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OPINIONS, Feb 01, 2012


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An election consequence in Virginia
Washington Post (blog)
Post Forum members consistently offer thought-provoking, timelycomments on politics, national and international affairs. Weather Watchers consistently offer thought-provoking, timely comments on climates and forecasts. World Watchers consistently ...
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Here's what the editors of Schools of Thought are reading today:
CNN (blog)
The response to my guest post last week about flipping the classroom on CNN's Schools of Thought blog was overwhelming and thought-provoking. While I appreciate that there are varying opinions, I would like to respond to some of the topics that were ...
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"New Girl" - Jess and Julia episode review
Blast
It's sickening just how cheerful she can be and that provokes intense hatred among cynics and pragmatists the world over. Tonight, creator Elizabeth Meriwether and writer Luvh Rahke fired back. Meta-commentary, or the act of referencing a show's...
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Blast
Leadership, Transformation and Innovation Are Focus of 2012 CIO Summit of America
Sacramento Bee
"We deliver world-class value for the IT industry through our thought-leadership, proprietary research, National Advisory Board, and executive leadership events." HMG Strategy, LLC is the leading provider of innovative IT leadership, management and ...
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Chef, Author, Teacher, Businessman and TV Personality Andrew Zimmern Joins ...
Sacramento Bee
Babson College is the educator, convener, and thought leader for Entrepreneurship of All Kinds(r). The College is a dynamic living and learning laboratory, where students, faculty, and staff work together to address the real-world problems of business ...
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RSA and BSidesSF 2012: A bad talk ain't the end of the world
CSO (blog)
I tell the audience that I'm not presenting my opinions, but those of security practitioners who I learn from along the way. Most of the time it goes well. I'm not the most dynamic speaker in the world and my slides aren't nearly as good as some of ...
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Increased Bank Regs, Likely Less Loans Still On Track
GlobeSt.com
Each and every morning, we deliver the important stories, data, analysis…as well as the opinions and insights of industrythought leaders to provide you with market intelligence and a daily business advantage. Become a registered member today and don ...
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GlobeSt.com
Is eating sustainable, non-farmed seafood enough?
TIME
And that meant rethinking the way I address ecological crisis in my tiny corner of the world: by making an effort to eat only sustainable seafood. In my opinion, the depopulation of theworld's oceans is a crisis every bit as nightmarish as global ...
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TIME
Expert describes Downs' erratic behavior before Christmas shootings
San Luis Obispo Tribune
At the time, according to the testimony, Andrew Wesley Downs thought his mother and sister had been taken over by aliens and was hoping to find his innocent friend, Michael, during a governmental military takeover of theworld.
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TED Announces Global Talent Search for TED2013 Speakers
Sacramento Bee
In order to unearth some of the world's most remarkable voices and ideas, TED will host a 14-city global audition series. Organizers expect to fill at least half of next year's program, themed "The Young. The Wise. The Undiscovered," with people they ...
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To the left, right and center. Your opinions please.
Mountain Home News (blog)
Energy MIGHT be a different category... not certain of this but just athought.??? Two thoughts really. First, the company claims 80% acceptance, then turns around and files ED on 50% of the parcels it wants. Someone needs to brush up on their math ...
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Did Davos Man pick the wrong destination?
Reuters
By Michael Stott | CARTAGENA, Colombia (Reuters) - More than 2000 of theworld's top business and political leaders gathered last week in the Swiss ski resort of Davos looking for solutions to the world's problems. But were they in the right place?
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The Power of Positive Prejudice
Care2.com
Do you prejudge? Do you form opinions of their character, work ethic, personality, intelligence, and trustworthiness? Prejudice is defined as a favorable or unfavorable opinion or feeling formed beforehand or without knowledge, thought, or reason.
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Care2.com
Black Bananas: Rad Times Xpress IV
PopMatters
I also envisioned having to come up with new and novel ways to translate the term “train wreck” and pad it out into a 1000 word or so review. Upon listening to this album a second time, the experience was a vastly different one. It seemed transcendent.
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My Business: Egyptian mothers on the net
BBC News
When Yasmine El-Mehairy looked online for pregnancy advice for her sister-in-law in 2010, she was bombarded with conflictingopinions and what she thought were old wives' tales. She identified a niche in the online market and the idea for SuperMama was ...
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BBC News
Economist Conferences' The Pharma Summit 2012 to be Held on 9th February 2012...
Sacramento Bee
The Pharma Summit will bring together over 200 senior executives from the some of the world's top pharmaceutical companies, with a series of keynotes, panel discussions, interviews and debates. Tailored for its audience, discussion will focus on a ...
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In the Discussion of Jesus, Jews Should Go on Offense
Huffington Post (blog)
When you put something on the Internet, it is there for the entire world to see, and the idea that there is an intended audience becomes completely irrelevant. Furthermore, it is deceptive to claim that your pamphlet applies to one group of people but ...
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Surveyed US Cardiologists Indicate That They Would Prescribe Cardiome/Merck's ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Decision Resources' analysis of the atrial fibrillation drug market also finds that, based on clinical data and the opinions of interviewed thoughtleaders, amiodarone (Sanofi-Aventis's Cordarone, generics) has earned Decision Resources' proprietary ...
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Urban Meyer may be future of OSU football, but many miss Tressel
OSU - The Lantern
Obviously Tressel didn't end up landing the job, but as I was working on the story, I went out on campus to get some students' opinions on what theythought about the man who was at the center of the biggest scandal in OSU football history.
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Record Number of New Brands to Launch at Natural Products Expo West
Sacramento Bee
31, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- Natural Products Expo West, produced by New Hope Natural Media, remains the premiere natural, organic and healthy living tradeshow in the world since its inception over 30 years ago. The trade only event will be held March 8 ...
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FNTT Season 8, Round 1: the REAL FEMINISTS edition
Feministe (blog)
The usual reminder: Comments below are abusive, insulting and may be triggering. Let's all agree forever and ever in circles until we're dead. Let's shut out any input that may be “derailing” or disagreeable. Let's keep the minorities agreeing with the ...
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Al Butler, 900 AM WURD radio host
PW-Philadelphia Weekly
He says that as a kid he mostly kept to himself in his bedroom, where he'd have long conversations with his GI Joes—“I was in my own weird world”—and where radio was his best friend. The KYW ticker tape was his after-school soundtrack, ...
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Overrated: Sir Richard Branson 'knows almost nothing about anything'
Daily Mail
That is the logic of his opinions, and I can't see why he won't just say so. Is he afraid it will damage his funky brand? If you don't believe these substances are immoral, disgusting and dangerous then why not just let rip? But 'Sir' Richard doesn't ...
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Daily Mail
#TwitterBlackout Emerges as Web Bows to Rogues: William Pesek
Bloomberg
In the past 12 months, the micro-blogging social-networking service played a role in changing the world, 140 characters at a time. From Egypt to Libya to Syria and beyond, Twitter helped activists thwart censorship dragnets, connect with the similarly...
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Bloomberg
COLUMN: Here's to a generation of, well.. nothing
Renegade Rip
Without truly original thinkers to show us the value of a culture rich inthought, how can we know the value of being unique, of saying something true? It makes the blindly following of trends easy to understand. We simply follow the group because it's ...
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Twitter Effect
SLAM Online
by Cub Buenning / @cubbuenning I am a relative newbie to the world of Twitter. I'm still in my first year of existence on the social media site that allows for opinions, linked stories, personal anecdotes and the like. Make no mistake, I'ma big fan and ...
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F1000 Launches Open Access Publishing for Biology and Medicine
Highlight HEALTH
Faculty of 1000 (F1000) is a unique online services that selects, rates, and evaluates important articles based on the opinions of global leaders in biology and medicine. Articles are selected by a peer-nominated global 'Faculty' of the world's leading ...
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Who cares about knowledge?
KMWorld Magazine
We used to think that knowledge was orderly because the world is orderly. Now I think we're coming to the conclusion that the world is actually messier than we thought. I don't mean just at the level of quantum indeterminacy. Take historical knowledge.
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The Cordova Times - Opinion: Streets of Cordova - One Good Samaritan; 1000 ...
Cordova Times
And that burger makes the world's best salmon patties. Meanwhile, back at the cannery. As word spread about the available king heads, we began to evolve into a sort-of "Craigslist" for non-mainstream food items. Dick Borer asked us to put the word out ...
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Is it time to rethink the treatment of Attention Deficit Disorder?
io9
The New York Times has published two thought-provoking opinion pieces relating to Attention Deficit Disorder and the medications used to treat it. The first is written by L. Alan Sroufe — a professor emeritus of psychology at the University of ...
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Are some corporate profits better than others?
Fox News
DISCLAIMER: THE FOLLOWING "Cost of Freedom Recap" CONTAINS STRONG OPINIONS WHICH ARE NOT A REFLECTION OF THEOPINIONS OF FOX NEWS AND SHOULD NOT BE RELIED UPON AS INVESTMENT ADVICE WHEN MAKING PERSONAL INVESTMENT DECISIONS. IT IS FOX NEWS' POLICY THAT ...
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THE IDEAL STATESMAN Visionary and Practitioner of a Just World Order
Radiance Viewsweekly
The talks around the ideal of a Just-World-Order are not immune from this faulty and ridiculous logic. People talk about Just World Order as if it is some kind of mirage or utopia, which must be dreamt of, but never to be achieved. It is thought that ...
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From games to gaming, Schilling on, well, pretty much everything
SI.com
I like the thought that my last game in the big leagues was a World Series win and the first game in my new life can be the equivalent of the same thing. "I think it will be a contender for game of the year. Five or six years ago this was viewed as a ...
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Foreign Exchange
The Orion
Ben Hames is an international exchange student from London. Every week, he will voice his opinions about the differences he sees at Chico State. What kinds of stereotypes does the rest of the world have about Americans? Well, a simple trip to Google ...
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Even a modern man craves a little pie from his woman
Kearney Hub
The Kearney Hub welcomes letters commenting on these opinions or offering others. Letters should: - Originate with people in our circulation area or deal with an area issue. - Be 300 words or less; those that exceed that count may be edited for length.
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Exploring the Promised Land: Remembering Birthright
Wesleyan Argus
There are few countries in the world where you can see tropical palm trees swaying next to stoic pines; where people take their weekends on Friday and Saturday; where every street sign has three languages on it, each in a different alphabet; ...
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Thompson: Of readers and responsibility
Sun-Sentinel
Beyond this, the entire American Jewish community was embarrassed by these comments and now has to do damage control. As a journalist Adler embarrassed himself and the entire community. While he said that hiscomments were meant "to get reaction" from ...
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It's not you, it's me
FOXSports.com
Sports opinions? She's never short of them. And love her or hate her, she'll be just another one of the boys. Follow her on Twitter or like her on Facebook. Heidi Klum and Seal's perfect marriage was “just a facade” and “Heidi's private hell” made for ...
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FOXSports.com
Bullish Life: What To Do When You're Surrounded By Lazy Idiots (and Sweet ...
TheGloss
by Jen Dziura | 2 Comments | Share a Tip Jennifer Dziura writes life coaching advice weekly here on TheGloss, and career coaching advice Fridays on TheGrindstone. Then, this Sunday, I held another working brunch at my place on Wall Street, during which ...
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TheGloss
Tough Decisons To Be Made On Council Tax
Chesterfield Post
Chesterfield Borough Council is asking for the public's opinionas it says it is considering a 3.5% Council tax increase for 2012/13 in order to protect frontline services. This follows meetings with Council taxpayers where the majority favoured this ...
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Chesterfield Post
EXCLUSIVE: JMS Talks "Before Watchmen: Dr. Manhattan"
Comic Book Resources
When, exactly, do you recall the idea of work within the "Watchmen" worldbeing floated your way by DC, and what was your initial response? From there, how long did it take you to develop ideas for the characters and begin work on the series you're ...
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Brazil reiterates support for Argentina, denies any blockade to the Falklands
MercoPress
Note: Comments do not reflect MercoPress' opinions. They are the personal view of our users. We wish to keep this as open and unregulated as possible. However, rude or foul language, discriminative comments (based on ethnicity, religion, gender, ...
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MercoPress
3 Stocks I'm Keeping, 5 That Are Getting the Boot
DailyFinance
By Matt Koppenheffer, The Motley Fool Posted 2:00PM 01/31/12 Investing Motley Fool co-founder David Gardner has been pounding the table on a topic he refers to as "Moneyballing the Financial World." I urge you to read all three parts of David's series, ...
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Op-Ed: A ghoulish scandal over America's Iraqi war dead
DigitalJournal.com
If you thought they were all buried with full military honours, think again. Around 4500 American servicemen have died in Iraq since the beginning of the war in 2003. Are all their bodies repatriated and given proper funerals? Apparently not.
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DigitalJournal.com
ETHICS MATTER: A Conversation with Thomas Pogge
Policy Innovations
There had been a horrendous war that Germany had visited on the rest of the world. All the people I thought of as models, role models, adults, had been in some way or other involved in that—my teacher, my parents, everybody. It was an amazing ...
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