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If you are searching for facts about Washington addiction treatment facilities for you or a family member, ProjectKnow.com is prepared to help. The website offers the most comprehensive national archive of alcohol abuse treatment clinics available on the Internet, and we can guide you in pinpointing the facts and help ... | __label__pos | 0.786779 |
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Decline of cash assistance and child well-being, Luke Shaefer
Swait, Joffre Dan, and Tulin Erdem. 2007. "Brand Effects On Choice And Choice Set Formation Under Uncertainty."
Marketing Science, 26(5): 679-697.
This paper examines the effects of brand credibility, a central concept in informati... | __label__pos | 0.99853 |
frog design: Be Like Water
The design world seems to be drifting away from its heritage. More and more designers are becoming increasingly disconnected from the objects they design.
The design world seems to be drifting away from its heritage. More and more designers are becoming increasingly disconnected from the obje... | __label__pos | 0.998784 |
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What Is Psychotherapy All About?
Article by John Spearman
In a nutshell, psychotherapy offers the possibility of uncovering whatever might be getting in the way of your living a fuller and more creative life. This might be chronic stress, anxiety, fear, low self-esteem, loneliness or any number of other... | __label__pos | 0.994718 |
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Did you notice what Rose wrote on p 482 TCB? Her base formula, in each case, has 1 cup/100 grams cake flour (or flour/cocoa combined). She found this was just right to serve 11 people (wedding, not dessert sized pieces). In practice, this amounts to roughly the amount of batter needed for 1 x 6” x 2”. Hence, RF2 = 2x6”... | __label__pos | 0.929782 |
Whatever Happened to Russia's Economic Miracle?
Does Russia have a strong or a weak economy? It's very difficult to judge by just looking at its Gross Domestic Product (GDP). In the 1990s the GDP fell steadily, creating an impression that the Russian economy was in meltdown. But after reaching its lowest point in 1998,... | __label__pos | 0.725311 |
The Obama Administration’s Federal Communication Commission (FCC) is poised to place government monitors in newsrooms across the country in an absurdly draconian attempt to intimidate and control the media.
Before you dismiss this assertion as utterly preposterous (we all know how that turned out when the Tea Party com... | __label__pos | 0.979069 |
December 2, 2010
All Publicity is Good Publicity – Does it Apply to SEO?
Over the last few days, the SEO world has been abuzz with a story that was originally printed in The New York Times (you can read the full story here) where it was claimed that an online business owner was deliberately annoying and threatening his... | __label__pos | 0.999697 |
Wine cellars may be considered a luxury, but they are increasingly becoming a must-have in the high-end houses in Jason Kirkpatrick’s Centerville, Va., market. Full cellars with humidity and temperature control start at $75,000, says the president of Kirkpatrick’s Construction.
Erik Lemire, remodeling manager at Teevan... | __label__pos | 0.950929 |
My previous post, Creating a Video for Your Business in Three Easy Steps, offered some simple ideas for capturing videos for your business. Now for some examples of the types of videos you can capture, plus a walk-through of the steps you can take to make capturing videos part of your company’s day-to-day operations.
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The Senate is inquiring into Australia's domestic response to the WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health report
Closing the gap within a generation. The hard-working Senators’ report is due towards the end of March.
This is throwing a very useful spotlight on this critical issue. Just how can Australia reduce ... | __label__pos | 0.97071 |
November 2015 | Print-Friendly Version Building wealth often follows a familiar script: Young adults graduate with little money, but after decades of work and (hopefully) prudent financial decisions, they accrue enough wealth to comfortably retire. But this plan assumes a stream of uninterrupted earnings. What if that ... | __label__pos | 0.961201 |
Can you provide some guidelines for working in hot environments? How long should employees be allowe
NIOSH offers some information and guidelines for workers and employers to follow as the temperatures climb. A heat stress calculator is included.
In addition, OSHA offers a safety and health fact sheet on heat stress, i... | __label__pos | 0.999877 |
Financial Planning for Millennials: Yes, You Can Afford It DailyFinance The good news for them is that they're mistaken: While that affordability disconnect may have existed in the past, a new way of providing financial planning advice is gaining...
Erado Press's insight:
Planners who work on a monthly retainer are goo... | __label__pos | 0.855874 |
The Silurian Wenlock Reef
If somebody had stood on the beach on the northwest coast of the microcontinent of Avalonia looking out towards the Iapetus Ocean, here's what they might have seen. The warm sea shelters a teeming community of living things. Corals and sponges build a reef framework visible through the clear, ... | __label__pos | 0.98409 |
3 Signs to Teach Babies First The 3 Signs to Teach Babies First…
Sometimes we wish our babies would come to us with full vocabularies and understanding enough of the world to know how to express their needs and wants. Obviously, it doesn’t work that way and when we stop to think about it, we would miss out on all of th... | __label__pos | 0.938298 |
The Incredible Shrinking Training Program & Other Adult Learning Trends
Presenters: Saul Carliner, PhD, CTDP, Associate Professor, Concordia University
Marc Grainger, Credit Suisse
Coordinator: LeAnne Bennett, Credit Suisse AG
While the amount of work-related information is exponentially increasing, the time and resour... | __label__pos | 0.949176 |
Katie Swan from Speed PR was in the SiteVisibility Offices last week to learn and share knowledge. She wrote this blog post about her experience here with us.
Online content is being generated at a staggering rate, so just how do you make your company stand out from the crowd? I’ve spent the week at SiteVisibility, to ... | __label__pos | 0.98415 |
Enterprises can benefit from mobile video conferencing in the following 5 ways, such as reduce travel cost, improve productivity, enhance communicatiotn, increase business opportunities and improve work and life balance etc.
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Telstra chief executive Andy Penn says he is still keen to invest more than $1 billion in new ventures despite the collapse of talks with Philippines conglomerate San Miguel to build the country's third mobile network.
After over a year of talks the negotiations failed over the weekend. Speaking to investors and media ... | __label__pos | 0.959783 |
There’s no shortage of dinosaur myths. Paleontologist Dave Hone recently compiled a list of eight persistent falsehoods over at the
Guardian–from the misapprehension that all dinosaurs were huge to the untenable idea that Tyrannosaurus could only scavenge its meals–but there was one particular misunderstanding that cau... | __label__pos | 0.649413 |
Demonstrating Your Home Theater System, Part I Peter Tribeman, President and CEO of Atlantic Technology and Outlaw Audio Part I: How to impress your family and make your neighbors jealous.
After dreaming for years, you finally acquired that home theater you've always wanted. Guided by a little help from your not-so-sub... | __label__pos | 0.949768 |
From the southernmost tip of the state to the hills of south central Texas, the lower half of the state is greening up as the great wheels of agriculture begin to roll across field and pasture this spring, a brisk start to a new growing, calving season on the farms and ranches of the Texas southland.
Farmers are still ... | __label__pos | 0.965569 |
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A newly reprised, 5-4 majority on the Mecklenburg County School Board voted Tuesday night in favor of building a single consolidated school complex to replace Bluestone and Park View high…
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Although the economic crisis continues to rage in Europe and some remain motionless with doubt and fear, young Europeans give us a lesson of hope and confidence.
During his european tour, His Holiness Karmapa Trinley Thaye Dorje, a Buddhist Master, has created with some youth organizations the Wealth of Europe poll, wi... | __label__pos | 0.994756 |
Ah, the Fourth of July! Time to do whatever it is Americans do at this time of year. Eat pumpkin pie in prom dresses or something? Play Yankee Doodle Dandy on the banjo? I’m not really sure, to be honest. While we have adopted most other American customs (awkward dating; dressing like children; the War on Terror), Inde... | __label__pos | 0.987508 |
The aftermath effect and the nutrient-cadaver tendencies of these commercial medicines are evident and are indicated in their respective precautionary tag. Bearing this parameter in mind, the trust of people in commercial medicine in dealing with common diseases was shaken, opting them to seek alternative ways. The res... | __label__pos | 0.997846 |
In accordance with the provision in the Vermont Constitution designating non-attorney side judges to hear cases, advise, (and even-horrors-over-rule) real-attorney judges in some legal situations, your humble scribe proposes in these column-inches to dispute the recently-proffered legal opinion that the planned OMYA Mi... | __label__pos | 0.930493 |
Tait ensures its products meet regulatory compliance in the markets in which they are offered.
Radio equipment needs to comply with mandated radio performance standards to ensure efficient use of the radio spectrum, which is in great demand worldwide.
Regulatory compliance requirements vary widely between regulators, w... | __label__pos | 0.998741 |
According to a survey carried out by Bournemouth University, pressures over hospital budgets and targets may be damaging safety in operating theatres.
Around one in five of almost 600 surgeons questioned reported being involved in incidents, during a two-week period, where patients were harmed. Many complained of havin... | __label__pos | 0.99996 |
Entrepreneur Norman Tenray pays £3,000 a month in business rates on empty premises, in which he houses start-up companies rent free.
The IT consultant salvaged a flailing plumbing and building supplies company during the height of the 2008 recession, rescuing it from administration.
Obas UK has survived the economic do... | __label__pos | 0.998701 |
THE election sorted out winners and losers, but it left intact a polarised governing structure that has been unable to produce much more than gridlock for the past couple of years.
President Barack Obama appeared on track to become the first president in modern history to be re-elected with a smaller share of the vote ... | __label__pos | 0.89426 |
by Meg Cimino
"HE'LL trip, and that spoon will go right into his throat." My father and I were watching a videotape of my two-year-old nephew, Cameron -- one of those that his mother, my sister Laura, regularly sends. As Cameron ran into view with a spoon sticking out of his mouth, I knew exactly what Dad was going to ... | __label__pos | 0.934892 |
Please consider the data map above. This is Indianapolis, and it has not been afflicted by some strange blue disease. Instead the map shows the population trends of the city with the movement of people continuing away from the city center and out towards the suburbs (blue in the graphic signifies population growth, red... | __label__pos | 1.000005 |
Hi, I am Margarete Juliana, a Registered Marriage and Family Therapist. I serve individuals, couples and families living in the GTA and have an office in York Region. Visit my website for specific location and map.
Contact me via this website, my email or by phone (647-233-5511) for a confidential conversation regardin... | __label__pos | 0.997278 |
I don't know much about an education in documentary filmmaking. I got into the business from television news, like a lot of commercial documentary makers. My only advice, for what it's worth, would be to stick with a general undergraduate education (I was an English major myself). My opinion: Do
not go to film school a... | __label__pos | 0.622582 |
Agriculture continues to be the most predominant sector of the State economy, as 70 percent of the population is engaged in Agriculture and allied activities for their livelihood. The State has as an area of 1.3 Lakh sq.km with a gross cropped area of around 63 L.Ha.. The Government policy and objectives have been to e... | __label__pos | 0.997088 |
Sunday, November 6. 2011
Some scattered links I squirreled away during the previous week:
Paul Krugman: More Thoughts on Weaponized Keysianism:
Even (or perhaps especially) the Republicans acknowledge that cutting
on useless weapons systems costs the economy jobs.
And the evidence clearly shows that weaponized Keynesia... | __label__pos | 0.921917 |
Many dogs that end up in the shelter system are there because they were unsuccessful house pets. This may be because they were never given the chance to be a successful house pet and were instead left outside tethered or in a pen. For others, they were simply not successful and their behavior landed them in a shelter. ... | __label__pos | 0.987127 |
Hydroxycut has been linked to the death of a 19-year-old man, as well as multiple reports of liver damage, liver failure, cardiovascular issues, seizures and jaundice.
Implications- The chief medical officer of the FDA's Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition named Dr. Linda Katz says that when dealing with Hydro... | __label__pos | 0.995883 |
Mokolodi Nature Reserve
Project Location Gaborone, Botswana Project Type Wildlife and habitat conservation, Community conservation initiatives, Endangered species protection, Environmental education Endangered Species White Rhino (10), Giraffe, Mountain Reed Buck, Klipspringer, Cheetah (2), Rock Python (50-80), Pangoli... | __label__pos | 0.855107 |
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I’m just gonna say it. I don’t have screen-time rules at my house. My kids can interact with whatever type of screen they want, pretty much whenever they want–or not. Some of you may think I’m crazy, and others may feel the same way, but here are my 5 reasons for not settin... | __label__pos | 0.87372 |
Doubts remain on whether new legislation will be enforced New laws bring some protection for Vietnam's maids
Phan Thu Trang starts work at 5am, cooks for 25 people and does not usually end her working day as a maid until 10pm.
The hours though are the least of her worries, she says, describing mistreatment at the hands... | __label__pos | 0.565448 |
Inscribed in 2008 (3.COM) on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity (originally proclaimed in 2005)Canto a tenore has developed within the pastoral culture of Sardinia. It represents a form of polyphonic singing performed by a group of four men using four different voices called bassu, ... | __label__pos | 0.984357 |
As part of its Strategy 2015+ to focus on core and profitable operations as well as strengthen balance sheet,
Deutsche Bank AG (DB) announced plans to cut down its commodity business across the globe. This will lead to closure of dedicated trading desks for energy, agriculture, base metals and dry bulk in New York, Lon... | __label__pos | 0.881605 |
NOTED WITH INTEREST Questions About Salmon Are Directed Upstream
SEATTLE -- The Bush administration -- having made it hard for federal scientists to talk publicly about global warming -- appears to have decided that loose lips are also bad when they talk about salmon.
The Washington office of the National Oceanic and A... | __label__pos | 0.774363 |
By Brigid Schulte
Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, February 14, 2011; 8:50 PM
Ed and Mary Williford had everything they ever wanted in a neighborhood when they moved with their two small children into the two-bedroom, one-bath house on Judson Road in Wheaton in 1974.
They knew everyone up and down the block. Their ... | __label__pos | 0.619819 |
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Or so the current legislation being proposed in a U.S. House of Representative subcommittee would like it. A hearing scheduled for today at the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee centered around draft legislation proposed by Rep. Mary Bono Mac... | __label__pos | 0.973641 |
Jon Lebkowsky (jonl) Sun 13 Jan 13 12:09
In a followup to our State of the World discussion for 2013, we've invited Jamais Cascio to join us for a couple of weeks for more of a "future of the world" conversation. Selected by Foreign Policy magazine as one of their Top 100 Global Thinkers, Jamais writes about the inters... | __label__pos | 0.925678 |
Recently, I’ve returned to a lot of volunteering in bigger organizations. I’ve always volunteered in one form or another but coming to work with bigger organizations has been positive. Larger organizations are quite different in scope and carry a totally different energy than smaller endeavors.
However, no matter where... | __label__pos | 0.980735 |
Before you hand your child a cell phone, be aware of the consequences.
If you are a parent, there comes a time when you decide you want to reach your child for emergencies or changes of plans and you get your child a cell phone. The benefit of instant access to your child feels reassuring and safe and you like being av... | __label__pos | 0.893186 |
"Our elders have created for us a sacred way of being in the universe. It is our responsibility to pass this understanding on to the next generation."
Tessie Naranjo (Pueblo, North America)
Ho'i i ka pilina kai is an effort to reconnect ourselves to our environment and through that connection rediscover ourselves as ka... | __label__pos | 0.998666 |
This toolkit includes evidence- and research-based practices, tools, and resources that educators, families, facilities, and community agencies can use to better support and improve the long-term outcomes for youth with disabilities in juvenile correctional facilities.
This brief aims to help individuals working in pub... | __label__pos | 0.999127 |
Pope Francis' Address to the Italian Association of Large Families "In a world often marked by selfishness, the large family is a school of solidarity and sharing; and this attitude then becomes a benefit for the whole society."
Dear parents, I am grateful to you for the example of love towards life, that you preserve ... | __label__pos | 0.918276 |
Academic Computing & Media Services (ACMS) is proud to announce the launch of a pilot project to test new classroom furniture in one of UC San Diego’s learning spaces. The pilot, a collaboration with the Office of the Registrar, is located in Mandeville B150.
Tables and chairs on wheels replaced traditional desk-seat c... | __label__pos | 0.966607 |
As a young Christian woman there are two words that certainly should not come out of my mouth, especially in connection: naked yoga. Yoga has been a challenging concept for many of my Evangelical predecessors and I have even heard some interesting comments made towards my “taboo” practice of spirituality. And nudity…we... | __label__pos | 0.9174 |
Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is probably like any other thing in life. If we focus on it, putting all our effort to get better, we will always get better. But sometimes there are easier ways to improve faster than just training, going to the school and doing what everyone does.
If you do what everyone does, you might end up bei... | __label__pos | 0.918519 |
Racial justice group Race Forward has a new series of short videos about a big topic: systemic racism.
As Race Forward Publisher Rinku Sen explains in an intro video, it’s important for people to understand what “systemic racism” actually means. “We explicitly focus on systemic racism in order to move the country’s con... | __label__pos | 0.957291 |
Ever have that moment when you are really looking forward to the lunch you brought to work? It’s not very often, and a lot of times you might even forgo your bagged or boxed lunch for something tastier and more appealing than the congealed mess awaiting you in the break room refrigerator, but there is that moment when ... | __label__pos | 0.996182 |
In early March, Oxfam ambassador Djimon Hounsou visited a cattle camp in South Sudan, where many communities are suffering from the consequences of the unregulated flow of arms and ammunition. I just came back from an emotional trip through South Sudan, a country that’s still struggling to find peace after more than 50... | __label__pos | 0.990293 |
As
Luke Holden of CYFOR explains in this video, there are two main reasons why it is important to collect data using proper forensic tools and techniques.
One reason is to do with efficiency – data may sit on remote email servers, decommissioned computers or mobile phones and iPads, which may be hard to access both phy... | __label__pos | 0.999904 |
If there is one area that changes on a seemingly daily basis, it is your end-to-end supply chain. World events change it. Natural disasters impact it. Security concerns dictate it. And customers’ changing expectations drive supply chain change. How do we keep up with it all?
As opposed to talking about the latest suppl... | __label__pos | 0.986417 |
I believe the concept of ‘plug and play’ is a type of Holy Grail search in the technology and business world for the ability to simply add functionality by installing a plug-in that will immediately begin to work. Granted, there are some areas where this concept works, or at least comes very close to working, especiall... | __label__pos | 0.995934 |
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…the essence of every picture is the frame…”
—G.K. Chesterton
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We are now in a situation where conservatives have framed almost every issue.”
—George Lakoff and Elisabeth Weihling
s we wait for the Supreme Court’s ruling on the Affordable Care Act, it is troubling to think that many Americans live lives of such cult... | __label__pos | 0.997221 |
Sometimes, as we fight the culture war battles, it seems as if we are wasting our time, at least those of us who are fighting Iron Age thinking developed from biblical precepts. Here is just one of those precepts:
If a man has sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman, both of them have done what is detestab... | __label__pos | 0.992203 |
There was, in case you missed it, a celebration of American democracy on Tuesday. Family, friends, and big money folks were on Capitol Hill to usher in the latest incarnation of Congress.
Nancy Pelosi gave a gracious speech, just before she passed on the ceremonial giant gavel to the Grim Weeper, John Boehner. And as a... | __label__pos | 0.971072 |
The American Journal of Sociology/Volume 06/Number 1/Sociological View of Sovereignty: VII
A SOCIOLOGICAL VIEW OF SOVEREIGNTY.
CHAPTER XIII. POLITICAL PARTIES. 1
ORIGINAL institutions are those which existed undifferentiated in society previous to the emergence of the state. The rise of the latter, collecting to itself... | __label__pos | 0.890708 |
Google on Tuesday acknowledged to state officials that it had violated people’s privacy during its Street View mapping project when it casually scooped up passwords, e-mail and other personal information from unsuspecting computer users. In agreeing to settle a case brought by 38 states involving the project, the searc... | __label__pos | 0.912539 |
I have reservations about gluten-free flour mixes, I have since the onset of my gluten-free life. On one hand, I love experimenting with unique flour mixtures; searching for the perfect blend of gluten-free flours, searching for the texture, the taste and the flavour that I crave. On the other hand, sometimes I’m lazy ... | __label__pos | 0.995732 |
Heavy rain failed to put off visitors to one of west London’s loveliest secrets. The bluebells of Perivale Wood hold an irresistible charm for those aware of what is hidden away behind typical suburban semi-detached homes close to an Undergound station.
This tiny piece of woodland has survived unchanged for centuries, ... | __label__pos | 0.991805 |
The sharing economy: a new consumption model 18.11.2016
A new way to consume goods and services, driven by the web and online platforms, has emerged in recent years: the sharing economy, or collaborative consumption. Actions such as selling products or services from peer to peer, buying and selling used items, ride sha... | __label__pos | 0.758413 |
How to avoid cart abandonment ?
eCommerce is day after day more present in Europe: as a proof, for some product categories, it can exceed physical commerce. Why such a big success? Three main reasons prevail: competitive prices, the increase of the connected mobile devices penetration and the democratization of Interne... | __label__pos | 0.982372 |
English français Analysis of large scale hydrodynamic phenomena in turbine draft tubes
Hydraulic power is a renewable energy with a very advantageous price, and its flexibility of use coupled with its storage possibilities easily enables to meet the peak demand. Refurbishment of old hydraulic power plants is an importa... | __label__pos | 0.618888 |
The two guards on the EN472 “Ister” between Bucuresti Nord and Budapest Keleti pu. set aside their fading hats with the silver trim and the CFR logos and tuck into the dinner they have brought from home in the bar carriage. They crunch what look like home grown, gnarled gherkins, and pork paté, bread and tomatoes.
Mean... | __label__pos | 0.997398 |
Olivier Charbonneau, Associate Librarian at Concordia University, and author of the Culturelibre blog, has posted Collaboration and Open Access to Law, on the VoxPopuLII blog, published by the Legal Information Institute at Cornell University Law School.
In this new post, Mr. Charbonneau presents a model — called the C... | __label__pos | 0.982204 |
It’s much better than it used to be. Hospital coffee, I mean. You can get varieties now. There are carts that give you as many choices as you could ever want. Not that it matters much to me.
Black, usually with caffeine.
The other week as I was walking down the hall carrying a cup of coffee, I wondered whether it would... | __label__pos | 0.986393 |
Tags Summer Reading by Sarah Mulhern Gross
It’s the first week of summer vacation and I’m pretty confident that my students are reading lots, based on the emails I’ve gotten and the piles of books they borrowed from my classroom library at the end of last week.
Yes, I am a summer reading believer. But really, I’m a boo... | __label__pos | 0.892535 |
Fulfilling a commitment to campus sustainability
There is an increasing trend among people and organizations to focus on issues of sustainability. As a result, there are often conflicting ideas or confusion about what it really means to act in ways that protect the environment.
Missy Nergard sticks with a textbook defi... | __label__pos | 0.973759 |
“Five hundred years ago this month, our holy father St Philip Neri was born in the early hours of 22nd July, the feast of St Mary Magdalene. Just hours later the theological virtues of Faith, Hope and Charity were infused into his soul in Baptism. In the wretched heat and humidity that afflict Florence in high summer i... | __label__pos | 0.928 |
In the negotiations connected with Britain' s entry intothe E. E. C., New Zealand possesses very little true bargainingpower. The only advantage we can use is to be better informedthan the other side about the structure and economics of theE. E. C. market for products with which we are vitally concerned. Apart from pre... | __label__pos | 0.994134 |
Violent, crime ridden, crumbling infrastructure and de-populating? Megan McArdle tries to answer the captioned question today:
(…) What turned this around was not the creative class, who were still flocking to rent-controlled apartments in the safer parts of town. No, what made the difference was money. Money bought pe... | __label__pos | 0.999478 |
The Bruenig Firing: ‘Civility’ As A Tool To Control Political Dissent
The idea that political civility is a necessary element of political discourse—one which is meant to emulate a kind of ideal courtroom politesse—is a bourgeois conviction. Expressions of civility are said to uphold democratic standards and tame viole... | __label__pos | 0.974561 |
After weeks of intense lobbying, the FCC today set rules for the auction of former UHF TV channels 60-69 (in the prime 700 MHz range of frequencies). The full details are not yet out, but the decision seems to be largely what was expected: a “public-private partnership” for newly-allocated public safety spectrum, and —... | __label__pos | 0.978374 |
I have almost 600 Facebook friends now, but I don’t make friends for any other reason than I like having friends, both real and virtual – and, in many cases, a virtual friendship on Facebook or Twitter is an introduction to, at least, an in person meeting and perhaps Friendship that extends offline – or simultaneously ... | __label__pos | 0.836535 |
Then one day I was in Brisbane, Queensland, when I came across a book remainder store and bought a book on the Tarot. When I got home, I found its images were nothing like the Rider-Waite deck I’d bought in a fit of curiosity, so I put the book aside.
However, third time lucky. In July 1996 I fell and broke my leg and ... | __label__pos | 0.848211 |
The question left over from the last post was the following:
Given that it had become inevitable for Pakistan to have a religious identity (for reasons articulated by Professor Ralph Russell in the previous post) why was the tradition of Islam that was indigenous to the subcontinent ignored in favor of one imported fro... | __label__pos | 0.95124 |
How to measure everything
Last byte | A conversation with Douglas Hubbard
By David Hubler Sep 27, 2007
We have a tendency in business and government to sit around and try to hash out problems with measurements. - Douglas Hubbard
Douglas Hubbard is the creator of applied information economics, a methodology for measurin... | __label__pos | 0.68348 |
coworker1: Why don’t you eat bread? me: Because gluten erases intestinal villi made of epithelial cells and makes the gut wall permeable, causes a leaky gut syndrome and increases inflammation levels. All that leads to diseases based on the failure of the immune system and on an autoimmune response. coworker1 (looks pe... | __label__pos | 0.999948 |
In an era of cynical greed, Apollo 11 still inspires
On the other hand, exploration of the moon conclusively proved that it is neither a nice, nor particularly interesting, place to visit.
Harvesting its mineral resources would be unimaginably costly, while its brutal cold and searing heat are unbelievably dangerous. U... | __label__pos | 0.826067 |
A Storied Life in Jazz
Things went wrong from the start. A major blizzard on the first day caused Morello, driving by car from New Jersey, to arrive four hours late. When he finally got there, he didn’t have any drums with him, so we got almost nothing done. The next day, Benjamin was the problem. I was going to record... | __label__pos | 0.915539 |
It‘s human nature–we wait all winter for the weather to warm up, then we look for ways to cool down in the heat of summer. Here are a few “cool” ideas to make your garden a welcome oasis on hot summer days. Planting for Shade
Have you have ever stepped under the canopy of a tree from the heat of the sun? Then you know ... | __label__pos | 0.91488 |
Going online is necessary in finding unrivaled server providers in setting your own webpage. Online competition today gets tougher after considering the number of individuals who target the internet for online promotions. Dedicated servers are experts’ recommended services for many business owners today.
Dedicated serv... | __label__pos | 0.985167 |
The upward trend in accountable care organizations (ACOs) will continue because the ACO model is driving improvements in care coordination and a decline in hospital readmissions. However, the cost savings expected from the ACO model have yet to materialize. This is revealed in new data compiled by the Healthcare Intell... | __label__pos | 0.966521 |
What was the Weather Channel thinking when they named a winter storm Pax after the Roman goddess of peace? Pax will produce a wide variety of nasty weather from Texas to the east coast, but after that Mother Nature may call a halt to the endless barrage of storms.
No Low Pressure Center Associated With Pax to Start
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Domestic PC production in the Soviet Baltic States 1977-1992 Date2013-07-02 Author
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