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Carbon Footprint
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The Debt-Sea Scrolls
The Debt Sea, that ocean of red ink that threatens to overflow its banks and inundate every nook and cranny in America from Main Street to Wall street, is bordered on the south by the Potomac River, to the east-southeast by the Anacostia River, to the...
From: Big Government | By: Of Thee I Sing 1776 | Sunday, March 14, 2010
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BUSINESSES MAKING NEWS: Companies making news
The Huron-Clinton Metroparks awarded a three-year food service contract to Kosch Hospitality of Rochester to provide exclusive catering at Stony Creek, Indian Springs, Kensington and Wolcott Mill metroparks. Kosch plans to serve guests with Enviroware,...
From: Detroit Free Press | By: The Detroit Free Press Online | Sunday, March 14, 2010
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Wind power’s dirty secret: a carbon footprint
PORTLAND, Ore. - In 10 years Oregon has handed out $1.3 billion in tax credits for renewable energy and conservation projects like wind power, but questions about why the state is spending so much on something that may have a hidden environmental drawback...
From: Free Republic | By: KVAL | Saturday, March 13, 2010
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Wii Fit push up bars make sense, but this one isn't worth ...
Push-up bars for the Wii Balance Board? Now that sounds like a fantastic idea -- just the thing broad-shouldered individuals need to play Wii Fit without backstrain. Too bad this particular set of bars isn't worth the plastic it's printed from. The latest...
From: Engadget | By: Sean Hollister | Sunday, March 14, 2010
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TomTom iPhone app hits 1.3, gains real-time traffic and ...
Here lately, Navigon has been crushing it on the iPhone GPS front. Every couple of weeks, it seems that MobileNavigator is getting yet another fantastic update, all while TomTom's lackluster offering hangs back in the land of complacency. Thankfully...
From: Engadget | By: Darren Murph | Saturday, March 13, 2010
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Dead iPad battery? Never mind replacing it, Apple just ...
digg_url = 'http://digg.com/apple/Dead_iPad_battery_Apple_not_replacing_just_sends_new_iPad'; Whoa, Nelly! Isn't this something? Apple has just posted details on its iPad battery replacement service, which is really not a battery replacement service...
From: Engadget | By: Darren Murph | Saturday, March 13, 2010
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Words from the Investment Wise 3.14.10
Words from the (investment) wise for the week that was (March 8–14, 2010) Shrugging off some lingering reminders of the credit crisis and recession, investors last week marked the one-year anniversary of the bear market low by pushing many benchmark...
From: Barry Ritholtz | By: Prieur du Plessis | Sunday, March 14, 2010
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REITs show rising prices but growing risks
Analysts, bloggers, real estate dealmakers and managers of mutual funds are as puzzled as I am about the 90 percent rise in REIT indexes since March 2009. Commercial real estate lags the business cycle, so shares of real estate investment trusts normally...
From: Washington Post | By: Jeffrey R. Kosnett | Sunday, March 14, 2010
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A CLOSER LOOK AT MAGIC FORMULA INVESTING
Interesting read here from Morningstar on Joel Greenblatt’s Magic Formula Investing. It might be worth a close look: One of the classic debates in investing is indexing versus active management. ...
From: The Pragmatic Capitalist | By: TPC | Saturday, March 13, 2010
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*****Inflation Accelerating In China*****
China Daily reports that CPI rise stokes inflation fears in China.(emphasis mine) [my comment]CPI rise stokes inflation fearsBy Wang Xiaotian and Xin Zhiming (China Daily)Updated: 2010-03-12 06:49As real interest rate turns negative, analysts divided...
From: Market Skeptics | By: Eric deCarbonnel | Sunday, March 14, 2010
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Relationship troubles
I think I ruined my relationship and am devastated. Six years ago, I met and fell in love with someone (X) and discovered a couple of months later that they were addicted to hard drugs. X's family told me that X was madly in love with me and I was their...
From: Ask Metafilter | By: Anonymous | Sunday, March 14, 2010
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The Median Net Wealth of Black Women Is $5
Question: What do $42,600 and $5 have in common? Answer: they both represent the median net wealth of middle-aged American women. The only difference between the two numbers is race; while single white women from the ages of 36 to 49 have a median wealth...
From: Change.org | By: Charlotte Hill | Saturday, March 13, 2010
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10 Annoying Habits of a Geeky Spouse (GeekDad Wayback Machine) ...
Everyone has annoying habits, and a sizable part of every successful marriage is learning to live with those things each other does that annoy you. I think it’s safe to say, too, that geeks have some habits that we think are awesome, but that non-geeks...
From: Wired | By: Matt Blum | Sunday, March 14, 2010
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Is there a cheap way to use data on my iPhone in Spain?
I'm going to Spain for a bit and want, if possible, to get a pay-as-you-go Spainish sim card for my (unlocked) iPhone that will allow me to use data at a reasonable price. Does anyone know if such a product exists in Spain? I don't speak Spanish so bonus...
From: Ask Metafilter | By: ascullion | Sunday, March 14, 2010
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Facebook Roundup: Events, Facebook in D.C., LivingSocial, ...
Facebook Partnering With EventBrite? – Does the screenshot below show an as-yet-unannounced way for people to tickets for events on Facebook via EventBrite? Or does it just show a way for people to buy tickets to Facebook’s developer conference in...
From: Inside Facebook | By: Sara Inés Calderón | Saturday, March 13, 2010
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Europe Could Pass Green Energy Target
From: Business Week | Sunday, March 14, 2010
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Archive: Do Cholesterol Drugs Do Any Good?
From: Business Week | Sunday, March 14, 2010
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Norway’s Budget to Keep Rates Low, Stoltenberg Says (Update1) ...
Norway’s government will curb the use of oil revenue in the 2011 budget to ensure interest rates in the world’s sixth-largest oil exporter stay low as the economy emerges from recession, Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg said....
From: Business Week | Sunday, March 14, 2010
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Sunday Talking Heads: March 14, 2010
Math geeks of the world unite, it's Pi Day. Special thanks to artist Nathan Mazur (and Neatorama) for the tasty illustration. Make sure you set your clocks ahead for Daylight Savings Time, you don't want to miss your favorite bobbleheads....
From: Firedoglake | By: Elliott | Sunday, March 14, 2010
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Spitz: Common sense an uncommon commodity
Rough rice, crude oil and frozen pork bellies have worldwide worth. But check the markets in Chicago or London, plus a few recent newspaper headlines, and you'll notice one precious commodity isn't on the list of what's traded by the barrel or metric...
From: Wicked Local | By: Julia Spitz | Sunday, March 14, 2010
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Taliban: Kandahar Bombings 'Warning' To NATO
Deadly bomb attacks in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar were a warning to NATO's top general that the Taliban are ready for a coming offensive in their heartland, the insurgents said Sunday.
From: NPR | Sunday, March 14, 2010
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Dan Morain: Lacking big bucks, Ted Costa keeps getting ...
Ted Costa, here announcing a 2003 ballot measure, has initiated a number of initiatives only to see them taken over by larger political organizations.Ted Costa is getting Bigfooted. Again. Costa is sitting at the desk of his musty office in a strip mall...
From: Sacramento Bee | By: Dan Morain, Senior editor | Sunday, March 14, 2010
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Today's Climate: March 14, 2010
China Alleges Diplomatic Snub at Copenhagen Summit (AP) Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said he was snubbed at last year's Copenhagen climate conference and fired back Sunday at critics who accuse China of arrogance. Japan Faces Rocky Path to Emissions Trading...
From: Solve Climate | By: SolveClimate Staff | Sunday, March 14, 2010
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The warped platitude of DC "centrism"
The Washington Post's Dana Milbank dresses up in idiotic costumes, and the overriding attribute of his commentary is adolescent, above-it-all snideness, and he's thus deemed a wild, unpredictable, creative "contrarian" in Beltway media circles.  In...
From: Salon.com | By: Glenn Greenwald | Saturday, March 13, 2010
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Creating a High Trust Organization
As CEO of Whole Foods Market, I believe that great organizations have great purposes. The highest ideals humans aspire to should be the same ideals that our organizations have as their highest purposes.
From: Huffington Post | By: John Mackey | Sunday, March 14, 2010
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Why Caddell's Wrong - Passing The Bill ...
There's a lot of buzz about a piece in today's Washington Post about polls, the public option and midterms. But the conclusions are contradicted, not supported, by the available facts.
From: Huffington Post | By: Richard (RJ) Eskow | Saturday, March 13, 2010
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Beat the Clock
The point of daylight saving is to pretend you're beating the clock and besting nature while you sit on a still-sunny beach at 8:00 p.m. in the middle of July. But as an national energy policy, it's a foolish waste of time.
From: Huffington Post | By: Michael Downing | Saturday, March 13, 2010
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Ask Metafilter
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Help me photograph books (light, angles) and do it without ...
I have a bookshelf covered (on the front) with a flat surface). I would like to cover this flat surface with photographs of the bookshelf (minus the cover) with books in it. I'm hoping for a trompe l'oiel type effect so it looks like a bookshelf with...
From: Ask Metafilter | By: If only I had a penguin... | Sunday, March 14, 2010
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How does normal feel?
I think I recently emerged from a long term funk (perhaps dysthymia, or long term mild depression, but I'm not going fix on a diagnosis). I've had a few awesome weeks recently, but also a few that were just as bad as before. The trouble is: I'm not used...
From: Ask Metafilter | By: Anonymous | Sunday, March 14, 2010
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Sugar Free, Flour Free, Delicious?
Are there any delicious treats or confections that can be made without refined sugar or white flour that can be mailed? I have a good friend going to college in California (I'm in NJ) who's been a bit down in the dumps lately. I'd like to send her a...
From: Ask Metafilter | By: mccarty.tim | Sunday, March 14, 2010
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Atheistic Reincarnation, Ctd
From: The Atlantic | By: Andrew Sullivan | Sunday, March 14, 2010
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The Goldblog Unilateral Disengagement Plan
Each time Andrew Sullivan writes negatively about Israel (which is to say, almost every day), my…...
From: The Atlantic | By: Jeff Goldberg | Sunday, March 14, 2010
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You Are Your Computer
From: The Atlantic | By: Andrew Sullivan | Saturday, March 13, 2010
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Glenn Beck
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Health Vote Coming in a Week
Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett on the coming "up or down vote" on health care, how the Rahm drama is overblown, and why she doesn't watch Glenn Beck. Plus, her email from The Daily Beast Women in the World Summit urging Michelle Obama's office to invite......
From: The Daily Beast | By: Samuel P. Jacobs | Sunday, March 14, 2010
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The Militant Ignoranti
Inspirited by Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, and flunkies for the Discovery Institute, they're out in full cry, trampling through the hedges and braying derisively at anything that smacks of science, concern for nature, and a possible infringement on mankind...
From: Vanity Fair | Saturday, March 13, 2010
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Meacham: Sex, Substance, and the Fate of Nations
You have to give American politics this much: it is not boring. In recent days, a New York Democratic congressman resigned amid allegations of sexual misconduct; the lawmaker denied the charges, though he did acknowledge the asexual groping of a male...
From: Newsweek | Saturday, March 13, 2010
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CORRECT: Democrats Remain Confident Of Passage Of Health ...
CORRECT: Democrats Remain Confident Of Passage Of Health Care...
From: Fox News | By: Darrell A. Hughes | Sunday, March 14, 2010
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Democrats Remain Confident Of Passage Of Health Care
Democrats Remain Confident Of Passage Of Health Care
From: Fox News | By: Darrell A. Hughes | Sunday, March 14, 2010
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President Obama's Overseas Trip Delay
You have read my opinion and advice for President Obama on delaying his trip to work on the health care bill but what do you think? Watch our segment from Friday's ON THE RECORD at 10 pm and sound off!...
From: Fox News | By: Greta Van Susteren | Sunday, March 14, 2010
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Diabetes Heart Treatments May Do Harm
Three treatment strategies that doctors had expected would prevent heart attacks among people with Type 2 diabetes have proven to be ineffective or even harmful....
From: New York Times | By: GINA KOLATA | Sunday, March 14, 2010
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The Sunday Word: Reconciliation Talk
Democrats try again for a health care overhaul, and more.
From: New York Times | By: ASHLEY SOUTHALL | Sunday, March 14, 2010
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Flower Power at a Mumbai Market
If Mumbai's fumes have left you craving a whiff of nature, take a walk through the Dadar flower market, where you can inhale the sharp scent of marigolds and glimpse the immensity of India's flower trade.
From: New York Times | By: ABBY RABINOWITZ | Sunday, March 14, 2010
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Eco Couture Maternity Wedding Dresses
A bride wants to look her best even if she's got a burgeoning belly. Mamas-to-be can look stunning on their big day and make the world a better place for their impending babes by wearing eco-conscious wedding dresses. Santa Barbara designer Jessica Iverson...
From: LilSugar | By: LilSugar | Sunday, March 14, 2010
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Tutorial: Throw pillow covers with ruffled trim
Whimsy Couture shares a tutorial on their blog for making a throw pillow covers with ruffled trim around the edges.  Make a couple for your couch, or to dress up your bedding ensemble.  Go to the tutorial. [photo from Whimsy Couture blog] Technorati...
From: Craft Gossip | By: anneweaver | Sunday, March 14, 2010
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Backstage Beauty: Fashion Week's Edward Scissorhands
At this season's Junya Watanabe show, the hair took center stage. It was fluffed out and carved, holding itself out in geometric shapes like gravity-defying bonsais. The tents buzzed: Who was the Edward Scissorhands behind these looks? The magic man...
From: Allure | Friday, March 12, 2010
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