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POPSWANT TO USE IT? PAY FOR IT YOURSELF! Health care (lack of) for the impoverished takes a back seat.
AS if this "Associate Professor" (I am bowled over) does not have to namedrop a school from the city where I first went to school, CHICAGO, he drops "the University that today has added yet another Nobel Prize winner in the sciences for the US" anyway. Three million dollars? If the benefit to the "children" is so great, let the parents of Chicago, the parents of Illinois or, BEST YET, the people who attend such science events, AS I OFTEN DID AT THE AMAZING CHICAGO MUSEUM OF SCIENCE & INDUSTRY pay for it. My parents took me to that museum, with the submarine and the NYC apartment sized washing machine. I think we paid, like, an ADMISSION AT THE DOOR. Last year I could not come CLOSE to paying for the Health care I was prescribed. I could not come close to affording my medication. Frankly, I could not care less about a parent actually having to pay a dollar a child to get into the museum where people suffering FAR WORSE than I am could use that money simply to LIVE AND BREATHE. T
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POPSAPPLE GENIUS WORTH 8.4 BILLION: Guardian.co.uk's charles ARTHUR The author puts a keen focus on how we gave Apple enough information to make 8.4 billion seem fair. Extremely sharp and incisive. I learned a lot. I think Mr. Arthur is a bit too quick to be interpreting Steve's algorithm at this point. I find that the program is genius in large part because while Steve Jobs and Apple™ know the tempo of every song to a frightening accuracy. Five seconds of silent thought will tell you the reasons Mr. Jobs will not fill in a BPM (beats per minute) column. To truly understand the tempo manipulation: you;d need to see the algorithm itself! So said, knowing the speeds of the songs I play on drums (it's the drums or the treadmill - I'm doing the exercise thing), I find the program to be almost wildly genius. What's wildly evil os that 1) Apple knows but will not divulge BPM; 2) Apple uses the tempo element of you collection on playlists made for you that are so good that when I play I do not even look at what is coming next as iy has all been so
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POPSIDENTITY THEFT - the coward's ultimate tool There so many fake Ian Schneider's online that I sign my name differently online. IF THIS WAS IAN ANDREW SCHNEIDER, ESQ. (me) I would have killed myself years ago. I only sign online as /Ian Andrew Schneider/ or /ias/ - until catches up to that, and so on. Anything online that is not related to the meanspeed music conjecture and found on meanspeed.com or meanspeedmusic.com is probably NOT me. This moron is the least of false identities that have been set up. It is ironic that having an unusual American name makes identity theft so much easier, teh reason I always use my middle name and if necessary will use numbers and so on. I have lost easily a year of my life tracking down this . I will not say who it is because . /Ian Andrew Schneider/
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POPSAre men smarter than women? So women have a self-esteem problem? I'm not advocating for self-esteem training and therapy. I think that many of the self-help gurus argue incorrectly that improved self-esteem increases performance. Helping people to perform better increases their self esteem. Giving a kind of carte blanche to self-esteem isn't a good idea in my mind. Rather, I think it should be that increased performance and feedback on the causes of that performance, ability or effort raises self-esteem. As I said, in primary and secondary schools, girls are outperforming boys. And where appropriate, their self-beliefs, hopefully, are increasing.
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POPSThe end of Men? A surprising number of animals can reproduce without male involvement if there is no other option. Sharks and lizards have demonstrated this ability in captivity. It was previously believed that the process was impossible in mammals such as humans because male sperm cells and female egg cells undergo a process called imprinting. In imprinting, sections of each cell’s genome are silenced to allow the set of genes from the other parent to be expressed, so that when the egg and sperm cells combine, the genes in the resulting embryo are not competing with each other. It has now been discovered that it is possible to interrupt this process by deleting just two sections of genetic material on the genomes of female mice – animals very similar, for reproductive purposes, to humans.
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POPSTHE SOCIETY OF MUISC THEORY AND THE TEMPO OF THE BEATLES Is anyone supposed to take this type of analysis seriously? "Features slow tempi with a fast feel???" Could ya be like, any more vague" Is this a REMOTELY OBJECTIVE WAY to discuss tempo? The author is just hoping that by that point in the article, all points of critical thought rendering you able to distinguish between a an oversimplified , generalization sentence and a sentence that actually asserts a truth is gone. Is is *that* hard to say what "tempi" he means - wait - that would mean actually *calibrating the tempo in a tetsable, repeatable manner. Oops. Hunter Newman
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POPSsocial "science" definition of groove classic example of the manner in which the terms groove, rhythm, tempo & timing are thrown around without *real* meaning. That which means everything means nothing. Also to note: the selfish bitchiness of each area: teh music therapists, the social scientists, the biological physicists - all screming to the sky--NOT to each other.
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POPSGREAT BEGINNERS'S GUITAR SITE As a pianist and semi-drummer, I know that the guitar is about 100x more difficukt to play than either above named instruments, This site is free, helpful and kind--abd USEFUL. very well done!
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POPSYour Partner Not As Fresh As Your Daily Cyber-Porn? "As cyber sex has become more and more of a problem, what has shifted for me is the realization that many people who were into cyber sex didn't fit the classic profile of sex addicts," says Patrick Carnes, author of "In the Shadows of the Net: Breaking Free of Compulsive Online Sexual Behavior." He has spent 30 years studying and establishing sex addiction as a field of psychological dysfunction. "For most people this is not an issue," says John Bancroft, the former director of the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction. "But others have always had a problem keeping any kind of sexual stimuli under control and they have never had opportunities to go over the top as they do now."
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POPSMen, moreover, are virtually assured orgasmic climaxes, but more often than not, the male mechanism Men, moreover, are virtually assured orgasmic climaxes, but more often than not, the male mechanism is far too swift and efficient to give a female partner even a slender chance of a "classic", penetration-induced orgasm. As a result of the clitoris being sited in the wrong place to be adequately stimulated by straight reproductive intercourse, orgasm for women is nearly always produced by a masturbatory mechanism. But as if to compensate for this rather unfair-seeming physical mismatch,nature has intriguingly made the female orgasm produced by masturbation far and away the more intense.
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POPS McCartney's estranged wife berates rich Paul McCartney's personal wealth is estimated at $1.6 billion. British press reports have speculated that McCartney has offered his wife around $50 million, while she is seeking at least double that amount.
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POPSHollywood strike underlines bleak outlook for movie business Part of the bad news for the film industry came from a sharp decline in foreign DVD sales. Those dropped 15.5 percent in the period, while domestic DVD sales fell at half that rate. But the real killer was the growth in participations. Their precise amount is difficult to reckon, because deals vary and details are seldom disclosed publicly. But Global Media noted that at Disney - which is unusual in that its financial reports break out annual outlays for participations and residuals - the figure had grown at a compound annual rate of 37.6 percent for the last five years, to $554 million.
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