Counterexample

From Scientific American: Researchers insist they can tell someone’s politlcal affiliation by looking at the condition of their offices and ... new study, set to be published in The Journal of Political Psychology, the bedrooms and offices ... in their personal spaces, according to the study. Their bedrooms and offices are well-lighted and decorated [more...]

Date: 2008-10-16 16:29:05

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Book Review: Managing Brand You

Managing Brand You Before I get into the book review of Managing Brand You: 7 Steps to Creating Your Most Successful Self by Jerry S ... entertained while cooking and cleaning is like a dream come true. (Well, technically, I would prefer it without the cooking and cleaning part, but that’s kind of important, too.) It usually works [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 00:37:49

What Your House Says About Your Politics

I’m not talking big house vs. small house — that’s too easy, and simplistic ... of the conservative home, where “bedrooms and offices are well-lighted and decorated with sports ... and despise “ambiguity,” which is expressed by “being more orderly, having more cleaning supplies [more...]

Date: 2008-10-15 12:07:45

SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA CEMENT PLANTS AND GLOBAL WARMING

Can California’s cement industry walk the fine line between regulation and innovation to fight global warming? BY CHRIS AMICO CUPERTINO, California — From the lip of the quarry at Hanson Permanente cement, all of Santa Clara stretches out in panorama. Few plants in California are this close to this many people [more...]

Date: 2008-12-17 17:29:44

Gates of Vienna News Feed 9/23/2008

USAAccused September 11 Plotter a No-Show at GuantanamoCAIR Files FEC ComplaintCourt Ordered to Reconsider Asylum CaseFBI Probing Fannie, Freddie, Lehman, AIG — CNNOur World: Your Abortions or Your Lives!Violence Increases in Grand Island Between Somali and Sudanese Refugees Europe and the EUChristian Schools Closing for Islamic FestivalEuro MPs [more...]

Date: 2008-09-24 00:50:00

I can see less miles

Alameda NayTiff brought up some thought-provoking issues, first:Both the Park and Webster street shopping areas are in fairly high density areas. (Does anyone have specific data on this?) Both have apartment buildings nearby and have multiple local and transbay bus lines. Do you consider these areas successful? [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 15:00:21

“Clean” coal ash flood may make new Superfund site (Update #4)

southeast’s worst environmental disaster by some environmentalists and journalists ... … Cleaning up the mess, which could fill nearly 800 Olympic-size swimming pools, could take months ... on the safety of area’s water supply. One thing that the NYTimes article had that I hadn’t seen [more...]

Date: 2008-12-23 17:27:26

Lynne Glasner: Obama, McCain Calls For National Service Reflect Divergent Experience

Candidates McCain and Obama have both served their country through service, but the differences in how they served define them. At the crux of McCain's military record is the senator's belief in a "cause greater than oneself." At the heart of Obama's record of community service is a belief in the concept that a rising tide lifts all boats [more...]

Date: 2008-09-30 13:27:44

New Oil and Gas Technology Open Thread

It gets depressing hearing about our financial problems every day. I am sure a lot of people would rather talk about oil and natural gas, and about better prospects for the future. Improved technology is one factor that might make future production better than the bleak future that most of us are foreseeing today [more...]

Date: 2008-10-25 14:00:26

Beat the Holiday or Financial Blues: 9 Tips for Making Yourself Happier in the Next 30 Minutes

Editor’s note: This is a guest post from Gretchen Rubin of The Happiness Project. Maybe you’re feeling down because of the financial crisis. Maybe you’re feeling overwhelmed by holiday tasks. Maybe you’re rushing around to try to get things done before you leave for vacation. Or maybe you’re just having a lousy day [more...]

Date: 2008-12-17 12:00:40

Revelation: Roman church clears the air

Talk about your metamaterials. Unhappy working only on the inside, the walls of a Roman church have been discovered cleaning the outside air, according to The Long Now Foundation. It's believed that the titanium dioxide material specified for the concrete walls of the church have photocatalytically reacted with nitrogen oxide pollutants [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 13:44:49

Article Marketing: How To Use Timeboxing to Write Articles More Efficiently

Timeboxing is a productivity technique where you give yourself a limited amount of time to complete a specific task ... vacation. You definitely need to leave the office by a certain time to catch your plane to Tahiti ... is that you have a long list of tasks that you need to complete at the office before you can leave–what happens [more...]

Date: 2008-12-26 08:10:22

Week Two, 2009

Thursday January 8Was spending the evening adjusting the subtitles on my recently acquired Gomorrah so they actually matched up with people speaking, when I got a call from Bec offering spare tickets to that night's Bill Callahan gig at the Thornbury Theatre. YES PLEASE. So we went [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 08:03:00

Court: Parties Must Justify Need for Claim Construction

IP Cleaning v. Annovi Research (W.D. Wisc. 2008) IPC has accused Annovi of infringing its patent covering a high-pressure washer ... several claim terms. In a recent order, however, the court denied both motions for claim construction because neither party had "persuade d the court that construction of each specified term is necessary [more...]

Date: 2008-12-10 17:43:21

Swanky Dog Hotel?

Proposed Bill: Humans, Pets Buried in Single GraveBy Chantal Anderson - Seattle Times staff reporterSen. Ken Jacobsen and his cat Sam that died several years ago. The Seattle Democrat has filed a bill that would allow the commingling of human and pet remains. Forget the notion that dogs are man's best friend. To Sen [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 15:00:00

Marble Tile Installation For Dummies

by Alix Montoya You can save a lot of money with your new marble tiled floor if you just install them yourself ... a bucket, some clean cloths and some fasteners, tile spacers, a wet saw for cutting the tiles, a level, a trowel, a plywood, a squeegee and some sponges for cleaning up after. Make sure you’re safe [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 08:17:09

The recent view about the construction of configuration space spinor structure

During the last five years both the mathematical and physical understanding of quantum TGD has developed dramatically ... the actual situation in the theory. Therefore I decided to perform a major cleaning operation throwing ... , and so on. I started the cleaning up process from the chapter Configuration Space Spinor Structure and I glue [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 11:22:00

Clean Construction

I`ve often commented about how the construction in Japan is several billion times cleaner than the construction I experienced back when I was in the business in New York. This scene below is common: a large construction site where workers ... all day long. I see this all the time. Clean Construction Clean Construction Now, this may [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 15:57:04

A day in the life

By CarlThere's a man I see at the subway station where I exit the system to go to my office.Let me describe the station: annexed to the Grand Central Terminal is a platform for the 42 Street Shuttle. It's an open air station, in that the token booths... I guess I have to call them Metrocard machines now, c'est dommage.. [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 15:27:00

A Day In The Life

There's a man I see at the subway station where I exit the system to go to my office.Let me describe the station: annexed to the Grand Central Terminal is a platform for the 42 Street Shuttle. It's an open air station, in that the token booths...I guess I have to call them Metrocard machines now, c'est dommage.. [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 14:42:00

Mixt Greens: San Francisco "Eco-Gourmet" Restaurant is a Marriage of Gourmet and Green

With an hour for lunch and a growling stomach, what's the most important thing about a quick service restaurant billing itself as "eco-gourmet"? "Gourmet" of course. You can't eat "eco". Mixt Greens, with three locations in downtown San Francisco, has been committed to running a sustainable operation since its founding in 2006 [more...]

Date: 2008-12-16 00:50:34

From the Front: 01/06/2009

News and Personal dispatches from the front and the home front.In their own words:Zen Traveller: The Fixer - "Fixer" is apparently an Arabic word that means, "I don't wait in lines". Like almost all western companies in Iraq, we employ locals to act as "fixers; to get us through the snags and complications of operating in a foreign land [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 18:39:00

What do YOU think about this ?

Read below….and post your comment: Child maid trafficking spreads from Africa to the United States By RUKMINI CALLIMACHI, Associated Press Writer Rukmini Callimachi, Associated Press Writer IRVINE, Calif. – Late at night, the neighbors saw a little girl at the kitchen sink of the house next door [more...]

Date: 2008-12-29 04:06:27

21 Landscape Tools That You Need

Great gardens usually require more than just plants. Take a stroll through your local botanical garden and you will soon notice the pathways, raised garden beds, pergolas, arbours, gazebos, steps, bridges and a myriad of other structures that give the garden its framework [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 22:15:38

Because Every Office Needs a Little Sophistication

Last night, BusyDad posted this picture to Twitter with the caption "Wednesdays at work." (Go ahead, click on over and pop on back. It'll be worth it ... ergonomic mesh chairs and with a whole lot more dark wood paneling, floor-to-ceiling bookshelves [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 12:56:00

Cleaning out my wallet

All this talk of the Ranch, and Tracker Trucks has got me thinking… (and this is gonna be a long and winding road… so stay with me…) ... you know, a hint of testoserone, wood fibers, shoes, concrete, Gatorade… that kind of stuff… I always use [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 02:10:39

Senseless

.fullpost{display:inline;}Everyday no one is spared by reports about children killed by preventable diseases, natural calamities, traffic accidents, ... , cleaning their surroundings, provide better environment, prevent them from playing in the streets, ensure [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 23:29:00

An Englishman in Wisconsin

There are many reasons why I love the internet. Email, online shopping, Wikipedia, and of course donkeyporn.com. But my biggest reason, corny though it sounds, is the number of friends I’ve made through it. One of the most valuable of these is my friendship with Greg [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 14:37:14

Obama: "That's Just How White Folks Will Do You"

A 1995 piece in the liberal Chicago Reader basically refutes Obama's statements that he never heard Pastor Jeremiah Wright invoke his racist rants ... to dissipate because there's no agenda, no concrete program for change. Gee, he couldn't have possibly [more...]

Date: 2008-09-02 23:32:22

Cables, dispatches and memoranda

A brief world news roundup for 20 January 2009. United States & the Americas Treasury Dept - The U.S. Department of the Treasury designated four al Qaida associates under Executive Order 13224, which targets terrorists and those providing support to terrorists or acts of terrorism [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 06:34:14

direct contribution.

direct contribution. Without your support, the mission will end. Thank you for helping me tell the full story of the struggle for Iraq and Afghanistan. Comments (15) Down with Barriers, Up with Iraq 25 November 2008 On November 13th I covered a mission in south Baghdad with soldiers from the 4th [more...]

Date: 2008-12-02 22:46:25

Psst -- While You Were Gibbering, the Ruling Class Rigged the Game and Won Everything (I): The Personal Touch

As I consider the stunningly trivial and monumentally stupid commentary offered by almost everyone in this election season, a season that already promises to be among the most ghoulishly and sickeningly dishonest of my lifetime (which is not short at this point) [more...]

Date: 2008-08-25 14:05:00

Half the Time the World Is Ending

i know this will bore you, but i’m postin anyway ... to obtain some materials for my concrete casting. the distance is one thing, the physical work required ... sizes concrete mixing in action concrete mixing in action (breathing in cement every day ain't cool [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 15:03:31

The Steam Cleaning Demon

So a month or so before Christmas I called my mom and told her that if she wondered what to get us for Christmas, she could get us a steam cleaner for our carpets. We only have two rooms with wall-to-wall ... that she had a steam cleaner that she never used and now that she had mostly hardwood floors had no need [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 00:56:40

Daneel Lynn 的科幻奇幻必讀書單：外文科幻奇幻小說作品

15.01.09 新增譯本資訊：China Miéville, Un Lun Dun (2007)　◎◎◎◎柴那‧米耶維爾，《闇倫敦》作家作品：〈向妖異輸誠──英倫新怪譚領袖柴納‧米耶維爾〉短介：http://danjalin.blogspot.com/2007/08/un-lun-dun-2007-by-china-mieville.html　 　In present-day London, strange things start happening around Zanna: dogs stop to stare at her, birds circle her head [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 15:40:00

Receive Christ with Joy

When was the last time you received Christ with joy? Our Christian faith is rooted in the fact that God chooses to draw close to us, to dwell among us and to make Himself available to us in concrete ways. In our Opening Prayer for Mass on this Second [more...]

Date: 2008-12-06 07:01:31

Tuesday Megalinks: The Conjunctivitis Edition

My name is Kris. I’m 30-years-old. I have pinkeye.“But Kris,” you might say, “I thought only third graders get pinkeye.” And you would be correct ... Kitchen SongsIn no particular order:“Joey” by Concrete Blonde“The Wind Cries Mary” by Jimi Hendrix“ [more...]

Date: 2008-08-12 14:07:00

Fix Poll: The Biggest Political Scandal Ever?

Fix Poll: The Biggest Political Scandal Ever? Ever since Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was arrested early yesterday morning, one question has been eating away at the Fix: Is this the biggest and/or best political scandal in recent history? The wire-tapped conversations, Blagojevich's delusions of grandeur (president in 2016!) [more...]

Date: 2008-12-10 21:00:29

Review: Griffin Reflect Case for iPhone

I’ve become a big fan of snap-together hard cases for my iPhone ... ! Out Of The Box The Griffin Reflect Case is packaged with a premium cleaning cloth and a static peel ... , so the cleaning cloth is very handy. The screen protector is also a plus — although the iPhone’ [more...]

Date: 2008-09-15 16:00:45

Saturday’s Eagle Nest - 01/05/2009 (delayed)

You know, even though it’s not Saturday. And for some reason there are a bazillion Eagle Scout notices in the past week ... Carroll’s project involved cleaning and replanting a drainage area at Rainbow Landing Park. • Dustin [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 20:42:14

Olga’s Girls - The Indentured Daughters of Nepal - I

Olga’s Girls - The Indentured Daughters of Nepal Meredith May, San Francisco Chronicle, ... , cleaning and babysitting in the homes of higher caste families. Tharu fathers sell their daughters ... . But bonded girls report being beaten, raped, starved, and forced to sleep on the floor [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 20:40:14

Rehabilitating the Los Angeles River

This article was written by Worldchanging Los Angeles local blogger Foster Kerrison in January 2007 ... industrial jungle of Vernon/Maywood. Prior to taking the tour, my main impression of the river ... s most industrial areas. This is why FOLAR’s river tours are such a great idea. You get to visit [more...]

Date: 2008-09-12 16:29:23

Ladybug Steam Cleaner to the Rescue

Ladybug Steam Cleaners I hope you are not sick of hearing about all the cleaning uses I keep finding for my Ladybug Vapor Steam Cleaner ( ... and neighbor whose husband had just spilled red wine all over their couch, cushions and carpet the night before [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 14:50:47

LUCK FOR SALE (Aug, 1954)

view additional pages LUCK FOR SALE Even the best of us ore superstitious and we pay magic-charm sellers millions of dollars yearly ... to a cleaning woman in the hall of his hotel and said, “Quick, give me something for luck!” She handed [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 04:45:39

Two South African inventions

Fishing from a dolosSouth Africans are proud of their inventors ... African who invented the dolos (the 20 ton pieces oddly-shaped pieces of concrete seen in the photo ... s world-first automatic pool cleaning system, the Kreepy Krauly and how the American company, Zodiac [more...]

Date: 2009-01-10 21:38:09

Dane Cook Got Evicted

Dane Cook In what might possibly be the first concrete evidence that God exists and does not hate us, ... difficult for him.  I mean, you can’t expect a sack of shit to go around cleaning up piles of shit [more...]

Date: 2008-09-22 18:30:39

Don't Sniff This Page!

I can smell Roxanne from across the room. She doesn’t smell like Rose.  Barbara exudes an aroma, different from Celia, who has a “spicy” smell. Rhonda smells better when she has had a good workout, and Cindy smells fantastic in bed [more...]

Date: 2008-11-07 12:56:51

Olga's Girls - The Indentured Daughters of Nepal

Meredith May, San Francisco Chronicle, for the Pulitzer Center NEPAL - There is a saying about daughters in Nepal: ... , who toil away their childhoods cooking, cleaning and babysitting in the homes of higher caste families [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 18:16:27

Wet Markets or Supermarkets?

In the last few months, the local authorities have abruptly knocked down or closed quite a few of Hanoi’s wet markets ... for the redevelopment. Tall residential buildings and modern commercial buildings with glass facades are springing [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 01:50:00

Concrete Pumps & Safety In The Workplace

Concrete Pumps & Safety In The Workplace Posted in January 16th, 2009 Category:Careers Employment One very dangerous thing that is seen in the concrete pumping industry from time to time is people having their arms, fingers, etc. amputated in the field due to cleaning [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 22:11:44

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