to continue to make necessary sacrifices and adjustments, to be able to cope with the curre... | 1.891597 | 1,013 | 1,011 |
Business and Budget in the South West
The Bunbury business community is generally positive about the Federal Budget with some provisos
"A really tough budget from which we don't shirk."
Forrest MLA Nola Marino has been answering many calls and queries about last week's Federal Budget.
Ms Marino says that in the run up ... | 2.135839 | 1,020 | 1,018 |
couldbuy this new tractor and increase productivity on the farm, but it's a penny more than I'm willing to pay, so we're just going to have to lose all that profit." It makes no sense at all.
Part of the Republican defense is that extending unemployment benefits extends the amount of time people remain unemployed. But ... | 1.740805 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, approximately 10 percent of the nation's population over the age of 12 requires treatment for illicit drug or alcohol abuse every year.
[1] Eliminating these drugs from your system is called detoxing. While your body is perfectly capable of eli... | 1.49 | 1,005 | 1,003 |
Over the better part of a year, as Donald Trump rose up to secure the Republican presidential nomination, many Americans remained in disbelief. They were convinced there would come a time, soon, that Trump would say something so outrageous, or so offensive, that finally everyone could agree it was too much, and his cam... | 1.426038 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Question: Our five-member board obtains several bids on plumbing, landscaping and other projects, but three contractors always win the bids. Those same contractors brag to homeowners that our president and manager are "up for sale." Nearly every Friday, one contractor comes into the office and drops off sealed envelope... | 1.773621 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
starting at sundown tonight, candles will be kindled honouring not only the sabbath but also a special holiday called tu bishvat, ט"ו בשבט, or the new year for trees — a kind of jewish arbor day. the word tu is another way of saying the number 15 and is the combination of two hebrew letters (tet ט) and (vav ו) and the ... | 1.576462 | 1,024 | 1,022 |
At yesterday’s joint press conference with British Prime Minister David Cameron, President Barack Obama ruled out any deadline for ending NATO’s air assault in Libya. “Qadhafi and his regime need to understand that there will not be a let-up in the pressure that we are applying,” Obama said. “Ultimately,” he added, “th... | 1.442567 | 1,003 | 1,001 |
Rose was recently featured on The Street addressing the issues related to retirement planning . Read below or click on the link to read Rose’s commentary.
By Seth Fiegerman
In what may be the most depressing study to come out in recent memory, researchers from MIT, Dartmouth and Harvard found that nearly half of retire... | 1.446816 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
their household, then you should consider that option,” Greene says.
Along the same lines, Greene also emphasizes that seniors shouldn’t feel too obligated to pass on a large inheritance or to continue providing for their family even as they run the risk of going broke. As selfish as it may sound, if you absolutely ne... | 1.855825 | 986 | 984 |
Vitiligo is a condition in which the pigment cells in the skin are destroyed, resulting in irregularly shaped white patches. Any part of the body where pigment cells are present may be involved.
The depigmentation commonly causes much concern and distress to the sufferer.
Vitiligo affects some 1% of the population and ... | 1.389905 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
How Can Landmark Education Help Investors?
The desire of every investor is to achieve the highest possible levels in investment. The problem is that the performance achieved is often limited by our own thinking. To succeed with any investment, it is fundamental that you maintain a sober mind. The landmark education cou... | 1.964873 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
One of the best ways we can take charge of our own health is to be informed. Thyroid problems are very common and it is important to know the signs and symptoms of what a poor functioning thyroid looks like. People live in unecessary discomfort from hypothyroidism everyday. I hope that Dr. Rona’s article will reach you... | 1.412087 | 975 | 973 |
Introduction
For years, the home economics (family and consumer sciences - FCS) profession has been on a trajectory towards a holistic,
integrative approach to practice. During the last half-century, we have moved from systems theory, to family ecosystem
theory to human ecology, all predicated on
integration. In the la... | 1.68238 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
c) too much attention paid to cultures and communities (groups) while ignoring
the nature of individual citizens.
Regarding vertical integration, Wilber (2001) explained that there are “over one hundred developmental models
of consciousness, West and East, ancient and modern” (p. 85). He observed that each scholar who ... | 1.909748 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
1996; Cowan & Todorovic, 2004), because it is a foundational element of the Wilberian integral approach, see Figure
1. These building blocks (intellectual constructs) include: consciousness and human development,
, the spiral
metaphor, holons, tiers of consciousness, nine levels of human consciousness development, and ... | 1.917432 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
to view)
Moving from one holonic level to the next is not automatic. Beck and Cowan (1996) identified six conditions that have
to be in place in order for humanity (or individuals) to move from one level to another to spiral upwards towards higher
human consciousness. First, there must be a necessary degree of opennes... | 1.64743 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
a Third Tier (Integral Holon) (see Figure 5).
Figure 5 Three Tiers of Human Consciousness
Each Tier comprises several levels (holons
), nine in total, if Wilber’s (2007, 2010) Integral Era is included.
Graves (1970, 1974) explained that, at each of the eight (nine) different levels of consciousness, humanity experienc... | 1.871817 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
.1% of today’s population live for survival, using basic biological instincts; fight-or-flight reflex; preservation of life
and reproduction; ‘stay alive’ imperative
loose bands of people; people in famines
Level 2
Purple: Magical-Animistic
Emerged 50,000 years ago
10% of today’s population
live for the past: the vulne... | 2.070995 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
awe and the unknowable; collective
consciousness
transdisciplinary inquiry, integral leadership, Gaia hypothesis, Ken Wilber’s work, Spiral Dynamics; David
Bohm (holographs); McLuhan’s global village; Gandhi; noospheres
Tier Three - Integral, Holon Level
Level 9
Coral/Indigo: Integral
Full fledged Vision Logic
Emerged... | 2.222486 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
personal enlightenment and transcendence (Phipps, 2007). People do so by integrating all nine levels of human consciousness,
spiraling upwards through each level until all levels are mentally integrated. This represents very complex human thinking—holonic
transmental.
Tier-3 thinking (Level 9) involves people, who have... | 1.911203 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
between holonic levels (vertical life) and translation to refer to movement
within levels (horizontal life). Vertical life still concerns the drive for evolution (higher) and horizontal life still
references the drive for holonic wholeness. The four drives now have different labels. The drives pertaining to vertical
l... | 1.889285 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
dualisms is an illusion (i.e., false, not real, a deception); instead, nondual reality is the highest level of spiritual
awareness, the highest level of the spectrum of human consciousness (Tier 3). Wilber placed it at the pinnacle of the
holarchy of modes of consciousness. He maintained that for Tier 3 people, each mo... | 1.849063 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
and he meant that all four quadrants contain all levels (each of states, stages,
lines, and types). The follow section provides more information.
Integral Movement: States, Stages, Lines, and Types
Each person, and all of humanity, experiences progression, development, growth, and evolution (Wilber, 2001)—the
four asp... | 1.921121 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
skipped. The more frequently the temporary
peak states occur, the faster the stages evolve. People cannot skip stages but they can accelerate their growth
through them by gaining practice in temporary states.
The
concert-level pianist is at a stage, having moved from novice to concert level.
LINES (streams)
Growth
lin... | 1.851187 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
two upper quadrants deal with individuals, and the two lower quadrants deal with the collective (Wilber, 2001). All
are needed to ensure a comprehensive, holistic appreciation of the nuances of the problematic situation.
Figure 9 - All quadrants in detail (Wilber 2001, 2007), used with permission from
McGregor 2010a (... | 1.88059 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Marx
work within Quadrant Four (Wilber, 2001). Imagine if insights from all of these theorists were brought to bear on a problem;
an integral vision would be much more probable.
Integral Vision Through Multiple Perspectives
Figure 11
Standing in all four quadrants - everything has meaning
An integral approach or visio... | 1.928816 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
). The tenets of vision logic resonate with Edgar Morin’s complex thinking, Robert Kegan’s fifth
order of moral consciousness, and Jean Gebser’s integral consciousness (Ferrer, Romero & Albareda,
2005; Wilber, 2007). With vision logic, people are able to take dualisms and transform them into healthy differentiations
(W... | 2.044086 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
voices of agency) all
shape the evolution of the person (types). An individual can be a particular type at any state, stage, or line. AQAL
proposed that people would strive to realize this collection of progressions, developments, growth, and evolution in
their selves, embody them in nature, and represent them in cultu... | 2.258791 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
2003). This approach means
that FCS/human sciences practitioners are not expected to leave behind all that with which they are familiar (McGregor
et al, 2008); rather, they would now pull each piece forward and examine it in light of the complexity at hand, seeking
to respect tensions and new mergings. Upon deep exami... | 2.15391 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
our more encompassing future, that will act as a gentle pacer of transformation for the entire
spiral of human development, honoring each and every wave as it unfolds, yet kindly inviting each and all to even greater
depth. (Wilber, 2001, p. 90)
Figure 13
Creating Integral Vision to acknowledge
the totality of our exi... | 1.968858 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
93; McGregor, 2010b).
This working paper was predicated on the assumption that the Wilberian integral approach is a viable theoretical orientation
for the discipline, one that may be more readily received by its members than first anticipated. Indeed, home economists/FCS
professionals are no strangers to integral think... | 2.049824 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
many disciplines these days, including home economics/FCS.
Yet, other disciplines that use the integral approach claim the results in consciousness development and changing mind-sets
are simple and elegant (e.g., ecology, business, education, politics, economics, law, forestry, international development)
(Esbjörn-Harg... | 1.444922 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
. 34-41,
64-66.
Korten, D. (2007).
The great turning. San Francisco, CA: Berrett-Kohler.
Lucas, C. (2008).
Essays in alternative dimensions: Spiral complexity dynamics. Vancouver, BC: The Complexity and
Artificial Life Research Concept of Self-organizing Systems Organization [CALRESCo]. Retrieved from Http://www.calres... | 1.288661 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Retrieved from http://www.enlightennext.org/magazine/j38/mcintosh.asp
Ramage, J., & Bean, J. (1998).
Writing arguments (4th ed.). Needham Heights, MA:
Allyn & Bacon.
Ray, P., & Anderson, S. R. (2000).
Cultural creatives. NY: Harmony Books.
Rentschler, M. (2006). AQAL glossary.
Journal of Integral Theory and Practice, ... | 1.179487 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Well, I will start this column with a reflection on why I wanted to do it, and what I think I’d like to see come out of it. First I will start by saying I am an architect by training and practice. This summer I will celebrate my 40th anniversary of coming to Norman to complete my education in architecture. That is a wh... | 1.810852 | 999 | 997 |
“Close Reading” is a buzz word surfaced with the Common Core State Standards. This term has educators at all levels wondering what it means and what it
will mean for teaching and learning. Since the adoption of the standards, Close Reading has found many definitions, by many different people, including experts of all s... | 1.737243 | 1,022 | 1,020 |
Metabolic alterations following injury in children significantly affect survival. Though the response occurs in a predictable manner, much controversy exists in the medical literature on the mode, timing, and amount of feeding. With better understanding of the various approaches to providing nutrition support, addition... | 1.691519 | 1,022 | 1,019 |
With retirement from Centegra Hospital-Woodstock on the horizon, Woodstock resident Kathy Hahn was on the lookout for a volunteer opportunity.
A fellow book club member suggested the Senior Care Volunteer Network, a nonprofit organization based in Crystal Lake that aims to keep senior citizens in their own homes for as... | 1.576543 | 1,020 | 1,018 |
A study has revealed that an increase in difficulty initiating and maintaining sleep may be a harbinger of poorer mental quality of life.
Advertisement
Published in the journal Sleep, a report describing the study says that increasing daytime sleepiness symptoms over a five-year period were found to be associated with ... | 1.566804 | 1,020 | 1,017 |
“How wonderful that no one need wait a single moment to improve the world.” Anne Frank
When we make service work a normal part of our lives we don’t simply teach our children strong core values, we demonstrate these values in action.
Often volunteering isn’t “official.” A family does yard work and errands for a housebo... | 1.778337 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
who could use help navigating unfamiliar streets and who need assistance learning the customs and colloquialisms that aren’t in any handbook.
20. Repair and donate such items as toys, household items, bikes, or computers.
21. Volunteer with Red Cross Youth Services through your local Red Cross branch. And make sure ki... | 1.472381 | 1,023 | 1,021 |
Pretoria – It’s just over a month to Census 2011, a once in a decade opportunity for all South Africans and those living within the country’s boarders to say . Under the leadership of Statistics South Africa, the “I’m here, I count” Census 2011will be conducted 10-30 October 2011 to provide an exhaustive account of the... | 1.709595 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
By Dr. Mercola
It's estimated that 50 million Americans do not have access to enough food,
1 yet 40 percent of food in the US goes uneaten. That's the equivalent of 20 pounds of food per person each month. 2
Every year, food worth the equivalent of $165 billion is
wasted, much of which ends up in landfills and rots… ad... | 1.287426 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
billion (more than $40 billion from households)
$750 million per year just to dispose of discarded food
33 million tons of landfill waste
As
National Geographic puts it, farming already uses up a sizeable portion of our land. We can't keep growing more and more food to feed a growing population, nor do we need to. The... | 1.463972 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
A leading veterans group is hailing two key provisions of the proposed Veterans Affairs reform bill as critical to improving care for our nation’s heroes but warns that spending needs to be controlled and oversight must be even more intense to make sure positive changes are really happening.
A spokesman for the group a... | 1.656738 | 1,015 | 1,014 |
The Red Cross, CDC, and FEMA all recommend that you should stockpile 1 gallon of water per day for emergencies. They calculate that you will need ½ gallon of emergency water for drinking and another ½ gallon of water for cooking and cleaning. But, let me ask you…
Do you really think you could get by with just 1 gallon ... | 1.328233 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
, they will continuously be getting rinsed clean and safe.
2. Use Fewer Dishes
Just eat out of the pot or pan so you don’t create more dishes to wash. Healthy family members can also share drinking cups and eat from the same plates.
3. Use Disposable Plates
This means that you won’t have to wash dishes, but you will en... | 1.450292 | 974 | 971 |
Zoledronic acid (zoledronate) for postmenopausal women with early breast cancer receiving adjuvant letrozole (ZO-FAST study): final 60-month results
Authors:
Coleman, R × de Boer, R Eidtmann, H Llombart, A Davidson, N Neven, Patrick von Minckwitz, G Sleeboom, H P Forbes, J Barrios, C Frassoldati, A Campbell, I Paija, O... | 1.03134 | 1,020 | 1,018 |
Research Activities
We have several ongoing research projects: Click here to view the Simmon Cancer Institute ongoing clinical trials. Basic Research in Dr. Krishna Rao's laboratory:
Head and neck cancers are usually detected in its later stages of progression, resulting in a 5-year survival rate of only 30-50%. Chemot... | 1.464682 | 1,014 | 1,012 |
In some respects,
Discover Financial Services Visa MasterCard Some key differences Visa and MasterCard partner with financial-services companies to enable the use of their credit, debit, and prepaid banking services for customers, a model that's clearly worked well. But Discover does away with the middleman and goes st... | 1.831312 | 1,015 | 1,013 |
WASHINGTON, Sept. 26, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The National Coalition for Mental Health Recovery (NCMHR) grieves the tragic loss of life resulting from the shootings at the Navy Yard in Washington, D.C., on September 16. "Our thoughts and prayers are with the families who lost loved ones," said NCMHR director La... | 1.496344 | 990 | 988 |
Editor's Note: Recovery Point is a national provider of integrated business continuity solutions for government agencies and a broad array of commercial and non-profit organizations of all sizes. by Dick Fordham of Recovery Point
With the rapid maturing of cloud-based backup and disaster recovery services enabled by th... | 1.806988 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
many customers of Amazon EC2 cloud services didn’t fare as well when a network change in April 2011 led to a failure that disabled some high-profile sites for days and left many customers with permanent data loss.
Since tape is not mentioned in any media coverage of the failure, one can only assume that the same type ... | 1.707265 | 1,010 | 1,007 |
Services on Demand Journal Article Indicators Cited by SciELO Access statistics Related links Cited by Google Similars in SciELO Similars in Google Share Print version ISSN 0004-282X Arq. Neuro-Psiquiatr. vol.70 no.8 São Paulo Aug. 2012 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0004-282X2012000800023 OPINION
Resposta - Polimorfismos ... | 1.20438 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
has high scientific accuracy, because we followed the current guidelines for the classification of CVD in sickle cell disease.
References
1. Belisário AR, Rodrigues CV, Martins ML, et al. Coinheritance of α-thalassemia decreases the risk of cerebrovascular disease in a cohort of children with sickle cell anemia. Hemog... | 1.092592 | 1,022 | 1,020 |
The Rule of Holes...and Paper Rolls
The First Rule of Holes is: “If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.” If you Google “Rule of Holes” you’ll find lots of additional rules, and several different versions of the Second Rule of Holes, but to my way of thinking, the Second Rule of Holes is: “When you stop digging, ... | 1.331367 | 1,015 | 1,013 |
We all know the traditional protocols. When an appellate court issues a decision that would overrule a bunch of district court decisions, you appeal your adverse district court ruling to the appellate court.
But when it comes to the endless cycle of litigation prompted by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) reces... | 1.594289 | 954 | 952 |
The road to the new constitution was rough and acrimonious. For a while our country was seriously divided with different groups taking seemingly intractable positions from which they refused to budge because it would have represented a betrayal of the “people”. The constitution has since been passed and only awaits ass... | 2.017625 | 982 | 980 |
Help! My (Armour, Sword, Etc.) is Rusted!
The hard truth about rust
By: Steven Sheldon
Forth Armoury
It's happened to all of us. One day we pull out our favorite sword, knife, helmet, or other steel object and discover, to our horror, that it has rusted! At least once a month those of us who frequent Internet bulletin ... | 1.553428 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
before it rusted, chances are very good that you will not be able to restore the finish with any polishing media obtained at any regular hardware store. It certainly is possible to achieve a mirror finish on the surface of an object completely by hand - you can work down through progressively finer grades of sandpaper... | 1.689946 | 961 | 960 |
Food Safety Resources CaliciNet
Caliciviruses, of which the noroviruses are the most important group of viruses, are responsible for the majority of foodborne outbreaks of viral gastroenteritis in the US. To increase the quality of national norovirus surveillance, CDC has developed and implemented an electronic norovir... | 1.266943 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Equine leptospirosis in tropical Northern Queensland.
MedLine Citation:
PMID: 23614514 Owner: NLM Status: In-Data-Review
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
OBJECTIVE: Determine leptospiral serodiversity, serodominant serovars and prevalence in the horse population of Northern Queensland (NQ), Australia, with special focus on the ... | 1.161272 | 991 | 989 |
Statement by Mrs. Sadako Ogata, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, to the Third Committee of the United Nations General Assembly, New York, 6 November 2000
Madam Chairperson,
Excellencies, Distinguished Delegates, Ladies and Gentlemen,
I am pleased to address this session of the Third Committee of the Gener... | 1.61619 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.