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It's a new approach to solving today's most challenging problems
Our collaboration with Global Genes and Sharon Moalem, MD, PhD at H@cking Medicine at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) was an unqualified success. The goal of the MIT hackathon’s rare disease track was to develop a tool that would help spee... | __label__pos | 0.99821 |
Application-oriented work is one of the strongest and most rapidly expanding areas in fuzzy control and a variety of fuzzy modelling approaches are now appearing. Of particular interest are new and recent directions in synthesis, stability and robustness analysis, adaptiveness and non-linear tracking systems. Addressin... | __label__pos | 0.999276 |
I didn’t know what to call this post, so I just used the signature line on every one of Jan Ground’s (@janground) email these days:
newsflash!!! REAL-TIME VIRTUAL CONSULTS now live with Colorado Permanente Medical Group dermatologists AND NEUROLOGISTS
Jan is Kaiser Permanente Colorado (@KPColorado) “Innovation Hunter.”... | __label__pos | 0.923854 |
The government is scrambling to save 800 jobs at the Grangemouth petrochemicals site in Scotland after its owner, Ineos, abruptly closed the plant in a rancorous industrial dispute.
As the energy and climate change secretary, Ed Davey, said that "all efforts" would be made to rescue the plant, Ineos also refused to rul... | __label__pos | 0.871553 |
The mayor made a clear commitment to Londoners in his election manifesto to personally take charge of the Metropolitan Police Authority (MPA). Those of us with experience of the MPA knew immediately that he had made a promise he could never live up to. But Boris made crime the number one issue of the election and his c... | __label__pos | 0.981593 |
Ok, look, it's Christmas, so we really ought to learn to let things go and move on with the important business of being happy and civil, and divert all our bitterness into contriving divisive racist stories about local authorities banishing the baby Jesus from shopping centres. But in amongst all the usual hatemail I'm... | __label__pos | 0.87271 |
03/03/2014
Lowell Sun
By
Hiroko Sato
LOWELL -- In his years of working in a nuclear-reactor room on a Navy ship, Scott Silbernagel became masterful at boiling down a message to a few, concise words.
That's because Silbernagel and his colleagues couldn't afford misunderstanding each other, even though the room was buzzi... | __label__pos | 0.890569 |
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The question becomes how and when do
non-statutorylabor laws protect collective bargaining?
Therefore, the owners argued the
non-statutorylabor exemption is still in effect and immunizes the owners from antitrust attack.
In its o... | __label__pos | 0.970951 |
Markets run in cycles. The past year has been a very tough one to label because the bear market from 2007-2009 was so brutal. I went on the record in January and stated that we were still in a bear market. I set up a "line in the sand" of 1229 on the S&P 500, pointing that it was the 61.8% retracement level from the 20... | __label__pos | 0.811962 |
While 2012 has been friendly for stocks (much friendlier than it feels, as the S&P 500 is up in price by 12.4% and the Russell 2000 by 11.2%), it hasn't been a great year for all stocks. This is the time of year when many investors like to sift through the poorly performing stocks of the year, anticipating that there m... | __label__pos | 0.967144 |
One problem with the Tunisian event was that its organizers could not articulate beforehand what it was they wanted me to do there. They wanted me to show them how to teach online, so when I arrived I implemented a program whereby I got the participants blogging, and I took pictures and put them online, and tried to ge... | __label__pos | 0.975624 |
Welcome to the website for the Amherst Pelham Leverett Shutesbury Student Awareness of Fire Education (SAFE) program! We offer fire safety education to students in the Amherst, Pelham, Leverett and Shutesbury school systems. Introduced in 1996, SAFE is part of a larger, statewide fire education initiative. We hope this... | __label__pos | 0.949183 |
If you have ever put together a scrapbook or used Pinterest to make a board about interior decorating, then you are probably on the hunt for a good project. Interior design is a great job if you can get it, but most of us are left dreaming about it instead of doing it. Designing people’s decor is a highly competitive i... | __label__pos | 0.907854 |
Summary
This book explores the key challenges facing Austria's public health system. Set firmly in the context of the history, scope, functions and responsibilities of public health in developed countries, it examines how the Austrian system has developed and adapted over the last 50 years to the benefit of the populat... | __label__pos | 0.954474 |
You've got 6 months...
In principle, I get it. NCARB is trying to prevent what many interns have done...wait. Wait until the last possible moment to file their experience, which, done in a rush, is probably inaccurate. After all, can you really tell me everything you've done over the course of one year? And what catego... | __label__pos | 0.963608 |
Ah, the ever-important chicken stock. It’s useful in so many recipes, from soups to risottos to sauces, but it’s also such a commitment. Who ever has whole chickens and a bunch of vegetables just chilling out in the fridge?
I have to admit, I, too, was afflicted with Stock Evasion Syndrome. I’ve never made chicken stoc... | __label__pos | 0.820256 |
Globe Staff File Photo/John Tlumacki
Maybe or maybe not carbendazim, a fungicide linked to liver tumors in animals. After receiving reports from Coca-Cola (which produces Minute Maid and Simply Orange juices) and PepsiCo. (Tropicana) that low levels of the substance had been detected, the FDA began testing samples. The... | __label__pos | 0.980918 |
The past two weeks brought bad news for Children's Hospital's patients, staff, and attorneys. On Sept. 16, the hospital's lawyers were in court battling a lawsuit brought by the family of Michael Blankenship, 15, who died last year from a wrongly administered painkiller. On Sept. 17, a newborn baby died after being med... | __label__pos | 0.880379 |
During the 4th Dynasty in ancient Egypt, a wooden ship was constructed for the ceremonial transport of the remains of King Cheops to his final resting place. After the funeral, the boat was buried in its own secret chamber beneath giant limestone blocks just outside the Great Pyramid. When the tomb was opened in 1954, ... | __label__pos | 0.879848 |
By Dr. Mercola
Today, we launch the fourth Mercury-Free Dentistry Week. We set aside an entire week dedicated to ending the use of dental amalgam -- a primitive, pre-Civil War, pollutant that leads to cracked teeth -- for three reasons:
The new Minamata Convention on Mercury is the game-changer for dental amalgam. Each... | __label__pos | 0.553946 |
A Prospect Heights Historic District (blue outline in map below) is already listed on the State and National Registers, but S/NR listing, as its known, does not protect the integrity of buildings the way an LPC designation would. Hence the new effort, led by the Municipal Art Society (MAS), the Prospect Heights Neighbo... | __label__pos | 0.714761 |
The member electric utility companies of the Southwest Variable Energy Resources Initiative (SVERI) have launched a dedicated website that provides near real-time data for renewable energy resources from across the desert Southwest.
SVERI is partnering with the University of Arizona to collect, display and analyze gene... | __label__pos | 0.925683 |
by Nicole Pope
For a very long time, Santiago Zoo was the one and only zoo to be found in the entire peninsula of Baja California in Mexico. However, the Santiago is not just a zoo, it is the zoo. There are several features of this Baja zoo that makes it such a wonderful place to visit and to support.
Unknown to most p... | __label__pos | 0.798153 |
Effectively teaching our children the basics of bathroom happenings is challenging to say the least. Between potty training, proper teeth-brushing, hand washing, and bath-time routines, many important things go down in that small room. One of the best ways to get kids excited about doing these things is to design it wi... | __label__pos | 0.979642 |
My name is Dr Margriet Dogterom and am the founder and owner of Beediverse. I write this blog for all who love bees and who want to learn more about these wonderful creatures.
Cardboard tubes were used at the time and bundles of these were set in the back of the container. To help the bees orient to their nesting tunne... | __label__pos | 0.999013 |
Are Classification Essay Examples Really Helpful For Essay Writing?
You are a medical student and you need to write an essay on different types of cardiovascular diseases? Or, maybe, you are a Business Management student and need to outline all possible risk strategies? Probably, you need to classify different types of... | __label__pos | 0.985283 |
The team found that when the male insect population drops -- killed off by the bacteria -- the female butterfly becomes more sexually rampant. Males on the other hand show signs of fatigue and put less effort into mating.
In some populations of tropical butterfly the entire mating system is determined by a group of bac... | __label__pos | 0.503328 |
The following is a guest post by Alan Kalman. Previously, I discussed the tax consequences of losing your job. But did you know that there are certain tax deductions you can take while looking for your next job (even if you don’t get hired)? These include: Employment and outplacement agency fees. Amounts spent for prep... | __label__pos | 0.999993 |
This column sparked a lot of deep thinking and discussion in the office. The author analyzes some evolutionary psychology research that looks at how early humans communicated and interacted with each other for clues about how we communicate today.
Dunbar begins with the premise that back when our Paleolithic ancestors ... | __label__pos | 0.999194 |
The Quest for Provocation
It's a fact of life - the same route to work, the same coffee shop, the same issues pilling up in the in-tray - we can’t avoid the comfort of the familiar. Without realising it we all get very good at ‘pattern thinking’ - repeating today what worked yesterday. The history of commerce is piled ... | __label__pos | 0.996734 |
Instead of focusing your effort on what your app is going to do, think about distribution first. How are you going get people to use it?
The big guys have a big advantage. If you already have a brand on the web or offline, people are going to find and use your app. Everyone has the Facebook, Twitter, and Yelp apps inst... | __label__pos | 0.992153 |
If we were to say Netflix, or Now TV, or Amazon Prime Instant Video, or Sky GO, you'd likely know exactly what they are and, just as likely, have a subscription to at least one of these.
Yes, these are streaming platforms - offering subscribers a plethora of movies and shows to watch from the comfort of their homes, or... | __label__pos | 0.997818 |
Before I die… this is the writing prompt I used to give the first day of class. And I wish I remember what the tall young blonde had written. Carrie Melvin, whose favorite novel was The Lover by Marguerite Duras. She brought a copy to class and talked about it sheepishly. Like this was revealing something very secret a... | __label__pos | 0.987859 |
I’m traveling through Mickey Hart’s brain. I look to my left and a blue plum of sparks blaze down the Grateful Dead drummer’s corpus callosum. A set of neurons has fired. I travel upward, through a mess of pink synaptic spaghetti, and the two hemispheres of his cerebrum vibrate and banter about some new information. I ... | __label__pos | 0.973096 |
1) The 4/1/2011
New York Timesreports that "Cuts Leave Patients With Medicaid Cards, but No Specialist to See".
Many of these patients are learning the hard way that
"coverage" does not equal actual medical care. From the NYTarticle: "Having a Medicaid card in no way assures access to care," said Dr. James B. Aiken, an... | __label__pos | 0.984639 |
Last week I had the pleasure of attending ManageEngine’s first user conference and training event in the Middle East (Dubai to be specific); with event attendees not only from the UAE, but also Bahrain, Egypt, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and Russia.
The one-day user conference element of the two-day event, offer... | __label__pos | 0.996168 |
By Ian Salisbury
Morningstar, the influential research firm that has for years bestowed stars on top-performing mutual funds, is adding a new investment to it universe: ETF managed portfolios.
This week, the Chicago-based researcher unveiled a new section of its web site where it will publish standardized returns for t... | __label__pos | 0.922809 |
One of the more complicated aspects of scientific writing is reference management – an important limitation of online collaborative tools such as
Google Docs. I have argued before that WordPress has the potential to become a great scientific writing tool. Wordpress can’t do reference management out of the box, and the ... | __label__pos | 0.944841 |
Do You All Know Curriki, the website for sharing open source curricula? www.curriki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/
I get their enewsletter to keep an eye on an area that interests me at a distance. In the latest issue I read about kitzu.org/. Kitzu offers students and teachers pre-assembled "kits" on a wide variety of topics... | __label__pos | 0.994803 |
Through our International Project Leadership Academy (IPLA) division, Calleam is proud to offer our class dedicated to the needs of Project Sponsors. Course Outline Format : 1 day in class session The role of the Project Sponsor is among the toughest roles in today’s business world. It’s the pivotal role that sets dire... | __label__pos | 0.996279 |
I admit it — strangers scare me. After all, we are taught from the time we are little not to talk to strangers. When confronted with a ragged looking beggar on the side of the road or near a store I am entering, the Christian in me and the practical in me wage an inner battle. The Christian in me encourages me to reach... | __label__pos | 0.936557 |
About CEASE Founded in Massachusetts in 1979, CEASE is a nonprofit, volunteer organization dedicated to ending animal cruelty and exploitation. Over the past several years CEASE has focused primarily on the issue of fur. CEASE raises public awareness of this issue through media campaigns and public outreach. Learn more... | __label__pos | 0.958248 |
If you have paid attention to the United State’s unemployment rate you know that there are more working age adults than there are jobs. Those born into our society are forced to beg for handouts or accept whatever job is available upon graduation from high school or college. Many argue that this is a life without digni... | __label__pos | 0.927942 |
News Tribuneeditorial points out that the Pierce County Jail has some serious budget problems, and why: Those costs are expected to run $1.8 million over budget this year. Some of that may be a result of sloppy management – without an in depth analysis, there’s no way to tell. But there’s no question that some of it is... | __label__pos | 0.973632 |
Donna Lamframboise has reported on one recent instance of this, captured by a writer from the New York Times, a famously leftwing paper not at all hostile to the IPCC, exposing the blatant error in this UN press release:
Andrew Revkin, who blogs about climate change for the
New York Times, is doing what an experienced ... | __label__pos | 0.999817 |
Freshness- Do they list the crop year or do they say that all of their beans are recent crop unless identified as aged. Do they state when they received the beans, because this will help you know how long you might be able to continue to store some at home. Do they tell you anything about how they store their beans?
Be... | __label__pos | 0.876912 |
A guest post written by Graham Bothwell
On clear winter days from our kitchen window we can see the peak of Mt. San Jacinto, 70 miles away, the second-highest mountain in Southern California. Late last summer, my wife and I celebrated our wedding anniversary by spending the day hiking to the top of the mountain. We dro... | __label__pos | 0.957949 |
Peer Wilby in New Statesman:
"Politicians now frequently quote research showing that, by 22 months, it is too late for many children because their development has already fallen far behind that of their peers in middle-class homes. This finding, shocking as it is, misses the bigger picture. As [Leon] Feinstein reports,... | __label__pos | 0.964745 |
Women: Pakistan’s second-class citizens By Sabina KhanPublished: July 31, 2013 The writer has a master’s degree in conflict-resolution from the Monterey Institute of International Studies in California and blogs at Coffee Shop Diplomat | Blog, pics & articles Women in Karak have been prohibited from leaving their h... | __label__pos | 0.937523 |
One question stuck out to me - whether telcos still "own" the user's addressbook and process of initiation of personal communications. The consensus in the room was that operators still have a couple of years' window, before they risk losing control of the much-discussed "social graph". (I actually hate the term, but a... | __label__pos | 0.988998 |
EU pet passport with rabies vaccinations - EU-Heimtierausweis mit Tollwutimpfungen (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Pets require a passport when they travel from one country to another. The passport has official information about the animal in picture. Pet Travel Scheme or PETS, is a scheme which allows the easy obtainment of... | __label__pos | 0.871162 |
The act of caregiving in general can be very difficult. Caregiving at end of life is extremely difficult. For many caregivers it can unexpectedly stir up emotions that were never felt before. Through caregiving, the focus is always on the person who is being cared for and the caregiver puts themselves and their feeling... | __label__pos | 0.990508 |
A Selection from the Top US Facilities – Sponsored Sponsored centers in or near Michigan Find a Substance Abuse Rehab Center in Michigan
An addiction to alcohol and drugs is one of the most frightening problems in a person's life; not just for the abuser, but for family and friends as well. Therefore, you'll want to se... | __label__pos | 0.713719 |
…any short run gains from delay tend to be outweighed by the additional costs arising from the need to adopt a more abrupt and stringent policy later.7 An analysis of the collective results from that research, described in more detail in Section II, suggests that the cost of hitting a specific climate target increases,... | __label__pos | 0.81246 |
Shane Robinson, associate professor in the Oklahoma State University Department of Agricultural Education, Communications and Leadership wants to teach students math and science through green energy and biofuels. He is partnering with the OSU Biobased Products and Energy Center (BioPEC), who has an objective to provide... | __label__pos | 0.676044 |
Boeing, South African Airways (SAA) and SkyNRG are partnering together to develop aviation biofuel from a specific type of tobacco plant. SkyNRG is currently expanding its production of Solaris, an energy crop hybrid derived from the tobacco plant. Pilot farming of the plant, which is effectively nicotine-free, is unde... | __label__pos | 0.949359 |
Title:
Measuring the impact of climate change on Britain
Adaptation to past changes in the climate of Britain may be indicative of the way in which society will respond to future climate change. The long run costs associated with climate change are, once full adaptation has occurred, not obviously detrimental. Furtherm... | __label__pos | 0.682567 |
Title:
Trade union, managerial and employee perceptions of organisational participation and democracy at work
This synoptic paper accompanies refereed articles, chapters in books and books published between 1977 and 2001 by the author on the theme of trade union, managerial, and employee perceptions of organisational p... | __label__pos | 0.865239 |
Share Food Chemistry Research
It is similar to biochemistry in its main components such as carbohydrates, lipids, and protein, but it also includes areas such as water, vitamins, minerals, enzymes, food additives, flavors, and colors
This discipline also encompasses how products change under certain food processing tec... | __label__pos | 0.995543 |
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Most people in full-time MBA programs are there because they expect a significant salary jump from their next job. Business schools advertise the return on investment their students can expect. Websites aimed at applicants offer ROI calculators. Some B-school... | __label__pos | 0.99932 |
Discussion in 'Other Health News and Research' started by Christopher, Feb 3, 2014.
02 February 2014 http://www.nature.com/nm/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nm.3442.html
I've asked oncologists how often cells with neoplastic potential arise and are eliminated by active immune response in healthy people. The answers I get b... | __label__pos | 0.969539 |
It doesn't matter much anyway...
all they're trying to do is to come up with an object database of the optimal process for every possible business. Unfortunately, anywhere there are humans involved, the optimal process is degraded by mistakes and lack of 100% productivity. After all, the optimal process would be wholly... | __label__pos | 0.996073 |
On July 9, amid rainwater cracks in limestone rock, charcoal ibex painted by prehistoric man and discarded artifacts from Victorian-era picnics, a loose collective of Jewish women will sing songs of the Sephardic Diaspora.
Vocalists Sarah Aroeste, Mor Karbasi and Françoise Atlan will perform at the inaugural Gibraltar ... | __label__pos | 0.913142 |
Behavioral and accessible/cognitive Approaches to Forming Habits Darli Ozbun PSY/250 April 18, 2011 University of Phoenix/Jorey Krawczyn Behavioral and whole/Cognitive Approaches to Forming Habits Behavioral and societal/cognitive accesses to forming uniforms give 6th sense and reasoning to habilitate formation. Behavi... | __label__pos | 0.920395 |
One town in California just announced that they’re planning something big: The largest “wounded warrior” center in the country. The facility will be used to help rehabilitate injured veterans — but instead of being a government project, it is being built by private individuals.
It’s called the National Wounded Warrior ... | __label__pos | 0.885609 |
Think of this as a little 101 in decorating. While we all cannot possess the eye for exquisite design and detail — we can decorate our homes as though we do. In some ways, interior decorating can be thought of as a formula with specific steps; building blocks that will help create your very own interior design.
On the ... | __label__pos | 0.959591 |
Follow the money and you’ll inevitably find out what’s really going on.
In the case of Clark County, Nevada, rancher Cliven Bundy’s standoff with federal agents from the Bureau of Land Management, the leading explanation has been that he hasn’t paid grazing fees and his cattle threaten endangered desert tortoises in th... | __label__pos | 0.882788 |
by Michael Smith (Veshengro)
In today's world we are being told – brainwashed into believing actually – that material things will bring us happiness. Whoa! How wrong.
We are told that if we just work hard enough, get the right job, and earn more money we will be able to buy all those things that bring us happiness.
Whe... | __label__pos | 0.989184 |
by Michael Smith (Veshengro) What do monks and gardeners have in common? They spend much of their time on their knees.
Where monks spend this time in prayer gardeners spend this time battling weeds and often the only way to do that is, simply, by doing it by hand and kneeling is part of this exercise.
While some weeds ... | __label__pos | 0.994499 |
The MagSafe power connector for Apple MacBooks is probably one of the handiest features they developed — we’re not too sure why it hasn’t been integrated onto iPhones yet. [Tony Hoang] isn’t sure either, but that didn’t stop him making his very own!
Due to the size of the MagSafe adapter, it’s simply not possible to in... | __label__pos | 0.8959 |
The health care domains model identifies four domains within health and social care and medicine. What evidence is there to support the model's inclusion of:
INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL
- plus the spiritual within and without? Steve Buller and Tony Butterworth undertook a ethnographic study in 2001 '... | __label__pos | 0.999718 |
Christianity and the Torture Issue The Problem
Guantanamo Bay is being shut down, and there are all sorts of problemsthat are coming out because of this. What is permissible in war-time?Was the War on Terror a just war? How far can/should we go in the nameof safety?
The UN Convention Against Torture (which the U.S. sig... | __label__pos | 0.997651 |
Rapid Effects of Aldosterone Relevant in Cardiac Ischemia?
Not long ago, scientists celebrated the 50th birthday of aldosterone. And yet miracles around this dinosaur steroid hormone are creeping out of the bushes. For a long period, peaceful contentment overwhelmed even critical minds in the light of tremendous succes... | __label__pos | 0.605243 |
PJM asserted today that its markets are a more efficient means of attracting cost-effective new generation resources while minimizing risk to consumers. PJM’s analysis on the effectiveness of its markets is outlined in a detailed study published yesterday.
The “Resource Investment in Competitive Markets” paper was deve... | __label__pos | 0.998719 |
John Hinderaker has some rather interesting advice for President Bush as to how to handle the current war in the Middle East.
So here is what you, President Bush, should do: take as a model the Cuban Missile Crisis. First John Kennedy, then Adlai Stevenson, laid before the world the evidence, in the form of aerial phot... | __label__pos | 0.933865 |
Today’s Supreme Court opinion in District of Columbia v. Heller is a landmark decision in that it restores the original individual rights interpretation to the Second Amendment. What is frustrating about Heller is what it doesn’t say. Justice Scalia hinted at a standard of review that’s quite probing—but could also be ... | __label__pos | 0.883375 |
At the World Affairs Council of Northern California Commonwealth Club of San Francisco
San Francisco, California, US
11 December 2004
As you know, I was in Washington earlier this week, discussing with President Bush and others, urgent next steps in the Middle East. I'd like to briefly share some thoughts with you, and... | __label__pos | 0.90624 |
3 submarines, 40 warheads to a sub, 1 million deaths to a warhead. They are the kind of numbers that make for great newspaper columns, as Clive Lewis, writing in the New Statesman, and Polly Toynbee have recently demonstrated. They slot together with beguiling and gruesome simplicity to conjure the apocalypse out of th... | __label__pos | 0.99766 |
These days, social media should always be part of a comprehensive online marketing program. And for some businesses, especially lifestyle and image-related businesses, social media is particularly important.
Social Media Misconceptions – Advertisers can have unrealistic expectations of what social media can accomplish.... | __label__pos | 0.938186 |
As SEO professionals, copywriters and all around mad-crazy marketing gals, we get to think about fancy things like, “How are we going to use this keyword without totally bollixing the whole marketing aspect?” That’s always a fun consideration. Building Campaigns Around Key Words and Phrases: SEO, Marketing, Social Medi... | __label__pos | 0.817173 |
larryc12 » 24 Jan 2014 7:37 pm wrote:
The problem, as I see it, lies in the fact that taxpayers are required to finance a behavior. Should we finance drunks, drug users, child molesters?
I have a real problem with you categorizing sex as a 'behavior' akin to drinking, drug use and child molestation.
That sounds very mu... | __label__pos | 0.923719 |
<b>COMPLEX SYSTEMS SEMINAR</b><br>Modeling Science Across Multiple Scales: From Individuals to Institutions
Quantitative measures are becoming increasingly prevalent at all scales of scientific evaluation: from countries, to universities, departments, laboratories, and individuals, and even knowledge itself. This is la... | __label__pos | 0.93892 |
The Death of England and the Abolition of Man
It's been said that "when the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail." I'd like not to think that C.S. Lewis is a hammer that I need to go to for any discussion of public policy. But he was a brilliant writer and moral philosopher, and there is much of... | __label__pos | 0.948167 |
As the setting sun cast a glorious red glow across the city's skyline, a taxi parked at downtown's Greyhound bus station. That's a common practice elsewhere—but in Tucson, it's unusual and illegal.
Because of disputes involving cab drivers—some of which turned to fisticuffs—about four years ago, the city of Tucson bann... | __label__pos | 0.970094 |
Thursday, August 31, 2006 Zim's homelessChurch leaders say that almost nothing has been done to house 700,000 people in Zimbabwe who lost their homes and livelihoods in demolit
Operation Murambatsvina, which the government said was a campaign to clean up cities, was condemned by the UN.
The Solidarity Peace Trust, a ch... | __label__pos | 0.511948 |
"In a groundbreaking effort to close the wage gap between men and women, Massachusetts has become the first state to bar employers from asking about applicants’ salaries before making them job offers.
"The new law will require hiring managers to offer a compensation figure upfront — based on what the applicant’s worth ... | __label__pos | 0.980698 |
Strong economic data, especially in the manufacturing sector
We saw some important manufacturing-related data on Wednesday, with industrial production, manufacturing production, and capacity utilization all coming in better than expected. The most interesting part was not so much the headline numbers, but the revisions... | __label__pos | 0.996288 |
Our aim and goal, if you will, is at some point during the process each client will not only begin to relax and enjoy the process but more importantly will come to fully understand and believe that we really do have your best interest at heart.
Of course every builder aims to build to the client’s specific tastes and d... | __label__pos | 0.946637 |
For what is wisdom and to whom does it apply. Wisdom is a finer knowledge that is a result of many years of one's living experiences within human form. To have acquired wisdom, one must have actively sought after this prize and worked diligently to attain it's mastery. For wisdom is only for those who have paid the pri... | __label__pos | 0.998209 |
ENERGY SOLUTIONS: To Nuke or Not to Nuke
I think they are wrong, at least in the almost worshipful, faith-based way they speak of nuke energy, and the disdainful, pitying way they discuss renewables. They seem about 20 years behind in what is happening in the renewables field, and they take the worst case scenarios whe... | __label__pos | 0.802829 |
After reaching a new nadir of productivity in 2013, Congress kicked off a legislative session this week with a packed science and technology policy agenda. Between revelations of the NSA’s broad domestic spying powers, ongoing budget uncertainty, and the specter of climate change, plenty of issues will be vying for mem... | __label__pos | 0.657254 |
A Coalition of leading investment banks, investors, governments and countries is implementing Green Building Investment Underwriting Standards and Sustainable Building Securities (SBS), providing higher valued collateral, an economic stimulus, and addressing investor confidence, liquidity, innovation, climate change an... | __label__pos | 0.998187 |
The first step in taking an active role in your health is to Know Your Numbers, including blood pressure, cholesterol, blood glucose and body composition. These numbers are important indicators of good health, and flag potential health problems that can be improved or eliminated with early detection.
Our Mission is to ... | __label__pos | 0.999345 |
By Robin Plotkin, MS, RDN
It was all things HOLIDAY PREP during the most recent National Peanut Board Twitter Chat as NPB’s registered dietitian Sherry Coleman Collins and yours truly took to tweeting about the holiday season.
Our Favorite Way to Enjoy Peanuts
We kicked it off with an easy one! The resounding response?... | __label__pos | 0.956462 |
WASHINGTON, D.C., September 18, 2009
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Wind and Solar
“The renewable energy industry also had objections to the bill. Craig Mataczynski, president and CEO of RES Americas, testified on behalf of the American Wind Energy Association and the Solar Energy Industries Association… The wind and solar industries are concerned... | __label__pos | 0.732247 |
A garage is a wonderful thing to have, especially in New England. The reason seems obvious: it snows a lot here, and without a garage you have to dig your car out regularly.
An attached garage is even better; whether it’s snowing or raining or sleeting or icy outside (or some combination of all four), you can keep warm... | __label__pos | 0.9983 |
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Professor Clover, a poet, cultural critic, professor of English, and social activist (he's one of the "Davis Dozen"), will argue that the global economic crisis, now entering its sixth year, is in the first place a story of global immiseration and the destructive volatility of capitalism itself. Somewhere ... | __label__pos | 0.970477 |
for National Geographic News
Photos of giant whale sharks snapped by vacationing scuba divers and snorkelers are helping scientists track the elusive marine creatures across the oceans.
Biologists have adapted a complex algorithm developed by scientists working for NASA. The original algorithm mapped stars. The new one... | __label__pos | 0.9637 |
Editor: This two-year old post by Rocky Neptun is a constant favorite or our readers. We thought we’d just bring it out for some more sun – but please realize dear reader, that it was written in November of 2010. By Rocky Neptun
Under the shadow of a venomous San Diego District Attorney and a cliff-hanger Attorney Gene... | __label__pos | 0.932579 |
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