Archive for January, 2009
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[?]Submitted by everydaytrash
Regardless of the nuances of international debates, I think all sides can agree it sucks to live in Gaza.
Remeber the sewage floods a couple years ago? Or that story about the Red Cross having so much trouble bringing contstruction materials into the area that they turned to recycling rubble?
Ever-resourceful, […]
Snowboard Realms Ontario/Quebec Tour
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[?]Submitted by FrontLipped
Although I haven’t been very quick on the draw to let you all know about the new episodes, TJ Schneider has still been pumping out videos for season two of the Snowboard Realms.
These three come from the time TJ spent touring through Ontario, and in to Quebec. Check out […]
Jeff Batchelor takes silver in Gangwon
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[?]Submitted by FrontLipped
Oakville, Ontario’s Jeff Batchelor took 2nd, and Squamish, British Colmbia’s Justin Lamoureux placed 5th at the FIS World Snowboard Championships in Gangwon, Korea recently. The silver medal in Korea marked Batchelor’s third career podium on the world cup circuit.
The Canadian women didn’t fare as well, as none were successful […]
Exercising After A Long Layoff
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[?]Submitted by My Fitness Hut Blog
This time of year, many people are excited to be exercising again and trying to get more fit and healthy…..the excitement is good but remember that you didn’t get “out-of-shape” overnight and you won’t get “in shape” overnight…..
Don’t push yourself too hard, too fast! If you […]
Competition Breeds Success
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[?]Submitted by Got Strength? Blog
Use competition to fuel your fitness success
So I’ve been having some business discussions with friends lately and we’ve had some great topics come up. As you know, birds of a feather tend to flock together and all of that, and likewise most of my friends are business-minded. […]
Library Loot #4
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[?]Submitted by Book Nut
This week’s haul: (Okay, so I decided that I was being anal about the surprise factor…)
The roundup is over at A Striped Armchair.
For A/K:
Pig William, Arlene Dubanevich
Liberty!, Allan Drummond
Fin M’Coul: The Giant of Knockmany Hill, Tomie de Paola
The Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor, James Riordan and Shelley […]
How Much Water Do Farmers Use?
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[?]Submitted by Aguanomics Blog
In my post yesterday, I questioned the meaning of “use” when farmers do not receive all of the benefits of the water they divert.
Today, I want to question the accounting for water diversions.
Say that a farmer applies 10AF of water to his fields. If 2AF are consumed and […]
Sludge on Your Veggies
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[?]Submitted by Aguanomics Blog
“A nationwide survey of sewage treatment plants shows that the sludge they produce–the residue from cleaning up wastewater–contains a wide variety of toxic metals, pharmaceuticals, flame retardants, and other compounds, including some antibiotics in surprisingly high concentrations. That’s significant because every year more than half of the roughly […]
Clearing the Backlog, Part I
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[?]Submitted by Aguanomics Blog
Here are some quickies:
IID ranchers complain that they need more water. That sounds like BS to me. Why are there 400,000 cows in the desert?
Engineers are going to cut down 900 trees (many native oaks) to build levees to protect real estate developments in a flood plain. Why […]
A follow up on the 54 Handyman….
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[?]Submitted by Suede and Chrome Blog
Well, I’ve always said the world is getting smaller…the explosion of technological advances in the last 10-20 years has really made that statement true. I’ve been reminded of how powerful the Internet is over the past week. I’ve already mentioned in a previous post that I […]
Know your Co-conspirators: Laurie Frink
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[?]Submitted by Secret Society
(Photo: Lindsay Beyerstein)
I realize I have been rather negligent with resuming these profiles of the musicians who contributed to the recording of Infernal Machines. To be honest I have been so involved with mixing the record that there has been time for little else. But today we return […]
Graston Technique for tendonitis treatment
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[?]Submitted by Casa Valdez Studios
In the last year or so I started noticing that I was having some tendinitis pain in my forearms and wrists. I think that this was probably more due to extended computer usage than from playing my horn. I’ve known many musicians over the years […]
Low Carb With A Twist - ER Fat Burn OPEN…
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[?]Submitted by Whole Food And More Blog
The Extreme Regime Fat Burn Formula is now open: for that determined dieter who’s ready for a new bod.
ER Fat Burn Formula
But it closes this Friday, Jan 30, at Midnight PST (3AM EST - NY).
Because this ER
Fat Burn Cycle starts officially on Jan 31 […]
1965 Buick Wildcat Convertible Part 4
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DREAMING OF BETTER DAYS
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[?]Submitted by The Capital Spectator
Looking for a sign of sunnier days when a storm is raging is human nature. Homo economicus is an optimistic creature at heart, although that optimism is now being put to the test.
On first glance at today’s update on new orders for durable goods, there’s reason to […]
New Home Market Getting Closer to Normal
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[?]Submitted by Businomics Blog
New home sales were down in December, the headlines say, but that misses the good news: we’re continually whittling away at the inventory of new homes:
That horizontal line shows the long-run average. There’s no reason that a current equilibrium would equal the long run average, especially in […]
Beware of the False Claims About Jobless Claims
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[?]Submitted by CARPE DIEM
WASHINGTON, Jan 29 (Reuters) - The number of people remaining on the unemployment benefits roll after drawing an initial week of aid, or continued claims, rose 159,000 to a higher-than-forecast 4.776 million in the week ended Jan 17, the most recent week for which data is available. The […]
1982 Jobless Claims = 937,000 Jobless Claims in ‘09
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[?]Submitted by CARPE DIEM
The Department of Labor just released its weekly update on jobless claims, reporting that:
For the week ending Jan. 24, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 588,000, an increase of 3,000 from the previous week’s revised figure of 585,000. The 4-week moving average was 542,500, an […]
The Beauty of Skepticism
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Submitted by Beauty Brains Blog
A primary goal of the Beauty Brains is to teach you to recognize marketing hype and nonsense in the beauty business. It is our hope that after being part of the Beauty Brains community for a while, you should be able to figure out for yourself what […]
Those Merciless, Greedy Consumers Run The Show
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[?]Submitted by CARPE DIEM
The consumers are merciless. They never buy in order to benefit a less efficient producer and to protect him against the consequence of his failure to manage better. They want to be served as well as possible. And the working of the capitalist system forces the entrepreneur to […]
Capitalism and Markets Fuel Economic Growth
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[?]Submitted by CARPE DIEM
The chart above (click to enlarge) shows annual real GDP per capita (in 2004 dollars) from 1800 to 2008 (data from Global Financial Data, paid subscription required). Between 1800 and 1904, real GDP per capita grew in the U.S. at 1.5% per year, a sustained, positive growth rate […]
USA 2009 - State Quarters
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[?]Submitted by World Coin News
The designs for the 6 new quarters are ready:
LINK: The United States Mint
LINK: Quarter Designs
SPECIFICATIONS
Weight: 5.67 g
Diameter: 24.26 mm
Thickness: 1.75 mm
Edge: reeded
Fertile Hope’s New Blog!
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[?]Submitted by the stupid cancer blog
http://www.cancerfertility.blogspot.com/
Greebles
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[?]Submitted by Gurney Journey
Greebles are small details used to break up a large form, usually to give a sense of scale or to make an invented object more believable.
Greebling is a design philosophy used by visual development artists. In this greebled cube, the abstract forms suggest a profusion of buildings or […]
Daydreamers
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[?]Submitted by BRENDA YORK’S PAINTING A DAY
5×5″ oil on canvas, $100 AVAILABLE HERE
With this little painting I have hit a milestone…300 posts! That’s a lot of painting! I am so lucky; it’s what I love to do most. My passion is making art and somedays I can’t believe that there are […]
