Robert Draper Book: GOP's Anti-Obama Campaign Started Night Of Inauguration
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/25/robert-draper-anti-obama-campaign_n_1452899.html
McCarthy chimed in to declare "there's a web" before arguing that Republicans could put pressure on any Democrat who accepted campaign money from Rangel to give it back. Kyl suggested going after incoming Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner for failing to pay Social Security and Medicare taxes while at the International Monetary Fund
http://www.fastcompany.com/3031272/can-jeff-immelt-really-make-the-world-1-better
But now that it is also a rolling electronic laboratory, a locomotive's insides contain 6.7 miles of wiring and 250 sensors that put out 9 million data points every hour. As GE scrambled to add missing parts to its vast operations through the San Ramon lab, the executives came to reassess how they could do things with their scale and manufacturing prowess that pure digital organizations cannot
Revolutions
http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/
In the months that followed another 260 useR!s signed up and we had a total of 660 participants when we ran the conference in July 2015 (128 females and 532 males). In the meantime, have a look at the slides from two excellent presentations from the Workshop on Statistical Computing which was held the day before the main conference
The Telegraph - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph - Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/
and it's in Portsmouth Sir Ben Ainslie ROMAN RUINS The worst buys of the Abramovich era - including Filipe Luis The whisper is that Peter Alliss quite fancies telling the BBC to shove it up straight up their plus fours by ripping up a contract which only has three tournaments left anyway. Why? Paul Hayward: Ruling out even the chance of an Ashes recall for the country's most gifted batsman simply plays into Australian hands Comments It is not just the team but the country as a whole which is getting behind my America's Cup dream and Friday marks the first competitive step in that journey, and in a new era for the America's Cup: the first event in the Louis Vuitton America's Cup World Series..
News - Met Office
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/news
The Met Office helps improve the efficiency of offshore wind farms The Met Office is producing more detailed wind forecasts for offshore wind farms News releases Our latest news, Met Office in the news and press release archive. Who is the Met Office? Who is the Met Office? What do we do? In this short video, Dave Britton explains who the Met Office is and what kind of products and services we provide not just to the UK but across the globe
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/nov/05/-sp-luxembourg-tax-files-tax-avoidance-industrial-scale
It is likely however that the vast interest payments have created huge tax deductions for these sister units, whose profits are lowered by the cost of paying the interest on the Luxembourg loans. The revelations will be embarrassing for the new president of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, who was prime minister of Luxembourg between 1995 and 2013
The myth of the eight-hour sleep - BBC News
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16964783
The night was a place populated by people of disrepute - criminals, prostitutes and drunks."Even the wealthy, who could afford candlelight, had better things to spend their money on. Much like the experience of Wehr's subjects, these references describe a first sleep which began about two hours after dusk, followed by waking period of one or two hours and then a second sleep
http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2013/10/russell-brand-on-revolution
This is why I believe we need a unifying and in - clusive spiritual ideology: atheism and materialism atomise us and anchor us to one frequency of consciousness and inhibit necessary co-operation. I bet the Tolpuddle martyrs, who marched for fair pay for agricultural workers, whose legacy is the right for us to have social solidarity, were a right bunch of herberts if you knew them
http://science.time.com/2013/11/01/oceans-warming-faster-than-they-have-over-past-10000-years/
In addition, according to the comment by the editor of Science, "The findings support the view that the Holocene Thermal Maximum, the Medieval Warm Period, and the Little Ice Age were global events, and they provide a long-term perspective for evaluating the role of ocean heat content in various warming scenarios for the future."You forgot to mention that the pacific ocean has been much warmer over most of the last 10,000 years. Maybe your experience is different and you never got more than 3 feet offshore and faced inland all the time.Perhaps, instead of shooting from the hip with utterly invalid comparisons, you'd actually look up something to really understand what the hell you're talking about for a change
The Tweaker - The New Yorker
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/11/14/the-tweaker
He gets stopped for driving a hundred miles an hour, honks angrily at the officer for taking too long to write up the ticket, and then resumes his journey at a hundred miles an hour. He arrives at his hotel suite in New York for press interviews and decides, at 10 P.M., that the piano needs to be repositioned, the strawberries are inadequate, and the flowers are all wrong: he wanted calla lilies
http://www.history.com/topics/labor
By the end of World War II, more than 12 million workers belonged to unions, and collective bargaining had taken hold throughout the industrial economy. It harbored a conception of the just society, deriving from the Ricardian labor theory of value and from the republican ideals of the American Revolution, which fostered social equality, celebrated honest labor, and relied on an independent, virtuous citizenship
http://www.nature.com/news/archaeology-the-milk-revolution-1.13471
(Fermented cheeses such as feta and cheddar have a small fraction of the lactose found in fresh milk; aged hard cheeses similar to Parmesan have hardly any.) To test that theory, LeCHE researchers ran chemical tests on ancient pottery. Cattle bones represent more than two-thirds of the animal bones in many late Neolithic and early Bronze Age archaeological sites in central and northern Europe
http://www.economist.com/node/21553017/
As the revolution rages, governments should stick to the basics: better schools for a skilled workforce, clear rules and a level playing field for enterprises of all kinds. The days when projects ground to a halt for want of a piece of kit, or when customers complained that they could no longer find spare parts for things they had bought, will one day seem quaint
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