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POPSLuci e ombre sull'open source alla Casa Bianca L'utilizzo della filosofia open source da parte dell'amministrazione Obama è un'innovazione straordinaria, sensazionale e in linea con le aspettative che tutti hanno nel nuovo presidente USA. Tuttavia la scelta del CSM Drupal lascia un po' perplessi.
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POPSThe Canary Island Spa Garden-Chelsea James Wong and David Cubero have won a Silver Medal at Chelsea on their first attempt! To achieve this James and David partnered with Realstone who supplied the superb flamed Silver Star Black Bassalt and the stunning cream Portland stonework. Cornish slate in the bottom of the 'thermal rock pools' completed the picture.
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POPSPost Script - The Lovings Short Time Together I had forgotten this bit of history about the life of Richard and Mildred Loving, an unfortunate post script but their life was well-lived together nonetheless inasmuch as they expanded the freedom of all of us. This blog post from Slate also has an interesting link to the Loving's case.
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POPS One Other Thought I know the pundits are all saying this means people will have to take him seriously and go along with the hopey peace thing. OK, only the sap pundits are saying that, but still … Mickey Kaus has a point . Maybe he should turn it down. Before he’s stuck with it, and its stuck all over him. http://slate.com/blogs/blogs/kausfiles/archive/2009/10/09/what-obama-should-do-with-his-nobel-peace-prize.aspx
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POPSReal Health Reform Makes complete sense to me. Unfortunately, very few people are willing to take the trouble to educate themselves in the first place.
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POPSMuch Of Traditional Journalism Went Backwards
and were so badly in the tank for one candidate in 2008 that 90 percent of the public can see it. As ABC’s Michael Malone wrote in October of 2008: I also happen to believe that most reporters, whatever their political bias, are human torpedoes . . .and, had they been unleashed, would have raced in and roughed up the Obama campaign as much as they did McCain’s. That’s what reporters do, I was proud to have been one, and I’m still drawn to a good story, any good story, like a shark to blood in the water. So why weren’t those legions of hungry reporters set loose on the Obama campaign? Who are the real villains in this story of mainstream media betrayal? The editors. The men and women you don’t see; the people who not only decide what goes in the paper, but what doesn’t; the managers who give the reporters their assignments and lay-out the editorial pages. They are the real culprits. Picture yourself in your 50s in a job where you’ve spent 30 years
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POPSOdds of conception
I saw this posted on Slate, and just want to make a comment about the math. The "extraordinary odds" of a 43-year-old conceiving naturally are only 1-3 (or maybe 5)% in a given month, says the article. Question: what are the odds in two months? This is just a basic probability question. What are the odds of not getting pregnant two months in a row? Say there's a 5 percent chance of getting pregnant, there's a 95% chance of not getting pregnant. The odds of not getting pregnant for two months are thus (.95*.95=.9025). So there's a .05 chance in one month but a .0975 chance of pregnancy in two months. For three months it's (.95*.95*.95=.857). For a three month affair, that'd be a 14.43% chance of pregnancy. Still unlikely but not really extraordinary. Say an affair lasts for 16 months, from February 2006 to May 2007 perhaps. At 3 percent per month, the math works to a 41% chance of getting pregnant. At 5% it's a 59% chance of pregnancy. "Extraordinary odds"? The math says not
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POPSFountains for Your Garden These fountains have a variety of designs made from materials such as granite, slate, copper, concrete and resin, in free standing floor, tabletop and wall hanging styles. Bring the soothing sound of flowing water to your patio, yard or garden with one of these fountains today.
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POPS If Obama Fails, It's Not His Fault If it doesn’t, President Obama will have been defeated. But it’s the party, not the president, that will have failed. Rhetorical question: If Obama's not running the Demokrat party, who is??? 3. Obama is bogged down because he has been working so hard to accommodate Republicans. 4. Obama is failing because he's too nice. From The LA Times, words of encouragement from Rep. Maxine Waters Twenty-seven days after taking office, Obama abandoned his short-lived commitment to transparency and bipartisanship and signed his ill-conceived stimulus bill into law. Since that very turbulent moment, Americans have developed persistent doubts about Obama's judgement and leadership strategy. And in the process they have rediscovered their self-confidence. The Wall Street Journal explains: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203706604574370301468452872.html
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POPSKook of the Day My creep-o-meter just pegged itself and has now been reduced to a smoking pile of molten metal. And has anyone made the connection between Mr. Moon and lunacy?
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POPSthe new yahoo the formatting did not come through, but basically the yahoo logo and accent elements went from red to purple. I like the old yahoo better.
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POPSSebelius Calls Her SEIU “Brothers and Sisters” To Battle; Dennis Rivera Decries “Terrorist Tactics” Rivera closed by railing against the “radical fringe” of “right-wingers” and urged his “Purple Army” to fight “terrorist tactics.” Pot and kettle. Fun fact about Anna Burger’s staff from Culture of Corruption : Another Stern administration protégé, Annelle Grajeda, rose to power after the SEIU president installed her as president of the 80,000-member Local 721 in Los Angeles. She ascended to positions on the union’s state council and international executive board. Like Freeman and Jackson, Grajeda had been voted onto Stern’s official administration slate at the SEIU convention in 2008. The Times published damning details of how Grajeda’s ex-boyfriend, SEIU official Alejandro Stephens, collected multiple salaries and consultant fees from the union while also pocketing a salary as a Los Angeles County health services employee. Grajeda had arranged an eight-month leave of absence from the job on behalf of her ex-lover.
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