Monday, March 11, 2019

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  • Itchy ears are a common complaint with a variety of possible causes, including earwax blockages and infections. Learn about these and other causes in this article...
  • The lemon detox diet involves drinking a lemon juice mixture for a set period. There is no evidence to support the diet, and it can potentially be harmful. Learn more here...

    • Many pregnant women take a combination of doxylamine (Unisom) and vitamin B-6 for morning sickness. These two medications are also available as a combination drug called Diclegis...

  • By Beatriz Alvarado6 February 2019MISSION, Texas (Corpus Christi Caller Times) – Amid a legal battle to stop the federal government from erecting a 36-foot "wall system" topped...
  • 6 February 2019 (Desdemona Despair) – There are many reasons to despair when Donald Trump speaks – the baseless nativist paranoia, the continuous stream of half-truths and lies...

    • By Ishaan Tharoor6 February 2019(The Washington Post) – President Trump’s State of the Union address Tuesday night zigzagged between paeans to unity and sops to his hardcore...

  • A class action lawsuit against Wise Company, a survival and emergency food storage company, was filed on February 15, 2017 for “unlawful, unfair, and deceptive advertising and...
  • Democrats have been staunch supporters of unfettered, borderless immigration over the last several years

    • The next big evolutionary Orwellian technology is coming.  Soon you will be able to implant yourself with a brain chip to be super smart, CBS Chicago reported. Elon Musk has previously criticized humans...

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  • Based on the Delaware School Success Framework, well over half of Delaware’s charter schools are not meeting expectations.  Tonight, the Delaware Charter School Office will...
  • What is it about Delaware bills with the number 50 in it?  Senate Bill #50 is going to be pulled today according to sources in the know.  The bill would have created the Delaware Tech...

    • After years of controversy, Dr. Sam Paoli is out at Charter School of Wilmington. Effective June 30th this year, Dr. Paoli will no longer lead Delaware’s first charter school. In...

      Have You Heard



  • TweetThe portfolio model of school district management—it sounds technocratic, even a little bit weedy and yet it’s arguably one of the hottest button topics in our great education...
  • TweetIn the latest episode of Have You Heard, Jack and Jennifer are joined by Joshua Hunt, author of University of Nike: How Corporate Cash Bought American Higher Education –...

    • TweetIn the latest episode of Have You Heard, Jack and Jennifer discuss some lesser-talked-about aspects of the recent strike by Los Angeles teachers, and what the strike means for...

      Din Merican: the Malaysian DJ Blogger



  • March 11, 2019 Weed out ‘clowns, comic characters’—A Kadir Jasin https://www.malaysiakini.com/news/467383 As Pakatan Harapan’s first anniversary in power approaches...
  • March 10, 2019 Building a resilient Cambodian Economy https://capitalcambodia.com/building-an-economically-resilient-cambodia/?fbclid=IwAR1-Oa4fUT_Z-LHMUPUvarQA1-asp4396Cd4V9OZFmSRL-y4tavaDgZ8ing...
  • Lessons from BREXIT

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    • March 10, 2019 Lessons from BREXIT March 4, 2019 https://www.project-syndicate.org By Emmanuel Macron European citizens need to learn from the Brexit impasse and apply those lessons...

  • The plot gets curiouser: Was Judge Messitte’s ordering the Plaintiffs to dragoon a second defendant into the case a breach of judicial ethics? I really do not know. But it is odd...
  • Hundreds and thousands of actions go through the federal courts promptly—Judge Messitte and Judge Sullivan are dedicated judges who do not regularly let motions grow stale beyond...

    • This blog post on “The June 1944 Normandy Invasion and the Bane of Technologically Illiterate Officers in the Luftwaffe” marks the second in a series of posts departing from past...

      Centinel2012



  • zenbox Published on Nov 21, 2016 SUBSCRIBE 181 Excerpt from a lecture discussing Tragedy vs Evil. Art: The Body of Abel Found by Adam and Eve, by William Blake ca. 1826...
  • Bill Whittle Published on Mar 11, 2019 SUBSCRIBED 121K As scientists stand on the brink of re-animating extinct species should the U.N. regulate resurrection — decide which ones...

    • Bill Whittle Published on Mar 11, 2019 SUBSCRIBED 121K Hot new dating app, Red Yenta, pairs idealistic socialists to fight “non-consensual power dynamics,” and perhaps for...

  • On today's BradCast, we're experiencing a sense of deja vu from this very same fight the last time Congress allocated hundreds of millions for new electronic voting systems in the...
  • Please send a healing thought to Don Asmussen of the San Francisco Chronicle, the 'Bad Reporter' cartoonist.  Here's his toon from last November,  just before surgery, and his...

    • 54 years to the day after the Bloody Sunday march in Selma, Alabama led to the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965, and nearly 6 years following the rightwing U.S. Supreme Court's gutting...

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  • Sunday funnies

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    • Entreat me not to leave you, Nor to turn back from following after you. For where you go, I will go, And where you live, I will live; Your people shall be my people, And your God, my God. Where...

  • A coalition of groups, including Japanese residents of London, UK, will be holding a series of events, as they do every year (and every Friday) to mark the anniversary of the March 11...
  • Teenager, Yumi, evacuated Fukushima City as a child. Now, after accompanying her mother to anti-nuclear protests, she has taken up the cause. In a letter to the world, she asks for...

    • Date City produces peaches and dried persimmonsEight years after the Fukushima nuclear reactors exploded on Japan's Northern coast, spewing radioactive particles into the air...

  • Was the appearance of Powell, Yellen, and Bernanke the reason why the markets went panic-bid today? Seems like it should be the opposite signal?
  • The Russian parliament is currently discussing a new law that will establish an autonomous internet in Russia. The network will no longer depend on servers and services hosted in...

    • Disgruntled Amazon warehouse employees are being driven to the point of suicide.

  • By Christian Jarrett. However hard we try to control, conceal and comprehend the placebo effect, it looks certain it will continue to baffle and amaze us for a long time to come...
  • By Emma Young. The work raises some important questions, not least: how should news programmes handle coverage of such horrific events?

    • By Christian Jarrett. The new study demonstrates the "eye contact illusion".

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  • Getting lost in the age of the smartphone isn't just unlikely, it's actively difficult. To find yourself in a position where you truly don't know where you are is an experience that's...
  • Upside down and on the last page of one of his journals, George Washington wrote down a recipe for small beer. The beer had low alcohol content because it was meant for hydration, not...

    • Pablo Escobar, the son of a farmer and school teacher, led the Medellín drug cartel, which supplied an estimated 80 percent of the cocaine smuggled into the United States. Known as...

      Accidental Deliberations



  • Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Andrew Mitrovica gives due credit to Jody Wilson-Raybould and Jane Philpott for showing there's some honour to be found in Canadian politics...
  • This and that for your Sunday reading.- Ellie Mae O'Hagan writes about the need for economic equality to be at the core of any push to eliminate the gender gap. And PressProgress highlights...

    • Assorted content for your weekend reading.- Sandy Garossino offers a reminder of the large-scale corruption - including bribery supporting dictatorial regimes and multiple instances...

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