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• The Rope Limit, Redux

  
  The Aleph Blog — Authority: 570
  Sorry I haven’t written much recently.  The recent snowstorms have tossed me around, as I care for my family, and those around me.  It is amusing in a backwards way, to see Washington, DC frozen at a time when there is so much volatility in global finance.  Yo, Treasury, make sure the skeleton crew on ...
  15 hours ago

• An extraordinary bibliography on participation

  
  P2P Foundation — Authority: 529
  Bibliography of one of the three main paradigms constituting the P2P ethos: open and free input, participatory processes of value creation, and commons oriented output. See: * Bibliography: Understanding participation : A literature review. Pathways through Participation explains: “Our project looks at ...
  18 hours ago

• Panarchical governance: towards a state that isn’t a state

  
  P2P Foundation — Authority: 529
  We have opened the door on the notion 1) that the state could participate in the new networks as a legitimate actor, or 2) that the state could decentralize to the point of being a network itself. Certainly states participate in networks already, but for many global networks the impetus to their formation is the ...
  18 hours ago

• PPD Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2009 Financial Results

  
  Your Story — Authority: 588
  WILMINGTON, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- PPD, Inc. (Nasdaq: PPDI) today reported its financial and operating results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2009.
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• America Is Ungovernable. By Democrats.

  
  Michael Williams Master of None — Authority: 132
  Matthew Yglesias says that America has become ungovernable . The smarter elements in Washington DC are starting to pick up on the fact that it’s not tactical errors on the part of the president that make it hard to get things done, it’s the fact that the country has become ungovernable. But Im not aware of any ...
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• Boozman relying on conservative values

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 580
  Rep. John Boozman, Arkansas Republican, said Monday he will highlight his conservative values and experience as a small-business owner in his bid this year to win the states U.S. Senate seat. "Im the conservative voice [voters] want in Washington," Mr. Boozman said on The Washington Times "Americas Morning News" radio ...
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• Things I Wish Were True

  
  RELIGION IN AMERICAN HISTORY — Authority: 128
  by Matt Sutton 1) I found the following over the weekend on the internet (so it must be true): In the 1930s Huey Long impregnated Aimee Semple McPherson and the fetus was preserved cryogenically for thirty-some years until it was implanted in a surrogate. The result was Sarah Palin. Too bad I missed this scoop when I ...
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• Aviva Orenstein on How Evidence Rules Disproportionately Affect Indian Sexual Assault Defendants

  
  Turtle Talk — Authority: 143
  Aviva Orenstein has published “ Propensity or Stereotype? A Misguided Evidence Experiment in Indian Country ,” in the Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy . Here is the abstract: In a significant break with traditional evidence rules and policies, the Federal Rules of Evidence concerning rape and child ...
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• A different economic paradigm

  
  shareholdersunite.com — Authority: 137
  A year old, but still a compelling read..Beyond RubinomicsBy Jeff MadrickEvery time I read about a solution to the economic crisis these days, I invariably find an underlying assumption that once we are past all this, America will be just fine again. If we get the banks spending, if we stop the mortgage defaults, if ...
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• James O’Keefe Racist? Liberal Magazine Wants You to Think So

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 580
  For Release : February 4, 2010 Contact : David Almasi at (202) 543-4110 x11 or (703) 568-4727 or e-mail project21@nationalcenter.org Accuracy of Salon Article Accusing James O’Keefe of Racist Motives Challenged Washington, DC: Kevin Martin of the black leadership group Project 21 and Amy Ridenour ...
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• Why computer-lock in damages performance

  
  Personal Reflections — Authority: 470
  I am not posting here today. A question from Winton Bates on my last post, Sunday Essay - why its hard to break out of the box , as to what I meant by computer lock-in started me thinking and led to me writing Problems with computer lock-in . This took me far longer than it should have, simply because I ...
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• SCORE Launches Government Contracting Resources for Small Busine...

  
  Business Finance & Economy - business.marc8.com — Authority: 165
  Washington (PRESS RELEASE – February 7, 2010) — SCORE launches online resources to help small businesses secure government contracts at www.score.org. New articles, tools and events will be featured in this resource center for small businesses. SCORE, American Express OPEN and Women Impacting Public Policy (WIPP) ...
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• North Carolinas Smoke-Free Restaurants and Bars Law

  
  The Carolina Curator — Authority: 119
  As of January 2, 2010, North Carolinas Smoke-Free Restaurants and Bars Law ( S.L. 2009-27 (G.S. 130A-496)) requires restaurants, bars, and many lodging establishments to be smoke-free. The web site SmokeFreeNC.gov provides information on the law and rules for enforcement; frequently asked questions; tools for ...
  2 days ago

• ST: Productivity

  
  A New Start — Authority: 127
  Insight Home > Insight > Story Feb 6, 2010 ESC RECOMMENDATIONS ON PRODUCTIVITY Paradigm shift or pendulum swing? Productivity is back in vogue and older Singaporeans wonder why it was allowed to slide in the first place. Wasnt productivity the mantra in the 1980s? So what happened? Whats ...
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• Default, Inflation, Higher Taxes — Choose One

  
  The Aleph Blog — Authority: 570
  When I look at the present economic environment, I am not encouraged.  But if you really want me to be discouraged, talk to me about politics. For the last 40-80 years we have been borrowing, whether implicitly (pensions, retiree healthcare) or explicitly, deferring problems into the future, where they will be ...
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• So where are you?

  
  The Acorn — Authority: 524
  From Rabbi Shergill’ s album Avengi Ja Nahi , available here .
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• Necessary impossibilities

  
  The Opinion Blog — Authority: 137
  Saturday’s editorial recommends Congress devote itself to thespending restraint and entitlement reform that will correct the country’sunsustainable budget crisis. Editor’snote: Part 2 of 2 about the federal budget. You will hear, in the coming weeks,about the massive deficits contained in the Obama ...
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• Sunday Essay - why its hard to break out of the box

  
  Personal Reflections — Authority: 470
  I seem to be in a narrowing thought phase, just at present, and its annoying me. By narrowing thought I mean simply that my interests seem to have narrowed. Like most regular bloggers, I read a lot of other peoples writing for ideas and inspiration. I still do, but I am not getting the same type of sparkle that I ...
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• Sony Gives Us Numbers We Didnt Count On

  
  rockbridge times — Authority: 112
  Just take a good look at this from Sonys annual meeting: Did you know? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cL9Wu2kWwSY
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• Mark Milke at the Alberta’s Future conference

  
  Stephen Taylor - a blog on Canadian politics — Authority: 546
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