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nationalpostsports: By a nose: I’ll Have Another waited a...

Sun, 20 May 2012 11:24:51 -0400

By a nose: I’ll Have Another waited a little longer to catch Bodemeister in the stretch this time, and now that he’s done it twice in a row it’s time for a Triple Crown try in the Belmont Stakes.

With a breathtaking closing rush, the smooth-striding colt won the Preakness Stakes by a neck at Pimlico Race Course on a sunny Saturday, a nail-biter of a finish that topped his win two weeks ago in the Kentucky Derby.

The race unfolded the same way as the Derby, with the speedy Bodemeister moving to the lead under Mike Smith, with I’ll Have Another hanging back in fourth in the 11-horse field
Matt Slocum/The Associated Press

The best democracy money can buy

Sun, 20 May 2012 11:21:07 -0400

The best democracy money can buy:

anticapitalist:

The state is far from neutral-it acts in the interests of the dominant class in society.

In the U.S., economic power is concentrated at the top. According to United for a Fair Economy, the top 1 percent of U.S. households in 2001 had more wealth than the bottom 94 percent combined. And while there were more than 265 billionaires in the U.S., 34.5 million people lived below the poverty line.

In a society based on a massive concentration of wealth at the one end and poverty at the other, a single billionaire has far more political clout than even millions of poor people. The economic pecking order determines the political pecking order.

One has only to look at George W. Bush’s cabinet to see this. The business weeklyBarron’snoted that Bush “already has presented the business community with the keys to the city. He has packed CEOs and industry lobbyists on transition teams that are advising his new cabinet secretaries and agency heads on pressing policy issues and new hires.”

The new Bush administration was more brazenly pro-business than Clinton and Gore. But money spoke loudly under the Democrats as well. “No administration in modem history has been as good for American business as the Clinton-Gore team,” wrote Clinton’s former Labor Secretary Robert Reich. “None has been as solicitous of the concerns of business leaders, none has generated as much profits for business.”

I Wish To Read Dis; George W. Bush Writing Alternate History Sci-Fi Book Where He Knows How To Run A Country

Sun, 20 May 2012 11:19:36 -0400

I Wish To Read Dis; George W. Bush Writing Alternate History Sci-Fi Book Where He Knows How To Run A Country

twisted words.: dakwah merambah sosial media

Sun, 20 May 2012 11:19:08 -0400

twisted words.: dakwah merambah sosial media:

paranipus:

tadi abis ikut diklat CIES yang tertunda—agak ribet jelasinnya kenapa jadi langsung skip ke inti materi.

karena kami adalah staf divisi public relations alias humas, jadi kami dihimbau untuk mengaktifkan fb-twitter-blog-tumblr sebagai sarana dakwah ekonomi islam. yang jadi highlight saya di…

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Sat, 19 May 2012 11:38:08 -0400

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discoverynews: Are Sweets Making You Stupid? What you eat may...

Sat, 19 May 2012 11:23:23 -0400

discoverynews:

Are Sweets Making You Stupid?

What you eat may affect how you learn, say UCLA researchers in a new study on the effects of high fructose corn syrup and omega-3 fatty acids on the behavior of rats.

Rats that were fed only high fructose corn syrup and standard rat chow had more trouble navigating a maze at the end of six weeks than rats who were fed a diet supplemented with omega-3 fatty acids, according to results published in the Journal of Physiology.

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How people spend time online.

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Moral decay? Family life's the best it's been for 1,000 years

Fri, 18 May 2012 14:00:13 -0400

Moral decay? Family life's the best it's been for 1,000 years:

isthisthevoid:

Holy fucking shit, this piece is fucking incredible. The conservative notion of ‘family’ is a fucking myth. Read it all:

‘Throughout history and in virtually all human societies marriage has always been the union of a man and a woman.” So says the Coalition for Marriage, whose petition against same-sex unions in the UK has so far attracted 500,000 signatures. It’s a familiar claim, and it is wrong. Dozens of societies, across many centuries, have recognised same-sex marriage. In a few cases, before the 14th century, it was even celebrated in church.

This is an example of a widespread phenomenon: myth-making by cultural conservatives about past relationships. Scarcely challenged, family values campaigners have been able to construct a history that is almost entirely false.

The unbiblical and ahistorical nature of the modern Christian cult of the nuclear family is a marvel rare to behold. Those who promote it are followers of a man born out of wedlock and allegedly sired by someone other than his mother’s partner. Jesus insisted that “if any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters … he cannot be my disciple”. He issued no such injunction against homosexuality: the threat he perceived was heterosexual and familial love, which competed with the love of God.

The Reformation preachers created a new ideal of social organisation – the godly household – but this bore little relationship to the nuclear family. By their mid-teens, often much earlier, Gillis tells us, “virtually all young people lived and worked in another dwelling for shorter or longer periods”. Across much of Europe, the majority belonged – as servants, apprentices and labourers – to houses other than those of their biological parents. The poor, by and large, did not form households; they joined them.

The father of the house, who described and treated his charges as his children, typically was unrelated to most of them. Family, prior to the 19th century, meant everyone who lived in the house. What the Reformation sanctified was the proto-industrial labour force, working and sleeping under one roof.

The belief that sex outside marriage was rare in previous centuries is also unfounded. The majority, who were too poor to marry formally, Gillis writes, “could love as they liked as long as they were discreet about it”. Before the 19th century, those who intended to marry began to sleep together as soon as they had made their spousals (declared their intentions). This practice was sanctioned on the grounds that it allowed couples to discover whether or not they were compatible. If they were not, they could break it off. Premarital pregnancy was common and often uncontroversial, as long as provision was made for the children.

The nuclear family, as idealised today, was an invention of the Victorians, but it bore little relationship to the family life we are told to emulate. Its development was driven by economic rather than spiritual needs, as the industrial revolution made manufacturing in the household unviable. Much as the Victorians might extol their families, “it was simply assumed that men would have their extramarital affairs and women would also find intimacy, even passion, outside marriage” (often with other women). Gillis links the 20th-century attempt to find intimacy and passion only within marriage, and the impossible expectations this raises, to the rise in the rate of divorce.

You're home in Owensboro: Friday After 5 Kicks Off Tonight!!

Fri, 18 May 2012 13:59:40 -0400

You're home in Owensboro: Friday After 5 Kicks Off Tonight!!:

yourehome:

It’s Opening Night of our community’s summer-long season of riverfront concerts—Friday After 5! Tonight’s program features island music provided by “Parrots of the Caribbean” on the patio sponsored by Owensboro Medical Health System. A special performance by Magan Bartlett, the…

The Many Movements of Human Expression: What is Healthism? Part One

Fri, 18 May 2012 13:48:13 -0400

The Many Movements of Human Expression: What is Healthism? Part One:

kintegrate:

By Jan - February 20, 2012

Throughout history there’s been an understandable desire to find connections between our behavior and our health. Human beings have practiced health regimens involving diet, exercise and hygiene since antiquity. When medicine was based on the humoral theory

GONNA HELP ME FILL MY SURVEY FOR MY UNI's thesis about Japanese culture??

Fri, 18 May 2012 13:47:31 -0400

warrior-of-dream:

CLICK HERE TO FILL IT

I’ll be really gratefull, if you have friends please share it with them!

even if you didn’t were in Japan, it is not that important,

90% of survey is about japanese culture

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YMDb: Amazon Studios: A Study in Non-Traditional Movie Making

Tue, 15 May 2012 14:31:47 -0400

YMDb: Amazon Studios: A Study in Non-Traditional Movie Making:

ymdb:

Amazon has launched a studio that will create original content for distribution to it’s Video-On-Demand platform, with a development nudge from Warner Bros.

As Roy Price, the studio director, explains: “we encourage aspiring screenwriters to submit work and allow anyone to modify or…

Carrier doping versus impurity potential effect in transition metal-substituted iron-based superconductors.

Tue, 15 May 2012 14:30:58 -0400

Carrier doping versus impurity potential effect in transition metal-substituted iron-based superconductors. :

quantitative-finance:

Authors: S. Ideta, T. Yoshida, I. Nishi, A. Fujimori, Y. Kotani, K. Ono, Y. Nakashima, M. Matsuo, T. Sasagawa, M. Nakajima, K. Kihou, Y. Tomioka, C. H. Lee, A. Iyo, H. Eisaki, T. Ito, S. Uchida, R. Arita

In order to examine to what extent the rigid-band-like electron doping scenario is applicable to the transition metal-substituted Fe-based superconductors, we have performed angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy studies of Ba(Fe1-xNix)2As2 (Ni-122) and Ba(Fe1-xCux)2As2 (Cu-122), and compared the results with Ba(Fe1-xCox)2As2 (Co-122). We find that Ni 3d-derived features are formed below the Fe 3d band and that Cu 3d-derived ones further below it. The electron and hole Fermi surface (FS) volumes are found to increase and decrease with substitution, respectively, qualitatively consistent with the rigid-band model. However, the total extra electron number estimated from the FS volumes (the total electron FS volume minus the total hole FS volume) is found to decrease in going from Co-, Ni-, to Cu-122 for a fixed nominal extra electron number, that is, the number of electrons that participate in the formation of FS decreases with increasing impurity potential. We find that the Néel temperature TN and the critical temperature Tc maximum is determined by the FS volumes rather than the nominal extra electron concentration nor the substituted atom concentration.

Sunset & Vine: Recipe: Salt Water Taffy

Tue, 15 May 2012 14:19:02 -0400

Sunset & Vine: Recipe: Salt Water Taffy:

sunset-vine:

Recently I read a post about one of my favorite blogger’s summer to do list. Feeling inspired (and slightly a little pinterest happy), I found some things that I’d love to put on my own “summer to do list.” One of the top things on the list? Try this Salt Water Taffy recipe from Vanilla…

The Wise Guise Blog: Voting at the Movies

Tue, 15 May 2012 14:17:52 -0400

The Wise Guise Blog: Voting at the Movies:

thewiseguise:

“Hollywood makes shitty movies.” -Ron Meyer, NBC Universal Studios COO

Avatar made $2,782,275,172 in international ticket sales. Its budget was about $237 million. I’d be happy to give you a minute to let that settle in.

Welcome back. Movies are BIG business.

Studios produce different…

If China Attacks Taiwan: Military Strategy, Politics and Economics

Tue, 15 May 2012 14:17:05 -0400

huanmu:

If China Attacks Taiwan: Military Strategy, Politics and Economics
This book examines critically and explains succinctly the driving forces behind, the methods and the consequences of China using force against Taiwan. If China Attacks Taiwan: Military Strategy, Politics and Economics

elviralo: “Love Quote 035465”

Tue, 15 May 2012 14:08:13 -0400

elviralo:

“Love Quote 035465”