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Oh yeah, the economy is improving...

The reality is that any growth recently reported was from businesses restocking their inventories: Here is the fraud report " At first blush, the numbers posted by the Commerce Department for gross domestic product in the last three months of 2011 looked strong.

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New two-million degree laser could unlock the secrets of the universe | The State Column

Two-million degrees Fahrenheit. That is temperature produced by a new laser beam, according to the U.S. Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.

Police Use of G.P.S. Is Ruled Unconstitutional - NYTimes.com

The Supreme Court on Monday unanimously ruled that the police violated the Constitution when they placed a Global Positioning System tracking device on a suspect’s car and monitored its movements for 28 days. But the justices divided 5-to-4 on the rationale for the decis …

Best Vegetable Seed Companies

It's seed catalog time. I get a lot of them and I love them.

Coffee quarantine proposal comes under fire | West Hawaii Today

The Hawaii Department of Agriculture wants a permanent quarantine to prevent the spread of coffee berry borer, evident by its proposal available until today for comment. However, some Kona coffee growers are questioning the motives behind the proposed amendments, particularly …

Kona farmers want more coffee labeling details

Kona coffee growers want Hawaii's labeling law modified to provide more details on packages of coffee blends that contain Hawaii-grown beans.

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Annie Murphy Paul: The Secret Strategies of Skilled Listeners | TIME Ideas | TIME.com

So what are these listening strategies? Skilled learners go into a listening session with a sense of what they want to get out of it. They set a goal for their listening, and they generate predictions about what the speaker will say.

Taking a crack at roasting coffee beans at home - latimes.com

Raw coffee beans get the do-it-yourself treatment as java aficionados jump at the chance to roast their own blend. Four students are standing over a hot stove in the creamery of the Institute of Domestic Technology on a late-October Sunday at the Zane Grey Estate in Altadena.

Luck Is Just the Spark for Business Giants - NYTimes.com

BETTER to be lucky than good, the adage goes. And maybe that’s true — if you just want to be merely good, not much better than average.

Weasal, Definition, Name Your Favorite federal, state or local of the day...

Weasels ( /ˈwiːzəl/) are mammals forming the genus Mustela of the Mustelidae family.

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Agreement to tie kilogram and friends to fundamentals - physics-math - 25 October 2011 - New Scientist

The first sign that the SI was flawed was noticed in 1949 in a check on a lump of metal kept inside a vault at the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM) in Paris.

Sanatoriums could battle drug-resistant TB boom - health - 26 October 2011 - New Scientist

Tuberculosis resistant to antibiotics is booming in Europe. In Minsk, Belarus, 35 per cent of new cases of TB are already multiple-drug-resistant (MDR) when the patient is infected, new research reveals.

Here is the Winner, who needs Dancing With the Stars

What can one say...when you got you got and this dog does!!!

"Gray Market" companies exploit, profit from short supply of life-saving drugs - CBS News Investigates - CBS News

MIAMI - Sara Danielsen, 39, was diagnosed with a rare form of appendix cancer in March.

Buddhist Channel | Buddhism News, Headlines | Personality | Steve Jobs' Mantra Rooted in Buddhism: Focus and Simplicity

San Francisco, CA (USA) -- Long before Steve Jobs became the CEO of Apple and one of the most recognizable figures on the planet, he took a unconventional route to find himself -- a spiritual journey that influenced every step of an unconventional career.

Two Studies On Economic Growth, Income Inequality and Deficits Tell the Whole Story

In other words, we’re not going to lower the unemployment rate – and subsequently reduce out deficit – until we end this extreme income inequality that has grown to stratospheric rates over time.

How your brain reacts to mistakes depends on your mindset

"Whether you think you can or think you can't -- you're right," said Henry Ford.

As Scorn for Vote Grows, Protests Surge Around Globe - NYTimes.com

“The political system has abandoned its citizens,” Mr. Levi said. “We have lost a sense of responsibility for one another.”

Labor Is Property

That’s right, labor IS property.  No, no, no!  This isn’t some right-wing rant suggesting that serfdom be reintroduced (although many argue that we’re already there).  Small-“L” labor is work performed.  And labor is the property  …

Transom » Radiolab: An Appreciation by Ira Glass

I marvel at Radiolab when I hear it. I feel jealous.

Pat Robertson: Divorce OK over Alzheimer's - CBS News

Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson told his "700 Club" viewers that divorcing a spouse with Alzheimer's is justifiable because the disease is "a kind of death." During the portion of the show where the one-time Republican presidential candidate takes questions from viewers, …

Type Your Headline Here...Updated Good News

I am not happy writing this article because this is not the America that I grew up in. I understand economics, insurance, finance, and investment.

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Tomgram: Fraser and Freeman, Taps for the Unemployed | TomDispatch

On the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, this country is once again focused 24/7 on a single disaster that tore up one field in Pennsylvania, destroyed part of the Pentagon, and took down three giant buildings in New York City.  Almost three thousand people died i …

John Lanchester · The Non-Scenic Route to the Place We're Going Anyway: The Belgian Solution · LRB 8 September 2011

Quarterly GDP data don’t, on the whole, tend to make the person studying them laugh out loud. The most recent set, however, are an exception, despite the fact that the general picture is of unrelieved and spreading economic gloom.

Kona Coffee Farmers Association obtains agreement from Safeway to correct mis-labeled coffee!!!

August 31, 2011 Mr. Colehour BonderaPresidentKona Coffee Farmers AssociationP.O. Box 5436Kailua Kona, Hawaii 96745 Dear Mr.

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